Repository catalogue: thirteen sermons annotated by Gerard Saltmarsh, some (pp. 293-310, 419-37) adapted from French or (pp. 311-71) from Italian, all listed on p. 459, late 17th-early 18th cent. The last sermon appears to have been preached in the presence of the Duke of Norfolk. Also includes: (pp. 1-97) the epistles (pp. 108-244) the gospels, for each Sunday and the chief festivals throughout the year.
Quarto-size manuscript volume, sewn. Binding: leather on cardboard, back cover lost. Faint red margins drawn round pages.
Hand: clear Italic. Interlined corrections and additions in different script and ink.
Not stated
Bought from John Wilson (Autographs) Ltd in 1981
Lucy Underwood
Sermons are desciribed as 'Taken out of French adapted to a Commonn Auditory etc with some of my own in it.
Preacher & author / translator, Saltmarsh attributes three of the sermons to others: Thomas Witham, Mr Mert[on].
On the Purification -- pp.247-256
Sermon, probably for 21st Sunday after Pentecost -- pp.257-276, 18 pages
The 3rd Sunday of Lent On Impenitency -- pp. 277-292
In Festo Annunciationis B: Maria Virginis -- p.311-330, 20 pages
The 4th Sunday of Lent on Impenitency 2pt. -- pp.293-310, 18 pages.
Quasi aurora surgens c.6.9. ‘On the birth of the BV’ -- pp.331-344 14 pages
De Assumptione B[eatae].M[ariae].V[irginis]. -- pp.345-359, 15 pages
Beatus Venter qui te portavit &c. -- pp.360-371
Dominum Deum tuum Adorabis et Illi soli Servies -- pp.372-393
Ecce defunctus Efferebatur Filius Unicus Matris suae -- pp.407-418
On the 3rd Sunday of Lent -- pp.419-437
On hope in God's mercy -- pp.438-457