Prayers
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = Baillie
Found in 127 Collections and/or Records:
Quotation beginning 'He prayeth best who loveth best', c1876
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/89
Scope and Contents
Quotation beginning 'He prayeth best who loveth best, All things both great and small' noted as being by Coleridge. The text has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
c1876
Saying from the Isle of Barra, 1901
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/23
Scope and Contents
Saying from the Isle of Barra [Barraigh] relating to women.
Dates:
1901
Sermon: Exposition of Romans 7:24 and prayers, [1835-1847?]
Item
Identifier: MS CHA6/20/8
Dates:
[1835-1847?]
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
Seven prayers of Saint Gregory on the Passion of the Lord (with Indulgence), followed by an addition by Pope Julius II and other prayers, early 16th century
part
Identifier: MS 11/ff. 60r-63r
Contents
The prayers are preceded by the rubric Summa indulgentiarum orationum sequencium prout patet supra folio 41 est centum milia et sexaginta quattuor milia annorum indulgentie et octingenti anni. According to the rubric, this sequence of prayers is meant to grant several thousands years of indulgence to anyone who recites it regularly; there is also a reference to another text contained in the manuscript, the De indulgentiis...
Dates:
early 16th century
Song entitled 'An Cluain Rainich' and accompanying story, 28 May 1869 and 18 June 1869
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/65
Scope and Contents
Song entitled 'An Cluain Rainich' collected from Margaret Morrison, aged 36 years, Sliabh Ghriminis, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula beginning 'Seidlanach mi sa chluian rainich, Smulad mi smi eir maineol'. The song is composed of fifty-nine lines, some of which are annotated or amended. The accompanying story attributes the song to Màiri Nighean Alasdair Ruaidh and tells how she was brought to Uibhist/Uist by Clanranald, unmarried, and was married 'on guala Ruaiveal [Ruabhal/Rueval] after having...
Dates:
28 May 1869 and 18 June 1869
Song entitled 'Coisgrigeadh an Aodaich' and accompanying notes, 7 August 1886
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/1
Scope and Contents
Song collected from Duncan Cameron, police officer, Tobar Mhoire/Tobermory, Muile/Isle of Mull, entitled 'Coisgrigeadh an Aodaich' [Consecration of the Cloth]. The song begins 'S math gha'ainsa mo rann, A teuma le gleann' and is composed of lines. The accompanying note describes the work done while the song is sung, 'The web is made into a roll. All the women work at the roll patting it and the rann is said three times over. Then at the end the roll is tossed end over and say A a aodach seo...
Dates:
7 August 1886
Song entitled 'Duncan Bàn's Grace', August 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/120
Scope and Contents
Song entitled 'Duncan Bàn's Grace' beginning 'S trua nach robh mi am Buchaill Eite'.
Dates:
August 1883
Song entitled 'Oigh Chubhra Na Mara' or 'Urnaigh Mhara Chlann Raoghail', nd
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW152/19
Scope and Contents
Song entitled 'Oigh Chubhra Na Mara' or 'Urnaigh Mhara Chlann Raoghail' beginning 'Oigh chubhra na mara, Thu lan de na grasan'. The song is composed of twenty-three lines arranged into three verses of six lines each and a chorus of three lines.
Dates:
nd