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Three documents concerning electioneering in Scotland in the 1830s.
Three documents concerning the family of Boyd of Knockson and to the farm of Knockson, near Ayr.
Topographical and other works.
Tradesman’s letters, bills and receipts concerning an extension to the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Transcript of part of Adv.MS. 35.6.6: Lists of religious houses and parishes in Scotland; with numerous additions by Walter Macfarlane, in his own hand.
Transcripts, 1774-?1788, of ecclesiastical records of Perth, 1560-1668, made by the Reverend James Scott, minister of the East Church, Perth, and a copy in his possession, 1784, of the ‘History of the united Parishes of Monivaird and Strowan’ compiled, circa 1774, by James Porteous of Dalvich, Minister of Monzievaird and Strowan.
This is part ii of Scott`s transcripts and translations.
Transcripts, circa 1855, of extracts of the Kirk Session records, 1668-1768, of Melrose, compiled by James Swinson.
With Communion rolls, 1792, 1813, for Gattonside.
Transcripts of several books of the Register of the Great Seal of Scotland.
Twenty songs and choruses of George Frideric Handel, composer.
The works are from the oratorios "Alexander's Feast", 'Samson', 'Deborah', 'Occasional Oratorio', 'Saul', 'Susanna', 'Judas Maccabaeus', and the "Ode for St Cecilia's Day", in vocal score; with two marches, from the 'Occasional Oratorio', and 'Judas Maccabaeus', arranged for keyboard. They are written in a professional hand, and most of them include a note of performance time.
The music begins on folio 7, the preceding folios containing a contents list.
Two 13th-century English medical manuscripts, bound together from an early date, each in the hands of two scribes.
Two English medical manuscripts of the 12th century (each with later additions), bound together probably in the medieval period; the second at least belonged to a monk of Peterborough.
Two lists of formerly enslaved Africans on the East Prospect Estate, Jamaica.
List of former slaves on Charles Blair`s plantation.
Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice from 1532 to 1920, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie (born 1849, died 1920), and Jessie E Macdonald.
The contents consist of 4 volumes of lists, and miscellaneous papers.
The manuscripts were compiled by Lord Guthrie as material for a book projected by him.
Typescript copy of a checklist of letters of Thomas Carlyle.
Concerning all the letters of Thomas Carlyle in the National Library of Scotland.
Typescript copy of a manuscript register of Leith Races, 1753-1770.
Typescript of unpublished work of Alexander Law, "Schoolbooks and Textbooks in Scotland in the 18th Century: a Handlist with Introduction and Notes".
Various manuscripts written or owned by Thomas Ruddiman.
The manuscripts are lettered RA-RK (RC missing) and some also have Roman numerals.
Various notebooks of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Volume consisting chiefly of caricatures, 1875-1879, by Lord Archibald Campbell, son of the 8th Duke of Argyll.
Volume containing a copy of the statutes of the Royal College of Physicians of London and a manuscript of an apparently unpublished early edition of the Edinburgh ‘Pharmacopoeia’.
Volume containing an account of Leven`s Regiment (which later became the 25th Foot) from 1688, when it was raised by David Leslie, 3rd Earl of Leven, to 1826.
Volume containing genealogical and other notes in a number of early 18th-century hands.
Volume containing heraldic and historical works.
Volume entitled (folio i) `Miscellania [sic] Scotica Curiosa Or A Collection of Curious, rare, and valuable Paper`s: Relating to Scotland, and Scots Affaires. Collected and Coppied, from the Originalls. by C:R:S:` containing transcripts of Scottish historical documents, extracts of manuscripts and copies of correspondence, from various sources, 1419-1731, and undated.
Volume of historical and literary works, 13th century, written in England in the early 14th century.
Sections iv-vii are in the same hand. Folios 33 verso-34 verso are blank. There are a few pen drawings of faces in the margins.
Fragments of a 13th-century contents list from a collection of sermons have been used as binding strips; other fragments from the same source are in Adv.MS.18.2.4 and 18.4.5.