Record Number: 5150

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

A volume of sermons, marked with dates and what appears to be a system of initials - possibly some sort of reminder? Examples: "E.F.I. [?] April 24th -1853/Nov. 13th ..53" [p. 158 Sermon title "The value of the soul"]; "V.G. F.I. [?] Sept. 15th 1850/ Feby 27th 1853/ July 8th 1855" [Sermon title "The Lord's Prayer"]; "V.G.F.I. Augt 20th [?] 1854 F...[?]" [Sermon title "The lamb of god beheld by faith"]. In addition, passages of text are sometimes deleted or marked up. Examples: p. 159 the quote is scored through; On the first page of "The Lord's prayer", the sentence in para 2 "Not that we are tied down ..." has half square brackets around it.

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1850 and 1854

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Bruce?

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Minister of religion

Religion:

Anglican

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

George Burder

Title:

Village sermons: or, fifty-two plain and short discourses on the principal doctrines of the gospel; intended for the use of families, Sunday schools, or companies assembled for religious instructions in country villages

Genre:

Sermon

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Glasgow; Edinburgh; Aberdeen: Francis Orr; William White and Co.; Geo. Clark and Son

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

5150

Source - Manuscript:

Other

Information:

Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: DH LIB 1685, Burder, George, "Village sermons: or, fifty-two plain and short discourses on the principal doctrines of the gospel; intended for the use of families, Sunday schools, or companies assembled for religious instructions in country villages" (Glasgow etc, 1846), various pages.

Additional Information:

n/a

Citation:

Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: DH LIB 1685, Burder, George, "Village sermons: or, fifty-two plain and short discourses on the principal doctrines of the gospel; intended for the use of families, Sunday schools, or companies assembled for religious instructions in country villages" (Glasgow etc, 1846), various pages. , http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5150, accessed: 24 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

A very tentative identification of the author of the ms notes can be made as one of the chaplains of St Serf's Church attached to Dunimarle Castle in Fife.
A small number of non-family items, mainly associated with the chaplains of St Serfs (the chapel built by Magdalene Sharpe-Erskine), are known to be in the Dunimarle Library. Another relgious text in the collection,(DH LIB 889), has the inscription "Dr Bruce with E. N. Fraser's kind regards, June 9th 1851" Bruce was not necessarily at Dunimarle when the book was annotated.