Hunter MS 125 - Commonplace book of Elias Smyth

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1500
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1646)
Title
Commonplace book of Elias Smyth
Shelfmark
Hunter MS 125
Creation Date
ca. 1644 - 1668
Contents Note

Notebook of Elias Smyth, of miscellaneous prose and verse, written in several hands. Contents display Smyth's Royalist sympathies; for example, there are copies of epitaphs for Charles Lucas and George Lisle. Some of the epitaphs for Charles I are written in both red and black ink. There are also notes on the death of Daniel Featley. Epitaphs for Smyth's son, Richard, appear on pp. 133-34. Languages: English, Latin, and Greek.

Material Features

Octavo. Bound in a recycled medieval vellum document within contemporary vellum. 170ff.

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. 415; Brian Crosby, A Catalogue of Durham Cathedral Music Manuscripts (Oxford University Press, 1986), p. 80; Hannah Yip.

Sermons Contained
GEMMS record created
June 16, 2022
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024