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Pocket-book of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon, containing a digest of ten pocket-books of memoranda.

 Item
Identifier: MS.108
Scope and Contents

The subjects include a family pedigree with chart and blazonings, accounts of income and expenditure, estate accounts and other business, receipts from the Principality of Scotland, prices, journeys, from Edinburgh to London, politics and elections, household recipes, verses.

Dates: 1754-1759.

Printed copy of "The Estate of Poetry" by Edwin Muir.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12172
Scope and Contents

Includes letters to Willa Muir of (1) T S Elliot, 1962 (2) Helen Sutherland, 1963; with two other Edwin Muir volumes.

Dates: 1962-1963.`

Records of the Monks of St Giles, containing minute books, contributions, selections and other records.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13470/1-120
Scope and Contents

Containing selections of verse and some prose 'contributed' by the Monks at their regular meetings was published as 'The reminscences of the Monks of St Giles', volumes I-IV.

Dates: 1852-1967.

`Satires` of Juvenal. Edition with the commentaries of Antonio Mancinelli and Jodocus Badius Ascensius (Paris: Ascensius, 1505), with manuscript annotations.

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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.

Two commonplace books of George Glen Napier.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9098
Scope and Contents

Containing quotations from Tennyson`s "In Memorium", press cuttings and commentaries.

Dates: circa 1905-circa 1928.

Two letters of James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk, to John Young.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.7964
Scope and Contents

Acknowledging and commenting on Young`s, "Lochlomond Side and Other Poems" (Glasgow, 1872), and "Pictures in Prose and Verse" (Glasgow, 1877).

Bound with copies of the books.

Dates: 1876-1877.

Two-volume commonplace book compiled by David R Robertson for his daughter Helen Stewart.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14249/1-2
Scope and Contents

A commonplace book in two volumes compiled by David R Robertson and inscribed to his daughter Helen Stewart for her birthday: 'two volumes of memorials and happy memories; comprising notes and sketches of my father's and mother's country and also of our familiar holiday haunts'. The volumes contain poetry, paintings and drawings, illuminated lettering, and extracts from books on history and Scottish folklore.

Dates: 1894-1943.

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.

