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The devotional writings begin with "Prayers I composed while in my Father's House in Inverury", 1713-1714 (page 1), and continue with commentaries, liturgical excerpts, prayers, versifications, etc. In another hand are copies of letters (page 315) of M G, who 'died the 9th of June 1717 in the 70th year of her age'.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Alexander Paterson qualified as a doctor at Edinburgh in 1885. He spent a few years in London, Cairo and Aden, before entering on his main work as a medical missionary of the United Free Church of Scotland at Hebron in Palestine in 1893. He remained there until the station was handed over to the Church Missionary Society in 1922, when he retired to Edinburgh. He died in 1940. His only published work is the posthumous 'Jesus meets Paul, a duologue in Paradise', Glasgow, [1942]. There is a...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Alexander Paterson qualified as a doctor at Edinburgh in 1885. He spent a few years in London, Cairo and Aden, before entering on his main work as a medical missionary of the United Free Church of Scotland at Hebron in Palestine in 1893. He remained there until the station was handed over to the Church Missionary Society in 1922, when he retired to Edinburgh. He died in 1940. His only published work is the posthumous 'Jesus meets Paul, a duologue in Paradise', Glasgow, [1942]. There is a...

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Printed order of service, entitled 'Glasgow University Bute Hall. Order of Gaelic Service 12 February 1933 at 3 p.m.' 4 pp. The preacher was the Rev. Charles MacKinnon, minister of St. Paul's Outer High Church, Glasgow; Rev. John Mackechnie and Mr Roderick Smith, member of the Ossianic Society, are listed as readers. Contains the texts of four Gaelic hymns.

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The fragment contains capitula and verses apparently for the first Sunday of Advent and possibly the ember-days of Advent, and forms two conjugate, non-consecutive leaves. Single columns. One initial in blue, others possibly in silver (oxidised); rubrics in red. Possibly Flemish.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...

Scope and Contents The fragments were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark L.2.b) of ‘The Holye Byble: that is to saye, (etc.)’ (1539).(i-ii) Two discontiguous vellum fragments apparently from the same mediaeval religious manuscript, possibly a 15th-century missal or breviary, though not one recorded in ‘Patrologia Latina’. The notation and corresponding text is written in double columns: the notation is in black on a red four-line stave; the text in black below the stave. The rubrics...

Scope and Contents The fragments appear to belong to a leaf from the winter portion of the missal or breviary, possibly from Advent. The notation and corresponding text is arranged in double columns: the notation black on a red four-line stave; the text in black below the stave. The rubrics are in red; the capitals variously in blue and red.The fragments were formerly used as binding strips in a copy (pressmark Claud.4.9) of ‘De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis’ (1546) by Joannes...

Scope and Contents The text is written in double columns; together the fragments form the greater part of a right-hand column, with the centre margin and isolated letters of the left-hand column also preserved. One side of the combined fragment contains the epistle of the Vigil of the Birthday of St John the Baptist (23 June); the writing on the other side cannot be read.The fragments were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark E.190.a.1(1)) of ‘F. Alfonsi de Castro ... adversus omnes...

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The text is written in double columns, with rubrics in scarlet, and initials alternately in blue and scarlet.

The fragments were pasted together and used as a single binding strip in a copy (pressmark Ao.6.6) of ‘Stirpium Adversaria Nova’ (London, 1570) by Petrus Pena and Mathias de L’Obel.