Bibles.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Refers to books, scrolls, rolls, or other document forms containing the sacred scriptures of Judaism or Christianity. Bibles may also contain illuminations, which are painted scenes or decorations. The Bible is composed of two parts: The Hebrew scriptures or Old Testament, written originally in Hebrew (with some parts in Aramaic) and including the writings of the Jewish people, and the New Testament, composed in Greek and recording the story of Jesus and the beginnings of Christianity. The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox versions of the Old Testament are somewhat larger than the Protestant Bible because they accept certain books and parts of books considered apocryphal by Protestants. The Jewish Bible includes only the books known to Christians as the Old Testament. The arrangements of the Jewish and Christian canons differ considerably. Traditionally the Jews have divided their scriptures (the Old Testament) into three parts: The Torah (the ""Law""), or Pentateuch; the Nevi'im (the ""Prophets""); and the Ketuvim (the ""Writings""), or Hagiographa. The stories, moral teachings, and theological doctrines in the bible have provided subjects for an immense body of visual art in both Christian and Jewish imagery. For Christians, a canon of biblical books was established in the Early Christian period; however, several apocryphal books continued to circulate long afterwards. Beginning in the late medieval period, poetic and dramatic interpretations of biblical narratives were very popular, providing ample extra-canonical literature that contributed to the development of important subjects in Christian art (AAT). This term (in the singular form) was used in the NLS catalogues for all Bibles and parts of the Bible, except Psalms (NLS).
Found in 57 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript, possibly 11th century, of the Gospels of Saints Mark and Luke, and part of the prologue of Saint John.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.16
Scope and Contents
This manuscript was produced in Ireland and is an example of a pocket Gospel book. It was possibly written in the 11th century, based on the script. Schenkl has dated the work to the 9th century, and Borland has attributed it to the 13th century. The manuscript is written in an Insular minuscule script with 23 or 24 lines to a page. There are brief scribal marginal glosses related to the text throughout, although some of these have been lost due to cropping. There are...
Dates:
?11th century.
Microfilm of 13th-century Bible, written in France.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.375
Dates:
2nd half of 13th century.
Microfilm of glossed copy of ‘Tabula super bibliam’ by Johannes Vasco, 1393; and, copies, 1623, by John Wither of English rolls of arms, 13th-15th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.453
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Tabula super bibliam’. A glossed copy, early 15th century, of a summary of the Bible in Latin verse by Johannes Vasco, Order of Friars Minor, with the explanatory verses which give the date of composition as 1393 (Adv.MS.18.4.2);
Copies, 1623, by John Wither of English rolls of arms, 13th-15 century, mostly from ‘An auntient booke of Armes which Mr Glover Somerset the Harald had of Mr Joseph Holland in Cullers’ (Adv.MS.31.7.10).
Dates:
13th century-15th century.
Microfilm of manuscript of the New Testament.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1360
Dates:
Late 14th century.
Microfilm of manuscript of the New Testament.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2067
Dates:
Late 14th century.
Microfilm of the Codex Edinburgensis, a Hebrew manuscript of the Old Testament.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.932-933
Dates:
10th century.
Microfilm of the Codex Edinburgensis, part I., 10th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.932
Microfilm of the Codex Edinburgensis, part II., 10th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.933
Mid 13th-century Bible, probably written in England.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.10
Scope and Contents
(i) The contents are in the order Genesis-Nehemiah, Esther, Tobit, Judith, Job-Matthew, Luke, Mark, John, Acts, Catholic Epistles, Pauline Epistles (with Colossians following 2 Thessalonians), Apocalypse (folio 1). Two leaves containing the end of the general prologue and the prologue to the Pentateuch, and Genesis chapters 24-25 are missing. There are no prologues to 2 Chronicles, Ecclesiastes, Hosea, or the Pauline Epistles from Ephesians to Hebrews. The prologues are the usual set (see...
Dates:
Mid 13th century.
