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Sermons

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Found in 350 Collections and/or Records:

Sermons on keeping the holy day, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 78/ff. 161r-187v
Contents Three sermons on the celebration of the weekly day of rest and worship, written in cursive hand. All three begin with a verse from the Deuteronomy, in which God reiterates his commandment to keep the Sabbath day holy: observa diem sabbati ut sanctifices eum ('observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy', Deut. 5:12). The scribe has collected the sermons together under the title Sermones de festivando ('Sermons on keeping the...
Dates: 15th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript containing fifteen texts

Sermons on the Beatitudes, by an unknown author

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Identifier: MS 80/ff. 211r-233v
Contents

Sermons on the beatitudes.


Start on f. 211r with the following words: De Humilitate. Beati pauperes spiritu. And end on f. 233v with the following words: et aliud apertum dimittere proficit.

Dates: early 14th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript including six texts

Sermons, prayers and correspondence of Rev James Mitchell (1759-1835), minister at Montrose

 Fonds
Identifier: MS MIT 2
Scope and Contents Papers of Rev. James Mitchell (1759-1835), Minister at Montrose. Manuscript text spans one small bound volume, and a stack of gathered papers.Events covered in sermons and prayers include: - A celebration of the King's Birthday (4 June, 1794), - A funeral sermon on Mitchell's own death (1835), - A draft of a reply by James Mitchell to a pamphlet by Provost Christie [against the Kirk Session of Montrose, 1790], - A speech delivered by the Rev. James Mitchell...
Dates: 1790-1835
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Sermons, prayers, and lectures, 1831-1847

 Series
Identifier: MS CHA6/20
Dates: 1831-1847
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / The Chalmers Collection / Section 6, Manuscript writings and papers

Student notes, 1820s

 Series
Identifier: coll-1835/16/2
Scope and Contents John Urquhart's student notes include: Botany notes, 1826 Notes entitled 'Clavis Libri Psalmorium' Notes on miscellaneous books Notes on Thucydides Notes on various sermons Notes on, and passages from the Scriptures Notes on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations taken in Dr Chalmers' class, 1824-1825 ...
Dates: 1820s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of the Anderson, Urquhart and Graham Families / Papers of John Urquhart (1808-1827)

Tracts [belonging to] Herbert Kennedy

 Fonds
Identifier: MS KEN 2
Scope and Contents Composite manuscript volume containing:Item 1: Titled 'Tractatus logicus A Mr Herberto Kennedy philosphice professore; facile messiodo conncinncot et in quatuor partes pronumero mentis operiction redactus nec non a me George Benedicto dilliganter conscriste.'[Tractatus Logicus By Mr. Herbert Kennedy, professor of philosophy; easily compiled and edited into four parts, with a mind for the purpose of understanding, and diligently written by me, George Benedict.]...
Dates: 1684; 1737
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Unidentified text on the Virtues and other sermons, c 1455

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Identifier: MS 138/ff. 258r-294r
Contents

This section (ff.258r-294r) contains an unidentified text on the Virtues, and other sermons, in various hands.

Dates: c 1455
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript including seventeen texts

Untitled sermons, 19 November 1815

 Item
Identifier: MS CHA6/16/107
Dates: 19 November 1815
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / The Chalmers Collection / Section 6, Manuscript writings and papers / Sermons

Verses of Saint Bernard, followed by other prayers and an extract from a sermon, early 16th century

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Identifier: MS 114/ff. 52v-55v
Contents The Verses of Saint Bernard are preceded on f. 52v by the rubric Subscriptos versos diabolus tradidit beato bernardo qui eos cotidie legerit veram suorum peccatorum contritionem in extremis habebit. This refers to a legend according to which Saint Bernard of Clairvaux had tricked the devil into revealing to him sever verses taken from the Psalms which, if recited daily, would guarantee the pardon of all sins. Other two prayers and an extract from a sermon by...
Dates: early 16th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript containing twenty-nine texts

William Logie, William Logie, Robert Scarth Valentine Logie

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1054
Scope and Contents The collection, as yet unsorted, is composed of : the manuscript preaching journal of Robert Scarth Valentine Logie and circa 100 sewn sheafs of manuscript notes - sermons; a catalogue of 468 discourses, or sermons, of William Logie (Senior), and accompanying manuscript sermon notes, together with a manuscript sermon preached in Lady Kirk, Kirkwall, 18 January 1816, for the National Thanksgiving 1816, the day appointed for thanksgiving after the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte (transcript...
Dates: 1790-1940
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections