Ordination

Annotated copy of 'Questions in divinity with instructions to candidates for orders and an appendix of forms'

Fonds

Identifier: MS 5010

Scope and Contents Interleaved copy of 'Questions in divinity with instructions to candidates for Orders and an appendix of forms' by Rev Jospeh Lawson Sisson, DD, bound together with 'A collection of ordination questions as given at the texamination for Holy Orders of priests and deacons with a sketch of the different denominations of Christians' printed by and for J. Hall. Manuscript answers to the questions by Rev J [Johnson] Grant, MA, are given throughout. On the first title page, the name of Rev J. L....

Dates: 1832-1837

Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Archive of the Scottish Congregational College

Fonds

Identifier: GD11

Scope and Contents The archive is composed of: in Box 1, applications for admissions, miscellaneous materials and documents, and material on endowments; in Box 2, material on the William Smith Bursary, the John Wemyss Bursary, the Baxter Scholarship, the Whitelaw Scholarship, the Agnes Bowie Bursary, and legal documents concerning Inverleith Road, Edinburgh, and Lochend Road, Edinburgh; in Box 3, material relating to the John Pillans Bursary, the John Sutherland Bursary, the James Smith Prize, the Ferguson...

Dates: 1864-1993

Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Graduation and Ordination Certificates of William Kerr Smith

Fonds — Box CLX-A-375

Identifier: Coll-1890

Scope and Contents Graduation certificate, on vellum, of William Kerr Smith, who graduated from Edinburgh University in 1771 with a Master's in Liberal Arts. A red wax seal in a metal case is appended to the certificate. It represents a castle surrounded with the words 'S.[IGILLUM] COMMUNITATIS. BURGI. DE EDENBURGH. AD. CAUSAS.', and was appended by the City of Edinburgh to confirm the authenticity of the diploma.This collection also includes William Smith's ordination certificate, as he became the...

Dates: 1771-1772

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of John Baillie, 1900-1964

Sub-Fonds

Identifier: BAI 1

Scope and Contents

school and university notes; awards and achievements; lectures, addresses and broadcasts; sermons and prayers; manuscripts of published works; papers relating to the World Council of Churches, British Council of Churches, General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and other organisations; personal and professional correspondence

Dates: 1900-1964

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers