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`Sturlunga saga`, written by Thorsteinn Kaetilsson.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.21.3.17
Dates: 1st half of 18th century.

Suggestion book of members of the Faculty of Advocates.

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Identifier: F.R.141
Scope and Contents

Chiefly regarding books requested to be purchased by the Library.

Dates: 1820-1838.

`Suppletory Notes To Sir George Mackenzies Institutions by Mr. Alexander Bayne, Advocate Professor of the Scots Law at Edinburgh.` These are apparently a student`s notes of Bayne`s lectures, although neither the name of the writer nor the date of dictation is given.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.34
Scope and Contents

The notes are almost identical with the text published as ‘Notes for the Use of the Students of the Municipal Law in the University of Edinburgh: Being a Supplement to Sir George Mackenzie`s Institutions’. They are followed, as in several copies of the dictates in Edinburgh University Library, by notes of Bayne`s lectures on Criminal Law; these differ considerably from his ‘Institutions of the Criminal Law of Scotland’; for a much fuller version see Adv.MS.25.3.12.

Dates: 2nd quarter of 18th century.

Sym and Wilson family papers.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13034

Ten poems of Ronald Campbell Macfie.

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Identifier: Acc.9790
Scope and Contents

With two letters, 1918 and undated, of Macfie to Mary Veronica Morgan.

Dates: 1913-1918 and undated.

'The Carver Choirbook', a sixteenth-century manuscript also known as the 'Scone Antiphonary'.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.5.1.15
Scope and Contents Choirbook produced in Scotland containing polyphonic settings for Masses, Magnificats, motets, with other various fragments. The manuscript contains works by Carver himself and by other composers of the period, including Dufay, Nesbett, Lambe, Cornysh (Senior), and Fayrfax. The volume was previously thought to have been copied by Carver at the Abbey of Scone, but scholars now agree that it was probably written at the Chapel Royal at Stirling. Not all of the compositions are complete and the...
Dates: 16th century

"The Course of Hannibal over the Alps Ascertained" (London, 1794) by John Whitaker and annotated by Alexander Fraser Tytler.

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Identifier: Acc.12456
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Includes manuscript [laid in] of "Hannibals [sic] Passage thro` the Alps, According to, Gen[era]l Melville", watermarked 1801-1802 and endorsed by A F Tytler. Not in the hand of General Robert Melville.

Dates: 1794-1802.

`The evill troubles of the Lewes and how the Mackleoid of the Lewes was with his whol trybe destroyed and put from the possesion of the Lewes`, an account of the last anarchic years of the family of Macleod of Lewis, the abortive attempts of a company of adventurers from Fife to colonise the island, and the eventual conquest of the island by Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Lord of Kintail, circa 1540-1626.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.11
Scope and Contents

The manuscript, probably a contemporary account written circa 1630, is almost identical with the narrative of Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun in his ‘Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland’, pages 267-276, which was written originally circa 1630.

Several lines at the foot of some folios are illegible and a short part of the text is missing between folios 16 and 17. The miscellaneous notes dated 1670 (folio 3) are in a later hand.

Dates: Circa 1630.

The Haye Manuscript.

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Identifier: Acc.9253

The MacNicol collection, comprising Gaelic songs and other papers collected by the Reverend Donald MacNicol, minister of Lismore, and his son Dugald MacNicol, with some added papers and listings of later owners and users of the collection.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.14850-14864
Scope and Contents A collection of Gaelic songs and associated papers, brought together by the Rev. Donald MacNicol (1735-1802), minister of Lismore, and continued by his son Dugald (b. 1791), an army officer. The Gaelic songs are from a range of periods and include Ossianic verse, waulking songs and songs by contemporaries of the collectors, such as Dugald Buchanan, Donnchadh Bàn Macintyre and Seumas Mac Gille-Sheathanaich (Shaw). The Ossianic verse was published in John Francis Campbell's 'Leabhar na...
Dates: 1752-ca. 1900 and undated, with most of the material dating from the later 18th and early 19th century.

'The memoirs [and] reflections of Hr McNiell [of the Harp], written by himself', a manuscript copy of the first volume of the memoirs of Hector MacNeill.

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Identifier: MS.50257
Scope and Contents The manuscript is in various hands.Title page, including an epigram, in Latin, of Cicero (folio iii).'Chap. I The Authors Parentage.' Information concerning MacNeill’s grandfather and father (pages 1-9).'Chap. II. An unfashionable picture of Domestic Life.' An account of the MacNeills’ domestic life at their home at Rosebank, near Roslin, and subsequently near Loch Lomond (pages 9-17).'Chap. 3d. Some account of the Author.' Information...
Dates: 1804, 1912.

"The Warriston Monthly".

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Identifier: Acc.9241
Scope and Contents

Illustrated magazine circulating in manuscript amonst the employees of McLagan and Cumming.

Dates: 1897.

'Theatre of the Scotishe Kings, by Mr. Alexander Garden. Boreo-Britaine.’

