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Lectures for various saints' days, given by Bishop George Wishart as chaplain to Montrose at Newcastle during the siege, 1644.

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Identifier: MS.3545

Scope and Contents

The sermons, some of which are unfinished, are in two seventeenth-century hands.

There are notes on the manuscript inside the front cover and on folio i by the Reverend W D Macray of the Bodleian Library, who gives reasons for identifying the author.

Dates

  • Creation: 1644.

Conditions Governing Access

Normal access conditions apply.

Conditions Governing Use

Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.

Extent

53 Leaves ; Quarto.

Language of Materials

Undetermined

Arrangement

ii + 51 + many blank folios.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented, 1945, by James D Ogilvie, LL.D., Milngavie.

Bibliography

The manuscript is described, with an extract from one sermon, in Bishop Wishart's 'Memoirs of James, Marquis of Montrose' (London, 1893), edited by Alexander D Murdoch and Henry Fife Morland Simpson., pages xxi-xxii and note 40.
Title
National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
Author
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
Description rules
International Standard for Archival Description - General
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

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