MS.1951.003 - A Sermon upon the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ: Preached at Cranforde | GEMMS: GATEWAY TO EARLY MODERN MANUSCRIPTS

GEMMS Manuscript ID

GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1309
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1241)

Title

A Sermon upon the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ: Preached at Cranforde

Shelfmark

MS.1951.003

Creation Date

1640 - 1641

Repository

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Contents Note

Fair copies of three of Bourcher's sermons and a poem presented to his benefactor Michael Bowyer and his wife Elizabeth Bowyer. The first two sermons were preached in 1640 whilst the third sermon and poem were penned during an illness with the hope that he might return to the pulpit.

Material Features

Bound in dark brown morrocco with gold tooling. The four separate sections are individually paginated (22 pp., 26 pp., 24 pp., 58 pp.)

Associated People

manuscript owner - Bowyer, Michael ( - )

manuscript owner - Bowyer, Elizabeth ( - )

Source of Data (Contributor name)

Catherine Evans

Other Note

A digitized version is available on Calisphere (link below).

Sermons Contained

A Sermon upon the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ: Preached at Cranforde on the Sunday before Easter In the year of our Lord, 1640 -- pp. 1 - 22

A Sermon upon the Resurrection of Jesus Christ preached at Cranford on Easter day Anno Dom. 1640 -- pp. 1 - 26

The Pooremans Portion: Set forth in a Sermon feelingly penn'd. But not as yet preached -- pp. 1 - 23

URLs

http://calisphere.org/item/ark:/21198/n1p592/

http://www.1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/newsletter51.pdf Andrea C. Lawson, 'Reading John Bourcher's Seventeenth-Century Gift Book', The Center & Clark Newsletter, 51 (Spring 2010), 5-6.

GEMMS record created

November 7, 2019

GEMMS record last edited

July 15, 2024