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Volume of notes taken down by a student at Glasgow University from lectures on the civil law delivered by John Millar of Milheugh, Professor of Civil Law from 1761 to 1801.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.28.6.8
Scope and Contents

The lectures, delivered in two courses between November 1777 and May 1778, appear to be those on the ‘Institutes’ of Justinian given by Millar to students in the first year of their legal studies. The first course, in 73 lectures (folios 1-88), gave an overview of the text, while the second, in 46 lectures, February-May 1777 (folios 89-292), studied the ‘Institutes’ in more detail.

The notes are in longhand, but with a few shorthand additions.

Dates: 1777-1778.

Volume of practicks.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.8
Scope and Contents (i) `Practiques Observed By the Judicatories of the Kingdome of Scotland, According to the Municipal Lawes Sett ffurth By Sir Thomas Hope of Carse, Knight Advocat for his Majesty. Written by Charles Tais yor Writter in Perth. 20 December 1701`, i.e. ‘Minor Practicks’ by Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall. In the title ‘Carse` is scored through and ‘Craig Hall’ added in pencil. The confusion of father and son appears also in MS.5898(vii) (a volume which was compiled in 1682-1683 by James Blair of...
Dates: 1626-1639, 1701.

Volume of prayers in German.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.20
Scope and Contents

There were originally two volumes containing prayers to be said throughout the liturgical year, but the second volume is missing. This manuscript contains prayers from the Sunday before Advent until Easter. Incipit `Hier hebet sich an Ein Andechtig Buchlein mit etzlichenn gutenn Ubungenn durch das iar` (folio 1). Some prayers to be said at New Year, which should follow folio 114, were omitted and copied later by the scribe (folios 309-322).

Dates: Circa 1600.

Volume of Robert Burns’ poems, in manuscript, undated, by an unknown transcriber.

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Identifier: MS.6302
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The text appears to have been copied from the subscribers' edition of ‘Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect’ (Edinburgh, 1787). Between pages 36 and 37 is inserted a newspaper cutting giving an explanation of two lines in the second stanza of 'Death and Doctor Hornbook'.

Dates: [1787, or after.]

Volume of speeches, tracts and other papers.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.2
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Part of a speech to the English Parliament on the financial affairs of James I, probably by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, ?1610 (folio 1).(ii) Copy, dated 1613, of Salisbury`s speech to Parliament, 15 February 1610. For summaries, see ‘A Life of Robert Cecil’, pages 297-299, and ‘Parliamentary Debates in 1610’, pages 1-9 (folio 4).(iii) Notes on rumoured preparations by Catholic forces, by Mr Foster,...
Dates: Late 16th century-17th century.

Volume, stamped on the spine `Papers relating to Cromwell and the Regicides`, containing materials assembled by George Chalmers.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.28
Scope and Contents The date is given on folio 34 verso. The papers consist of:(i) notes and extracts relating to the history of Great Britain in the mid 17th century, in particular notes of treaties with other countries, 1654, and their provisions (folio 1), extracts from the Books of the Privy Council, 1660 (folio 7) and notes and extracts concerning the Regicides 1660-1662 (folio 12); (ii) a chronological list, compiled apparently about the same time, of treaties between...
Dates: 1792.

Volume written in 1796 entitled `Copy Search of Charters, Diplomas, andc in favours of the Peers of Scotland containing the Charts of Dignities and Series of Heirs`.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.20
Scope and Contents The volume consists of a collection of copies and extracts of charters and other formal documents dating from the early 14th to the early 18th century from the Register of the Great Seal and the Records in Chancery (folio 2), an appendix concerning certain Scottish peerages (folio 63 verso), a list of the Parliaments of England and of Great Britain (folio 96 verso), names of Scots Representative Peers who sat in the House of Lords in the 18th century (folio 97 verso), and an index to the...
Dates: Early 14th century-18th century.

