EL 8178c (35/B/29) - The Thankfvll Leper or Samaritan

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1306
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1610)
Title
The Thankfvll Leper or Samaritan
Shelfmark
EL 8178c (35/B/29)
Creation Date
ca. 1649 - 1663
Contents Note

The full title of this autograph manuscript is as follows: 'The Thankfvll Leper or Samaritan. A Sermon preacht in the Chappell at Ashridge before the right Hon: the Countesse of Bridgwater, & that noble familie. By Robert Hitchcock Bachaler in Diuinity, and Preacher of Gods word at Wingraue in Buckingham shire.' There is a separate title page, in addition to a dedicatory epistle addressed 'To the Trvly Noble, virtuous, & Religious Lady the Countesse of Bridgwater', signed by the author. The manuscript has been dated by the present cataloguer according to Elizabeth Egerton's dates as Countess of Bridgewater.

Material Features

Facsimile of a vellum-bound small octavo.

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), pp. 53-54; 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 20, 2022
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024