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Dictates on logic taken by Thomas Stark, Minister of Balmerino on lectures of Henry Ramsay, Professor of Philosophy at St Salvator's College, St Andrews University.
Item
Identifier: MS.25258
Scope and Contents
The volume is stamped with initials 'TS' on both covers and includes mnemonics for syllogisms (folios 8-9 and possibly also folio 144 verso), ornate alphabets (folio 145), an insulting title page concerning the professor and the inscription of Alexander Cairns (folio i).
Dates:
1723-1724.
Dictates, possibly of George and John Gordon, from the lectures of Mr Thomas Gray, regent in Marischal College, Aberdeen.
File
Identifier: MS.21243
Scope and Contents
The notes, which contain scientific diagrams (folios 34a, 42, 71, 78), appear to be drawn from the system of Pierre Gassendi. The subjects include philosophy (folio 2), Copernican astronomy (folio 54 verso) and fossils (folio 58 verso).
Dates:
[Circa1673.]
Digital copies of letters of James, Robert and William Low, emigrants in the USA.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13361
Scope and Contents
Digital copies in pdf format of ten letters, 1871 - 1884, of James, Robert and William Low of Forfar, emigrants in New Jersey, Texas and Chicago, with transcriptions of the letters in word and rich text format and family history notes in pdf format.
Dates:
1871 - 1884.
Documents, chiefly copies, and papers in the claim to the ancient earldom of Levenax, or Lennox, drawn up about 1772-1774 (but not brought to the House of Lords) by George Cockburn Haldane of Gleneagles.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20001-20003
Dates:
?1195-1844, undated.
'Domestic manners and private life of Sir Walter Scott’ by James Hogg (Glasgow, 1834), containing a brief note from Scott to James Ballantyne, 1824, and an undated note from Hogg to Robert Boyd.
File
Identifier: MS.9610
Dates:
1824-1834, undated.
Drafts and notes of and for the two volumes of ‘The life and letters of James Hogg’ by Alan Lang Strout, Professor of English in the Texas Technological College.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10492-10497
Dates:
1800-1832, 1933-1937, 1946, undated.
Drafts for an unpublished history of the Independent Labour Party and the Labour movement in Bo`ness, West Lothian from 1903-1932, by James Livingstone.
File
Identifier: Acc.11087
Scope and Contents
Includes research notes from original sources.
Dates:
circa 1986.
Drafts of, and notes for, Dennis Smith`s contribution to "For the Encouragement of Learning" (1989)
File
Identifier: Acc.12607
Dates:
circa 1980-1989.
Drafts of lectures, notes, and other papers on ecclesiastical subjects by John Dowden, Bishop of Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3555-3563
Dates:
Late 19th century-[before 1911].
Drafts, proofs, notes, and research materials of Tom Pow, including related correspondence and other literary papers.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12950/1-59
Dates:
[1915]-2007, undated.
Drawings of masons' marks, made or collected by Charles S S Johnston, architect, with letters, notes, and excerpts on the subject; the whole arranged by Professor W B Stevenson..
Series
Identifier: MSS.3726-3729A
Dates:
?1897-1923, undated.
Drawings, plans and notes illustrative of Scottish architecture, by Thomas Ross, Doctor of Laws, (died 1930).
Series
Identifier: MSS.686-729
Dates:
[Late 19th century-1930.]
Duplicated typescript material consisting of genealogical studies of branches of the Forrester family.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.346- is now part of Acc.10884.
Dates:
1671-1692, 1930-1989, and undated.
"Edinburgh Almanack" (1766), with manuscript diary and notes of James Camichael.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5775
Dates:
1766.
Edwin Aug[ustu]s Atlee`s copy of Lectures on Logic: taken from the Mouth of the Rev[eren]d Charles Nisbet DD Pres[iden]t of Dickinson College, Carlisle.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13644
Scope and Contents
40 lectures on Logic given by Charles Nisbet during his tenure as President of Dickinson College, Pennsylvania.
Dates:
1793
Engraved portraits of governors of the Dutch East Indies, with historical notes.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.1
Dates:
18th century.
Essay, circa 1760, of James Buchanan, on self-love, with manuscript notes, 1782, of the 11th Earl of Buchan.
File
Identifier: Acc.6778
Dates:
circa 1760-1782.
Essay, notes, and extracts from other works, on teinds and other ecclesiastical matters.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.11
Scope and Contents
According to a pencil note on page i, `This Book is in handwriting of Commissary John Goldie [of Craigmuie]`.The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Note on reason for parsons being addressed as `Sir’. (Page i.)(ii) `Ane Essay on Teinds.’ This is basically the same text as in Adv.MS.81.1.3. (Page 1.)(iii) `Extracts from [White] Kennets Parochiall antiquitys of Ambrosden andc [Oxford, 1695]`. (Page 88.)(iv) `Extracts from a...
Dates:
18th century.
Essays and other papers of William Myrtle, author of ‘The plagiarist’, chiefly written while he was a student at Edinburgh University (1877-1880).
Series
Identifier: MSS.15919-15920
Dates:
1877-1893.
Essays, probably by Margaret Inglis, a schoolgirl in Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: MS.14274
Scope and Contents
The subjects include themes from literature and history as well as more general topics and descriptions. Also included is a copy of a letter of Margaret Inglis (page 39), and miscellaneous notes and paraphrases.
Dates:
1868-1872.
Estate accounts written on the blank leaves, now separated, of the protocol books, late 16th century, of George Abernethy and James Drummond, notaries in Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.17885-17886
Dates:
1652-1757.
‘Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language’ (Inverness, 1896) and ‘Further Gaelic words and etymologies’ (Inverness, 1899) by Alexander Macbain, with manuscript notes on Gaelic words, etc., probably by George Henderson, Lecturer in Celtic in Glasgow.
File
Identifier: MS.2556
Dates:
1896, 1899, undated.
'Evergreen', 2 volumes (Edinburgh, 1761) by Allan Ramsay with numerous manuscript corrections and variants of the Maitland manuscript throughout.
Series
Identifier: MSS.494-495
Scope and Contents
There are also critical notes (MS.494, fly-leaf) by Bishop Percy.
Dates:
1761.
Ewen MacLachlan’s ‘Leabhar Caol’, containing transcripts (with occasional notes) from nine manuscripts sent to him for examination by the Highland Society of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.5
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts were sent to Ewen MacLachlan by the Highland Society of Scotland in 1812. Dated passim. MacLachlan generally called the volume ‘An Leabhar Caol’, but on the title pages added as alternatives ‘An Diabhol Caol’, ‘The Celtic Repository’. Binding inscribed ‘Ancient Celtic Tales’, ‘The Tales of Other Times’.The contents (text) as follows.(i) Contents list. (Page ii.)(ii) Note on 8th-century learning. (Page iii.)(iii)...
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Excerpts from books and other notes of bibliographical and historical interest of John Smith Gibb titled, 'Notabilia Librorum'.
File
Identifier: MS.1023
Dates:
19th century.