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Fragment of an extract of a charter concerning the subjects in Kincardineshire previously belonging to the Carmelite Friars of Inverbervie
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.236
Dates:
18th century.
Fragment of book 4 of a legal work, on actions, probation, and sentences.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.11
Scope and Contents
An imperfect treatise on law. The same arrangement followed as George Mackenzie, but it is not a transcript. The first part wanting. Contains: Book 4, Tit. I of actions; Tit. II of probation; Tit. III of sentences and their execution.
Dates:
[Circa 1700.]
Fragment of execution of letters of poinding and apprising by Alexander Stobo, messenger, at the instance of William Wylie, against Clement Russell.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.218
Dates:
1620.
Fragment of execution of letters of poinding and apprising by Patrick Johnston, alias Dow, messenger, at the instance of Sir Patrick Murray (later Earl of Tullibardine) against William Earl of Tullibardine.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.219
Dates:
1621.
Fragment of information for - Dunbar, Younger of Enterkine, against his father.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.213
Dates:
17th century.
Fragment of legal document, concerning a mayor of a city.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5112
Scope and Contents
Recovered from binding of MS.2813.
Dates:
Undated.
Fragment of letter of charge against John Viscount of Dudhope, James Master of Dudhope, Andrew Lord Gray, William Master of Gray, and Sir William Gray of Pittendrum.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.235
Dates:
Circa 1642.
Fragment of Sir Walter Scott, "History of Scotland".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10109
Dates:
circa 1829-1830.
Fragments, drafts and notes in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald, mainly on Scottish antiquities and topography.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.21
Dates:
[?Late 17th century-?1722.]
Fragments of a Latin commentary on Aristotle's ‘Categoriae', including parts of the 'Liber predicabilium' and 'Liber predicamentorum'.
File
Identifier: MS.25239
Scope and Contents
The commentary is followed by a fragment of a manuscript in English (folio 34) and part of a vellum leaf from a 13th-century noted service book (folio 36).
Dates:
13th century, 15th century.
Fragments of a life of Sir William Wallace (folio 1) and of notes (folios 17, 19) relating to another, unidentified life, possibly an edition of Blind Harry`s ‘Wallace’, by Richard Augustine Hay.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.18
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is undated, but from a reference to ‘the late Mr Lockhart of Carnwath’ (folio 29 verso), it seems that the notes at least were written probably in 1732; the life may have been written about the same time.
Dates:
Circa 1732.
Fragments of an antiphoner, Italy, includes antiphons for Vespers on Sunday, and for the Office of the Dead.
File
Identifier: MS.25252
Dates:
?17th century.
Fragments of liturgical and other medieval manuscripts.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21097-21100
Dates:
13th century-15th century.
Fragments of the Kilbride collection, in Gaelic, consisting of poems illustrating the life of Colum-cille, part of a tale of Caithréim Conghail Cláiringhnigh, and a contract between Duncan MacDougall and his servitor.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.31
Scope and Contents
The contents consist of three fragments from the Kilbride collection, but two of these (folios 1-5, Colum-cille poems, and folio 8, a MacDougall contract) are of very great independent value.Folios 1-5 (Mackechnie’s ‘A’, ‘B’).These fragments, ?15th century, contain an orderly sequence of poems illustrating the life of Colum-cille. The hand is that which inscribes the Colum-cille poem “Aingeal Dé dom dhín” on the fly leaf of British Library MS. Egerton 2899...
Dates:
?15th century-17th century.
Fragments of the manuscript of Henry Cockburn, "Memorials of His Time", with many unpublished and variant passages.
File
Identifier: Acc.6522
Dates:
circa 1830-circa 1854.
Leaf from the copybook of John Scott.
File
Identifier: Acc.6821
Scope and Contents
With an associated article.
Dates:
1629-1632.
Leaf of a letter of James Elroy Flecker to Trelawney Dayrell Reed.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8264
Scope and Contents
Containing manuscripts of two Bathrolaire sonnets.
With a copy of "Bridge of Fire" (1907), in which the above sonnets were published.
Dates:
circa 1908.
Lesmahagow missal, probably written for use in the Tironensian priory of Lesmahagow, first half of the 13th century; and additional related material acquired at the same time.
Series
Identifier: MSS.16495-16496
Dates:
1st half of 13th century-1953, undated.
Letter, 1792, of John Gillies to the Earl of Buchan.
File
Identifier: Acc.8532
Scope and Contents
With a letter, undated, to Harry Plunket Greene, fragment of a letter, undated, of Cécile Chaminade, and other scraps.
Dates:
1792 and undated.
Letters and papers of John H Balfour-Browne, Kings Counsel (1885-1921).
File
Identifier: MS.19609
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, 1846-1919, undated, chiefly addressed to John H Balfour-Browne. They had been kept as a collection of autographs and include fragments of letters and signatures (which have not been indexed). The correspondence mostly concerns Balfour-Browne's literary work and legal matters. (Folio 1.)(ii) Typescript with manuscript corrections and newspaper cutting of 'A Criticism and a Reminiscence' by Balfour-Browne, published in the...
Dates:
1814-1919, undated.
Letters and papers of Thomas Carlyle, with a few of his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle and others.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1796-1800
Dates:
1823-1875, undated.