Religion
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Found in 181 Collections and/or Records:
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Dissertation, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.14
Scope and Contents
'Dissertatiuncula de naturis regionum et moribus gentium diversarum, et earundem causis'; incomplete. The dedication, 'Archiepiscopo Eboracensi', is signed 'Johannes Browne'.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Divinity commonplace book, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.08.44
Scope and Contents
Contains extracts, chiefly from the Fathers, alphabetically arranged under various headings. The last few leaves contain an index of subjects.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Documents and Letters on the Controversy about Ecclesiastical Habits, Sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.04.14
Scope and Contents
1. ff. 1–3. 'De tollendo vestium peculiarium usu in ministerio Ecclesiæ sententia D. Joannis Alasco conscripta anno quinto regni regis Edouardi ejus nominis sexti Sept. 20.' 2. ff. 3–5. 'Petrus Martyr D. Hopero.' 3. ff. 6–8. 'Domino Joanni a Lasco M. Bucerus.' This is followed by some extracts from Calvin. 4. ff. 9, 10. 'D. Johanni Hopero Bucerus'. 5. f. 11. 'Petrus Martyr domino Bucero.' 6. ff. 12–14. Argumenta Petri Martyr de apparatu vestium. This is in the form...
Dates:
Sixteenth century
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Exercises in Genesis, by Alexander Ross, 1638
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ll.05.19
Scope and Contents
'The first centurie of Divine Naturall and Morall Exercises in Genesis, containing a 100 choise questions with their solutions upon the first 14 chapters of the sayd booke, by Alexander Ross, his Majesties Chaplain in Ordinarie.' A portion of a dedication to the author's diocesan is pasted on to f. 2, as is also an address 'To the Reader' on f. 10, and several notes in other portions of the book. Prefixed (ff. 1-10) are two tables of contents, and an alphabetical index; ff. 11-13 are blank....
Dates:
1638
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Exposition of the catechism, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.10
Scope and Contents
An exposition of the Roman Catholic catechism, beginning (after the dedication to the Second Person of the Trinity) 'All knowledges arts and scienses …'.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Exposition of the second epistle of St Paul to Timothy, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.06.24
Scope and Contents
Begins 'Interpretaturus secundam ...'.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Extracts from letters, [c 1640]
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.76
Scope and Contents
A collection of extracts from letters written from Stockholm in October and November 1636 or 1637 by John Durie, who was endeavouring to bring about a union between the churches of England and Sweden.
Dates:
[c 1640]
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Heads of a sermon, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.04.13
Scope and Contents
The sermon is on Psalm xxv. 7, with the beginning of a discourse on justification.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Heads of sermons, Late seventeenth or early eighteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.13
Scope and Contents
Contains short notes; many leaves have been torn out and the greater part of the volume is blank.
Dates:
Late seventeenth or early eighteenth century
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History of the apostles, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.08.04
Scope and Contents
'Christ and his apostles: or the history of the four evangelists, St Matthew, St Marke, St Luke, St John at large, written and distinguished in such manner as they may with great facility be read and understood; together with the history of the actes of the apostles at large, harmonsied out of the epistles of them as touching the story, with an abridgement of the said harmony as touching the story only with the Revelation of St John at large, together with the abridgement of the prophecies...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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History of the persecution of English Roman Catholics, 1680s or 1690s
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.04.03
Scope and Contents
‘Persecutionis Catholicorum Anglicanæ et conjurationis presbiterianæ hystoria. Auctore P. Warnero, S. J. regi Jacobo IIdo e sacris (1660-1685)’. The history is in eight books, with a table of contents. The present copy is apparently an autograph. Begins ‘Qui publicas res novare instituunt ad consilii exitum pervenire non possunt nisi ...’. There are a few notes in English, in another hand, on one of the inserted leaves. A copy of this manuscript is at MS Mm.01.46.
Dates:
1680s or 1690s
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Huguenot writings, Late seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.10.43
Scope and Contents
A series of religious tracts in prose and verse, translated or composed by Everte Jollyvet, 1601-1662, and copied by his son, also called Everte Jollyvet.
(1) ‘Le guide de la terre aux cieux’, a series of spiritual directions in prose, translated from English; (2) ‘Le cœur du cœur Chrestien’, an ‘alphabet de chansons spirituelles’, in irregular stanzas; (3) ‘Le flageolet Chrestien du Berger de Lucerne’, written ‘pour exciter les siens a souffrir le martyre avec constance et foy dans...
Dates:
Late seventeenth century
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Hymns of the services of the Greek church, Early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.06.23
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the deacon's part of the hymns, viz. Troparia, Stoicheria, Megalenaria, Kondakia, of the services of the Greek Church, collected and set to music. It begins with the services for Little Vespers on the Festival of the Nativity of the blessed Virgin, 8 September, and ends with those for Lent. On p. 1 is written in Slavonic, though in a different hand from the rest, an address 'To the sovereign Czar the great Prince Michael Feodorovitch'.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
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Hymnus Deo, Sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.01.28
Scope and Contents
'Hymnus Deo,' sent by Carolus Byllus, 'Honoratissimo viro D. Gualtero Mildmaio Reginæ Majestati a secretis.' Some texts, written very beautifully in Greek, follow.
Dates:
Sixteenth century
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Index to theological works, 1628
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.01.28
Scope and Contents
An alphabetical index to various works of the Fathers and other theological writers. The entries range from Aaron to Zwingliani and miscellanea. On the flyleaf at the beginning is written ‘Κτῆμα Marci Zigleri Palatini, die 12 Februarii, anno 1628.’
