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‘Breviary of the Decisions of the Lords of Session ... and of the Acts of Sederunt, from June, 1661, to July, 1681, observed by Sir James Dalrymple of Stair.’

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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.1
Scope and Contents The Acts of Sederunt, 1661-1681, as in the printed ‘Decisions of the Lords of council and session’, are followed by a summary of Decisions arranged alphabetically according to subject. The text is apparently copied from an incomplete manuscript.At the end, inverted, is a copy of ‘Instructions and rules ... to the Commissaries, clerks, procurators fiscalls, and other members of the court of the whole ecclesiasticall jurisdiction,’ forwarded under cover of a Royal letter dated...
Dates: 1661-1681.

Brief letter of James Hogg.

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Identifier: Acc.9112
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With autograph address panel of Horatio, Viscount Nelson.

Dates: circa 1800-1835.

Broadcast script of a radio programme on Lewis Grassic Gibbon, written by William Montgomerie.

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Identifier: Acc.6861
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With associated letter of Robert Kemp.

Dates: 1946.

Broadcast script of BBC radio programme, "Far Away, Far Away Over the Sea".

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Identifier: Acc.7690
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Based on the letters of Helen Bannerman and her husband, Major-General W B Bannerman, written from India to their children at Edinburgh, 1912-1915.

Dates: 1971.

Broadcasting script of Henry Donald, "Mrs Louis at Skerryvore".

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Identifier: Acc.7637
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Broadcast on Radio Scotland, 13 May 1980.

Dates: 1980.

Business and legal papers of James Gentleman, merchant, Edinburgh.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12184
Scope and Contents

Papers largely concern Gentleman`s Leith shipping interests; includes unrelated legal papers.

Dates: 1838-1893.

Business papers of Messrs William Wilson and Son, tartan manufacturers in Bannockburn.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.6660-7000
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This is the business archive of the firm, comprising incoming letters, orders, and receipts, from all parts of Britain and elsewhere, and drafts of a few of the firm's replies.

Dates: 1778-1841.

‘Caledonia, seu dissertationes de primis Caledoniae incolis.’

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.13
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The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.V.514.

‘In quibus, Origo, Antiquitas, Mores, Instituta, Linqua, Religio Veterum Caled oniorum una cum situ ac Natura Regionis, monstrantur. Volumen Primum. Eveteribus scriptis collegit, et in ordinem Ne pereat, digessit Patricius Ninianus Gemius de Gemijs & societate Jesu.’

Dates: 1726.

Carmichael and Gordon papers.

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Identifier: MS.109
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) 'The nativite of bairnis' of William, 7th Lord Forbes, and his wife Elizabeth Keith, being the names and dates of birth of their sixteen children (folio 1);(ii) Orders issued by Colonel Robert Montgomerie protecting Robert Gordon of Straloch and exempting him from any 'monthly maintenance' in accordance with the decision of the Estates of Parliament, 1649 (folio 2);(iii) Letter of Robert Gordon of Straloch to the Marquess of...
Dates: 1649-1779, undated.

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
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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.

Charters and formal documents from the archive of the Flemings of Wigtown.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.15531-16730
Scope and Contents

For a detailed description see MS.20771.

Dates: 13th-18th century.

Charters and formal documents from the Murray of Ochtertyre and Keith, Earl Marischal papers.

 Collection
Identifier: Ch.16851-17324
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More detailed lists are available on request.

Dates: 1254-1870.

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British Broadcasting Corporation 17
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 11
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 9
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 9
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 9
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Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 8
Balfour, James, Sir, 1st Baronet of Denmilne and Kinnaird (antiquary) 7
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 7
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 7
Gray, Alasdair (author) 7
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 7
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 6
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 6
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 5
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 5
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 5
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 5
Henderson, Hamish, poet and folklorist, 1919-2002 5
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 5
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 5
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 4
Cameron, family, of Fassiefern 4
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 4
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 4
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 4
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 4
Muir, Wilhelmina Johnston, née Anderson, author, pseudonym 'Agnes Neill Scott' , 1890-1970 4
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 4
Sutherland Estates 4
Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh 4
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 3
Beattie, William, Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, 1903-1986 3
Brown, George Douglas, author, 1869-1902 3
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 3
Brown, Ian, Professor of Drama, Kingston University, London, b 1945 3
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 3
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 3
Church of Scotland 3
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 3
Dalrymple, James, 1st Viscount Stair, 1619-1695 3
Elphinstone, Margaret, author, b 1948 3
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 3
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 3
Gairm, Gaelic literary and topical magazine 3
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 3
Gordon, family, of Halmyre and Gordonstoun 3
Gramsci, Antonio, writer, 1891-1937 3
Hay, Denys, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Edinburgh, 1915-1994 3
Johnstone, Doug, author, b 1970 3
Justinian I, Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 3
Kesson, Jessie Grant, novelist, née McDonald, 1916-1994 3
Lochhead, Liz, poet and playwright, b 1947 3
McGrath, John Peter, playwright, director, 1935-2002 3
McLean, John David Ruari McDowall Hardie, typographer and author, 1917-2006 3
National Library of Scotland 3
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 3
Scottish National Party 3
Soutar, William (poet) 3
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 3
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 3
Thorkelin, Grímur Jónsson (Scholar) 3
Turnbull, Gael Lundin, poet and physician, 1928-2004 3
United and Incorporated Trades of St Mary's Chapel, Edinburgh 3
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 3
Woodburn, Arthur (politician) 3
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 3
7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland) 2
Basden, Eric Bernard, local collector and bibliographer, 1913-1984 2
Boog, Robert (Minister of Paisley Abbey) 2
British Broadcasting Corporation, Scottish Home Service, 1939-1967, public service broadcaster 2
Buchan, Anna Masterton, author, pseudonym O Douglas, 1877-1948 2
Buchan, John Norman Stuart, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1911-1996 2
Buchan, Priscilla Jean Fortesque, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, politician, née Thomson, then Grant, 1915-1978 2
Buchan, Susan Charlotte, Baroness Tweedsmuir, née Grosvenor, 1882-1977 2
Butlin, Ronald Y, writer, b 1949 2
Cairns, David, Professor of Practical Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1904-1992 2
Christie, family, of Stenton 2
Cope, Sir John, Knight, Lieutenant-General, 1690-1760 2
Crawford, Robert Caldwell, composer, 1925-2012 2
Cronin, Archibald Joseph, novelist, 1896-1981 2
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 2
Douglas, family, of Cavers 2
Duncan, Archibald Alexander McBeth, Professor of Scottish History, University of Glasgow, b 1926 2
Dunnett, Dorothy, novelist and artist, wife of Sir Alastair McTavish, journalist and newspaper editor, née Halliday, 1923-2001 2
Edward VIII, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1894–1972 2
Erskine, Thomas Alexander, 6th Earl of Kellie, composer, 1732-1781 2
Farquhar, George Taylor Shillito, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1857-1927 2
Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944 2
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 2
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 2
Frame, Ronald William Sutherland, author and playwright, b 1953 2
Gairm Publications 2
Galbraith, family, of Blackhouse 2
Galt, John (novelist) 2
Gibb, Andrew Dewar, Professor of Law, University of Glasgow, 1888-1974 2
Hamilton, George Nigel Douglas-, 10th Earl of Selkirk, 1906-1994 2
Harper, Edward, composer, 1941-2009 2
Hay, George Campbell, poet, 1915-1984 2
Holton, Harvey, poet, 1949-2010 2
Home, Hon William Douglas, playwright, 1912-1992 2
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