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Identifier: MS.3856
Scope and Contents The dates 1613 on folio 1 and 1612 on folio 55 verso appear to have been altered from 1611. This manuscript is thus earlier than Adv.MS.19.3.7, dated 1625, on which the earliest printed edition (Edinburgh, 1709; reprinted by the Abbotsford Club in 1845), is based.The present manuscript does not contain the poems to the Author or the lines on Prince Henry, and the poems on Robert II and III, James II and III, and Mary are shorter by one stanza; on the other hand, it gives an...
Dates: ?1611-?1613.

Theological works written in Germany.

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Identifier: MS.9741
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Abbreviations of the Sentences of Peter Lombard in four books – Friedrich Stegmülller, ‘Repertorium commentariorum in Sententias Petri Lombardi’ (Würzburg, 1947), number 9. Ends 'Et videbunt cadavera virorum etc piitet unusquisque deo gratias etc est finis'. (Folio 1.)(ii) Albertus Magnus, 'Quaestiones super missus est', or 'De laudibus beatae Mariae Virginis' – Stegmüller, ‘Repertorium biblicum medii aevi’, (Madrid, 1940-) number 1061....
Dates: 15th century.

Theological writings and letters of James Tayes, written chiefly at Bo'ness.

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Identifier: MS.5165
Scope and Contents

Internal evidence suggests that James Tayes, if not actually a Quaker, subscribed to some Quaker doctrines; a summary of this evidence will be found on folio i.

There are copies of correspondence with John Brand, minister of Bo'ness (page 94); and with James Aird, minister of Torryburn (page 160).

Dates: 1688-1703.

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Balfour, James, Sir, 1st Baronet of Denmilne and Kinnaird (antiquary) 22
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 16
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 16
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 13
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 12
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Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 10
Morrison, Trevor, poet, d 2013 10
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 10
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 9
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 9
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 9
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 8
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 8
Sibbald, Robert, Sir, Knight (physician and Geographer Royal) 8
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 7
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 7
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 6
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 6
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 6
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 5
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 5
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 5
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 5
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 5
Stevenson, Ronald J, composer and pianist, 1928-2015 5
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 5
Augustine of Hippo, Saint 4
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (afterwards Noel, poet, known as 'Lord Byron') (1788-1824) 4
Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd (Scottish poet, novelist and essayist) 4
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 4
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 4
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 4
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 4
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 4
Stuart, Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir, Prince, 1720-1788 4
Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, ca. 1698-ca. 1770 (Gaelic poet) 3
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 3
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 3
Cronin, Archibald Joseph, novelist, 1896-1981 3
Gratian (Canonist) 3
Hay, Richard Augustine (canon and antiquary) 3
Henderson, Hamish, poet and folklorist, 1919-2002 3
Home, Hon William Douglas, playwright, 1912-1992 3
Leonard, Thomas, poet, b 1944 3
Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc, Duc de La Vallière 3
Mac Mhurchaidh, Uilleam , ca. 1700-1778 (schoolmaster, poet and scribe) 3
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 3
Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace, 7th Baronet of Monreith, politician and author, 1845-1937 3
Maxwell, family, of Monreith 3
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 3
Ramsay, Allan, poet, 1684-1758 3
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 3
Sinclair, Henry (Bishop of Ross) 3
Smith, Annie Shepherd Burnett, novelist, pseudonym "David Lyall", née Swan, 1859-1943 3
Smith, Iain Crichton (poet and author) 3
Soutar, William (poet) 3
St Clair, William, 14th Baron of Rosslyn (Lord Chief Justice of Scotland) 3
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 3
Thorkelin, Grímur Jónsson (Scholar) 3
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 3
Akros, literary magazine 2
Ballantyne, Robert Michael, novelist, 1825-1894 2
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 2
Boccaccio, Giovanni (Writer and Poet) 2
Boog, Robert (Minister of Paisley Abbey) 2
Bottomley, Gordon, author, 1874-1948 2
Bowring, Sir John, Knight, politician, diplomatist and author, 1792-1872: recipient 2
Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, theatre critic and writer, 1891-1974 2
Burnett (of Leys) 2
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 2
Campbell, Archibald, jurist, piper, 1877-1963 2
Chambers, Robert (publisher and writer) 2
Cockburn, Henry, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice, 1779-1854 2
Coles, Cecil Frederick, composer, 1888-1918 2
Doyle, Arthur Ignatius Conan, Sir (author) 2
Farquhar, George Taylor Shillito, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1857-1927 2
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 2
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 2
Freebairn, Robert (bookseller and printer) 2
Gardner, Archibald Ward, physician, 1923-1994 2
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 2
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 2
Grant, John, Pipe Major, d 1961 2
Gregory I, Pope 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
Harper, Edward, composer, 1941-2009 2
Hay, William (Bishop of Moray) 2
Henderson and Bisset, Edinburgh, bookbinders 2
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 2
Hume, David, philosopher, 1711-1776 2
Inglis, Esther, calligrapher, married name Kello, ? 1570-1624 2
Jamieson, Robert Alan, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1958 2
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 2
Justinian I, Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 2
Keating, Geoffrey (Seathrún Céitinn), ca. 1580-ca. 1644 2
Lochhead, Liz, poet and playwright, b 1947 2
Mac Pháill, Eoghan, Dunstaffnage, fl. 1603-1638 2
MacDonald, Donald, piper and bagpipe maker, ? 1766-1840 2
MacDonald, George, poet and novelist, 1824-1905 2
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 2
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