EL 11635 (35/B/6) - The Everlasting Covenant

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1298
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1602)
Title
The Everlasting Covenant
Shelfmark
EL 11635 (35/B/6)
Creation Date
ca. 1649 - 1686
Contents Note

This manuscript comprises two autograph sermons by 'S. W.' The sermons have been dated according to the date on which John Egerton succeeded his father as Second Earl of Bridgewater, up to his death. The full title of the manuscript, displayed on a separate title page, is as follows: 'The Everlasting Covenant or The Covenant of faith, explained in two Sermons.'

Material Features

Facsimile of a large quarto volume. 99 pp.

Provenance

'JBridgewater ex dono Authoris S. W.' is inscribed on the title page.

Acquisition

The Bridgewater House Library was purchased by Henry E. Huntington from John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton, Fourth Earl of Ellesmere, in 1917.

Source of Data

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.

Other Note

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.

Sermons Contained
URLs
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8mw2nvw/dsc/ Egerton Family Papers online finding aid.
GEMMS record created
April 15, 2022
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024