Chauncy family sermons, book inventory and commonplacebook, 1631-1695
Image Count:
189
Description:
In three sections according to orientation of text; each section paginated separately. and Volume contains unnumbered pages as well as text written in both directions.
Subject (Topic):
Sermons --Early works to 1800 and Sermons, American --17th century
Binding: Nineteenth century. Straight-grained black morocco, gilt single-line perimetric border for each cover and spine, gilt dentelles, and border of the same tools at head and foot of spine, modern tan leather spine label, with legend: HARTUNG V. HOFF VADE MECUM MANUSCRIPT AUSTRIA 1557, Denis Duveen, acquired from Thomas Heller (bookseller), New York, 1949; Mellon MS 71, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., and Script: Written in a small, neat gothic cursive, additions in a neat italic hand and a rather irregular and sometimes scrawling cursive gothic, both perhaps about 1625.
6 p. Anonymous manuscript. London. Honorable Artillery Company; Great Britain -- military history; Whitmore, Sir George, Lord Mayor of London, d. 1654.
Altschul Fund.
Includes The Sailor's Consolation, an poem in four stanzas by William Pitt, is copied in George Meredith's early hand. Possibly other notes are in his hand. Undated.