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Title: [Notebook of sermons].
Alternative Title: Theological commonplace book.
Creator: Gibbes, Charles, 1603?-1681, inscribed name.
Contributor: Chambers, Wilfred James, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: [1646-1665]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript. Many pages numbered but not always in sequence; most pages ruled.
Scope/Content: Manuscript notebook of notes and texts for sermons delivered between 1648-1665 in various locations, including Ansley, Snitterfield, Sleaford and Compton Holloway, England. It appears that most if not all of the notes belong to minister Charles Gibbes, who was ejected from his post at Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire in 1647. The notes are written very closely and it is clear that the sermons therein were delivered and reworked multiple times.
Condition: Bound in full brown morocco with 1646 blind stamped on cover and sprinkled edges; defective spine; housed in modern tan cloth box.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Commonplace books
Notebooks
Sermons
Bookplates (Provenance)
Ownership inscriptions (Provenance)
Extent: [156] p. in various pagings, bound ;16 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n19028
MS.1951.013
Language: English
eng
Subject: Sermons--England--Early works to 1800.
Place: England
Provenance: Bookplate of Wilfred James Chambers on front paste-down endpaper, and bookstamp of Wilfred James Chambers on front free endpaper; bookplate enumerates this volume as "no. 256 AA." "Bought at Norwich" on front paste-down endpaper. On p. [1]:"Donii Charoli Gibbs, Hunningtonensis, Warwickensis, Mertonensis, Oxoniensis, 1646" with "Georgius Teonge" in a different hand; further inscriptions on p. [151].
Location: CLUW

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