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Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.15
Scope and Contents
Each volume has a contents list (folios 1, 77) and the second volume has its own foliation added in an apparently later hand.The first volume (folios 1-74) consists of copies (in the same hand), made apparently in or about 1585, of the following:(i) ‘Discorso del Priore d`Inghilterra a Papa Pio V circa la Riduttione di quel Regno’ (folio 2), being an account by Sir Richard Shelley, Grand Prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, written apparently early in 1570,...
Dates:
1537-1606.
Letters and poems of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet; and poetry and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell.
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Identifier: MS.3115
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, poems, etc., of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet, to Peter Buchan, collector of Scottish ballads, Peterhead, 1828-1850, undated. The letters, which are in Laing's autograph, deal chiefly with literary matters of the day. Most of the poems (folios 4, 6, 10, 19, 23) appear later in published form.(ii) Poems and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell, in his autograph, with one letter to him, 1815-1865, undated. Several of...
Dates:
1815-1865, undated.
Microfilm of ‘M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. V’, being mainly a continuation of the scripts and editorial material for inclusion in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 3.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1583
Dates:
1860-1861.
Microfilm of papers relating to 'Translation from an ancient Chaldee manuscript' by James Hogg.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1042
Dates:
1817, 1818, 1820, 1855-1856, 1896.
Microfilm of proof-sheets, [1827, or before], of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott; and, letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.54
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Proof-sheets of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott, volume v, pages 225-240, with autograph corrections by Scott, [1827, or before] (MS.496);
Letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland (MS.2991).
Dates:
[1548-1550, 1827, or before].
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, relating principally to William Forbes Skene’s work in preparing his ‘Chronicles of the Picts and Scots’ and ‘Celtic Scotland’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.16
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Miscellaneous notes, letters and other items.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Notes of decisions of the Court of Session, 1714-1721. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies, early 18th century, of letters of and to George Buchanan, 1573-1581, and undated, with notes on others of his letters, mostly in Thomas Ruddiman`s hand; these are Epistolae XXVII, XV, XII, XXXI, XXIV, XL, XXXVII in Ruddiman`s edition of Buchanan`s Works, and Ruddiman`s introductory notes to Epistolae XI, XVI, VIII, XII, XX, XXVIII, XXXI, XXXIV,...
Dates:
17th century-1912.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
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Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Papers collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.10
Dates:
1797-1807.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
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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.
Part of Sir John Sinclair’s general correspondence on Gaelic matters.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.14
Dates:
1807-1824.
Translation into English by Thomas Ross (later the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross of Lochbroom) of parts of James Macpherson’s concocted originals as published in Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.4
Scope and Contents
Copious notes face part of the text, beginning at verso of folio xiii and ending at folio 33 verso. Thomas Ross submitted at least part of the manuscript to the Highland Society of London (see his letter to their secretary, folio iii). His hand was similar to Ewen MacLachlan’s, and in notes at folio 24 verso Sir John Sinclair attributes his work on ‘Temora’ to the latter.
The manuscript is watermarked 1804.The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of the Reverend W...
Dates:
1807-1809, 1894, undated.
Walter Blaikie collection: letters containing Jacobite discourse.
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Identifier: MS.3128
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. 'Free and Impartial Reflexions of a Member of the House of Commons of England on occasion of the Speech of King George to the two Houses of the same Parliament on the 28th of October, 1745, containing a justification of the rights of the Royal House of Stuards to the Crown of Great Brittain, against the pretensions of the House of Brunswick Hannover. In a series of Letters. Letter I. At Edinburgh, 1745' (folio 1), dated London, 3 November 1745 (folio...
Dates:
1745-1746.