Dedications. Documents.
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
'A collection of the best reciepts in cookery, pastery and confectionary taken from the best authors by Margt Hume Campbell, with a dedication to the Right Honourable Lady Diana Scott’.
The collection was probably intended for Lady Diana, the author's younger sister, on her approaching marriage to Walter Scott of Harden in 1754. There are a few later additions and an index (folio iii) but no section on confectionery. Some of the sources of the recipes are named.
"Cinquant [sic] Octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, dediez a tresillustre seigneur le conte de Shrewsbury, pour ses estrennes l'an 1607", being a calligraphic copy of the verses by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu, first published anonymously in ‘Les Cantigues du Seigneur de Maisonfleur’.
Coats of arms of the Nine Worthies, British and foreign royal houses, Kings of Scotland and their consorts from John Baliol to James VI, and the Scottish nobility and gentry.
At the beginning, on different paper, is a treatise, 'Scotica Nobilitas. Per Archibaldum Harbartum. Scotum. 1602' dedicated to the Bishop of Norwich.
The volume also contains lists of nobles and notes.
Copy of Giles Dixey, "Deinde, More Collected Verses", with dedication and letter of Dixey to Ruari McLean.
Copy of the `Velitatio in Georgium Buchananum` of Ninian Winzet, which was published as part of his ‘Flagellum Sectarioram’.
'Divine aenigms and pious problems', poems by John Donne, son of Dr John Donne, Dean of St Paul's.
The poems are dedicated to Francis, Baron Newport, afterwards Earl of Bradford. There are three illustrative diagrams, the ‘ensignes’ of the twelve Patriarchs, and ‘an index of most remarkable matters’.
Four letters, 1874-1884, of Thomas Stevenson to Peter G Tait, with one, 1886, to Mrs Tait.
Includes:
sonnets, 1858, of Sir William Rowan Hamilton, sent to Mrs Tait.
two documents, undated, concerning H S Reid, one being the text of the dedication of a chapel.
Genealogies of the nobility of Scotland in the hand of Sir James Balfour.
Prefixed is a Latin dedication of James Balfour to Charles I.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference:
(Jac.V.2.24).
“Invernessshire grand march compos’d expressly for, and dedicated (by permission) to Lt.-Col. Duff. By M[ichael] Kelly”, arranged in full military band score.
Manuscript of ‘The life of God in the soul of man’ by Henry Scougal, Professor of Divinity at King's College, Aberdeen.
The manuscript is dedicated on a title-page (folio 2), 'to The most virtuous Lady and The most generous friend My Lady Gilmoir, August 21 1676’.
Manuscripts of prose and poetry by Hamish Hendry, with a copy of 'A Scots Dominie' (1924), inscribed to his daughter.
Microfilm of Glenriddell Manuscripts: copies of poems, letters, etc., of Robert Burns, compiled by the poet, 1791-1793, for presentation to Robert Riddell of Glenriddell.
The contents are as follows:
Poems, 4th quarter of 18th century, of Robert Burns, including "Tam o’ Shanter" and "Holy Willie’s Prayer", with a copy of a letter, 1787, to Dr Moore, and a dedicatory letter, 1791 (MS.86);
Letters, 4th quarter of 18th century, of Robert Burns (MS.87).
Microfilm of miscellaneous historical and topographical items, copied in the 18th century.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, including that of William Forbes Skene.
Miscellaneous historical and topographical items, copied in the 18th century.
Political tract titled "Non Nobis Domine. My Help is onelie in God. My heart trusted & I am helped. A Conference betwixt Orthodoxus and Sophronus, concerning the contents of Buchanan's tractate entituled de jure Regni apud Scotos, and that other entitled Vindiciae contra Tyrannos".
The work, apparently not known in print, is in a hand of the early eighteenth century, with a dedication to the Marquess of Huntly and a preface, both signed 'Aretophilus'.
‘Royall genealogie of the Antient High Borne, and most famous Kings of Scotland, which was formerly called Albion, their descendance and Successione’, written by Frederick Van Bossen, a Dane, and dedicated to the Officers of the State and others.
Volume titled ‘Van Bossen’s genealogie’. The pedigree commences with Gathelus, and comes down to the birth of James, son to King James II, giving some of the chief cadent families of Stewart at the end.