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Notes on Aristotle and Sacrobosco written by Alexander Henryson (M.A. 1614) from the lectures of Regent James Reid at Edinburgh University .
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.3
Scope and Contents
The works discussed are: Aristotle:‘Ethica Nicomachea’ (folios 3-48);‘Physica’ (folios 49-95);‘de Caelo’ (folios 97-111 recto);Johannes de Sacrobosco: ‘de Sphera’ (folios 111 verso-171); Aristotle:‘de Generatione et Corruptione’ (folios 172-210);‘Meteorologica’ (folios 211-222); and,‘de Anima’ (folios 223-284). There are also some notes on religious and...
Dates:
1613-1614.
Notes on natural philosophy, written at King`s College, Aberdeen.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.15
Scope and Contents
The original series of notes were written in 1662 by John Barclay, `son to the lady Johnstoune`, probably from the lectures of his Regent, George Gordon, later 1st Earl of Aberdeen. They deal with commentaries on Aristotle, `De Generatione et Corruptione` (page 1); `De Anima` (page 82); `De Caelo` (page 144); and the `Meteoroligica` (page 150); with a short tract on metaphysics (page 162), and some notes on astronomy (page 178). The notebook passed to Alexander Irvine, who added a treatise...
Dates:
1662, 1694.
Papers, 1321-1601, to and of the family of Murray of Falahill.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11403
Scope and Contents
Includes translations of the papers, genealogical notes, genealogies of the families of Falahill and Philiphaugh, and a copy of a poem "The Song of Outlaw Murray", all mid 19th century.
Dates:
1321-1601 and mid 19th century.
Papers and translations collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.16
Scope and Contents
The source material and translations are variously endorsed or annotated by Henry Mackenzie, Donald Mackintosh, and Ewen MacLachlan.The contents are as follows.(M 1). Notes by John Francis Campbell, dated 25 November 1872. (Folio 1.)(i) Cover, probably for folios 12-22, 24-33. Bears hands of Ewen MacLachlan and Mackintosh MacKay. Cf. Adv.MS.73.2.10, folio 207. (Folio 2.)(M 2). Ossianic fragments with some corresponding passages from James...
Dates:
[1794, or after]-1872, undated.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Papers collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.10
Dates:
1797-1807.
Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21193-21198
Dates:
1569-1876, undated.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents
Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Papers of Archie Lamont.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9290
Scope and Contents
Includes:
notes, articles and correspondence on geology and zoology
notes, correspondence and press cuttings on the Scottish Nationalist movement
manuscripts of poems.
Dates:
1925-1984.
Papers of Dr Donald Smith (1756-1805).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.22
Scope and Contents
In 1778 Dr Donald Smith went to America as assistant surgeon of 42nd Highlanders.The contents are as follows.(i) Historical and antiquarian notes with Latin, English and Gaelic expressions. (Folio 1 recto.)(ii) Humorous verses in Latin, English and Gaelic headed: “In St Johns, 1767. Every person admitted to drink the Governor’s health, at supper, on his departure for Europe, was obliged to make a verse on some of the company; this gave rise to the...
Dates:
1767, undated.
Papers of Francis George Scott.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9014
Scope and Contents
Includes notes, essays, poems and correspondence.
With 13 letters of George Campbell Hay.
Dates:
1925-1957 and undated.
Papers of the author, poet and journalist, Rachel Annand Taylor (1876-1960), consisting chiefly of material for her published and unpublished works.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20404-20435
Dates:
1892-1965, undated.
Papers of the families of Crawfurd of Kilbirnie and of Jordanhill.
File
Identifier: MS.20988
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) Legal documents and correspondence, 1488-1789 (folio 1); (ii) Notes, ?1786-1821, on legal cases (folio 33); (iii) Genealogical papers, 1707-1731, undated (folio 65); (iv) Poetry, 18th century-19th century, including an early copy, dated 1734, of Allan Ramsay's poem, 'The Thimble' (folio 93); (v) Notes, undated, by George Crawfurd, the antiquary, and a translation of a charter, 1748, by Thomas Ruddiman (folio 107).
Dates:
1488-1821, undated.
Papers of the Rymour Club, Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: MS.9746
Scope and Contents
The papers contain a version of "The Dowie Dens o' Yarrow" contributed by Duncan Fraser, and copies from a collection of rhymes made by William Findlay, with notes and a letter of Alan Reid, secretary of the Club.
Dates:
1904-1907.
Part of Sir John Sinclair’s general correspondence on Gaelic matters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.14
Dates:
1807-1824.
Part of the Ossianic collection of the Reverend Alexander Campbell of Portree (1770-1811).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.3
Dates:
1798-1806.
Photocopies of manuscript legal notes and three poems of Robert Louis Stevenson.
File
Identifier: Acc.7482
Dates:
circa 1875.
Photocopies of notes, transcriptions and poems of William Stuart Henry.
File
Identifier: Acc.9127
Dates:
circa 1965-1975
Poem of James Hogg, "Cameron`s Welcome Hame".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9789
Scope and Contents
With note concerning the poem and Scottish song tunes.
Dates:
circa 1823.
Poems and lecture notes of the Reverend William H Hamilton, minister of Leslie and Waulkmill.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19619-19621
Dates:
1902-1919, undated.
Poems of George Lauder, transcribed, 17th century, chiefly from printed copies indicated in the manuscript.
File
Identifier: MS.1806
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the following poems.
(i) Valedictory Address, 1622. (Folio 1.)(ii) On the Execution of Charles I. Printed: Delft, 1649. (Folio 2.)(iii) 'Good Wishes to His Highnes the Prince upon His Birth Day, 14 November'. (Folio 3.)(iv) 'The wnconstant Lover', 1624. (Folio 3 verso.)(v) 'For the Heroycall L: Colonel Lauder ... A Christmas Carol'. Signed: F G. (Folio 4.)(vi) 'The Souldiers Wishe'. Printed: Edinburgh, J...
Dates:
17th century.
Poems of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’, chiefly in his autograph.
File
Identifier: MS.569
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) ‘On the laying the Foundation of the High School of Edinburgh, 24th June, 1777’ (folio i);(ii) ‘Winter Hymn’ with a note, 26 January 1829 (folio 2);(iii) ‘Morning Hymn’, endorsed, ‘Written out 1825, composed chiefly in a dream at Canaan Lodge [Edinburgh] one beautiful morning in August, 1825’; two copies (folio 4);(iv) ‘Ink loquitur’, endorsed, ‘(Impromptu) to Steuart of Allantoun, the translator of Sallust, who...
Dates:
1777-1829, undated.