Devotional literature, English
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Laurence Heyworth collection of English religious manuscripts
Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 172
Abstract:
The collection consists of 73 volumes, mostly in English, containing sermons, sermon-notes, prayers, religious reflections, tracts, commonplace books, Biblical commentaries, and other religious and theological texts, mostly from the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Almost half of the volumes include sermons or sermon notes. Most authors are unidentified, but identified authors include John Nicholas, John Henderson, and William Barton. Devotional works include William...
Dates:
1550-1820, bulk 1650-1710
Southcomb family papers
Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 156
Abstract:
The Southcomb Family Papers document some aspects of the clerical careers of several generations of members of the Southcomb family, which held the rectorship of Rose Ash in Devon for over 200 years. Included are devotional commonplace books of Lewis Southcomb; 279 sermons, mostly dating from the first half of the nineteenth century, by four different family members; and the diaries of John Ladeveze Hamilton Southcomb.
Dates:
1696-1877, bulk 1818-1852