Devotional manuscript of prayers, biblical extracts, and meditations collected by Elizabeth Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (bap. 1587, d. 1633) and dated 1633. This manuscript was compiled by an anonymous scribe after Hastings' death, like EL 6871, HM 15369 and Hastings Collection, Religious Box 2, Folder 8 (all in the Henry E. Huntington Library). Each of these four manuscripts is written in the same anonymous scribal hand. See Perdita (link below) for a full description of contents and Victoria E. Burke, ''My Poor Returns': Devotional Manuscripts by Seventeenth-Century Women', Parergon, 29.2 (2012), pp. 47-68 for more information.
Quarto. Limp vellum binding. Presentation copy. This manuscript differs from EL 6871, HM 15369 and Hastings Collection, Religious Box 2, Folder 8 in that it contains several corrections and additions in a later hand, including that of a later Elizabeth Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (1654-1688).
This manuscript was presented by one Ferdinando Davies to Elizabeth Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (1654-1688) in 1676. His letter of dedication appears on the flyleaves of this manuscript.
The Hastings Collection was purchased by the Huntington Library in January 1927 from Maggs Bros. of London, who had acquired the papers from Edith Maud Abney-Hastings, Countess of Loudoun.
Guide to British Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1982), pp. 78-82 and 134; Henry E. Huntington Library Hastings Manuscripts, ed. by Kim Watson (List & Index Society, 1987), p. 266; Hannah Yip.
The Hastings Collection contains 50,000 items and is the family archive for the Earls of Huntingdon, dating from 1100 to the 1890s.
Notes taken out of Dr Andrewes booke of Sermons -- ff. 27r-28v
Sermon on unidentified text -- f. 34v (in reverse)