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Microfilm of preaching-book of John of Grimestone, a Franciscan friar from Norfolk.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.61
Dates:
1372.
Microfilm of preaching book of John of Grimestone, a Franciscan friar from Norfolk.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.165
Dates:
1372.
Preaching-book of John of Grimestone, a Franciscan friar from Norfolk.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.21
Scope and Contents
The sermon topics are arranged alphabetically, with an index at the beginning (folios 7-9); the heading and number of each is repeated at the top of each page. The last three in the index (numbers 141-143, De Vsura, De Vita, De Veste) are missing from the text. The topics are predominantly in Latin, a very few in French, and consist of quotations (from the Bible, classical authors, especially Cicero and Seneca, the Fathers, and medieval authors) and moral tales and happenings. Interspersed...
Dates:
1372.
Sermons of James Blair and William Eccles, Ministers at Paisley, taken down in shorthand.
File
Identifier: MS.7173
Scope and Contents
There are some notes and summaries (folios 84, 204), proper names, and quotations in Latin (passim) in cursive script. A few leaves at the beginning are missing. The shorthand used resembles the system devised by T Metcalfe, (‘Radio-stenography, or short writing’) from which it was probably adapted by the copyist himself.
Dates:
1681-1682.