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Account of time as a nurse at the King George V Seamen`s Memorial Hospital, Malta, of Miss J G M Allan.
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Identifier: Acc.11950
Scope and Contents
Includes a letter, press cuttings and a newsletter.
Dates:
1938-1942.
'Additions and corrections' to a work of the writer's own, which appears to have been entitled 'The History of the Rebellion in the years 1745 and 1746'.
Item
Identifier: MS.3865
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was probably written in or shortly after 1755, a date which occurs on page 31.The original work has not been traced; it may or may not have been printed. It was divided into at least twelve sections, and should be identifiable from many references to its pages in the present manuscript, for example: page 86, Lovat's escape from Inverness; pages 15, 153, the meeting of Jacobite leaders at Muirlaggan in May, 1746; pages 165, 246, Murray of Broughton's capture and...
Dates:
[1755, or after.]
Autograph manuscript of `History of Scots Affairs from the year 1637 to 1641.`, by James Gordon, Minister of Rothiemay.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.7.1.18
Scope and Contents
The manuscript, written between December 1659 and March 1661, contains the Argument to Book II, and Books II-V.
Dates:
1659-1661.
Copy of G A B Dowar and J H Boraston, "Sir Douglas Haig`s Command".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7131
Scope and Contents
Containing letter of Dewar, and letter and presentation note of Boraston, and press cuttings.
Dates:
1922.
Copy of G P Lacasselle, "Le 1er Corps d`Armée pendant la Guerre 1914-1918" (Paris, 1922), with presentation note and two letters of the author to Earl Haig.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7136
Dates:
1922.
Copy of J H Boraston and Cyril Bax, "The Eighth Division in the War 1914-1918" (London, 1926), with letter and presentation note, 1926, of Boraston.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7129
Dates:
1926.
'Copy of original letters &c. &c. by Queen Mary, King James VI, &c. &c. to the Lairds of Barnbarroch &c. from 1559 to 1618', 1794.
File
Identifier: MS.3002
Scope and Contents
The copies of letters are preceded by an engraved table of the branches of the family of Vaux, Vaus, or Vans, 1815, pasted inside the front cover, and a list of members of the Barnbarroch family who have held public office (folio ii), and followed by a manuscript pedigree of that family to 1809 (folio 89).
Dates:
1559-1618.
Copy of Robert Law, "Memorials" (Edinburgh, 1818), with annotations by editor Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9331
Scope and Contents
Includes letters of James Ballantyne to Sharpe concerning the printing of "Memorials".
Dates:
1818.
Copy of William Maitland, "History of Edinburgh" (Edinburgh, 1753), with additional papers bound in to the book.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9932
Scope and Contents
Additional papers include:
printed proposals for the work
printed and manuscript papers concerning alterations to the text
papers concerning defamation of James Coutts and Mrs Little of Liberton.
Dates:
1753 and undated.
Copy of William Roughead, "Trial of Oscar Slater" (3rd edition, Edinburgh, 1929), with four letters of Oscar Slater, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Viscount Buckmaster.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5273
Dates:
1928-1930.
Copy of Winston S Churchill, "The World Crisis" (1916-1918), with three letters and presentation note, 1926-1927, of the author.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7130
Dates:
1916-1927.
Incomplete copy of an apparently rejected version, entitled `The King, and Parliament`, of Chapter II of Volume II of ‘Caledonia’ by George Chalmers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.2.10
Scope and Contents
The text is printed on paper watermarked 1807, and contains many additions and corrections in the margins and on slips of paper pasted in, in his hand and in the hand of his nephew James Chalmers. The chapter as originally printed apparently consisted of a total of 64 pages in 8 gatherings, containing not more than 8 pages of introductory matter (gathering A, pages i-?viii) and not more than 56 pages of text, with footnotes (gatherings B to H, pages 1-?56); this copy lacks gatherings A, G...
Dates:
?1807-?1819.
Indexes and transcripts by Robert Mylne, the antiquary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.9
Scope and Contents
Mylne`s pagination and the size of paper show that the volume is composed of seven separate parts: section (i), section (ii), section (iii), sections (iv) and (v), section (vi), sections (vii)-(xiii), section (xiv). None are exactly dated, but (v) must be later than 1705, (xiv) later than 1700; and probably all were compiled in the early 18th century.The contents are as follows:(i) `Ane Alphabeticall Index [A-C only] To the Book of Collections of Notes of Charters...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Letter, 1634, to William Drummond of Hawthornden, and draft, undated, of part of Drummond`s `History`.
