GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-
1355
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1553)
Title
Michael Metcalfe's sermon diary
Shelfmark
MS Am 1065
Creation Date
1689 - 1692
Repository
Contents Note
Signed autograph manuscript, containing a list of ministers based in and around Boston, and the dates and topics of their sermons.
Material Features
The manuscript (eight leaves in total) comprises a series of folded sheets sewn together. Thick twine has been used to sew the top spine.
Associated People
Provenance
'Michael Metcalfe own this book septem 1690' is inscribed on the first page of the manuscript.
Source of Data (Contributor name)
HOLLIS; Meredith Marie Neuman, Jeremiah's Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England (Philadelphia, PA, 2013); Hannah Yip.
URLs
http://digitalcollections.library.harvard.edu/catalog/990100217170203941 Digitised copy of Houghton Library, Harvard University MS Am 1065.
http://wordpress.clarku.edu/meneuman/sermon-notebooks-online/michae-metcalfe-se… Meredith Neuman, 'Michae [sic] Metcalfe, sermon notebook cover (Houghton Library) (17 June 2013)
GEMMS record created
October 28, 2021
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024