MS Am 738 - Sermons, c. 1689-1690

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1354
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1538)
Title
Sermons, c. 1689-1690
Shelfmark
MS Am 738
Creation Date
1689 - 1690
Repository
Contents Note

Sermons, delivered chiefly by 'Mr Gookin' (i.e. Nathaniel Gookin) from 18 August 1689 until 23 February 1690, on the topics of, inter alia, faith, theft, adultery and obedience (see table of contents on the first leaf). Other preachers include Cotton Mather and William Brattle; locations include Cambridge, MA. The sermons are written in shorthand in an unidentified hand. At the end of the volume, there is an index listing each sermon.

Material Features

Bound in calf.

Acquisition

The gift of Hubbard Winslow Bryant of Portland (20 November 1863).

Source of Data

Hannah Yip

Other Note

This manuscript is cited in Winifred Herget, ‘Writing after the Ministers: The Significance of Sermon Notes’, in Studies in New England Puritanism, ed. by Winifred Herget (Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Peter Lang, 1983), pp. 113-138; Theodore R. Delwiche, 'The Schoolboy's Quill: Joseph Belcher and Latin Learning at Harvard College, c. 1700', History of Universities, 33.1 (2020), 69-104 (p. 98).

Sermons Contained
URLs
http://digitalcollections.library.harvard.edu/catalog/990098675880203941 Digitised copy of Houghton Library, MS Am 738.
GEMMS record created
September 19, 2021
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024