Religion
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Found in 202 Collections and/or Records:
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Notes of sermons, 1634
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.70
Scope and Contents
The sermons were apparently preached by Mr Crispe, Mr Wilson and others; one page bears the date 1634. Written from both ends. The handwriting of the greater part is probably the same as that of MS Dd.06.47, but the last few leaves are in a different hand. The notes were taken by Sarah Wilson, whose name is on the first folio.
Dates:
1634
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Notes on books of the Old Testament, Sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.19
Scope and Contents
'Here folowith certeyne notes, gathered out of the prophet David, out of the wourks of Salomon, Job, and Ecclesiasticus.' With a table of contents.
Dates:
Sixteenth century
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Notes on Genesis, 1640s
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.56
Scope and Contents
Notes on the first two portions of the book of Genesis, extracted from Rabbinical sources (Abarbanel, Jarchi, etc.). ff. 1-50 are in a different handwriting to the latter part; on f. 51 b is written, in the second hand, ‘1646, March 20’, and on f. 100 b, ‘March 27, 1647’. f. 1 b contains references to several passages in the book of Exodus. ff. 2a-50 contain notes on the first 12 chapters of Genesis, the heading being ‘Nomen authoris ...’, beginning ‘According to the opinion of hamiddrash...
Dates:
1640s
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Notes on the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles, 1660 - 1662
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Kk.06.13
Scope and Contents
Notes in English (for the most part) on the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles. Prefixed (ff. 1-3) is 'The Contents of the 4 Evangelists as they are harmonized and divided into sections by Dr Lightfoot.' At the beginning (f. 13) is the date, 'Sept. 12, 1660.' At the end, ' Sept. 2, 1662.'
Dates:
1660 - 1662
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Notes on the Old Testament, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.03.22, MS Mm.03.23, MS Mm.03.24
Scope and Contents
Chiefly from the Rabbis. Possibly by John Worthington, Fellow of Peterhouse in 1688. The first volume contains the Pentateuch, with the preface of R. Abraham ben Meir ben Ezra: after this follows a list of 'the Sections of the Law according to the Masora', after which the notes begin: they are carelessly written and abound in corrections. The second contains the books from Joshua to Esther, with the prefaces of R. David Kimchi and R. Levi. The third contains the books from Job to...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Offices according to Carmelite use, c. 1525
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.06.28
Scope and Contents
The volume, which is in the handwriting of John Bale, consists of three parts, and contains several offices according to the old Carmelite use. I. (1) B. Mariæ Carmelitarum patronæ. Ad horas. [16 July]; this is followed by a note about an attempt to prejudice Pope Honorius III against the Carmelites; II. (2) S. Cirilli Carmelitæ doctoris melliflui confessoris non episcopi duplex fm. Ad horas. [6 March]; (3) S. Bertoldi primi prioris generalis ord. Carm. conf. non epi. duplex festum. Ad...
Dates:
c. 1525
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Opera evangelica, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.01.08
Scope and Contents
‘Opera evangelica, or St James’es and Nicodemus’es gospel, with some other pieces of antiquity. Done into English. To which is added a preliminary discourse concerning ye following treatises together with the Latine copy, from which they were translated, annexed unto them’. Apparently written out for the press. Begins ‘There is no doubt to be made but that our Saviour ...’. The full contents are: (1) ‘The preface, concerning the following treatises’; (2) ‘The gospel of St James the brother...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Papers relating to a controversy between Edward Gwyn and Samuel Phillips, 1562
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.32
Scope and Contents
The controversy concerned ὁμοούσιος, and St Austin and St Bernard; the first 41 leaves of the manuscript contain a letter from Gwyn to Phillips, beginning 'Sir. Yt seemeth the tempestuous wynde of passion ...'; then follows a statement in the same handwriting of the questions in dispute between them, with an attestation by Samuel Macham, bookseller, and two notes appended by J. Homberston, artium magistro, and Thomas Best; and a letter from Phillips beginning 'Mr Gwyn upon Tuesday morninge...
Dates:
1562
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Petit traité a l’encontre de la primauté du pape, 30 August 1549
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.59
Scope and Contents
An autograph by King Edward VI, dedicated to his uncle the Duke of Somerset, with the date ‘De mon palais de Ouestmester cez Londres ce penultime jour d’Aoust, 1549’. The dedications begins ‘Apres avoir considéré (trescher et bien aymé oncle) combien ceux desplaisent à Dieu, qui despendent tout leur temps en folies et vanitéz de ce monde ...’.
Dates:
30 August 1549
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Poems, Early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.05
Scope and Contents
Twenty-one short poems on subjects chiefly connected with the life of Christ. On a flyleaf at the end is written 'Lent to Sir Henry Sidney 100£ the 11 of May, 1612'. Also Ἰωάννης Κνύεττος [i.e. Knyvett] τὁν βίβλον κρατεῖ.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
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Prælectiones de Personarum Acceptione, and De Simonia, Eighteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.01.12
Scope and Contents
'Prælectiones de Personarum Acceptione,' both 'in Beneficiorum Ecclesiasticorum Collatione,' and 'in Electionibus ad Officia Sæcularia:' And 'de Simonia, quid sit, et quo jure prohibetur.' There are signatures in what is probably the author's hand. It is uniform with Mm.01.13 and Mm.01.14, and evidently by the same author.
