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Manuscript sermons of Archibald Bruce
Fonds
Identifier: MS BRU 1
Scope and Contents
Sermon and lecture notes of Archibald Bruce. 1775-89.The first section of the volume is made up of 40 sermons, at various stages of drafting and development. The second section is lectures on biblical verses.The volume has been rebound by the workshop of William Kidd, stationer and bookseller of Dundee in the late 19th and early 20th century. Many blank pages have been inserted after the original 206 manuscript pages. The binding is half brown leather with gold...
Dates:
1775-1789
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Manuscript shorthand Wesleyan hymnbook
Collection
Identifier: MS 5019
Scope and Contents
Manuscript shorthand Wesleyan hymnbook containing 1008 hymns. Annotation at end of volume dated 13 September 1878 'Harry broke his leg to.'
Dates:
1877-1878
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Manuscript speeches and sermons
Fonds
Identifier: MS COV
Scope and Contents
Manuscript volume containing 26 sermons, speeches, and texts. Contents include the dying words of Viscount Kenmure, Sir Archibald Johnston or Wariston, Marquis of Argyll, and James Wod, Principal of St Andrews University. Contains a table of contents for pages 1-166.Also included are notes on sermons given in North Leith Church and South Leith Church by various ministers between 29 February - 21 November 1708. Notes written in different hands. Bound in tooled leather...
Dates:
c.1708
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Manuscript subject index and list of books from which the subjects are derived entitled 'Ane alphabeticall list of the books with their authors...'
Collection
Identifier: MS 5024
Scope and Contents
Volume containing an alphabetical index of subjects with references to a set list of works from which they are derived. The index is prefixed by 'Ane Alphabeticall list of the books with their authors, out of which the following index is draun with their severall contractions.' The list contains mainly 17th century printed works.
Dates:
c.1705
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Manuscript volume. A birthday gift, Mary Catherine Tracy, c. 1864
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1482
Scope and Contents
A manuscript volume written in black ink, with illuminated headings and initials. The volume of 131pp had been illustrated and sketched, according to the seller's notes, by Agnes L. Tracy and Isabel M. W. Tracy. It is bound in green cloth, and the front cover bears the initials MCT in gilt. There are seven illustrations and these are signed with the initials 'A.L.T'. and one is numbered '64', which may be the date 1864. The volume opens with a 'Dedication' beginning: These to our Mary ,...
Dates:
1863-1865
Manuscript volume containing notes of lectures by Hugh Blair
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-389
Identifier: Coll-2064
Content Description
This is a manuscript volume containing notes of lectures by Hugh Blair, Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the University of Edinburgh, taken down by an unknown student. It is dated 1770, and comprises 39 complete lectures.Hugh Blair published his lectures in 1783, but very few manuscripts of his teachings survive nowadays. He did not want any "bastardised" versions to survive, as he called them in his publications, and insisted in his will that all his personal papers...
Dates:
1770
Manuscripts and printed matter from the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Library (1843-1902)
Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 32.6
Scope and Contents
See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates:
1843-1902
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Manuscripts by Henry Guthry (1600-1676), Bishop of Dunkeld
Fonds
Identifier: MS GUT 2
Scope and Contents
Three notebooks relating to Henry Guthry, Bishop of Dunkeld (1600-1676)1. Observations upon the ryse [and] progress of the late rebellion against King Charles the first in so far as it was caryed on by a malecontented faction in Scotland under the pretext of the reformation. Quarto volume, 172 pages, in a loose secretary hand. 19th century binding, titled 'Bishop Guthrie's Historie, 1636-1649' on the spine. Signature of John Jaffray, Edin[burgh] 1849 on the front flyleaf....
Dates:
17th century
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
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Manuscripts from the William Drummond of Hawthornden Collection
Collection
Identifier: De
Scope and Contents
This collection is some of the manuscripts that William Drummond of Hawthornden collected and is the proportion donated to the University of Edinburgh.
Dates:
1482 to early 17th century
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Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia
Collection
Identifier: Or Ms
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of over 700 manuscripts pertaining to the Islamicate world and South Asia, dating from the 10th to 19th centuries C.E. (the majority being post-1500). Chiefly bound paper codices, it includes sacred texts of importance to the Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh faiths, Qur’anic commentaries, Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and the Shi’i Imams, works treating Islamic law, world history, the history of India, medicine,...
Dates:
10th-19th centuries C.E. (bulk: post-1500 C.E.)