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Old Testament (Edinburgh, 1826) in Gaelic, interleaved and with manuscript amendments and notes, probably for a revised edition of the Gaelic Bible.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8943
Dates:
1826.
Original manuscript, notes, corrections and insertions, of sir James Mackintosh, "Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7405
Dates:
1830.
Papers and printed material relating to the literary and artistic work of Alasdair Gray.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11338/1-40
Scope and Contents
Includes a thesis entitled "The World of 4 to 7 Years", 1960, together with printed items illustrating Gray`s work as a graphic artist and book designer.
Dates:
circa 1960-1991.
Papers and translations collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.16
Scope and Contents
The source material and translations are variously endorsed or annotated by Henry Mackenzie, Donald Mackintosh, and Ewen MacLachlan.The contents are as follows.(M 1). Notes by John Francis Campbell, dated 25 November 1872. (Folio 1.)(i) Cover, probably for folios 12-22, 24-33. Bears hands of Ewen MacLachlan and Mackintosh MacKay. Cf. Adv.MS.73.2.10, folio 207. (Folio 2.)(M 2). Ossianic fragments with some corresponding passages from James...
Dates:
[1794, or after]-1872, undated.
Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21193-21198
Dates:
1569-1876, undated.
Papers, including correspondence, research notes, press cuttings and printed materials, of Dr Sue Innes, mostly concerning her research into the subjects of citizenship, women and gender studies.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12633/1-45
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence, manuscript and typescript research notes, annotated typescripts of research papers, newscuttings and printed materials. Most of the material is undated.
Dates:
Circa 1990-2005, undated.
Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21669-21713
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
17th century-1972.
Papers of Sir John Strange concerning the trial of Simon, Lord Lovat.
File
Identifier: MS.5021
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) An annotated collection of precognitions by various witnesses, not all of whom were called at the trial (folio 1);(ii) An annotated copy of 'Examination of John Murray of Broughton ... Esq.', 1746 (folio 40);(iii) Notes, presumably by John Strange, on the use of written evidence in treason trials (folio 49);(iv) Copies of 'Articles of impeachment of high treason against Simon, Lord Lovat' and of "Sir John...
Dates:
1746-1747.
Papers of William Beattie, Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10019
Scope and Contents
Includes:
minutes, 1970-1971, of the Executive Committe of the Scottish Central Library
notes, circa 1970-1972, on incunables, Aldis`s catalogue, and early Scottish printers
notes, ? 1974, concerning the early copyright accession to the Advocates` Library
correspondence and papers, 1936-1976 and undated, mostly on bibliographical topics.
Dates:
1936-1976 and undated.
Printed copy of the song, 'Tranent Muir' by Sir Walter Scott, interleaved with anonymous explanatory notes and annotations, with an endorsement by Scott.
File
Identifier: MS.23056
Scope and Contents
The endorsement by Sir Walter Scott is as follows, 'Tranent Muir & Notes to be taken in page 189'.
Dates:
[1791, or after.]
Proof copy of a reprint of "Jones’s directory or, useful pocket companion, for the year 1786", interleaved and heavily annotated by John Buchanan, 'Glasguensis'.
Item
Identifier: MS.2558
Scope and Contents
There are some proof corrections on the title-page by James MacLehose, the publisher, and on the fly-leaf his signature and a note by his son, the donor.
Dates:
1863.
`Satires` of Juvenal. Edition with the commentaries of Antonio Mancinelli and Jodocus Badius Ascensius (Paris: Ascensius, 1505), with manuscript annotations.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.11
Scope and Contents
The annotations are of various types:(i) The title page is supplied on the second flyleaf by a 16th-century hand.(ii) Underlining and summarising occur sporadically.(iii) Interlinear glosses and marginal explanations by a 16th-century hand (probably the same as in (i)) are frequent up to folio lxiv.(iv) Notes of variant readings in two manuscripts of Isaac Voss are added in the margins by Peter Lambeck, who inscribed the volume in Amsterdam in...
Dates:
16th century-1646.
Schoolbook, transcribed in the early 12th century, containing notes and glosses (in Latin and German) on authors studied in schools and other texts which could be used in teaching.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Juvenal, 'Satires': citations with commentary in alphabetical order of keyword, incipit 'Maior auaritie patuit'. (i.88). (Folio 1.)(ii) Lucan, 'Civil War': introduction and citations with and without commentary from books 1-6 and 9, incipit 'Lucanii sum(m)a utilitas e(st) i(n) topog(ra)phia'. (Folio 5 verso.)(iii) Philosophical notes, possibly connected to Porphyry's introduction to Aristotle's 'Analytica...
Dates:
Early 12th century.
Scribal copy of letter, 1643, of Oliver Cromwell to Lawrence Crawford
File
Identifier: Acc.5003
Scope and Contents
With annotated transcript and notes, circa 1840-circa 1845, of Thomas Carlyle.
Dates:
1643-circa 1845
"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.]
Working copy of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1813) by Sir Robert Douglas, revised and corrected by John Philp Wood: including revised printings of certain pages, extensive annotations by Wood, and related material, including some of later date, also concerning peerages.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1813-1815
Scope and Contents
The material described here would appear to relate to further revision by John Philp Wood of his revised and corrected edition of 1813 of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’.
Dates:
19th century.