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11 letters and notes of David, 11th Earl of Buchan, to Julius Griffiths.
File
Identifier: Acc.8946
Dates:
1804-1805 and 1824.
12 letters of Lord Randolph Churchill to Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery.
File
Identifier: Acc.8654
Scope and Contents
With notes, 1887 and 1892-1893, by Rosebery of conversations with Randolph Churchill.
Dates:
1871-1894.
12 photographs of the Thistle Chapel.
File
Identifier: Acc.4855
Scope and Contents
With photocopies of notes of James Grieve.
Dates:
1911.
12 volumes relating to the peerage of Great Britain collected by James Maidment.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12424
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings from newspapers and magazines, portraits, broadsides, genealogical tables and notes. Also includes notes on cases on which Maidment was working.
Dates:
18th century to 19 century.
13 drawings by Edward Blore for Sir James Hall`s "Essay on the Origin, History, and Principles of Gothic Architecture" (1813).
File
Identifier: Acc.12083
Scope and Contents
Includes a collection of proof engravings for the book and some drawings, notes and papers of Sir James Hall.
Dates:
1809-1812.
13th-century manuscript of 'Aurora' by Peter Riga.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.4
Scope and Contents
The text is that of the third mediaeval version (see Paul E Beichner`s edition, volume 1, page xix), but like Notre Dame University Library MS.2, does not include the Liber Iob and Cantica Canticorum. The author`s name is given in a colophon to the Evangelium (folio 155 recto).The manuscript has been misbound, and folios 89-104 should precede folio 81. One passage in III Kings, which Beichner (volume 1, page 300, lines 13-66) attributes to the first recension of Aegidius, is...
Dates:
13th century.
13th-century prayer book from France, probably according to the Use of Paris
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.22
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Noted masses from the Nativity to Holy Innocents (folio 1). Leaves following the epistle for Holy Innocents are missing.(ii) Capitula for the Sanctorale and Common of Saints (folio 11). Leaves are missing at the beginning: the surviving text starts with the feast of Saints Peter and Paul.(iii) Collects for the Temporale, Sanctorale and Common of Saints (folio 16). There are lacunae between the Octave of...
Dates:
Late 13th century.
14th-century manuscript of the `Historia Anglorum` of Henry of Huntingdon.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.2
Scope and Contents
It contains prologue (folio 1) and books 1-10 (folios 2, 17, 29 verso, 46 verso , 60 verso, 75, 91, 106, 128 verso, 142); the end of book 9 is missing (from page xxvi, paragraph 19, 1.6 in T Arnold’s edition, who prints only extracts of this book), and of book 10 only a single leaf remains (page 276, paragraph 20, 1.10-page 279, paragraph 3 in Arnold).The text is written by one hand as far as folio 131; the remainder is by another contemporary, smaller hand, who uses a different...
Dates:
14th century.
14th-century manuscript of the 'Historia Anglorum' of Henry of Huntingdon.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.4
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains prologue (folio 1) and books 1-7 (folios 2, 12 verso, 23 verso, 38 verso, 50 verso, 64, 76 verso), ending in the year 1138, the first 11 paragraphs of the later book 8 being included in book 7 (cf. Arnold, pages xii, xxxix note 3). Book-numbers are added at the tops of folios 315 and 24 only.There are initials throughout; that of the prologue is zoomorphic, and that of book 1 more elaborate than the rest. On folios 1-20 they are in red and/or green, with a...
Dates:
14th century.
15 stereoscopic photographs of Scottish scenes.
File
Identifier: Acc.11919
Scope and Contents
Taken by members of the Stereoscopic Society of which R W Copeman was President. The versos bear technical notes.
Dates:
1901-1915.
15th-century English manuscript containing three Middle English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the chivalric poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.11
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘Liber maundevyle` (folio 1). The manuscript belongs to sub-group E of the Defective Version on which the earliest editions were based (`English manuscripts of Mandeville`s Travels`, pages 169-171). Several leaves are missing, containing the end of the prologue and beginning of chapter 1 (after folio 1), chapters 6-9 (after folio 10), and the end of chapter 32 onwards.(ii) `Sir Cleges` (folio 71). ‘The Index of Middle...
Dates:
15th century.
15th-century manuscript written in the Low Countries, containing various works attributed to, or written by, St Bernard.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Extracts from the `Vita beatissimi Malachie`, caps. 1-25. See ‘Patrologia Latina’ 182, 1073-1104 (folio 1 verso).(ii) Notes on vipers with reference to Aristotle (folio 8 verso).(iii) `De conversione ad clericos`, cap. 3. ‘Patrologia Latina’ 182, 856-857 (folio 9).(iv) `Bernardus de servitute vitiorum et incertitudine mortis` (folio 10).(v) Anonymous commentaries on the Song of...