Dates:
Eighteenth century
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Prayers, Late seventeenth or eighteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.11
Scope and Contents
This is another copy of MS Dd.11.55, being prayers and meditations 'drawn up by Archbishop Tillotson for the use of King William III. The texts, John ix. 4 and Coloss. iii. 17, are first quoted; then follows 'A prayer', beginning 'I prostrate myself before Thee ...'.
Dates:
Late seventeenth or eighteenth century
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Prayers and meditations, 1690s?
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.55
Scope and Contents
Drawn up by Archbishop Tillotson for the use of King William III. The texts, John ix. 4 and Coloss. iii. 17, are first quoted; then follows 'A prayer', beginning 'I prostrate myself before Thee ...'. See also MS Dd.14.11.
Dates:
1690s?
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Prayers and Meditations on our Saviour's History, Sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Nn.04.41
Scope and Contents
This contains a number of fairly executed pictures on vellum. One, which has the monogram Ihs with the name J.B. Maes, and an inscription in Dutch. The last two leaves have small engraved portraits of the Sibyls.
Dates:
Sixteenth century
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Prelections, Eighteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Kk.03.01-MS Kk.03.17
Scope and Contents
The prelections of Joseph Beaumont, Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge, on St Paul's Epistle to the Romans, and on chapter ii, verses 5-11 of that to the Philippians. Transcripts, in various hands. One volume appears to be missing, as volume XVI ends abruptly, and the prelections to Colossians, of which mention is made in the biography included in the 1749 edition of his poems, are not present.
Dates:
Eighteenth century
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Questions and determinations, Eighteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.33
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains various questions, with short determinations upon them, in the manner of medieval scholastics. The headings are ‘Questiones sophisticæ’, Questiones prædicabiles’, ‘Quæstiones anteprædicamentales’, ‘Quæstiones prædicamentales’ and ‘Quæstiones postprædicamentales’.
Dates:
Eighteenth century
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Rationes Stili, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.65
Scope and Contents
Eight sacred allegories, with explanations of the first and fourth appended. Begins 'Loquimur sapientiam [&c. 1 Cor. ii.] Talis erat …'.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Religious tracts, Seventeenth or eighteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.39
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘Sensus ultimæ visionis Ezechiel literalis ex Vitruvio lib. de architectura et aliis, præcipue ex vocibus in fonte Hebræo erutus’, after which is inserted a sheet containing a plan of Ezechiel’s temple; (2) ‘Sensus Ezech. misticus ex collatione Novi Testamenti erutus’; (3) ‘A treatise of the sacrifice of prayer’, with many marginal notes in English, Latin, Greek and Hebrew.
Dates:
Seventeenth or eighteenth century
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Religious treatises, Mid seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.06.41
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘An epistle of private counsell’, beginning ‘Ghostly friend in God as touching thine occupation ...’; (2) ‘The divine cloud of unknowing’, beginning (after a prologue and table of contents) ‘Ghostly ffriend in God, I pray the and beseech the ...’; this treatise, which is divided into 75 chapters, has been attributed to Walter Hilton and William Exmeuse. The prologue, which is the author’s, contains his wishes as respects those who are to read the book. The work seems to have been...
Dates:
Mid seventeenth century
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Reports of Church colloques on Jersey, 1577-1614
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.43
Scope and Contents
'Registre contenant les actes des colloques des eglises de l'Isle de Jersey commences au mois de Septembre, l'an du Seigneur mil cinq cente, et septante sept, et finissant le quatorzieme jour du mois du Novembre en l'an mil six cente et quatorze. The names of the 'ministres' and 'anciens' first appear (f. 131) in the report of the colloque of 27 December 1605, and are given on all subsequent occasions.
Dates:
1577-1614
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Fonds
Revisers of the English Bible: Minutes, Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6923-6950
Scope and Contents
Notebooks and loose papers created and accumulated by the companies and committees engaged in the revision of the English Bible. The papers are mainly in English, with small amounts of French and Ancient Greek.
Dates:
1870-1899
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Sarah Clayton: A Breif Sum of the Principles of the Christian Religion
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3848
Scope and Contents
Autograph, with later additions by Jonathan Rashleigh. Authorship and date rest on inscription in same hand as main text, on first flyleaf. Text at pp. 1-88, with table of contents at p. 194. Remaining pp., originally blank, have been in part used for notes of parish charity accounts re Silverton, Devon, 1785-7, and for texts of sermons, 1789-92, apparently all in the hand of the Revd Jonathan Rashleigh, rector of Silverton from 1784. Rashleigh's mother was a daughter of Sir William Clayton...
Dates:
1733
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Cambridge University Library
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Scriptural references, Eighteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.29
Scope and Contents
References to texts of scripture on various subjects.
Dates:
Eighteenth century
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Sermon, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.10.53
Scope and Contents
A sermon on John v. 39, beginning 'Among those many excellent precepts …'.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Sermon, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.15.10
Scope and Contents
'Mr Grayes sermon', on Matt. xi. 21, 22, beginning (after the text) 'Where God bestoweth manie blessings …'.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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