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Microfilm of notes, [1839, or after-circa 1855], compiled by William B D D Turnbull; and, papers, 1558-1620, concerning Mary Queen of Scots, collected by James Anderson.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.316
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Notes, [1839, or after], of proceedings in the elections, 1790-1837, of representative peers for Scotland, compiled by William B D D Turnbull (Adv.MS.6.1.16);Biographical and genealogical notes, [circa 1855], mostly extracts or cuttings from books and newspapers, compiled by William B D D Turnbull (Adv.MS.6.1.18);Copies, 1727 or before, in various hands, of papers, 1558-1620, concerning Mary Queen of Scots and her reign, apparently...
Dates: 1558-[circa 1855].

Microfilm of papers, 1592-1654, of Sir James Balfour; and, sermons, 1660, of Presbyterian preachers.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.361
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: “Order of King Charles’ entering Edinburghe in stait at ye vest porte, and his march trough the towne to Holyrood House 15 Junij 1633”, and notes on other ceremonies, by Sir James Balfour, in his own handwriting (Adv.MS.15.2.17);Notes, 1592-1606, of Sir James Balfour on the order of court dignitaries on ceremonial occasions. (Adv.MS.15.2.18);Collection of sermons, 1660, by Presbyterian preachers (Adv.MS.15.2.20);Commonplace...
Dates: 1592-1660.

Microfilm of papers of Edwin Muir.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.464
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Copy of ‘First poems’ (London, 1925) by Edwin Muir, with numerous manuscript corrections and notes, [1925, or after], by the poet (MS.19651);

Copy of ‘Chorus of the newly dead’ (London, 1926) by Edwin Muir, with Muir's corrections, [1926, or after] (MS.19652);

Manuscript and typescript drafts and fair copies of poems, [?1942-?1959], by Edwin Muir (MS.19653);

Notebook, 1947-1948, of Edwin Muir (MS.19663).

Dates: [1925, or after-?1959.]

Microfilm of proof-sheets, [1827, or before], of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott; and, letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.54
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Proof-sheets of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott, volume v, pages 225-240, with autograph corrections by Scott, [1827, or before] (MS.496);

Letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland (MS.2991).

Dates: [1548-1550, 1827, or before].

Microfilm of Sermones de Tempore, a homiliary, early 12th century; and, medical manuscripts, 13th century.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.423
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Sermones de Tempore, a homiliary written in the early 12th century for Rochester Cathedral Priory (Adv.MS.18.2.4).

Two English medical manuscripts, each written by two scribes of the thirteenth century, bound together from an early date (Adv.MS.18.2.5).

Dates: Early 12th century, 13th century.

Microfilm of three Gaelic manuscripts of religious and medical texts.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.666
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: ‘1467 MS.’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín, [circa 1425, circa 1467], (Adv.MS.72.1.1);

Manuscript, 16th century-17th century, containing a medical compendium, in Gaelic, asembled by the Mull Beatons (Adv.MS.72.1.2);

‘Materia medica’, 15th century, formerly belonging to the Beaton family of physicians (Adv.MS.72.1.3).

Dates: 15th century-17th century.

Microfilm of works of Robert Mylne, Alexander Hume and William Drummond.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.196
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Index, early 18th century, to ‘Mercurius Aulicus’ for 1641-1661, in the hand of Robert Mylne, ‘as also to the large vol. of Mercurius’ (Adv.MS.13.2.1);Copies of historical works of Alexander Hume, preceded by a Latin treatise. Includes ‘De foedere Dei cum homine’ by Alexander Hume, 1653 (Adv.MS.13.2.3);Copy, 17th century, of five prose tracts of William Drummond, of Hawthornden, the poet, written between 1638 and 1642 about the time of...
Dates: 1638- early 18th century.

Miscellaneous collection of items of various dates transcribed by George Paton, the antiquary, circa 1790.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.12
Scope and Contents The principal works are:(i) Copy of ‘Genealogical Account of the Family of Maclean from its first settlement in the Island of Mull and parts adjacent’, undated (folio 2). An earlier version, dated 1716, which corresponds more or less with folios 2-10 of the present manuscript, appears among Walter Macfarlane`s ‘Genealogical Collections’, Adv.MS.35.4.8, volume I, page 175.(ii) Descriptions of several Western Isles (Lewis, Skye, Iona, Tiree etc.) by various authors,...
Dates: 1532-18th century, and undated.

