Meditations : Religious writing 2 January 1683 - 27 June 1685.

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 6496

National Library of Scotland MS 6496 is the eighth of fourteen extant manuscripts of religious meditations written by Anne,Lady Halkett. For a discussion of all of the surviving manuscripts plusthe lost volumes, see the Context and Purpose article in NLS MS 6489. This manuscript consists of three long select or biblical meditations. The first is on the four chapters of the Book of Jonah (pp.1-147, msItem 4), the second is on the times of David's prayer, taken from selected verses in the Psalms (pp.148-226, msItem 5), and the third is on Saul's (or Paul's)conversion, taken from selected chapters of the Book of Acts (pp.227-378, msItem 6). In this final meditation Halkett comments several times about running out of spaceand thus continues more briefly. According to Simon Cooper, Halkett's biographer who has catalogued her writings (see NLS MS 6489 for a discussion), a continuation of this meditation on Paul's conversion appears in a quarto manuscript of 136 pages, dated 1686 (now lost). Many of the versos contain running heads, often providing a good index to theparticular chapter and verse upon which Halkett is meditating. While Halkett'smain sources of meditation in this volume are the books of Jonah, Psalms, and Acts, she peppers each meditation liberally with other biblicalreferences. Halkett usually encloses the particular verse upon which she ismeditating in parallel lines above and below the verse number in the margin,enabling the reader to find quickly the precise verse she is discussing. At the front of the volume she has written a table of contents (p. i, msItem 2, here transcribed in full). On the verso of that first leaf (p. ii, msItem 3) she has written a justification for meditating upon the Book of Jonah.

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