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Volume consisting chiefly of caricatures, 1875-1879, by Lord Archibald Campbell, son of the 8th Duke of Argyll.
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Identifier: MS.7195
Scope and Contents
John Francis Campbell of Islay, Gaelic scholar and government official, George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, and Lord Colin Campbell, Member of Parliament for Argyll, are frequently featured. The volume includes an answer to a petition, ?1681, by the Earls of Erroll and Strathmore, and a list of debts, 1681, due by Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll. There are also two letters of Lord Archibald Campbell, one of J F Campbell of Islay, and a Gaelic poem, 1685, on Archibald, 9th...
Dates:
1681-1879.
Volume containing a student's notes on twenty-nine lectures on conveyancing, delivered by Robert Bell, Writer to the Signet and advocate, lecturer in conveyancing to the Society of Writers to the Signet, 1793-1816.
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Identifier: MS.9390
Scope and Contents
The manuscript can be dated circa 1796-1800 by internal references to contemporary cases, from the watermarks of the paper, and by comparison with Robert Bell's printed lectures.
Dates:
[?1796-?1800.]
Volume containing eleven sermons written out in full by an unknown preacher.
Item
Identifier: MS.9163
Dates:
Early 17th century-mid 17th century.
Volume containing surveying instructions and a business ledger, compiled at Yarrow.
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Identifier: MS.14283
Scope and Contents
The author is unknown, but the name E L Brown is stamped on the front cover.The contents are as follows.(i) Instructions for surveying, illustrated with examples taken from the Duke of Buccleuch's estates along Yarrow Water. (Folio 2.)(ii) Business ledger of a merchant with trading interests in La Rochelle, Leghorn and Jamaica. The commodities include wool, wine, sugar, wheat and cotton (folios 1 verso, 59). It is followed by incomplete notes on balancing...
Dates:
1812.
Volume containing typed copies of diaries of Jane C Burdon-Sanderson of journeys to India in the winters of 1885-1886 and 1888-1889 for the sake of her health; with associated papers.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20668-20669
Dates:
1885-1889.
Volume containing verse and prose, chiefly Jacobite and satirical.
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Identifier: MS.3807
Scope and Contents
The longer pieces include 'The Tragedie of Glenco', 'Proelium Gilliekrankianum', 'Bellum Bothwellianum', 'Tarquin and Tullia', and Dr Archibald Pitcairne's 'Assembly' and 'Babell'.
There is a recipe for stomach-ache on folio x verso.
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Volume entitled 'Celtic music', compiled by David R Robertson, a mercantile clerk in Dundee, consisting of pipe tunes, poems, notes and memoranda, extracts from published sources, letters from correspondents interested in Gaelic culture, and some press cuttings and photographs.
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Identifier: MS.22164
Scope and Contents
The title is taken from folio 1, a vellum leaf.Some items found loosely enclosed have been tipped or pasted in.The work consists of an introduction (folio 6) preceded by prefatory poems (folio 2), and eight sections: Old highland airs (folio 39), Clan tunes (folio 90), Jacobite airs (folio 131), Battle tunes (folio 159), Laments (folio 209), Old Scottish airs (folio 223), Army tunes (folio 244) and General marches (folio 276).There are two unrelated items:...
Dates:
1911-1912.
Volume made up of three pamphlets by James Hog; with manuscript 'Queries of the Synod of Fife to Mr James Hogg [sic] Minister at Carnock w[t] his answers to these queries. Apr. 5th 1722', formerly contained in the pamphlet volume, but now kept separately.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9769-9769A
Dates:
1716-1722.
Volume of Covenanting documents, containing copies of papers representing an extreme 'Cameronian' view.
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Identifier: MS.5408
Scope and Contents
Some leaves are missing from the beginning of the volume.The contents are as follows:(i) Fragment of a declaration against those who accepted the Declaration of Indulgence (folio 1);(ii) A declaration of 'the poor society of Tindwall' against William III, the established Presbyterian Church, and the defection of Alexander Sheilds, William Boyd and Thomas Linning (folio 10);(iii) 'Some causes of Lords contraversie, holding forth some few steps...
Dates:
[Circa 1700.]
