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Manuscript volume of sermons and poetry

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Identifier: MS BRU 2

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Scope and Contents

Composite volume in one neat secretary hand, scribe unknown. Copying thought to have been commissioned by Isabell Cor, Lady Airdrie (fl. late 16th - early 17th Century).

Item 1: 'The ellevint cap to the hebrewis'.

Manuscript sermons on Hebrews 11 believed to be given by Robert Bruce in Edinburgh 1590-94. 169 numbered folios.

Item 2: A series of 16 poems.

Thought to have been authored by Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross (c 1578-c 1640). Poems span 15 folios.
Titles include:

  1. 'Ane Anagram: SOB SILLE COR' [Isabell Cor]
  2. 'Give me thy hairt And see fyre no more...'
  3. 'O louse me from this lothsum lump of clay...'
  4. 'The christianis cogniseance...'
  5. 'The winter night'
  6. 'Ane exhortatioun for patience with ane prayer for comfort'
  7. 'Ane lamentatioun for sin with ane consolatioun to the afflicted saull [soul]'
  8. 'Ane complaint of ane wearied saull [soul] for sin and want of grace'
  9. 'Ane thankisgiving to god for his benefeitis'
  10. 'Ane admonitioun to rebellious sinneris'
  11. 'Ane lamentatioun for ane afflicted in conscience'
  12. 'O Lord my god quhat sall [shall] I say...'
  13. 'Ane stryfe againes sorrow with ane prayer for comfort, and ane thankisgiving for ane suddane feilling of the samen'
  14. 'As hairtis full font doth braith and pant...'
  15. 'O senceles saull [soul] quhair [where] art thou now...'
  16. 'Quho [who] can conceave the wisdome love and grace...'

Dates

  • Creation: 1590-1594

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Generally open for consultation to bona fide researchers at Centre for Research Collections, University of Edinburgh Main Library, George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LJ. Contact repository in advance: is-crc@ed.ac.uk

Full Extent

1 bound volume

Language of Materials

Scots

Additional Description

Physical Location

MS BRU 2

Bibliography

Bruce, Robert and Searle David, ed.,'Preaching without fear or favour: previously unpublished sermons on Hebrews 11', Tain, Scotland (2019).
Baxter, Jamie Reid. “Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross: New Light from Fife.” Innes Review, vol. 68, no. 1, May 2017, pp. 38–77, https://doi.org/10.3366/inr.2017.0129.

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Topical

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Repository Details

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