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Title: [Sermons and lectures on the Bible].
Creator: Baird, John.
Melvil, Thomas.
Date Created and/or Issued: [1675-1683]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript. Multiple pages excised near the end of the volume.
Scope/Content: Manuscript volume containing sermons and lectures, the majority of them preached by John Baird at Paisley. There is also one sermon ascribed to Thomas Melvil. Written throughout in a small, neat hand, this is possibly a fair copy of transcriptions made from sermons, as there are some cancellations but very few corrections or insertions. There are multiple pen trials and inscriptions in childish hands in the latter half of the volume.
Condition: Bound in old calf with traces of clasps. Front cover loose and almost detached from volume. Housed in modern cloth case.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Sermons
Markings (Provenance)
Extent: 600, [78] p., bound ;20 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1dk6k
MS.1964.001
Language: English
eng
Subject: Sermons--Scotland--Early works to 1800.
Theology--Scotland--Early works to 1800.
Place: Scotland--Paisley
Provenance: Signed in a childish 18th century hand in several places with the name "James Coulter"; "James Peadie also appears."
Location: CLUW

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