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Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
File
Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents
The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates:
1696-1891, undated.
Journal, 1729, of George Skene, containing ‘An Account of a Journey to London, with the particular rout by Thomas Burnett of Kirkhill, George Skene of that ilk, and David Skene his brother german'.
Item
Identifier: MS.3806
Scope and Contents
In addition to George Skene's journal there are notes of expenditure on the journey and of the mileage of part of the route (folio 1 verso); part of an anti-Hanoverian parody of the ‘Te Deum’, ?1742 (folio 34); and part of a diary, probably of Joseph Mackie, 1837 (folio 35).At the end of the volume, inverted, are detailed accounts of expenditure on the journey of 1729 (folio 1 inverted) and recipes, medical and other (folio 3 inverted), including directions for the treatment of...
Dates:
1729-19th century.
Microfilm of manuscripts in the collection of Scottish and other music formed by Alexander Wood Inglis, Secretary to the Board of Manufactures.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.297
Dates:
18th century-1st half of 19th century.
Musical compositions and other papers, 1871-1926, undated, of John Davidson; and correspondence and compositions [circa 1883- circa 1917], undated, of James Scott Skinner.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22022-22075
Dates:
1871-1926, undated.
Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.9.1-81.9.12
Dates:
Late 17th century-?1829.
Twenty songs and choruses of George Frideric Handel, composer.
Item
Identifier: MS.6301 [BH.Add.48]
Scope and Contents
The works are from the oratorios "Alexander's Feast", 'Samson', 'Deborah', 'Occasional Oratorio', 'Saul', 'Susanna', 'Judas Maccabaeus', and the "Ode for St Cecilia's Day", in vocal score; with two marches, from the 'Occasional Oratorio', and 'Judas Maccabaeus', arranged for keyboard. They are written in a professional hand, and most of them include a note of performance time.
The music begins on folio 7, the preceding folios containing a contents list.
Dates:
1733-1749.