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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 315 Collections and/or Records:

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

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Identifier: Acc.6558/4
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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.

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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.

Composite volume containing chiefly theological works and sermons., 1598, 17th century.

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Identifier: MS.16468
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Four theological works in hands apparently of early seventeenth-century provenance (folios 1, 40, 59, 100); (ii) Two holograph sermons of John Gray (folio 107); (iii) Amended copies by Andrew Blackball of sermons of Robert Rollock 1598 (folio 115); (iv) "A serious address to the minrs of ye Presbyterian Party" in Gray's hand (folio 141); (v) "A short catechisme" followed by a sermon, both in another seventeenth-century hand (folio 152); (vi) Sermons, 1694,...
Dates: 1598, 17th century.

Composite volume of sermons, chiefly undated, preached by John Gray., 1668, 1674-1675, undated.

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Identifier: MS.16448
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The volumes have been arranged chronologically as far as possible, but many of the volumes are composite, consisting of unrelated gatherings of leaves (including some blank) bound together, containing sermons preached in different years (a large number are undated: some were preached more than once, at intervals of several years). It is not known whether some of these volumes were bound after John Gray's death.

Dates: 1668, 1674-1675, undated.

Composite volume of sermons, chiefly undated, preached by John Gray., 1669, 1685, 1688, 1709, undated.

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Identifier: MS.16449
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The volumes have been arranged chronologically as far as possible, but many of the volumes are composite, consisting of unrelated gatherings of leaves (including some blank) bound together, containing sermons preached in different years (a large number are undated: some were preached more than once, at intervals of several years). It is not known whether some of these volumes were bound after John Gray's death.

Dates: 1669, 1685, 1688, 1709, undated.

Composite volume of sermons, chiefly undated, preached by John Gray., 1705, undated.

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Identifier: MS.16465
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The volumes have been arranged chronologically as far as possible, but many of the volumes are composite, consisting of unrelated gatherings of leaves (including some blank) bound together, containing sermons preached in different years (a large number are undated: some were preached more than once, at intervals of several years). It is not known whether some of these volumes were bound after John Gray's death.

Dates: 1705, undated.

Composite volume of sermons preached by John Gray., 1670-1671, 1676-1678, 1680-1681, 1684, 1688, undated.

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Identifier: MS.16450
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The volumes have been arranged chronologically as far as possible, but many of the volumes are composite, consisting of unrelated gatherings of leaves (including some blank) bound together, containing sermons preached in different years (a large number are undated: some were preached more than once, at intervals of several years). It is not known whether some of these volumes were bound after John Gray's death.

Dates: 1670-1671, 1676-1678, 1680-1681, 1684, 1688, undated.

Composite volume of sermons preached by John Gray., 1671, 1683-1685, 1706-1707, 1712.

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Identifier: MS.16451
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The volumes have been arranged chronologically as far as possible, but many of the volumes are composite, consisting of unrelated gatherings of leaves (including some blank) bound together, containing sermons preached in different years (a large number are undated: some were preached more than once, at intervals of several years). It is not known whether some of these volumes were bound after John Gray's death.

Dates: 1671, 1683-1685, 1706-1707, 1712.

Composite volume of sermons preached by John Gray., 1676, 1678, 1682-1684, undated.

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Identifier: MS.16455
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The volumes have been arranged chronologically as far as possible, but many of the volumes are composite, consisting of unrelated gatherings of leaves (including some blank) bound together, containing sermons preached in different years (a large number are undated: some were preached more than once, at intervals of several years). It is not known whether some of these volumes were bound after John Gray's death.

Dates: 1676, 1678, 1682-1684, undated.