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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.

Walter Blaikie collection: letters containing Jacobite discourse.

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Identifier: MS.3128
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. 'Free and Impartial Reflexions of a Member of the House of Commons of England on occasion of the Speech of King George to the two Houses of the same Parliament on the 28th of October, 1745, containing a justification of the rights of the Royal House of Stuards to the Crown of Great Brittain, against the pretensions of the House of Brunswick Hannover. In a series of Letters. Letter I. At Edinburgh, 1745' (folio 1), dated London, 3 November 1745 (folio...
Dates: 1745-1746.

Watercolour paintings, by Thomas Brown of Waterhaughs and Lanfine, Advocate.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.8.1-34.8.3
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The paintings are chiefly of Edinburgh and other places in Scotland; several were made in Corfu and Malta, and some in Italy, Sicily, and other Continental countries. According to a note of the donor (Adv.MS.34.8.1, folio iii), they were probably made between 1830 and 1850.

They are mounted - apparently not in chronological, and certainly not in topographical, order - in three albums, each of which contains a list of contents at the beginning.

Dates: ?1830-1850.

‘Wizard Peter’ by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (Edinburgh, 1834), with notes and corrections by the author, and a presentation inscription to James Gibson Craig on the half title-page.

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Identifier: MS.9808
Scope and Contents

There are several manuscript insertions, including Charles Sharpe's draft of five verses, written on the back of a letter, 1832, from the printseller Hugh Paton (folio 2), and explanatory notes and variant readings by James Gibson Craig (folio 3).

Dates: 1832-1834.

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.

Working copy of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1813) by Sir Robert Douglas, revised and corrected by John Philp Wood: including revised printings of certain pages, extensive annotations by Wood, and related material, including some of later date, also concerning peerages.

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Identifier: MSS.1813-1815
Scope and Contents

The material described here would appear to relate to further revision by John Philp Wood of his revised and corrected edition of 1813 of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’.

Dates: 19th century.

Working papers of Margery Clinton relating to the production of pottery, including samples of fired ceramics; with papers relating to her published works and thesis.

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Identifier: Acc.12879/1-97
Scope and Contents

Recipes, tests, firing schedules, samples, sketches, and other papers of Margery Clinton relating to the production of pottery, her masters' thesis, and her book, 'Working with lustres'.

Dates: 1963-2005, undated.

‘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.

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
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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.

'ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΟΝ ΔΩΡΟΝ [BASILIKON DORON], ò Instruciones, compuestos por ... Jaymes ... Rey de Ingalaterra ... Traduzidado de Ingles en Romance vulgar, y dirigido a la misma Magestad por su ... vassallo Juan Pemberton, gentilhombre, natural de la insigne Ciudad de Londres.'

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Identifier: MS.3855
Scope and Contents

According to a note inside the end cover, the translator may have been a citizen and grocer who was a brother of Sir James Pemberton, Lord Mayor of London, 1611.

Dates: Early 17th century.

