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Collection of tracts, Fifteenth to early eighteenth centuries

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.27

Scope and Contents

(1) ‘Summarium quoddam de vanitate simul et falsitate sectariorum, et etiam de stabilitate soliditate et firmitate Catholicorum collectum ad lucubrationem Johannis de la Vache sive Vachell in usum fratrum dubitantium. A. D. 1629’; by the same author, and in the same handwriting, as MS Dd.12.63; (2) ‘A Christian treatise of the brevity of the life of man, by Lucas Trelcatius the younger, professor of divinity in the university of Leiden in Holland, son of Lucas Trelcatius the elder, translated out of Latin into English by R. S. 1665’; (3) a Latin sermon on 2 Cor. ii. 16, imperfect, seventeenth or eighteenth century; at the top of the page is written in a later hand ‘This was Mr Sandcroft’s clerum for B. D.’; (4) two theses in theology with a prayer prefixed; begins ‘Ambrosio non stirpe magis ...’; (5) ‘The [honest mariner’s] devotion and Jonah’s creed in a dreadful storm: a sermon preached at St Dunstan’s church in Stepney, on Sunday in the afternoon, February the 24th, 1705, by John Jennings M. A., fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, with a note in another hand concerning other occasions on which the sermon was preached; (6) a sermon on 1 Timothy vi. 3; (7) ‘A reply to somewhat of Bishop White on the sabbath’, beginning ‘Those characters of lawes simply morall’; (8) ‘Visitatio collegii Anglicani de urbe sanctissimi domini nostri Clementis papæ octavi jussu per illustrissimum ac reverendum cardinalem Segam episcopum placentinum 2o., jam peracta A. D. 1596’; this begins with a ‘Præfatio ad summum pontificem’, then follows a list of the students, and index of the chapters of the brief, containing the visitor’s decisions on the various points in dispute; sixteenth century (9) ‘A treatise proving by the king’s laws that the bishoppe of Rome had neither right to any supremacy within this realme’; ‘Londini in ædibus Thom. Berthelet regii impressoris excusum’; begins ‘Although before this time ...’; with a preface, and a table of contents at the end; (10) ‘A treatise of Christian peregrination and holye monuments’, beginning ‘Pilgrimage coming of the latine word ...’; (11) ‘The touchstone of truth, wherein veritie by scripture in plainely confirmed, and error confuted’, beginning ‘And these words ...’; (12) a sermon on Rev. xii. 1, 2, by Edward Clerke; (13) ‘Responsio ad epistolam hominis euiusdam ordinis honesti et splendidi, sed factionis Jesuiticæ, a cognato suo, A. C.’, beginning ‘Accepi literas tuas ...’; (14) two anonymous translations from Galen, ‘A treaty made by Galene concerninge the best constitution of the body’, beginning ‘Whiche is the beste constitution of our bodye?’, and ‘A treatye made by Galen intituled Of a goode habite’, beginning ‘We use to give the name of habite ...’, late sixteenth century; (15) a letter from John Durie to a friend on the pacification and union of the Calvinistic and Lutheran Churches, dated ‘Westminster, this 31 March 1634’; (16) ‘Soliloquia beati Ysidori episcopi’ (title given in the explicit), beginning ‘... doloris non reperio argumentum’, fifteenth century; imperfect: a leaf is lost from the commencement; see also MS Hh.01.04, no. 5; this is followed by four more leaves of a similar character, ‘Xenophontis apologia ex greco in latinum conversa’, beginning ‘Socratis quoque dignum ...’; (17) a commentary on Job, chap. i-iv, sixteenth century, imperfect, beginning ‘Sicut in rebus’; (18) an ‘Inquirie what wee are to say of those wicked thoughts and other extravagant fancies that are often times injected into the minds of good men, and which are usually by way of eminence called the Devill’s temptations’, beginning ‘It is not all persons ...’; (19) a sermon on Matt. xii. 58, in Portuguese; three leaves follow, apparently in the same hand, containing theological notes in Latin; (20) an exposition on Genesis v. 1-9, in two different hands. Bound in three volumes.

Dates

  • Creation: Fifteenth to early eighteenth centuries

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Collection:

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Extent

3 volume(s)

Language of Materials

Latin

Portuguese

Custodial History

In the Library by the mid 1750s.

Physical Description

Paper.

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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