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Copy used for the publication in book form of ‘Life of Mansie Wauch’ by David Macbeth Moir, with other writings.
Item
Identifier: MS.3054
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Printed pages of “Blackwood's Magazine”, containing the articles corresponding to the 1828 edition, chapters iii-v, viii-x, xii, xvi-xxiii (folios 119-157);(ii) Manuscript of all the matter in the 1828 edition not contained in (i) above, except 'The Curate of Suverdsio' in chapter xi (folios 1-32, 41-55, 75-80, 83-84);(iii) Manuscript of 'The June Jaunt', “Blackwood's Magazine”, December 1828; this forms chapter xxii of the...
Dates:
[1822, or after-1839, or before.]
Copy 'Written be Me Richard Moir schoolemaister at Campsie 1636' of 'The Historie and chronicles of Scotland', John Bellenden's translation of Hector Boece's ‘Scotorum historiae’ in seventeen books.
Item
Identifier: MS.21244
Scope and Contents
It appears to have been copied, with substantial differences in places, from the first edition which was printed at Edinburgh about 1536. The chronicle is continued, as Books xviii-xxii (folio 321), by the 'Historie and chronicles of Scotland' by Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie to the year 1566. This is followed (folio 447), as Book xxiii, by another continuation, in considerably less detail, as far as the year 1604 and (folio 463) 'Some late accidentes', a list of events from 1612 to 1637.
Dates:
1536-?1637.
Corrected copies and manuscripts of works by Moray McLaren.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.5420/1-5
Dates:
1962-1970.
Corrected manuscript of Hume Nisbet, "For Liberty: the Chronicles of a Jacobin".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8790
Dates:
1898.
Corrected proofs of "Working Lives", edited by Ian MacDougall.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12099
Dates:
1996-1997.
Corrected typescript of Archibald Kennedy, "The Rulers of Strathspey".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7955
Dates:
1911.
Corrected typescript of George Bruce, "Festival in the North".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6517
Dates:
1975.
Corrected typescripts and proofs of George Bruce, "William Soutar (1898-1943)" (1978), and ""To Foster and Enrich". The First Fifty Years of the Saltire Society" (1986).
File
Identifier: Acc.9579
Dates:
circa 1978-1986.
Corrected typescripts of Forbes Macgregor, "The Heart of Auld Auster: a View from the Manse of 1703", and , "More Scots Proverbs: a Proverbial Picture of Old Scotland".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7751
Dates:
circa 1980.
Correspondence and other papers concerning the Buchanites, collected by Joseph Train.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.6683
Dates:
1783-1845.
Correspondence and papers of Charles Augustus Muir.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9522
Scope and Contents
Concerning Muir`s literary work and to his history of the Royal Scots, "The First of Foot" (1961).
Dates:
1915-1987.
Customs book, to which has been added historical material relating to contemporary affairs in Scotland.
Item
Identifier: MS.2263
Scope and Contents
The customs book comprises:(i) Accounts of the Salt Custom on the North and South of the Firth of Forth, 1618-1630 (folio 1);(ii) 'Ane Memorandum of all the declarations, petitions, protestations ... informations to the shires with the names of ther Commissioners and Collonelis from 1637 to 1648', followed by a table of contents (folio 49);(iii) History of events, 1635-1662; at folio 93 has been inserted an account of 'The Generall Assemlie Holdin in...
Dates:
17th century.
David Hay Fleming, "The Bread Assize in St Andrews", with author`s annotations.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8975
Dates:
1903
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘An Enquiry into the History of Scotland ...’ by John Pinkerton, 2 volumes (London, 1789), containing his signature on the verso of the title page of each volume, numerous marginalia throughout (some quite lengthy) and a number of sheets and scraps of paper tipped in (most are in the second volume) on which are further notes and other writings.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.6.3(i)-(ii)
Dates:
1789.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘Annals of Scotland’, 2 volumes (Edinburgh, 1776, 1779) by Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.13(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
Each volume contains Macpherson`s signature on the verso of the title page and numerous marginalia, many of which are quite lengthy, throughout, as well as additional notes and extracts on scraps, and some sheets, of paper tipped in at appropriate places. According to a note on the verso of the title page of volume i, Macpherson `inserted everything that occurred to me in printed authors or in manuscript records, which is useful correcting the errors, or supplying the defects of Sir David...
Dates:
1776, 1779.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘History of Scotland from the accession of the House of Stuart to that of Mary’, 2 volumes, (London, 1797) by John Pinkerton.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.14(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
Macpherson’s signature is on the verso of the title page of each volume, and a number of usually brief marginalia are scattered throughout volume i, and a few more in volume ii, mostly at the beginning. A few undated notes on scraps of paper are tipped in.
Dates:
1797.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘The History and Antiquities of Scotland’ by William Maitland, 2 volumes (London, 1757), containing many marginal notes and comments on the text.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.21(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
By far the majority of the notes are in volume i, volume ii being quite lightly marked. Some of these are quite lengthy, and many express disagreement with Maitland. One note, at page 142, is dated 1788, another, at page 227, refers to 1791; the rest are undated.The only additions to the printed leaves are a scrap of paper tipped in between pages 414-415, a prospectus for Macpherson`s edition of ‘Orygynall Cronykyl of Scotland’, 1795, tipped in between pages 756-757, and a...
Dates:
1757.
Descriptive and historical account of the public records of Scotland apparently written by William Tytler.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.14
Scope and Contents
The suggested date is based on a note recorded on folio 30 verso.The author’s name does not appear in the text, but James Maidment, a later owner of the manuscript, remains of whose bookplate are pasted inside the front cover, has ascribed it to William Tytler (folio i). This is written presumably slightly later than Adv.MS.33.5.6, containing additions at folios iv verso, 2-5 (which are additional leaves), 10, 36 verso, 37-37 verso, and 40-41, and lacking two paragraphs at the...
Dates:
1760.
Descriptive and historical account of the public records of Scotland, preceded by a contents list (folio i), written apparently in 1760 (folio 37) by William Tytler.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.6
Dates:
1760.
Diaries, logs, official correspondence and other papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles A C Gordon, MC, RA, mostly relating to the 11th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8969/1-78
Scope and Contents
The papers mostly concern Gordon`s command of the 11th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery and include Battery log books, copies of Battery correspondence, a history of the Battery, photograph album, training materials, notes and engagement diaries.
Dates:
1896-1977.
Digest of service in South Africa, 1899-1902 by 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8547
Scope and Contents
A copy in typescript carbon presented, December 1903, by Colonel Forbes Macbean and Captain W E Gordon to Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Greenhill-Gardyne.
Dates:
circa 1903.
`Discourse on Church Government` written by Sir Robert Sibbald, an apparently unpublished historical account of the church in Scotland from 1560 to 1630.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.27
Dates:
Circa 1685.
Documents concerning the controversy over the Usages in the Episcopal Church of Scotland during the first half of the 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.11
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in one hand.The dispute, which originated among the English Nonjuring clergy, concerned the prayers used in the Communion service, and the mixing of water with the wine.The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Some short Memoirs of the affairs of the Episcopal church of Scotland since the death of Q. Anne.` John Parker Lawson (page 541) wrongly attributes this to Bishop David Ranken (page 1).(ii) Copy of the...
Dates:
1724, Circa 1748.
Drafts for an unpublished history of the Independent Labour Party and the Labour movement in Bo`ness, West Lothian from 1903-1932, by James Livingstone.
File
Identifier: Acc.11087
Scope and Contents
Includes research notes from original sources.
Dates:
circa 1986.