The Hastings Collection, Literature Box 1, Folder 6 - Certaine Collections of the Right Hon:ble Elizabeth late Countesse of Huntingdon

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1283
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1257)
Title
Certaine Collections of the Right Hon:ble Elizabeth late Countesse of Huntingdon
Shelfmark
The Hastings Collection, Literature Box 1, Folder 6
Creation Date
1633 - 1633
Contents Note

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.

Material Features

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).

Provenance

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.

Acquisition

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.

Source of Data

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.

Other Note

The Hastings Collection contains 50,000 items and is the family archive for the Earls of Huntingdon, dating from 1100 to the 1890s.

Sermons Contained
URLs
http://web.warwick.ac.uk/english/perdita/html/ms_HUNHAL16.htm Perdita entry for HA Literature Box 1 (6).
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8d2200p/entire_text/ Hastings Family Papers online finding aid.
GEMMS record created
December 11, 2019
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024