Miscellaneous documents and letters.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.35
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Papers connected with the reduction of the process of forfeiture of George Gordon, Earl of Huntly, William Douglas, Earl of Angus, and Francis Hay, Earl of Errol, 1597. See also Ch.B.40, and ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, volume iv, pages 124-130. (Folio 1.)(ii) Mock petition to the Lords of Session, in verse, beginning:`The Humble Petition of Mr Robert Cook,Having lost all His Means in following his...
Dates: 1597-1752.

Miscellaneous law tracts.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.4
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows.(i) Copies of various Royal patents, gifts, and commissions, 1642-1669 (the majority from the early 1660s). Most are in a 17th-century hand; an early 18th-century hand has added two, on pages 125 and 532. A detailed list is given on pages 536-540, and they have been fully indexed. (Page 1.)(ii)-(xiii) are copies, in an 18th-century hand, of sections of Adv.MS.6.2.2.(ii) = Adv. MS. 6.2.2(xii): `The Retour ... of the...
Dates: 16th century-17th century.

Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.19
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Printed prospectus of the Sanitary Protection Association of Edinburgh, late 19th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Printed list of members, with subscriptions, of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries (Konungliga Norraena Fornfraeda-Felag), 1849, in Icelandic. There are also an extract from the constitution of the Society (in French), a note on the subscriptions (in Danish), and a list of the books published by the Society....
Dates: 1561, 17th century-late 19th century.

Miscellaneous manuscripts.

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Identifier: MS.2618
Scope and Contents The principle items are as follows.Letter, undated, of Alexander Alesius, Professor of Theology at Leipzig, to a patron, thanking him for favours. (Folio 1.)'A briefe relacon of all such passages as happened dureing the Seidge of the Castle of Edinburgh' (of 1640), written by one of the garrison in reply to ‘A True representation of the proceedings of the Kingdome of Scotland’ by the Estates of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1640). An item torn from a manuscript book. (Folio...
Dates: [1640, or after]-1866, undated.

Miscellaneous notes, letters and other items.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.17
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Notes of decisions of the Court of Session, 1714-1721. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies, early 18th century, of letters of and to George Buchanan, 1573-1581, and undated, with notes on others of his letters, mostly in Thomas Ruddiman`s hand; these are Epistolae XXVII, XV, XII, XXXI, XXIV, XL, XXXVII in Ruddiman`s edition of Buchanan`s Works, and Ruddiman`s introductory notes to Epistolae XI, XVI, VIII, XII, XX, XXVIII, XXXI, XXXIV,...
Dates: 17th century-1912.

Miscellaneous Ossianic papers.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.3.1

