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.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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.
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Archives and Manuscripts
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.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
'A few manuscript sermons of the Revd. David Lumgair, Newton St. Boswells (written between the years 1845-1859)'.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.15
Dates:
1845-1859.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Addition to a sermon of Alexander Carlyle (lost) preached on the Sunday after the declaration of War, 1793., 1793.
Item
Identifier: MS.23850
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.
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Archives and Manuscripts
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.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Baillie's sermons [spine title].
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.4
Dates:
1637-1639.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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
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.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Collection of poems, songs, letters, anecdotes, sermons, and prayers 'by David Dun, late Teacher of Dancing', Edinburgh., 1828-1829.
File
Identifier: MS.2715
Scope and Contents
Two dates, 1828 and 1829, are given.
Dates:
1828-1829.
Collection of sixty-nine sermons by seventeen Presbyterian preachers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.2.20
Dates:
1660.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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
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 containing poems, excerpts from sermons, household recipes, etc., written in several hands., Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.8243
Scope and Contents
In 1827 the volume belonged to Margaret Davidson, Glasgow.
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
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Archives and Manuscripts
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Correspondence, legal, financial and estate papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Miscellaneous papers of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.
Commonplace book of Anne Fergusson, consisting chiefly of notes on sermons, many given at Inveresk Church., 1826-1831.
Item
Identifier: MS.25529
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
Dates:
1830-1857, undated.