Wardlaw manuscript: 'Polichronicon, seu Policratica Temporum. Many histories in one, or nearer, the true genealogy of the Frasers', by James Fraser of Phopachy, Minister of Wardlaw (Kirkhill), begun in 1666 and continued at least until 1699.

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Identifier: MS.3658
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A letter, 1870, of Francis Harvey, the London bookseller, to Sir William Fraser, Baronet, offering the manuscript for sale, has been pasted in at the end.

Dates: 1666-1699.

Women`s Social and Political Union postcard album.

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Identifier: Acc.4546
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Including cards, photographs, newspaper cuttings and printed and manuscript papers.

Dates: circa 1900-circa 1914.

Work entitled `Buchanan Revis`d [:] Annotations or Animadversions on Buchanan`s Historie and his Dialogue, etc.` consisting of criticisms of George Buchanan’s ‘Return Scoticarum historia’ (folio 7) and his ‘De Jure Regni apud Scotos’ (folio 64) by Sir James Turner, preceded by various items of introductory and explanatory matter.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.14
Scope and Contents Although the author details the circumstances in which he began, lost, rewrote and revised his criticisms and had them bound, a period ranging from 1643 to 1679, his name nowhere appears; but he has been identified as the soldier and author Sir James Turner.The criticisms are followed (folio 64) by two satirical writings by Turner purporting to be a letter of Don Francesco Gomez de Quevedo Villegas with the impossible date of 1506, and a letter, 1582, of ‘Philander of Sitwald’....
Dates: 1643-1679.

Work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical (Adv.MS.34.1.8) and secular (Adv.MSS.34.1.9(i)-34.1.9(ii)) antiquities of Scotland.

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Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.1.8-34.1.9
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The work is in the same hand as, and was begun probably as the consequence to, Hay’s ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio` (Adv.MS.34.1.10) in 1700 (the date quoted on each title page) and completed in 1707 or later (Adv.MS.34.1.9(ii), folio 62).

Dates: 1700-1707, or after.

‘Works of Henry Mackenzie’ (Edinburgh, 1808), volume viii, containing autograph additions.

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Identifier: MS.1803
Scope and Contents There are additional sheets, inserted after page 62, containing seven poems of Henry Mackenzie written in 1825 and 1828-1829, all apparently unpublished (folios 1-5). Inserted after page 289 is a further additional sheet (folio 6) containing notes on his tragedy, 'The Spanish Father', with duplicates of pages 283-286 containing autograph notes and alterations to the text.Printed pages missing from the volume (pages 1-17, 33-48) have been supplied in manuscript in a hand not Henry...
Dates: 1825, 1828-1829.

Works of John H Balfour Browne.

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Identifier: Acc.4223
Scope and Contents

With manuscript and printed material of Balfour Browne and others, including poetry, essays, plays and novels.

Dates: circa 1880-circa 1920.

Writings of Janet Wills, sister of William and Robert Chambers and wife of William Henry Wills.

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Identifier: MS.3652
Scope and Contents

The papers comprise accounts of a visit to Glasgow Blind Asylum (folio 1) and of experiences, real or fictitious, in Argyll (folio 5), Epping Forest (folio 10), France (folio 20), and the Rhineland (folio 28), and stories (folio 47), undated.

Dates: Late 19th century.

Writings of Savonarola, translated into English, in the hand of Alexander Falconar, Advocate, who added some comments in the margins, late seventeenth or early eighteenth century.

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Identifier: MS.3859
Scope and Contents

Contains: ‘De Simplicitate Christianae Vitae’, preceded by the ‘Epistola’, as in the Cologne edition (1550), and followed by a sermon on John, iv, I, preached on 9 June 1495 (folio 101).

There are notes on the manuscript and its writer on folios i and iii.

Dates: Late 17th century-early 18th century.

Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.3134-3185
Scope and Contents

Many of the papers are accompanied by transcripts or summaries by Alexander Macdonald.

