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Prayers

 Subject

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

Found in 127 Collections and/or Records:

List of four prayers or charms with details about where, when and from whom they were collected, c1893

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/6
Scope and Contents

List of four prayers or charms with details about where, when and from whom they were collected, the items being 'Urnuigh Chadail', 'Eolas an Tairbhin', 'Eolas Beum Sula' and 'Marking the Lamb'.

Dates: c1893
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

List of proverbs relating to fishing and hunting, 1901

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/22
Scope and Contents

List of seven proverbs relating to fishing and hunting. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Material relating to Bishop Kenneth Cragg, and to religious subjects

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1556
Identifier: Coll-1757
Content Description The ms and ts/printed items are: 1 x copy ts sheet 'Islam in India' [1961 statistics], 1p 1 x ts paper, untitled, but concerned with 'talks about Islam', and referring to 'four fortnightly evening meetings, sponsored jointly by the Student Christian Movement and the Islamic Cultural Centre ... held at the Student Movement House in London' [1963], 7pp 1 x copy sheet...
Dates: 1961-2003
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Medieval manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: MS MED 1
Scope and Contents

This collection contains 5 medieval manuscript books and 1 framed fragment. Many are finely illuminated and decorated.

The descriptions of MS MED 1-5 are largely drawn from Neil Ripley Ker, Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, pp.530-537.

Dates: nd
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Memoria of Saint Servatus, early 16th century

 part
Identifier: MS 114/ff. 321v-322v
Contents

A prayer dedicated to Saint Servatus, who was Bishop of Tongeren in Belgium.

Dates: early 16th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript containing twenty-nine texts

"Mizpah" prayer calendar of Joseph Booth, c 1912-1924

 File
Identifier: Coll-210/1/14
Scope and Contents

"Mizpah" of Joseph Booth, notepad with bible verses for each day annotated by Booth and his wife Annie, often with the year and their location. 1 bundle, c 1912 - 1924.

Dates: c 1912-1924
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers relating to Joseph Booth and family / Material related to the Booth family

Muslims Praying at the Jama Masjid, New Dehli, [India], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2544
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a large number of Muslims praying at the Jama Masjid in New Dehli, India in the early 20th century. The handwritten note on the slide identifies it as 'Mohammedans at their prayer in the famous mosque in Delhi, India. They assemble and say their prayers together on the last Friday in each month.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Na leig linn am feasd gluasachd, 18th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-98/4/3/8
Scope and Contents

There is no author, date, or title. It has been noted in previous historical records by the first line of the text: Na leig linn am feasd gluasachd, which translates as 'Do not leave us to the feast of movement'. It appears to be religious in tone; perhaps a prayer.

Dates: 18th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Material collected for research / Sermons and religious material

Note about Sula Sgeir, August 1883

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/111
Scope and Contents

Note about Sula Sgeir [Sulisgeir, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] that peats would be taken by crews going there and when they got there they would pray the Lord's Prayer at the site of the old temple.

Dates: August 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note entitled 'Farm Constable', 1883

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/196
Scope and Contents Note entitled 'Farm Constable' detailing the manner in which a man is elected to the position and the responsibilities he holds including that he is elected by the village and 'gives his word of honour that he will be true and honest to the commun[i]t[y]'; he facilitates in disputes over common grazing or common roads; on wet days he orders the herd to take the cattle from the field to the machair; he intervenes in matters relating to land levies and that he was paid in hay and piece of land...
Dates: 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael