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15th-century English manuscript containing three Middle English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the chivalric poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.11
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘Liber maundevyle` (folio 1). The manuscript belongs to sub-group E of the Defective Version on which the earliest editions were based (`English manuscripts of Mandeville`s Travels`, pages 169-171). Several leaves are missing, containing the end of the prologue and beginning of chapter 1 (after folio 1), chapters 6-9 (after folio 10), and the end of chapter 32 onwards.(ii) `Sir Cleges` (folio 71). ‘The Index of Middle...
Dates:
15th century.
Account by John Farwell junior of his visit to the Osage Indians in Kansas in 1870.
File
Identifier: Acc.6852
Scope and Contents
With copies of associated papers and a covering letter.
Dates:
1942.
Account, intended for publication and heavily corrected, of a voyage from Southampton to St Lucia in the West Indies and of subsequent travels in the United States.
Item
Identifier: MS.14194
Scope and Contents
The paper is watermarked 1851 but reference to the destruction of Point à Pître by an earthquake (folio 104) suggest that some of the journeys described took place in 1843.
The author, an Anglican clergyman, served on St Lucia (the scenery, fauna and religious beliefs of which he describes at some length) for 18 months before travelling with his wife to North Carolina and thence to New York.
Dates:
Mid 19th century.
Account of travels of W Fordyce Brown.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9773
Scope and Contents
Concerns visits to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, the East Indies, China and Japan.
Dates:
1882-1884.
Anonymous account of a tour in Scotland, with an associated letter.
File
Identifier: Acc.8087
Dates:
1845.
Author`s copy of James Logan Mack, "The Border Line" (1st Edition, Edinburgh, 1924), printed on rag paper, containing letters and other items tipped or pasted in.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7232
Dates:
1922-1930 and undated.
Copy of Martin Martin, "A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland" (1716), with annotations, 1720, of John Toland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7999
Dates:
1716-1720.
Copy of Thomas Pennant, "A Tour in Scotland" (London: Benjamin White, 1776, 4th edition), with marginalia by the author and pencil corrections by his son David.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8162
Scope and Contents
With a letter, 1806, of Longman and Co declining to reprint the work.
Dates:
1776-1806.
Corrected manuscript account of Robert Inglis of his ascent of Monte Rosa.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5463
Dates:
1858.
Corrected typescript drafts of Naomi Mitchison, "Mucking Around: Five Continents over Fifty Years" (1981).
File
Identifier: Acc.7848
Dates:
1981.
Correspondence and papers concerning Richard M D Grange, "A Short History of the Scottish Dress" (1967).
File
Identifier: Acc.9822
Scope and Contents
With typescript and illustrations, 1970, for Grange`s unpublished, "What to see on Mull".
Dates:
1967-1970.
Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.1.1-51.2.7
Dates:
1841-1885.
"Excursion from Friars Carse to Carleverock [sic] made by Robert Riddell of Glenriddell 1787".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6609
Dates:
1787.
George Bryson, "Spain, what I saw of it during a Holiday Tour", illustrated with photographs.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6942
Dates:
circa 1881.
Letters and copies of letters to Hamish Brown.
File
Identifier: Acc.12253
Scope and Contents
Includes Don Johnson`s account of a journey from Land`s End to John O`Groats, 1994, text of a talk by Sir Alasdair T Munro on "Hugh Munro and his Tables", 1994, and Nigel Springett`s account of a visit to India, 1989.
Dates:
1989-1994.
Literary papers of Tom Pow.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12233/1-87
Scope and Contents
Literary papers, 1969-2003, of Tom Pow (b. 1950), poet and lecturer in Creative and Cultural Studies at Glasgow University's Chrichton Campus. This collection includes papers relating to the following published works: 'Rough seas' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1987); 'The moth trap' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1990); 'In the palace of serpents' (Edinburgh, Canongate, 1992); 'Shouting it out' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), edited by Tom Pow; and 'Red letter day' (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe,...
Dates:
1969-2003.
Manuscript of Hamish M Brown, "Scotland: Coast to Coast".
File
Identifier: Acc.9999
Scope and Contents
With papers of the first ten years of the Ultimate Challenge, an annual walk across Scotland.
Dates:
1980-1989.
Manuscript of the first half (pp 1-108) of William E Baxter, "A Winter in India".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6560
Dates:
1882.
Manuscript revisions by Robert McLellan for "The Isle of Arran" (2nd edition, 1976).
File
Identifier: Acc.9625
Dates:
circa 1976.
Microfilm of manuscripts of three Middle-English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.238
Dates:
15th century.
Microfilm of 'Walk across Africa’ (Edinburgh and London, 1864), by James Augustus Grant.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.554
Dates:
1864.
Microfilm of account, intended for publication and heavily corrected, of a voyage from Southampton to St Lucia in the West Indies and of subsequent travels in the United States.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2101
Dates:
Mid 19th century.
"Notes of an excursion from York to Edinburgh... and return by a few of the Lakes in Cumberland and Westmorland".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6793
Scope and Contents
The author of this anonymous manuscript is probably George Todd of York.
Dates:
1817.
"Observations on Egypt, Syria and Greece made during a three years cruise in HMS Myrmidon", an account by George Sibbald, Assistant Surgeon, Royal Navy, Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12668
Dates:
? 1816-1818.