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Archive of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10893/1-451
Scope and Contents
Includes material concerning productions, administration and publicity.
Dates:
1972-1991.
Archive of the Royal Celtic Society.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13898
Content Description
The archive of the Royal Celtic Society, founded in 1820 as the Celtic Society, and bearing its 'Royal' designation since 1873. Among the founder members were Captain William Mackenzie of Gruinard, Sir David Stewart of Garth and Sir Walter Scott, the Society's first vice president.
The archive contains minute books, financial records, membership lists, correspondence, files on the Society's history and constitution, photographs, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous matter.
Dates:
1820-1974.
`Argenis` by John Barclay: an Icelandic translation by Jón Einarsson.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.2.13
Dates:
1694.
Arguments of the judges in the Court of Exchequer in the Bankers’ case, 23rd June 1696.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.5.13
Dates:
1691-1696.
`Arnbiörg æruprydd dandis kona á Vestfiördum Islands` by Björn Haldórsson, with a Danish translation by Jón Ólafsson.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.2.12
Dates:
1782.
`Articles of Constitution of the Friendly supporting Society of Colliers and Others in the parish of Newton and County of Edinburgh`.
Item
Identifier: Ch.2518
Dates:
Early 19th century.
‘Assumption of the benefices’, copy, 18th century, of a book of assumptions, tax rolls of church properties, and retour of Fife.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.13
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.V.3.1.The contents are as follows:
(i) An abridgement of part of the valuation, 1551 (page 5);
(ii) The rent paid to the King out of the surplus of the thirds of benefices (page 48);
(iii) Various taxt rolls of Benefices and church property - temporality as well as spirituality, chiefly early 17th century (page 51);
(iv) List of Religious houses (page 185);
(v) Copy of a retour,...
Dates:
16th century-early 17th century.
Audio recording of an address by John Buchan to the Sir Walter Scott Society.
Item
Identifier: MS.23064
Dates:
1932.
Author's interleaved proof copy of ‘Occasional verses, translations and imitations’ by Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie; with letters and papers to Glenbervie formerly loosely inserted therein.
Series
Identifier: MSS.16493-16494
Dates:
[?1820.]
Autograph draft score and final version of Edward Harper, "Launch whan ye can", for alto, tenor and piano (words by William Soutar).
Item
Identifier: Acc.10797
Dates:
1992.
Autograph draft short score of the apparently unpublished piano concerto of Edward Harper.
File
Identifier: MS.22151
Scope and Contents
A leaf is torn out after folio 16.
What appears to be an extract from ‘Variazioni’ by Luciano Berio is written at folio 20.
Dates:
1969.
Autograph manuscript of `Ragionamento di Carlo V. Imperatore tenuto al re Philippo suo figliuolo In dargli la libera signoria di tutti gli stati suoi`, Giacomo Castelvetro`s translation, 1592, of Charles V`s advice to his son, 1555.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.6
Scope and Contents
The colophon (folio 42) is signed `Giacopo Castelvetri cittadino modonese.`
The text is preceded (folio vi) by Castelvetro`s dedicatory letter to James VI.
Dates:
1592.
Autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.5.1.16-5.1.21
Scope and Contents
The majority of the works are unpublished, and those which are published present considerable divergences. All the plays were written for the stage, and in some cases the names of the actors appear in the list of dramatis personae. Adv.MS.5.1.16, (i) and (ii) seem to be unconnected with the remainder of the collection.
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Autograph poem “An Eala Bhàn” by Iain Crichton Smith, with typed transcript and English translation.
File
Identifier: MS.14971
Dates:
1968.
Autograph second draft with alterations and additions of short score of Concerto for String Orchestra, opus 39, by Kenneth Leighton, when Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
Item
Identifier: MS.21977
Dates:
[Circa 1960.]
Balcarres Papers.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.29.2.1-29.2.9a
Scope and Contents
In the original inventory (a copy of which is at MS.3581, folios 6-7) signed by Thomas Ruddiman, then Underkeeper of the Library, the papers are listed in thirty-eight bundles. Most of these were arranged and bound during the period 1820-1849. Of the remainder, Adv.MSS.19.1.24 and 29.2.9a were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that Adv.MS.19.1.24 belonged to the collection. Adv.MS.16.2.3, now a small quarto volume, had also become separated from the rest of the papers, but can be...
Dates:
1231-1686, and undated.
"Bellenden's Livy": a manuscript of the first five books of Livy’s ‘History of Rome’ translated into Scots by Archdeacon John Bellenden.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.12
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.7.8.
Dates:
1533.
Biographical account of William Cowper, Bishop of Galloway, who died in 1619.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.3.12
Scope and Contents
The account is headed "Life of William Cowper, Bishop of Galloway and Dean of the Chapel Royal of Holyrood." A note at folio 1 refers to the "Address of Principal Lee to the students of the University of Edinburgh at the opening of the session 1846" and this date is added in pencil at folio 1; but the present text is the work of a different author. Neither the hand nor the subject-matter of this account seems to resemble either in Lee`s discourses in MS.3452; it is not in the selection...
Dates:
19th century.
“Blair’s Collections”: Session papers of Robert Blair of Avonton, Lord President of the Court of Session.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.7.1.11-7.1.17
Dates:
1796-1811.
'Bohun Psalter' made in England in the late 14th-century for Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Calendar in black, blue and red (folio 3). Entries in red include Saints Edward (18 March) and Dunstan (19 May), `Depositio sancti Augustini` (26 May), ordination of St Gregory (3 September) and translations of Saints Hugh (6 October) and Edward (13 October).(ii) Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary for Advent (folio 9) and from Christmas to the Purification (folio 11 verso).(iii) Confession, attributed in the...
Dates:
Late 14th century.
`Book of Opinions`, volumes 2 and 3, containing copies of opinions and memorials of English Crown counsel in matters of customs and excise arising in the Exchequer or Treasury.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.1(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
The volumes were copied in July 1751 for John Maule, Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, from other copies belonging to the Board of Customs in Edinburgh.
Dates:
1727-1746.
Book of the Incorporation of Coopers of South Leith.
Item
Identifier: MS.3411
Scope and Contents
According to a note on folio 2, the book was purchased by the Incorporation of Coopers of South Leith in 1669, and it contains records of transactions from the Acts and Statutes, 1525 to 1754. These records, which are not continuous, are chiefly of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. They include: a note of entry-fees to be paid by freemen and their sons, with the Oath of Admission (folio 22 verso); minutes of the admission of freemen from 1601 to 1754, with their marks...
Dates:
1525-1754.
‘Booke of the lawe of Olerone: as also for the holding of the Courte of the Admyrallte’ by James Humfrey, with lists of English ships and of ships’ stores.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.6.7
Dates:
1568.
Books of undergraduate notes, and drafts of essays on logic and metaphysics, with notes, of Sir James Matthew Barrie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6648-6651
Dates:
1878-1881.
Borthwick of Crookston legal papers, and other documents of Scottish provenance, 1513-1822.
...
Identifier: Acc.13043
Scope and Contents
A collection of legal documents, 1452-1943, concerning the family of Borthwick of Crookston and some of their lands in the Scottish Borders, together with seven miscellaneous Scottish documents, 1513-1933, partly issued by the Scottish court. 1-16 Borthwick of Crookston papers1 Charter, 1 Feb. 1452, of King James II, freeing John Borthwick, son of William Borthwick of Crookston, from ward. With seal of James II attached.2 Letter of reversion, 1458, of...
Dates:
1452-1933.