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‘Ancient Scottish poems’ (London, 1786) by John Pinkerton, with manuscript notes by David Macpherson, editor of Wyntoun.
Series
Identifier: MSS.337-340
Dates:
[1786, or after.]
Microfilm of notes in “Jamieson's dictionary of the Scottish language", revised edition (Paisley, 1912), notebooks and a journal of William Soutar.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1132-1133
Dates:
1912-[Before 1944].
Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21193-21198
Dates:
1569-1876, undated.
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.
"Virgil's Æneis", translated into Scottish verse by Gavin Douglas (Edinburgh, 1710); the glossary is heavily annotated by John Jamieson.
Item
Identifier: MS.14240
Scope and Contents
There are some notes by O K Schram inside the front cover concerning this edition of Gavin Douglas's text.
Dates:
1710, [1808, or before.]
‘Wizard Peter’ by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (Edinburgh, 1834), with notes and corrections by the author, and a presentation inscription to James Gibson Craig on the half title-page.
File
Identifier: MS.9808
Scope and Contents
There are several manuscript insertions, including Charles Sharpe's draft of five verses, written on the back of a letter, 1832, from the printseller Hugh Paton (folio 2), and explanatory notes and variant readings by James Gibson Craig (folio 3).
Dates:
1832-1834.
‘Works of Henry Mackenzie’ (Edinburgh, 1808), volume viii, containing autograph additions.
File
Identifier: MS.1803
Scope and Contents
There are additional sheets, inserted after page 62, containing seven poems of Henry Mackenzie written in 1825 and 1828-1829, all apparently unpublished (folios 1-5). Inserted after page 289 is a further additional sheet (folio 6) containing notes on his tragedy, 'The Spanish Father', with duplicates of pages 283-286 containing autograph notes and alterations to the text.Printed pages missing from the volume (pages 1-17, 33-48) have been supplied in manuscript in a hand not Henry...
Dates:
1825, 1828-1829.