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Xeroxes of three manuscript music books containing airs collected by the sisters Margaret Douglas MacLean Clephane and Anna Jane Douglas MacLean Clephane of Torloisk, Mull.
Series
Identifier: MS.14949(a)-(c)
Scope and Contents
The airs in the music books are drawn from a broad range of cultures, including Gaelic.
Dates:
1808-1825.
Yester papers.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4862- is now MSS.14401-14825.
Dates:
16th century to 20th century.
Yester papers.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.1611- is now MSS.7001-7120, Ch.7566-7593.
Dates:
1664-1779.
Yester papers.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.1630- is now MSS.7001-7120 (part), Ch.7568-7593.
Dates:
1664-1779.
Yester papers, and papers concerning the Jacobites.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.1853- is now MSS.7001-7120 (part), Ch.7566-7593
Dates:
18th century.
Youthful poems of Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet of Ulbster, begun in 1770.
File
Identifier: MS.2253
Scope and Contents
The poems include satires 'On Doctor Johnson not seeing a tree till he came to Aberdeen' and 'On Doctor Johnson abusing the Scots' (folio 4), and a poem in two cantos, 'In Ridicule of Dr. Johnsons tour through the western isles of Scotland' (folio 19).
Dates:
1770.
Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.3134-3185
Scope and Contents
Many of the papers are accompanied by transcripts or summaries by Alexander Macdonald.
Dates:
1552-19th century
'ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΟΝ ΔΩΡΟΝ [BASILIKON DORON], ò Instruciones, compuestos por ... Jaymes ... Rey de Ingalaterra ... Traduzidado de Ingles en Romance vulgar, y dirigido a la misma Magestad por su ... vassallo Juan Pemberton, gentilhombre, natural de la insigne Ciudad de Londres.'
Item
Identifier: MS.3855
Scope and Contents
According to a note inside the end cover, the translator may have been a citizen and grocer who was a brother of Sir James Pemberton, Lord Mayor of London, 1611.
Dates:
Early 17th century.
`Πρόνοια. Providentia. Divina Providentia in Rebus Humanis. Divine Providence in humane affaires. A Collection of Providential Passages Antient and Modern Foreign and Domestick by Master James Fraser Minister At Kirkhill. Written Anno 1678.`
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.7
Scope and Contents
Originally part (Inv.XI) of the Rose Collection, Adv. MSS.49.7.1-49.7.20.
Dates:
1678.
‘Συναγωγή’ iii-vi, viii, by Pappus of Alexandria.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.1.3
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was probably written in Italy in the mid-16th century. One scribe wrote from the beginning to folio 94 verso, line 26; another from there to the end. The latter writes a more upright hand, with fewer ligatures, than the former. According to A P Treweek in `The Manuscript Tradition of the Collectio Mathematica’, 195, and what follows, the first scribe, possibly Camillus Venetus, also wrote Naples, Bibl. Naz.IIIc14 and Chicago, Newberry Libr.MS. 110, and copied this...
Dates:
Mid 16th century.