Add MS 6469

A folio volume [marked Vol. X] containing various Theological Dissertations, Notes, and Miscellaneous Papers, in the handwriting of Bishop Chandler. (284 folios)

1. Tract on the question, whether it be unlawful under Christianity to marry a Brother’s Widow, especially under the circumstance of the Brother dying without children? (folios 2-9)

2. Notes of Bishop Chandler, referring to the History of the Churches among the Vaudois, Albigenses etc. (folios 11-23) (See Add MS 6482, item 1)

3. Dissertation on the Cherubim of Ezekiel, with some papers annexed containing the Bishop’s notes on the same subject, and a transcript of the commencement of the dissertation in the writing of Dr. Thomas Sharp. (folios 25-40)Part of the Bishops notes are written upon Original Letters, viz. Testimonial in favour of Thomas Birch, B.A. of Queen’s College Cambridge. Curate of Sheriff Halls in Staffordshire, signed by Samuel Collier, Vicar of Sheriff Hales, Daniel Paper, Vicar of Idsall, and Samuel Garret, Rector of Weston subt. Lyziard. Dated 6 October 1718. (Latin). (folio 32)

4. Dissertation in the form of a letter, attempting to answer the objections raised against the antiquity of the Book of Daniel, from the use of words presumed to be of Greek origin, particularly the word [Hebrew text]. (folios 42-46)

5. Dissertations, seemingly imperfect, and notes on the work [Hebrew text], and on the [Greek text meaning Logos], chiefly in short hand. (folios 48-67)A small portion of the Bishop’s memoranda is written on a printed broadside, containing the orders of the University of Oxford, on the occasion of the King’s paying them a visit, in 1695. (folios 67)

6. Observations on John XX 23, and the authority of Christian Ministers. (folios 69-80b)

7. A brief chronological history of the Christian Church, from the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ to AD 58. (Latin). (folios 82-88)

8. Various dissertations, viz.i. Dissertatio de Athenagora. (folios 90-97b)ii. Notes referring to the Life of Justin Martyr. (folios 97b-100b)iii. De Hæreticorum Rebatizatione. (folios 101-102b)iv. De Anno quo obitt S. Joh. Evangelista. (folio 103)v. De Marcello et Marcellino (in French). (folios 103b-106b)vi. Copy of the ‘Theologia Naturalis’ of Dr. Sydenham. (folios 107b-116)

9. Another small assemblage of tracts, viz.i. De Origine Hæreseon Valentini, Cedonis, et Marcionis. (folios 120-125)ii. De tempore quo nata est Haresis montani. (folios 125b-132b)iii. Transcript of Bishop Pearson’s marginal notes, chiefly critical, on the text and works of Justin Martyr, ed. Par. 1615. (folios 133-141)

10. Notæ et Costigationes in Prologos Hist. Ph. Trogi Pompeii. (folios 143-147)

11. Compendium Commentariorum D. Viunii in Imperiales Institutiones. (folios 148-183b)

12. Remarks on the period of Trojan war and the age of Homer, controverting the opinion of Sir Isaac Newton (not in the Bishop’s hand), with the Bishop’s notes on the same subjects, and an analysis of the Cassandra of Lycophron. (folios 2185-200b)

13. i. ‘A Form of Prayer for the 27 March, the day of his Highness entry into his Kingdom, 1634 by Archbishop Laud’. Transcribed in Bishop Chandler’s hand from a paper in Bishop Cosin’s Library. (folios 202-203b)ii. ‘Form for his Majesty’s happy return to his Kingdom, to be used 28 June 1660. (folios 203b-205b)iii. ‘Form of Prayer used in the King’s Chapple on Tuesdays, in these times of trouble and distress, 1649’. (folios 205b-206b)iv. ‘Form for a General Fast, 15 January 1661’. (folios 206b-207b)v. Extracts from Hearne’s append to Langtoft’s Chron. relative to the conference between Dr. Matthew Wren and the Bishops of Durham, Winchester, and St. David’s on the subject of King Charles’s religion; also from Wallis’s Life, concerning the assemble of Divines, etc. (folios 208, 209)

14. A large mass of notes and memoranda by Bishop Chandler on various subjects, particularly the doctrines of Plato, the nature of the soul and of spirits, the unity of God, the opinions of the Egyptians, inspiration, etc. (folios 210-284)