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Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates:
?1825-1856.
Commonplace book of Hew Love.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7502
Scope and Contents
Including translations from Ovid, Virgil, and Terence.
Dates:
1667-1668.
Commonplace book, undated, compiled by James Glasford (died 1845).
File
Identifier: MS.8493
Scope and Contents
The contents include: extracts from personal letters, biblical commentaries, poems and translations of poems.
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Composite volume of 15th-century manuscripts of miscellaneous works by four hands bound together, with an incunable, in the 16th-century or earlier.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.8
Scope and Contents
The collection has been in one volume since the 16th century at least. The contents are as follows:[(i) A printed book: Johannes de Hildesheim, ‘Liber de gestis ac translatione trium regum’, etc., ([Cologne], 1478) = National Library of Scotland Inc.43 (B.M.Cat. IB 4236) (folio 1)]. Folio 56 blank.(ii) Baebius Italicus (?), `Ilias latina` (‘Poetae latini minores’ ii.3; this manuscript is not included in the list given by P Vollmer in ‘Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen...
Dates:
15th century.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates:
1177, 15th century-1924.
Papers of Archibald Shiells, merchant in Edinburgh, and his family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12591
Scope and Contents
Includes papers of, and relating to, the family of Wilsone of Murrayshall, Stirlingshire, 1701-1925; and Scottish charters and other legal and administrative documents, mainly from Fife.
Dates:
1529-1925.
Photostats of manuscripts held in the Abbotsford Library, all in the hand of Sir Walter Scott.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2229-2232
Dates:
1796-1797.
Schoolbook of James Fowler, Strathpeffer, containing instructions and problems in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and the construction of sundials, and a translation of the ‘Iliad’, book 3.
Item
Identifier: MS.14284
Scope and Contents
A few miscellaneous notes and poems have been added in a 19th-century hand.
Dates:
1780.
Transcript by Pier Asdentz of an Italian translation of the philosophical work by the Reverend Father Pier Maria Ferrari: ‘"Introduzione d`Alcinoo Filosofo agli Insegnamenti di Platone". Tradotta dalla Greca favella nella nostra Italiana dal R.P. Pier Maria Ferrari, Genovese delle Scuole Pie, trascritta dall`originale da me. Pier Maria Asdentz, Genova: 1737’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.2
Scope and Contents
Bound with the transcript is the Greek text ‘Alkinoou Philosophou Eis Ta Ton Platonos Dogmata Eisagoge/Alcinoi Philosophi ad Platonis Dogmata Introductio’, printed in Venice by Aldus, 1521 (folios 56-83 verso). Alcinous, 2nd century AD Middle Platonist philosopher (long misidentified with another Middle Platonist philosopher, Albinus), wrote a handbook of Platonism entitled ‘Didaskalikos ton Platonos dogmaton’ (cf. ‘Alcinoos, Enseignement des Doctrines de Platon’ and ‘Alcinous,...
Dates:
1737.