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Correspondence and literary papers of and concerning George Borrow collected by Sir Angus Fraser, with working papers of Sir Angus Fraser relating to George Borrow.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12091/1-74
Scope and Contents
Includes photocopies, extensive notes on Borrow by Sir Angus Fraser and an annotated copy of 'George Borrow: a Bibliographical Guide' (1984).
Dates:
1794-2001, undated.
Correspondence and other papers chiefly of the Scotts of Raeburn.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1154
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Correspondence, 1660-1822, of the Scotts of Raeburn (MS.2889);
Correspondence, accounts and other papers, [?1698-?1853], chiefly of the Scotts of Raeburn (MS.2890).
Dates:
[1660-1853.]
Microfilm, chiefly of correspondence of James Augustus Grant and his family.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.513-515
Dates:
1843-1900.
Microfilm of 11th and 12th century manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.350
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript of the late 11th and early 12th century containing: the 'Paradisus' of Heraclides; the 'Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae temper Wandalorum' of Victor Vitensis; 'De corpore et sanguine Domini' of Paschasius Radbertus (attributed to Rabanus Maurus); 'De corpore Domini contra Berengarium' of Guitmund; and two sermons of St Augustine of Hippo (Adv.MS.18.4.3);Medical manuscript, 1st half of 12th century, written in South France or...
Dates:
Late 11th century-1st half of 12th century.
Microfilm of 14th century manuscript, 'Consuetudines Normanniae', the laws and customs of Normandy.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.937
Dates:
14th century.
Microfilm of 15th-century manuscript containing various legal works: an index to the works of Bartolus de Saxoferrato; the 'Allegationes' of Lapo da Castiglionchio the Elder, abbreviated by Anthonius de Butrio; the 'Canonum Collectio' of Pseudo-Isidore.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.181
Dates:
15th century, after 1440.
Microfilm of 15th century manuscript of Icelandic laws, 'Jónsbók'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.774
Dates:
15th century.
Microfilm of ‘A Perfect Inventor of all the Pious Donations Given to the Kirks and Hospitals in Scotland since the days of K. Iames 1 To the Regne of King Iames the vi. With Additions. Edenburgh Writen 12 novr i702 by R:M:’ (i.e. Robert Mylne).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.198
Dates:
1st quarter of 15th century-1703.
Microfilm of abbreviated version of ‘Scotichronicon’ by Walter Bower.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1522
Dates:
[?1450-?1480.]
Microfilm of abridgement, 18th century, of the 'Acts of the Convention of Royal Burghs of Scotland, 1552-1708'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.128
Dates:
1552-1708.
Microfilm of account of missionary voyage to Canada by representatives of the Catholic Apostolic Church.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.826
Dates:
1834-1837.
Microfilm of acts of the Fife Chapman Society, Cupar.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2078
Dates:
1764-1858.
Microfilm of Africa Through Western Eyes. Part 3 (Adam Matthew Publications).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2038-2047
Scope and Contents
The microfilms in this series have been described to a basic standard. The dates are taken from the original accession record and might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.
Dates:
?19th century-?20th century.
Microfilm of “Alexander Cummings’s narrative”, a contemporary manuscript, containing copies of letters and other memorials of Sir Alexander Cuming, 2nd Baronet of Culter, Advocate, and Chief of the Cherokee Indians, who died in 1775.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1191
Dates:
[Circa 1760.]
Microfilm of algebra lecture notes, 1723; and, documents, 1745, concerning the defence and surrender of Edinburgh in the Jacobite rising of 1745.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.804
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
'Dictats of Mr. [George] Cambe[l] concerning Algebra. Written by James Primeros[e]. Novʳ. 12, 1723’, being a pupil's notes of his master's teaching (MS.2821);"Mr. McLourin’s Journall of what passed relating to the defence of Edinburgh from Monday Septemr. 2d. till Monday Septemr. 16th 1745", journal of Professor Colin Maclaurin (MS.299, folios 1-13);Document, [?1745], concerning the ‘45 deal with the surrender of Edinburgh to Prince...
Dates:
1723, 1745.
Microfilm of an early draft of chapter 2 of ‘The wealth of nations’ by Adam Smith, with a summary of chapters 3-5, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.15545 [Mf.MSS.43]
Dates:
[Before 1776.]
