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‘View of the diocese of Aberdeen’, a volume of historical narrative written by Alexander Keith, episcopal minister at Cruden.
It includes descriptions of the civil parishes, biographies of bishops of the diocese, accounts of the old religious houses, collegiate churches and deaneries and of King`s College and University, parochial histories arranged by presbyteries and transcripts and extracts of documents relating to the history of the see.
"Vne estreine pour tres illustre et vertueuse dame la Contesse de Bedford", calligraphic manuscript by Esther Inglis.
Volume, compiled 1752, of the ‘Attorney General`s Opinions` on English excise cases, 1672-1707.
The collection is said by John Maule of Inverkeilor, Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, to have been `Copyed from a Book in the excise Office at Edinburgh and gifted to me by the Commissioners of Excise`. The case opinions are arranged chronologically and refer almost entirely to duties, allowances and other regulations on spirits, beer, cider, perry and vinegar. Entries from page 197 postdate the Union of 1707.
Volume compiled by Robert Pitcairn consisting of printed and some manuscript items of and concerning Archibald Pitcairne.
Volume containing a brief account of the formation of the Belles-Lettres Society, Edinburgh, in January 1759 (folio 1) and minutes of its meetings until 29 May 1761 written in the hands of its successive secretaries.
The minutes of most of the meetings from 30 March 1759 are signed by the president, who was elected for the evening.
Volume containing a copy of the statutes of the Royal College of Physicians of London and a manuscript of an apparently unpublished early edition of the Edinburgh ‘Pharmacopoeia’.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 a fair copy (possibly the original) of `Ane treatise of the Happie and Blissed Vnioun, betuixt the tua ancienne realmes of Scotland and England ... ` by John Russell (folio 1), followed by `Ane wther treatise, contiening the deuty and office, of ane Christiane prince, ...` (folio 21).
The manuscript is the earlier of two known copies, the other being in the British Library, Royal MS 18.A.LXXVI. This copy appears to have been written between May and October 1604: the other, which contains numerous differences, appears to have been written after October 1604, and probably in 1605, and was probably presented to King James.
Volume containing a letter of Lord Byron to Sir John Bowring, 1824; four letters concerning Byron, 1824 and 1828; and a manuscript of his last poem.
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 `Annales Skalholtini, 70-1430`, varia on Icelandic history, 18th century, and Icelandic poems, late 18th century.
Volume containing brief biographies of men who were, or were claimed to have been, Scottish authors (folio 10).
Volume containing copies of legal opinions (mostly of Robert Blair of Avontoun as Solicitor General), and of other legal letters and papers (some printed) on various topics.
A letter is tipped in at folio 20, copies of legal papers are tipped in at folios 76 and 114, and printed legal papers are tipped in and pasted in at folios 29 and 32 verso respectively; folios 85-113, 116-120 are blank.
Volume containing copies of two accounts of the family of Dunbar.
Volume containing extracts (folio 1) made about 1794 (the date of the watermark of the leaves) from the topographical collections of Walter Macfarlane of that ilk, 1748-1749 (Adv.MS.35.3.12), followed by fragments (folio 63), being folios 109-112 and 127-144, of ‘The Geography of Moray`.
Volume containing four items transcribed by Robert Mylne, the Antiquary, between the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Volume containing genealogical and other notes in a number of early 18th-century hands.
Volume containing heraldic and historical works.
Volume containing, in part, brief biographies of men who were, or who were claimed to have been, Scottish authors (folios 6-8, 11, 12-16 verso, 30-39, 51 verso-54).
Volume containing miscellaneous copies, in a 17th-century hand, of documents concerning the affairs of the Church of Scotland.
Volume containing notes and speeches on some questions debated in the Theological and Belles Lettres Society, in the hand of William Lothian, Minister of Canongate Church, Edinburgh.
At the end of the volume are additional notes on the `Value and Proportion of Ancient and Modern Coins` and `Signification and Use of some Words` extracted from Johnson`s English Dictionary.
A scrap of paper (pages 201-202) containing draft notes of the debate on polygamy (pages 102-106) which was found loosely enclosed between pages 106 and 107 has been tipped in after page 200.
Volume containing notes, copies and extracts from manuscripts and documents, together with a few extracts from printed books, collected between about 1709 (folio 15) and about 1717 (folio 230 verso), many of the entries, which include a number of genealogies, relating to persons, families and places in Fife.
Volume containing philosophical works.
The volume contains, ‘Theses Æthicae’ (page1); ‘De Philosophia ejusque divisione in speculativam et practicam’ (page 7); ‘Theses Physicae’ (page 693).
Volume containing the Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda and other poems, written by Jonas Egilson.
Volume containing two descriptions by the Scottish author David Buchanan (?1595-?1652): `Provinciae Edinburgenae Descriptio` and `Edinburgi Descriptio`, possibly written in his own hand.
Volume entitled (folio 2) `Memoirs of the Family of Rose of Kilravok`, being the epitome by Lachlan Shaw, minister of Elgin, of `A Genealogical Deduction of the Family of Rose of Kilravock`, by Hugh Rose, minister of Nairn.
Rose`s work was first written in 1683-1684: Shaw`s epitome records also later members of the family until about 1756 (folio 69 verso), with a supplement until about 1772 (folio 83 verso). This copy appears to have been written for the antiquary William Rose in Montcoffer in the same hand as Adv.MS.32.6.8, and has a note inside the front cover, a contents list at folio 1 and a few textual additions in his hand.