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Typescripts of "Not the Staff Bulletin", an unofficial NLS periodical.
Includes original drafts and notes from Issue ten onwards, and "Dr Jekyll`s" presentation copy.
Typescripts, proofs, notes and drawings relating to Nigel Tranter`s "The Fortified House in Scotland".
Includes sound recordings of this and other works by Tranter.
Typographical notes of Ruari McLean discussing sheets of speciman pages of decorative types.
Typsecript verse concerning Sir Patrick Geddes by Dr Arthur Geddes with related notes; printed `Brief Guide to the Scotland Room, The Outlook Tower, Castlehill, Edinburgh`, undated; annotated typescript of `Patrick Geddes as a sociologist` by Dr Arthur Geddes; offprints of four published articles on Patrick Geddes.
Various manuscripts written or owned by Thomas Ruddiman.
The manuscripts are lettered RA-RK (RC missing) and some also have Roman numerals.
Various small collections of letters and papers, and some single items, of and concerning men who had served in the army in the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars.
'Verge of the Scottish Highlands’ by William Palmer (London, 1947), containing corrections and other revisions in the author's hand; with the original book jacket and various letters and notes discussing the corrections.
"Virgil's Æneis", translated into Scottish verse by Gavin Douglas (Edinburgh, 1710); the glossary is heavily annotated by John Jamieson.
There are some notes by O K Schram inside the front cover concerning this edition of Gavin Douglas's text.
Volume compiled by Robert Pitcairn consisting of printed and some manuscript items of and concerning Archibald Pitcairne.
Volume containing a student's notes on twenty-nine lectures on conveyancing, delivered by Robert Bell, Writer to the Signet and advocate, lecturer in conveyancing to the Society of Writers to the Signet, 1793-1816.
The manuscript can be dated circa 1796-1800 by internal references to contemporary cases, from the watermarks of the paper, and by comparison with Robert Bell's printed lectures.
Volume containing copies of two accounts of the family of Dunbar.
Volume containing copies, written on sheets watermarked 1798, of notes of events, and the sources in which they are recorded, in the reigns of the kings of Scotland from 1040 (the beginning of the reign of Macbeth) to 1570.
Volume containing genealogical and other notes in a number of early 18th-century hands.
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 surveying instructions and a business ledger, compiled at Yarrow.
Volume containing verse and prose, chiefly Jacobite and satirical.
The longer pieces include 'The Tragedie of Glenco', 'Proelium Gilliekrankianum', 'Bellum Bothwellianum', 'Tarquin and Tullia', and Dr Archibald Pitcairne's 'Assembly' and 'Babell'.
There is a recipe for stomach-ache on folio x verso.
Volume entitled 'Celtic music', compiled by David R Robertson, a mercantile clerk in Dundee, consisting of pipe tunes, poems, notes and memoranda, extracts from published sources, letters from correspondents interested in Gaelic culture, and some press cuttings and photographs.
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.
Volume entitled (folio i) `Miscellania [sic] Scotica Curiosa Or A Collection of Curious, rare, and valuable Paper`s: Relating to Scotland, and Scots Affaires. Collected and Coppied, from the Originalls. by C:R:S:` containing transcripts of Scottish historical documents, extracts of manuscripts and copies of correspondence, from various sources, 1419-1731, and undated.
Volume entitled `Statuti della Mercanzia` (folio 1) containing a copy in a 17th-century hand of the statutes on trade enacted under Francesco de` Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, shortly after his accession in 1574.
The text of the work, which is in three books, is preceded by an engraved title page (folio 1), lists of contents (folio 3) and an index of the most frequently occurring topics (folio 7), and is followed by additional statutes dated 1522-1523, 1526, 1528, 1613, and other material (folio 184).
Volume of letters and papers relating to the research of William L Taylor and J A Fairly on Peter Buchan.
Volume of miscellaneous papers, mostly Scottish, many relating to ecclesiastical affairs.
Volume of notes on Chinese language, customs, and other matters., written about 1855 by the late Dr Walter George Dickson, of Hongkong.
Volume of notes taken down by a student at Glasgow University from lectures on the civil law delivered by John Millar of Milheugh, Professor of Civil Law from 1761 to 1801.
The lectures, delivered in two courses between November 1777 and May 1778, appear to be those on the ‘Institutes’ of Justinian given by Millar to students in the first year of their legal studies. The first course, in 73 lectures (folios 1-88), gave an overview of the text, while the second, in 46 lectures, February-May 1777 (folios 89-292), studied the ‘Institutes’ in more detail.
The notes are in longhand, but with a few shorthand additions.