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'A collection of the best reciepts in cookery, pastery and confectionary taken from the best authors by Margt Hume Campbell, with a dedication to the Right Honourable Lady Diana Scott’.

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Identifier: MS.15914
Scope and Contents

The collection was probably intended for Lady Diana, the author's younger sister, on her approaching marriage to Walter Scott of Harden in 1754. There are a few later additions and an index (folio iii) but no section on confectionery. Some of the sources of the recipes are named.

Dates: 1753.

Assorted letters; with a receipt for Secret Service money signed by King George III, and instructions by King James III to Sir Alexander Napier of Merchiston.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.7.1.19
Scope and Contents Letters of:Admiral Lord Ancon (folio 1);George Canning (folio 10);Robert Clive (folio 12);`Alfred Crowquill` (folio 17);Allan Cunningham (folio 18);King Edward VII (folio 23);Lieutenant-General Charles Fleetwood (folio 27);Warren Hastings (folio 33);George Heriot (folio 35);David Hume (folio 42);Thomas Jefferson (folio 44);Samuel Johnson (folio...
Dates: 15th century-1st quarter of 20th century.

Book of household and medical recipes marked 'Given to Lady Mary Murray, Sept. 5th 1787', written in several hands, and apparently compiled in the household of her father, the third Duke of Atholl.

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Identifier: MS.9478
Scope and Contents

The first fifty folios contain kitchen recipes. These are followed (folio 51) by a medical section, which includes some veterinary remedies, and (folio 124 verso) by a few recipes for home-made wines.

Dates: 1787.

Book of household recipes compiled by a Mrs William Spence.

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Identifier: MS.9479
Scope and Contents

The larger part consists of kitchen recipes, but a few medical remedies are contained in the inverted pages. Many of the informants appear to be Scottish.

Dates: 1825.

Book of recipes, started by Anna, Lady Elcho (died 1649), and continued by her daughter Jean, Countess of Sutherland.

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Identifier: MS.3031
Scope and Contents The book of recipes is continued by Anna, Lady Elcho’s daughter Jean, Countess of Sutherland (see her note on folio ii verso), Jean, Viscountess Maitland (see her references to the Countess of Lauderdale as her mother-in-law, folios 73 verso, 77), and others. See the notes and pedigree inserted by William McMath, 1879, who states that the volume came from Dunbar Castle (folios i verso, xii-xiii). The dates 1701 and 1735 occur at folios 70, 75 verso.The recipes are all medical,...
Dates: 1st half of 17th century-1735, 1879, undated.

‘Breviary of the Decisions of the Lords of Session ... and of the Acts of Sederunt, from June, 1661, to July, 1681, observed by Sir James Dalrymple of Stair.’

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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.1
Scope and Contents The Acts of Sederunt, 1661-1681, as in the printed ‘Decisions of the Lords of council and session’, are followed by a summary of Decisions arranged alphabetically according to subject. The text is apparently copied from an incomplete manuscript.At the end, inverted, is a copy of ‘Instructions and rules ... to the Commissaries, clerks, procurators fiscalls, and other members of the court of the whole ecclesiasticall jurisdiction,’ forwarded under cover of a Royal letter dated...
Dates: 1661-1681.

Collection 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.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.4.1.2, vols. I-II
Scope and Contents

The volumes have the book-plate of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, and, as he was secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1794-1795, were presumably compiled on his instructions.

Dates: 1793-1794.

Collection of romances and religious material, mostly in verse, written in the North Midlands by Richard Heeg with some items by James Hawghton and additions in other hands.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.1
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘The Hunting of the Hare` (‘The Index of Middle English Verse’, 973) (folio 1), followed by a mock sermon in prose (folio 7 verso) and nonsense verses (folio 10 verso) (the latter ‘The Index of Middle English Verse’, 3425, both printed in ‘Reliquiae Antiquae’, volume 1, pages 82-84). See ‘The “Hunting of the Hare” in the Heege Manuscript’. Written by Richard Heeg.(ii) `Sir Gowther` (‘The Index of Middle English Verse’,...
Dates: Circa 1480.

Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.

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Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents

The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.

Dates: 1548-1641.

