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Italian or, more correctly, Tuscan version of the commentary on the 1745 Rebellion entitled ‘Caroli Odoardi Stuardii Walliae Principis Expeditio in Scotiam’ written in four books by Giulio Cesare Cordara, Society of Jesus.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.4.18
Scope and Contents According to the title page (folio 2) this version was made "by the ex-Jesuit NN", but the dedicatory espistle to Francesco Caetani, Duke of Sermoneta, which is dated 1804, is signed presumably by the translator (folio 7) whose name cannot be read with certainty. It is suggested by Sir Bruce Gordon Seton, 9th Baronet, of Abercorn, who published an English translation from this manuscript by Lacy Colleson-Morley for the Scottish History Society in ‘Miscellany of the Scottish History Society’,...
Dates: 1751.

Letters and poems of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet; and poetry and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell.

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Identifier: MS.3115
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, poems, etc., of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet, to Peter Buchan, collector of Scottish ballads, Peterhead, 1828-1850, undated. The letters, which are in Laing's autograph, deal chiefly with literary matters of the day. Most of the poems (folios 4, 6, 10, 19, 23) appear later in published form.(ii) Poems and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell, in his autograph, with one letter to him, 1815-1865, undated. Several of...
Dates: 1815-1865, undated.

Manuscript of a commentary by Michael Miniclardi on 'De consolatione philosophiae' by Boethius.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.3
Scope and Contents The main text ends on folio 221 verso. Folio 222 contains 30 hexameters on Boethius (incipit 'Floruit hic doctor clarusque Boetius autor'). Folios 223-228 recto contain an 'exortatio' 'ad honorem dei et sanctorum apostolorum petri et pauli', written by Miniclardi in 1444. Folio 228 verso-230 verso contain, in a different hand, a draft speech against Q Ligarius (defended by Cicero in his extant speech 'Pro Ligario'), presumably a school exercise; interlinear corrections are possibly by...
Dates: 1443.

Manuscript of Ewen MacLachlan’s ‘Celtic Analysis’.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.4
Scope and Contents A description by Ewen MacLachlan of fourteen manuscripts sent to him by the Highland Society of Scotland for examination. It was remitted to him by the Society in eight instalments between 26 May 1812 and 3 July 1813, and was intended for use in the compilation of the Society’s Dictionary. Pages 1-152 were therefore forwarded by the society to the Reverend Dr John MacLeod (MacLachlan’s co-adjutor on the Dictionary) on 3 June 1813. On this occasion the five instalments making up pages 1-120...
Dates: 1st quarter of 19th century.

`Riettarbætur Noregs Kónga.`

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Identifier: Adv.MS.21.6.1
Scope and Contents

The contents of the manuscript are as follows:

1. A copy of the `Bualög` (Leges Oeconomicorum);

2. Commentary on some obscure passages of that code;

3. Glossary of old words found in the Law Code of Iceland.

Dates: 18th century.