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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10283-10286
Dates:
1653-1804.
Miscellaneous purchases.
File
Identifier: MS.20766
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Correspondence, 1802-1815, undated, of and concerning R B Sheridan (including letters of Sir John Macpherson and Samuel Whitbread, and material on the Drury Lane Theatre) and his son Thomas (including descriptions of a journey to Edinburgh and of Madeira); a poem, 1772, of Sheridan to his future wife; and various notes and press cuttings, 1788-1914, undated, on Sheridan and his works (folio 1);
(ii) Letters, 1922-1928, of Sir James G Frazer to William...
Dates:
1772-1930, undated.
Miscellany of letters and documents of African explorers, missionaries, and administrators.
Series
Identifier: MS.20311
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
Musical compositions and other papers, 1871-1926, undated, of John Davidson; and correspondence and compositions [circa 1883- circa 1917], undated, of James Scott Skinner.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22022-22075
Dates:
1871-1926, undated.
Musical compositions of Ronald Center and a miscellany of papers of Center and his wife Evelyn.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22171-22194
Scope and Contents
The musical compositions consist of final versions (MSS.22171-22186), and sketches, drafts and fragments (MSS.22187-22193). The other papers consist largely of press cuttings.
Dates:
Mid 20th century-1988, undated.
Nonsense verses and English translations of Robert Louis Stevenson.
File
Identifier: Acc.11145
Scope and Contents
Some written on Advocates` Library paper.
Dates:
late 19th century.
Notebook belonging to William Rankin, James Rankin, and, finally, to Gabriel Rankin of Orchardhead.
Item
Identifier: MS.6159
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Memoranda relating to financial and other transactions of Rankin of Orchardhead, 1605 (folio 1); 1605-1609 (folio 2 inverted);(ii) Miscellaneous material, mid-seventeenth century: 'Lactari cordato et greca lingua studioso' (folio 4); latin verses (folio 12 inverted); sermons and historical notes (folio 13 inverted);(iii) Material relating to Alexander Mure, portioner of Grange of Bothkennar: 'Rentall of the Bacraw', 1639,...
Dates:
1605-1725.
Notebook of James Steuart, Keeper of the King’s Wardrobe.
Item
Identifier: MS.5725
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains: copies of James Steuart’s appointment to the office of Keeper of the King's Wardrobe, 1737 (folio 1); list of perquisites of the office (folio 3); order for drawing up inventories (folio 4 verso); copy of inventories, 1685, 1714, of the furniture in different departments of Holyroodhouse, such as the Wardrobe, Council Chamber, Exchequer, Session House, etc., (folio 8); and a history of the office, including copies of documents relating to it (folio 28 verso). Most of...
Dates:
1685-1769.
Notebook of Thomas Heart, containing prose translations, poetry, notes and some medical recipes.
Item
Identifier: MS.3004
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains prose translations of most of Horace's ‘Odes and Epodes’ (inverted folio 3, folio 1 verso), a poem entitled "The believer's dowry" with other verses and notes of a religious nature (folio 4), and some medical recipes (folio 27 verso). Dates ranging between the years 1720 and 1763 occur at points throughout the volume.
Dates:
1720-1763.
Notes and drafts by Harry Pirie-Gordon of Buthlaw on the history of Dumbarton Castle, Celtic rulers of Strathclyde, and other topics in Highland history and genealogy.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.326
Dates:
[Mid 20th century.]
Notes and drafts of articles by David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Sketch of the character of John, Earl of Hopetoun`, 1781. The correct order of folios should be 1, 3 verso, 4, 2 (folio 1).(ii) List of contributions by Buchan to ‘The Bee’, 1791-1793 (folio 3).(iii) Biographical sketches of James Anderson, economist and editor of ‘The Bee’, 1790 (folio 8).(iv) Biography of Walter Minto, the mathematician, 1801. This was intended for the ‘Edinburgh Magazine’,...
Dates:
1781-1801.
‘Notes and observations on heretable and redeemable rights with stiles of transmissions thereof, method of making up titles, signatures etc., by question and answer. By a select body of Writers to the Signet’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.6.12
Dates:
18th century.
Notes for a speech by Annie Burnett Smith (Annie S Swan).
Item
Identifier: Acc.12816
Scope and Contents
Speech probably made during Smith`s unsuccessful campaign as the Independent Liberal candidate for Maryhill, Glasgow, in the 1922 General Election.
Dates:
circa 1922.
Notes for and drafts of the Lyell Lectures delivered in 1965 by Prof William Beattie.
File
Identifier: Acc.9374
Scope and Contents
With bibliographical notes.
Dates:
circa 1945-1975.
Notes, mainly on geometry, by James Moor, Professor of Greek at Glasgow University.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.5.1
Scope and Contents
Moor`s interest in mathematics predated his classical studies and lasted throughout his life. The present volume contains geometrical theorems and calculations, some avowedly copied from elsewhere, many apparently original.The non-mathematical contents (apart from several invitations to funerals, written over by Moor) are: notes on manuscripts of the Greek mathematical writers (excerpted from ‘Bibliotheca bibliothecarum manuscriptorum nova’ by B de Montfaucon) (folios 1-6); a...
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Notes of evidence, 1905, to be given by the Reverend Dr William Miller, in the Free Church of Scotland case.
File
Identifier: Acc.8285
Scope and Contents
With four addresses, 1895, 1901-1902 and undated, to Miller, and a photograph of him.
Dates:
1895-1905 and undated.
Notes of the lectures on Scots law delivered by David Hume, Professor of Scots law at Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.6.10(i)-(iv)
Scope and Contents
Apparently intended by the annotator as transcripts for publication.
Dates:
1822.
Notes on legal forms and procedures written by James Wintrope, Hawick.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.8
Scope and Contents
Short treatises collected from the reports of a society of Gentlemen established in collecting reports relating to the law of Scotland, on numerous procedures, different points of law with notices of the state of the records, etc.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (Jac V.1.1).
Dates:
18th century.
Notes on the criminal law of Scotland in the handwriting of Professor Hume (Baron Hume).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.16
Dates:
1829.
Notes on the hearing of the Roxburghe Peerage Case before the Committee of Privileges of the House of Lords, June-July 1808, and March 1809.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.23
Dates:
1808-1809.
Notes, orders and related material of Chilton Lind Addison-Smith, 2nd in Command, in connection with a raid on enemy trenches by the 2nd Battalion Sherwood Forresters, British Expeditionary Force, France.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6029
Dates:
May 1917.
Notes, transcripts and extracts compiled by and for Lieutenant-General George Henry Hutton relating to Aberdeen and its ecclesiastical antiquities.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.22
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows: (i) Extracts in Hutton`s hand from the index to the Records of the City of Aberdeen by William Kennedy, advocate,Aberdeen, 1814. The entries, which are alphabetically arranged by subject, range in date between 1401 and 1799. (Folio 1.)(ii) Translations in another, unidentified hand of formal documents relating to the Dominicans of Aberdeen ranging in date between 1392 and 1585. According to a note in Hutton`s...
Dates:
Late 12th century-1799.
Notes upon Buchanan's history of Scotland, transcript of charters of David II and Robert III to the Laird of Edmonstoun.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.3
Dates:
Undated.
Obituaries, funeral orations and biographical notes of and concerning James Francis Edward, the Old Pretender, his wife and sons, and of Charlotte, Duchess of Albany, daughter of Prince Charles Edward.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11952
Scope and Contents
Includes modern historical notes.
Dates:
18th century.