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Manuscript of an apparently unpublished essay by William Cross[e], 'Some considerations by way of Essay, upon the means of civilizing the Highlands and extinguishing Jacobitism in Scotland'.
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Identifier: MS.5201
Scope and Contents
The author of the essay, who was Sheriff of Lanark and Professor of Law at Glasgow, recommends a policy of severity, to be enforced by garrisons of troops.
Dates:
1748.
Manuscript of ‘Ane Essay Relating to the Natural History of Scotland by way of Supplement to the Prodromus Naturalis Historae Scotae published anno 1684’ in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.19
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains, for the most part, discourses on natural history and scientific and medical phenomena found in Scotland, taken from manuscript and printed sources.Accounts taken from printed sources include ‘Philosophical Transactions’, ‘Description of the Islands of Orkney’ and ‘Large Description of Galloway’. Manuscript sources include letters and extracts of letters to Sibbald from Dr George Garden of Aberdeen and Matthew MacKaile, an Aberdeen apothecary....
Dates:
4th quarter of 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century.
Manuscript of George Macintosh, "Researches Relative to the Cyclopian Ruins of Antiquity, Written Originally 1822, Rewritten 1826".
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Identifier: Acc.7435
Dates:
1826.
Manuscript of Henry Myers, "Hegelian Dialectics of Moses, Jesus, and Paul. "What was the Real Jesus?""
Item
Identifier: Acc.8458
Dates:
1938.
Manuscript of Sorley MacLean, "My Relationship with Poetry".
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Identifier: Acc.10117
Dates:
1976.
Manuscript volume by Sir Robert Sibbald, containing two unpublished discourses.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.16
Scope and Contents
(i) `Caetologia or Memoirs for composing the Naturall Historie of Whales from the Remarks made upon thos cast in or taken upon the Scottish coast in which ther are descriptions also of the smaller fishes and aquatick animals of the whale Kynde and accounts how they may be taken and prepared and what uses may be gott of them’ (folio 6).(ii) `Discourses anent the improvements may be made in Scotland for advancing the wealth of the Kingdom’ (folio 76) which is mainly concerned with...
Dates:
1701.
Manuscript, written in the 14th century, containing extracts from 'De Clementia' and an incomplete text of 'Epistolae morales' by Seneca; with many contemporary annotations.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.16
Scope and Contents
(i) Extracts from the ‘De clementia’, in two series, concerning respectively ‘clementia’ and ‘crudelitas’: i.1.5 ‘rarissimum’ – ‘est’, ‘nemo’ – ‘Romano’, i.1.6 ‘difficile’ – ‘procedunt’, i.1.7 ‘iam’ – ‘sunt’, ‘fecit’ – ‘assecuti’, i.2.2 ‘nec’ – ‘praeponderet’, 1.3.3 ‘nullum’ – ‘struendum est’, i.4.1 ‘ille’ – ‘fidem’, i.4.3 ‘olim’ – ‘capite’, i.5.1 ‘uides’ – ‘parcere’, i.5.3 ‘decet’ – ‘conspicitur’, i.5.5 ‘magnam’ – ‘despicere’, i.7.4 ‘humili’ – ‘liberius est’, i.8.1 ‘eorum’ - i.8.2 ‘timore’,...
Dates:
14th century.
Manuscripts and typescripts of talks and essays of James Archibald Campbell of Achanduin and Barbreck (1854-1926).
Series
Identifier: MSS.10260-10269
Dates:
[Circa 1878]-1913, undated.
Manuscripts collected by Walter Biggar Blaikie, Doctor of Laws, editor of volumes concerning Jacobitism in the publications of the Scottish History Society, etc.
Series
Identifier: MSS.278-318
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
Manuscripts of biographical articles for the 8th edition of the `Encyclopaedia Britannica` by Lord Macaulay.
File
Identifier: Acc.11868
Scope and Contents
Essays on Atterbury, Bunyan, Goldsmith, Johnson, and William Pitt
Dates:
circa 1852-1859.
Manuscripts of books, articles and essays on historical subjects of William Ferguson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11277
Dates:
1959-1991.
Manuscripts, typescripts and research papers of Tom Leonard.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14605/1-42
Scope and Contents
This collection of the papers of the Glasgow poet Tom Leonard includes manuscript and typescript drafts of his poetry, as well as research papers and notes concerning his interests in literary theory, literary history and the Middle East.The poetry drafts include many works for inclusion in his 'Outside the narrative' (Word Power Books, 2009), as well as audio and visual elements for his performance piece 'My name is Tom' (Good Elf Publications, 1978). There are also files of...
Dates:
1817-2016, undated.
Material on Aberdeenshire used by George Chalmers in the compilation of ‘Caledonia’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.29
Scope and Contents
The manuscript mostly concerns the boundary between the counties of Banff and Aberdeen, but also includes an essay on the University of Aberdeen (folio 18).
Dates:
4th quarter of 18th century-1st quarter of 19th century.
Memorial, by John Smyth WS, of Balharry, Perthshire, on behalf of the poor of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12822
Dates:
1797.
‘Metaphysic the science of the absolute’, an essay by Richard B Haldane, in his autograph.
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Identifier: MS.20230
Scope and Contents
According to a note in pencil in the hand of Richard B Haldane at folio i, dated 1914, this appears to have been the essay which he wrote in 1876 whilst a student at Edinburgh University for the Bruce of Grangehill prize and Falkland medal.
The text is preceded by a list of contents (folio 1), and begins with a preface (folio 1) and an introduction (folio 4).
Dates:
[1876.]
Microfilm of ‘Collection of the place names of Colonsay and general description of Scalasaig’, prize essay, Mod competition, 1909, by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.303
Dates:
1909.
Microfilm of correspondence of, and manuscripts of or concerning, Thomas De Quincey.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1565-1569
Dates:
19th century.
Microfilm of essay entitled ‘Superstitions of Perth’ by the Reverend James Scott, incorporating extracts from the Kirk Session registers of Perth upon 16th century popular customs in Perth.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.202
Dates:
1788.
Microfilm of essay, musical arrangement and photographs of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.935
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Account, [?1871], of a students’ meeting and class excursion by Robert Louis Stevenson (Acc.9690);
Setting by Robert Louis Stevenson, circa 1890, of an air by J S Bach from the Cantata number 68 'Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt', for two flageolets; and two photographs, circa ?1890-circa ?1894], of Stevenson, one taken at Vailima (MS.9756).
Dates:
[?1871-circa ?1894.]
Microfilm of manuscript, ‘Jus Liberae Monarchiae’, Latin translation by James VI of his ‘The True Lawe of Free Monarchies’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1367
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Microfilm of manuscripts, one by Pappus of Alexandria, mid 16th century, and the other essays, 15th century, against Georgios Plethon by Matthaeus Camariota.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.383
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Συναγωγή’ iii-vi, viii, by Pappus of Alexandria, mid 16th century (Adv.MS.18.1.3), 160 frames;
Copy, written in the 2nd half of the 17th century, probably in Holland, of essays against Georgios Plethon by Matthaeus Camariota, 15th century (Adv.MS.18.1.4), 55 frames.
Dates:
15th century-mid 16th century.
Microfilm of 'Tea Assistant in Cachar' by D Foulis, an essay on growing tea and managing an estate in Assam.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2002
Dates:
[Circa 1870.]
Notebook of James Mutter, Ardrossan.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10633
Scope and Contents
Contains a lecture on a visit to Germany and an essay on Schiller.
Dates:
1865-1884.