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Sermons.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Religious discourses delivered as part of a church service, usually delivered from a pulpit, based upon a text of scripture, and with the purpose of giving religious instruction or exhortation.

Found in 388 Collections and/or Records:

13th-century manuscript containing extracts from the writings of Gilbert of Hoyland, St Bernard, St Gregory, St Augustine, and other theological works.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.3
Scope and Contents Manuscript produced in England containing the theological works of various authors. The manuscript has been dated to the 12th century by Mikkers; to the end of the 12th century by Schenkl; to the 12th-13th century Leclercq (quoted in Mikkers); and by Dutton and Borland to the 13th century.The manuscript is written by various contemporary hands in a protogothic bookhand. It is written in a single column with 26-30 lines to a page.The contents of the volume are as...
Dates: 1st half of 13th century.

13th-century manuscript containing theological works by Boethius and St Augustine, and short excerpts of works by Anselm, Eadmer, St Gregory of Tours, St Caesarius of Arles, and Bernard of Clairvaux.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.18
Scope and Contents 13th-century manuscript produced in England containing a selection of theological works from the 'Opuscula sacra' of Boethius, Sermons of St Augustine, and excerpts from Eadmer, Anselm, St Gregory of Tours, St Caesarius of Arles, and Bernard of Clairvaux; as well as two annonymous excerpts, the 'Gesta Salvatoris' and a commentary on Psalm 84.The manuscript has been dated to the 13th century by Ker, and to the early 14th century by Borland, Römer, and Schenkl. The work...
Dates: 13th century.

15th-century manuscript of 'Collationes' attributed to Robert Holcot.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.4
Scope and Contents 15th-century manuscript produced in England. The work appears to have been completed by one scribe and is in a minuscule bastarda anglicana hand. The volume contains 115 'collationes', or sermons, which appear to be based on the Book of Wisdom, as well as short verses in Middle English. The work has been attributed to Robert Holcot, but this attribution cannot be substantiated. According to an inscription in the top margin of folio 4r, as well as the colophon on folio 108v, this...
Dates: 15th century.

Album, containing notes taken by the father of Thomas Ross, the architect, of sermons preached by the Reverend John Caird, and drawings by Ross.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3646
Scope and Contents

The sermons were preached in Errol Church in 1851 (folio 1).

Some of Thomas Ross's drawings bear dates from 1858 to 1919 (chiefly architectural sketches and designs), and some are evidently juvenile. Loose drawings and a sermon (folio 94) have been pasted in.

Dates: 1851, 1858-1919, undated.

Articles and poems of Violet Jacobs., 1910-1941, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.27413
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follow. (i) Typescripts of articles, 1910-1920, undated (folio 1). The first three, 'The Church and the country-side', 'A Manor House in Brittany' and 'The Day before yesterday' were published in ‘Country Life’, 2 July 1910, 22 May 1920, and 28 August and 11 September 1920. (ii) Manuscript of a sermon, 1941 (folio 44); (iii) Manuscript and typescript poems, ?1914, undated (folio 51).

Dates: 1910-1941, undated.

Autograph sermons, apparently unpublished, of Hugh Anderson of Udol, Presbyterian minister of Cromarty.

 File
Identifier: MS.8483
Scope and Contents

Most of the sermons are undated, but one is written on the back of a letter of 1702, another is of 1662, and two others of 1666. These last refer to the plague in England, while another was used as a 'presbyterial exercise'.

The papers also includes a summons, ?1662, ordering Hugh Anderson to answer charges before the Bishop of Ross.

Dates: 1662, 1666, ?1702, undated.

Book of sermons on Exodus, xx, preached in the South-East Kirk, Edinburgh, presumably by the Minister, David Blair., 1706-1707.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1942
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.

Dates: 1706-1707.

Books of sermons of Andrew Moir and the Lawson family, secession ministers at Selkirk.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5115/1-157
Scope and Contents This accession relates to the Secession Ministry at Selkirk of various members of the Lawson family, 1726-1898. Two brothers, George and Andrew Lawson both became Secession Ministers at Selkirk. Andrew Lawson's son John was later occupied the same position. Most of the material here relates to the sermons preached by the Lawson family. Included are books of sermons of Andrew Moir, minister of Associate Synod in Selkirk, 1758-1770; books of sermons of George Lawson (d. 1820),...
Dates: 1752-1849, undated.

Collection of manuscript material transferred from printed theses collection, 1637-late 19th century, chiefly consisting of German academic papers, but including a small cache of Scottish legal papers, 19th century.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.3591
Scope and Contents

With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.

Dates: 14th century-19th century.

