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Album of Walter Bowman.
Contains manuscript letters, prints, drawings and watercolours.
`Collection of illuminate arms` by Etherington Martyn, in 2 volumes, containing watercolour paintings of Scottish, English and a few foreign arms.
In an introductory note (volume 1, folio iv.), Martyn states that many of the arms were unpublished, and taken from seals, drawings, paintings and manuscript blazons; also from a manuscript collection of heraldry `purchased at Mr Cummyngs sale by a Mr Rose`. This probably refers to James Cummyng, herald painter and Lyon Clerk Depute (died 1793). Martyn sometimes gives the source for a particular coat of arms, and occasionally criticises the heraldry.
`Essay sur le gouvernement des Turcs, leurs moeurs et leurs usages, par le baron de Tott’; copy of an unpublished work by François, Baron de Tott, the diplomatist, who published his ‘Mémoires’ in 1784.
Small water-colour sketches of Turkish scenes and figures have been pasted in before each chapter-heading.
Extracts, early 19th century, made from a copy of the Lyon Register belonging to Andrew Plummer of Middle Steed and Sunderland Hall.
There are additions up to 1822 by the copyists David Deuchar, and his son Alexander, the seal-engravers.
The volumes are interleaved with pages engraved with blank shields, some of which have been completed in watercolours or in trick to illustrate the text.
Friendship album in which are illustrated the likes and dislikes of various contributors.
Manuscript narrative poem, "Days of Chivalry, or Adelaide and Ethelbert" by John Clark.
Illustrated with watercolours.
Manuscript of “Gaël Albanich” by William Forbes Skene (1809-1892), containing a history of the Highland clans.
The manuscript, dated 1st March 1834, was the winning entry in a competition of the Highland Society of London for the best essay on the history of the Highland Clans. It is illustrated in pen and ink and in watercolours.
Miscellaneous material of the Faculty of Advocates.
Photographs and watercolour portraits of, or assembled by, William Simpson.
Includes manuscript of memoir "Notes and Recollections".
Two letters, a leaf of manuscript, and a watercolour sketch by Joyce Cary, inserted in a copy of her 'A house of children' (London, 1941).
The manuscript contains a passage from the novel corresponding to page 30 and notes for another work. The sketch illustrates the scene described on page 30.