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'16 Years of Alcohol' by Richard Jobson, illustrated by Philip Core. (?Belgium, ?Les Disques du Crepuscule, ?1987)., ?1987
Item
Identifier: Acc.13740/47
16mm colour film, with soundtrack, 20 minutes approximately, on a British Schools Exploration Society expedition to Iceland., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.11628/323
16th-century manuscript containing a register of charters and leases of St Andrews Priory, Pittenweem Priory and the archbishopric of St Andrews, covering the years 1553-1574.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.3
Scope and Contents
16th-century manuscript written in Scotland, containing a register of charters and leases covering the years 1553-1574.Davis has dated the manuscript to the second half of the 16th century. The volume is multi-scribal, containing entries in various contemporary hands.Affixed to the beginning of the volume, folio ii, is an analysis of the contents by James David Forbes, who at that time was principal of the United College at the University of St Andrews.The...
Dates:
2nd half of 16th century.
16th-century manuscript containing the Accounts of the Archbishopric of St Andrews, covering the years 1539-1549.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.2
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Scotland, containing accounts of the Archbishopric of St Andrews from October 1539 to May 1549. The entries provide information on the different kinds of grain delivered and expended as rendered by the 'Granitarius', and on the more general cash accounts rendered by the 'Camerarius'.Borland suggests that the work is written by one hand. A section from folios 46r-65r, however, exhibits a different character of writing with distinctive pen-strokes, although...
Dates:
Circa 1549.
16th-century manuscript containing the 'Vie de saint Louis' of Jean de Joinville.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.16
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in France containing the Life of Saint Louis by Jean de Joinville. The work was probably written circa 1550, certainly after 1547. It appears to be a presentation copy, with the text corresponding to the 1547 edition by Antoine Pierre de Rieux. As in the printed edition, the main text of the manuscript is introduced by prefaces by Antoine Pierre de Rieux and Guillaume de La Perrière.The text is the work of one hand, written in a gothic littera bastarda script...
Dates:
Circa 1550.
16th-century manuscript of the 'Lives of the bishops of Dunkeld' by Alexander Myln.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.4
Scope and Contents
Myln was a canon of Dunkeld who served as Official of the diocese from 1513 to 1519 when he was appointed Abbot of Cambuskenneth. R K Hannay, in his introduction to ‘Rentale Dunkeldense’, page xii, suggests that the manuscript was revised, if not written by Thomas Brown, who succeeded Myln as Clerk of accounts in Dunkeld in 1511. The text includes events which took place late in 1516, but was composed before Myln succeeded to Cambuskenneth.The opening pages are...
Dates:
16th century.
16th-century manuscript of the romance 'Clariodus', a translation of a French prose original into Older Scots verse.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.5
Scope and Contents
The Manuscript is imperfect; according to the old foliation, seven folios are missing at the beginning, and another one or more at the end. A passage of eight lines has been pasted in on folio 125 verso.
Written in one hand throughout, with large decorative initials at the beginning of each book. Watermark of pot with letters IB (cf. Briquet number 12804).
Dates:
16th century.
17 Christmas cards and letters of William McLaren, artist, to Winifred Hamilton-Meikle. Many of the cards are original artworks.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13183
Dates:
1953-1973.
17 farm work journals of Auchinleck.
File
Identifier: Acc.10108- now deaccessioned.
Dates:
1772-1790.
17 letters and postcards of S. R. Crockett.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.2926- is now MS.8887, f.151.
Dates:
1890-1903.
17 letters, circa 1752-circa 1781, of and to Hugh Hume Campbell, 3rd Earl of Marchmont.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.7770
Scope and Contents
Concerning estate and family matters.
With six letters and other papers, 1674-1766, concerning Bruce Campbell and his family.
Dates:
1674-circa 1781.
17 letters including letters of and to Vans Hathorn, Writer to the Signet, and Horne and Ross, Writers to the Signet.
File
Identifier: Acc.11515
Dates:
1803-1835.
17 letters of 1st Earl Haig to the Very Reverend G S Duncan.
File
Identifier: Acc.7706
Scope and Contents
Concerning Haig`s religious convictions, his British Legion work, and other topics.
Dates:
1918-1924, 1926.
17 letters of James Logan to Sir John Philippart.
File
Identifier: Acc.7182
Scope and Contents
Concerning Logan`s edition of "The Clans of the Scottish Highlands..." (London, 1845-1847), and to his other contributions to the "Naval and Military Gazette".
Dates:
1842-1847.
17 letters of James Nasmyth to Henry Bicknell.
File
Identifier: Acc.4953- is now MS.11000, ff 140-176
Dates:
1859-1879.
17 letters of Neil Gunn to Naomi Mitchison.
File
Identifier: Acc.5813
Scope and Contents
Copy of letter, 1944, of Naomi Mitchison to Neil Gunn, and one other letter, undated, of Mitchison to an unknown recipient.
Dates:
1942-1971.
17 letters of Ronald Stevenson to Duncan Glen, with 4 concert programmes and a copy of 'Music and the musician', an article, October 1968, concerning Ronald Stevenson., 1965-1974.
File
Identifier: Acc.7125 Box 15(3)
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Including manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of poems, articles, and reviews, with correspondence and accounts.
Dates:
1965-1974.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including typescripts, proofs and financial records, of Akros Publications, 'Akros' magazine and Duncan Glen.
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Correspondence and papers relating to books published by Akros Publications; for correspondents with surnames from Smith to Sutherland.
17 letters to Gavin Ewart from various publishers.
File
Identifier: Acc.11226
Scope and Contents
Letters concern Ewart`s novel, "The Adventures of Arthur".
Dates:
1972-1974.
17 letters to James Wilson.
File
Identifier: Acc.7774
Scope and Contents
Concerning economic and political matters.
Dates:
1842-1853.
17 letters to Sir John Kirk.
File
Identifier: Acc.4084- is now MS.20311, ff 233-275.
Dates:
1867-1903 and undated.
17 photographs of Zimbabwe., 1980-1986.
File
Identifier: Acc.10904/52