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11 letters and notes of David, 11th Earl of Buchan, to Julius Griffiths.
File
Identifier: Acc.8946
Dates:
1804-1805 and 1824.
12 letters of Lord Randolph Churchill to Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery.
File
Identifier: Acc.8654
Scope and Contents
With notes, 1887 and 1892-1893, by Rosebery of conversations with Randolph Churchill.
Dates:
1871-1894.
12 photographs of the Thistle Chapel.
File
Identifier: Acc.4855
Scope and Contents
With photocopies of notes of James Grieve.
Dates:
1911.
12 volumes relating to the peerage of Great Britain collected by James Maidment.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12424
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings from newspapers and magazines, portraits, broadsides, genealogical tables and notes. Also includes notes on cases on which Maidment was working.
Dates:
18th century to 19 century.
13 drawings by Edward Blore for Sir James Hall`s "Essay on the Origin, History, and Principles of Gothic Architecture" (1813).
File
Identifier: Acc.12083
Scope and Contents
Includes a collection of proof engravings for the book and some drawings, notes and papers of Sir James Hall.
Dates:
1809-1812.
15 stereoscopic photographs of Scottish scenes.
File
Identifier: Acc.11919
Scope and Contents
Taken by members of the Stereoscopic Society of which R W Copeman was President. The versos bear technical notes.
Dates:
1901-1915.
19 photographs of buildings in Edinburgh, with manuscript notes of F M Chrystal.
File
Identifier: Acc.3726
Dates:
1912.
21 documents relating to the lands of Curriehill near Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12778
Dates:
circa 1693-1721
22 letters, 1843-1847, to John Stevenson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.6271
Scope and Contents
Concerning the transactions of the committee for the erection of a memorial to James Wilson, leader of the Radical Rising of 1820, in which Stevenson took part.
With a biographical note on Stevenson by George Maddocks, and a colour photograph of his portrait.
Dates:
1843-1847 and undated.
267 letters of André Raffalovich to Francis H Wright and his family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.5287
Scope and Contents
With 19 letters of John Gray to Wright, and explanatory notes by Sir Norman Wright.
Dates:
early 20th century.
`A note of Sir Walter Scot of Whitsleid his writtis of Etrikhous.`
Item
Identifier: Ch.B.23
Dates:
Circa 1623.
Abridgement of the ‘Chroniche’ of Giovanni Villani (died 1348) continued by his brother Matteo (died 1363) and by Matteo`s son Filippo, to the end of 1365.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.2
Scope and Contents
The abridgement breaks off, in mid-sentence, in 1363 (in the middle of Chapter 69 of Book XI of the Matteo-Filippo Chronicle), 3¾ folios at the end being blank. The manuscript was written, probably in Florence, shortly after 1500; there are two water-marks, an eagle (Briquet 87: Florence, 1495) and a hat (Briquet 3383-3393: mostly Florence, 1470-1500). It is therefore possible that it is the autograph of the author of the abridgement, who was alive in 1500 (see folio 14 verso)....
Dates:
After 1500.
Abstracts and documents concerning Scottish merchant shipping in the 18th and 19th centuries, compiled and collected by Harry St Clair MacVine Taylor.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9997
Dates:
1989-1990.
Account-book of Hew MacKail, one of the Keepers of Parliament House, containing his official record of income as a Keeper. Mention is made of some of the cases heard in the Court of Session, and sometimes a note of the sentence is given.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.12
Dates:
1757-1773.
Account of the experiences of Alpin MacGregor, 1st Gordon Highlanders, as a Prisoner of War, and notes on interviews conducted by his father, Rev Duncan MacGregor, with soldiers repatriated to Holland.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13710
Scope and Contents
Account of the experiences of Alpin MacGregor, 1st Gordon Highlanders, as a Prisoner of War, 1918, and notes on interviews conducted by his father, Rev Duncan MacGregor, with soldiers repatriated to Holland, early 1918.Alpin MacGregor was a Sergeant Major in the 1st Gordon Highlanders. In the regular army when the First World War broke out, MacGregor`s was amongst the first battalions to form the British Expeditionary Force in August 1914. In the retreat following the battle at...
