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Copy of James Dalrymple, "The Institutions of the Law of Scotland" (Edinburgh, 1681), with frequent overlining and annotation in two hands, one of them that of John Elphinstone.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9330
Dates:
1681.
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 ‘Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky (London, 1733) with manuscript annotations.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.2
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains extracts of two letters, ?circa 1690, concerning the attitude of James VII towards the Church of England (folio 1), and `Some additional Characters of the chief of the last Ministry`, 1715, signed M S (folio 3). The characters, which are apparently copied from another manuscript, are of Bolingbroke, Stafford, the Bishop of London and others. The annotations, writtenbetween 1781 and 1797, are signed `M.` and `E.M.` and are mostly copies of notes by...
Dates:
Circa 1690, 1715, 1733, 1781-1797.
Copy of "Pictures in the New Club" (1911), with manuscript annotations and additions.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7871
Scope and Contents
A catalogue of pictures in the New Club, Edinburgh.
Dates:
1911.
Copy of "Posting Book, with Tables for Calculating the Expense of Horses and Post-Boys" (1837), with annotations concerning journeys in Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10178
Dates:
circa 1837.
Copy of Robert Law, "Memorials" (Edinburgh, 1818), with annotations by editor Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9331
Scope and Contents
Includes letters of James Ballantyne to Sharpe concerning the printing of "Memorials".
Dates:
1818.
Copy of Sir John Sinclair, "Observations on the Scottish Dialect" (London, 1782), with annotations in an unknown hand.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10163
Dates:
circa 1782.
Copy of Sydney Goodsir Smith, "Skail Wind. Poems" (1941), with autograph emandations and additions by the author.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10692
Dates:
circa 1941.
Copy of 'The endless adventure' (1930), by F S Oliver, with annotations of Sir George Young.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14450
Dates:
1930.
Copy of the statutes of the Order of the Garter in English, written probably in 1558, containing the statutes of Henry VIII, and of Mary and Philip, and a further statute, dated 12th of January in the first year of Elizabeth, added in another hand.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.18
Scope and Contents
The title, and the statutes of Henry VIII, are introduced by small gold initials within blue and brown parti-coloured squares. Many of the statutes of Henry VIII, and most of those of Mary and Philip have a title or a summary in red in the margin, written in the same hand as the text; several have marginal annotations in another hand of the late 16th or early 17th century. All the statutes, except that of Elizabeth, have been numbered, and at folios i-ii is a list of contents, written in a...
Dates:
1558.
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.
Copy of "Traditions of Edinburgh" (1825), by Robert Chambers, with double pages replacing cancelled leaves and the original text (concerning Hugo Arnot) supplied in manuscript.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12417
Scope and Contents
Includes tipped in notes of Arnot`s son, and an anecdote, of Walter Scott to Robert Chambers which was incorporated into "Traditions of Edinburgh".
Dates:
circa 1825.
Copy of William Shakespeare, "King Henry VI, Part III" (1936), with marginalia of J Dover Wilson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7527
Dates:
1936.
Copy, with manuscript additions and corrections, of Alexander MacBain, "An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language" (first edition, Inverness, 1896).
Item
Identifier: Acc.9854
Dates:
1896.
Corrected manuscript of unpublished poem of David Scott, "British Deed or Trafalgar", with annotations by William Bell Scott.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7269
Dates:
1848.
Corrected page proofs by George Bruce of his "Today Tomorrow: Collected Poems, 1993-2000".
File
Identifier: Acc.12040
Dates:
2001.
Corrected typescript drafts of play of Stewart Conn, "The King".
File
Identifier: Acc.4433
Scope and Contents
With a copy of a review of the play.
Dates:
circa 1967.
Corrected typescript of a short story of Naomi Mitchison, "The Red Fellows".
Item
Identifier: Acc.5828
Dates:
1973.
Correspondence and literary papers of and concerning George Borrow collected by Sir Angus Fraser, with working papers of Sir Angus Fraser relating to George Borrow.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12091/1-74
Scope and Contents
Includes photocopies, extensive notes on Borrow by Sir Angus Fraser and an annotated copy of 'George Borrow: a Bibliographical Guide' (1984).
Dates:
1794-2001, undated.
Cuthbert Lennox and Andrew Melrose, "George Douglas Brown" (London, 1903), with annotations of R S Craig.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5657
Dates:
1903.
David Hay Fleming, "The Bread Assize in St Andrews", with author`s annotations.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8975
Dates:
1903
`De Historicis Scotis et Politicis qui vel Scoticae Gentis historiara et politiciam et res gestas vel vitas Scotorum aut aliarum Gentium historias exterorunique res gestas enarrant`, being collections of Sir Robert Sibbald, for a bibliography.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.18
Scope and Contents
The latest entries in the volume are dated 1700. It includes manuscript material, and there are annotations on the contents and history of some of the entries.
Dates:
1700, and before.
Early 14th-century manuscript containing the 'Decretals' of Pope Gregory IX; with a gloss by Bernard of Botone. Also included are short excerpts of works by Gratian and Raynald, Archbishop of Rheims.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.10.1.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was produced in France and contains a complete copy of the 'Decretals', or 'Liber extra', of Pope Gregory IX. The volume also contains two short excerpts; the 'Repetitio X.3.26.18' of Raynald Archbishop of Rheims and a passage from the 'Decretals' of Gratian entitled 'Scribitur ii. regum xxi. capitulo'.The contents are as follows:‘Decretals’ of Pope Gregory IX. Folios 1-247r.Folio 247v was prepared with a ruled grid of guidelines for text...
Dates:
Early 14th century.
Editorial papers of Professor Ian A Gordon for an unpublished edition of John Galt`s "The Ayrshire Legatees" based on the 1823 edition.
File
Identifier: Acc.12362
Dates:
1987.
Editor`s marked copies of numbers 1-20 of the magazine, "Lallans".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8555
Dates:
1973-1983.