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Autograph manuscript of `History of Scots Affairs from the year 1637 to 1641.`, by James Gordon, Minister of Rothiemay.
The manuscript, written between December 1659 and March 1661, contains the Argument to Book II, and Books II-V.
Autograph manuscript of `Ragionamento di Carlo V. Imperatore tenuto al re Philippo suo figliuolo In dargli la libera signoria di tutti gli stati suoi`, Giacomo Castelvetro`s translation, 1592, of Charles V`s advice to his son, 1555.
The colophon (folio 42) is signed `Giacopo Castelvetri cittadino modonese.`
The text is preceded (folio vi) by Castelvetro`s dedicatory letter to James VI.
Autograph manuscript of Sir Walter Scott concerning Scottish gypsies, including an account of Jean Gordon, of whom the character ‘Meg Merrilies’ in Guy Mannering is based.
Autograph manuscript of `The fair Unfortunate; or, the Tragedy of Jane Douglas, the Lady Glamis’, an unpublished drama in blank verse by Alexander Campbell, the editor Of ‘Albyn’s Anthology’.
The manuscript is undated, but another hand has added the date 27 November, 1819 (folio 89 verso).
Two sheets of musical accompaniment to songs in the text have been inserted (folios 41, 51).
Tipped in at the front of the volume is a letter, 1821, from the proprietors of Covent Garden Theatre, rejecting the play.
Autograph manuscript of the novel ‘Deep down: a tale of the Cornish mines’ by R M Ballantyne.
The preface is signed and dated at Edinburgh in 1868. The manuscript is heavily corrected and includes a page-proof of the preface.
Autograph manuscript of "The Raid of Rittersford" by Walter Scott, later published with variations as "Jamie Telfer of the Fair Donhead" in "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border" (1802)
Autograph manuscript, undated, of 'Three Scottish songs' arranged for voices, strings, piano and timpani by Gordon Jacob.
Autograph manuscripts and typescripts of James Ramsay MacDonald entitled "Parliament and Revolution" and "India: Imprsessions and Opinions".
Autograph manuscripts "Autumn" and "The Celtic Genius", poems of Hugh MacDiarmid
Autograph manuscripts of ten poems by Edwin Morgan on "Scotland`s favourite paintings" as selected by readers of `The Herald`.
With related papers and notes by Lesley Duncan, and a copy of the resulting book "Beyond the Sun" (Edinburgh, 2007).
Autograph manuscripts of three apparently unpublished poems by Sir Edwin Arnold.
Autograph manuscripts, with an incomplete transcript, of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh.
For each manuscript is given the chapter(s), with title(s) contained in it, and, in brackets, reference to volume and page of the Stair Society edition of the lectures.
Autograph musical scores of David Dorward containing sketches and some final versions of works for various combinations of instruments, including voices.
Two of the pieces are dated 1961 and 1967. The remainder, though undated, appear to have been written at about the same period.
Autograph score, 1953, of ‘Sonata for violoncello and piano’ by Hans Gál.
The score bears a few corrections, one of which is written on a scrap of paper (folio 13) pasted to folio 14. Folio 15 consists of two leaves pasted together.
Autograph score of Haflidi Hallgrímsson, "Verse I for flute and cello: Sea Nocturne".
Autograph score of John McLeod, "Variation 7 on `Johnnie Faa` for flute, cello, and harp".
Autograph score of 'Quintet No 1' for pianoforte and strings by Cyril Scott.
Apparently unpublished, this is not the ‘Quintet’ published, 1926, as part of the Carnegie collection of British Music.
A leaf is cut out after folio 6 and a few more after folios 49.
Autograph score of the overture “Tam o' Shanter”, Opus 51, by Malcolm Arnold, bearing several marks from use in performance.
Autograph score of 'Three Songs of Night' for baritone and strings, composed by Leon Coates from ‘Pomes Penyeach’ by James Joyce, for the Music Society of St Peter's College, Oxford.
Autograph score of Trevor Morrison "Music from the Streets of Edinburgh".
Autograph score of 'Two invocations for tenor and piano', opus 25, by John Joubert, with amendments in coloured inks.
Settings of 'To winter' (folio 2) and 'To spring' (folio 9) by William Blake.
The work was published in 1960 and received its Scottish premiere at the National Library of Scotland, 28 August 1969.
Autograph scores of musical compositions by David Stephen, Director of Music to the Carnegie Trust, Dunfermline.
Most of the compositions appear to be unpublished.