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Manuscripts and drafts of and concerning George Douglas Brown.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8171-8180
Scope and Contents
Many of the drafts are early compositions, but they include all that apparently now exists of 'The House with the Green Shutters', published in 1901 (MSS.8171-8172), and two items not by George Douglas Brown (MS.8178).
MSS.8171-8176 are written in school notebooks.
Dates:
[1896, or before-?1901, ?1923.]
Manuscripts notes for and drafts of reviews and articles of Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7675- is now MSS.26180-26187.
Scope and Contents
Mostly on artistic subjects.
Dates:
circa 1960-circa 1967.
Manuscripts of a French Officer named La Rochette, who appears to have been acting, at least in 1763, in the services of the Duc de Nivernais, then Ambassador at St James, in connection with Acadian and other French prisoners.
File
Identifier: MS.3803
Scope and Contents
In a note on folio i the officer is called Colonel de la Rochette; on folio 42 he describes himself as being addressed as General.The manuscripts consist of notes and drafts (some of these latter in several versions), chiefly on the following subjects. Some or all may have been intended for the Duc de Nivernais.(i) The campaigns of Agricola and Roman antiquities in Scotland, with some notes on early Britain in general. (Folios 1-42, 45-47, 58, 63.)(ii) A...
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Manuscripts of the Reverend George Low, the naturalist.
File
Identifier: MS.3935
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Lists of plants, animals, and fossils from W Hudson's ‘Flora anglica’, Sibbald's ‘Scotland illustrated’, and Martin Martin's ‘Description of the Western Islands’, pages 61-82. This should perhaps come after folio 45. (Folios 1-11.)(ii) 'Some observations on natural history, founded on experience; together with descriptions of curious animals, plants, fossils, microscopic views, &c., &c. The whole illustrated with drawings ......
Dates:
1770-1772.
Memorial, circa 1745, concerning the state of the Highlands.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.5
Scope and Contents
The memorial is preceded by a note, dated 1838, by W F Skene, relating to the manuscript.
An endorsement (folio 12 verso), written by the original donor, Thomas Stewart, ascribes the memorial to Lord President Forbes.
Dates:
Circa 1745.
Metrical version of the Psalms, divided according to the Psalter of the Church of England.
Item
Identifier: MS.655
Scope and Contents
There are metrical versions of the canticles (Te Deum, Magnificat, etc.) at the beginning. At the end (folio 127 verso) some of the Psalms are repeated, some of them in alternative versions.
Dates:
18th century.
Microfilm of 11th and 12th century manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.350
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript of the late 11th and early 12th century containing: the 'Paradisus' of Heraclides; the 'Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae temper Wandalorum' of Victor Vitensis; 'De corpore et sanguine Domini' of Paschasius Radbertus (attributed to Rabanus Maurus); 'De corpore Domini contra Berengarium' of Guitmund; and two sermons of St Augustine of Hippo (Adv.MS.18.4.3);Medical manuscript, 1st half of 12th century, written in South France or...
Dates:
Late 11th century-1st half of 12th century.
Microfilm of algebra lecture notes, 1723; and, documents, 1745, concerning the defence and surrender of Edinburgh in the Jacobite rising of 1745.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.804
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
'Dictats of Mr. [George] Cambe[l] concerning Algebra. Written by James Primeros[e]. Novʳ. 12, 1723’, being a pupil's notes of his master's teaching (MS.2821);"Mr. McLourin’s Journall of what passed relating to the defence of Edinburgh from Monday Septemr. 2d. till Monday Septemr. 16th 1745", journal of Professor Colin Maclaurin (MS.299, folios 1-13);Document, [?1745], concerning the ‘45 deal with the surrender of Edinburgh to Prince...
Dates:
1723, 1745.
Microfilm of assorted manuscripts, chiefly genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.32
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Genealogical and legal papers, 1794-1866 (Adv.MS.2.1.13);Miscellaneous letters and documents, 1659-1831 (Adv.MS.2.1.14);Miscellaneous manuscript, 1629-1921 (Adv.MS.2.1.15);Stewart genealogies, papers on various families of Stewart collected by, and with some notes of, George Chalmers, 17th century-18th century (Adv.MS.6.1.12);Materials, 1811, or after, for a Baronetage of Scotland, collected by Sir Samuel Egerton...
Dates:
17th century-1921.
Microfilm of collection of thirty-nine seventeenth-century sermons, many of them transcribed in 1624.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1041
Dates:
17th century.
Microfilm of copies, 1796, of William Rose, the genealogist, of charters and other papers, 1st half of 16th century-1740; and, arms of the English and Scottish nobility, [circa 1612].
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.356
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copies, 1796, of charters and other papers, 1st half of 16th century-1740, written for and partly by William Rose, the genealogist, in Montcoffer (Adv.MS.15.1.9);
Arms of the English and Scottish nobility, [circa 1612]. A collection, previously owned by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, of painted arms with genealogical notes on their holders, made by an Englishman (Adv.MS.15.1.10).
Dates:
1st half of 16th century-1740.