Collection of theological works by or attributed to Saint Augustine, with a number of letters, chiefly of Saints Augustine and Jerome, written, probably in North Italy, in the fifteenth century., 15th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.3056
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Pelagius, Liber de vita Christiana ('Patrologia Latina', xl, 1031-1046; E Dekkers and A Gaar, ‘Clavis Patrum Latinorum’, number 730), here attributed to Saint Augustine. (Folio 1.)(ii) Augustine, Sermo de contemptu temporalium return (‘Patrologia Latina’, xlvi, 971-980). (Folio 17.)(iii) Augustine, De bono conjugali (‘Patrologia Latina’, xxxii, 639-640, xl, 373-396). (Folio 21.)(iv) Augustine, Enchiridion ad...
Dates: 15th century.

Collection of thirty-four seventeenth-century sermons., 17th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.5770
Scope and Contents

The first sermon, and apparently those on pages 3-183, were preached by various ministers 'att the Communion at the West Port, Oct.7, 1688'. The remaining sermons are either anonymous or are by William Erskine, minister of the Tron Kirk, Edinburgh.

Dates: 17th century.

Collection of thirty-nine seventeenth-century sermons, many of them transcribed in 1624., 17th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.5767
Scope and Contents Eight of the items are published sermons by John Donne (folios 11-56); one has been attributed to Donne and extracts from it are published in ‘The sermons of John Donne’, volume x, (folio 1); the other sermons, many of them in the form of jottings, are unidentified.Among notes on the manuscript by former owners (folios i-iv) is a statement by Augustus Jessopp that it is 'undoubtedly, written by the hand of Dr Donne', but in the view of modern scholars it is undoubtedly not in...
Dates: 17th century.

Collection of twelve seventeenth-century sermons, those with date and place noted being preached at Dalserf or Carluke in 1655., 17th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.5769
Scope and Contents

Included is the deathbed speech of Ephraim Melville, minister of Linlithgow (page 386).

Pages 237-244 are misplaced between pages 228 and pages 229.

Dates: 17th century.

Collection of works, mainly theological, written in Germany in the early fifteenth century., Early 15th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.2739
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) An exposition of the Canon of the Mass, beginning 'Videte quomodo caute ambuletis. . . . Ita scribitur ad Ephesios'; ends 'cuius nomen in secula sit benedictum. Amen. Explicit hoc dictum’. For a work with a similar ‘initium’, from the library of the Benedictines at Erfurt, see Bodleian Library, MS.Hamilton 17, folio 227. (Folio 3 verso.)(ii) Sermons, from Advent to the first Sunday after Easter, beginning 'Emitte manum tuam de alto,...
Dates: Early 15th century.

Collections of sermons and notification of the time and place where preached., 1833-1872.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6558/4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

William Graham was born at Newhouse, Lesmahagow in 1807 and educated at the University of Glasgow. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Lanark to South Shields in 1833 and transferred to Caledonian Chapel, Newcastle. He became minister at Lochwinnoch in 1843 and died in 1872.

Dates: 1833-1872.

Commonplace book containing notes, sermons and newspaper cuttings, 1885 - 1919

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14025/3
Scope and Contents Contains press cuttings mainly on Gaelic and Highland subjects, including obituaries of persons with Highland origins, for example the Gaelic poet Neil MacLeod (d. 1913) and Archibald Menzies, founder member of An Comunn Gaidhealach (d. 1914). Two newspaper cuttings concern Tolmie's own ministry in Kintyre. Items are dated up to 1919, with those dating from after Tolmie's death in 1909 being loosely inserted rather than pasted in, probably by his brother John Tolmie.The volume...
Dates: 1885 - 1919

Commonplace book of Anne Fergusson, consisting chiefly of notes on sermons, many given at Inveresk Church., 1826-1831.

 Item
Identifier: MS.25529
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson (1800-1849), was the eldest son of Sir James Fergusson, 4th Baronet of Kilkerran, and Jean, second daughter of Lord Hailes. He inherited Newhailes in 1838 on the death of his aunt, Christian Dalrymple, when he assumed the additional surname of Dalrymple. Sir Charles was admitted Advocate in 1822, and in 1829 married Helen, daughter of David Boyle of Shewalton, Lord President of the Court of Session.

Dates: 1826-1831.

Commonplace book of Anne Fergusson, consisting of miscellaneous verse and prose excerpts, with some notes on sermons heard., 1830-1857, undated.

 Item
Identifier: MS.25530
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson (1800-1849), was the eldest son of Sir James Fergusson, 4th Baronet of Kilkerran, and Jean, second daughter of Lord Hailes. He inherited Newhailes in 1838 on the death of his aunt, Christian Dalrymple, when he assumed the additional surname of Dalrymple. Sir Charles was admitted Advocate in 1822, and in 1829 married Helen, daughter of David Boyle of Shewalton, Lord President of the Court of Session.

Dates: 1830-1857, undated.