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Found in 1168 Collections and/or Records:
Drawings of masons' marks, made or collected by Charles S S Johnston, architect, with letters, notes, and excerpts on the subject; the whole arranged by Professor W B Stevenson..
Drawings, plans and notes illustrative of Scottish architecture, by Thomas Ross, Doctor of Laws, (died 1930).
Duplicated typescript material consisting of genealogical studies of branches of the Forrester family.
"Edinburgh Almanack" (1766), with manuscript diary and notes of James Camichael.
Engraved portraits of governors of the Dutch East Indies, with historical notes.
Essay, circa 1760, of James Buchanan, on self-love, with manuscript notes, 1782, of the 11th Earl of Buchan.
Essay, notes, and extracts from other works, on teinds and other ecclesiastical matters.
Essays and other papers of William Myrtle, author of ‘The plagiarist’, chiefly written while he was a student at Edinburgh University (1877-1880).
Essays, probably by Margaret Inglis, a schoolgirl in Edinburgh.
The subjects include themes from literature and history as well as more general topics and descriptions. Also included is a copy of a letter of Margaret Inglis (page 39), and miscellaneous notes and paraphrases.
Estate accounts written on the blank leaves, now separated, of the protocol books, late 16th century, of George Abernethy and James Drummond, notaries in Edinburgh.
‘Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language’ (Inverness, 1896) and ‘Further Gaelic words and etymologies’ (Inverness, 1899) by Alexander Macbain, with manuscript notes on Gaelic words, etc., probably by George Henderson, Lecturer in Celtic in Glasgow.
'Evergreen', 2 volumes (Edinburgh, 1761) by Allan Ramsay with numerous manuscript corrections and variants of the Maitland manuscript throughout.
There are also critical notes (MS.494, fly-leaf) by Bishop Percy.
Ewen MacLachlan’s ‘Leabhar Caol’, containing transcripts (with occasional notes) from nine manuscripts sent to him for examination by the Highland Society of Scotland.
Excerpts from books and other notes of bibliographical and historical interest of John Smith Gibb titled, 'Notabilia Librorum'.
Exercises in Latin translation by Patrick Anderson.
The exercises are followed (folio 7 verso) by notes by Thomas Ruddiman on the sale of his second edition of ‘Rudiments of the Latin Tongue’, a related account, and notes of books lent out by Ruddiman.
‘Exercitationes Physicae’.
The work consists of an introduction and four `exercitationes` divided into chapters. Mention is made of authors such as Gerard Vossius, Descartes and Gassendi. There are a few diagrams dealing with astronomy. The work is followed (folio 131) by theological notes in English and Latin, including part of an attack on the philosophy of Descartes.
Extensively amended copy of a speech of John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, in the House of Lords, 16 July 1830, in the case raised by Frederick Campbell Stewart of Ascog against Stewart Murray Fullarton of Fullarton, and others.
Extract from Herodotus in the hand of Thomas Campbell.
Extract is contained in the published volume of Campbell's "Gertrude of Wyoming" (1809).
Extracts and copies of historical works, collected by Sir James Balfour, 17th century.
Extracts, early 19th century, made from a copy of the Lyon Register belonging to Andrew Plummer of Middle Steed and Sunderland Hall.
There are additions up to 1822 by the copyists David Deuchar, and his son Alexander, the seal-engravers.
The volumes are interleaved with pages engraved with blank shields, some of which have been completed in watercolours or in trick to illustrate the text.
Extracts from published sources and some notes and other writings compiled by John Young, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1786).
Extracts, late 17th century, from the Books of Sederunt of the Court of Session, 1532-1689.
Facsimiles of manuscripts made for students in Falconer Madan's classes in mediaeval palaeography at Oxford, with notes and a few transcripts by Percy Stafford Allen.
There is an inscription by Percy Allen dated 1894 (folio i) and he is known to have attended the classes that year. Photostats of letters of Robert Turberville and Pope Leo X to Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester, 1517, undated, are inserted (folio 38).
‘Fair assembly. A Poem in the Royal Stanza’ by Allan Ramsay, and in his autograph.
The manuscript contains six stanzas and a few notes additional to those published in Allan Ramsay's ‘Poems’, volume ii, page 195.