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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 388 Collections and/or Records:

Photostats of three sermons delivered by Thomas Livingstone, Abbot of Dundrennan, before the Council of Basle., [?1433], 1435.

 File
Identifier: MS.484
Scope and Contents

The manuscript of the third sermon has the heading '... per reverendum patrem dominum Nicolaum, Abbatem de Scocia, sacre theologie professorem'.

Dates: [?1433], 1435.

Physics lecture notes, incomplete., 1686, 1689.

 File
Identifier: MS.2075
Scope and Contents

The notes were apparently taken from the lectures of Mr Herbert Kennedy (folio 33), by Edward Lewis (folios 33 verso, 46 verso).

At the end are notes of sermons in English, also incomplete.

Dates: 1686, 1689.

Poems and a mock sermon (on marriage) in the hand of Andrew Fletcher, auditor of exchequer.

 File
Identifier: MS.17895
Scope and Contents

Various dates between 1743 and 1757 occur.

Dates: 1743-1757.

'Preaching Book', apparently the property of Sir Hugh Campbell of Cessnock.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1759
Scope and Contents

The volume contains notes of sermons preached in various Edinburgh churches late in 1659 and in 1660.

Dates: 1659-1660.

Religious commonplace book, of the Napier family, containing, "A copy of some familiar letters which passed between intimate friends, as they were written from the originall's for the transcriber's private use".

 Item
Identifier: MS.3008
Scope and Contents The items are numbered, and there is a list of contents at the beginning and end.Most of the letters, which cover the period 1721-1781, with a few of 1707, are addressed by Archibald Napier of Bowhopple, Minister of Kilmadock, the transcriber's grandfather (see number 61), and his son, Thomas Napier of Greenhill, watchmaker in Glasgow, to Archibald Napier, apothecary in Edinburgh, and other members of the family. There are also copies of letters of other writers, hymns, sermons,...
Dates: 1707, 1721-1781.