GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-
897
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1060)
Title
Papers of Alexander Bisset
Shelfmark
MS 10700 Commonplace Book including Sermons (1709)
Creation Date
1710 - 1710
Repository
Contents Note
Contains “Some hints of ye occasion and manner of Lady Anna Elcho her Death”; biographical notes on some 16th century ministers; recollections of Emellia Geddies; and the diary of a minister, probably from Fie, containing notes of apparently heard by him.
Material Features
Small notebook (oblong octavo) written from both ends. Ownership inscriptions of R. E. (deleted) and Patrick Plenderleath, minister of Saline, 1709 (f. i) but there is no identification of the author of the notes.
Associated People
Source of Data (Contributor name)
Anne James
Sermons Contained
Sermon on Proverbs 14:26 -- ff. 38r-47v
Sermon on Canticles 2:4 -- ff. 56r-58v
GEMMS record created
February 14, 2019
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024