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Transcript and audiocassette copy of BBC radio broadcast, "MacDiarmid at 85".

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Identifier: Acc.7060
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On the occasion of Hugh MacDiarmid`s 85th birthday, including an interview between MacDiarmid and George Bruce.

Dates: 1977.

Transcript, before 1700, of ‘True relatione of the proceidings of those matters which concernes the Kirk of Scotland fra the first of August 1637’ by John Leslie, Earl of Rothes.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.7
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The manuscript was written in a good hand before 1700.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.6.40.

Dates: 17th century.

Transcript by John Dougall, 1821, from the Harley manuscript, ‘The Morall fabillis of Esope’ by Robert Henryson, schoolmaster of Dunfermline.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.5
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A modern transcript from the Harleian MS.3865. Prefixed are five leaves of notices respecting the manuscript and the transcriber John Dougall, London, 1821.

Dates: 1571, 1821.

Transcript by Pier Asdentz of an Italian translation of the philosophical work by the Reverend Father Pier Maria Ferrari: ‘"Introduzione d`Alcinoo Filosofo agli Insegnamenti di Platone". Tradotta dalla Greca favella nella nostra Italiana dal R.P. Pier Maria Ferrari, Genovese delle Scuole Pie, trascritta dall`originale da me. Pier Maria Asdentz, Genova: 1737’.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.2
Scope and Contents Bound with the transcript is the Greek text ‘Alkinoou Philosophou Eis Ta Ton Platonos Dogmata Eisagoge/Alcinoi Philosophi ad Platonis Dogmata Introductio’, printed in Venice by Aldus, 1521 (folios 56-83 verso). Alcinous, 2nd century AD Middle Platonist philosopher (long misidentified with another Middle Platonist philosopher, Albinus), wrote a handbook of Platonism entitled ‘Didaskalikos ton Platonos dogmaton’ (cf. ‘Alcinoos, Enseignement des Doctrines de Platon’ and ‘Alcinous,...
Dates: 1737.

Transcript, circa 2007, of a diary kept by Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel) Gavin R V Hume-Gore, 1st Gordon Highlanders, 1914.

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Identifier: Acc.12782
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Includes transcripts of related documents, 1914-1918, and a copy of a photograph of Hume-Gore.

Dates: circa 2007.

Transcript copy, late eighteenth century, of ‘De hortorum cultura’, book III, by Josephus Mylius, and other poems.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.37
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‘De Hortorum Cultura, libri III. Josephi Misii Voltalinæ, ad Isabellam Sociam. Brixiæ apud vimentium Sabium, M.D.LXXIII’.

Dates: 1574.

Transcript, early 19th-century, of 'The Passioun of Crist' by Walter Kennedy, from British Library Arundel MS 285, folios 6-46.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.2
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The transcript has been corrected in another contemporary hand.

Dates: 16th century.

Transcript, eighteenth century, of documents illustrating the claim of the English Crown to the overlordship of Scotland.

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Identifier: MS.746
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The manuscript is entitled ‘Instrumentorum quorundam authenticorum exemplaria aliquot ex ipsis archetipis in archivis quod Thesauriariam vocant repositis, transcipta et collecta jussu et mandato ... Edwardi ... Ducis Somerseti ... ex quibus planum fit a tempore Bruti ad nostram pene usque etatem Reges Scocie in fide fuisse Regum Anglie, Regnumque Scocie Reges Anglie tanquam superiores dicti Regni dominos per sacramentum fidelitatis agnouisse. An. MDXLIX collegit Joannes Masonius’.

Dates: 1549.

Transcript in a contemporary hand, of the ‘Autobiography’ of Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk.

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Identifier: MS.3732
Scope and Contents This version of the ‘Autobiography’, the same as that found in MS.3462 (folios 1-371), contains also the opening pages which are missing in that manuscript. Included (as far as folio 34 verso) are numerous excerpts from Thomas Carlyle's 'Recollections', some of which were printed for the first time, perhaps from MS.3463, in the form of footnotes in the 1910 edition of the ‘Autobiography’. Thereafter, apart from minor variations in arrangement and the omission of several paragraphs, the text...
Dates: 1765, 1800, 1819.

Transcript, late 17th-18th century, of ‘History of Scotland during the reigns of the five Jameses’ by William Drummond of Hawthornden.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.4
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The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.V.5.36.

Dates: 17th century.

Transcript, late 17th-mid 19th century, of ‘History of the Church of Scotland’ by David Calderwood, 1st half of 17th century, from the commencement of the reign of James V to the death of James VI.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.6.1 (I)-(XV)
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Volumes 4-10 are a transcript by the Reverend Mr James Inglis from the manuscript of David Calderwood, at that time the property of the Church of Scotland. The remainder are in a uniform hand of the end of the 17th or beginning of the following century.

This work is not only valuable as a history, but, as containing a great number of important state papers, which are not to be found elsewhere.

Dates: 1st half of 17th century.

