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Collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.7
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) an engraved portrait of Boyd, 1596, by Thomas de Leu, or De Leeuw (folio 1), made probably when he was at Paris;(ii) an account of the family of Boyd (by Robert Boyd of Trochrig), undated, written to an unidentified correspondent (folio 1);(iii) heads of lectures on the Institutions of Justinian, entitled `In Instituta Imperatoris commenta, 1591` (folio 3), accompanied by marginalia, some lengthy, as far as folio 52 verso;...
Dates:
1590-1596, 1671, and undated.
Manuscript of chiefly Gaelic proverbs written by William MacMurchy.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.12
Scope and Contents
The manuscript bears a ‘coat of arms’ watermark, and was written circa 1759 (cf. page 11) by William MacMurchy (died circa 1778) of Campbeltown in Kintyre, schoolmaster, tailor, poet, musician and scribe, for whom see Conley, 'A poem in the Stewart Collection', page 26. He may have been a pupil of Hugh MacLean (schoolmaster of Kilchenzie, Kintyre, circa 1699), as his Gaelic hand, typical of its period for Irish manuscripts, bears at times a strong resemblance to that of the latter (note...
Dates:
[Circa 1759.]
Manuscript, written in England in the late 11th century, containing the satires of Persius, the fables of Avianus, and miscellaneous poetry and other works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.12
Scope and Contents
Most of the leaves are palimpsest, but the underwriting is illegible; it may be from the same manuscripts as that in Adv.MS.18.7.8 (pricking from the original manuscript survives on folios 3+6, 9, 16+23, 17+22, 26+29, 34+35, in one or both edges of the text-frame; the width of the ruled area was 172 millimetres in folios 3+6, 17+22, 26+29, 192 millimetres in folio 9.). See 'Notice et extraits d'un manuscrit d' Edinbourg', 33 and what follows.The contents of the manuscript are as...
Dates:
Late 11th century.
Microfilm of collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.458
Dates:
[?1590-?1596], 1671.
Microfilm of manuscript of Persius, Avianus, etc. from Thorney Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.486
Dates:
Late 11th century.
Microfilm of poems, epigrams, epitaphs, etc., in the hand of William Drummond of Hawthornden, chiefly of his own composition, with some copies of the work of other writers.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.80
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Microfilm of two 11th century manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.9
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, late 11th century, of Persius, Avianus, etc. from Thorney Abbey (Adv.MS.18.6.12);
Palimpsest, made up of at least five English manuscripts of the 8th to 11th centuries, overwritten in England in the late 11th century and belonging to Thorney Abbey (Adv.MS.18.7.8).
Dates:
8th century to 11th century.