Bookplates.
Found in 86 Collections and/or Records:
A copy of Alexander Monro's 'Essay on female conduct' (MS.6658), incorporating the corrections and containing most of the additional material, made by Margaret Monro, in accordance with her father's intentions.
Accounts of the early oriental and classical mythical gods and heroes and Roman Emperors and Empresses, followed by notes on some classical fables.
The author's name appears as Dominicus Tagliaboscus on folio 142 verso, with the date 1702, and on folio 305.
'Akbar-nāmah' of Abu'l Faẓl ibn Mubārak al-'Allāmī., 1655.
Manuscript, apparently of the eighteenth century, containing Book I only (composed AD 1655). Illumination at beginning of Part I (folio 2 verso) and Part II (folio 418 verso). Miniatures on folios 27, 58, 94, 123, 130, 145, 158, 194, 197, 221, 238 verso, 254 verso, 265 verso, 307 verso, 365, 399. In Part II there are no miniatures, but several pages have been left blank, evidently for receiving them.
Album of reels, minuets, hornpipes, marches, and other dances, with a list of reels (incomplete) at the beginning and notes of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe., 1st half of 19th century.
Inside the end cover is a note, "Mr. Stenhouse's Vol. X. MSS".
Article entitled 'A summer night's dream', published in three parts in the ‘United service magazine’, 1890, bound for Lieutenant Douglas Haig of the 7th Hussars (afterwards Field-Marshal Earl Haig) whose signature dated Secunderabad, 1890 is inside the front cover, and whose book-plate (when Earl Haig) is pasted to the flyleaf.
The article was published in ‘United Service magazine’, June, July and August, 1890, pages 205-229, 357-376 and 385-402.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Rome, written in northern France., Late 15th century.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Rouen., Late 15th century.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Sarum., 15th century.
Book of hours according to the Use of Utrecht., 15th century.
Book of sermons on Exodus, xx, preached in the South-East Kirk, Edinburgh, presumably by the Minister, David Blair., 1706-1707.
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
'Book of verses’ by W E Henley (London, 1888), inscribed on the flyleaf and presented to Frederick Locker-Lampson by the author.
W E Henley's letter accompanying the volume, together with a later letter, 1890, to Frederick Locker-Lampson, are enclosed in an envelope that has been tipped in inside the front cover.
Bookplate of Maurice Lothian., Undated.
Bookplates of Harold Nelson sent to Otto Schulze and Co.
Charms and spells etc., including notes on witchcraft and astrology., Late 18th century, 1818.
A late eighteenth-century manuscript bearing the signatures 'John Blakey' (page 15) and 'Thomas Wyld' (pages 30, 72), with some additional matter (page i), dated 1818, written perhaps by the James Lomax whose signature is on page 3.
Chronicle of England, and theological works., 14th century.
Commonplace book in verse and prose.
701 pages, with Aberdeen connections, bookplate of Charles Gordon of Beldornie and Wardhouse, and ownership inscription of Thomas Mercer.
Copies, in an eighteenth-century hand, of Jacobite tracts, in a book containing Thomas Ruddiman's bookplate and a list of contents in his autograph.
Copy, 18th century, of “Chroniques au foumaire recit de ce qui se trouve de plus remarquable dans l’etat de la Republique de Geneve et de l’eglise qui y est recueillie depuis qu’elle est connue jusques à l’année 1562 par Michel Rozet.”
Six volumes bound in four.
Copy, early 19th century, of a manuscript tilted ‘Tractatus Theologicus de directione, usu, & necessitate sciae mediae inter vocandum providendum et praedestinandum’., ?17th century.
The manuscript is early 19th century in date and is probably a copy of a 17th century manuscript.
Copy, in an eighteenth-century hand, of ‘Pièces en trio pour les flutes, violon et dessus de viole’ by Marin Marais: first treble part., 1692.
Copy, late seventeenth century, of the chronicle of the Civil War in Scotland compiled by Henry Guthrie, Bishop of Dunkeld., Mid 17th century.
The text of the manuscript is the same as that of the printed book, excepting some small omissions and additions, and numerous variants in vocabulary, spelling, and word order.
Copy of ‘Pièces en trio pour les flutes, violon et dessus de viole’ by Marin Marais.
Copy of Stair's ‘Institutions of the law of Scotland’., [Circa 1671.]
The general arrangement is that of the first printed edition of 1681, but in several places the text is shorter and rather different. About 20 blank leaves at the end of the volume have been torn out.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Thomas and J A Carlyle.
Correspondence of James Maidment with and concerning John Riddell, with some other papers of Riddell.
The letters chiefly concern genealogical matters and the disposal after his death of John Riddell's manuscripts (the Riddell Collection), which were arranged by James Maidment and chiefly purchased by Lord Lindsay for ultimate preservation in the Advocates' Library.