| Repository | Lambeth Palace Library |
| Level | File |
| Alt Ref No | MS 3707 |
| Extent | 201 ff |
| Title | Andrewes, Lancelot (1555-1625) |
| Date | c1650 |
| Description | Lectures and Sermons.The attribution to Andrewes is based on style and content; the manuscript is not in his hand, but appears to be a transcription made c. 1650.
ff. 1-11r. 'Manductio ad theologiam polemicam', probably unrelated to Andrewes.
ff. 11v-131r. Series of twelve lectures on the elements and grounds of religion. Probably delivered by Andrewes to schoolboys at Westminster where he was Dean from 1601 to 1605.
ff. 132r-189r. Six sermons [probably preached between 1588 and 1603]. The second sermon on the theme of victory (ff. 142-150), may have been delivered at Court at Easter 1589, following the defeat of the Armada. |
| PhysicalDescription | 1 vol., 190 x 120 mm., i, 201 ff. (190-201 blank).
Contemporary calf binding. |
| Acquisition | Sotheby's 19 July 1994, lot 3 (previously deposited in Cambridge University Library, Add. 7976).
Purchased by the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library, with the aid of the V. & A. Purchase Grant Fund. |
| PublnNote | M. Dorman (ed.), 'Lancelot Andrewes: Mentor of reformed Catholicism in the post-Reformation English Church', 2005 [H5199.A6D6]
Edited by Marianne Dorman, 'Lancelot Andrewes 1555-1626. Teacher and preacher in the post Reformation English Church' (Tucson, Arizona, 2007).
Lancelot Andrewes, 'Some catechetical lectures and sermons of Lancelot Andrewes', 2007 [H5199.A6D6] |
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| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA2317 | Andrewes; Lancelot (1555-1625); Bishop of Winchester | 1555-1625 |