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Diary of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6260-6289
Scope and Contents
The diary entries consist of records of personal experiences, and rambling didactic essays. The topics include observations on religion, philosophy, current events, sex, education, music, art and literature; there are copies of songs and music, a complete essay on marriage, and accounts of travels, notably a journey to Glasgow, 1822 (MS.6260), and a sea-trip to the Irish coast (MS.6272).Some miscellaneous newspaper cuttings and catalogues are inserted in the diary; and there are...
Dates:
1822-1836.
Drawings and journals chiefly of John Harden, a landowner from Tipperary and an accomplished amateur water-colourist, and of his wife Jessy, the daughter of Robert Allan, the Edinburgh banker, and an assiduous diarist.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8832-8873
Scope and Contents
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
Dates:
1799-1853, undated.
First volume of a catalogue of the library of, apparently, David Constable, Advocate, eldest son of Archibald Constable, the Publisher.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.7
Scope and Contents
The volume, arranged alphabetically by authors, covers the letters A to G. It was made by pasting into an album slips, written in several hands, for each book. An entry on folio 151 shows that it was being compiled in 1818; the paper of the album is watermarked 1818, 1819, and 1821.About 60 of the entries give sufficient information about binding or manuscript inscriptions to enable the copy to be identified: of these 9 are certainly, and 19 others possibly, in the sale...
Dates:
Circa 1818-circa 1821.
General catalogue of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/3
Dates:
1774-1855.
'Inventar of Buikis pertaining to Walter Dalgleische this 3 November 1652', a list of some 160 books, chiefly religious and literary, written on the front flyleaves of ‘Recreations with the muses’ by William Alexander, Earl of Stirling (London, 1637).
Item
Identifier: MS.9484
Scope and Contents
Walter Dalgleish was probably factor to the Earl of Dunfermline. His ex-libris, dated 1656, appears on the first flyleaf.
Dates:
1637, 1952
Jacobite Papers.
File
Identifier: Acc.3412
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.
Dates:
1645-1891.
Law shelf catalogue in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Item
Identifier: F.R.251
Dates:
19th century.
Letters and papers concerning the manuscript of ‘Marmion’ by Sir Walter Scott.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.16A
Dates:
1867, 1898-1899.
Letters and papers of and concerning artists and other notables, collected by Aeneas Mackay.
File
Identifier: Acc.11785
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include:
David Y Cameron
Muirhead Bone
James McBey
Dates:
Late 19th century to early 20th century.
Letters of John Byrne to Douglas Percy Bliss.
File
Identifier: Acc.14291
Scope and Contents
John Byrne was a student of the Glasgow School of Art from 1958 to 1963, while Douglas Percy Bliss was its Director. The letters concern Byrne's early career as a painter and playwright and his relationship with Portal Gallery, Mayfair, London, where he exhibited under the name 'Patrick'.With ephemera collected by Bliss including printed leaflets and catalogue guides to 'Patrick''s exhibitions, newspaper cuttings on John Byrne's work, and John Byrne's 1999 Millenium commemorative...
Dates:
1967-1973.
Letters of John D Fergusson to Nigel McIsaac.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10234
Scope and Contents
With letter of McIsaac concerning Ferguson, letters of Margaret Morris and annotated catalogues of Ferguson`s work.
Dates:
1959-1966.
Library catalogue of the Reformed Presbyterian Synod.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5881
Dates:
19th century.
Library catalogue, probably of Alasdair Campbell of Kilmartin.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10035
Dates:
19th century.
'List of books and pamphlets relating to Orkney and Shetland' by James W Cursiter (Kirkwall, 1894), interleaved, with manuscript and printed addenda by James Shand.
File
Identifier: MS.9159
Scope and Contents
The very extensive notes include extracts from printed catalogues, and inserted at the end of the volume (folio 40) is a letter from James Cursiter to James Shand, 1921, acknowledging receipt of bibliographical notes by [Gilbert] Goudie.
Dates:
1894-early 20th century.
Lists of manuscripts in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Item
Identifier: F.R.214
Dates:
[Circa 1796.]
Literary and other papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26163-26188
Dates:
1947-1975, undated.
Manuscript and annotated printed copy of the catalogue of the sale of the books of the Reverened James Anderson.
File
Identifier: Acc.8999
Dates:
1884.
Manuscript card catalogue of the library at Edgerton.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7756
Dates:
20th century.
Manuscript, "Catalogue of Ancient Charters in Bibliotheca Advocatienis Edinburghiensis", 19th century.
File
Identifier: Acc.4420
Scope and Contents
With "Inscriptions", 1789-1800, by John Ramsay.
Dates:
1789-circa 1899.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates:
1177, 15th century-1924.
Manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.5730-5841
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.
Dates:
15th century-?1935.
Manuscripts from the Macadam collection of books on baking and confectionery in the Department of Printed Books.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10978-10980
Dates:
1659-20th century.
Medical notebook of Alexander Ochterlony, a younger son of James Ochterlony of Wester Seaton who studied medicine at the University of Paris.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.15
Scope and Contents
The contents of the notebook are as follows:(i) `Spagyricae seu Jatrochymicae Synopsios Cursus ... illustratus a doctissimo viro domino Rheo`, July 1631. Notes of lectures on chemistry given by Rhee [?Rae], a Scot teaching in Paris. (Folio 1.)(ii) `De primis Naturae principiis`. (Folio 39.)(iii) Extracts from ‘De gradibus et compositionibus receptorum et naturalium’ by Paracelsus. (Folio 45.)(iv) Prescriptions in Latin. (Folio 51.)...
Dates:
1631-1635.
Microfilm of assorted catalogues, minutes and other papers.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.111
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copy, 18th century, of the title-page and pages 881-889 of ‘Opus de Obligationibus Justitiae, Religionis, et Charitatis’ (Lugduni, 1608) of Fernando Rebello, containing Liber 18, `de promissionibus et donationibus`, 18th century (Adv.MS.5.1.5);Minutes of the Belles-Lettres Society of Edinburgh, 27 November 1761-7 December 1764 (Adv.MS.5.1.6);Catalogue of the library of Sir Ellis Cunliffe, Baronet, 1762 (Adv.MS.5.1.7);Catalogue...
Dates:
Late 16th century-mid 19th century.