Dates:
1628
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Journals of John Lightfoot, Mid seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.21-MS Dd.14.23
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Three books written by John Lightfoot. The title of the first is ‘A journal of the proceedings of the assembly of divines convened for the worke of reformation in the Church, by the authority of both houses of parliament, anno 1643. Upon the discipline and liturgy’. The title of the third book is ‘A further journall of passages in the assembly from Easter, 1644’; the last entry in this journal is ‘Tuesday Decemb. ult. The first weeke kept me at Munden. This day our worke was about Church...
Dates:
Mid seventeenth century
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Lancelot Andrewes on the ten commandments, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.02.01
Scope and Contents
Begins ‘Clemens Alexandrinus writing his παιδαγωγος in three bookes ...’; incomplete. According to the notice prefixed to the edition of the ‘Pattern of catechistical doctrine’ published in the Anglo-Catholick Library, Oxford, 1846, the work consists of notes taken at Andrewes’s lectures.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Law commonplace book, Late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hh.03.08
Scope and Contents
Upon leaves left unoccupied by the legal subjects, a later possessor of the book has written: 'Jewel's repli unto M. Harding's answeare', being extracts from Whitaker's Latin translation; short passages on religious and moral subjects, from St Augustine and others; and a table of contents of a system of divinity, extending over 11 leaves. In another handwriting in the middle of the book is 'The true opinion of divines concerning man's beginninge', 'The faulse opinion of the heathens...
Dates:
Late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
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Lectures of John Whitgift on the apocalypse, c. 1565
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.02.36
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The lectures were delivered while Whitgift was Lady Margaret professor of divinity at the University of Cambridge. Incomplete: the beginning is damaged by damp and some leaves have been lost; the text begins 'et post tres dies et dimidium ...'. This manuscript, like MS Ff.01.09, is in Whitgift's own handwriting.
Dates:
c. 1565
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Lectures on the Epistle to the Romans, Sixteenth or seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.10.40
Scope and Contents
'Mosis Amyraldi prælectiones in capp. III. IV. Ep. ad Romanos', beginning 'In eo hæc sunt: 1o. Enunciatio …'. Parts of ff. 14 and 15 are blank, a portion of the commentary on Rom. iii. 22 being wanting. These discourses are a continuation of those in MS Dd.03.88, nos 1-5, and are in the same handwriting.
Dates:
Sixteenth or seventeenth century
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Legal reports and religious notes, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.23
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘The passages in parliament against Francis Viscount St Albans, Lord Chancellor of England’; the account agrees almost verbatim with that given in Bacon’s Works (1730), volume II, pp. 548-558; (2) ‘In camerâ stellatâ, Feb. 15, 1633. Prinne and Sparkes’; this report differs from that given in 3 St. Tr. 561-585; (3) ‘In camerâ stellatâ, sexto die mensis Februarii, anno octavo Caroli regis termino Sancti Hillarii, anno domini, 1632. The King’s attorney / Henry Sherfield, Esqre and other...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Life of Henry Nicholas, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.54
Scope and Contents
'Mirabilia opera Dei. Certaine wonderful works of God which happened to H. N. even from his youth: and how the God of Heaven hath united himselfe with him, and raised up his gracious word in him, and how he hath chosen and sent him to be a minister of his gracious word: published by Tobias a fellow-elder with H. N. in the household of love: translated out of Base Almain, Ps. xlvi. 66. Acts xiii. 6.' Begins (after the Preface) 'In the eighth year of the age of H. N. ...'
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Lists of benefices belonging to the church of Exeter, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.10.48
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(1) ‘Nomina ecclesiarum parochialium et capellarum infra diœcesim Exon. et etiam patronorum earundem, nec non earum uniuscujusque valor’; (2) ‘Dignitates et beneficia ad collationem domini episcopi Exon. spectantia’; (3) ‘Beneficia ad presentationem domini decani ecclesiæ cathedralis Exon. spectantia’; (4) ‘Beneficia ad presentationem decani et capituli ecclesiæ cathedralis Exon. (infra diœcesim Exon.) spectantia’; (5) ‘Beneficium ad presentacionem vicariorum choralium ecclesiæ cathedralis...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Lists of the benefices and incumbents of the diocese and archdeaconry of York, 1530s?
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.08.20
Scope and Contents
(1) Liber Eboracensis: after the heading ‘Archiepatus Eboracen’ follows a list of the different benefices with the tenths due from each; the amount for each page has been written at the bottom by another sixteenth-century hand; (2) ‘Nomina dignitatum prebendarum rectoriarum vicariarum cantariarum et capellanorum infra eccles. metropoliticam civitatem et archidiaconatum Eboracen.’; the names are in four columns, of the incumbents, the benefices, the ‘clarus valor’, and the ‘decima pars’; the...
Dates:
1530s?
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Liturgiæ S. Basilii magni, S. Gregorii theologi, S. Cyrilli Alexandrini, ex Arabico conversæ …, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.04.57
Scope and Contents
'Liturgiæ S. Basilii magni, S. Gregorii theologi, S. Cyrilli Alexandrini, ex Arabico conversæ, a Victorio Scialach, Accurensi Maronita e Monte Libano. Augustæ Vindelicorum. 1604.’ Manuscript copy of a printed work bearing the same title (which is in the University Library in a volume of tracts, Dd*.3.9(E)); it affords a few various readings, written over the words intended to be changed; even the corrigenda are copied. f. 31 contains a note of the transcriber not in the printed copy, with an...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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