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Catalogue of books belonging to the Reverend Donald Sage, Minister of Kirkmichael and Cullicudden, drawn up 28 October 1823.
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Identifier: MS.1537
Scope and Contents
There are also excerpts and translations from Martial and translations of the ‘Faolan’ and ‘Song on a Jilted Lover’ of Rob Donn. Bound at the beginning and end of a volume containing ‘An Epistle address'd to a Friend’ ([Edinburgh], 1740), and 'Love of fame, the universal passion: In seven characteristical satires' (Glasgow, 1755) by Edward Young, both formerly the property of Sage.
Dates:
1740, 1755, 1823.
Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.15
Scope and Contents
Each volume has a contents list (folios 1, 77) and the second volume has its own foliation added in an apparently later hand.The first volume (folios 1-74) consists of copies (in the same hand), made apparently in or about 1585, of the following:(i) ‘Discorso del Priore d`Inghilterra a Papa Pio V circa la Riduttione di quel Regno’ (folio 2), being an account by Sir Richard Shelley, Grand Prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, written apparently early in 1570,...
Dates:
1537-1606.
Letters and papers concerning the manuscript of ‘Marmion’ by Sir Walter Scott.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.16A
Dates:
1867, 1898-1899.