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 2 Collections and/or Records:
Further Gaelic manuscripts from the Irvine-Robertson collection.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14544
Content Description
A small group of manuscripts that were formerly part of Acc.3184 (now MSS.14877-14881), to be merged with that collection in due course.
The manuscripts were brought together by the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine (1773-1824), minister of Fortingall and then Little Dunkeld, Gaelic scholar and collector of Gaelic verse. They comprise correspondence in English, sermons in Gaelic, and Gaelic poetry collected by Irvine.
Dates:
ca. 1800-1823
Sermons and an address in Gaelic., 1811-1823
File
Identifier: Acc.14544/2
Scope and Contents
Sermons and an address in Gaelic, all in the hand of Rev. Dr Alexander Irvine. The date on sermons is often preceded by "Lagy" or Ly", which probably stands for Lagan-Allochy, the Gaelic-speaking parish that was joined to Irvine's parish of Little Dunkeld. Listed in John Mackechnie, Catalogue of Gaelic manuscripts, volume 1, page 338, nos 19-25. The items are:Address in Gaelic, undated, headed "Earail bheag do Ghael Alba chum an leas, le fior charaid." The...
Dates:
1811-1823