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Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 13
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 7
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 6
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 6
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 5
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Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 5
Elphinstone, Margaret, author, b 1948 4
Erskine, David Steuart, 11th Earl of Buchan (succ 1767), 1742-1829 4
Gray, Alasdair (author) 4
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 4
National Library of Scotland 4
Beattie, William, Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, 1903-1986 3
Calder, Angus Lindsay Ritchie (historian, writer, and poet) 3
Church of Scotland 3
Free Church of Scotland 3
Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd (Scottish poet, novelist and essayist) 3
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 3
Robertson, Sir Lewis, Knight, administrator and industrialist, 1922-2008 3
Scottish National Party 3
Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, antiquary, 1781-1851 3
Stevenson, Ronald J, composer and pianist, 1928-2015 3
Borrow, George Henry (writer and traveller) 2
Buchan, John Norman Stuart, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1911-1996 2
Buchan, Priscilla Jean Fortesque, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, politician, née Thomson, then Grant, 1915-1978 2
Dennistoun, James, antiquary, 1803-1855 2
Douglas, family, of Cavers 2
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden, poet, 1585-1649 2
Duncan, Archibald Alexander McBeth, Professor of Scottish History, University of Glasgow, b 1926 2
Dunnett, Dorothy, novelist and artist, wife of Sir Alastair McTavish, journalist and newspaper editor, née Halliday, 1923-2001 2
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society 2
Elphinstone, family, of Lopness 2
Erskine, John, of Carnock, Professor of Scots Law, University of Edinburgh, 1695-1768 2
Fairley, John A, local historian, fl 1900-1929 2
Forrester, Colin David Ian G, Clan Secretary and Historian, Clan Forrester Society, fl 1967-1992 2
Geikie, Mary, novelist, fl 1908-1948 2
Gibb, Andrew Dewar, Professor of Law, University of Glasgow, 1888-1974 2
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 2
Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928 2
Hall, Sir James, 4th Baronet, geologist and chemist, 1761-1832 2
Hildebrandt, Franz, Minister of Slateford-Longstone Church, 1909-1985 2
Hislop, Joseph Dewar, singer, 1884-1977 2
Hume, David, philosopher, 1711-1776 2
Kennaway, James Peebles Ewing, novelist and scriptwriter, 1928-1968 2
Lockhart, John Gibson (biographer of Scott) 2
MacEwen, Andrew B W, Stockton Springs, Maine, fl 1975-1977 2
Maidment, James, antiquary, d 1879. 2
Martin, Burns, author of "Allan Ramsay: a Study of His Life and Works", fl 1900-1945 2
McGregor, family 2
McLean, John David Ruari McDowall Hardie, typographer and author, 1917-2006 2
Morrison, Hew, 1850-1935 (Librarian, Edinburgh Public Library, Gaelic scholar) 2
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 2
Pilkington, Charles, mountaineer, b 1850 2
Primrose, Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery (statesman) 2
Ramsay, Allan, poet, 1684-1758 2
Ronaldson, family 2
Scott, Robert Falcon, Captain, Royal Navy, Antarctic explorer, 1868-1912 2
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 2
Stuart, Malcolm (Michael) Moncrieff, 1903-1991 (civil servant in India and Pakistan) 2
Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh 2
University of Edinburgh 2
Watt, Donald Elmslie Robertson, historian, 1926-2004 2
Whyte, Donald, Vice-President of the Scottish Genealogy Society, 1924-2010 2
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 2
A and C Black Ltd, Edinburgh, publishers and booksellers 1
Abbott, Minnie, illegitimate daughter of James Nasmyth, engineer, née Russell, then Richardson, c 1858-1940: recipient 1
Abulafia, John, writer and director, b 1947 1
Adam, Robin J, Professor of Medieval History, University of St Andrews, fl 1960-1998 1
Agnew, Swanzie, wife of Sir Fulque Melville Gerald Noel, 10th Baronet of Lochnaw, née Erskine, 1916-2000 1
Aldis, Harry Gidney, bibliographer, 1863-1919 1
Alexander, Alastair, sports radio commentator, b 1937 1
Allan, Jean Mary (librarian and novelist, pseudonym Lennox Allan) 1
Allen, Frederick Denison Campbell , Member of the Scottish Mountaineering Club, d.1964 1
Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, 1871-1913 1
Anderson and Woodman Library, Strichen, Aberdeenshire 1
Anderson, Iain Fleming, historian, b 1902 1
Anderson, James, author of "Sir Walter Scott and History", b 1918 1
Anderson, John, Emigrant, fl 1857-1867 1
Anderson, John, Emigrant, fl 1857-1867: former owner 1
Anderson, Margaret, Emigrant, fl 1857-1867 1
Anderson, Margaret, Emigrant, fl 1857-1867: former owner 1
Anderson, William James, Senior Curate, St Mary's, Chelsea, 1894-1972 1
Andrew, Elizabeth, lover of Robert Burns, poet, née Paton, fl 1786 1
Angus, Archibald, son of David, civil engineer, fl 1904-1916 1
Angus, David, civil engineer, 1855-1926 1
Angus, David, civil engineer, 1855-1926: recipient 1
Angus, Mary, wife of David, civil engineer, née Wilson, fl 1904-1939 1
Angus, Mary, wife of David, civil engineer, née Wilson, fl 1904-1939: recipient 1
Angus, Nancy W, daughter of David, civil engineer, fl 1907-1960 1
Angus, Stewart, son of David, civil engineer, fl 1904-1916 1
Archibald Constable and Co, Edinburgh, publishers 1
Ardern, L L, Librarian, College of Technology, Manchester, fl 1953-1988 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Fife and Forfar Imperial Yeomanry 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Gordon Highlanders, 1st Battalion 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire 1
Atlee, Dr Edwin Augustus, 1776-1852 1
Baillie, Joanna (playwright and poet) 1
Baine, John, teacher and astronomer, b 1754 1
Baker, Jane, scriptwriter, fl 1968-1970 1
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