Hunter MS 19 - Commonplace book of the Wakefields

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1501
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1648)
Title
Commonplace book of the Wakefields
Shelfmark
Hunter MS 19
Creation Date
ca. 1620 - 1678
Contents Note

This manuscript belonged to Thomas Wakefield, and was then passed on to his son, Nathaniel Wakefield, who, like his father, used the volume as a commonplace book. The contents of the manuscript include notes relating to payments to the poor of Horseheath, Cambridgeshire; epitaphs; aphorisms; a diary of afflictions dating from the late 1630s; notes on the weather dating from the 1670s; compilations of extracts on topics such as pride, disobedience, and love; and a catalogue of books owned in 1661. Authors cited include Henry Smith and Richard Hooker. Languages: English and Latin.

Material Features

Folio.

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. 361; Hannah Yip.

Sermon Reports Contained
GEMMS record created
June 17, 2022
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024