Meditations : Religious writing 21 May 1688 - 17 March 1690.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dunfermline (Scotland).

Meditation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2008.

Summary:

The manuscript remained in the library at Pitfirrane House, seat of the Halkett family, until it was purchased by the National Library of Scotland in 1951-52 (though it was borrowed from Pitfirrane on two occasions).

Notes:

AMDigital Reference:MS 6498

National Library of Scotland MS 6498 is the tenth of fourteen extant manuscripts of religious meditations written by Anne, Lady Halkett. For a discussion of all of the surviving manuscripts plus the lost volumes, see the Context and Purpose article in NLS MS 6489. This manuscript consists of select or biblical meditations. Halkett's first meditation is on Moses from several books of the Bible. She begins by meditating on selected passages from Exodus (pp.1-281, msItem 3.1), she briefly justifies passing over the book of Leviticus and part of Numbers (pp.282-283, msItem 3.2), and she ends this meditation by considering selected passages from Numbers and Deuteronomy (pp.283-308, msItem 3.3). The second meditation examines episodes from the first Book of Samuel (pp.309-372, msItem 4). Many of the versos contain headings indicating the book and chapter of the Bible (rarely also the verse) upon which Halkett is meditating. Rectos tend only to have a heading to mark a new section. The volume opens with a prefatory meditation on the significance of 21 May 1649 and why she has chosen to meditate on Moses and Samuel (pp. i-iv, msItem 2).

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