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Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates:
1177, 15th century-1924.
Manuscripts from the Bishop Dowden Memorial Library, St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20483-20486
Dates:
Mid 17th century-1743.
Medical Journal of Dr Normand Morison.
File
Identifier: MS.50263
Scope and Contents
A recipe for gunpowder (folio i).Case notes, 1729-1730, possibly written at Glasgow Infirmary (folios 1-19).Sketch financial accounts and copy letters, 1740s, of Normand Morison to Normand MacLeod, Daniel MacLeod and John Nicolson concerning the export of linen and import of tobacco, sugar and rum between New England, Glasgow and the Western Isles (folios 20-28).Copy letters, 1740s, of Normand Morison to unnamed relatives concerning emigration from the...
Dates:
1729-1759.
Microfilm of assorted manuscript material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.67
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Receipt, 1575, of Archebault Betun (Archibald Bethune), an archer of the French King`s Scots Guard (Ch.872);Account, 17 February 1552, of the provisions supplied to the Royal Household at Amboise. Includes a translation (Ch.2059); Bill, 1553, concerning expenses of the French royal household (Ch.2593);Holograph poems, [1931, or before]; and, 'The secret of the heather ale', a tale, 1892, by Neil Munro. (MS.816);...
Dates:
1552-[1931, or before].
Microfilm of Church of Scotland Missionary Archive. Part 1. Missions to India and China 1829-1933. Reels 1-7 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1717-1723
Dates:
1829-1933.
Microfilm of correspondence and other papers of, or associated with, Robert Burns.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1171
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Correspondence and poems, [?1787-?1795], of Robert Burns (MS.15951); Fragments of the autobiographical letter, 1787, of Robert Burn to Dr John Moore (MS.15952);Letters, poems, accounts, etc., 1783-1796, undated, of Robert Burns, collected by William Finlay Watson, mounted in an album titled 'Burns MSS' (MS.586);
Letters, etc., late 18th century-early 19th century, associated with Robert Burns, collected by William Finlay Watson....
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Microfilm of family papers of the Grahams of Airth, notably of and concerning Charles Stirling, the estate of Ardoch Penn and Jamaica.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2079-2081
Dates:
1775-1835.
Microfilm of ‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes' collection of Jacobite papers, volume 4.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1679
Dates:
1746-1775.
Microfilm of ‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, volume 2.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.72
Dates:
1746-1775.
Microfilm of ‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes's collection of Jacobite papers, volume 2.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1582
Dates:
1746-1775.
Microfilm of miscellaneous papers of the Scots and Irish Colleges, Paris, and English College, Douai, chiefly concerning the Scots College's defence of their property during the French Revolution.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1452
Dates:
1770-1824.
Microfilm of papers of William and James Chisholme concerning the Trout Hall and other sugar plantations in Jamaica, consisting chiefly of accounts for provisions sent to Jamaica and for sugar from the plantation sold in England.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.907
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Papers, 1747-1798 (MS.5464);
Papers, 1799-1804 (MS.5465);
Papers, [?1747-?1812] (MS.5466).
Dates:
[?1747-?1812].
Microfilm of ‘The Papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (Darien Company) from the National Library of Scotland (1694-1709)’ (Wakefield: Microform Academic Publishers, 2007).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1743-1760
Dates:
1694-1709.
Microfilms of correspondence and accounts relating to Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s West Indian affairs and estate, and to the settlement of the Honourable Basil Cochrane's residuary estate, principally the Madras canals.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1576
Dates:
1823-1853.
Minute books and papers of the Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: Dep.375
Dates:
1773 to 20th century.
Minutes, accounts, and miscellaneous papers of the Edinburgh Skating Club.
Series
Identifier: MSS.24641-24649
Scope and Contents
The Edinburgh Skating Club was clearly well-established in 1784 when the first minute book starts. Apart from a few years of inactivity the Club flourished until the early 1900's when combined figure-skating declined in popularity. It was finally dissolved in 1966. Although the Club attracted a large proportion of its members from the legal profession, the Edinburgh Skating Club was not socially exclusive and the membership lists include local noblemen, merchants, army offers and a slater....
Dates:
1784-1966, undated.
Minutes and other records of the Conference of Scottish Medieval Historians.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.287
Dates:
1958-1996.
Miscellaneous collection of items of various dates transcribed by George Paton, the antiquary, circa 1790.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.12
Scope and Contents
The principal works are:(i) Copy of ‘Genealogical Account of the Family of Maclean from its first settlement in the Island of Mull and parts adjacent’, undated (folio 2). An earlier version, dated 1716, which corresponds more or less with folios 2-10 of the present manuscript, appears among Walter Macfarlane`s ‘Genealogical Collections’, Adv.MS.35.4.8, volume I, page 175.(ii) Descriptions of several Western Isles (Lewis, Skye, Iona, Tiree etc.) by various authors,...
Dates:
1532-18th century, and undated.
Miscellaneous documents concerning Montrose and Angus, the Covenanters and other matters.
File
Identifier: MS.5407
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Miscellaneous documents, 1539-1838, relating to the burgh of Montrose and the surrounding country. They include papers relating to the Priory (folios 5-6, 11) and the town council (passim), the death-roll of the Plague, 1648 (folio 18), and fragments of the treasurers' accounts, 1676-1704 (folios 37-53); from folio 54 onwards are a number of legal papers, some fragmentary, mainly concerning lands in Angus.(ii) Miscellaneous documents,...
Dates:
1539-1838.
Miscellaneous historical and topographical tracts, copied in the 17th and early 18th centuries.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.1(i)-(xv)
Scope and Contents
There is a list of contents (folio i) in the same 19th-century hand which drew up the contents list in Adv.MS.22.2.10.
Dates:
17th century-circa 1754.
Miscellaneous items.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.12
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Abstract in English of Gerard Goris`s treatise on mercury, ‘Mercurius Triumphator’, probably made from the Leyden edition of 1717. Written in three hands of the early 18th century (folio 1).(ii) `The Dyet of Poland, A Satyr. Lib. J.H. Aug. 27. 1705.` A copy in two hands, of Daniel Defoe`s verse satire, published anonymously in London (with the false imprint `Dantzick`) in 1705 (folio 20). It is followed (folio 41) by a...
Dates:
16th century-18th century.
Miscellaneous letters and documents.
File
Identifier: MS.500
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Ordinance of the Committee of War of the Sheriffdom of Fife on the arming of heritors within the Presbytery of Cupar, 1644 (folio 1);(ii) Information for John Balfour, probably Portioner of Kinloch (died 1651), regarding the succession to certain lands of Christian Williamson, daughter of John Williamson and Helen Balfour, 1644 (folio 2);(iii) Breakfast bill of ‘Langshaw’ [? David Montgomery of Lainshaw], receipted by Thomas...
Dates:
1644-1760, undated.