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Commentaries on the Book of Job, and copies of letters.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8780
Scope and Contents
Many of the letters concern James Hervey`s "Theron and Aspasio", all apparently of Glasite tendency.
Dates:
circa 1772-1800.
Commonplace book, undated, compiled by James Glasford (died 1845).
File
Identifier: MS.8493
Scope and Contents
The contents include: extracts from personal letters, biblical commentaries, poems and translations of poems.
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Letter, undated, of Thomas Carlyle to Joseph Neuberg.
File
Identifier: Acc.10293
Scope and Contents
With extensive modern notes and commentary.
Dates:
circa 1950-1991 and undated.
Letters and poems of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet; and poetry and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell.
File
Identifier: MS.3115
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, poems, etc., of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet, to Peter Buchan, collector of Scottish ballads, Peterhead, 1828-1850, undated. The letters, which are in Laing's autograph, deal chiefly with literary matters of the day. Most of the poems (folios 4, 6, 10, 19, 23) appear later in published form.(ii) Poems and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell, in his autograph, with one letter to him, 1815-1865, undated. Several of...
Dates:
1815-1865, undated.
Letters in English from the Reverend Donald MacQueen of Kilmuir (died 1785) to the Reverend Dr John Stuart of Luss.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.21
Scope and Contents
The letters consist of the Reverend Donald MacQueen’s detailed comments on the Reverend Dr John Stuart’s Gaelic translation of part of the Old Testament with antiquarian excursi including quotations in Gaelic. The principal such excursi are noted below. (i) Letter of the Reverend Donald MacQueen to the Reverend Dr John Stuart, dated 27 November 1777. Genesis. Cf. ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 36 (1931-1933), page 364. (Folio 1.)(ii) Letter...
Dates:
[Before 1785.]
'Literary Information. Discovery of the remainder of the history of John Bull from the MSS. of his learned and celebrated Biographer, Sir Humphrey Polesworth', in the hand of Sir Walter Scott, being a commentary on the rise and fall of Napoleon and contemporary British affairs.
File
Identifier: MS.3775
Scope and Contents
The commentary is bound with a letter, 1826, of Sir Walter Scott to George Hogarth, Writer to the Signet, on financial matters (folio 5).
Dates:
[1821, or before], 1826.
Manuscript containing the letter of Prester John, and other works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.41
Scope and Contents
Originally 2 separate manuscripts: (a) folios 1 and 16, (b) folios 2-15. Part (a), a bifolium, is by a single anonymous hand, origin and date unknown. John Mackenzie, secretary of the Highland Society of London described part (a) as “A small Octavo Vellum Manuscript in Prose, containing two Leaves, signed, London Janry. 5th. 1803 John Mackenzie”. (Highland Society of Scotland minutes.) Part (b) was written by several hands, one text to each. The main text, the Letter...
Dates:
(?)15th century-17th century.
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.
Microfilm of miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.304
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Microfilm of miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.870
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Microfilm of theological works of Saints Jerome, Augustine, and others, written in the 12th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.851
Dates:
12th century.
‘Relics of Correspondence with Sir Walter Scott, Explanatory Notes, and other Reminiscences, by J. Skene, Edinburgh, 1833’.
File
Identifier: MS.965
Scope and Contents
The volume contains:
(i) 92 letters of Sir Walter Scott, chiefly to James Skene, from 1805 to 1832, bound in with Skene's commentary and followed by reminiscences of Mrs Skene (folios 1-281). Most of the material was published as ‘Memories of Sir Walter Scott’ (London, 1909), and it was used by David Douglas in his ‘Familiar letters of Sir Walter Scott’ (Edinburgh, 1894).
(ii) James Skene's correspondence regarding proposals for a memorial to Scott, which includes letters from various...
Dates:
1805-1835.