Meditations : Religious writing 20 June 1676 - 5 December 1678.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dunfermline (Scotland).

Prayer.

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 6494

National Library of Scotland MS 6494 is the sixth 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 several select and occasional meditations. The first item is entitled "The art of divine chemistry", which is the drawing of spiritual good out of temporal evils (pp.1-56, msItem 2). The next three meditations are on "The rule for thoughts", "The rule for action", and "The rule for words" (pp.57-201, 202-258, 259-291; msItems 3-5). These are followed by a short meditation on the seventh year of her widowhood, which Halkett says she added to a blank page (pp.292-293, msItem 6). The next meditation is on Psalm 106:4-5 (pp.294-370, msItem 7), which opens with a discussion of why and when Halkett wrote an account of her life (i.e. British Library MS Additional 32376). Her final meditation, dated 26 November 1678, gives thanks for Charles II's preservation after the Popish Plot (pp.371-380, msItem 8). A scrap of paper has been pasted into the volume after the final meditation and before the table of contents. It reads: "[Th]e Popish The Fanatical [spelled Phanatickeall] The Pharisaical plot from which good Lord/ deliver us". Notes at the beginning and end of the volume indicate that the manuscript was begun on 20 June 1676 and completed on 5 December 1678.

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