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26 manuscript fragments of paper and vellum, recovered from bindings.
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.
`Chronicle of Perth`, 1210-1668, also known as Mercer`s Chronicle and Fleming`s Chronicle, with other documents relating to the burgh of Perth.
The `Chronicle` was compiled probably between 1600 and 1668 by more than one person. Though attributed to John Mercer, town clerk of Perth, only the latter part appears to be his work. From 1660 it is almost entirely a register of burials.
Other items in the volume are a fragment of a legal memorial, circa 1597, concerning the foundation of the King James VI Hospital in Perth (folio 1), and a group of letters concerning Royal Burgh affairs (1614-1628), all copies (folio 20).
Collection of illuminated manuscripts and fragments, chiefly Italian, acquired by the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art from 1868 to 1895.
Copy of the ‘Memoirs’ of Walter Pringle of Greenknowe, the covenanter, with two genealogical manuscripts, concerning respectively the Clan Chattan and the Drummond family in Madeira.
Corrected manuscripts of three essays of William Sharp, "The Cuckoo", "The Heralds of March", and "Mäya", with parts of two other essays.
Fragment of a manuscript of the Gospels in the Syriac Peshitta version.
Only eight leaves are present, containing St John xvi, 23-xxi, 23; but damage to the top, bottom, and outer edges of the leaves has reduced considerably the amount of legible text. The manuscript has only a small number of minor variants from the standard text.
The script is a bold, clear Nestorian estrangela, well supplied with vowels and other reading signs, including the linear occultans. It was probably written in the early thirteenth century.
Fragments, drafts and notes in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald, mainly on Scottish antiquities and topography.
Fragments of a Latin commentary on Aristotle's ‘Categoriae', including parts of the 'Liber predicabilium' and 'Liber predicamentorum'.
The commentary is followed by a fragment of a manuscript in English (folio 34) and part of a vellum leaf from a 13th-century noted service book (folio 36).
Fragments of a life of Sir William Wallace (folio 1) and of notes (folios 17, 19) relating to another, unidentified life, possibly an edition of Blind Harry`s ‘Wallace’, by Richard Augustine Hay.
The manuscript is undated, but from a reference to ‘the late Mr Lockhart of Carnwath’ (folio 29 verso), it seems that the notes at least were written probably in 1732; the life may have been written about the same time.
Fragments of liturgical and other medieval manuscripts.
Fragments of the manuscript of Henry Cockburn, "Memorials of His Time", with many unpublished and variant passages.
Letters and papers of John H Balfour-Browne, Kings Counsel (1885-1921).
Letters and papers of Thomas Carlyle, with a few of his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle and others.
Letters and poems of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet; and poetry and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell.
Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his family.
There are no letters of Thomas Carlyle to his father. Several letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle (sometimes added to Carlyle’s letters as postscripts) and of various members of Carlyle’s family are included. Other writers are Daniel Corrie, Bishop of Madras, 1836; W H Wills, ‘Editor and factotum‘ of Charles Dickens, 1855; and Rudolf Sonnenburg, who brought out a German edition of ‘Frederick’, 1867. There are also letters of Carlyle to Whewell, 1861, Emerson, 1869, and others.
Manuscript containing the letter of Prester John, and other works.
Manuscript containing verse and tale fragments in Gaelic.
Manuscript fragments of, and letters of and to, Sir Walter Scott.
Manuscript leaf of part of William Edmondstowne Aytoun, "Bothwell".
Manuscript of an incomplete work of fiction of Thomas Carlyle.
Concerns a character Peter Lithgow of Drumbrash.