Transcript made by Ewen MacLachlan of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.3
Scope and Contents Manuscript in the hand of Ewen MacLachlan, Aberdeen, entitled ‘An t-Easpaig’ - presumably because it contains the work of the Dean of Lismore, whom MacLachlan calls (page 1) “Easpuig Leasmòr”. This is valuable, as being MacLachlan’s original Book of the Dean of Lismore transcript, subsequently (but not always accurately) copied by himself and others. (See Adv.MS.72.3.6). It does not strictly follow the order of the original, but the order in which MacLachlan found it easiest to read the...
Dates: 1st quarter of 19th century.

Transcript made by the Reverend Donald Mackintosh, 1803-1806, of the Red Book of Clanranald, written by Niall MacMhuirich.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.7
Scope and Contents A transcript of National Museum of Scotland MCR 39, pages 33-311, made by the Reverend Donald Mackintosh during 1803-1806 in his capacity of ‘Keeper of the Records and Translator of the Gaelic Languages’ to the Highland Society of Scotland, perhaps for the use of Sir John MacGregor Murray of Lanrick, who was chief of the Clan MacGregor and a prominent number of the Society. Its pasteboard cover is inscribed ‘Extract of Red Book of Clanranald in the Original Gaelic (See page 97, Padraig Caoch...
Dates: Mid 17th century-early 18th century.

Transcript made by the Reverend Walter MacLeod of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.12
Scope and Contents Transcript of the Book of the Dean of Lismore (Adv.MS.72.1.37) made in 1897 by the Reverend Walter MacLeod (1864-1935) of Strathkinnes, Fife. Corresponds page for page and line for line to the original. The circumstances of the transcript are described by Donald Mackinnon in a letter to J T Clark, Keeper of the Advocates’ Library, 13 November 1895 (now pages ii-iii) and in a note at folio i verso. The Reverend Walter MacLeod was chosen to make the transcript due to his skill in...
Dates: 1897.

Transcript of a BBC radio talk by Thomas Wilson.

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Identifier: Acc.5834
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Concerning his "Sequentiae Passionis", a cantata for chorus and orchestra commissioned by the Scottish National Orchestra.

Dates: 1973.

Transcript of a BBC television programme, "Gale Force Disaster".

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Identifier: Acc.5754
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On the sinking of the "Princess Victoria" on 31 January 1953.

Dates: 1973.

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Grierson, John, documentary film-maker, 1898-1972 2
Henderson, Hamish, poet and folklorist, 1919-2002 2
Hume, David, philosopher, 1711-1776 2
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Berlioz, Louis-Hector, composer, 1803-1869 1
Birnie, Arthur, Lecturer in Economic History, University of Edinburgh, b 1890 1
Blackwood, James (Canon of Dunblane) 1
Bottomley, Gordon, author, 1874-1948 1
Boufflers, Marie-Charlotte Hippolyte de, wife of Comte Édouard de Boufflers-Rouverel, née de Campet de Sanjou, 1724-1800 1
British Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Scotland 1
Brogan, Sir Denis William, Knight, historian, 1900-1974: transcriber 1
Brown, George Douglas, author, 1869-1902 1
Brown, John, Minister of Whitburn Secession Church, 1754-1832 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician 1
Brown, Samuel, founder of "itinerating libraries", 1779-1839 1
Brown, W D, of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, fl 1942-1943 1
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 1
Bryant, Jacob, antiquary and classical scholar, d 1804 1
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 1
Burns, George, Minister of Tweedsmuir, 1790-1876 1
Burton, Isabella Black, wife of John Hill, historian, née Lauder, d 1849 1
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Böll, Heinrich, author, 1917-1985 1
Cairns, David, Professor of Practical Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1904-1992 1
Calder, Peter Ritchie, Baron Ritchie-Calder, author and journalist, 1906-1982 1
Campbell, Archibald, 1st Duke of Argyll, d 1703 1
Campbell, Archibald, 9th Earl of Argyll, 1629-1685 1
Campbell, Archibald, jurist, piper, 1877-1963 1
Campsie, Alistair Keith, author, journalist and piper, b 1929: transcriber 1
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Carmichael, Alison Charles, wife of John Wilson, née Stewart, author of 'Tales of a Grandmother', ? 1796-1885 1
Cary, Arthur Joyce Lunel, novelist, 1888-1957 1
Catholic Apostolic Church 1
Chantal, Marie du Rabutin-, Marquise de Sévigné, 1626-1696 1
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Clough, Ian Stewart, mountaineer, 1937-1970 1
Cochrane (of Dundonald) 1
Cokayne, George Edward, formerly Adams, genealogist, 1825-1911 1
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Cormack, Jessie, author of "The Spell", fl 1961 1
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Cragg, Violet Emily, wife of William Gilliat, Major, née Andrews, d 1934 1
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Dalrymple, Janet, daughter of James, 1st Viscount Stair, d 1669 1
Davidson, Thomas Randall, Minister of the Tolbooth, Edinburgh, formerly Randall, 1747-1827: transcriber 1
Dick, Sir Alexander, 3rd Baronet, of Prestonfield, physician, formerly Cunyngham, 1703-1785 1
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