Dates: 1552-19th century

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Balfour, James, Sir, 1st Baronet of Denmilne and Kinnaird (antiquary) 22
Gray, Alasdair (author) 16
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 16
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 13
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 12
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Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 10
Morrison, Trevor, poet, d 2013 10
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 10
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 9
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 9
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 9
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 8
Sibbald, Robert, Sir, Knight (physician and Geographer Royal) 8
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 7
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 7
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 6
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 6
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 6
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 5
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 5
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 5
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 5
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 5
Stevenson, Ronald J, composer and pianist, 1928-2015 5
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 5
Augustine of Hippo, Saint 4
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (afterwards Noel, poet) 4
Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd (Scottish poet, novelist and essayist) 4
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 4
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 4
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 4
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 4
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 4
Stuart, Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir, Prince, 1720-1788 4
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 3
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 3
Cronin, Archibald Joseph, novelist, 1896-1981 3
Gratian (Canonist) 3
Hay, Richard Augustine (canon and antiquary) 3
Henderson, Hamish, poet and folklorist, 1919-2002 3
Home, Hon William Douglas, playwright, 1912-1992 3
Leonard, Thomas, poet, b 1944 3
Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc, Duc de La Vallière 3
Mac Mhurchaidh, Uilleam , ca. 1700-1778 (schoolmaster, poet and scribe) 3
MacDonald, Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, poet, ca. 1698-ca. 1770 3
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 3
Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace, 7th Baronet of Monreith, politician and author, 1845-1937 3
Maxwell, family, of Monreith 3
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 3
Ramsay, Allan, poet, 1684-1758 3
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 3
Sinclair, Henry (Bishop of Ross) 3
Smith, Annie Shepherd Burnett, novelist, pseudonym "David Lyall", née Swan, 1859-1943 3
Smith, Iain Crichton (poet and author) 3
Soutar, William (poet) 3
St Clair, William, 14th Baron of Rosslyn (Lord Chief Justice of Scotland) 3
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 3
Thorkelin, Grímur Jónsson (Scholar) 3
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 3
Akros, literary magazine 2
Ballantyne, Robert Michael, novelist, 1825-1894 2
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 2
Boccaccio, Giovanni (Writer and Poet) 2
Boog, Robert (Minister of Paisley Abbey) 2
Bottomley, Gordon, author, 1874-1948 2
Bowring, Sir John, Knight, politician, diplomatist and author, 1792-1872: recipient 2
Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, theatre critic and writer, 1891-1974 2
Burnett (of Leys) 2
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 2
Campbell, Archibald, jurist, piper, 1877-1963 2
Chambers, Robert (publisher and writer) 2
Cockburn, Henry, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice, 1779-1854 2
Coles, Cecil Frederick, composer, 1888-1918 2
Doyle, Arthur Ignatius Conan, Sir (author) 2
Farquhar, George Taylor Shillito, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1857-1927 2
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 2
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 2
Freebairn, Robert (bookseller and printer) 2
Gardner, Archibald Ward, physician, 1923-1994 2
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 2
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 2
Grant, John, Pipe Major, d 1961 2
Gregory I, Pope 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
Harper, Edward, composer, 1941-2009 2
Hay, William (Bishop of Moray) 2
Henderson and Bisset, Edinburgh, bookbinders 2
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 2
Hume, David, philosopher, 1711-1776 2
Inglis, Esther, calligrapher, married name Kello, ? 1570-1624 2
Jamieson, Robert Alan, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1958 2
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 2
Justinian I, Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 2
Keating, Geoffrey (Seathrún Céitinn), ca. 1580-ca. 1644 2
Lochhead, Liz, poet and playwright, b 1947 2
Mac Pháill, Eoghan, Dunstaffnage, fl. 1603-1638 2
MacDonald, Donald, piper and bagpipe maker, ? 1766-1840 2
MacDonald, George, poet and novelist, 1824-1905 2
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 2
MacMhuirich, Niall, ca. 1637-1726 2
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