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Copy of Sir George Arthur, "Life of Lord Kitchener" (1920), containing author`s letter, ?1921, and proof of Earl Haig`s preface for French edition.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7128
Dates:
1920-1921.
Extracts and copies of historical works, collected by Sir James Balfour, 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.7
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Epitome Codicis Sconensis ... ex libro M.S. Magni Mackculloche` (folio 1). Material in Latin and English, taken from the `Scotichronicon` for 1057 to 1436, with a supplement (folio 34) for 1199-1263. This was the basis of the early part of Balfour`s ‘Annales of Scotland’. ‘The Scottish historical library’, pages 92-93, refers to this manuscript.(ii) Extracts from ‘Scotorum historiae’ by Hector Boece (folio 39)....
Dates:
1440-1642.
Greek poetry; a volume consisting of three printed books, with manuscript notes and annotations in Latin in an 18th-century hand.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.8.4
Scope and Contents
The printed books are:(1) Reiske, Johann J. ‘Anthologiae Graecae a Constantino Cephala conditae libri tres’, 2 parts (Leipzig, 1754);(2) an unidentified Ανθόλγια;(3) Μόσχου καὶ βιῶνος εἰδὐλλια, edited by A van Meetkercke (Bruges, 1565). The first part of (1) (except the preface) has been interleaved and several leaves have been added at the end of (2). On these leaves, on the last page of (3), and on the lower paste-down are manuscript...
Dates:
1565, 18th century.
Microfilm of schoolbook, transcribed in the early 12th century, containing notes and glosses (in Latin and German) on authors studied in schools and other texts which could be used in teaching.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.703
Dates:
Early 12th century.
Papers of Professor John Erickson concerning the `Edinburgh Conversations`.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13596
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, memoranda and related papers, 1974-1997, concerning the ‘Edinburgh Conversations’ and Professor John Erickson`s involvement in them.John Erickson (1929-2002) was a British military historian and the West’s leading authority on the Soviet military during and after the Second World War. During the ‘Cold War’ he was one of the very few academics to earn the trust of both sides and a key channel for contact between the Soviets and the Americans.After...
Dates:
c.1970s-1994
Schoolbook, transcribed in the early 12th century, containing notes and glosses (in Latin and German) on authors studied in schools and other texts which could be used in teaching.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Juvenal, 'Satires': citations with commentary in alphabetical order of keyword, incipit 'Maior auaritie patuit'. (i.88). (Folio 1.)(ii) Lucan, 'Civil War': introduction and citations with and without commentary from books 1-6 and 9, incipit 'Lucanii sum(m)a utilitas e(st) i(n) topog(ra)phia'. (Folio 5 verso.)(iii) Philosophical notes, possibly connected to Porphyry's introduction to Aristotle's 'Analytica...
Dates:
Early 12th century.
Typescript of Malcolm Murray, "Överslöjtnant Alexander Irvings Skotska Bördsbrer av den 16 Maj 1642".
File
Identifier: Acc.9162
Scope and Contents
With an English translation, notes and correspondence, 1986.
Dates:
1976-1986.