HRC 130 - Exposition of 2 Kings 17:15-16 | GEMMS: GATEWAY TO EARLY MODERN MANUSCRIPTS

GEMMS Manuscript ID

GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1402
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1396)

Title

Exposition of 2 Kings 17:15-16

Shelfmark

HRC 130

Creation Date

ca. 1675 - 1679

Repository

Harry Ransom Center

Contents Note

A lay sermon written by Isaac Newton in the late 1670s, potentially delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Material Features

9 leaves; paper.

Associated People

manuscript owner - Newton, Isaac (1642-12-25 - 1727-03-20)

manuscript owner - Conduitt, Catherine (1721-05-23 - 1750-05-04)

manuscript owner - Wallop, Gerard Vernon (1898-05-16 - 1984-09-28)

Provenance

This letter was previously owned by Catherine Conduitt, Viscountess Lymington (great-niece of Isaac Newton).

Acquisition

Gerard Wallop, Viscount Lymington sold the collection of Newton manuscripts known as the Portsmouth Papers at Sotheby's, London, July 1936.

Source of Data

Hannah Yip

Other Note

See Stephen D. Snobelen, 'Isaac Newton, heretic: the strategies of a Nicodemite', The British Journal for the History of Science, 32.4 (1999), 318-419 (p. 408); Rob Iliffe, Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 140).

Sermons Contained

Sermon on 2 Kings 17:15-16 -- 9 leaves, unfoliated and unpaginated

URLs

http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/MnEMgal/130/HRC_130.pdf Digitised copy of HRC 130.

http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/pubmnem/details.cfm?id=130 Harry Ransom Center catalogue entry for HRC 130.

http://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/catalogue/record/THEM00110 The Newton Project entry for HRC 130.

GEMMS record created

October 27, 2020

GEMMS record last edited

April 1, 2025