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Commonplace books. 24
Books 19
Manuscripts. 19
Correspondence. 12
Letters. Correspondence. 12
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Notes. 12
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 10
Typescripts. 9
Diaries. 7
Photographs. 7
Copies. Derivative objects. 5
Excerpts. 5
Inscriptions. 5
Lists. 5
Minute books. 5
Drafts. Documents. 4
Exercise books. 4
Notebooks. 4
Proofs. printed matter 4
Recipes. Instructions (document genre). 4
Songs. Musical compositions. 4
Transcripts. 4
Translations. Documents. 4
Account books. 3
Accounts. 3
Articles. 3
Documents. 3
Drawings. Visual works. 3
Microfilms. 3
Pocket books. 3
Short stories. 3
Speeches. Documents. 3
Travel journals. 3
Anecdotes. 2
Autobiographies. 2
Biographies. 2
Books of hours. 2
Commentaries. 2
Compendiums. 2
Family papers. 2
Fragments. 2
Genealogies. 2
Glosses. Annotations. 2
Instructions. Document genre. 2
Memoranda Book. 2
Obituaries. 2
Photocopies. 2
Plays. 2
Prayers. 2
Printed materials. Object genre. 2
Proverbs. 2
Riddles. 2
Signatures. Names. 2
Sketches. 2
Tables. Documents. 2
Visitors' books. 2
Watercolours. Paintings. 2
Abridgements. Versions of documents. 1
Address books. Reference sources. 1
Annals. Histories, without comment. 1
Annotations. 1
Antiphoners. 1
Appointment books. 1
Authors 1
Ballads. 1
Blazons. Instructional materials. 1
Bookplates. 1
Business records. 1
Coats of arms. devices (symbols). 1
Design drawings. 1
Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500. 1
Engravings. Prints. 1
Ephemera. 1
Epistolaries. 1
Estate records. 1
Fiction. 1
France. Europe. Nation. Longitude: 2.0000. Latitude: 46.0000. 1
Histories. 1
Illuminated manuscripts. 1
Inventories. 1
Inverness. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Highland. Inhabited place. Longitude: -4.2500. Latitude: 57.4500. 1
Journals. Accounts. 1
Lectures. 1
Maps. Cartographic materials. 1
Memoirs. 1
Memorandums. 1
Menus. 1
Minutes. Administrative records. 1
Music books. 1
Musical compositions. 1
Negatives. Photographs. 1
Notarial instruments. Legal instruments. 1
Novels. 1
Optical discs. 1
Parts. Scores. 1
Pedigrees. Genealogies (histories). 1
Pen and wash drawings. 1
Pencil drawings. 1
Photograph albums. 1
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Language
English 32
Undetermined 24
Scots 3
Latin 2
French, Middle (ca.1400-1600) 1
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Names
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 2
Anderson, William C, poet, 1867-1951 1
Belsis, James (Canon of Dunblane) 1
Blackwood, James (Canon of Dunblane) 1
Boswell, James, of Auchinleck, author, 1740–1795 1
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Bryan, Tom, Poet, b. 1950. 1
Burns Begg, family of Isabella Begg, sister of Robert Burns, poet 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Caimbeul, Maoilios M (poet and writer) 1
Carnegie, James, 9th Earl of Southesk, 1827-1905 1
Chisholm, Walter, poet, pseudonym Wattie, 1856-1877 1
Currie, James (physician) 1
Duncan, Lesley, journalist, poetry editor, fl 1990-2011 1
Dunn, Douglas Eaglesham, poet, b 1942 1
Eliot, Thomas Stearns, poet, 1888-1965 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Flecker, Herman James Elroy, poet and playwright, 1884-1915 1
Gillies, Valerie, poet, née Simmons, b 1948 1
Graham, Janet, poet, 1723-1805: former owner 1
Grant, Patrick, 1783-1867 (minister of the Baptist church at Granton-on-Spey, Gaelic poet) 1
Gray, James (Priest and Secretary to Archbishop of St Andrews) 1
Hadfield, Jen (poet and artist) 1
Holton, Harvey, poet, 1949-2010 1
Innes, Thomas (Priest and Historian) 1
Ker, John (Professor of Latin at Edinburgh University, neo-Latin poet) 1
Law, Alfred (mill owner) 1
Law, Alfred Joseph, Sir (Knight, politician) 1
Law, William (mill owner, and bilbliophile) 1
MacDonald, John (minister of Ferintosh) 1
MacLeod, Norman, 1783-1862 ("Caraid nan Gaidheal") 1
Macdonald, Malcolm 'Callum' (printer and publisher) 1
Macintyre, James, of Glenoe, 1727-1799 1
Mackay, Donald (possibly Reverend.) 1
Mackenzie, Grace (Gaelic spiritual poet, Badenoch) 1
Maclean, John (revolutionary socialist) 1
Masefield, John Edward, Poet Laureate, 1878-1967 1
Mead, Matthew, poet and translator, 1924-2009: recipient 1
Mead, Ruth, translator, wife of Matthew, poet and translator, fl 1968-2004: recipient 1
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 1
Monks of St Giles 1
Morgan, Edwin George, Professor of English, University of Glasgow, and poet, 1920-2010 1
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 1
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 1
Muir, Wilhelmina Johnston, née Anderson, author, pseudonym 'Agnes Neill Scott' , 1890-1970: recipient 1
Napier, George Glen, miscellaneous writer, fl 1889-1940 1
Reed, Trelawney Dayrell, author of "Rise of Wessex", fl 1908-1947: recipient 1
Rush, Christopher, author, b. 1944. 1
Shaw, Alexander, surgeon, 1804-1890 1
Shaw, C, York, fl.1826-1865: collector 1
Shaw, family, Corgarff 1
Stewart, Janet W. M. (compiler of commonplace book) 1
Sutherland, Helen Christian, art collector, married name Denman, 1881-1965 1
Syme, John (Writer to the Signet) 1
Turnbull, Gael Lundin, poet and physician, 1928-2004 1
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 1
Young, John, poet, 1825-1891 1
Young, John, poet, 1825-1891: recipient 1
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