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Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written apparently in or shortly after 1666.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in an unidentified hand apparently in or about 1666.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in or about 1662.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in or about 1666.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Laws of Scotland’, written apparently in a number of hands.
Copy of ‘Table Talk: The Discourse of John Selden Esq., or his sense of various matters of weight and high consequence, Relating especially to Religion and State.’
The first edition of this work appeared in 1689, 35 years after Selden`s death and 9 years after the death of Richard Milward who had collected the material for the work and arranged it for publication. Milward was Rector of Great Braxted in Essex from 1643 and had also acted as Secretary to Selden for twenty years.
Copy of the first part of a history of the houses of the Lords and Earls of Douglas (the Black Douglases) and of the Earls of Angus (the Red Douglases) by David Hume of Godscroft.
Copy of ‘The Life of Sir Robert Sibbald, M.D.’, made by William Gibb, writer, for the Advocates` Library, 1805, from the original manuscript, 1695, which has apparently been lost.
Copy of the ‘Memoirs’ of Walter Pringle of Greenknowe, the covenanter, with two genealogical manuscripts, concerning respectively the Clan Chattan and the Drummond family in Madeira.
Copy of the statutes of the Order of the Garter in English, written probably in 1558, containing the statutes of Henry VIII, and of Mary and Philip, and a further statute, dated 12th of January in the first year of Elizabeth, added in another hand.
Copy of the `Velitatio in Georgium Buchananum` of Ninian Winzet, which was published as part of his ‘Flagellum Sectarioram’.
Corrected autograph score of Edward McGuire, "Euphoria - a Sense of Well-Being", for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion.
Includes copy of the final version of the work and tape recording of its first performance, Edinburgh.
Corrected typescript drafts of `Points in time: an autobiography` by Dr William Johnstone, and related materials.
Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
The collection consists of letters, orders, reports, and maps relating to Murray’s military career, to his official and diplomatic duties and to his literary activities. It is arranged in nearly chronological order illustrating the various periods of his career.
Correspondence and papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, Professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and Member of Parliament for Berwick and East Lothian, 1966-1974, 1974-1978.
Correspondence of Archibald Constable, publisher, Edinburgh, his firm and his family; with one volume of the manuscript of a work published in "Constable's miscellany".
The correspondents include many of the most celebrated men (chiefly literary) of the time.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Descriptions of coronations and other ceremonies in the hand of Sir James Balfour of Denmilne.
Most of the material concerns European ceremonies of the 16th century, but rulers of the Incas, Mongols and others are also included. The final chapter `The Coronation of the Czarina of Muscovy May 1724` has been added in a later hand (folio 96).
The name Robert Innes in an 18th-century hand has been deleted (folio 14).
Diaries and notebooks of Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick L Maitland.
Diary of John Nicoll, Writer to the Signet.
The diary records political and other events of the time, and includes copies of proclamations and other current publications.
‘Diplomatum collectio’: copies of Scottish charters, made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane.
Although lettered as volumes i and ii of the same collection, they are different in layout and character, and are written by different hands. Only those charters the present location of whose originals is unknown are indexed in detail.
Early 16th-century manuscript copy of the work known as 'Liber Pluscardensis', a chronicle of the history of Scotland founded mainly on the 'Chronica gentis Scotorum' of John of Fordun, and the 'Scotichronicon' of Walter Bower.
Extensively amended copy of a speech of John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, in the House of Lords, 16 July 1830, in the case raised by Frederick Campbell Stewart of Ascog against Stewart Murray Fullarton of Fullarton, and others.
Extracts and copies of historical works, collected by Sir James Balfour, 17th century.
Extracts by Lieutenant-General George Henry Hutton from a manuscript compiled mainly by John Smyth, a monk at Kinloss Abbey (folio 1), followed by a copy by Hutton of the description (in fact a list of contents) of the original (Harl.MS.2363) from ‘A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum’, volume II (folio 28).
Smyth`s manuscript appears to have been compiled from 1532 until his death in 1557 (several of the entries are undated): Hutton made his extracts about 1809, the date of the watermark of the leaves, and had them bound about 1824, the date of the watermark in the (blank) endpapers, Smyth`s manuscript appears to have consisted of fifteen items: Hutton appears to have copied the first seven and to have made extracts, some quite brief, from some of the remainder.