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Copy of Giles Dixey, "Deinde, More Collected Verses", with dedication and letter of Dixey to Ruari McLean.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8544
Dates:
1971.
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.
Four letters, 1874-1884, of Thomas Stevenson to Peter G Tait, with one, 1886, to Mrs Tait.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8378
Scope and Contents
Includes:
sonnets, 1858, of Sir William Rowan Hamilton, sent to Mrs Tait.
two documents, undated, concerning H S Reid, one being the text of the dedication of a chapel.
Dates:
1858-1886.
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.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, including that of William Forbes Skene.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.15
Dates:
19th century.