File
Identifier: Dep.329
Dates:
1634.
Letters and papers of and concerning John Leyden.
File
Identifier: MS.971
Scope and Contents
The contents include: letters of John Leyden chiefly to William Erskine, 1797—1811, undated (folio 1); poems of Leyden, some apparently unpublished (folio 95); letters to Erskine and others regarding Leyden, written after his death, 1811-1826 (folio 120); and cuttings from Indian newspapers, 1811-1812 (folio 179). Also included are an account in Leyden's hand of the story of Duke Richard Sans Peur and the Company of Hellequin, apparently used by Scott in the essay ‘On the Fairies...
Dates:
1797-1826, undated.
Manuscript and printed versions of "Moidart, or Among the Clan Ranalds", (Oban, 1889) by the Rev Fr Charles MacDonald.
File
Identifier: Acc.11741
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, 1914, concerning a new edition of the book.
Dates:
circa 1889-1914.
Manuscript, circa 1600, of Robert Lindesay, "History and Chronicles of Scotland".
File
Identifier: Acc.3736
Scope and Contents
With a list of the Bishops of Moray to 1638, and a letter, 1847, of Cosmo Innes to William Brodie, concerning the manuscript.
Dates:
circa 1600, circa 1638, 1847.
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.
Item
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 'Secretum secretorum' by Pseudo-Aristotle, 'De excidio Troiae' by Dares Phrygius, and 'Historia regum Britannie' by Geoffrey of Monmouth; written by a 13th- or 14th-century hand of uncertain origin.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Pseudo-Aristotle, 'Secretum secretorum' (edited by R. Steele, in 'Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi', fascicule V, pages 25-172). This manuscript contains the letter of Philip, a list of chapters, and the text in seven books (the headings for i, iv, and vi are omitted). It is of the common class, omitting all the test passages of Gilson and Steele (cf. 'Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi', pages xxv-xxvi); further omissions are...
Dates:
13th century-14th century.
Material collected by Captain George Sitwell Campbell Swinton, Lyon King of Arms, supplementary to the work of his father, Archibald Campbell Swinton of Kimmerghame, ‘The Swintons of that Ilk and their Cadets’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.350A-B
Dates:
1814, 1883, 1927-1929.
Medical Journal of Dr Normand Morison.
File
Identifier: MS.50263
Scope and Contents
A recipe for gunpowder (folio i).Case notes, 1729-1730, possibly written at Glasgow Infirmary (folios 1-19).Sketch financial accounts and copy letters, 1740s, of Normand Morison to Normand MacLeod, Daniel MacLeod and John Nicolson concerning the export of linen and import of tobacco, sugar and rum between New England, Glasgow and the Western Isles (folios 20-28).Copy letters, 1740s, of Normand Morison to unnamed relatives concerning emigration from the...
Dates:
1729-1759.
Microfilm of 14th century copy of the ‘Historia Anglorum’ of Henry of Huntingdon, 12th century; and, late 14th century manuscript of the ‘Chronicle’ of Walter of Guisborough.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.454
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
English manuscript, 14th century, of the ‘Historia Anglorum’ of Henry of Huntingdon, 12th century (Adv.MS.33.5.2);
Manuscript written in England in the late 14th century by several hands of the ‘Chronicle’ of Walter of Guisborough (Adv.MS.33.5.3).
Dates:
12th century, late 14th century.
Microfilm of assorted 13th-17th century manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.465
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Fair copy, 1686-1689, of ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio’, being Richard Augustine Hay’s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh, volume 1. (Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)); Register of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, written, circa 1537, by John Lambert, prebendary of the Chapel, containing copies of papal bulls and other documents, 1501-1537...
Dates:
13th century-1689.
Microfilm of Gaelic manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.658
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Fragment of a Gaelic manuscript, 15th century, containing scholastic texts (Adv.MS.72.1.7);Manuscript, ?14th-?19th century, containing a commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates in Gaelic and Latin (Adv.MS.72.1.10);Medical manuscript, ?16th century, in Gaelic written by Feargus Ó Caiside (Adv.MS.72.1.11);Medical manuscript, 16th century, in Gaelic, consisting chiefly of a treatise on diets and matters ancillary to medicine,...
Dates:
?14th century-?19th century.