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Annotations.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Notes added as comment or explanation, such as those accompanying an entry in a bibliography, reading list, or catalogue intended to describe, explain, or evaluate the publication referred to.

Found in 173 Collections and/or Records:

Copy of the statutes of the Order of the Garter in English, written probably in 1558, containing the statutes of Henry VIII, and of Mary and Philip, and a further statute, dated 12th of January in the first year of Elizabeth, added in another hand.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.18
Scope and Contents The title, and the statutes of Henry VIII, are introduced by small gold initials within blue and brown parti-coloured squares. Many of the statutes of Henry VIII, and most of those of Mary and Philip have a title or a summary in red in the margin, written in the same hand as the text; several have marginal annotations in another hand of the late 16th or early 17th century. All the statutes, except that of Elizabeth, have been numbered, and at folios i-ii is a list of contents, written in a...
Dates: 1558.

Copy of "Traditions of Edinburgh" (1825), by Robert Chambers, with double pages replacing cancelled leaves and the original text (concerning Hugo Arnot) supplied in manuscript.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12417
Scope and Contents

Includes tipped in notes of Arnot`s son, and an anecdote, of Walter Scott to Robert Chambers which was incorporated into "Traditions of Edinburgh".

Dates: circa 1825.

Corrected typescript drafts of play of Stewart Conn, "The King".

 File
Identifier: Acc.4433
Scope and Contents

With a copy of a review of the play.

Dates: circa 1967.

Correspondence and literary papers of and concerning George Borrow collected by Sir Angus Fraser, with working papers of Sir Angus Fraser relating to George Borrow.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.12091/1-74
Scope and Contents

Includes photocopies, extensive notes on Borrow by Sir Angus Fraser and an annotated copy of 'George Borrow: a Bibliographical Guide' (1984).

Dates: 1794-2001, undated.

`De Historicis Scotis et Politicis qui vel Scoticae Gentis historiara et politiciam et res gestas vel vitas Scotorum aut aliarum Gentium historias exterorunique res gestas enarrant`, being collections of Sir Robert Sibbald, for a bibliography.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.18
Scope and Contents

The latest entries in the volume are dated 1700. It includes manuscript material, and there are annotations on the contents and history of some of the entries.

Dates: 1700, and before.

Emendations and additions to Morris and Le Clerc`s "Universal Dictionary", compiled by James Gordon of Aberdeen.

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Identifier: Acc.10143
Scope and Contents

With observations and additions to Jeremy Collins, "Historical Dictionary", and a description of Aberdeen as an intellectual centre.

Dates: circa 1720.

‘Extracta ex variis chronicis Scotiae’, a transcript made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane, 1738, taken from the original manuscript, Adv.MS.35.6.13, a collection of extracts of chronicles, late 15th century-early 16th century, mostly taken from Fordun and Boece with extensive annotations in the hand of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.10
Scope and Contents

Later additions in the original are here collected at the end (pages 249). The folio numbers of the original are given in the margin, and the index which is placed at the beginning in the original, is here transferred to the end (page 263).

Dates: Late 15th century-early 16th century.

‘Extracta ex variis chronicis Scotiae’, an incomplete transcript, early 18th century, taken from the original manuscript, Adv.MS.35.6.13, a collection of extracts of chronicles, late 15th century-early 16th century, mostly taken from Fordun and Boece with extensive annotations in the hand of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.4.5
Scope and Contents

A number of items in the Wodrow collection are in the same hand, and the copyist appears to have worked fairly frequently for Robert Wodrow. Later additions in the original are here collected at the end (page 159) and partially in a different hand, but the copyist breaks off in mid-entry at folio 296 verso of the original. The folio numbers of the original are given in the margin, and the index, which is placed at the beginning in the original, is omitted.

Dates: Late 15th century-early 16th century.

First edition of Alasdair Gray's "Lanark" (1981) with annotations in the hand of the author.

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Identifier: Acc.14530
Scope and Contents

Manuscript annotations to the text on pages 490, 491, 538, 539 and 545 were intended by Gray to be included in new editions of the novel.

Dates: 1981; 2017-2019.

Five volumes of newspaper cuttings with annotations by James Logie Robertson and a letter of George Fothergill to Robertson.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.6659/1-6
Scope and Contents James Logie Robertson was born in Milnathort, Kinross-shire in 1846 and educated at Orwell Parish School and Edinburgh University. He was assistant master at Heriot's Hospital and George Watson's College before joining the staff at Edinburgh Ladies' College in 1876. His writings, some under the pen-name of 'Hugh Haliburton', include English text-books, essays and poetry. Robertson died in 1922.Five volumes of newspaper cuttings with annotations by James Logie Robertson and a...
Dates: 1896-1910, 1916-1917.

Galley proofs, circa 1958, of Ian Hamilton Finlay, "The Sea-Bed and Other Stories", with corrections by Finlay.

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Identifier: Acc.10351
Scope and Contents

With printed copies of two short stories, undated, of Finlay with his annotations and corrections.

Dates: circa 1958 and undated.