Microfilm of copies of letters and papers concerning the formation of the Irish Treasury Board and the procedures to be adopted by it, with notes on the procedures of the British Treasury.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.101
Dates:
1793-1794.
Microfilm of copy of piobaireachd music, with index compiled by Angus MacKay, Piper to Queen Victoria; and, MacKay’s 'Specimens of Canntaireachd'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.775
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copy of piobaireachd music, 1826-1849, compiled by Angus MacKay: [volume I] (MS.1681), 94 frames;Copy of piobaireachd music, 1826-1849, compiled by Angus MacKay: [volume II] (MS.1682), 105 frames;Copy of piobaireachd music, 1826-1849, compiled by Angus MacKay: [volume III] (MS.1683), 86 frames;"Index to Angus MacKay's MS", [1892, or after] (MS.1684);Transcript of Angus Mackay's 'Specimens of Canntaireachd', of...
Dates:
1826-[1892, or after], 1950.
Microfilm of correspondence, 1726-1800, lecture notes, 1787, and an early manuscript draft, [?1767], of ‘Case for the respondents', which concerns the Douglas Cause.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.763
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Correspondence, 1726-1800, of and collected by the Very Reverend John Lee (MS.3431, folios 225-226);
Early manuscript draft, [?1767], of the ‘Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail, written by Professor Hugh Blair (MS.5356, folios 59-122);
Notes, 1787, of a series of lectures on rhetoric (MS.9974).
Dates:
1726-1800.
Microfilm of Drafts and notes [1801-1802] of Joseph Strutt for the novel, ‘Emma Darcy, or, the Manners of Old Times’, which Sir Walter Scott completed and published as ‘Queenhoo-Hall’ in 1808.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.280
Dates:
[1801-1802].
Microfilm of eight ledgers of Alasdair Gray, containing work notes for stories, poems, plays, and his last novel, with draft of letters and many diary entries.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2061-2062
Dates:
1945-2008.
Microfilm of genealogical and heraldic material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.31
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Armourial [sic] Bearings of the Bruces’ by Major William Bruce Armstrong, 1903 (Adv.MS.15.1.25);'Results of the investigation of the settlement of English families in Scotland', [?1801] (Adv.MS.16.2.9);‘Proper names with their significations’ by David Ure, minister of Uphall, late 18th century (Adv.MS.16.2.10);Collection of material on French heraldry, in several hands of the first half of the 18th century...
Dates:
1560-1903.
Microfilm of heraldic and genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.26
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Breviat of the genealogie of the honourable surname of the Lesleyes, Earls of Rothes, sinc ther first arrivall in Scotland to thir dayes, collected out of ancient evidences, manuscripts and histories of the tymes, togither with some of ther cadents’, 17th century, attributed to Sir James Balfour of Denmill, Lyon (Adv.MS.17.2.4); Gordons of Craichlaw (Adv.MS.27.5.28);Letters, 1618-1712, to members of the Oswald family of Fingaltoun. Some...
Dates:
Late 16th century- early 19th century.
Microfilm of letters and other papers of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh Carlyle.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.419
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Letters, [1823-1875], of Thomas Carlyle to various persons, with some written to him (MS.1796);Letters, [1833-1868], of Jane Welsh Carlyle to various persons, with some of Geraldine Jewsbury to Lady Amberley and of Margaret Welsh and Dr John Aitken Carlyle to William and Mrs Dods (MS.1797);Articles, notes, and fragments, 1767, [1832-?1871], in Thomas Carlyle’s autograph (MS.1798);‘Thomas Carlyle, Eine biographisch-literarische...
Dates:
1767-[1875].
Microfilm of manuscript of the Regiam Maiestatem, statutes, Leges Portuum, forest laws, Quoniam attachiamenta, burgh and guild laws, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.902
Dates:
2nd half of 14th century-15th century.
Microfilm of manuscripts and drafts of and concerning George Douglas Brown.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.75
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Draft, [1901, or before], of parts of the novel ‘The house with the green shutters’ by George Douglas Brown (MS.8171);
Draft, [1901, or before], of chapter XV of the novel ‘The House with the Green Shutters’ by George Douglas Brown (MS.8172); Outline, notes, and draft chapters of the unpublished novel 'The incompatibles' by George Douglas Brown, probably written about 1900-1901 (MS.8173);Outline, notes, and draft chapters of the...
Dates:
[1896, or before-?1901.]
Microfilm of manuscripts, chiefly notes and poems, of George Sibbald of Rankeillour, or in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.358
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Extracta de Cronicis Scotiæ Quæ ad Historiam civilem pertinent’, late 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century, in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald (Adv.MS.15.2.1);"Observationes collectæ ex Libro cui titulus est ‘extract ex Chronicis Scotiæ'. Hic notantur ea quæ Historiano Ecclesiasticam pertinent”, late 17th century, being notes of Sir Robert Sibbald chiefly on ecclesiastical history, from various sources. (Adv.MS.15.2.2);'Canon sive...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 18th century.
Microfilm of miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.304
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Microfilm of miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.870
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Microfilm of ‘M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. V’, being mainly a continuation of the scripts and editorial material for inclusion in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 3.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1583
Dates:
1860-1861.