VMP 2 - Notebook containing notes in Dutch, English and shorthand on sermons heard in London

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1576
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1780)
Title
Notebook containing notes in Dutch, English and shorthand on sermons heard in London
Shelfmark
VMP 2
Creation Date
1661 - 1667
Repository
Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections
Contents Note

Auditor's notes on sermons heard in London between 1661 and 1667. The notes are made in Dutch, English and shorthand.

Material Features

52 ff. Bound in marbled paper, very fragile. Written in a very small neat hand.

Associated People
Provenance

Early family papers of William Van Mildert (1765 - 1836), the bishop of Durham from 1826 to 1836. His great-great-grandfather was an Amsterdam merchant who migrated to London around 1670, likely the owner and scribe of this notebook.

Acquisition

VMP 1-1334 were discovered in a pigeon loft at Bradden House by Arnold Bradshaw, Principal of Van Mildert College and deposited at Van Mildert College by Edward Grant-Ives, ca. 1973, for Bradshaw to catalogue. etc. with the intention of eventually depositing them with the other WVM material already given by the Grant-Ives family to the University Library. Transferred to the library 1989 by the Department of Palaeography.

Source of Data

Catherine Evans

Sermons Contained
GEMMS record created
August 7, 2023
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024