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:
Draft of a treatise on the Sermon on the Mount by Henry Fletcher of Saltoun., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.17771
Dates:
18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning religion and morals.
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Drafts of a treatise on the Sermon on the Mount by Henry Fletcher of Saltoun.
Draft of a treatise on the Sermon on the Mount by Henry Fletcher of Saltoun., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.17772
Dates:
18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning religion and morals.
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Drafts of a treatise on the Sermon on the Mount by Henry Fletcher of Saltoun.
Drafts and fragments of sermons and schemes of services of Alexander Carlyle., 1745-1800, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.23907
Scope and Contents
Some of the fragments appear to be later additions to unidentified sermons. Some of this material is written on old incoming letters.
Dates:
1745-1800, undated.
Drafts and notes for sermons and lectures given by Sir Charles Dalrymple., 1864-1914, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.25654
Scope and Contents
A wide range of topics are discussed including the life and works of Sir Walter Scott and Postal Telegraphs. With typescripts of two lectures annotated by Sir Charles Dalrymple.
Dates:
1864-1914, undated.
Drafts and proofs of sermons, articles and other works of Salis Daiches., 1904-1945, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12278/9-18
Essay or sermon, and part of another, upholding the doctrines of the Reformed Episcopal Church against those of the Church of Rome, 17th century., 17th century, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3109, folios 44-63
Scope and Contents
The author of the former treatise mentions a work of his own entitled 'Orthodoxo-Jacobus'.
There is also (folio 57) a modern commentary, undated, on the Church accounts of Montrose (MS.3048).
Dates:
17th century, undated.
Family papers of Reverend J E McIntyre., 1895-1946, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.10090/1-2
Dates:
1895-1946, undated.
'Fift Book' of a series of volumes of sermons., 1704-1705.
Item
Identifier: MS.2751
Dates:
1704-1705.
Five sermons on 1 Peter 4.1; 1 Peter 3.22; St John 14.16; Colossians 1.18; Acts 13.38., Late 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.20483
Scope and Contents
The text is written on the rectos only, with occasional additions on the versos; one of these, on folio 93 verso, is headed Whitsunday, 1680. The unknown author numbered the folios (143 is repeated), leaving 1-30 blank and unnumbered but taken into account. On folio i is a quotation from Daniel Heinsius on the necessity of knowing Greek to understand the New Testament.
Contemporary blind-stamped leather binding, with 'D' in gilt on the spine.
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Formal and legal documents and papers relating to the Scott family., 1681-1800.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9843/44-54
Four sermons preached by the Reverend James Cameron Lees in Strathconan and elsewhere, in the author's autograph., 1857-1861, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3063
Dates:
1857-1861, undated.
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
Gradual of Dominican use, Italy., 1st half of 16th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.25242
Scope and Contents
A large choirbook containing the Sanctorale (folio 1), the Temporale from Christmas Eve to Corpus Christi (folio 75), 'In consecratione ecclesiae' (folio 136) and the Creed (folio 139). The Sanctorale includes offices for the feasts of Saints Peter Martyr, Antonino, Archbishop of Florence (canonised in 1523), Catherine of Sienna, Dominic (translation and feast), Vincent Ferrer, and Thomas Aquinas. The manuscript is illuminated throughout with large red and blue initials on penwork...
Dates:
1st half of 16th century.
"Heads and Notes of Certain Sermons and Discourses from Diverse Texts of Scripture; by Mr. Thomas Hog, Minister of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ at Killtearn in the Shire of Ross. Transcribed from the Original Coppy of the Author, which was lent me for that purpose by Mrs. Maire Relict of the deceas'd Mr. George Maire Minister of Cullross" (died 1716).
File
Identifier: MS.3010
Scope and Contents
Thomas Hog was a noted Covenanter (see 'The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'). The dates of the sermons, where specified, cover the period 1659-1673; in some cases the place of delivery is given. At folio vii verso is some account of Hog, taken from Robert Wodrow, ‘History’ (Edinburgh, 1722-1723), volume i, page 41.
Inserted (folio i), is a letter, 1887, of Robert Cumming McDougall, Minister of Resolis, to Hog of Newliston recommending the publication of a manuscript volume of Hog's...
Dates:
1659-1673, 1887.
Holograph sermon by Thomas Boston the Elder, ‘The duty of the inward frame corresponding to the outward profession’, on Deuteronomy verse 29, 'preached in the year 1709'. , 1709.
Item
Identifier: MS.5172
Incomplete weekly notes made by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes on sermons heard chiefly at the Tron Kirk, Lady Yester's Chapel and Old Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, and also when on Circuit., 1751-1771, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.25411
Dates:
1751-1771, undated.
Leaf from a sermon on angels., 14th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.21099
Scope and Contents
The first part of the text is a passage from the ‘Gregorianum’ of Garnerus of St Victor, book 1, chapter 2 (J P Migne, ‘Patrologia latina’ CXCIII, columns 26-27).
The leaf was used in a binding.
Dates:
14th century.
Lecturers and sermons of George Reith., [?1886-?1941.]
Series
Identifier: Acc.3564/34-71
Dates:
[?1886-?1941.]
Lectures and sermons by ministers of the Church of Scotland., 1650-1652.
File
Identifier: MS.664A
Scope and Contents
Some of the dated sermons give the circumstances in which they were delivered.
Dates:
1650-1652.
Lectures and sermons by ministers of the Church of Scotland; with a list of contents and a transcript of one of the sermons, in a modern hand.
Series
Identifier: MSS.664A-B
Dates:
1650-1652.
Letter and two note-books of the Reverend Ralph Erskine.
Series
Identifier: MSS.91-93
Dates:
1709-1741.
Letters and papers formerly in the possession of the Reverend John Stirton.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3237-3240
Dates:
1772-1939, undated.
Letters and papers of Richard Burdon-Sanderson, his wife Elizabeth and daughter Jane., 1809-1835, 1884-1889, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.20046
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Copies and extracts, 1857, in the hand of his wife Elizabeth, of letters, 1809, 1814, undated, of Richard Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond (died 1865), formerly Burdon, to his relations (folios 1);
(ii) Letters 1835, undated, of Burdon-Sanderson to his wife (folio 29);
(iii) Sermon preached, 1835, by Burdon-Sanderson on Joel (folio 27);
(iv) Miscellany of extracts, undated, in the hand of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson from printed books (folio 45);
(v) Letters,...
Dates:
1809-1835, 1884-1889, undated.
Letters written to Anne, Lady Stuart, from Catherine, Lady Blantyre, Christian Stirling of Ardoch, and other friends and relatives., 1769-1781, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.8194
Scope and Contents
At the end of the volume (folio 212) are copies of miscellaneous letters, sermons, and poems, mainly of a religious nature.
Dates:
1769-1781, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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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Correspondence of members of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.
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Letters written to Anne, Lady Stuart of Castlemilk (died 1821), from various friends and relatives.