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‘Antient metaphysics’ (Edinburgh, 1779-1799), volumes 1-5, by James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, with manuscript annotations by Monboddo and an amanuensis.
Series
Identifier: MSS.25253-25257
Scope and Contents
Notes by Professor William Fraser Mitchell on the front flyleaf of MS.25253 and inside the front covers of MSS.25256-25257 state that the second hand is that of Lord Monboddo's son-in-law, Kirkpatrick Williamson Burnett.
Dates:
[1779, or after]-[1797, or after.]
Author’s annotated copies of ‘The Grants of Corrimony’ (Berwick, 1895), and ‘The county families of the Zetland Islands’ (Berwick, 1893) by Sir Francis J Grant.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10971-10972
Dates:
1893, 1895, 1906-1950.
‘Confessio Fidei’ (Cambridge, 1659), interleaved, with manuscript annotations by Hugh MacKail.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.18
Dates:
[1659, or after.]
Copies of Constantinus Harmenopoulos, “Πρόχειρον νόμων” (Paris, 1540), with manuscript notes and annotations by various scholars.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.5.1-Adv.MS.28.5.7
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
Mid 16th century-18th century.
Copy of ‘Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky (London, 1733) with manuscript annotations.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.2
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains extracts of two letters, ?circa 1690, concerning the attitude of James VII towards the Church of England (folio 1), and `Some additional Characters of the chief of the last Ministry`, 1715, signed M S (folio 3). The characters, which are apparently copied from another manuscript, are of Bolingbroke, Stafford, the Bishop of London and others. The annotations, writtenbetween 1781 and 1797, are signed `M.` and `E.M.` and are mostly copies of notes by...
Dates:
Circa 1690, 1715, 1733, 1781-1797.
‘Handbook of Irish folklore’ (Dublin, 1942) by Seán Ó Suilleabháin, with extensive manuscript annotations by Professor Kenneth Jackson.
Item
Identifier: MS.14983
Dates:
[1942, or after.]
‘Historical and Critical Enquiry into the Evidence ... against Mary Queen of Scots’ by William Tytler (Edinburgh, 1760), containing many critical marginalia throughout in the hand of Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
File
Identifier: MS.21251
Scope and Contents
A brief title made up from printed scraps (possibly of leaves of a sale-catalogue) is pasted to the second flyleaf, and a letter written by J T Gibson Craig on paper watermarked 1843 restoring the book to Thomas Thomson is tipped in at the second endpaper.The book was rebound apparently during the nineteenth century when some of the marginalia were damaged by the cropping of the outer margins of the printed pages. A small circular label inscribed '1963 Ac 6' in a...
Dates:
1760, 1843.
Interleaved copy, bound in two volumes, of ‘Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D.1153’ by Sir Archibald C Lawrie (Glasgow, 1905), with annotations by the author on the printed leaves, the interleaves and other leaves bound in.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.37.5.1-37.5.2
Scope and Contents
The annotations comprise corrections, additions and further discussion of doubtful matters. They have not been indexed in detail.
Dates:
1905.
‘James Hogg’ by Sir George Douglas (Edinburgh, 1899), with a few annotations by the author.
File
Identifier: MS.10500
Scope and Contents
A letter, 1920, to George Douglas from Adam Scott, concerning portraits of Hogg, and a copy of a letter of Hogg, 1835, are inserted.
Dates:
1835, 1899, 1920.
Joseph Robertson`s extensively annotated copy of the revision published in 1824 by Michael Russell (subsequently Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway) of the ‘Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops’ of Robert Keith, Bishop of Fife.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.28
Scope and Contents
The annotations, some of which are extensive, consist mostly of additional information not available either to Keith or to Russell, and of corrections of errors. A few of the annotations (which are all in Robertson`s hand) are written on extra sheets of paper tipped in at relevant places, but most are written in the margins of the text. Robertson`s signature, dated Edinburgh 1836, is on the recto of the leaf preceding the half-title.
Dates:
1824, and after.
'Kilberry book of Ceol Mor’, 2nd edition, by Archibald Campbell (1953), containing various annotations in Francis Collinson's hand throughout.
Item
Identifier: MS.22128
Scope and Contents
The annotations are dated between 1960 (page 8) and 1982 (page 9) and most are in pencil.
A photostat copy of a piobaireachd found loosely enclosed has been tipped in at the back.
Dates:
1953, 1960, 1982.
‘Magnum Opus’ of the ‘Waverley novels’ of Sir Walter Scott, chiefly the ‘Interleaved Waverley novels’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.23001-23041
Dates:
1822-1833.
Manuscript material from the 5th Earl of Rosebery's library at the Durdans, Epsom.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10217-10241
Dates:
1657-1919.
Material collected by Captain George Sitwell Campbell Swinton, Lyon King of Arms, supplementary to the work of his father, Archibald Campbell Swinton of Kimmerghame, ‘The Swintons of that Ilk and their Cadets’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.350A-B
Dates:
1814, 1883, 1927-1929.
Microfilm of ‘Magnum Opus’ of Sir Walter Scott, volume 24: ‘Novels and romances of the author of Waverley [Sir Walter Scott]. Volume VI. Peveril of the peak [continued and] Quentin Durward [part only]’ (Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co. 1824); interleaved with the author’s annotations, corrections and additions, 1828-1831.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1829
Dates:
1824, 1828-1831
“Miscellaneous Remarks on ‘The Enquiry into The Evidence against Mary Queen of Scots’" by Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes (London, 1784), containing numerous critical marginalia throughout in the hand of Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee.
File
Identifier: MS.21252
Scope and Contents
Fraser Tytler has added further notes and comments, dated 1800, on a bifolium tipped in at page 41.
The pamphlet appears to have been bound up at some time in a volume with several others.
Dates:
1784-1800.
Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21193-21198
Dates:
1569-1876, undated.
Papers of George Algernon Fothergill concerning the history of Limekilns in Fife.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5309-5311
Dates:
1923-1930.
'Pirate' by Sir Walter Scott, first edition (Edinburgh, 1822), with anonymous manuscript 'Remarks', 1822, assigning the authorship to Scott, and related material inserted.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5023-5024
Dates:
1822.
‘‘Rerum Scoticarum historia’ by George Buchanan (Elzevir, 1668), interleaved and annotated in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.5.21-33.5.22
Dates:
1668.
Review copy of T A Robertson, 'Mair laeves fae Vagaland' (Lerwick, 1965), with annotations by George Campbell Hay.
Item
Identifier: MS.26798
Dates:
[1965, or after.]
Short book of verses and caricatures by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepdaughter, Mrs Strong.
Item
Identifier: MS.8791
Scope and Contents
The book describes Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepdaughter's famous visit, paid in company with the Countess of Jersey, to the rebel king Mataafa at Malie (see ‘The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson’, volume iv, pages 223-234). Three letters, 1892, of Stevenson are also included. One, apparently unpublished, is addressed to Mataafa and the other two (see ‘The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson’, volume iv, pages 216-217) to 'Amelia Balfour', a pseudonym for Lady Jersey. All these items...
Dates:
1892.
"Virgil's Æneis", translated into Scottish verse by Gavin Douglas (Edinburgh, 1710); the glossary is heavily annotated by John Jamieson.
Item
Identifier: MS.14240
Scope and Contents
There are some notes by O K Schram inside the front cover concerning this edition of Gavin Douglas's text.
Dates:
1710, [1808, or before.]
Walter Macfarlane’s annotated copy of George Crawfurd’s ‘The peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1716).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.21
Dates:
[1716, 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.
Series
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.