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Bābar-nāmah, being memoirs of the Emperor Ẓahîr al-Dîn Muḥammad Bâbar in the original Turkî.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.18
Dates:
16th century.
Copies, early 17th century, in French, of treaties drawn up between France and her various allies, 1552-1615.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.4
Scope and Contents
Also included is a copy of a memoir of Henri IV by Pierre Jeannin, in a different hand from the rest of the volume (folio 1), a number of instructions to ambassadors, commissions, and other related material, and a table of contents (folio 264).
Dates:
1552-1615.
Copies, early 18th century, of letters and memoirs of covenanters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.4
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Letters, 1675-1677, of the preacher John Welwood. They are mostly addressed to Elizabeth Collace and her sister Katharine Ross, but there are also a few to the covenanter Richard Cameron. The letters, which are not in strict chronological order, are chiefly religious in nature, but there are occasional mentions of the persecutions in Fife, the Merse and Teviotdale. (Folio 1.)(ii) Memoirs of Katharine Ross. The...
Dates:
1675-early 18th century.
Copy, late 17th or early 18th century, of the memoirs of James Fraser of Brea, minister of Culross.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.11
Scope and Contents
This copy begins with the author`s preface, omitting the letter of dedication to Thomas Ross, and breaks off at the end of chapter 8. It contains a small amount of biographical material which does not appear in the published version.
The name William Lindsay, Letham, Dunnichen, appears on folio 1.
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Copy, made in 1702, of letters and memoirs of Major-General Hugh Mackay of Scoury (?1640-1692), concerning the campaigns in Scotland in 1689-1690, and in Ireland in 1691.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.1
Dates:
1689, and after.
Copy of ‘An Account of the Lord`s Gracious dealing with me; and of his remarkable hearing and answering my supplications` , being the religious memoirs of Mrs Marion Veitch, wife of William Veitch, minister of Dumfries, written apparently in or about 1711, the date of the latest events recorded.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.22
Scope and Contents
This copy, one of three known, which was written in a near-contemporary hand, appears to have lost all after page 74: the remainder is supplied on different sheets written in an apparently late 18th-century hand.
Dates:
1711, or after.
Copy of ‘Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky (London, 1733) with manuscript annotations.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.2
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains extracts of two letters, ?circa 1690, concerning the attitude of James VII towards the Church of England (folio 1), and `Some additional Characters of the chief of the last Ministry`, 1715, signed M S (folio 3). The characters, which are apparently copied from another manuscript, are of Bolingbroke, Stafford, the Bishop of London and others. The annotations, writtenbetween 1781 and 1797, are signed `M.` and `E.M.` and are mostly copies of notes by...
Dates:
Circa 1690, 1715, 1733, 1781-1797.
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.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) A copy, in a hand of the late 17th century, of the `Memoirs` of Walter Pringle (folio 1). These were first published in 1723 from a copy of the original manuscript by James Pringle of Greenknowe, 1684. The relationship of the present manuscript to that copy is unknown.(ii) A detached leaf, headed Section XIX and paginated 81-82, concerning the history of Clan Chattan (folio 35). Written in a small late 17th-century...
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century.
Draft manuscript of the introduction and book I, chapters 1 and 2 of `Forty-three Years at the Cathedral Perth 1883-1926` by the Reverend George T S Farquhar, Dean of Saint Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.
Item
Identifier: Dep.366
Dates:
1926, or after.
"Forty Years Ago" a manuscript memoir by Alexander Simpson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11916
Scope and Contents
Describes life in Johnshaven and Benholm, Kincardineshire.
Dates:
circa 1920-1965.
Journal of Morley Jamieson and manuscript of his "Echoes and Eccentrics: a Personal Account of Bookselling 1942-1966"
File
Identifier: Acc.8878
Dates:
1961-1984.
Lawrence Crawford, "A Brief Recollection of Passages in My Lord of Manchester`s Army", circa 1643, with annotated transcript, circa 1840-circa 1845, of Thomas Carlyle.
File
Identifier: Acc.5002
Dates:
circa 1643, circa 1840-circa 1845.
Manuscript, 17th century, of the second part of ‘I.G.De Rebus ... sub imperio illustrissimi Jacobi Montisrosarum Marchionis ... anno MDCXLIV et duobus sequentibus praeclare gestis, commentarius’ by George Wishart.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.8
Scope and Contents
The beginning and end are missing.
Dates:
1644.
Manuscript, 17th century, of the second part of ‘I.G.De Rebus ... sub imperio illustrissimi Jacobi Montisrosarum Marchionis ... anno MDCXLIV et duobus sequentibus praeclare gestis, commentarius’ by George Wishart.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.16
Scope and Contents
Some corrections have been made and omissions supplied by another hand.
Dates:
1644-1646.
Manuscript draft of Morley Jamieson, "Recollections of Edwin and Willa Muir".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8443
Dates:
1983.
Manuscript of Elizabeth Grant, "Memoirs of a Highland Lady"
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9214
Dates:
1845.
Manuscript of 'George Scott Moncrieff and a few friends: a brief memoir' by Morley Jamieson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26974-26976
Scope and Contents
The memoir was not published, but twenty copies were circulated in typescript.
Dates:
[1987.]
Manuscript of Moray McLaren, "Return to Scotland: an Egoist`s Journey".
Item
Identifier: Acc.3580
Dates:
circa 1964.
Manuscripts and typescripts of "Right, Left" (1948), "An Early Education" (1947) and "Dry Fun" (published as part of "Innocent Merriment", 2004) by Thomas Blantyre Simpson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12452
Scope and Contents
Includes associated correspondence.
Dates:
circa 1946-1994.
Manuscripts collected by Walter Biggar Blaikie, Doctor of Laws, editor of volumes concerning Jacobitism in the publications of the Scottish History Society, etc.
Series
Identifier: MSS.278-318
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
Manuscripts of two apparently unpublished genealogical works by John Philp Wood.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5271-5272
Dates:
1830.
Material connected with the ‘Memoirs of Sir Robert Strange, Knt., Engraver ... and of his brother-in-law Andrew Lumisden, private secretary to the Stuart Princes’, by James Dennistoun.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2898-2902
Dates:
1836-1855, undated.
“Memoir of the military state of North Britain in 1803, By Colonel Alex : Dirom, Deputy Quarter Master General of His Majesty’s Forces in North Britain, F.R.S., London and Edin.”
Item
Identifier: MS.1754
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains a description of the state of Scottish defences, with criticisms, and suggestions for improvements in the possibility of invasion.
Dates:
1803.