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Church History

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on the institutional history of the church

Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:

Account of 'Clann 'Ic Illemhicheil' [Carmichaels], 14 December 1864

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/3
Scope and Contents Account of 'Clann 'Ic Illemhicheil' [Carmichaels], collected from Eoghan Mac Illemhicheil [Hugh Carmichael], age 80, Druim-na-moine, Apuinn [Druim-na-moina, Apainn/Appin, Earra-Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] in which he describes the family as being the oldest clan in the area (six hundred years), originating in Annat. He gives a brief account of Alexander's own family, the Barons of Taigh Sgurrain: their descent from the Easbaig Bàn or Fair-haired Bishop, and the loss of their lands to Sir Donald...
Dates: 14 December 1864
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field and transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Copy of ‘A booke of records for the English Church in Delft’ by George Gibson and William Steven, 1836

 Fonds
Identifier: MS DEL
Scope and Contents

Contains: Records, 1643-1724; a catalogue of such as were members at 1 Oct. 1645; a register of matrimonial, 1646-1696; a catalogue of the children's names that have been baptized, 1643-1723.

From the General Assembly Library.

Dates: 1643-1724; 1836 (Copied from the original records)
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Correspondence on the 1929 Church Union exhibition, 1929-1930

 Item
Identifier: AA2/1/104a
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Contains the institutional records of New College Library, Edinburgh University Theological Library, Church of Scotland General Assembly Library, Church of Scotland Lending Library and Longforgan Free Church Ministers' Library.

Dates: 1929-1930
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / Institutional records of New College Library / New College Library

Essays by John Ross MacDuff (1818-1895), minister of Sandyford

 Fonds
Identifier: MS MCD 4
Scope and Contents Manuscript notebook containing essays by John Ross Macduff on biblical topics and early church history. Each essay is titled, and most have an additional title page with stylised caligraphy. All of the essays are in the same hand, but some of the pencil annotations may be from another author.Contents:1. On the necessity of a divine revelation. 18 October 1833. 4 pages.2. On the genuineness and authenticity of the New Testament scripture. October 1833. 4...
Dates: 1833-1834
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Eusebius's Historia Ecclesiastica [incomplete] translated and continued by Tyrannius Rufinus, 12th century

 Item
Identifier: MS 179
Contents Tyrannius Rufinus was a fourth-century Christian monk and theologian. Rufinus is known for his translations of work by Origen, a second and third-century Christian theologian and scholar. In 401, Rufinus was commissioned by Bishop Chromatius of Aquileia (Rufinus was born near Aquileia, in northern Italy) to translate the Historia Ecclesiastica by Eusebius. This translation of the text of ecclesiastical history by the third-century historian Eusebius was...
Dates: 12th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts

Five lists of various offices and office holders, 1510

 Part
Identifier: MS 186/ff. 338r-342v
Contents

There are four sets of lists contained on ff. 338r-342v. Ff. 338r-v is 'de romanis pontificis' ('Roman popes'); ff. 339r-v is 'de romanorum Imperatoribus' ('Roman generals'); ff. 339v-341v records 'Sedes episcopales' ('Episcopal seats'); ff. 341v-342r contains a 'Tabula monasteriorum Scocie' ('Table of monasteries in Scotland'), and f. 342v covers 'Vicecomitatus Scocie' (Sheriffdomes in Scotland').

Dates: 1510
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript containing the Scotichronicon and various genealogical texts

Historiae Ecclesiasticae Tripartitae Epitome [incomplete], by Epiphanius Scholasticus, 12th century

 Item
Identifier: MS 178
Contents MS 178 contains a copy of a 6th-century Church history by Epiphanius Scholasticus. The work takes the form of twelve books, and became the primary clerical manual for Church history in the medieval west for centuries. The 12-part book is often presented in early print publications/manuscript copies as the work of Cassiodorus. However, it was originally a work of Latin translations of the histories of Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodoret produced by Cassiodorus's friend and colleague at the...
Dates: 12th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts

Invitation to Rev. William Dobbie to take up post of Pastor at Castle Hill U.F. Church, Forres

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1139
Scope and Contents

There are some 300 names on the invitation - subscribers to the Church - which is written on a number of paper pages joined into one long roll several feet long (a conservator's nightmare). The roll is contained in black leather covered tube with gilt blocked title and date.

The blocked title states: 'Call / to the Rev. William Dobbie / by Castlehill United Free Church / Forres / August 6th 1907

Dates: 1907
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Lectures of James MacKinnon (1860-1945), Professor of Ecclesiastical history, University of Edinburgh

 Fonds
Identifier: MS MCK 5
Scope and Contents Notes on lectures delivered by Prof. James MacKinnon, Professor of Ecclesiastical History, during University of Edinburgh session 1908-1909. Volume I only.Part I: Origins of the Reformation (84 numbered pages, final 16 pages are blank).Part II: Progress of the Reformation (74 unnumbered pages, with infrequent blanks)Part III: Continuation of Calvin's Theories. (71 numbered pages).Part III [distinct from previous, reason for duplicated numbering...
Dates: 1908-1909
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

List of books to be divided between the Free Church and the United Free Church, 1900-1909

 Item
Identifier: AA2/1/103
Scope and Contents

List of books at New College Library to be divided between the Free Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland following their split in 1900.

Dates: 1900-1909
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / Institutional records of New College Library / New College Library