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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Thomas and J A Carlyle.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20752-20753
Dates:
1833-1883, undated.
Manuscript containing various legal works, compiled in 1704.
File
Identifier: MS.9248
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Abridgement of ‘Jus Feudale’ by Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton. The text is in a considerably shorter form than the usual epitomes (for which see MS.1950 and Adv.MSS.25.6.1-2, 28.3.14), and omits book i, 11 and 13, book ii, 5 and 15, and book iii, 4 and 7. (Folio 1.)(ii) "Inventory of ane Burges's airship moveables". (Folio 88.) (iii) Latin mottoes. (Folio 90.)(iv) Notes on land measures in Scotland and weights...
Dates:
[1704, or before.]
Manuscript of the 'Memoirs of Sir Henry Slingsby From 1638 to 1648', which was used by Sir Walter Scott in his edition of 'Original memoirs, written during the Great Civil War: being the life of Sir Henry Slingsby, and memoirs of Capt. Hodgson. With notes. &c'.
Item
Identifier: MS.23621
Scope and Contents
The text is carefully written in a late eighteenth-century hand (evidence of pricking survives in the outer margins of most of the leaves) and bears marks of Sir Walter Scott's editorial work. The chief alteration to the text is the replacement by Scott of Sir Henry Slingsby's last sentence; otherwise the amendments consist mostly of expansions of contracted words and the introduction of consistency in the use of capitals; the additions are in the form of footnotes, a few of which were not...
Dates:
Late 18th century-[1806 or before.]