Miscellaneous papers of the Oliphants of Gask., 17th century-19th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.9.1-82.9.16
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
'Newe Testament', a Middle English manuscript of the New Testament, in the earlier version of the Wycliffite Bible, written in England in the late 14th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.7
Scope and Contents
The text is mostly the earlier version of the Wycliffite Bible; see the edition by Josiah Forshall and Sir Frederic Madden, where this is manuscript Q of the earlier version and manuscript Z of the later version. It is described in volume 1, page lix, number 145; see also ‘The manuscripts and versions of the Wycliffite Bible’, pages 333-347, and ‘The earlier version of the Wycliffite Bible’, volume 7.The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Table of Gospels...
Dates:
Late 14th century.
Notes of births and deaths, 1662-1835, of members of a family named Cogan who lived in Ireland, Glasgow and Edinburgh, contained in a volume including printed works, 1633-1639.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.7.2.21
Scope and Contents
The notes are dispersed through the printed texts, which are:
(1) ‘The Holy Bible’ (London, 1638);
(2) ‘A Briefe Concordance’ (London, 1633); and,
(3) ‘The Whole Book of Psalmes’ (London, 1639).
A typed family tree made out from the notes has been pasted inside the front cover.
Dates:
1633-1639, 1662-1835.
Old Testament (Edinburgh, 1826) in Gaelic, interleaved and with manuscript amendments and notes, probably for a revised edition of the Gaelic Bible.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8943
Dates:
1826.
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.
Photocopies of six sample pages of annotations on the interleavings of a Bible.
File
Identifier: Acc.6170
Dates:
1610.
Printed bible, formerly in the possession of the Marquess of Argyll.
Item
Identifier: MS.1871
Scope and Contents
The title page is wanting, but the Bible is probably that printed by R Barker, London, 1640 (S.T.C. 2342).
It has marginal notes in the hand of the Marquess of Argyll.
Dates:
[?1640.]
Printed label reading 'A memento of the Secession Church found 1734 at Andrew's Fold Yetts of Muckhart dissolved 1925' and a photograph of the church, pasted to front endpapers of ‘Holy Bible’ (London and Glasgow, [1910])
File
Identifier: MS.20499
Scope and Contents
There is also a manuscript note on the label, 'married 1887', which refers to the Reverend William C Dickson, minister of the church and father of the donor.
Dates:
[?1925.]
Printouts, paper tapes, slides and other papers illustrating the work of Professor George H C MacGregor and Dr Andrew Q Morton on the analysis of Biblical and literary texts by computer.
File
Identifier: Acc.11803
Dates:
1960-1986.
Receipts to George and Andrew Bathgate., 1759-1775.
Item
Identifier: MS.17204
Scope and Contents
The inside of the cover consists of printed sheets from a Bible (Isaiah, chapters 8-13 are visible).
Dates:
1759-1775.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Estate papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning Saltoun estate.
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Account-books concerning Saltoun estate.
'Ruskin Bible'.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscript, written in Northern France, takes its name from John Ruskin who greatly admired it (`The Works of John Ruskin`, edited by E T Cook and A Wedderburn (London, 1903-1912), volume xii, page 144). It is described in the exhibition catalogue `Treasures from Scottish Libraries` (Edinburgh, 1964), number 20.Sir John Sinclair’s `Statistical Account of Scotland, 1791-1799` (Wakefield, 1978), x, page 294 refers to a note with the manuscript which stated that it was used ‘in...
Dates:
2nd half of 13th century.
Sermons and papers of John Sime with papers of the Philadelphian Society.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10493
Dates:
13th century-1859 and undated.
"The Holy Bible" with annotations by and concerning Sir James Y Simpson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9828
Dates:
1861.
'The Psalms of David' (Oxford)., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6469/3
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
Printed items and photographs of and concerning the novelist and playwright, Annie S Swan (1859-1943). As some of the items are dated later than 1943 they evidently did not belong to Annie S Swan but have been left in the collection. With letter, 1942, of the Earl of Rosebery to V Rule, concerning a social engagement.
Dates:
Undated.