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Extracts from published sources and some notes and other writings compiled by John Young, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1786).
Extracts from the manuscript lute-book of Robert Gordon of Straloch, 1627-1629 (now lost), made by George Farquhar Graham, 1845.
Inserted is a letter of John Muir Wood, 1884 (folio 4), correcting Graham’s scale in Adv.MS. 5.2.18.
Extracts from the proceedings of the Althing of Iceland.
Extracts, made in the nineteenth century, from the Kirk Session Records of Stow, 12 November 1626-21 November 1708.
'Extracts of letters addressed to Deputy Governor of the British Society for extending the Fisheries, &c., in answer to the printed queries circulated by the Court of Directors of the Society'.
The letters, which are chiefly from local landowners, deal with particular places on the West coast, with the coast in general and general topics, and (a few) with the East coast.
Genealogical notes of Sidney Cramer.
Includes copies and extracts from birth, marriage and death certificates, with notes and temple ordinance data.
Heraldic collection of Sir David Lindsay.
Historical and genealogical notebook.
Includes extracts from works of George Crawford, Sir James Dalrymple and Sir J Scott of Scotstorvet.
Humorous stories and anecdotes, largely Scottish, with occasional extracts from contemporary books, reviews, and newspapers, all 18th century.
Internal dates in the manuscript are from 1740-1762. Newspaper-cuttings, pasted on the boards and binding pages, are dated 1779-1780.
Indexes and transcripts by Robert Mylne, the antiquary.
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of very miscellaneous papers on ecclesiastical history.
According to the folio catalogue (F.R.186) the volumes were originally marked ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’.
The description of the manuscripts in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.5.7.7-10.
Late 12th-century manuscript containing the 'Panormia' of Ivo, Bishop of Chartres; with two diagrams of consanguinity, and short excerpts of Pope Alexander III.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Legal papers of the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates against T G Repp, a library assistant who brought an action against the Faculty of Advocates in 1834.
Letters and papers concerning the manuscript of ‘Marmion’ by Sir Walter Scott.
Letters and papers of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’.
Letters chiefly of Scottish interest.
Letters to Lieutenant-General Sir John Macleod, and an instruction-book of his son Charles.
'Life of Napolean Buonaparte' (Edinburgh, 1827), volumes i-iii, v, and ix (ii and ix being of the second edition), by Sir Walter Scott, with marginal corrections in the authors hand.
The corrections, which are numerous in volumes i and ii, less numerous in volumes iii, and few in volumes v and ix, are apparently different from those in the interleaved volumes that were used for the preparation of the Miscellaneous Prose Works edition of the ‘Life’ (see prefatory Advertisement thereto).