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‘1467 MS’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Collection of manuscript material transferred from printed theses collection, 1637-late 19th century, chiefly consisting of German academic papers, but including a small cache of Scottish legal papers, 19th century.
With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.
Composite volume of 15th-century manuscripts of miscellaneous works by four hands bound together, with an incunable, in the 16th-century or earlier.
Correspondence and papers of Charles Augustus Muir.
Concerning Muir`s literary work and to his history of the Royal Scots, "The First of Foot" (1961).
Drafts for an unpublished history of the Independent Labour Party and the Labour movement in Bo`ness, West Lothian from 1903-1932, by James Livingstone.
Includes research notes from original sources.
Genealogies, notes, formal documents and other papers of and concerning the Elphinstone family of Lopness.
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of very miscellaneous papers on ecclesiastical history.
According to the folio catalogue (F.R.186) the volumes were originally marked ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’.
The description of the manuscripts in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.5.7.7-10.
Manuscript and typescript working papers of Prof Archibald A M Duncan for his books: "Scotland: the Making of the Kingdom" (1975), the third edition of W C Dickinson, "Scotland from the Earliest Times to 1603" (1977) and "The Acts of Robert I, King of Scots, 1306-1329" (1986).
Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
Microfilm of 11th and 12th century manuscripts.
Microfilm of miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Microfilm of miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Microfilm of three Gaelic manuscripts of religious and medical texts.
The contents are as follows:
‘1467 MS.’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín, [circa 1425, circa 1467], (Adv.MS.72.1.1);
Manuscript, 16th century-17th century, containing a medical compendium, in Gaelic, asembled by the Mull Beatons (Adv.MS.72.1.2);
‘Materia medica’, 15th century, formerly belonging to the Beaton family of physicians (Adv.MS.72.1.3).
Miscellaneous collection of items of various dates transcribed by George Paton, the antiquary, circa 1790.
Miscellaneous papers and correspondence relating to engineering.
Notebook of James Steuart, Keeper of the King’s Wardrobe.
Papers, chiefly relating to lands and families of Morayshire, Banffshire, and Aberdeenshire, collected by William Rose, in Montcoffer, the genealogist.
Many of the papers bear notes by Rose.
Papers, consisting of historical and genealogical notes and extracts, transcripts of formal and legal documents of earlier periods (as well as a number of original documents and papers), and a few unrelated letters.
Papers of and concerning the Reverend George Murray Reith.
Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.
Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary.
Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary.
Papers of John Cranna of the Scottish Unionist Association.
Papers relating to the publication of works of Michael Strachan.
Includes correspondence, manuscript drafts, copies and transcripts of 17th-century documents relating to the following works of Michael Strachan: 'The life and adventures of Thomas Coryate' (Oxford University Press, 1962); 'The East India Company journals of Captain William Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 1615-1617' (University of Minnesota Press, 1971); 'Sir Thomas Roe (1581-1644): a life' (Salisbury, 1989).