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Two separate and apparently independent fragments of manuscript in Gaelic bearing different portions of the same text, the commentary on the Aphorisms of Damascenus.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.17
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.Folio 1: (John Mackenchie’s ‘B’).The text is written by an undistinguished and rather variable hand, small to average in size.On Isidore’s commentary on Aphorisms of Johannes Damascenus, cf. Adv.MS.72.1.13, folio 1 recto, column a, line 1. Beginning ‘(I)lla non debet nos commovere [et] [c]eter[a]’ = Adv.MS.72.1.13, folio 2 recto, column b, line 35. Ends incomplete ‘mar at[a] reubarbarum ar meid as cosm[ail]’ = Adv.MS.72.1.13,...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Typescript and manuscript war diary of the Reverend David Cairns, padre with 131 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery; with associated military maps, and a paper on the state of the reformed churches in Germany.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5932/1-8
Dates:
1943-1945.
Typescript and pasted-up magazine cuttings of parts of ‘Cleg Kelly' by Samuel Rutherford Crockett, with extensive manuscript corrections by the author.
File
Identifier: MS.6517
Scope and Contents
The typescript covers chapters I-II (folios 1-7), X-XV (folios 23-45) and part of chapter XLVI to the end of the book (folios 55-119). The two former sections were mounted on large sheets of paper, and the last section has now been similarly treated to facilitate binding. The printed cuttings cover chapters III-IX (folios 7-22) and chapters XVI-XIX (folios 46-54). The printed text is taken from an earlier appearance of parts of the novel in the 'Sunday School' during 1894. The typescript...
Dates:
[1896, or before.]
Typescript 'Calendar of MSS. belonging to Colonel G. O. P. Campbell of Stonefield deposited on loan in Record Office, H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh', 1948.
File
Identifier: MS.3737
Scope and Contents
The documents cover the period 1638-1826, and relate to the rising of 1745 and to the administration of Argyll. The writers are the Earls and Dukes of Argyll and the Campbells of Stonefield.
Dates:
1638-1826.
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.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.2.13-20.2.17
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Typescript copy of an unpublished history of Broughton Secondary School, Edinburgh, by John G Sinclair.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8556
Dates:
1948-circa 1980.
Typescript copy of the Nether Lorn, or Campbell, Canntaireachd; with a typescript 'Account of the Campbells of Nether Lorn and their system of Canntaireachd'.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2259-2260
Dates:
1797-[1814, or after], undated.
Typescript drafts of novel of Jessie Kesson, "Where the Apple Ripens" (1978).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7845
Scope and Contents
With manuscript and typescript of associated short story and radio play, undated.
Dates:
1978 and undated.
Typescript drafts, proofs and setting copy of the novel `The Gabriel Hounds` by Mary Stewart, with manuscript working notes concerning the novel.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.117- is now Acc.4666.
Dates:
1967.
Typescript libretto and manuscript musical sketches for opera of Learmont Drysdale, "Flora Macdonald".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4694
Scope and Contents
With manuscript arrangements of eight Scots songs.
Dates:
circa 1903.
Typescript of an article, manuscript of a story and woodcut illustrations of Una Cameron.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14346
Scope and Contents
The material here all relate to mountaineer, Una Cameron (1904-1987).There is a typescript entitled 'In Circles round Mont Blanc', which Cameron has annotated and illustrated in pen. It has been dedicated to "my tiger-friend Dora de Beer".There is also a manuscript of a fictional story entitled 'Cross Purposes'. It was completed in 1922 and has also been bound.Finally, there are woodcut prints of the artwork of Cameron. Some of these have been used as...
Dates:
1922-1941, undated.
Typescript of J K Annand "Two Voices, a Poem Sequence", manuscript journal, 1990, of visit to Norway and first draft typescript, 1969, "Hugh Macdiarmid, Some Notes on the Chronology of the Poet`s Early Career"
File
Identifier: Acc.11064
Dates:
circa 1969-1990.
Typescript of set of poems, 1924, of William Soutar, "Over the Goompa Gu".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7104
Scope and Contents
With manuscript notes, 1923, 1941, of Soutar, and four letters, 1940, from him to James Gilchrist, on literary and political matters.
Dates:
1923-1924 and 1940-1941.
Typescripts, 1961, of three versions of Alastair Fowler, "The Confidence Man", including copies of three associated letters.
File
Identifier: Acc.8703
Scope and Contents
With typescript, 1965, of Kitty W Scoular, "Natural Magic", and a photocopy of the Blage Manuscript, circa 1530-1550.
Dates:
1961-1965 and undated.
Typescripts and manuscript of plays by Margaret Clarke ('Lesley Storm'), and other papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6711
Scope and Contents
Including typescripts of four other plays, with three letters, 1957 and undated, two of Laurence Olivier and one of Vivien Leith to Storm, concerning her plays.
Dates:
1950-1957 and undated.
Ultra-violet photographs of leaves removed from, and of a defaced page of the 'Auchinleck Manuscript' (Adv.MS.19.2.1).
File
Identifier: MS.8894
Scope and Contents
With the exception of folio 5, the photographs are of leaves which were originally part of the 'Auckinleck Manuscript' but were removed at an early date and have remained seperate. They were discovered in use as the covers of notebooks and in bindings.The contents are as follows.Two leaves containing part of ‘The Life of Adam and Eve’; originally gathering 3, folios 4-5, item 3(viii). (Folio 1.)Part of ‘Þe Wenche þat loved a king’; gathering 36, folio 256...
Dates:
[Circa 1335.]
`Um religionen og geistligheden`; Icelandic text, with Danish translation.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.5.1
Dates:
1729.
Unpublished novella of R A Stirling entitled "The Green Purse".
Item
Identifier: Acc.12174
Scope and Contents
The work is set in Portugal.
Dates:
circa 1890.
Varia on Icelandic history, including lives of the prefects and bishops of Iceland by Jón Haldórsson.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.7.7
Dates:
18th century.
Various letters, 1873, 1881, 1890, 1893, and undated, transferred from the Department of Printed Books where they were found loosely enclosed in books.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.12
Scope and Contents
A contents list has been provided, recording also the former locations of the letters.
Dates:
1873-1893, and undated.
Various manuscripts written or owned by Thomas Ruddiman.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20491-20496
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts are lettered RA-RK (RC missing) and some also have Roman numerals.
Dates:
4th quarter of 17th century-1st half of 18th century.
Various single and small quantities of musical compositions and letters of James Scott Skinner.
Series
Identifier: MS.22078
Dates:
1870-1924, undated.
Various works of Ovid in a manuscript by Nicolas Crabel, written at Padua in 1448-1449, with additions of the later 15th and 16th centuries
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Ovid. `Ars amatoria` (`de arte amandi` manuscript; ‘P. Ovidi Nasonis Amores’, etc., page 113). The first gathering has been wrongly bound; the correct order of folios is 3, 2, 6-10, 5, 4, 1 (folio 1).(ii) Ovid. `Amores’ (`de sine titulo` manuscript; ‘P. Ovidi Nasonis Amores’, etc., page 5). ii.14. 31-16.8 are omitted (folio 29).(iii) Ovid. `Remedia amoris` (`de remedio amoris` manuscript; ‘P. Ovidi Nasonis...
Dates:
1448-16th century.