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Prayers

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = Baillie

Found in 127 Collections and/or Records:

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

Whitsunday broadcast, 1945

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Identifier: BAI 1/6/21
Scope and Contents

Broadcast by John Baillie, examining the meaning of Whitsunday (includes prayers).

Dates: 1945
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / Broadcasts

World Day of Prayer Address, 1973

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/4/1/10
Scope and Contents

A copy of an address given by Clive Hollands, Secretary of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection, at Greyfriar's Kirk, Edinburgh, 7th October 1973

Withdrawn from circulation April 1990

Dates: 1973
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of OneKind animal welfare charity / Campaigns / Animal Cruelty and Welfare / Leaflets and Pamphlets

World Day of Prayer for Animals, 1971

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/4/1/7
Scope and Contents

An information leaflet containing the details of the World Day of Prayer for Animals (October 4th or nearest convenient Sunday". The aim of the day was to focus attention and prayers towards the end of suffering to animals.

Published on behalf of Mrs M.W. Lawson, regional organiser for Scotland of the Society of United Prayer for Animals by the SSPV.

Dates: 1971
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of OneKind animal welfare charity / Campaigns / Animal Cruelty and Welfare / Leaflets and Pamphlets

World Day of Prayer for Animals, 1984

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/4/1/14
Scope and Contents

A printed copy of an address, given by the Rt. Hon. Lord Houghtor on Sowerby at Worcester Cathedral, in which he refers to an address Clive Hollands gave at Westminster Cathedral. The document concerns the relationship between Christianity and animal welfare.

This leaflet was withdrawn from circulation April 1990.

Dates: 1984
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of OneKind animal welfare charity / Campaigns / Animal Cruelty and Welfare / Leaflets and Pamphlets

World Day of Prayer for Animals, Westminster Abbey, 1976

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/4/1/11
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A printed copy of an address given by The Right Reverend Hugh Montefiore, at Westminster Abbey, Sunday 3rd October 1976, to mark the eve of World Day of Prayers for Animals during Animal Welfare Year.

Published by the SSPV until it was withdrawn March 1986.

Dates: 1976
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of OneKind animal welfare charity / Campaigns / Animal Cruelty and Welfare / Leaflets and Pamphlets

ʾArdǝʾt (‘The Disciples’); a protective scroll, undated (c. 19th-20th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: E.Or Ms 686
Scope and Contents

An Ethiopic codex and scroll, together in a small leather pouch.

The codex contains ʾArdǝʾt (‘The Disciples’) a magico-apocryphal text. This is the Christian recension (as opposed to the Beta ʾƎsrāʾel/Ethiopian Jewish recension).


The second item is a protective scroll.

Dates: undated (c. 19th-20th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Ethiopic Manuscripts Collection