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Sermons.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Religious discourses delivered as part of a church service, usually delivered from a pulpit, based upon a text of scripture, and with the purpose of giving religious instruction or exhortation.

Found in 388 Collections and/or Records:

Draft of a treatise on the Sermon on the Mount by Henry Fletcher of Saltoun., 18th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.17771
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates: 18th century.

Draft of a treatise on the Sermon on the Mount by Henry Fletcher of Saltoun., 18th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.17772
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates: 18th century.

Drafts and notes for sermons and lectures given by Sir Charles Dalrymple., 1864-1914, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.25654
Scope and Contents

A wide range of topics are discussed including the life and works of Sir Walter Scott and Postal Telegraphs. With typescripts of two lectures annotated by Sir Charles Dalrymple.

Dates: 1864-1914, undated.

Essay or sermon, and part of another, upholding the doctrines of the Reformed Episcopal Church against those of the Church of Rome, 17th century., 17th century, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.3109, folios 44-63
Scope and Contents

The author of the former treatise mentions a work of his own entitled 'Orthodoxo-Jacobus'.

There is also (folio 57) a modern commentary, undated, on the Church accounts of Montrose (MS.3048).

Dates: 17th century, undated.

Family papers of Reverend J E McIntyre., 1895-1946, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.10090/1-2
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Some family and other papers of Robert Douglas McIntyre's father, the Reverend John Ebenezer McIntyre (1874-1961), successively minister of Hightae and Dalton, Motherwell, Manse Road, and St Mary's, Edinburgh, United Free churches, and later of Barony and St James Place Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, precede the main collection.

Dates: 1895-1946, undated.

'Fift Book' of a series of volumes of sermons., 1704-1705.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2751
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The sermons, of which there is a list at the beginning of each volume, were apparently copied out during the years 1704 and 1706 by one Stephen Ewens, whose name is inscribed in MS.2751, folio iv.

Dates: 1704-1705.

Five sermons on 1 Peter 4.1; 1 Peter 3.22; St John 14.16; Colossians 1.18; Acts 13.38., Late 17th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.20483
Scope and Contents

The text is written on the rectos only, with occasional additions on the versos; one of these, on folio 93 verso, is headed Whitsunday, 1680. The unknown author numbered the folios (143 is repeated), leaving 1-30 blank and unnumbered but taken into account. On folio i is a quotation from Daniel Heinsius on the necessity of knowing Greek to understand the New Testament.

Contemporary blind-stamped leather binding, with 'D' in gilt on the spine.

Dates: Late 17th century.

Formal and legal documents and papers relating to the Scott family., 1681-1800.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.9843/44-54
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Papers, nearly all formal documents, mostly relating to the lands of Foulshields and the families associated with them. The papers are principally those of the Wardrops and their heirs, the Scotts, but also include documents relating to Shaw, Kinloch, Baillie, Weir, and Carmichael families.

Dates: 1681-1800.

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

German sermons by Johann Zimmermann., 1608.

 File
Identifier: Acc.3591/4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.

Dates: 1608.

Gradual of Dominican use, Italy., 1st half of 16th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.25242
Scope and Contents A large choirbook containing the Sanctorale (folio 1), the Temporale from Christmas Eve to Corpus Christi (folio 75), 'In consecratione ecclesiae' (folio 136) and the Creed (folio 139). The Sanctorale includes offices for the feasts of Saints Peter Martyr, Antonino, Archbishop of Florence (canonised in 1523), Catherine of Sienna, Dominic (translation and feast), Vincent Ferrer, and Thomas Aquinas. The manuscript is illuminated throughout with large red and blue initials on penwork...
Dates: 1st half of 16th century.

"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.

Incomplete weekly notes made by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes on sermons heard chiefly at the Tron Kirk, Lady Yester's Chapel and Old Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, and also when on Circuit., 1751-1771, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.25411
Scope and Contents From the Series: Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet of Hailes, (1726-1792), was the son of Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes, and Lady Christian Dalrymple, daughter of the 6th Earl of Haddington. Sir David was educated at Eton and entered the Inner Temple in 1742. From 1747-1748 he studied Civil Law at Utrecht, and in 1748 was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates. He was raised to the Bench as Lord Hailes in 1766 and appointed a Lord of Justiciary in 1776. In addition to his legal activities, Lord...
Dates: 1751-1771, undated.

Leaf from a sermon on angels., 14th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21099
Scope and Contents

The first part of the text is a passage from the ‘Gregorianum’ of Garnerus of St Victor, book 1, chapter 2 (J P Migne, ‘Patrologia latina’ CXCIII, columns 26-27).

The leaf was used in a binding.

Dates: 14th century.

Lecturers and sermons of George Reith., [?1886-?1941.]

 Series
Identifier: Acc.3564/34-71
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.

Dates: [?1886-?1941.]

Letters and papers of Richard Burdon-Sanderson, his wife Elizabeth and daughter Jane., 1809-1835, 1884-1889, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.20046
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Copies and extracts, 1857, in the hand of his wife Elizabeth, of letters, 1809, 1814, undated, of Richard Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond (died 1865), formerly Burdon, to his relations (folios 1); (ii) Letters 1835, undated, of Burdon-Sanderson to his wife (folio 29); (iii) Sermon preached, 1835, by Burdon-Sanderson on Joel (folio 27); (iv) Miscellany of extracts, undated, in the hand of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson from printed books (folio 45); (v) Letters,...
Dates: 1809-1835, 1884-1889, undated.