Scope and Contents The text of the manuscript is written in a bold slightly angular hand and is generally above average size. The only marginalium, ‘Amo Deus, bene literat, amen dico vobis’ (folio 1 verso) may be by the same hand although in a different ink. Capitals are coloured in red. The contents are as follows. On Isidore’s commentary on Aphorisms of Johannes Damascenus (Mesue), cf. Adv.MS.72.1.13, folio 1 recto, column a, line 1. Beginning (acephalous) ‘ata an triacla do beith uair and’ = Adv.MS.72.1.23,...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Fragment of a Gaelic manuscript, 15th century, containing scholastic texts (Adv.MS.72.1.7);Manuscript, ?14th-?19th century, containing a commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates in Gaelic and Latin (Adv.MS.72.1.10);Medical manuscript, ?16th century, in Gaelic written by Feargus Ó Caiside (Adv.MS.72.1.11);Medical manuscript, 16th century, in Gaelic, consisting chiefly of a treatise on diets and matters ancillary to medicine,...

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The contents are as follows: 15th century manuscript, 'Moralia in Job' of Pope Gregory I (Adv.MS.18.2.6);

12th century manuscript, 'De Trinitate' of St Augustine (Adv.MS.18.2.7).

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Gaelic manuscript, 15th-16th century, containing Irish pedigrees (Adv.MS.72.1.6);Manuscript, 14th century-15th century, containing tales of destruction in Gaelic (Adv.MS.72.1.8);Gaelic manuscript of MacDougall genealogy, 17th century (Adv.MS.72.1.9);Medical manuscript, 14th century-15th century, in Gaelic (Adv.MS.72.1.13);Medical manuscript, 15th century-16th century, in Gaelic consisting of two independent layers,...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...

Scope and Contents The papers include:Part of Sir Walter Scott’s ‘Life of Napoleon Buonaparte’, chapter iii, in the hand of an amanuensis, with corrections in Scott’s autograph (folio 9);Statement of the sales of the ‘Letters of Malachi Malagrowther’, 1826-1827 (folio 23);Note by James Ballantyne of John Murray’s proposals regarding the publication of Scott’s works (folio 35);Letter, apparently to John Gibson Lockhart criticising his ‘History of Napoleon’, 1830...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Part of the 'Historia scholastica' of Petrus Comestor, containing the history from II Maccabees ii to the end of the 'Historia evangelica', beginning 'Mortuo Simone qui ultimus quinque filiorum'; printed in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume cxcviii, 1525-1644. (Folio 1.)(ii) Commentary on the books of Kings, Tobit, Judith, Esther, Daniel, and Maccabees, beginning ‘Ozia lepra percusso in fronte'. It is apparently complete, but like Corpus...

Scope and Contents The German pamphlets (pressmark DC.5) were published between 1586 and 1603, beginning with ‘Von der Erbsünde’ by Egidius Hunnius, the Elder (Franckfurt am Mayn, 1594).(i) An almost complete conjugate pair of consecutive vellum leaves (being the innermost bifolium of a gathering) lacking the lower margins and the last few lines, from a commentary on the Decretals. The portion contained in this fragment relates to Book I, Title 43, chapter 12 to Book II, Title 1, chapter 4. The...

Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Righ og Easaidh ruagh`, the manuscript of the Gaelic tale transcribed by Hector MacLean, schoolmaster at Ballygrant, Islay, and Campbell`s principal collector and collaborator, from the recitation of James Wilson, a blind fiddler on the island, 1859. Printed in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 1, pages 12-18. (Folio 3.)(ii) A version of `Righ og Easaidh ruagh` as transcribed by Hector Urquhart, gamekeeper on...

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The terms, `Gaelic version` or `English version` refer to the original manuscript texts produced by (`transcribed by` or `told to`) one of his team of collectors or by Campbell. Unless stated otherwise, all English versions of the tales and textual notes are the work of Campbell.

Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) “Nighean Iarl a` Ghliocais”, transcribed by Hector MacLean, July 1859, from Alexander MacNeill, Kentangaval, Barra; received after the version from Catherine MacGeachy, née Milloy, Islay, published in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 2, pages 8-13. (Folio 1.)(ii) ‘Righ na ceist`, told by Roderick MacNeill, Kentangaval, to Hector MacLean, July 1859. The published version of this tale, `Ridere nan Ceist’, is in...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Page proofs, [1823, or before], of ‘Quentin Durward’ by Sir Walter Scott, with extensive corrections and additions in Scott’s hand (MS.3404);Proofs, [1832, or before], of the first edition of ‘Quentin Durward’ by Sir Walter Scott (MS.3405);Lady Louisa Stuart's ballad, [1805, or after], "Ugly Meg, or, The Robber's Wedding" ('Muckle-mouthed Meg'), in Sir Walter Scott's hand (MS.3531);'Literary Information. Discovery of the...

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The notebook contains descriptions of Macao and Canton in 1817, drafts of letters, 1826-1827, a commentary on ship's discipline and miscellaneous notes.

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Correspondence and papers, literary manuscripts and journals of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie (1744-1823) and of earlier members of the Douglas family, mainly his great-grandfather, Robert Douglas (1625-1716), Bishop of Brechin, 1682-1684, and the last Bishop of Dunblane (1684-1689) in the pre-Revolution episcopal establishment of the Church of Scotland; and his father, John Douglas of Fechil in the parish of Ellon, Aberdeenshire (1714-1762).

Scope and Contents The manuscript is in Devanāgarī script.Side margins ruled in red, daṇḍas mainly in red (represented by red in transcription). Basic text in centre, inset from margins, surrounded by 2-5 lines of commentary top and bottom.Colophon (commentary, folio 270 recto): iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrībhāratītīrthavidyāraṇyamunivaryakiṃkareṇa śrīrāmakṛṣṇākhyaviduṣā viracite brahmānande viṣayanaṃdī nāma pañcamo dhyāyaḥ ॥ 15 ॥ ॥ pañcadaśaprakaraṇasamāptaḥ ॥ ॥...

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Including a thesis and commentary on Theognis, and notes and correspondence on literary and academic matters.

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The contents are as follows:

(i) Transcript, undated, with commentary by James Maidment, of ‘A genealogical account of the family of Glencairn’, a manuscript assigned by Maidment to the early 18th century and possibly to Robert Mylne. (folio 1);

(ii) Notes, apparently by Maidment, on baronies within the earldom of Buchan (folio 40); with one leaf (folio 85) describing the peerage, published in ‘Collectanea genealogica’.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...