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Copies. Derivative objects.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 959 Collections and/or Records:

Volume of Robert Burns’ poems, in manuscript, undated, by an unknown transcriber.

 File
Identifier: MS.6302
Scope and Contents

The text appears to have been copied from the subscribers' edition of ‘Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect’ (Edinburgh, 1787). Between pages 36 and 37 is inserted a newspaper cutting giving an explanation of two lines in the second stanza of 'Death and Doctor Hornbook'.

Dates: [1787, or after.]

Volume of speeches, tracts and other papers.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.2
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Part of a speech to the English Parliament on the financial affairs of James I, probably by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, ?1610 (folio 1).(ii) Copy, dated 1613, of Salisbury`s speech to Parliament, 15 February 1610. For summaries, see ‘A Life of Robert Cecil’, pages 297-299, and ‘Parliamentary Debates in 1610’, pages 1-9 (folio 4).(iii) Notes on rumoured preparations by Catholic forces, by Mr Foster,...
Dates: Late 16th century-17th century.

Volume of topographical surveys.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.13
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume (somewhat out of order) are as follows:(i) a report of a survey of Loch Broom made in July 1793 (folio 1);(ii) a report, addressed to John Rennie, of the survey of Loch Bay made in May 1793 by John Baine (folio 23) which was given in to the Highland Society; (iii) John Mackenzie`s letter, 1798, forwarding the reports (folio 53);(iv) a copy of a report by Thomas Telford to Nicholas Vansittart, then secretary of the...
Dates: 1793-1801.

Volume written in 1796 entitled `Copy Search of Charters, Diplomas, andc in favours of the Peers of Scotland containing the Charts of Dignities and Series of Heirs`.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.20
Scope and Contents The volume consists of a collection of copies and extracts of charters and other formal documents dating from the early 14th to the early 18th century from the Register of the Great Seal and the Records in Chancery (folio 2), an appendix concerning certain Scottish peerages (folio 63 verso), a list of the Parliaments of England and of Great Britain (folio 96 verso), names of Scots Representative Peers who sat in the House of Lords in the 18th century (folio 97 verso), and an index to the...
Dates: Early 14th century-18th century.

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