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:
Notebook of Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford: volume VI., 2nd half of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.9.6
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Notebook of Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford: volume XIV., 2nd half of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.9.10
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Notebook of Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford: volume XVIII., 2nd half of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.9.13
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Notebook of Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford: volume XXIV., 2nd half of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.8.2
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Notebook of the Reverend Dr Alexander (‘Jupiter’) Carlyle, containing notes of sermons at Lady Yester’s Church and the Tolbooth Church, Edinburgh., 1735-1736.
Item
Identifier: MS.151
Notebook of weekly notes made by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes on sermons heard chiefly at Inveresk Church and the Tron Kirk, Edinburgh., 1750, 1771-1775.
Item
Identifier: MS.25412
Scope and Contents
The book was previously used for historical notes and is inscribed 'David Dalrymple June 14th 1750'.
Some pages have been torn out.
Dates:
1750, 1771-1775.
Notebook, undated, of Robert McLellan containing a sermon on the parable of the talents., Mid 20th century-late 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.26435
Dates:
Mid 20th century-late 20th century.
Notebooks in a seventeenth-century hand, apparently compiled by the same person., 17th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3159-3160
Notebooks kept by Lady Stuart, containing notes on sermons., 1813-1819.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8241-8242
Dates:
1813-1819.
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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Miscellaneous papers of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.
Notebooks of members of the Steuart family of Coltness.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15948-15949
Dates:
1636-1742.
Notes and correspondence of the Reverend Dr John Struthers, Minister of Prestonpans, with manuscripts collected by him., 1836-1886.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2119-2127
Notes by Mrs Mary Graham from a sermon of Bourdaloue., ?1791.
File
Identifier: MS.3636
Notes for sermons, on given texts, in heavily contracted language., 1765, 1775.
File
Identifier: MS.2810
Scope and Contents
The date 1765 occurs on the inside of the front cover and several of the sermons have the date 1775. Some leaves are missing at intervals.
Dates:
1765, 1775.
Notes titled, 'Hints and reflections', of satirical sermons and meditations on public affairs.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.13
Dates:
1742-1745.
Papers, chiefly typescripts of Canon Andrew John Young., Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.19767
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Typescripts and partial manuscript of Andrew Young's verse drama 'Jephthah', undated. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Typescripts of the verse dramas 'Saul and the asses' and 'The sirens', undated. (Folio 69.)
(iii) Typescripts and one manuscript of poems. (Folio 112.) 'At Arley', 'Young love' and 'The swans' were published in Andrew Young's ‘Complete poems’, 1974, pages 172, 268, 71.
(iv) Typescript of a sermon by Andrew Young broadcast on Christmas Day, 1946. (Folio...
Dates:
Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
Papers collected by Sir Walter Scott concerning the Jacobite Risings of 1715 and 1745., 1716-1762.
File
Identifier: MS.902
Scope and Contents
Original documents and copies, including papers connected with the proceedings against the rebels at Carlisle, 1716 (folio 1-59); correspondence regarding Macpherson of Killyhuntly, 1716-1762 (folios 65-72); a Jacobite sermon preached on the anniversary of the Restoration of Charles II [?circa 1746]; and other documents of a general or personal nature.
Dates:
1716-1762.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Miscellaneous material, literary, antiquarian, topical, etc., chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
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Material concerning antiquarian matters chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
Papers, including correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of sermons, lectures, reviews, and reports, of the Reverend Prof John Foster.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6087 Box 1(1)-Box 5(4)
Dates:
Circa 1920-circa 1973.
Papers, including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of plays, articles and reviews, of Robert Nye; with manuscript and typescript drafts of the anthologies, 'The English sermon, 1750-1850' (1976), and 'The faber book of sonnets' (1976), edited by Nye, with associated correspondence.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6885 Box 1(1)-Box 3(5)
Dates:
Circa 1963-1976, undated.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents
Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Papers of and concerning the Reverend George Murray Reith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3564
Scope and Contents
Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.
Dates:
[?1885]-?1st half of 19th century.
Papers of Olive Wyon, relating to sermons 'Called...to glory' and 'Obedience'., 1964, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.5261/8-10
Papers of Olive Wyon, relating to various sermons., Undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.5261/13-15
Papers of Rev Robert Brown and the Brown family, including professional and academic papers of family members., 1743-1889.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12100/51-54
Papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, from Spottiswoode House.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2933-2953
Dates:
1540-1851.
Papers relating to the Reverend James Davidson, father of the Very Reverend Andrew Nevile Davidson., 1745-1927, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7710/115-119
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1745-1927, undated.