Gospels.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Literary genre based on the Biblical New Testament, comprising the stories and body of religious doctrine described as having been taught by Jesus and apostles.
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Four manuscript accounts of the Gospels written in Tamil on palm leaves.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.2.1.10
Dates:
Undated.
Fragment of a manuscript of the Gospels in the Syriac Peshitta version.
Item
Identifier: MS.10254
Scope and Contents
Only eight leaves are present, containing St John xvi, 23-xxi, 23; but damage to the top, bottom, and outer edges of the leaves has reduced considerably the amount of legible text. The manuscript has only a small number of minor variants from the standard text.
The script is a bold, clear Nestorian estrangela, well supplied with vowels and other reading signs, including the linear occultans. It was probably written in the early thirteenth century.
Dates:
?Early 13th century.
‘[Gospel Sonnets] or Spiritual Songs’, in the autograph of the Reverend Ralph Erskine, preceded and followed by matter in shorthand.
File
Identifier: MS.1015
Scope and Contents
Two versions of part vi, chapter v, section 1, ‘In heavenly quires a question rose’, are given (folios 119, 122).
Dates:
Early 18th century-mid 18th century.
Harmony of the gospels: 'Series rerum & verborum lesu Christi juxta ordinem ætatis ejus, ex quatuor Evangelistis descripta, ceu quatuor Evangelia in unum redacta; eo dumtaxat fine ut abtius memoriae redigentis infingantur'.
Item
Identifier: MS.3013
Dates:
1691.
Letters and poems of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet; and poetry and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell.
File
Identifier: MS.3115
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, poems, etc., of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet, to Peter Buchan, collector of Scottish ballads, Peterhead, 1828-1850, undated. The letters, which are in Laing's autograph, deal chiefly with literary matters of the day. Most of the poems (folios 4, 6, 10, 19, 23) appear later in published form.(ii) Poems and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell, in his autograph, with one letter to him, 1815-1865, undated. Several of...
Dates:
1815-1865, undated.
Manuscript of an incomplete copy of 'De Actibus Apostolorum' by Arator.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.19
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in England containing an incomplete copy of Arator's 'De Actibus Apostolorum'. The manuscript was probably written at the end of the 12th century, and has been dated as such by Ker and Watson. The work has also been dated to the 13th century by Borland and McKinlay. The work is written in a gothic script with between 27-34 lines to a page. The manuscript is the work of several contemporary hands. McKinley has identified four different hands present...
Dates:
Late 12th century.
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 an illuminated calligraphic manuscript of Esther Inglis, forming a summary of St Matthew’s Gospel, ‘Argumenta singulorum capitum Evangelii Matthaei Apostoli, per tetrasticha manu Estherae Inglis exarata Londini XXVI Ianuari, 1607’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1394
Dates:
1607.
Microfilm of four Gospels in the Ethiopic version, possibly seventeenth century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1189
Dates:
?17th century.
Microfilm of manuscript, possibly of the 11th century, containing the Gospels of Saints Mark, Luke and John; and, papers, late 17th century, concerning the Scottish Benedictines at Ratisbon
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.301
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, possibly of the 11th century, the Gospels of Saints Mark and Luke, and part of the prologue of Saint John (Adv.MS.18.8.16);Copy made by Thomas (Dom Placid) Fleming, Abbot of Ratisbon, of papers, late 17th century, in the dispute between the Irish and the Scottish Benedictines over the rightful ownership of the former Irish monasteries in Germany, and particularly that of St. James, Ratisbon. (Adv.MS.29.7.1);Account, [circa...
Dates:
?11th century.