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The devotional writings begin with "Prayers I composed while in my Father's House in Inverury", 1713-1714 (page 1), and continue with commentaries, liturgical excerpts, prayers, versifications, etc. In another hand are copies of letters (page 315) of M G, who 'died the 9th of June 1717 in the 70th year of her age'.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Alexander Paterson qualified as a doctor at Edinburgh in 1885. He spent a few years in London, Cairo and Aden, before entering on his main work as a medical missionary of the United Free Church of Scotland at Hebron in Palestine in 1893. He remained there until the station was handed over to the Church Missionary Society in 1922, when he retired to Edinburgh. He died in 1940. His only published work is the posthumous 'Jesus meets Paul, a duologue in Paradise', Glasgow, [1942]. There is a...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Alexander Paterson qualified as a doctor at Edinburgh in 1885. He spent a few years in London, Cairo and Aden, before entering on his main work as a medical missionary of the United Free Church of Scotland at Hebron in Palestine in 1893. He remained there until the station was handed over to the Church Missionary Society in 1922, when he retired to Edinburgh. He died in 1940. His only published work is the posthumous 'Jesus meets Paul, a duologue in Paradise', Glasgow, [1942]. There is a...

Scope and Contents Manuscript known traditionally as the Herdmanstoun Breviary, but more correctly described as an Antiphonal. It was written in the north of England, possibly Northumberland, but later taken to Scotland and altered. It has been suggested by Höhler that the manuscript was possibly written for the college of canons founded at Chester-le-Street by Bishop Anthony Bek of Durham. Bannister speculates that the volume may have been brought to Scotland during the reign of David II (1329-1371). ...

Scope and Contents i, 21, ii-iii folios. Bound in black leather with marbled endpapers. With blind-stamped decoration on both covers, and golden lettering on the front cover: "Communion Office S. Andrew's Home Mission Chapel."The Episcopal congregation of St Andrew's was founded in 1865 and initially used a chapel in Infirmary Street, Edinburgh. It was renamed St. Michael's in 1881, and in 1882 moved to Hill Square, Edinburgh. It remained there until 1965, when it was united with the congregation...

Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The liturgies of St John Chrysostom (folio 1), St Basil the Great (folio 19), and the Presanctified (folio 41). Substantial differences from modern texts (Εὐχολόγιον τὸ μέγα (Venice, 1862), pages 47-97, 108-118, was used) are: in Saints John and Basil the ό̔τι πρέπει, the ό̔τι σὸν τὸ ϰράτος, and the ό̔τι ἀγαθός are placed after, not before, the prayers of the first, second, and third antiphons respectively, in St John before...

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Printed order of service, entitled 'Glasgow University Bute Hall. Order of Gaelic Service 12 February 1933 at 3 p.m.' 4 pp. The preacher was the Rev. Charles MacKinnon, minister of St. Paul's Outer High Church, Glasgow; Rev. John Mackechnie and Mr Roderick Smith, member of the Ossianic Society, are listed as readers. Contains the texts of four Gaelic hymns.

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The fragment contains capitula and verses apparently for the first Sunday of Advent and possibly the ember-days of Advent, and forms two conjugate, non-consecutive leaves. Single columns. One initial in blue, others possibly in silver (oxidised); rubrics in red. Possibly Flemish.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...

Scope and Contents Manuscript written in Ireland, probably for Down Cathedral in Downpatrick. Lawlor has dated the work as probably of the 13th or early 14th century based on palaeographic evidence. Henry and Marsh-Micheli have suggested the work could also be attributed to the 12th century based on the decoration. This manuscript is a missal of the English (pre-Sarum) type introduced into Ireland from the later 12th century, with a few archaic, possibly local, features. The missal appears to have...

Scope and Contents The fragments were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark L.2.b) of ‘The Holye Byble: that is to saye, (etc.)’ (1539).(i-ii) Two discontiguous vellum fragments apparently from the same mediaeval religious manuscript, possibly a 15th-century missal or breviary, though not one recorded in ‘Patrologia Latina’. The notation and corresponding text is written in double columns: the notation is in black on a red four-line stave; the text in black below the stave. The rubrics...

Scope and Contents The fragments appear to belong to a leaf from the winter portion of the missal or breviary, possibly from Advent. The notation and corresponding text is arranged in double columns: the notation black on a red four-line stave; the text in black below the stave. The rubrics are in red; the capitals variously in blue and red.The fragments were formerly used as binding strips in a copy (pressmark Claud.4.9) of ‘De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis’ (1546) by Joannes...

Scope and Contents The text is written in double columns; together the fragments form the greater part of a right-hand column, with the centre margin and isolated letters of the left-hand column also preserved. One side of the combined fragment contains the epistle of the Vigil of the Birthday of St John the Baptist (23 June); the writing on the other side cannot be read.The fragments were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark E.190.a.1(1)) of ‘F. Alfonsi de Castro ... adversus omnes...

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The text is written in double columns, with rubrics in scarlet, and initials alternately in blue and scarlet.

The fragments were pasted together and used as a single binding strip in a copy (pressmark Ao.6.6) of ‘Stirpium Adversaria Nova’ (London, 1570) by Petrus Pena and Mathias de L’Obel.