MS.1951.018 - A wedding sermon: preacht at Chilton in Suffolk | GEMMS: GATEWAY TO EARLY MODERN MANUSCRIPTS

GEMMS Manuscript ID

GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1307
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1231)

Title

A wedding sermon: preacht at Chilton in Suffolk

Shelfmark

MS.1951.018

Creation Date

1649 - 1649

Repository

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Contents Note

Manuscript text of a sermon delivered by minister Matthew Lawrence at the wedding of William Armyne, Jr. and Anne Chase at Chilton, Suffolk in 1649. This volume is a copy made for the father of the groom, Sir William Armyne. Includes a dedicatory address to Armyne from the preacher.

Material Features

An octavo volume, written very carefully and beautifully to imitate print by John Raymond of London. A later owner has written notes on the text and manicules in the margins throughout. Bound in full brown morocco with gold tooling.

Associated People

manuscript owner - Bailey, John Eglington (1840-02-13 - 1888-08-23)

manuscript owner - Watt, Richard Harding (1842-01-01 - 1913-01-01)

manuscript owner - Armyne, William (1593-12-11 - 1651-04-10)

Provenance

There are the bookplates of John Eglinton Bailey on the front paste-down endpaper and of R.H. Watt on verso of front free endpaper.

Source of Data (Contributor name)

Catherine Evans; William Andrews Clark Library Catalogue

Other Note

A fully digitised version of the sermon can be viewed on Calisphere (link below)

Sermons Contained

A wedding sermon, preacht at Chilton in Suffolk -- pp. 1-63

URLs

http://calisphere.org/item/ark:/21198/n14g8t/

http://clarklibrary.ucla.edu/blog/manuscript-of-the-week/ Information about the manuscript on the William Andrews Clark Library blog page.

http://clarklibrary.ucla.edu/blog/a-suffolk-treasure-in-california/ Information about the manuscript written by John Blatchly for the East Anglian Times (28 January 2012).

GEMMS record created

November 4, 2019

GEMMS record last edited

July 15, 2024