Hunter MS 140 - Miscellaneous tracts

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1498
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1642)
Title
Miscellaneous tracts
Shelfmark
Hunter MS 140
Creation Date
1609 - 1652
Contents Note

A bundle of miscellaneous tracts, chiefly in the hand of Isaac Basire, concerning the sacraments and the trinity. There are also some notes on ecclesiastical matters in Poland, Lithuania, and Hungary, in addition to a tract in Arabic. Languages: Latin, Arabic, and English.

Material Features

These (mainly octavo) tracts are not bound together.

Acquisition

The Hunter Manuscripts were purchased by the Dean and Chapter of Durham in 1756 for forty guineas.

Source of Data

Thomas Rud, Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis Catalogus Classicus (Durham, 1825), p. 417; Hannah Yip.

Other Note

The tenth item is described by Thomas Rud as a sermon (see Rud, p. 417). However, this item appears to be constructed more as a theological argument as opposed to a sermon. The GEMMS database records instead the eleventh item in Hunter MS 140. Although it is called a 'meditation', it appears to address a congregation and is structured, like a sermon, around a single text.

Sermons Contained
GEMMS record created
June 9, 2022
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024