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'Abridgement of the Scottish History', a list of the succession of the Kings of Scotland from Fergus I to James VI by Sir James Balfour, in his hand.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.7.14.
Account of the history of the residence in Edinburgh, during the last year of the reign of George II and first year of George III, of William Gordon, 17th Earl of Sutherland, by John Wilde.
Account of the peasant rising of 1865 in Jamaica, being the final draft of part of an uncompleted work on Governor Eyre, by William Law Mathieson, Doctor of Laws.
Account of the trial of Alexander Wilson, the weaver-poet and ornithologist, at the instance of William Sharp, in connexion with his poem ‘The Shark’.
In accordance with the order of the Sheriff-Substitute, Alexander Wilson publicly burned two copies of the poem at the Tolbooth, Paisley. Bound with a printed copy of ‘The Shark’, 1792.
'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'.
Al-Shuẕûr al-Ẕahabiyyah, a grammar and a vocabulary of the Uṣmānlī Turkî language explained in Arabic.
Album containing copies of religious tracts, at least one of which is of John Livingstone, Minister of Ancrum, in the same hand as the 'Life' of Livingstone in Adv. MS.34.5.19.
Album containing portraits of Sir Walter Scott, with papers of and concerning him.
Album, containing 'Universal grammar...' written by James Trail, Minister of St Cyrus, and lecture notes on logic by his brother David Trail, Minister of Panbride.
Album entitled 'Military autographs', containing fourteen photographs of British and French generals and two signatures pasted in; together with a collection of autographs chiefly concerning the 1st Duke of Wellington, which were tipped in or loosely enclosed in the album, but have now been removed and are kept separately.
Album of Adam White, the naturalist (1817-1879), entitled on the cover 'Weeds and wild flowers'.
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
Albums of letters and documents, almost entirely of Scottish interest, written by or relating to historical celebrities, and dealing with public and private affairs.
Alexander Skinner's Manuscript of Piobaireachd, so-called from the inscription 'Presented to Mr. Duncan Campbell, Piper to Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., of Newe, by Alex. Skinner, Teacher of Dancing ... London, June 15, 1855'.
‘Ancient Scottish poems’ (London, 1786) by John Pinkerton, with manuscript notes by David Macpherson, editor of Wyntoun.
Angus MacArthur’s manuscript of piobaireachd music.
This is the earliest known manuscript of pipe-music in which modern staff notation is used. It is now known as the Highland Society of London's manuscript and is described in Book I (1925) of the Piobaireachd Society's publications (page ii, number 2).
At the beginning of the volume is a note on the manuscript by Archibald Campbell, Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society (folio iii verso).
Angus Mackay's four untitled manuscripts of bagpipe music.
The first two manuscripts are of piobaireachd; the second two, of marches, strathspeys, reels, jigs, and other dance music.
According to Angus Mackay's inscription in his Seaforth Manuscript (MS.3744) he was at work on these manuscripts between 1826 and 1840, taking the tunes down from his father's canntaireachd.
Annotated printed works, typescripts, and manuscripts connected with piobaireachd, in particular with the exact musical interpretation of canntaireachd, compiled by Alexander K Cameron, Montana, USA.
Apparently unpublished work entitled "Mélographie, ou l'art d'écrire la musique comme le discours, par Joseph Delurtier".
The work describes a method of notation by stenographic symbols written on one line, giving many examples of its use.
Ars dictaminis of Giovanni di Buonandrea, with gloss, written in Italy.
Begins 'Bononie natus nataii dum sttidet urbe'; gloss begins 'Quid est Rethorica nisi ratio benedicendi'. The manuscript is incomplete, breaking off in the section on 'Petitio'.
A cutting from the sale catalogue of Maggs Bros, February 1960[?], number 67, is inserted describing the text as the work of Johannes de Bologna. Written in brown ink by one scribe, the text in littera semi-gothica textualis and the gloss in cursiva libraria. Spaces have been left for initials.
Author's manuscript and printed proof of ‘An anthology of Scottish history’ from 1093 to 1746, being a list of characters, etc., prepared by Andrew Ross, Ross Herald, for the pageant given at the Scottish National Exhibition, 1908.
Author’s own copy of ‘The Gareloch as military port no. 1’ by Arnold Fleming (Helensburgh, [1949]); with corrections and additions throughout in manuscript, and numerous inserts.
Pasted in at beginning and end are newspaper cuttings, typescripts, and manuscripts, consisting of reviews of the book and of articles and notes on its subject, on Clyde steamers, and on Madeleine Smith.
Autograph collection, chiefly of the late nineteenth century.
The correspondents include politicians, artists and figures from the medical and theatrical professions. It probably belonged to Jean Lang, née Blaikie, to whom many of the letters are addressed, but a substantial amount of the correspondence is to William Miller, Member of the Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland, and the physician, Sir Thomas Lauder-Brunton.
Autograph collection of W K Dickson, Keeper of the Advocates' Library and Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, containing letters of political, literary, and other figures.
A number of the letters are addressed to Alexander Adam, rector of Edinburgh High School, and others to David Dickson, master of the Merchant Company of Edinburgh. There is a small group of naval autographs, 1746-1813 (folio 267) and a manuscript periodical, 'The Glencorse Advertiser', for July 1840 (folio 281).