Lancelot Andrewes's 'Orphan Lectures': The Exeter Manuscript

500px|center P. G. Stanwood, Peter McCullough, Ray Siemens, and others. "Lancelot Andrewes's 'Orphan Lectures': The Exeter Manuscript". Early Modern Literary Studies Texts Series 2. Lancelot Andrewes's “Orphan Lectures,” as presented here, reflects an important early seventeenth-century manuscript discovery. These lectures were first printed posthumously in 1657 as Apospasmatia Sacra, but their reliability had long been uncertain, with doubts about whether they represent Andrewes’s own words or imperfect notes taken by listeners. Because of these uncertainties, they have often been excluded from the accepted body of his works and have received limited scholarly attention. The introduction situates the manuscript within its textual and historical context by comparing it with the seventeenth-century printed version and examining its scribal and structural features. It highlights the value of the manuscript for understanding the transmission of sermons, the relationship between spoken and written texts, and the broader practices of religious and intellectual culture in early modern England. Table of Contents Introduction (P. G. Stanwood) Bibliographical Descriptions (Peter McCullough): Lancelot Andrewes, Apospasmatia Sacra (1657) A Digital Facsimile of the Newly-discovered Exeter Manuscript of Lancelot Andrewes (Ray Siemens, with Karin Armstrong, Gerry Watson, Mike Elkink, and Greg Newton) Thumbnails in Wikimedia Commons (282 thumbnails, JPG) High-resolution Facsimile Images in Wikimedia Commons (282 page images, TIFF) Archived material (via GitHub) Apospasmatia sacra, or, A collection of posthumous and orphan lectures (An external link to the EEBO 1657 text, Wing / A3125) Transcriptions (P. G. Stanwood) On the Transcriptions Selection 1 The lecture on Revelation 2.7 (Notes by Peter McCullough) Selection 2 1. Gen. 11. Selection 3 Gen. 3.16. See also Essays in Early Modern Literary Studies, 1995-2000 Humanities