Epistles.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Literary genre taking the form of letters, usually of a literary, formal, or public nature. Examples are the epistles in the Biblical New Testament.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Album of occasional verse, verse epistles, etc., apparently by Lady Frances Scott, afterwards Baroness Douglas.
Item
Identifier: MS.3814
Dates:
1762, 1774-1782.
Descriptive poem in three cantos titled ‘Trip to Pitkeathly’ and ‘A poetical epistle to Sir Walter Scott’ by John Paterson.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.42
Dates:
[Circa 1828.]
Manuscript, written in the 14th century, containing extracts from 'De Clementia' and an incomplete text of 'Epistolae morales' by Seneca; with many contemporary annotations.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.16
Scope and Contents
(i) Extracts from the ‘De clementia’, in two series, concerning respectively ‘clementia’ and ‘crudelitas’: i.1.5 ‘rarissimum’ – ‘est’, ‘nemo’ – ‘Romano’, i.1.6 ‘difficile’ – ‘procedunt’, i.1.7 ‘iam’ – ‘sunt’, ‘fecit’ – ‘assecuti’, i.2.2 ‘nec’ – ‘praeponderet’, 1.3.3 ‘nullum’ – ‘struendum est’, i.4.1 ‘ille’ – ‘fidem’, i.4.3 ‘olim’ – ‘capite’, i.5.1 ‘uides’ – ‘parcere’, i.5.3 ‘decet’ – ‘conspicitur’, i.5.5 ‘magnam’ – ‘despicere’, i.7.4 ‘humili’ – ‘liberius est’, i.8.1 ‘eorum’ - i.8.2 ‘timore’,...
Dates:
14th century.
Microfilm of Epistles of St Paul.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.788
Scope and Contents
Epistles of St Paul, late 14th century (Adv.MS.18.6.7, folios 144-178);
Manuscript, 1409, of the earlier Wycliffite translation of the Epistles of St Paul (MS.6127).
Dates:
Late 14th century, 1409.
Miscellaneous manuscripts.
File
Identifier: MS.2618
Scope and Contents
The principle items are as follows.Letter, undated, of Alexander Alesius, Professor of Theology at Leipzig, to a patron, thanking him for favours. (Folio 1.)'A briefe relacon of all such passages as happened dureing the Seidge of the Castle of Edinburgh' (of 1640), written by one of the garrison in reply to ‘A True representation of the proceedings of the Kingdome of Scotland’ by the Estates of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1640). An item torn from a manuscript book. (Folio...
Dates:
[1640, or after]-1866, undated.
Pauline epistles with gloss, written in France in the 12th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.7
Scope and Contents
Leaves are missing which contain Romans 1, verso 21 - 3, verse 5, Corinthians I 16, verse 17 - II 1, verse 6, Titus 3, verse 5 - Philemon, verse 4, and Hebrews 10, verse 26 onwards. Some of the prologues are included with the main text, and others with the marginal gloss; a few have been added by another 12th-century hand. There are a number of 12th- and 13th-century annotations. Each Epistle is preceded by a large initial containing foliage and sometimes birds, dragons and human...
Dates:
12th century.