Volume of miscellaneous letters and a poem of Robert Louis Stevenson, together with letters of Sir Sidney and Lady Colvin concerning Stevenson.
Series
Identifier: MS.8790
Scope and Contents
The letters are unpublished unless otherwise stated.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1873-1893, 1921.
Volume of 'Opera songs' belonging to Hugh Rose of Kilravock (died 1755), whose name as Hugh Rose of Geddes, with the date 25 November 1738, are on the inside of the back cover.
Item
Identifier: MS.21748
Scope and Contents
The songs are set with a melody line and bass only, and consist of excerpts from works of many of the major opera composers of the first third of the 18th century, notably Hasse, Handel, Porpora and Vinci.
One or two small dances have been put into blank spaces, and on page 1 there is a set of variations by William McGibbon on a theme by Corelli.
Dates:
1738.
Volume of poems containing principally 'Lyndha, a Grecian tale', in four cantos, in the hand of J Lyell, Dollar, followed by four poems on biblical and classical subjects in another hand, all apparently unpublished.
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Identifier: MS.7182
Dates:
1840.
Volume of printed reports, newspaper-cuttings, and other papers, 1865-1914, collected by Daniel William Kemp, in connection with the discussion of proposals for a National Library of Scotland by the Convention of Royal Burghs in 1902 and Kemp's later efforts to further the object.
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Identifier: MS.3575
Scope and Contents
Also contains Daniel William Kemp's correspondence, 1903, 1912 (numbers 26-27, 30, 32-34, 40-41).
Dates:
1865-1914.
Volume of Robert Burns’ poems, in manuscript, undated, by an unknown transcriber.
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Identifier: MS.6302
Scope and Contents
The text appears to have been copied from the subscribers' edition of ‘Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect’ (Edinburgh, 1787). Between pages 36 and 37 is inserted a newspaper cutting giving an explanation of two lines in the second stanza of 'Death and Doctor Hornbook'.
Dates:
[1787, or after.]
Volume of specimens of copperplate handwriting with prefatory note: 'the following pieces were written as common copies, in presence of a numerous class, by a young gentleman (aged 11 years), pupil of Mr. Paton, 58, Broad Street, 1831.'
Item
Identifier: MS.8930
Scope and Contents
The texts, written in a fine copperplate hand, are long maxims arranged as an alphabet by the first word.
Dates:
1831.
Volume of specimens of handwriting by William Pritchard.
File
Identifier: Acc.3120- is now MS.8929.
Dates:
1826-1833.
Volume titled ‘Sketches of Members of the Bar’ drawn by Colonel Thomas Innes of Learney, Advocate.
Item
Identifier: F.R.362
Dates:
[Circa 1840.]
Volume used as an account book, 1819-1822, by William Patrick, a merchant in India, and in the early 20th century by David Rattray, a joiner and builder in Lochore, for calculations and working notes; with correspondence and other papers of Rattray.
Series
Identifier: MS.14246 (1)-(2)
Dates:
1819-1922, undated.
Volumes, each stamped 'Piobaireachd M.S.S.' on the upper board, written in the same hand about the end of the nineteenth century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22119-22120
Dates:
4th quarter of 19th century.
Volumes of piobaireachd of Pipe-Majors Ronald and Alexander Mackenzie and Charles Scott.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22123-22127
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Vouchers and accounts of the Faculty of Advocates Library chiefly concerning the purchase and shipment of books.
File
Identifier: F.R.343/8
Dates:
1844-1846, 1847-1848, 1880.
Vouchers and receipts of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning the purchase, shipment and binding of books, and other Library expenses.
File
Identifier: F.R.343/7
Dates:
1715-1825.
Vouchers of the Faculty of Advocates Curators' accounts
Series
Identifier: F.R.339e/2-F.R.339e/14
Scope and Contents
The vouchers are chiefly for books, manuscripts and binding.
Dates:
1727-1742.
'Voyage round Great Britain' by William Daniell and Richard Ayton (London, 1814-1825); with a list of plates, and with manuscript itinerary and notes by Sir Walter Scott.
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Identifier: MS.6140
Scope and Contents
The full set of plates is included, but not the folding map.
Dates:
1814-1825.