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Composite volume of English origin containing two manuscripts of the 12th and 13th century; the 'Thebaid' of Statius, and the 'Aeneid' of Virgil
Composite volume of English origin, containing works of Ovid ('Fasti') and Claudian (major poems), the former of which belonged to Leicester Abbey.
Contemporary copy of specifications by John Rennie and others for the Crinan Canal.
Also included are John Rennie's estimate for the work (folio 33 verso) and notes on the cost of the Forth and Clyde Canal in 1789 (folio 47).
"Cookery Notes", 1902-1904, of Elsie Henderson, with later annotations, c 1955, and memoirs, undated, of Catherine Elsie Henderson.
Copies, 17th century, of `Sayings and Observations` by John Livingstone, minister of Ancrum (page 1) and of his notes on the lives of eminent ministers of the Church of Scotland (page 15).
The end of a religious meditation is written upside-down on page 108.
Copies, 18th century, of records of Parliament and of the Privy Council.
Copies, 19th century, and original papers collected by Sir William Fraser, 16th century-1793.
Copies, 1636-1637, of documents and notes of Sir James Balfour on ecclesiastical history.
Copies, 1727 or before, in various hands, of papers concerning Mary Queen of Scots and her reign, apparently collected by James Anderson.
Copies and photographic and other reproductions of early maps in British and foreign collections.
Copies, early 18th century, of autobiographies and other works of covenanters.
Copies, early 18th century, of letters and memoirs of covenanters.
Copies of Constantinus Harmenopoulos, “Πρόχειρον νόμων” (Paris, 1540), with manuscript notes and annotations by various scholars.
Seven copies of “Πρόχειρον νόμων, sive epitome juris civilis" with marginal annotations of collation and correction by various scholars of Esusciluce whose names are noted on each.
Copies of historical works of Alexander Hume, preceded by a Latin treatise.
Copies of legal documents, 2nd half of 17th century, and copies, 1657 and early 18th century, of valuations, 16th century, of places in Scotland.
Copies of letters, 1769-1808, of Ann Murray Keith addressed to Jeremiah Hill, a Bristol merchant.
The letters deal largely with personal and family affairs, including those of Ann Murray Keith's friends, Mrs Baird of Newbyth and the Countess of Balcarres, but there are also references to public affairs and to the social life of the time.
According to a note in the volume the copies were made in 1829 at the instance of Charles Hill, a son of Jeremiah and the owner of the originals.
Copies of notes for eight lectures on economics given by John Maclean.
Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rents.
Copies of papers of L L Ardern.
Includes correspondence, notes and printed articles.
Copies of papers relating to Galloway, in various hands of the 18th century.
Copies of research materials for the history of the Parish of Beith in Ayrshire.
Copies of Stair`s "Institutions of the Law of Scotland" (Edinburgh, 1681 and 1693).
Includes manuscript additions, late 17th century.
Copies or drafts of letters and memoranda of Mary, Queen of Scots, or associated closely with her, probably written by various secretaries.
Copy, 16th century, of `Recueil des Principaux Seigneurs qui passerent la Mer avec Guillaume Conquereur d`Angleterre`, a treatise on the genealogy and heraldry of the English nobility written by Jean Benard in 1567.
The manuscript is similar to the autograph manuscript of 1572 (Bibliotheque Nationale, MS. français 19000), but lacks the dedicatory letter to Charles IX and has no miniatures. The decoration consists of paintings of flowers and fruit, borders and armorial bearings, with some decorated initials. There is a note, ‘Southampton`s Genealogies`, in a 17th-century hand on folio iii.
Copy, 18th century, of an account, descriptive and historical, of the Chanonry of Old Aberdeen and connected institutions, by Thomas (rectius William) Drem, Bailie of Aberdeen, written 1725.
Originally part (Inv. XII) of the Rose Collection, Adv.MSS.49.7.1-49.7.20; William Rose has added some marginal notes.