Microfilm of ‘An Introduction to the Scotish [sic] Gallic [sic]’, possibly of Alexander MacFarlane.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1370
Dates:
1763.
Microfilm of Andrew of Wyntoun: 'The oryginale cronykil of Scotland'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.910
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Andrew of Wyntoun: 'The oryginale cronykil of Scotland', early 16th century (Adv.MS.19.2.4);
Abbreviated version of ‘Scotichronicon’ by Walter Bower, [circa ?1450-circa ?1480](Adv.MS.35.1.7).
Dates:
[Circa ?1450-circa ?1480], early 16th century.
Microfilm of assorted 13th-17th century manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.465
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Fair copy, 1686-1689, of ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio’, being Richard Augustine Hay’s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh, volume 1. (Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)); Register of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, written, circa 1537, by John Lambert, prebendary of the Chapel, containing copies of papal bulls and other documents, 1501-1537...
Dates:
13th century-1689.
Microfilm of assorted 17th-century manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.360
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copies of Acts and minutes of sederunt of the second session of the first parliament of King William and Queen Marie, 15 April 1690, in a contemporary hand. (Adv.MS.15.2.12);Heraldic and genealogical material, 2nd quarter of 17th century, in the hand of Sir James Balfour (Adv.MS.15.2.13);Treatise, 1st half of 17th century, ‘On nobility’ by Sir James Balfour (Adv.MS.15.2.14);Description of Italy, its principal towns and most...
Dates:
2nd quarter of 17th century-1655.
Microfilm of assorted catalogues, minutes and other papers.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.111
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copy, 18th century, of the title-page and pages 881-889 of ‘Opus de Obligationibus Justitiae, Religionis, et Charitatis’ (Lugduni, 1608) of Fernando Rebello, containing Liber 18, `de promissionibus et donationibus`, 18th century (Adv.MS.5.1.5);Minutes of the Belles-Lettres Society of Edinburgh, 27 November 1761-7 December 1764 (Adv.MS.5.1.6);Catalogue of the library of Sir Ellis Cunliffe, Baronet, 1762 (Adv.MS.5.1.7);Catalogue...
Dates:
Late 16th century-mid 19th century.
Microfilm of assorted manuscript material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.67
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Receipt, 1575, of Archebault Betun (Archibald Bethune), an archer of the French King`s Scots Guard (Ch.872);Account, 17 February 1552, of the provisions supplied to the Royal Household at Amboise. Includes a translation (Ch.2059); Bill, 1553, concerning expenses of the French royal household (Ch.2593);Holograph poems, [1931, or before]; and, 'The secret of the heather ale', a tale, 1892, by Neil Munro. (MS.816);...
Dates:
1552-[1931, or before].
Microfilm of assorted manuscripts, chiefly genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.32
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Genealogical and legal papers, 1794-1866 (Adv.MS.2.1.13);Miscellaneous letters and documents, 1659-1831 (Adv.MS.2.1.14);Miscellaneous manuscript, 1629-1921 (Adv.MS.2.1.15);Stewart genealogies, papers on various families of Stewart collected by, and with some notes of, George Chalmers, 17th century-18th century (Adv.MS.6.1.12);Materials, 1811, or after, for a Baronetage of Scotland, collected by Sir Samuel Egerton...
Dates:
17th century-1921.
Microfilm of assorted papers of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company, the Gibson family, Robert Stevenson and Alexander Graham Dunlop.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.444
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Minute book, 1697-1698, of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company (Adv.MS.83.7.2);Legal and financial papers, 1825-1893, of the Gibson family, concerning the sale and purchase of property in the province of Buenos Aires, together with sketch maps, powers of attorney and other miscellaneous papers (MS.10328);Letters and a journal, 1817, of Robert Stevenson, the engineer, addressed to his daughter Jeanie during a visit he...
Dates:
1697-1698, 1817-1893.
Microfilm of assorted papers of the family of Cameron of Fassifern
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1288
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Notebook containing memoranda on sales of crops and cattle, 1783, 1786, and notes of receipts of rents, 1849-1863 (Acc.9174/14);Miscellaneous estate papers, [circa 1760, ?1742-?1853], including tenants’ petitions and memorials, tacks, notes on crop-rotation, advertisements for sale or lease of farms, both manuscript and printed, a memorandum in John Cameron of Fassifern’s hand concerning the running of his estate during his exile in England and ‘A...
Dates:
1656-1863.