Catalogue of Archives and Manuscripts Collections | National Library of Scotland | NLSMSS | Volume containing verse and prose, chiefly Jacobite and satirical.

Conditions Governing Access

Normal access conditions apply.
Conditions Governing Use

Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.
Immediate Source of Acquisition

Bought, Dowell's, 2 November 1949, lot 280.
Custodial History

The manuscripts were bought by the National Library of Scotland with the aid of the Reid Fund.
The volume, which was sold at the Keith sale in 1888 (see note on fly-leaf), is the manuscript of Dr Keith used by George Ritchie Kinloch in his Maitland Club edition of ‘Babell’, and it may have been used by James Maidment.
In 1692 it was owned by William Hempseed (see folios ix verso, x verso), who has entered a few notes on law.
Arrangement

x + 139 + some blank folios.
Scope and Contents

The longer pieces include 'The Tragedie of Glenco', 'Proelium Gilliekrankianum', 'Bellum Bothwellianum', 'Tarquin and Tullia', and Dr Archibald Pitcairne's 'Assembly' and 'Babell'.
There is a recipe for stomach-ache on folio x verso.
Other Finding Aids

There is a list of contents, in which printed editions have been indicated, at folio vii.
Bibliography
Many of the pieces have been printed in contemporary tracts or by James Maidment and other nineteenth-century editors.
Pitcairne, Archibald. ‘Babell’ (Maitland Club, 1830), edited by George Ritchie Kinloch.

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