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Harley MS 6946
- Record Id:
- 040-002052798
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052798
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x0001d9
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100164917827.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6946
- Title:
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Five sermons by John Donne
- Scope & Content:
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Five sermons by John Donne, each transcribed by a different scribe. Sermons 2-5 have been corrected at a later date. f. 1*r reads ‘IV Excellent Sermons Preachd & wrote in the 17. Cent’.
ff. 1r-11r: ‘Prou: 8: 17: I love them that love mee and they that seeke mee earlie shall finde mee’. Beginning: ‘As the Prophetts and other Secretaries of ye holie Ghost in’.
ff. 12r-22v: ‘Gen: 2. 18. And the L: God sayd it is not good that the man should bee alone; I will make him a helpe meete for him’. Beginning: ‘In the creation of the world, when god stockd the’.
ff. 23r-34v: ‘And I will marry thee vnto mee for ever’. Beginning: ‘The word wch is ye hinge vpon wch all this text’.
ff. 35r-48v: ‘John II.35 Jhesus wept: Preached at Whitehall, first Friday in Lent: 1622’. Beginning: ‘I am nowe but vpon ye compassion of Christ There is as much’.
ff. 49r-60r: ‘The. Io Thess: chap 5 ver: 16 – Reioice euermore’. Beginning: ‘Wee read in ye naturall story, of some flotinge Ilands’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052798", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6946: Five sermons by John Donne" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052798 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6946 : Five sermons by John Donne - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6954]/040-002052798
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100164917827.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1620
- End Date:
- 1630
- Date Range:
- 1620-1630
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 198 mm x 155 mm.
Foliation: 1* + 60 folios.
Binding: British Museum binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Former External References:
- 161.A.47
- Finding Aids:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 6946.
'Harley MS 6946', Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450–1700: http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-harley-6000.html
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 6946.
'Harley MS 6946', Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450–1700: http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-harley-6000.html
Jeanne Shami, 'New Manuscript Texts of Sermons by John Donne', English Manuscript Studies, 13 (2007), pp. 77-119.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)