Dates:
15th century.
19 photographs of buildings in Edinburgh, with manuscript notes of F M Chrystal.
File
Identifier: Acc.3726
Dates:
1912.
21 documents relating to the lands of Curriehill near Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12778
Dates:
circa 1693-1721
22 letters, 1843-1847, to John Stevenson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.6271
Scope and Contents
Concerning the transactions of the committee for the erection of a memorial to James Wilson, leader of the Radical Rising of 1820, in which Stevenson took part.
With a biographical note on Stevenson by George Maddocks, and a colour photograph of his portrait.
Dates:
1843-1847 and undated.
267 letters of André Raffalovich to Francis H Wright and his family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.5287
Scope and Contents
With 19 letters of John Gray to Wright, and explanatory notes by Sir Norman Wright.
Dates:
early 20th century.
‘1467 MS’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists of two sections, folios 1-9 ('1467 MS'), written in and about that date (folio 7 recto) by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail (folios 3 recto, 5 recto, 7 recto, 8 recto), who was presumably a MacMhuirich; and folios 10-25 (Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’), written circa 1425 by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín (date and hand established by Tomás Ó Concheanainn, “The scribe of John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’”, pages 99-101.The manuscript begins with Cormac’s Instructions...
Dates:
[Circa 1425, circa 1467.]
`A note of Sir Walter Scot of Whitsleid his writtis of Etrikhous.`
Item
Identifier: Ch.B.23
Dates:
Circa 1623.
Abridgement of the ‘Chroniche’ of Giovanni Villani (died 1348) continued by his brother Matteo (died 1363) and by Matteo`s son Filippo, to the end of 1365.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.2
Scope and Contents
The abridgement breaks off, in mid-sentence, in 1363 (in the middle of Chapter 69 of Book XI of the Matteo-Filippo Chronicle), 3¾ folios at the end being blank. The manuscript was written, probably in Florence, shortly after 1500; there are two water-marks, an eagle (Briquet 87: Florence, 1495) and a hat (Briquet 3383-3393: mostly Florence, 1470-1500). It is therefore possible that it is the autograph of the author of the abridgement, who was alive in 1500 (see folio 14 verso)....
Dates:
After 1500.
Abstracts and documents concerning Scottish merchant shipping in the 18th and 19th centuries, compiled and collected by Harry St Clair MacVine Taylor.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9997
Dates:
1989-1990.
Account-book of Hew MacKail, one of the Keepers of Parliament House, containing his official record of income as a Keeper. Mention is made of some of the cases heard in the Court of Session, and sometimes a note of the sentence is given.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.12
Dates:
1757-1773.
Account book of William Tough, a general merchant in the Stirling area.
Item
Identifier: MS.14245
Scope and Contents
The account book contains notes of William Tough’s dealings with tradespeople, mostly in St Ninians, Sauchie and Stirling. There are also notes, undated, of expenditure on and income from a mill (folio 62).
Dates:
1791-1794.
Account of the experiences of Alpin MacGregor, 1st Gordon Highlanders, as a Prisoner of War, and notes on interviews conducted by his father, Rev Duncan MacGregor, with soldiers repatriated to Holland.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13710
Scope and Contents
Account of the experiences of Alpin MacGregor, 1st Gordon Highlanders, as a Prisoner of War, 1918, and notes on interviews conducted by his father, Rev Duncan MacGregor, with soldiers repatriated to Holland, early 1918.Alpin MacGregor was a Sergeant Major in the 1st Gordon Highlanders. In the regular army when the First World War broke out, MacGregor`s was amongst the first battalions to form the British Expeditionary Force in August 1914. In the retreat following the battle at...
Dates:
1918
`Account of the Scotish Poets either printed or manuscript which I have seen, from Ancient tymes to the year 1701` compiled by Sir Robert Sibbald, being the preface and drafts of two books consisting respectively of lists of poems in Latin or Greek, and lists of vernacular poems.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.24
Scope and Contents
The poems are arranged under their authors and there are a few biographical notes.
Dates:
1701, and before.
Accounts, 1719-1786, concerning Culross.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8981
Scope and Contents
With dictates, 1677, taken down as the University of Edinburgh by James Blaw.
Dates:
1677, 1719-1786.