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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.
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.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1583
Dates:
1860-1861.
Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.9.1-81.9.12
Dates:
Late 17th century-?1829.
Papers of Lady Evelyn Stewart-Murray (1868-1940).
Series
Identifier: MSS.14884-14889
Scope and Contents
Gaelic manuscripts of Lady Evelyn Stewart-Murray (1868-1940), third daughter of John James Hugh Henry Stewart-Murray, 7th duke of Atholl (1840-1917). Having learned Gaelic in her youth, she collected 240 Gaelic folk tales in Perthshire (the manuscripts now held in Blair Castle), and also left behind notebooks of Gaelic songs and other Gaelic material. The contents are as follows.MS.14884. Songs copied from McLagan Collection; small collection of hymns...
Dates:
Late 19th century-early 20th century.
Transcript made by Ewen MacLachlan of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.3
Scope and Contents
Manuscript in the hand of Ewen MacLachlan, Aberdeen, entitled ‘An t-Easpaig’ - presumably because it contains the work of the Dean of Lismore, whom MacLachlan calls (page 1) “Easpuig Leasmòr”. This is valuable, as being MacLachlan’s original Book of the Dean of Lismore transcript, subsequently (but not always accurately) copied by himself and others. (See Adv.MS.72.3.6). It does not strictly follow the order of the original, but the order in which MacLachlan found it easiest to read the...
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
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.