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Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates:
?1825-1856.
Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.19
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Printed prospectus of the Sanitary Protection Association of Edinburgh, late 19th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Printed list of members, with subscriptions, of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries (Konungliga Norraena Fornfraeda-Felag), 1849, in Icelandic. There are also an extract from the constitution of the Society (in French), a note on the subscriptions (in Danish), and a list of the books published by the Society....
Dates:
1561, 17th century-late 19th century.
Printed papers of the Highland Society of Scotland chiefly relating to the poetry of Ossian, and bearing occasional notes by Sir John Sinclair.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.17
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(M 1). Prospectus (1804) of ‘The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’. (Folio 1.)(M 2). Sir John Sinclair, ‘A scene from Ossian’ (1806). (Folio 9.)(M 3). Chapter on Ossian from Sinclair’s ‘Correspondence’ (1831). (Folio 13.)(M 4). Pages xcvii-cxii of the ‘Dissertation’ in ‘The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’ (1807). (Folio 18.)(M 5). Sinclair’s ‘Additions to the tragedy of Fingal’. (Folio...
Dates:
1777-1831, undated.