Ms. SBd-170 - John Leverett commonplace-book, 1670-1711

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1629
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1837)
Title
John Leverett commonplace-book, 1670-1711
Shelfmark
Ms. SBd-170
Creation Date
1670 - 1711
Contents Note

This commonplace book contains a variety of texts, including transcriptions mostly in English and Latin with some Greek. The sermons are located in the middle of the commonplace book and represent sermons preached between July 1711 and November 1711 by a variety of preachers in Cambridge and Boston.

Material Features

One small, bound notebook in a small, neat hand. Irregularly paginated, and the leaves are numbered rather than the pages in the sermon note section. The foliation of the leaves in the sermon section is in pencil, rather than ink, and potentially in a separate hand.

Provenance

Subsequent owner: George W. Heard, donated to the Massachusetts Historical Society Dec. 31, 1835

Source of Data

Abigail Hill; ABIGAIL the library catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society

Sermons Contained
GEMMS record created
March 31, 2024
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024