Copy of James Hog, minister of Carnock’s autobiography, `Memorial written by Philomathes and addressed to his surviving Friends`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.8
Scope and Contents
The work is written in the third person in eleven chapters, most of which concern Hog’s spiritual life.
The hand is probably the same as that of Adv.MS.32.3.9(i).
Dates
- Creation: 18th century.
Extent
0.00 Linear metres (701 pages. Octavo.)
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
According to an inscription on the front flyleaf, the manuscript was given by Adam Gib, minister in Edinburgh, to John Jamieson, Glasgow, in 1776. The names James Bathgate and William Braidwood occur on pages 274 B-C.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.
Bibliography
The whole of chapter xi preceded by a few brief extracts from other chapters was printed from another manuscript as ‘Memoirs of the public life of Mr James Hogg’ (Edinburgh, 1798).
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland
- Date
- 13 07 2015
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Prepared Using Local Descriptive Rules
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository
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National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1EJ
0131 623 3700
manuscripts@nls.uk