(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1243)
This manuscript contains one anonymous seventeenth-century English sermon on 2 Samuel 12:13-14. There is another manuscript witness of this sermon in Huntington Library, EL 34/C/2.
Quarto. The manuscript is bound in limp vellum and features the remains of two green ties.
Heidi Brayman Hackel conjectures that this manuscript once belonged to Frances Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater. See Heidi Brayman Hackel, Reading Material in Early Modern England: Print, Gender, and Literacy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), p. 279.
The Bridgewater House Library was purchased by Henry E. Huntington from John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton, Fourth Earl of Ellesmere, in 1917.
Egerton Family Papers online finding aid (see link below); Guide to British Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1982), p. 69; Hannah Yip.
See Guide to British Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1982), pp. 21-25 for more information about the Ellesmere Collection.
Sermon on 2 Samuel 12:13-14 -- 20 leaves, unfoliated and unpaginated