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Correspondence and papers of Dr Robert Douglas, Minister of Galashiels, and of his own and allied families: Hays, Thomsons, Tods, Lothians.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3116-3123
Scope and Contents
A table of the relationships of the various families has been placed in MS.3116, folio i.
Dates:
1714-1905, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Sir George Adam Smith, Lilian, Lady Adam Smith, née Buchanan, and other members of the Adam Smith and Buchanan families.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.311- is now Acc.9446.
Dates:
1859-1949.
Correspondence and papers of the Reverend Andrew Lothian and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7617/1-100
Dates:
1637-1909, undated.
Correspondence, notebooks, journals and other papers of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, Bishop Robert Douglas, and of the Douglas family and estates.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10229/1-132
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers, literary manuscripts and journals of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie (1744-1823) and of earlier members of the Douglas family, mainly his great-grandfather, Robert Douglas (1625-1716), Bishop of Brechin, 1682-1684, and the last Bishop of Dunblane (1684-1689) in the pre-Revolution episcopal establishment of the Church of Scotland; and his father, John Douglas of Fechil in the parish of Ellon, Aberdeenshire (1714-1762).
Dates:
1597-1823.
Diaries and notebooks of William Blair, minister of Dunblane United Presbyterian Church; with two volumes formerly belonging to John Bisset, minister of Nairn United Presbyterian Church.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3334/1-50
Scope and Contents
Includes student lecture-notes, journals and sermons.
Dates:
?1843-1903, undated.
Diary, sermons and notes of a minister in British Guiana.
File
Identifier: Acc.9274
Dates:
1840-1841 and undated.
"Diverse preciouse sermons upon... Scripture" by James Broun, David Broun, John Anderson, Alexander Hastay and James Stirling. Copied by William Bogle.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12566
Dates:
circa 1695.
Donald MacCalman, sermon given in Edinburgh, 1821.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13766
Scope and Contents
A sermon on Luke 15: 1-10. Signed "Don: M,Calman". On verso of final leaf: "Edin[burgh] 19th March 1821 - Delivered this day. - D.M.C.
Dates:
1821
Elegiac verses and funeral sermons on Jean Smith, by her husband the Reverend John Bonar.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7614
Scope and Contents
With decorative penwork.
Dates:
1737.
Further Gaelic manuscripts from the Irvine-Robertson collection.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14544
Content Description
A small group of manuscripts that were formerly part of Acc.3184 (now MSS.14877-14881), to be merged with that collection in due course.
The manuscripts were brought together by the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine (1773-1824), minister of Fortingall and then Little Dunkeld, Gaelic scholar and collector of Gaelic verse. They comprise correspondence in English, sermons in Gaelic, and Gaelic poetry collected by Irvine.
Dates:
ca. 1800-1823
"Heads and Notes of Certain Sermons and Discourses from Diverse Texts of Scripture; by Mr. Thomas Hog, Minister of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ at Killtearn in the Shire of Ross. Transcribed from the Original Coppy of the Author, which was lent me for that purpose by Mrs. Maire Relict of the deceas'd Mr. George Maire Minister of Cullross" (died 1716).
File
Identifier: MS.3010
Scope and Contents
Thomas Hog was a noted Covenanter (see 'The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'). The dates of the sermons, where specified, cover the period 1659-1673; in some cases the place of delivery is given. At folio vii verso is some account of Hog, taken from Robert Wodrow, ‘History’ (Edinburgh, 1722-1723), volume i, page 41.
Inserted (folio i), is a letter, 1887, of Robert Cumming McDougall, Minister of Resolis, to Hog of Newliston recommending the publication of a manuscript volume of Hog's...
Dates:
1659-1673, 1887.
Lectures and sermons by ministers of the Church of Scotland; with a list of contents and a transcript of one of the sermons, in a modern hand.
Series
Identifier: MSS.664A-B
Dates:
1650-1652.
