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Found in 1168 Collections and/or Records:
Family letter-books of John Harriott, Magistrate of the Thames Police, containing copies of letters written chiefly to members of his family in India.
'Festival Mass for full orchestra & chorus; a study in instrumentation, composed by William Wallace' (born 1860), in his autograph.
The composer gives a history (folio xiii) of the work, which was composed in 1886-1887 and, in part, scored in 1888 (see dates on various folios). Some parts are incomplete.
Interspersed with the music are unruled leaves, bearing illuminations, manuscript notes of the composer, etc., on folios i-ii, viii, x-xiii, xxv, xxvii verso, xxviii verso, xxxix, xliii, xlvii, li.
Final draft of the ‘Topographical Dictionary’ by George Chalmers, with notes, mostly etymological, on the dictionary.
The `Topographical Dictionary` was to have formed a supplement to George Chalmers` ‘Caledonia’, but was never published. In contrast with the earlier draft of the dictionary in Adv.MSS.8.1.4-8.1.6 the arrangement here is completely alphabetical. A proof of the first 4 pages only of the introduction is included in Adv.MS.3.1.1, folios iii-iv. The notes, Adv.MSS.3.1.7-3.1.9, only occur here.
First volume of a catalogue of the library of, apparently, David Constable, Advocate, eldest son of Archibald Constable, the Publisher.
Five 13th-century medical manuscripts, possibly written in England, with additions of the 14th and 15th centuries.
The manuscripts had been bound into one volume by the 15th century. The contents are: (i) translation, by Constantinus Africanus, of 'De gradibus simplicum' by Isaac and the end of an unidentified work, with recipes added in later hands; (ii) Gerard, 'De modo medendi', with recipes and notes added by later hands; (iii) a work on digestion; (iv) seven works on medical subjects; (v) the end of an unidentified work on the degrees of medicine, with added recipes in French.
Five leaves from an autograph album.
Including letters, receipts, drawings and engravings.
With items of Sir Richard Westmacott, Sir Francis Chantrey and Benjamin Haydon.
`Fondament van de Geometry`, a practical treatise with propositions and proofs from Euclid.
The text is followed (folio 43) by remarks on surveying. The inverted folios contain mathematical and geometrical problems.
The front cover has the letters A O and the date 1705.
Football commentary notes of Alastair Alexander, sports radio commentator.
Includes ticket for match between Heart of Midlothian Football Club and Glasgow Rangers Football Club, 13 March 2004.
Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
'Four dissertations' (London, 1757) by David Hume, with proofs of the two suppressed dissertations, 'Of suicide' and 'Of the immortality of the soul', with Hume's autograph corrections.
The proofs of the suppressed dissertations (pages 201 bis-240 bis) are included in addition to the four on 'The Natural History of Religion', 'Of the Passions', 'Of Tragedy', and 'Of the Standard of Taste'.
A slip affixed to the fly-leaf has the following in David Hume’s handwriting: 'This Book is to be considered a Manuscript and to deliverd [sic] to Mr. Strahan according to my Will'.
Four documents, 1711, 1724, 1741, concerning Islay.
Including a rental, 1741.
With notes on the family of Campbell of Otter, 19th century.
Four letters, 1977-1986, from Lords Thomson, Wheatley and Lane to Robert S Shiels.
Letters concern legal matters.
Includes a note, 1887, of W E Gladstone to J Davidson, Leith.
Four letters and a note concerning James Dalrymple, a farmer near Linlithgow who was convicted for shooting a highlander.
Fragment of a copy, being pages 19-124 (containing Title I to Title VII of Book 1) of the first edition of ‘An Institute of the Law of Scotland’ by John Erskine, containing numerous additions throughout in an unidentified contemporary hand.
Many of the additions in the outer margins are merely chapter headings, whilst most of those in the upper and lower margins are notes of legal cases heard after the publication of the book, as far as 1821 (folio 175). The longest additions are written on fragments or entire sheets of paper tipped in throughout. There are also a few later additions written in pencil in another hand.
Fragments, drafts and notes in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald, mainly on Scottish antiquities and topography.
Fragments of a life of Sir William Wallace (folio 1) and of notes (folios 17, 19) relating to another, unidentified life, possibly an edition of Blind Harry`s ‘Wallace’, by Richard Augustine Hay.
The manuscript is undated, but from a reference to ‘the late Mr Lockhart of Carnwath’ (folio 29 verso), it seems that the notes at least were written probably in 1732; the life may have been written about the same time.
Fragments of at least 7 and perhaps 8 manuscripts on medicine and astrology, some, if not all, English.
A and E may be in the same hand and from the same manuscript.
‘Gaelic Proverbs, Adages, Maxims & Common Sayings, with an English translation & explanatory notes. To which is added, A Specimen of a Gaelic Calendar', by James McIntyre, schoolmaster in Glasgow.
The author died in January 1835, when the work was about to be published. At the end are printed proofs of part of the preface and selections in manuscript from the proverbs given before. At the beginning is a note on McIntyre's life and work.
Genealogical and historical material in the hand of Sir James Balfour.
Genealogical and other material collected by William Camden, the antiquary.
‘Genealogical collections’, containing notes on Scottish genealogies, with lists of Officers of State, Knights, Baronets, etc., in the handwriting of Alexander Nisbet.
Genealogical material collected by Robert Mylne, chiefly in his own hand.
The contents consist of:
(i) Genealogy of the House of Drummond, etc.;
(ii) Lumsden’s History of the Family of Forbes;
(iii) Genealogical account of several families of Scotland, and notes of charters.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (Jac.V.7.5).
Genealogical material collected by Sir Robert Douglas, 6th Baronet, of Glenbervie, for his projected ‘Baronage of Scotland’.
The manuscript includes a number of notes by the antiquary James Cummyng. Douglas died in 1770, but the ‘Baronage of Scotland’ was not published until 1798.
Genealogical notes by Donald Whyte on the families of McLamroch, Nicholson or Nicolson, Whyte and Wodrow or Woodrow.
Genealogical notes by Walter Macfarlane, in his own hand.
At the end of the volume are instances of the occurrence of the word ‘Carnalis’ applied to legitimate progeny.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (Jac.V.5.28).