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 73 Collections and/or Records:
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents
Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Papers of and concerning the Reverend George Murray Reith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3564
Scope and Contents
Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.
Dates:
[?1885]-?1st half of 19th century.
Papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, from Spottiswoode House.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2933-2953
Dates:
1540-1851.
Poems and a mock sermon (on marriage) in the hand of Andrew Fletcher, auditor of exchequer.
File
Identifier: MS.17895
Scope and Contents
Various dates between 1743 and 1757 occur.
Dates:
1743-1757.
Prayers, sermons, addresses and lectures of the Very Reverend Andrew Nevile Davidson.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.8095/1-40
Dates:
1924-1976, undated.
'Preaching Book', apparently the property of Sir Hugh Campbell of Cessnock.
Item
Identifier: MS.1759
Scope and Contents
The volume contains notes of sermons preached in various Edinburgh churches late in 1659 and in 1660.
Dates:
1659-1660.
Presbyterian sermon on Joel, ii, 15, calling for a fast and for repentance for the sins of Scotland, probably of the early eighteenth century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3808
Dates:
?Early 18th century.
Religious commonplace book, of the Napier family, containing, "A copy of some familiar letters which passed between intimate friends, as they were written from the originall's for the transcriber's private use".
Item
Identifier: MS.3008
Scope and Contents
The items are numbered, and there is a list of contents at the beginning and end.Most of the letters, which cover the period 1721-1781, with a few of 1707, are addressed by Archibald Napier of Bowhopple, Minister of Kilmadock, the transcriber's grandfather (see number 61), and his son, Thomas Napier of Greenhill, watchmaker in Glasgow, to Archibald Napier, apothecary in Edinburgh, and other members of the family. There are also copies of letters of other writers, hymns, sermons,...
Dates:
1707, 1721-1781.
Sermons and other papers of the Lawson family, secession ministers at Selkirk.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5023/1-52
Dates:
Late 17th century-1892, undated.
'Sermons at Eastwood from July 4, 1703, to Aprile 15, 1705. By R. W.' In the handwriting of Robert Wodrow.
File
Identifier: MS.134
Dates:
1703-1705.
Sermons, diaries, correspondence and other papers of Rev Dr Archibald Clive Irvine, medical missionary at Chogoria, Kenya, including some correspondence of members of his family.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12801/1-80
Dates:
1915-1974.
Sermons of Adam of Dryburgh and other works.
File
Identifier: MS.9999
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Sermons of Adam of Dryburgh. Some of these were printed from another manuscript in W de Gray Birch, ‘Sermoties fratris Adae’ (Edinburgh, 1901) and J P Migne, ‘Patrologiae curvus complettis ... latina’, volume cxcviii. For details, see N R Ker, ‘Medieval manuscripts in British libraries’, volume i. A sermon of Thomas à Kempis, written in a sixteenth-century hand, has been inserted (folios 81-83). It is printed in Thomas à Kempis, ‘Opera omnia’...
Dates:
Early 15th century.
Sermons of James Blair and William Eccles, Ministers at Paisley, taken down in shorthand.
File
Identifier: MS.7173
Scope and Contents
There are some notes and summaries (folios 84, 204), proper names, and quotations in Latin (passim) in cursive script. A few leaves at the beginning are missing. The shorthand used resembles the system devised by T Metcalfe, (‘Radio-stenography, or short writing’) from which it was probably adapted by the copyist himself.
Dates:
1681-1682.
Sermons preached by John Hyndman, minister of St Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.2.26
Dates:
1756-1760.
Sermons preached mostly at Kippen and apparently at conventicles.
File
Identifier: MS.1038
Scope and Contents
For the conditions under which the sermons were preached, see pages 235, 246, 273, 451, 464, 479, 500, 562.
Dates:
1682.
Seven sermons of Andrew Moir, Minister of the Secession (Burgher) Church in Selkirk.
File
Identifier: MS.7192
Dates:
1758-1759.
'Six sermons concerning frustrating the grace of God, by mixing the works of the Law with the righteousness of Christ in the justification of a sinner before God, by the Reverend Mr. Robert Traile' (Trail, the prisoner of the Bass), on Galatians, ii:21.
File
Identifier: MS.3580
Scope and Contents
At the end is the first page of "Jesus Christ crucified ... being the substance of six sermons preached at Lorimers' Hall from 1st Cor. 2.1.2", by Robert Trail; in a hand of the early eighteenth century.
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Sixty-two sermons of George Lawson, Minister of Portland Road United Secession Church, Kilmarnock (later of Selkirk United Presbyterian Church).
File
Identifier: MS.7193
Dates:
1825-1828.
Theological works of St Bernard of Clairvaux and others, probably from a Cistercian house.
File
Identifier: MS.9153
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) The 'De consideratione' of St Bernard. Printed by J P Migne in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume clxxxii, 727-808. (Folio 2 verso).(ii) Four sermons of St Bernard on Luke I, 26-38. Printed in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume clxxxiii, 55-88. (Folio 85).(iii) Hugh of St Victor, 'Soliloquium de arrha animae'. The prologue and 'confessio’ are in a shorter version than that printed in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume clxxvi, 951-970. (Folio...
Dates:
13th century.
Various manuscripts written or owned by Thomas Ruddiman.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20491-20496
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts are lettered RA-RK (RC missing) and some also have Roman numerals.
Dates:
4th quarter of 17th century-1st half of 18th century.
Volume containing eleven sermons written out in full by an unknown preacher.
Item
Identifier: MS.9163
Dates:
Early 17th century-mid 17th century.
Writings of Savonarola, translated into English, in the hand of Alexander Falconar, Advocate, who added some comments in the margins, late seventeenth or early eighteenth century.
File
Identifier: MS.3859
Scope and Contents
Contains: ‘De Simplicitate Christianae Vitae’, preceded by the ‘Epistola’, as in the Cologne edition (1550), and followed by a sermon on John, iv, I, preached on 9 June 1495 (folio 101).
There are notes on the manuscript and its writer on folios i and iii.
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.