Letter and two note-books of the Reverend Ralph Erskine.
Series
Identifier: MSS.91-93
Dates:
1709-1741.
Letters and papers formerly in the possession of the Reverend John Stirton.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3237-3240
Dates:
1772-1939, undated.
Manuscript book, containing psalm-tunes, philosophical notes, notes of sermons, etc.
Item
Identifier: MS.784
Scope and Contents
The manuscript book is inscribed on the fly-leaf 'Rogerus Kirkpatrick...1697, 1698', and contains some entries of later date.
Dates:
1697-1698.
Manuscript containing a collection of Ossianic poems by the Reverend Alexander Pope (circa 1706-1782) of Reay.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.23
Scope and Contents
A letter written by Alexander Pope in 1763 and published in the Ossian Report, Appendix, page 52, indicates that this collecting activity took place about 1739. Folios 1-7 are in Pope’s hand, and a note at folio 1 verso confirming his identity appears to be signed W P, perhaps his son William. Folios 8-11 are in hand of the Reverend Alexander Sage (1753-1824) of Kildonan, as are numerous corrections passim and a reference at folio 5 verso.The contents are as follows....
Dates:
[Circa 1739.]
Manuscript of the late 11th and early 12th century containing: the 'Paradisus' of Heraclides; the 'Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae sub Geiserico et Hunrico regibus Wandalorum' of Victor Vitensis; 'De corpore et sanguine Domini' of Paschasius Radbertus (attributed to Rabanus Maurus); 'De corpore Domini contra Berengarium' of Guitmund; and two sermons of St Augustine of Hippo.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.3
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of the late 11th and early 12th century, written in England and containing various theological works. The manuscript has been dated to the early 12th century by Borland, Ker, Schenkl, Paul, and Römer. In private correspondence with the National Library of Scotland Michael Gullick has stated that folios 1-122 were written at Durham, probably in the 1090s, but definitely before 1096. He further suggests that folios 123-149 were added to the manuscript sometime in the late 11th or...
Dates:
Late 11th century - early 12th century.
Manuscript, possibly from Mount Athos, of St Dorotheus and the sermons of Isaias, with an account of the miracle performed by the Virgin at Blachernae.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.21
Scope and Contents
(i) St Dorotheus: letter (folio 1; ‘Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca’, ‘Auctarium’ 2116z, ‘Patrologia Graeca’, lxxxviii, 1613); beginning of life of St Dositheus, differing from the version below, folio 17 verso (folio 5); teachings 21 (folio 5 verso; ‘Patrologia Graeca’, lxxxviii, 1812), 18 (folio 11; ‘Patrologia Graeca’, lxxxviii, 1804, ‘Oeuvres spirituelles’, 504), 16 (folio 13 verso; ‘Patrologia Graeca’, lxxxviii, 1793, ‘Oeuvres spirituelles’, 488); life of St Dositheus (folio 17 verso,...
Dates:
Late 10th century-early 11th century.
Manuscripts from the Bishop Dowden Memorial Library, St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20483-20486
Dates:
Mid 17th century-1743.
Manuscripts from the library of St Andrew`s College, Drygrange.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9180
Dates:
18th century to 19th century.
Microfilm of 11th and 12th century manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.350
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript of the late 11th and early 12th century containing: the 'Paradisus' of Heraclides; the 'Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae temper Wandalorum' of Victor Vitensis; 'De corpore et sanguine Domini' of Paschasius Radbertus (attributed to Rabanus Maurus); 'De corpore Domini contra Berengarium' of Guitmund; and two sermons of St Augustine of Hippo (Adv.MS.18.4.3);Medical manuscript, 1st half of 12th century, written in South France or...
Dates:
Late 11th century-1st half of 12th century.
Microfilm of 15th century manuscript, 'Collationes' attributed to Robert Holcot.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1253
Dates:
15th century.
Microfilm of collection of sermons in three parts, each written by a different 17th century hand.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.123
Dates:
17th century.