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Microfilm of dispatches, memoranda and enclosures of or to the 1st Earl of Minto.
The contents are as follows:
Various dispatches and memoranda, August 1809, sent by John Malcolm to the 1st Earl of Minto concerning the army mutiny at Masulipatam (MS.11657);
Copies of dispatches and enclosures, 12 October-27 December 1809, of the 1st Earl to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors (MS.11662);
Copies of enclosures, 15 April 1810, in dispatch of the 1st Earl of Minto to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors (MS.11663).
Microfilm of 'Disputationes in octo libros physicorum' a volume of lecture notes taken from lectures on mathematics, physics, and astronomy, given by George Sinclair, Professor of Mathematics at Glasgow University.
Microfilm of ‘Diurnall of the 2d parl: of our Soverainge Lord King Charles from the 15 day of Julay 1641 to ye 27 of November holden at Edinburghe’ by Sir James Balfour.
Microfilm of documents concerning the controversy over the Usages in the Episcopal Church of Scotland during the first half of the 18th century.
Microfilm of documents concerning the Highlands of Scotland, including a history of the Macdonalds.
Microfilm of documents relating to Lanarkshire, chiefly concerning the parish of Carluke.
Microfilm of Drafts and notes [1801-1802] of Joseph Strutt for the novel, ‘Emma Darcy, or, the Manners of Old Times’, which Sir Walter Scott completed and published as ‘Queenhoo-Hall’ in 1808.
Microfilm of drafts of parts of volume 2 and volume 4, chapters 1-7 of ‘Caledonia’ by George Chalmers.
Microfilm of drafts of the ‘Topographical Dictionary’ by George Chalmers.
Microfilm of drafts of works of George Chalmers; and, papers of Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice.
Microfilm of drawings of Sir Robert Sibbald, correspondence of Robert Adam, architect, and designs of interior decoration and furniture.
The contents are as follows:
Collection of original drawings, 2nd half of 17th century, by Sir Robert Sibbald, of fish, birds, plants, etc. (Adv.MS.6.1.14);
Correspondence, 1789-1791, of Robert Adam the architect and his Edinburgh clerk of works, John Paterson (MS.19992);
Book, late 18th century, of designs of interior decoration and furniture, in the classical style. (MS.2876).
Microfilm of early 14th century manuscript containing the 'Decretals' of Pope Gregory IX.
Microfilm of early 14th century manuscripts containing works of Justinian.
The contents are as follows:
Early 14th-century manuscript, 1330-1335, containing the 'Volumen' and 'Liber Feudorum' of Justinian, with the 'Glossa Ordinaria' of Accursius, and some miniatures of Andrea da Bologna (Adv.MS.10.1.4 (i));
Early 14th-century manuscript, 1310-1320 containing Books 39-50 of the 'Digesta' of Justinian, with the 'Glossa Ordinaria' of Accursius (Adv.MS.10.1.4 (ii)).
Microfilm of early fourteenth-century manuscript containing the 'Volumen' and 'Liber Feudorum' of Justinian, with the 'Glossa Ordinaria' of Accursius, and some miniatures of Andrea da Bologna.
Microfilm of eight ledgers of Alasdair Gray, containing work notes for stories, poems, plays, and his last novel, with draft of letters and many diary entries.
Microfilm of eighty-two letters, 1660-1678, of James Sharp, Archbishop of St Andrews, and forty-six, 1664-1681, of Alexander Burnet, Archbishop of Glasgow and St Andrews successively, to the Duke of Lauderdale, chiefly on the affairs of the Church of Scotland and the conflict with the Covenanters.
Microfilm of 'Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry, delivered by Joseph Black, Professor of Chymistry at Edinburgh, in two volumes'.
Microfilm of Elizabethan letters and transcripts of the register of Arbroath Abbey.
Elizabethan letters (Adv.MS.1.2.2);
Transcripts, 1815, by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, of the register, 13th century-16th century, of the abbey of Arbroath and of various charters, 1213-1246. (Adv.MS.9A.1.18).