Details

Subjects:

Hoard, Samuel, 1599-1658. God's love to mankind.
Predestination.
Election (Theology).

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, English.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

English, with quotations in Latin.

Summary:

A manuscript of Bishop of Salisbury John Davenant's book which was printed in London in 1641. It is a response to Samuel Hoard's God's Love to Mankind. Manifested by Disproving His Absolute Decree for their Damnation, London, 1633, and is perhaps in the hand of, or owned by John Davenant (attribution, inside upper cover).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
On inside upper cover is written in pencil: "An original Manuscript of Bishop Davenant"; underneath this is written "(The above is in the autograph of Adam Clarke LL. D.)"; and "(from the Rev. James Everett's Library)." Adam Clarke (1762?-1832) was a noted Wesleyan preacher, commentator, and theological writer. This manuscript was apparently not a part of his personal library for it does not appear in the Historical and Descriptive Catalogue of the European and Asiatic Manuscripts in the Library of the late Dr. Adam Clarke prepared by Joseph Butterworth B. Clarke for Southeby in 1835. James Everett (1784-1872) was a Wesleyan preacher and bookseller. He was also an intimate friend and biographer of Adam Clarke. Perhaps Clarke put his note in Everett's ms. while in his shop one day. [This note by University of Pennsylvania Librarian Thomas R. Adams, who accessioned this manuscript in 1952.].
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 109 + i (contemporary paper); [1-109]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Several manicules (f. 26r, 59r, 59v, 62r, 62v).
Binding: 18th-century calf, rebacked.
Origin: Written in England, 1633-1641.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex, Viscount Maldon, and Baron Capell of Hadham, 1701 [bookplate]; James Everett; T. Edward Ross [bookplate].
Gift of T. Edward Ross, 1949.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 50 (Ms. English 5).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 200

Contributor:

Clarke, Adam, approximately 1762-1832, associated name.
Everett, James, 1784-1872, former owner.

OCLC:

155962818