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Buchan, John Norman Stuart, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1911-1996 2
Buchan, Priscilla Jean Fortesque, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie (politician, née Thomson, then Grant) (1915-1978) 2
Elphinstone, Margaret, author, b 1948 2
Gibb, Andrew Dewar, Professor of Law, University of Glasgow, 1888-1974 2
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Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 2
Abulafia, John, writer and director, b 1947 1
Adam, Robin J, Professor of Medieval History, University of St Andrews, fl 1960-1998 1
Anderson, William James, Senior Curate, St Mary's, Chelsea, 1894-1972 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire 1
Baker, Jane, scriptwriter, fl 1968-1970 1
Beattie, William, Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, 1903-1986 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: recipient 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: transcriber 1
Bicknell, Henry Sanford, art collector, 1818-1880 1
Borrow, George Henry (writer and traveller) (1803-1881) 1
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 1
Byres, James, of Tonley, antiquary and architect, 1734-1817 1
Cameron, family, of Fassiefern 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Clark, Ronald William, author, 1916-1987 1
Cokayne, George Edward, formerly Adams, genealogist, 1825-1911 1
Craig, Bill, writer, 1930-2002 1
Cranna, John, Scottish Unionist Association, fl 1937-1953 1
Dallmeyer, Andrew (playwright, theatre director and actor) 1
Dalrymple, James, 1st Viscount Stair, 1619-1695 1
Dalrymple, Sir David, 3rd Baronet, Senator of the College of Justice, 1726-1792 1
Dennistoun, James, antiquary, 1803-1855 1
Dowden, John, Bishop of Edinburgh, 1840-1910 1
Duncan, Archibald Alexander McBeth, Professor of Scottish History, University of Glasgow, b 1926 1
Dunnett, Dorothy, novelist and artist, wife of Sir Alastair McTavish, journalist and newspaper editor, née Halliday, 1923-2001 1
Edward VIII, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1894–1972 1
Elphinstone, family, of Lopness 1
Erskine, Thomas Alexander, 6th Earl of Kellie, composer, 1732-1781 1
Farquhar, George Taylor Shillito, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1857-1927 1
Fawcett, Benjamin, engraver and colour printer, 1808-1893 1
Fleming, Lindsay, author of "Life of James Dennistoun", fl 1951-1954 1
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 1
Fraser, Alexander Campbell (philosopher) 1
Gibson, Sir Alexander Drummond, Knight, conductor, 1926-1995 1
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965 1
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965: recipient 1
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 1
Hall, Sir James, 4th Baronet, geologist and chemist, 1761-1832 1
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 1
Hardie, James Keir, politician, 1856-1915 1
Harper, James Walker, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1859-1938 1
Harvie, Christopher Thomas, Professor of British and Irish Studies, University of Tübingen, b 1944 1
Hislop, Joseph Dewar, singer, 1884-1977 1
Home, George, of Wedderburn, Principal Clerk of Session, 1734-1820 1
Home, George, of Wedderburn, Principal Clerk of Session, 1734-1820: former owner 1
Hughes, Emrys, politician, 1894-1969 1
Independent Labour Party 1
Irving, Alexander, army officer in the Swedish service, d 1659 1
Jamieson, Robert Alan, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1958 1
Johnson, David Charles, musician, 1942-2009 1
Johnstone, Doug, author, b 1970 1
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 1
Kennaway, James Peebles Ewing, novelist and scriptwriter, 1928-1968 1
Lindsay, William Fullarton, of Spynie, formerly Fullarton, d 1813 1
Livingstone, James, son of Angus Cook, Vice-Chairman of the Independent Labour Party, Scotland, fl 1985-1988 1
Lockhart, Sir James Haldane Stewart, Knight, colonial official and art collector, 1858-1937 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn, political scientist and politician, 1929-1978 1
Magnusson, Magnus, scholar, broadcaster and enviromentalist, 1929-2007 1
Malcolm, family, of Burnfoot 1
Masefield, John Edward, Poet Laureate, 1878-1967 1
McGrath, John Peter, playwright, director, 1935-2002 1
McGregor, Sheila, author of "The Complete Book of Traditional Fair Isle knitting", fl 1973-2003 1
McLean, Antonia Maxwell, wife of Ruari, typographer and author, née Carlisle, 1919-1995 1
McLean, John David Ruari McDowall Hardie, typographer and author, 1917-2006 1
Miller, William, Principal of Madras Christian College, 1838-1923 1
Miller, William, Principal of Madras Christian College, 1838-1923: recipient 1
Milligan, John, BBC Scotland, fl 1969-1999 1
Mirror, Edinburgh, newspaper 1
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 1
Morrison, Ewan, author, b 1968. 1
Muir, Charles Augustus Carlow, author and journalist, 1892-1989 1
Muir, Sir Thomas, Knight, mathematician and educationist, 1844-1934 1
Murray, John George Stewart-, 7th Duke of Atholl, 1840-1917 1
Murray, Keith William, Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms, 1850-1922 1
Murray, Malcolm, writer on Alexander Irving, army officer in the Swedish service, fl 1976-1986 1
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Neill and Co Ltd, Edinburgh, printers 1
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 1
Paul, Sir James Balfour, Knight, historian, 1846-1931 1
Pirie-Gordon, Charles Harry Clinton, journalist, naval intelligence officer and genealogist, 1883-1969 1
Pow, Thomas Campbell, poet, b 1950 1
Powell, Reginald (physicist) 1
Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford, Knight Colonial Governor, 1781-1826 1
Reith, George Murray, Minister of St Cuthbert’s United Free Church, Edinburgh, 1863-1948 1
Richards, Frank Roydon, Rector of Glasgow Academy, 1899-1978 1
Robert I, King of Scots, 1274-1329 1
Roberts, David, painter, 1796-1864 1
Robertson, Sir Lewis, Knight, administrator and industrialist, 1922-2008 1
Royal Academy of Arts 1
Royle, Trevor Bridge (broadcaster and author, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh) (b 1945) 1
Saltire Society 1
Scott, Paul Henderson, author, b 1920 1
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