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:
"Leyden's poems, &c. MS", collected by the Reverend James Morton., 1794-1837, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3383
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Copies of poems of John Leyden, including some not published in collected editions of his works. (Folio 1.)(ii) Writings in Leyden's hand: note on the magical books of Michael Scott (folio 71 verso); prose fragment, 'The Sexton' (folio 72); fragments of two poems in Scots, namely, one on the death of a sexton, signed 'J.L., Banks of Teviot', and a verse epistle to the printer of the ‘British Chronicle’ (folio 73); fragment of...
Dates:
1794-1837, undated.
Literary and cultural papers of the family of Mure of Caldwell., 1740-1864.
Series
Identifier: MSS.4990-5005
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The Mure of Caldwell papers are chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some of the earlier papers belonged to the Mures of Glanderston, the two families having been united in 1710 by the succession of William, 4th Laird of Glanderston, to the Caldwell estates.
Dates:
1740-1864.
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 drafts of sermons first preached by Donald Macleod in The Park Church, and elsewhere; and religious verses., 1876-1909, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.9833
Scope and Contents
The contents are arranged as follows: Manuscript drafts of sermons first preached in The Park Church, 1876-1909 (folio i); Manuscript drafts of sermons first preached elsewhere, 1895, [1901] (folio 192); Religious verses, undated (folio 246).
Dates:
1876-1909, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, autobiographical papers, and sermons of the Very Reverend Donald Macleod, Doctor of Divinity (1831-1916), minister of The Park parish, Glasgow from 1869 to 1909, and editor of the periodical ‘Good words’ from 1872 to 1905.
Manuscript of a lecture titled 'Psalm 1st' by Sir Walter Scott, later published as 'The blessedness of the righteous, discourse II', and proof sheets of the same with corrections in Scott's hand., [Circa 1828], 1928-1929.
File
Identifier: MS.23051
Scope and Contents
Includes four letters, 1928-1929, of the Reverend W S Crockett, minister of Tweedsmuir.
Dates:
[Circa 1828], 1928-1929.
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.
Manuscripts and notes concerning lectures, speeches and sermons., Undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9856/1-5
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes manuscripts, correspondence, notebooks of speeches, lists and diaries.
Dates:
Undated.
Manuscripts from the Bishop Dowden Memorial Library, St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20483-20486
Dates:
Mid 17th century-1743.
Memoranda, copies of letters, a sermon, etc., of Joseph Cook, Rector of Chatton and Shilbottle., 1814-1815.
File
Identifier: MS.2117
Scope and Contents
The papers chiefly relate to Joseph Cook’s discovery of stone coffins in Chatton churchyard, and to his son, Lieutenant Samuel Edward Cook, Royal Navy (afterwards Widdrington). Copies of correspondence of Cook with Sir Walter Scott, 1814, are included.
Dates:
1814-1815.
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.
Microfilm of collection of thirty-nine seventeenth-century sermons, many of them transcribed in 1624.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1041
Dates:
17th century.
Microfilm of list, 1st quarter of 15th century-1652, concerning bequests of money and property to various religious institutions; Sermons, 1756-1776; and valuation, 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.373
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘A perfyte inventar of all the pious donations gevin to kirks and hospitalls since the dayes of king James the first to the reigne of king James the sixt’, 1st quarter of 15th century-1652 (Adv.MS.15.2.25);Sermons, 1756-1760, preached by John Hyndman, minister of St Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh (Adv.MS.15.2.26);Notes for sermons, 1773-1776, preached in Perthshire, Scotland (Adv.MS.15.2.27);Valuation, 17th century, of Perthshire...
Dates:
1st quarter of 15th century-1776.
Microfilm of manuscript, possibly from Mount Athos, of St Dorotheus and sermons of Isaias, with an account of the miracle performed by the Virgin at Blachernae.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.459
Dates:
Late 10th century-early 11th century.
Microfilm of papers, 1592-1654, of Sir James Balfour; and, sermons, 1660, of Presbyterian preachers.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.361
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
“Order of King Charles’ entering Edinburghe in stait at ye vest porte, and his march trough the towne to Holyrood House 15 Junij 1633”, and notes on other ceremonies, by Sir James Balfour, in his own handwriting (Adv.MS.15.2.17);Notes, 1592-1606, of Sir James Balfour on the order of court dignitaries on ceremonial occasions. (Adv.MS.15.2.18);Collection of sermons, 1660, by Presbyterian preachers (Adv.MS.15.2.20);Commonplace...
Dates:
1592-1660.
Microfilm of preaching-book of John of Grimestone, a Franciscan friar from Norfolk.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.61
Dates:
1372.
Microfilm of preaching book of John of Grimestone, a Franciscan friar from Norfolk.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.165
Dates:
1372.
Microfilm of Sermones de Tempore, a homiliary, early 12th century; and, medical manuscripts, 13th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.423
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Sermones de Tempore, a homiliary written in the early 12th century for Rochester Cathedral Priory (Adv.MS.18.2.4).
Two English medical manuscripts, each written by two scribes of the thirteenth century, bound together from an early date (Adv.MS.18.2.5).
Dates:
Early 12th century, 13th century.
Microfilm of sermons in the hand of Archbishop Spottiswoode.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1045
Dates:
[?1615.]
Microfilm of sermons of Adam of Dryburgh, and other works.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.446
Dates:
Early 15th century.
Microfilm of theological works of Saints Jerome, Augustine, and others, written in the 12th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.851
Dates:
12th century.
Miscellaneous correspondence and other papers., 1840-1872, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3679
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:Correspondence, 1840-1872, undated, chiefly between correspondents of James Robert Hope-Scott, including William Gladstone, John Henry Newman, Henry Edward Manning, Nicholas Wiseman and E L Badeley (folios 1-112);Copies of a Bill and an Act relating to Foreign Bishops, 1841 (folios 113-118);Cuttings from German newspapers, 1841-1842 (folios 119-132);A copy (printed) of the funeral sermon by Cardinal Newman for James...
Dates:
1840-1872, undated.