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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.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3591
Scope and Contents
With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.
Dates:
14th century-19th century.
Correspondence and other papers of John Dowden, Bishop of Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.171
Dates:
1858-1940, and undated.
Microfilm of 11th and 12th century manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.350
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript of the late 11th and early 12th century containing: the 'Paradisus' of Heraclides; the 'Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae temper Wandalorum' of Victor Vitensis; 'De corpore et sanguine Domini' of Paschasius Radbertus (attributed to Rabanus Maurus); 'De corpore Domini contra Berengarium' of Guitmund; and two sermons of St Augustine of Hippo (Adv.MS.18.4.3);Medical manuscript, 1st half of 12th century, written in South France or...
Dates:
Late 11th century-1st half of 12th century.
Microfilm of collection of thirty-nine seventeenth-century sermons, many of them transcribed in 1624.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1041
Dates:
17th century.
Microfilm of papers, 1592-1654, of Sir James Balfour; and, sermons, 1660, of Presbyterian preachers.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.361
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
“Order of King Charles’ entering Edinburghe in stait at ye vest porte, and his march trough the towne to Holyrood House 15 Junij 1633”, and notes on other ceremonies, by Sir James Balfour, in his own handwriting (Adv.MS.15.2.17);Notes, 1592-1606, of Sir James Balfour on the order of court dignitaries on ceremonial occasions. (Adv.MS.15.2.18);Collection of sermons, 1660, by Presbyterian preachers (Adv.MS.15.2.20);Commonplace...
Dates:
1592-1660.
Microfilm of Sermones de Tempore, a homiliary, early 12th century; and, medical manuscripts, 13th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.423
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Sermones de Tempore, a homiliary written in the early 12th century for Rochester Cathedral Priory (Adv.MS.18.2.4).
Two English medical manuscripts, each written by two scribes of the thirteenth century, bound together from an early date (Adv.MS.18.2.5).
Dates:
Early 12th century, 13th century.
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.
Notebook belonging to William Rankin, James Rankin, and, finally, to Gabriel Rankin of Orchardhead.
Item
Identifier: MS.6159
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Memoranda relating to financial and other transactions of Rankin of Orchardhead, 1605 (folio 1); 1605-1609 (folio 2 inverted);(ii) Miscellaneous material, mid-seventeenth century: 'Lactari cordato et greca lingua studioso' (folio 4); latin verses (folio 12 inverted); sermons and historical notes (folio 13 inverted);(iii) Material relating to Alexander Mure, portioner of Grange of Bothkennar: 'Rentall of the Bacraw', 1639,...
Dates:
1605-1725.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents
Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Papers of and concerning the Reverend George Murray Reith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3564
Scope and Contents
Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.
Dates:
[?1885]-?1st half of 19th century.
Records of Saint Ninian`s Cathedral, Perth; of the diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane; and of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.251
Scope and Contents
Also included are papers of clergymen connected with Saint Ninian`s, including sermons, historical and liturgical works by Bishop Charles Wordsworth, Bishop George Howard Wilkinson, Dean George Taylor Shillito Farquar, and Dean James Wilson Harper.
Dates:
1648-20th century.
Various manuscripts written or owned by Thomas Ruddiman.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20491-20496
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts are lettered RA-RK (RC missing) and some also have Roman numerals.
Dates:
4th quarter of 17th century-1st half of 18th century.
Writings of Savonarola, translated into English, in the hand of Alexander Falconar, Advocate, who added some comments in the margins, late seventeenth or early eighteenth century.
File
Identifier: MS.3859
Scope and Contents
Contains: ‘De Simplicitate Christianae Vitae’, preceded by the ‘Epistola’, as in the Cologne edition (1550), and followed by a sermon on John, iv, I, preached on 9 June 1495 (folio 101).
There are notes on the manuscript and its writer on folios i and iii.
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.