Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing about 43 entries including religious meditations; Biblical notes; religious poems and verse paraphrases on Biblical subjects; sermon extracts; a play titled "The Tragedye of Jepthas daughter;" a treatise on dueling "according to the unjustifiable Custome of this age by a true Lover of honnour;" and a collection of medicinal recipes. Elsewhere, a brief description of "the nature of the irish, who are cal'd naturall Irishe, out of Campion's History" is annotated, "This being a booke of Commmon place this comes not out of order." The volume begins with a letter addressed to the author's son, in which the author describes the contents of this manuscript as "the fruits of my solitude whilst under restraint" as a royalist prisoner at Exeter, ca. 1651-53.
Description:
Binding: full sheep., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., In English., Pasted into front cover: newspaper clipping which describes the manuscript., and Phillipps MS 18904.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Politics and government--1642-1660 and Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century
Subject (Name):
Campion, Edmund,--Saint,--1540-1581
Subject (Topic):
Dueling--Great Britain, English drama--17th century, English poetry--17th century, Medicine, Popular, Medicine--15th-18th cent, Meditations (Religious), Religious poetry, English, and Sermons, English--17th century
Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of 15 sermons preached between January 7, 1654/5 and July 1, 1655. The first seven sermons are on Exodus 20:17; the next three on Ecclesiastes 12:13; a single sermon is on Lamentations 3:40; and the final four on Luke 11:1-2.
Description:
Binding: Contemporary calf. and Teaching resource: English Paleography Examples, 16th-18th century
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--History and Great Britain--Religion--17th century
Subject (Topic):
Dissenters, Religious, Puritans --England--Sermons, and Sermons, English--17th century