Dates:
1918
`Account of the Scotish Poets either printed or manuscript which I have seen, from Ancient tymes to the year 1701` compiled by Sir Robert Sibbald, being the preface and drafts of two books consisting respectively of lists of poems in Latin or Greek, and lists of vernacular poems.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.24
Scope and Contents
The poems are arranged under their authors and there are a few biographical notes.
Dates:
1701, and before.
Accounts, 1719-1786, concerning Culross.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8981
Scope and Contents
With dictates, 1677, taken down as the University of Edinburgh by James Blaw.
Dates:
1677, 1719-1786.
Adam Drinan, "The Process of Writing Verse" (being a typescript of poem, "The Trossachs"), with typescript notes and comments.
File
Identifier: Acc.4552
Dates:
circa 1968.
Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.2.1-81.2.10
Scope and Contents
Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.
Dates:
16th century-19th century.
Album compiled by Katherine Jane Ellice, 1838-1864, entitled 'Scrabble Book Quebec, 1839', with notes 2013-2014 and undated, on Ellice family history in Canada and Glenquoich.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13651/1-3
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1838-1864, 2013-2014, undated.
Album of drawings of `An eight week`s tour in Scotland taken by ten Douglas`s`.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13363
Scope and Contents
Drawings made on a tour in Scotland in 1845. Places visited include Dalkieth, Edinburgh, Roslin chapel, the Trossachs, Glencoe, Tyndrum, Ballahulish, Kinlochmore, Loch Leven, Dunolly Castle, Inverary, Newbattle and Hoddam Castle.
Dates:
1845
Album of Euphemia Inglis, "Great Homes... Visited and Described by Innes Adair".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8493
Scope and Contents
Contains cuttings of articles on historic houses published by Inglis in the "Weekly Scotsman", photographs, notes and letters.
Dates:
1898-1902.
Alchemy: a compilation.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.1
Scope and Contents
(i) Medical notes. (Folio 1).(ii) `De Alchemia Dialogi II. Quorum prior, Genuinam librorum Gebri sententiam, de industria ab Authore celatam, et figurato sermone involutam retegit, et certis Argumentis probat. Alter Raimundi Lullij Majoricani, Mysteria in lucem producit. Quibus praemittuntur, propositiones centum viginti novem, idem argumentum compendiosa brevitate complectentes. Norimbergae apud Joan. Petretum. Anno MDXLVIII.’ A copy from the printed work (the first part of...
Dates:
17th century.
Alexander Nimmo`s copy of his account of the survey made by him in the summer of 1806 of the northern, eastern and southern boundaries of Inverness-shire, which he undertook on Telford`s recommendation, whilst rector of Inverness Academy, for the parliamentary commission appointed to fix the county boundaries of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.20
Scope and Contents
The copy is in Nimmo’s own hand, written up in the form of a journal, from the notes which he took in his pocket-book whilst engaged upon the survey. It is written on the rectos of the leaves, the versos being left for maps (folios 11 verso, 12 verso), notes, bearings, and additions to the text. It appears to be incomplete, for it ends rather abruptly (folio 50). It is followed by an explanatory letter to John Rickman, who at the time was secretary to the commissions for making roads and...
Dates:
1806.
`Alphabet of Honnor: or The Succession and Armes of the Kinges, Princes, Dukes, Marquesses, Earles, Barons, and Gentry of England since the Conquest’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.19
Scope and Contents
The contents include notes on and blazons of the arms of the five conquerors of England and the seven Saxon kings (page 1) based on ‘The Accedence of Armorie’, pages 35-40; notes on and blazons of the arms of the English dioceses (page 5) and the Oxford and Cambridge colleges (page 16); the succession of English princes, dukes and earls since 1066 (page 25); the order of viscounts and barons (page 88); and an alphabetical list chiefly of the English gentry with blazons (page 92)....
Dates:
1618.