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Volume of correspondence of, and relating to, James Hogg.
Volume of correspondence of James Nairne, WS, and papers of, and concerning, the Bannatyne Club.
Includes letters of Sir Walter Scott, James Ballantyne and David Laing.
Volume of Covenanting documents, containing copies of papers representing an extreme 'Cameronian' view.
Volume of Covenants signed by George Leslie, Edinburgh.
Volume of genealogies and poems in the hand of Robert Mylne, engraver, son of the writer and antiquary of the same name (see folio 82), with a few additions by his father.
Volume of historical and literary works, 13th century, written in England in the early 14th century.
Sections iv-vii are in the same hand. Folios 33 verso-34 verso are blank. There are a few pen drawings of faces in the margins.
Fragments of a 13th-century contents list from a collection of sermons have been used as binding strips; other fragments from the same source are in Adv.MS.18.2.4 and 18.4.5.
Volume of letters and papers relating to the research of William L Taylor and J A Fairly on Peter Buchan.
Volume of letters of Alexander Park, Writer, Glasgow, under the pseudonym `Andrew Ker`, an intentionally eccentric and outrageous correspondence.
Volume of letters, of Archbishop James Sharpe, and Bishop Alexander Burnet, to the Duke of Lauderdale.
Volume of letters of Lady Harriet Jane Gyll to her father, Hamilton Fleming, self-styled 9th Earl of Wigtown, and her mother, Mary Charlotte Fleming.
Volume of manuscript material for a proposed publication on the English Peerage by Robert Beatson, Doctor of Laws, compiler and miscellaneous writer (1742-1818).
The volume seems to have been written about 1802-1803 and contains detailed genealogical accounts of a number of English peers and their families. The volume was apparently never published.
Volume of miscellaneous letters and a poem of Robert Louis Stevenson, together with letters of Sir Sidney and Lady Colvin concerning Stevenson.
The letters are unpublished unless otherwise stated.
Volume of miscellaneous papers concerning genealogy and religion which belonged to Robert Mylne, the antiquary.
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.
Volume of 'Opera songs' belonging to Hugh Rose of Kilravock (died 1755), whose name as Hugh Rose of Geddes, with the date 25 November 1738, are on the inside of the back cover.
The songs are set with a melody line and bass only, and consist of excerpts from works of many of the major opera composers of the first third of the 18th century, notably Hasse, Handel, Porpora and Vinci.
One or two small dances have been put into blank spaces, and on page 1 there is a set of variations by William McGibbon on a theme by Corelli.
Volume of photographs of the early stages of the building of the Forth Bridge, 1888, with some later photographs and a watercolour of the completed bridge.
Volume of photographs of the early stages of the building of the Forth Bridge, 1888, with some later photographs and a watercolour of the completed bridge.
Volume of poems containing principally 'Lyndha, a Grecian tale', in four cantos, in the hand of J Lyell, Dollar, followed by four poems on biblical and classical subjects in another hand, all apparently unpublished.
Volume of poetry, 1858-1862, of Corporal William Beattie Hadden, 42nd Royal Highland Regiment (The Black Watch), in India.
Volume of poetry by James Cargill, Edinburgh.
Volume of poetry from the Dalkeith House Circle.
Volume of practicks.
Volume of prayers in German.
There were originally two volumes containing prayers to be said throughout the liturgical year, but the second volume is missing. This manuscript contains prayers from the Sunday before Advent until Easter. Incipit `Hier hebet sich an Ein Andechtig Buchlein mit etzlichenn gutenn Ubungenn durch das iar` (folio 1). Some prayers to be said at New Year, which should follow folio 114, were omitted and copied later by the scribe (folios 309-322).