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Agnes Hume`s music book.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.17
Scope and Contents The music book contans 15 pieces possibly for guitar, four common psalm tunes, and eight songs, with the later addition of some Scots tunes for violin. The guitar tunes (folios 1-4 verso) are written on a six line stave. The songs (folios 14 verso-17 verso, 8-9 - the correct arrangement) include:‘There is a lady sweet and kind’ by Thomas Ford (folio 15 verso);‘Gather your Rosebuds’, a setting of Robert Herrick`s poem (folio 16);`I...
Dates: Circa 1704.

Book of devotions in the form of the Seven Penitential Psalms, and other prayers and devotions, written during the early years of the pontificate of Pius VII.

 File
Identifier: MS.21238
Scope and Contents

The seven penitential psalms begin on folio 2.

The Psalms and several of the prayers are written in Latin (Psalms 1 (51) and cxxix (130) are not written out in full), the rest of the prayers and all the rubrics are in Italian.

A scrap of paper inscribed 'Libriccino che fu di uso del Cardinal Duca d'Yorck' in a nineteenth-century hand is tipped in at the front of the volume (folio i).

Dates: 1800, 1824

Copies, 17th century, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall`s renderings in Latin verse of the Psalms and the Song of Solomon.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.12
Scope and Contents

The original was probably written after 1616, since it includes a dedicatory poem to Charles I as Prince of Wales.

Dates: ?After 1616.

Gaelic oral history recordings, Scottish folk music, and Gaelic psalm singing recordings from the Gairloch Heritage Museum Oral History, Gaelic Story and Song Collection.

 Series
Identifier: UNLS008
Scope and Contents

A collection of songs, music, stories and testimony from the Gaelic community.

Dates: 1960-2000.

Leyden Song Book: a collection of songs, instrumental pieces, and psalms, possibly compiled by Williane Stirling, with later additions.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.14
Scope and Contents The contents are:1. 54 songs and instrumental pieces (folios 1-25 verso), of which the following have been identified:`My love bound me`, Robert Jones, ‘Second Book of Songs’, 1601 (folio 4 verso);`Do not O do not praise`, Robert Jones, ‘Ultimum Vale’, 1608 (folio 5);`There is none, O none but you`, Thomas Campion, ‘Second Book of Airs’, 1610 (folio 6);`Vaine men whose follies`, Thomas Campion, ‘Second Book of Airs’,...
Dates: Circa 1639.

Manuscript book, containing psalm-tunes, philosophical notes, notes of sermons, etc.

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Identifier: MS.784
Scope and Contents

The manuscript book is inscribed on the fly-leaf 'Rogerus Kirkpatrick...1697, 1698', and contains some entries of later date.

Dates: 1697-1698.

Manuscript known as ‘Neil MacBeath’s Psalter’, containing medical notes in Gaelic and prayers and Psalm 118 in Latin.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.4
Scope and Contents This remarkably small, chubby manuscript, ‘Neil MacBeath’s Psalter’, is described by David McRoberts in ‘Two Hebridean liturgical items’, page 171, with a plate showing its external appearance. ‘Cleric and physician’, he concludes, ‘he . . . had in his vade-mecum, which he would fasten to his belt, all the literature he required (his substitute for the Divine Office and his medical notes) when he set out to attend to the souls and bodies of his parishioners’. The ‘Divine Office’ is Psalm...
Dates: 15th century-16th century.

Metrical version of the Psalms, by Thomas Foxton.

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Identifier: MS.635
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is inscribed: ‘Coningesby—Given me by Mr. Archer March—1752. Wrote by Thos. Foxton’. An article from ‘Notes and Queries’, 2nd series, volume ii, page 321, is inserted at folio i. The manuscript of this article, which is initialled J O, and a note on Thomas Foxton by Alexander Gardyne, are attached to the end-papers at the beginning of the volume.

Dates: [1752, or before.]

