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‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of very miscellaneous papers on ecclesiastical history.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.5.8-11
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 17th century-18th century.

Microfilm of algebra lecture notes, 1723; and, documents, 1745, concerning the defence and surrender of Edinburgh in the Jacobite rising of 1745.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.804
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: 'Dictats of Mr. [George] Cambe[l] concerning Algebra. Written by James Primeros[e]. Novʳ. 12, 1723’, being a pupil's notes of his master's teaching (MS.2821);"Mr. McLourin’s Journall of what passed relating to the defence of Edinburgh from Monday Septemr. 2d. till Monday Septemr. 16th 1745", journal of Professor Colin Maclaurin (MS.299, folios 1-13);Document, [?1745], concerning the ‘45 deal with the surrender of Edinburgh to Prince...
Dates: 1723, 1745.

Microfilm of correspondence, 1726-1800, lecture notes, 1787, and an early manuscript draft, [?1767], of ‘Case for the respondents', which concerns the Douglas Cause.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.763
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Correspondence, 1726-1800, of and collected by the Very Reverend John Lee (MS.3431, folios 225-226);

Early manuscript draft, [?1767], of the ‘Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail, written by Professor Hugh Blair (MS.5356, folios 59-122);

Notes, 1787, of a series of lectures on rhetoric (MS.9974).

Dates: 1726-1800.

Notes of the lectures on Scots law delivered by David Hume, Professor of Scots law at Edinburgh.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.6.10(i)-(iv)
Scope and Contents

Apparently intended by the annotator as transcripts for publication.

Dates: 1822.

Papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist, and his household.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.7201-7515
Scope and Contents George Combe was educated at Edinburgh High School and at Edinburgh University, where he studied law; he became a Writer to the Signet in 1812. At this time he began to study the phrenological works of Franz Josef Gall and Johann Kaspar Spurzheim, and soon became a fervent advocate of that science. In 1837 he gave up his legal practice to devote himself to spreading the causes of phrenology, secular education, and criminal and prison reform, travelling widely in Europe and America. His views...
Dates: 1804-1872, undated.

Papers of the Reverend William James Anderson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7993
Scope and Contents

Comprising typescripts of theological lecture notes taken at Fribourg University, and of a translation of A G Sertillanges, "S Thomas d`Aquin".

Dates: 1925-1927.