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Annotated and corrected typescript of "Scotland, an Anthology" compiled by George Campbell Hay.
Includes translations of Gaelic poetry.
Annotated typescript translation of the diary of Alexander Amman, Polish Army. Translated by Michael Allan.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Apparently unpublished manuscript of `Gleanings of Antiquity in Forfarshire’ by James Thomson of Dundee.
`Argenis` by John Barclay: an Icelandic translation by Jón Einarsson.
`Arnbiörg æruprydd dandis kona á Vestfiördum Islands` by Björn Haldórsson, with a Danish translation by Jón Ólafsson.
Autograph manuscript of `Ragionamento di Carlo V. Imperatore tenuto al re Philippo suo figliuolo In dargli la libera signoria di tutti gli stati suoi`, Giacomo Castelvetro`s translation, 1592, of Charles V`s advice to his son, 1555.
The colophon (folio 42) is signed `Giacopo Castelvetri cittadino modonese.`
The text is preceded (folio vi) by Castelvetro`s dedicatory letter to James VI.
Autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine.
The majority of the works are unpublished, and those which are published present considerable divergences. All the plays were written for the stage, and in some cases the names of the actors appear in the list of dramatis personae. Adv.MS.5.1.16, (i) and (ii) seem to be unconnected with the remainder of the collection.
Autograph poem “An Eala Bhàn” by Iain Crichton Smith, with typed transcript and English translation.
"Bellenden's Livy": a manuscript of the first five books of Livy’s ‘History of Rome’ translated into Scots by Archdeacon John Bellenden.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.7.8.
Calligraphic copy by Rita Isles, of a translation of the last letter of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Catalogue of books belonging to the Reverend Donald Sage, Minister of Kirkmichael and Cullicudden, drawn up 28 October 1823.
There are also excerpts and translations from Martial and translations of the ‘Faolan’ and ‘Song on a Jilted Lover’ of Rob Donn. Bound at the beginning and end of a volume containing ‘An Epistle address'd to a Friend’ ([Edinburgh], 1740), and 'Love of fame, the universal passion: In seven characteristical satires' (Glasgow, 1755) by Edward Young, both formerly the property of Sage.
Collection of genealogical material on various Scottish families and items of historical interest copied by Robert Mylne, the antiquary, in the late 17th or early 18th century.
Commonplace book of Hew Love.
Including translations from Ovid, Virgil, and Terence.
Commonplace book, undated, compiled by James Glasford (died 1845).
The contents include: extracts from personal letters, biblical commentaries, poems and translations of poems.
Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
Composite volume of 15th-century manuscripts of miscellaneous works by four hands bound together, with an incunable, in the 16th-century or earlier.
Contemporary copies and translations of letters, mainly from Italy, reporting on European and Turkish affairs.
Most of the documents are dated 1596. The subjects include Spanish policy in June and July of that year, leading up to the capture of Cadiz by the English (cf. ‘Calendar of State Papers, Domestic series ... 1595-1597’); a rising of janissaries in Constantinople; and events in Italy and eastern Europe. These are followed (folio 33) by miscellaneous papers, mostly concerning the siege of Montauban in 1621.
Copies of miscellaneous papers.
Copy of Adv.MS.31.3.18, documents relating to heraldry, made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist.
Translations have been provided with the material in Latin.
Copy, with translation, of a letter of Dmitri Shostakovich to John McLeod.
Concerns variations by McLeod on a theme from Shostakovich`s Fifth Symphony.
Corrected manuscripts of six collections of poems and translations of Kenneth White.
Correspondence and literary papers of and concerning George Borrow collected by Sir Angus Fraser, with working papers of Sir Angus Fraser relating to George Borrow.
Includes photocopies, extensive notes on Borrow by Sir Angus Fraser and an annotated copy of 'George Borrow: a Bibliographical Guide' (1984).
Correspondence and memoranda of Sir John Sinclair, relating chiefly to his attempts to trace Gaelic manuscripts, to the translation into English of the Gaelic ‘Poems of Ossian’, and to his ‘Fingal; a tragedy, in five acts’.
Correspondence and papers sent by William Ross, a former Madras civil servant, Sir George Ramsay, Baronet, of Bamff, and Lieutenant (later Major-General) William Blackburne, to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.
The correspondence, which includes extensive memoranda and minutes, deals in considerable detail with the policies of the East India Company's Madras government towards the Raja of Tanjore, the question of the Tanjore and Arcot debts, and dynastic disputes in the royal house.
An original letter, with translation, of the Raja of Tanjore to Dundas (folios 123-137), is included in the Blackburne correspondence.