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Manuscript drafts of 29 poems of Sir Joseph Noël Paton.
File
Identifier: Acc.6219
Dates:
circa 1877-circa 1887.
Manuscript drafts of "George Scott Moncrieff and a Few Friends; a Brief Memoir", by Morley Jamieson.
File
Identifier: Acc.9419- is now MSS.26974-26976
Dates:
1987.
Manuscript drafts of Morley Jamieson, "Tam in a Dark Place: a Dramatic Monologue"
File
Identifier: Acc.8624
Dates:
1984.
Manuscript drafts of part of an unpublished novel of A J Cronin.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9923
Dates:
20th century.
Manuscript drafts of poems of W Price Turner, "Impasse" (1956), and "As Advertised" (1963).
File
Identifier: Acc.4789
Scope and Contents
With manuscript draft of novel, "Circle of Squares".
Dates:
1956-1969.
Manuscript, in a late sixteenth-century hand, containing the whole of the 'Description of Scotland' and part of the 'Historie of Scotlande', corresponding to pages 1-82 of that portion of 'The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande and Irelande' by Raphael Holinshed.
Item
Identifier: MS.1693
Scope and Contents
The remainder of the manuscript has been cut away.
Dates:
Late 16th century.
Manuscript in Chinese, "Laws of Lioo Kioo".
Item
Identifier: Acc.4032
Dates:
19th century to 20th century.
Manuscript, "Jus Liberae Monarchiae", Latin translation of James VI, "The True Lawe of Free Monarchies"
Item
Identifier: Acc.7045
Dates:
first half of 17th century.
Manuscript material from the 5th Earl of Rosebery's library at the Durdans, Epsom.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10217-10241
Dates:
1657-1919.
Manuscript notebook of Edward Boyd.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4747
Scope and Contents
Containing sketches of broadcast scripts.
Dates:
circa 1940-circa 1969.
Manuscript of a commentary by Michael Miniclardi on 'De consolatione philosophiae' by Boethius.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.3
Scope and Contents
The main text ends on folio 221 verso. Folio 222 contains 30 hexameters on Boethius (incipit 'Floruit hic doctor clarusque Boetius autor'). Folios 223-228 recto contain an 'exortatio' 'ad honorem dei et sanctorum apostolorum petri et pauli', written by Miniclardi in 1444. Folio 228 verso-230 verso contain, in a different hand, a draft speech against Q Ligarius (defended by Cicero in his extant speech 'Pro Ligario'), presumably a school exercise; interlinear corrections are possibly by...
Dates:
1443.
Manuscript of an address of William Beattie, on David Nichol Smith, given at the private view of the Centenary Exhibition in the National Library of Scotland
Item
Identifier: Acc.6595
Dates:
1976.
Manuscript of an inaugural address delivered to the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution on 4 November 1864 by Archibald Campbell Tait, when Bishop of London.
Item
Identifier: MS.8916
Dates:
1864.
Manuscript of an incomplete copy of the Jónsbók.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.5.5
Scope and Contents
Manuscript probably written in Iceland, containing a copy of the Jónsbók. It is incomplete at the end. 74 folios, measuring ca. 19 x 16.5 x 19 cm (average size). Written on vellum in a uniform hand in single columns. The first page begins the text with a large decorative initial; further larger initials coloured in red, green and yellow are found on folios 2v, 8r, 13r, 28v, 41r and 53v. Smaller decorative initials in blue and red in a variety of styles can be found throughout....
Dates:
16th century.
Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.27
Scope and Contents
It was originally Ferguson`s intention to print Dutch text and English translation of all Dutch documents quoted, but this scheme had to be abandoned for reasons of space, and only the English translations were ultimately printed (Volume I, page xxxiii). Before this change of plan, the Dutch texts had been inserted into the appropriate places of the manuscript of Volume I and part of Volume II; the rest are preserved separately, Adv.MSS.81.3.15-81.3.23.Summaries and extracts of...
Dates:
1698-1901.
Manuscript of "Cours de I'Histoire Général" by Claude François Henry.
Item
Identifier: MS.17999
Scope and Contents
A work intended as a universal history from the earliest times to the French Revolution, but which, from the 11th century onwards, is confined to the history of France. The text begins (folio 28) with a description of the work and material on the planetary system and world geography. It is preceded by geographical and chronological tables (folio 2). The work was compiled while Henry (1773-1820), a French army officer, was a prisoner of war near Jedburgh.
Dates:
[Circa 1815.]
Manuscript of Ewen MacLachlan’s ‘Celtic Analysis’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.4
Scope and Contents
A description by Ewen MacLachlan of fourteen manuscripts sent to him by the Highland Society of Scotland for examination. It was remitted to him by the Society in eight instalments between 26 May 1812 and 3 July 1813, and was intended for use in the compilation of the Society’s Dictionary. Pages 1-152 were therefore forwarded by the society to the Reverend Dr John MacLeod (MacLachlan’s co-adjutor on the Dictionary) on 3 June 1813. On this occasion the five instalments making up pages 1-120...
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Manuscript of 'Oculus Sacerdotis' by William of Pagula.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.6
Scope and Contents
The text (folio 12) contains the three sections of the treatise, ‘Pars Oculi`, `Dextera Pars` and `Sinistra Pars`, but cap. 26 to the end of the `Sinistra Pars` is missing. The text is preceded by:(i) Four short works on diet and blood-letting in English, beginning ‘Here seyth galian ye leche and thecheth of metes and drinkes’. At the end is a rubric ‘Secundum Robertum[?] Grant de Everton’ (folio 1 verso).(ii) Remarks on the qualities of the Virgin...
Dates:
14th century.
Manuscript of ‘Regiam Maiestatem ...’ by Sir John Skene, corresponding almost exactly to the published work, but without the indices.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.8
Scope and Contents
Like the earlier draft of this work, Adv.MS.7.1.10, the manuscript is in the hand of Charles Lumsden, minister of Duddingston, although it is not signed by him. It contains title-page (folio 1), dedication (folio 3), to the reader (folio 6), laws of Malcolm Mackenneth (folio 10), ‘Regiam Maiestatem’ books i (folio 17), ii (folio 39), iii (folio 81), and iv (folio 100), ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’ (folio 110), burgh laws (folio 135), guild laws (folio 157), Chamberlain ayre (folio 164), Justice...
Dates:
1609 or before.
Manuscript of "Sgeul an Amadain Mhóir", with an English translation of it in the hand of the Reverend Dr Alexander Irvine of Little Dunkeld (1772-1824).
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.73.2.4-73.2.5
Dates:
[1809-1824.]
Manuscript of the English text of the `Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern` by Sir Robert Sibbald; with maps.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.15.1.1-15.1.1a
Dates:
1595-[Circa 1682.]
Manuscript of 'The history and chronicles of Scotland', John Bellenden's translation of Hector Boece's ‘Scotorum historiae’.
Item
Identifier: MS.5288
Scope and Contents
Most of the manuscript is, with slight alterations, similar to the first printed edition of John Bellenden's translation (circa 1536), but in places it differs substantially from that and from other texts; it contains only chapters 2 and 3 of 'The cosmographie and discription of Albion' which precedes the main work, but is otherwise complete.Bellenden's chronicle is continued at folio 313 without a break by Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie's 'Historie and chronicles of Scotland' to...
Dates:
17th century.