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GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001060
TitlePapers of Alexander Bisset
ShelfmarkMS 10700 Commonplace Book including Sermons (1709)
Creation Date1710 - 1710
Contents NoteContains “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 FeaturesSmall 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 Peoplemanuscript owner - Bisset, Alexander
Provenance
Acquisition
Source of DataAnne James
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Sermon Reports Contained
GEMMS record createdFebruary 14, 2019
GEMMS record last editedFebruary 14, 2019