Metrical version of the Psalms, divided according to the Psalter of the Church of England.

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Identifier: MS.655
Scope and Contents

There are metrical versions of the canticles (Te Deum, Magnificat, etc.) at the beginning. At the end (folio 127 verso) some of the Psalms are repeated, some of them in alternative versions.

Dates: 18th century.

Microfilm of works, 17th century, of Esther Inglis and a book of recipes, 1st half of 17th century-1735, 1879, started by Anna, Lady Elcho (died 1649).

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1052
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:   Moral sentences, written as specimens of penmanship, by Esther Inglis, 17th century (MS.2197);     Book of recipes, 1st half of 17th century-1735, 1879, started by Anna, Lady Elcho (died 1649), and continued by her daughter Jean, Countess of Sutherland (MS.3031); 'Pseaumes de David. Escrits a Londres par Esther Inglis pour son dernier adieu, ianvier, 1.1615', a calligraphic copy of the Psalms from the Geneva version of 1588, with a...
Dates: 17th century-1735, 1879.

Music book of Alexander MacAlman.

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Identifier: MS.9477
Scope and Contents A volume of psalm tunes and other songs, compiled circa 1643 by Edward Millar, director of the Chapel Royal of Scotland, and owned circa 1660 by Alexander MacAlman (Dean of Argyll?), from whom it passed to the Reverend Colin Campbell of Achnaba, minister of Ardchattan, an ancestor of the depositor.The contents are as follows:(i) Vocal exercises (folio 1);(ii) Fifteen common psalm tunes, all already contained in the psalter of 1635 in almost the same order,...
Dates: [Before 1643.]

Music book of unknown ownership containing operatic arias, Scottish and other songs, marches and psalm tunes.

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Identifier: MS.21753
Scope and Contents

The paper is watermarked 1797 and the pieces appear to be written in a contemporary hand. An engraved preliminary leaf (with a large space for the owner's name, etc.) is at folio i. Leaves have been cut or torn out after folios i, 30 and 39, and folios 38 and 39 were formerly stuck together with wax seals.

Dates: [1797, or after.]

Music notebook.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.11
Scope and Contents

The notebook contains:

notes on musical theory (folios 1-12 verso, 32 verso-33);

the common psalms tunes as in the psalter of 1625 with the addition of ‘Newtoun’, all in four parts (folios 13-25);

the proper tunes to psalms 119, 136 and 25, church part only (folios 27v.-29v.); and,

the song `Gather your rosebuds`, attributed to William Lawes (folios 30-31).

Dates: Circa 1700.

Notebook containing works on musical theory, psalm tunes, miscellaneous recipes and a poem.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.16
Scope and Contents The arrangement of the notebook is as follows:musical theory (folios 1-19, 35-66);tenor and bass parts only to 13 common psalm tunes, all in the psalter of 1635 (folios 20-32);the proper tune for psalm 119, tune only (folio 33);melody and figured bass parts to 10 psalm tunes, possibly from a collection circa 1750 (folios 66 verso-71);miscellaneous recipes for colours, medicines, etc. (folios 76-115); and,a poem...
Dates: Circa 1754.

Papers of and concerning the Reverend George Murray Reith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3564
Scope and Contents

Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.

Dates: [?1885]-?1st half of 19th century.

Papers of Thomas H Collinson, organist of St Mary's (Episcopal) Cathedral and conductor of the Edinburgh Royal Choral Union.

 File
Identifier: MS.21880
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Unfinished copy of 'Thou O God art praised in Sion' (Psalm 65) by Thomas H Collinson, an exercise for the degree of Bachelor of Music, Oxford, 1877 (folio 1), followed by drafts of several of the sections (folio 68). The unfinished parts of the scoring have been supplied in pencil, apparently by the composer's son Francis M Collinson. Folios 21-24 appear to be from an earlier copy in the composer's autograph.(ii) Setting for choir and...
Dates: 1877-1928, undated.

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