Common-place book of medical, chemical and alchemical recipes and experiments.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.10
Scope and Contents At the end of the manuscript are numerous prescriptions by a physician in high practice in Scotland in the beginning of the 17th century. One commences ‘Dedi Alexandro comiti Eglintonis uxoris meae confebr[...]ino… 30 Octob.1625’.On a fly leaf is written ‘I wagered with the young laird of Darfie that his wyff was with a sone (deprehenso pulsu brachii dextri maiore) a paire of stage ledder gloves the last of Januar 1634’.The description of the manuscript in the folio...
Dates: Early 17th century.

Commonplace book containing poems, household and medical recipes, riddles and notes, written in several hands.

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Identifier: MS.14275
Scope and Contents

Folios 1-20 contain a collection of verses, most of which are dated 1789.

Dates: 1783-1828.

Commonplace book of George Anderson, Glasgow.

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Identifier: MS.14276
Scope and Contents

As well as poetry, recipes and miscellaneous notes, the book includes instructions for road-making (page 3) and designs for a pump and a building for making lamp-black (pages 37, 66).

Dates: 1818-1827.

Copies, early 17th century, in French, of treaties drawn up between France and her various allies, 1552-1615.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.4
Scope and Contents

Also included is a copy of a memoir of Henri IV by Pierre Jeannin, in a different hand from the rest of the volume (folio 1), a number of instructions to ambassadors, commissions, and other related material, and a table of contents (folio 264).

Dates: 1552-1615.

Copies, early 17th century, in French, of treaties drawn up between France and her various allies, 1606-1613.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.9
Scope and Contents

Also included are a number of instructions to ambassadors, commissions, and other related material.

There is a table of contents (folio 1).

Dates: 1606-1613.

Copies of letters and instructions of Thomas, Baron Wharton, deputy warden of the marches.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.8
Scope and Contents

Most of the material concerns the order of the watches in the three marches, giving the areas covered and, in some cases, the names of those concerned.

The volume may have been intended for John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland; his arms are painted on page 2, and the bear and ragged staff of Warwick drawn on page 3. There are large decorated initials in pen and ink on pages 3, 7, 13, 37, 121 and 153, some of which bear the letters IN, TP, CC or TW.

Dates: 1552-1553.

Copy of the ‘Memoirs’ of Walter Pringle of Greenknowe, the covenanter, with two genealogical manuscripts, concerning respectively the Clan Chattan and the Drummond family in Madeira.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.17
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) A copy, in a hand of the late 17th century, of the `Memoirs` of Walter Pringle (folio 1). These were first published in 1723 from a copy of the original manuscript by James Pringle of Greenknowe, 1684. The relationship of the present manuscript to that copy is unknown.(ii) A detached leaf, headed Section XIX and paginated 81-82, concerning the history of Clan Chattan (folio 35). Written in a small late 17th-century...
Dates: 2nd half of 17th century.

Copy of the official report, 31 January 1725 [i.e. 1726], by Major-General (later Field-Marshal) George Wade, of his proceedings in disarming the Highlands; followed by copies of several papers.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.21
Scope and Contents The report is signed by Major General George Wade, folio 15.A copy of each of the following papers follows the official report:a list of the arms surrendered by the clans between August and October 1725 (folio 15 verso);Wade’s instructions to the Officers Commanding the Highland Companies, 22 September 1725 (folio 16 verso);letters of submission of persons attainted of high treason, written between August and October 1725 (folio 17 verso);...
Dates: 1726.

Copy, possibly the holograph, of the report by Thomas Tucker on the customs and excise of Scotland.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.28.6.5
Scope and Contents Tucker had been sent to Scotland in the autumn of 1655 to set up the customs and to re-establish the excise, and his report, dated 20 November 1656, was written after his return to London. The report is followed by an unmarked copy of ‘Rules, Orders and Instructions, Made and Published by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise in Scotland ...’ (Edinburgh, 1656) (folio 54), and by `The forme of the Cash or Day Booke to be kept by the severall Collectors of Customs and Excise in...
Dates: 1655-1656.

Correspondence and papers of Dr Robert Douglas, Minister of Galashiels, and of his own and allied families: Hays, Thomsons, Tods, Lothians.

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Identifier: MSS.3116-3123
Scope and Contents

A table of the relationships of the various families has been placed in MS.3116, folio i.

Dates: 1714-1905, undated.

Culinary and household recipe book of Anne Susanna Hope, wife of Charles Hope, Commissioner at Chatham.

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Identifier: MS.24776
Scope and Contents

Included are culinary recipes of Anne Susanna Hope's mother-in-law, Lady Anne Johnston Hope, wife of Admiral Sir William Johnston Hope.

Dates: 1786, undated.

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