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"Cinquant [sic] Octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, dediez a tresillustre seigneur le conte de Shrewsbury, pour ses estrennes l'an 1607", being a calligraphic copy of the verses by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu, first published anonymously in ‘Les Cantigues du Seigneur de Maisonfleur’.
Item
Identifier: MS.25240
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in a variety of calligraphic hands and is decorated throughout with paintings of flowers, birds and insects. The pages containing Octonaires XVII, XXXI and XXXVIII are missing.The original title page and the dedication to the Earl of Shrewsbury have been cut out and pasted onto the verso of folio i and the inside of the front cover respectively.There are a number of later drawings and notes, including records of births of members...
Dates:
[1586, or before]-19th century.
Copy of the `Velitatio in Georgium Buchananum` of Ninian Winzet, which was published as part of his ‘Flagellum Sectarioram’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.8
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is a copy of the complete text preceded by the dedicatory epistle but without the marginal summaries and the Synopsis.Together with Adv.MS.33.7.20 it was made at the Benedictine Abbey of St. James, Ratisbon, in or about 1684, for the Abbot, Thomas (Dom Placid) Fleming by Andrew Cook, one of the monks (who subsequently became Prior), as a present to Christopher Irvine, physician and philologist.The text is followed by copies of documents relating to the...
Dates:
1582.
Microfilm of Glenriddell Manuscripts: copies of poems, letters, etc., of Robert Burns, compiled by the poet, 1791-1793, for presentation to Robert Riddell of Glenriddell.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.900
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Poems, 4th quarter of 18th century, of Robert Burns, including "Tam o’ Shanter" and "Holy Willie’s Prayer", with a copy of a letter, 1787, to Dr Moore, and a dedicatory letter, 1791 (MS.86);
Letters, 4th quarter of 18th century, of Robert Burns (MS.87).
Dates:
4th quarter of 18th century.
Microfilm of miscellaneous historical and topographical items, copied in the 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.488
Dates:
1471, 1618, 1670, 18th century.
Miscellaneous historical and topographical items, copied in the 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `A Chronological Sketch of the History of the Orkneys ... 875 to ... 1500’, possibly by George Low, minister of Birsay. It consists of fairly brief entries of historical events, followed (folio 9) by a copy of an Act of Parliament, 1471. (folio 1).(ii) Copy of `A Description of Zetland` by Thomas Gifford of Busta, 1733 (folio 11).(iii) Copy of an incomplete address to the Lord Provost on the name and...
Dates:
1471, 1618, 1670, 18th century.