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Material on the early history of Scotland by Sir Robert Sibbald.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.26
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Caledonia sive Scotia Antiqua et Recentior`, 1680 (folio 1). According to the preface, Sibbald intended this to be a work in four books, but it breaks off after the beginning of the second. The contents do not correspond with those of `Caledonia` described by Sibbald in ‘An Account of the writers antient and modern’, pages 9-11, which refers to Adv.MS.15.1.2, folios 3-14.(ii) `Corn: Taciti Britannia`, 1687-1688 (folio...
Dates:
1680-1698.
Notebook of poems by John Willison.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11708
Scope and Contents
Includes a Hebrew vocabulary and lexicon by Willison based on the published work of John Row.
Dates:
1748.
Papers concerning a translation by Hamish Henderson of Antonio Gramsci "Lettere dal Carcere".
File
Identifier: Acc.10616
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence.
Dates:
1951-1974.
Papers of Alexander Fraser Tytler.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11737/1-8
Scope and Contents
Includes commonplace books, diaries, books of etchings, sketchbooks and a manuscript "Remembrances of Woodhouselee".
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Papers of Archibald Shiells, merchant in Edinburgh, and his family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12591
Scope and Contents
Includes papers of, and relating to, the family of Wilsone of Murrayshall, Stirlingshire, 1701-1925; and Scottish charters and other legal and administrative documents, mainly from Fife.
Dates:
1529-1925.
Papers of Hamish Henderson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10327
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscript drafts of and introduction to Henderson`s translation of Antonio Gramsci, "Letter dal Calcere", and an annotated copy of the original Italian edition of the work.
Dates:
1948-1987.
Papers of James Lauder Davidson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13567
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises several manuscript and typescript diaries which illustrate James Lauder Davidson’s experiences during his time in Burma, before and after WWII, and his military involvement in the conflict. Of particular interest are the earlier and later diaries, as well as the diary charting his escape into China. The collection also includes two photographic albums. The first one (item 2 in the collection) includes original photographs taken by Davidson. Most of them include...
Dates:
1938-1947
Papers of John MacCallum, policeman, Glasgow.
File
Identifier: Acc.12529
Scope and Contents
Includes Gaelic songs and music.
Dates:
circa 1890-1925.
Papers of Paul Henderson Scott.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11894
Scope and Contents
Papers concern Scott`s service in the British Military Government of Berlin, 1945-1949, and his candidacy in the Scottish Parliamentary Election, 1999. Includes printed material concerning military training and the Allied Military Government of Germany.
Dates:
circa 1942-1999.
Papers of Professor John Erickson concerning the `Edinburgh Conversations`.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13596
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, memoranda and related papers, 1974-1997, concerning the ‘Edinburgh Conversations’ and Professor John Erickson`s involvement in them.John Erickson (1929-2002) was a British military historian and the West’s leading authority on the Soviet military during and after the Second World War. During the ‘Cold War’ he was one of the very few academics to earn the trust of both sides and a key channel for contact between the Soviets and the Americans.After...
Dates:
c.1970s-1994
Papers of Robert Titilah, relating to his service during World War Two with the Parachute Regiment, including imprisonment at Stalag IVB, Muhlberg.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13648
Scope and Contents
Photographs, letter and army papers of Robert Titilah, 1897-1991, relating to his service with the 1st Parachute Regiment during the Second World War, particularly his internment as a Prisoner of War at Stalag IVB, Muhlberg, Germany.The papers include Titilah`s `Soldier`s Release Book`, which indicates that he enlisted in April 1942. He apparently enlisted on a whim after he had been drinking with a friend, and a studio portrait captures the men together shortly after this event....
Dates:
1897-1991
Papers of T J Douglas MacDonald (Fionn MacColla), including literary and autobiographical notebooks.
Series
Identifier: Dep.265
Dates:
Circa 1957-1975.
Papers of the Rev Dr Neil Ross, Gaelic scholar and poet.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12354
Dates:
circa 1824-1943.
Papers of Werner Bienert, migrant from Germany to Scotland.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13593
Scope and Contents
Papers, c.1910-1970s, of Werner Bienert, migrant from Germany to Scotland.Werner Bienert was born in Thale Am Harz, Germany in1902 to a sawmill owner. His early life until 1922 was spent working in the timber trade in Germany and Holland before moving to Edinburgh, Scotland in 1924 on a year’s visa. There he met his future wife, Rose Tinney, with whom he had three children. They were married in 1925 before Bienert was forced to move back to Germany, settling in Hamburg. The...
Dates:
c.1903-1979
Photocopies and translation of letter and examples of calligraphy of Marie Presot.
File
Identifier: Acc.4191
Dates:
1574.
Photocopies of papers connected with the process of canonizaton of St John Ogilvie.
File
Identifier: Acc.7251
Dates:
20th century.
Photocopies of ten letters (some fragmentary) of Madame Tussaud from Edinburgh and Glasgow.
File
Identifier: Acc.8001
Scope and Contents
With translations.
Dates:
1803-1804.
Photocopy and translation of the record of registration of the Greig family coat of arms by the Heraldic Department, St Petersburg, Russia.
File
Identifier: Acc.11399
Dates:
1915.
Photocopy of Kurt Wittig, "Die Nationale Literatur Schottlands der Gegenwart" (1945).
File
Identifier: Acc.5450
Scope and Contents
With photocopy of letter, 1958, of Neil Gunn to Kurt Wittig.
Dates:
1945, 1958.
Records of the Highland Society of London, including minutes, account books, correspondence and letter books.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.268
Dates:
1781-1931.
Sketchbook with portraits and scenes from India.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8289
Scope and Contents
With translation of Indian religious work, including a vocabulary
Dates:
19th century.
Three letters, one in English and two in German, concerning Alexander Bruce, later 2nd Earl of Kincardine, and his involvement in the salt trade between Fife and Bremen.
File
Identifier: Acc.12868
Dates:
1656.
Three volumes of photocopied literary papers of Major Neil Macleod, Royal Artillery, of Waternish, Isle of Skye and Dalkeith.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12321
Scope and Contents
Volume 1: Gaelic verse; volume 2: remarks on the Books of Genesis, Exodus and Revelation; volume 3: reminiscences of his life.
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Three volumes of poems of Alexander Ross, Schoolmaster at Lochlee in Angus, and author of ‘Helinore: the Fortunate Shepherdess’ (Aberdeen, 1768).
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.18A-C
Scope and Contents
The poems are mainly of a religious nature and written in English, with the exception of ‘The Fortunate Shepherd or the Orphan’, which is in Scots.
Dates:
?1753-1782.
Typescript of "Bardachd Ghaidhlig/Gaelic Poetry" of William Neill.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11623
Dates:
2nd half of 20th century.