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Box of miscellaneous photostats and photographs.
Series
Identifier: MS.8494
Dates:
8th century-1958.
Kilberry book of piobaireachd: papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22098-22117
Scope and Contents
Archibald Campbell, who entered the Indian Civil Service and retired as Judge of the High Court of Lahore, was the youngest son of John Campbell of Kilberry, and Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society. The material is arranged tune by tune, approximately in the order of appearance in ‘Ceol mor’ by C S Thomason, and consists of copies of the text of each piobaireachd from all authoritative sources, both printed (including some proof sheets) and manuscript....
Dates:
1892-1963, undated.
Letters and documents of Mary Queen of Scots.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.54.1.2-54.1.4
Dates:
1558-1574.
Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.27
Scope and Contents
It was originally Ferguson`s intention to print Dutch text and English translation of all Dutch documents quoted, but this scheme had to be abandoned for reasons of space, and only the English translations were ultimately printed (Volume I, page xxxiii). Before this change of plan, the Dutch texts had been inserted into the appropriate places of the manuscript of Volume I and part of Volume II; the rest are preserved separately, Adv.MSS.81.3.15-81.3.23.Summaries and extracts of...
Dates:
1698-1901.
Material relating to Thomas Muir, the political reformer.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3824-3829
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Microfilm of Kilberry book of piobaireachd. Papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus, numbers 148-290.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.951-952
Dates:
[?1892-?1958.]
Negative photostats of the manuscript, circa 1598, of the ‘Basilikon Doron’ of James VI in the British Museum (MS.Royal 18 B. xv).
File
Identifier: MS.3544
Dates:
Circa 1598.
Photostat of a contemporary copy of 'Ung livret et traicte pour entendre quel ordre et train ung prince ou chef de guerre doibt tenir pour conquester ung pays ou passer on traverser le pays des ennemys. Compose par Messire Berault Stuart', i.e., Bernard Stuart, 3rd Seigneur d'Aubigny.
Item
Identifier: MS.1802
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is illustrated with seven miniatures.
Dates:
Late 15th century-early 16th century.
Photostats and original manuscripts of Scottish music.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1781-1784
Dates:
17th century-1900.
Photostats of a manuscript, undated, containing Gaelic poetry in the hand of William MacMurchy found at Inverneill House in 1949 by Colonel Duncan Campbell of Inverneill.
Item
Identifier: MS.14951
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists of versions of four poems which also appear in Adv.MS.73.2.2.
The contents are as follows.
(i) ‘Tuirseach andiu crioch Gaoidhioll’, 152 lines (page 1);
(ii) ‘Do bheath Ghiolleasbuig gad dhuthchus’, 32 lines (page 5);
(iii) “Ghillasbuig mo bheannachd re m’bheo”, 7 stanzas (page 6);
(iv) “‘Ghillasbuig mo mholachd rem’ bheo”, 8½ stanzas (page 7).
Dates:
18th century.
Photostats of manuscripts held in the Abbotsford Library, all in the hand of Sir Walter Scott.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2229-2232
Dates:
1796-1797.
Photostats of manuscripts of Edmund Castell, the Semitic scholar.
File
Identifier: MS.3589
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Photostats of manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge, illustrating Edmund Castell's use of shorthand, namely, Dd.xi.39, page 5 and odd scraps; Dd.vi.4, pages 2-3, 30-45, 52-53, 60-63, 66-87, 90-101, 114-115, 118-121, 130-131, 136-145, 148-157, 164-169, 172-173, 176-181, 206-207, 366-367, 370-377, 382-421, 424-429, 431-432, 436-461. The pages after page 206 are with some exceptions inverted in the original, and the photostats have been...
Dates:
1651-1672.
Photostats of portions of the original manuscripts of the Waverley Novels by Sir Walter Scott, in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2247-2248
Dates:
[1814, or before; 1816, or before.]
Photostats of ‘The Kings Quair’, the unique fifteenth-century manuscript in the Bodleian Library (MS. Arch. Selden B.24) prepared for William Mackay Mackenzie's edition of the poem, 1939.
File
Identifier: MS.2882
Scope and Contents
The copies consist of folios 191 verso-211, 231 verso of the original manuscript. There are also photostats of the Gaelic quatrain of Donald Gorm (probably Donald Gormsson, sixth chief of Sleat), sixteenth century, in the same volume.
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Positive Photostat of a manuscript containing Gaelic poetry collected by the Reverend James McLagan (MacLagan MS.73 in Glasgow University).
Item
Identifier: MS.14950
Scope and Contents
The photostat includes a portion which once formed part of National Library of Scotland MS.3784.
The Photostat of the manuscript was catalogued by John Mackechnie as follows.
Mackechnie, page 424 (MacLagan MS.73 a-b) (folios 1-4);
Mackechnie, page 324 (NLS MS.3784 (2), numbers 3, 4, 1, 2, 4, 5 in that order) (folios 5-8);
Mackechnie, page 424 (MacLagan MS.73 c-n) (folios 9-12).
Dates:
[Circa 1755.]