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Copy of a petition of debarred advocates, said to have been prepared by Sir George Mackenzie.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.20
Dates:
1675.
Copy of a photograph, 1894, of Nora Blair, her mother and sister; and cadenzas for Beethoven's Violin Concerto composed for her in 1894 by her tutor, Maurice Sons, leader of the Scottish Orchestra.
File
Identifier: MS.21859
Dates:
1894.
Copy of a speech of Prof Kenneth Varty.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10826
Scope and Contents
Concerns the presentation of his "Festschrift" to Prof H T Barnwell, London.
Dates:
1982.
Copy of a transcript of a BBC radio programme marking the centenary of the birth of John Buchan.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6467
Dates:
1975.
Copy of a work written shortly after the death in 1751 of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, to show that the principalities usually possessed by the Prince of Wales belong to the Crown.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.12
Scope and Contents
The work consists largely of copies and abstracts of charters and other formal documents relating to the Stewartry and Principality of Scotland (folio 6), the Duchy of Cornwall (folio 52 verso), the Principality of Wales and the Earldom of Chester (folio 56) , the Duchy of Normandy (folio 58 verso) and the Dauphine of France (folio 58 verso), preceded by a summary of the contents (folio 2), and followed by a conclusion (folio 62), an appendix (folio 63), a copy (folio 72 verso) of an act of...
Dates:
1751, or after.
Copy of a work written shortly after the death in 1751 of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, to show that the principalities usually possessed by the Prince of Wales belong to the Crown.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.3
Scope and Contents
The work consists largely of copies and abstracts of charters and other formal documents relating to the Stewartry and Principality of Scotland (folio 7), the Duchy of Cornwall (folio 57), the Principality of Wales and the Earldom of Chester (folio 60), the Duchy of Normandy (folio 62 verso) and the Dauphine of France (folio 62 verso), preceded by a summary of the contents (folio 2), and followed by a conclusion (folio 65 verso), an appendix (folio 66 verso), a copy (folio 75 verso) of an...
Dates:
1751, or after.
Copy, of about the end of the seventeenth century, by the antiquary Robert Mylne, of ‘Ane account of ane Embassie performed by William Steuart [Stewart], Commendator of Pittenweim, and Mr John Skeen to England, Denmark, and the Princess [Princes] of Germanie in Anno 1590'.
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Identifier: MS.2912
Scope and Contents
The account was written by John Skene (afterwards Lord Curriehill) (see folio 42 verso). The mission was to the Protestant princes, and its object was to bring about peace treaties between England and Spain and between France and Spain, or, failing that, an alliance of Denmark, Scotland, and the Germans which should assist the peaceful party against the obdurate. See ‘Calendar of the state papers relating to Scotland... 1547-1603’ (1898-1963), volume x, page xvi. The journal covers the...
Dates:
1590.
Copy of Adv.MS.31.3.18, documents relating to heraldry, made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.22
Scope and Contents
Translations have been provided with the material in Latin.
Dates:
1385-1661.
Copy of ‘An Account of the Lord`s Gracious dealing with me; and of his remarkable hearing and answering my supplications` , being the religious memoirs of Mrs Marion Veitch, wife of William Veitch, minister of Dumfries, written apparently in or about 1711, the date of the latest events recorded.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.22
Scope and Contents
This copy, one of three known, which was written in a near-contemporary hand, appears to have lost all after page 74: the remainder is supplied on different sheets written in an apparently late 18th-century hand.
Dates:
1711, or after.
Copy of `An Account of the Number of People in Scotland`, Alexander Webster`s analysis of the population arranged by counties.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.1.9
Dates:
1755.
Copy of an apparently unpublished work entitled 'Practical Tracts of Artillery', written by Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald, Fellow of the Royal Society.
File
Identifier: MS.8185
Scope and Contents
The work was written by John Macdonald when he was Captain Commanding the Artillery at Fort Marlborough, [Sumatra]. The text is preceded by a letter to the Governor and Council of the Military Department there, an introduction to the work, and a letter to the Governor-General and the Supreme Council at Fort William.
Dates:
1787.
Copy of an article entitled, "The Young Scots Society: a Lost Liberal Legion", by R Ian Elder.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12097
Dates:
2001.
Copy of an autograph verse prologue of Robert Burns.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10399
Scope and Contents
Verse begins "What needs this did about the town o` Lon`on...".
Dates:
circa 1790.
Copy of 'An eccelent arithmetick book, being a plain and Familiar method suitable to the meanest Capacity ... composed by eduard cocker.'
Item
Identifier: MS.8186
Scope and Contents
The copy was made in Edinburgh by James Burgess in the first half of the eighteenth century, of "Cocker's Arithmetick", edited by John Hawkins. The edition used was probably that of 1694 or 1697.
The manuscript contains a few verses unrelated to the text, and is decorated with numerous pen flourishes, calligraphic birds, and other figures.
Dates:
?1694 or ?1697.
Copy of an extract of an opera of Simone Mayr, "Ginevra di Scozia".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7302
Dates:
1816.
Copy of Anna Laura Simoni`s thesis, "Uno Scozzese Impopolare: Fionn MacColla", University of Bologna.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11301
Dates:
1995.
Copy of autograph manuscript of poem, "Highland Laddie" by James Hogg.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11775
Dates:
1818.
Copy of Bruce Charlton, "The Literature of Alasdair Gray", a Durham University thesis.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9824
Dates:
1988.
Copy of “Caelia's country-house and closet”, a poem by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, here with the title “Coelia's solitude or closset”.
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Identifier: MS.15979
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is in a seventeenth-century hand; there are marginal corrections or elucidations and instructions about paragraphing, which appear to be in George Mackenzie's own hand.This manuscript and MS.550 (which is later and less complete) represent a recension of the text frequently and significantly different from that of the printed editions (first in James Watson, ‘Choice collection of comic and serious Scots poems’, Part 2, page 71, and separately, (London, [1715?]);...
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Copy of Cambridge PhD thesis of Iain G Brown, "Sir John Clerk of Penicuik 1676-1755: Aspects of a Virtuoso Life".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7944
Dates:
1980.
Copy of Claire Chevrillon-Fabre, "Cinq Années de Souvenir".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9697
Scope and Contents
An account of life in France under the German occupation, 1939-1944.
Dates:
circa 1988.
Copy of `Collections of the most remarkable accounts that relate to the families of Scotland drawn from ther own charters and other authentick writts ... with ane account of ther armes’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.4
Scope and Contents
The authorship is attributed to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, but an 18th-century footnote added to the title page of Adv.MS.34.3.19 states that the collection was originally compiled by Sir Patrick Lyon of Carse, and that his manuscript was copied by Mackenzie and others who made their own additions to it. One such copy by William Aikman of Cairnie, advocate, is now MS.979; another is in Edinburgh University Library; five more are Adv.MSS.13.2.10, 32.6.1, 34.3.14, 34.3.19 and 34.6.8....
Dates:
Circa 1672.
Copy of "Commentaries of the 17th Century Scots Traveller William Lithgow. With a Biographical Introduction by John Scotland".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10187
Dates:
late 20th century.