MS Eng 1015 - A book of the Coppies of Letters, Libells & ovther inventions of men

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1351
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1468)
Title
A book of the Coppies of Letters, Libells & ovther inventions of men
Shelfmark
MS Eng 1015
Creation Date
ca. 1580 - 1584
Repository
Contents Note

An autograph folio miscellany of verse, prose, and pen-and-ink drawings. There are sermons, genealogies, booklists, and commentaries about Elizabethan religious controversies. Languages: English and Latin.

Material Features

127 leaves. Modern vellum boards.

Acquisition

Sotheby's, 28 March 1906 and 31 January 1956, lot 408. Purchased with the Amy Lowell fund.

Source of Data

CELM; Hannah Yip.

Other Note

This manuscript is cited in Arnold Hunt, The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and Their Audiences, 1590-1640 (Cambridge, 2010), p. 289 n. 122.

URLs
http://digitalcollections.library.harvard.edu/catalog/990095845260203941 Digitised copy of Houghton Library, Harvard, MS Eng 1015.
GEMMS record created
April 8, 2021
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024