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Colour slides of illuminations from the Hunterian Psalter.
File
Identifier: Acc.5369
Dates:
12th century.
Colour slides of the Hunterian Psalter, ff 15v and 17v.
File
Identifier: Acc.5368
Dates:
12th century.
Copy, 16th century, of `Recueil des Principaux Seigneurs qui passerent la Mer avec Guillaume Conquereur d`Angleterre`, a treatise on the genealogy and heraldry of the English nobility written by Jean Benard in 1567.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.2
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is similar to the autograph manuscript of 1572 (Bibliotheque Nationale, MS. français 19000), but lacks the dedicatory letter to Charles IX and has no miniatures. The decoration consists of paintings of flowers and fruit, borders and armorial bearings, with some decorated initials. There is a note, ‘Southampton`s Genealogies`, in a 17th-century hand on folio iii.
Dates:
1567.
Illuminated address presented to Miss Jane Hutchison by the United Presbyterian Church, Dollar.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9581
Dates:
1896.
Illuminated address to Mrs Lamont issued by the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd, Glasgow.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12580
Dates:
1918.
Illuminated calligraphic manuscript by Nora Paterson presented to Robert Munro, Baron Alness in recognition of his work as President and Chairman of the Scottish Savings Committee from 1941-1945.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11854
Scope and Contents
Includes a history of the War Savings Movement in Scotland. In a fine maroon morocco binding by Henderson and Bisset.
Dates:
1946.
Illuminated congratulations to the Marquess of Lorne on his marriage.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7989
Dates:
1871.
Illuminated diploma from Edinburgh Association of Science and Arts to D W Kemp.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4781
Dates:
1891.
Illuminated manuscript of piobaireachd of John Grant, "Salute to W G Burn Murdoch".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9375
Dates:
1923.
Illuminated memorial to James Ogilvie, 11th Earl of Seafield, by Graily Hewitt.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9289
Dates:
circa 1915.
Manuscript on heraldry, written throughout in one hand of the late 15th or early 16th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `De insigniis et armis` by Bartolus de Saxoferrato (folio 1). The text has been printed by Sir Edward Bysshe in the notes to his edition of ‘De studio militari’ by Nicholas Upton, pages 6-17.(ii) `De studio militari` by Nicholas Upton, (folio 12). The text corresponds with that of Bysshe`s edition except for the omission of the sections `De ardea` and `De fasiano` (pages 175, 195). A passage at the beginning of book 1,...
Dates:
Late 15th century-early 16th century.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates:
1177, 15th century-1924.
Records of Saint Ninian`s Cathedral, Perth; of the diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane; and of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.251
Scope and Contents
Also included are papers of clergymen connected with Saint Ninian`s, including sermons, historical and liturgical works by Bishop Charles Wordsworth, Bishop George Howard Wilkinson, Dean George Taylor Shillito Farquar, and Dean James Wilson Harper.
Dates:
1648-20th century.