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Copies of miscellaneous papers.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.11
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Copy, after 1688, of the `Account of the Affairs of Scotland relating to the Revolution in 1688’ by Colin, Earl of Balcarres. The text is similar to that of Ruddiman`s edition of 1754. For other copies of the work, see MSS.1911 and 3738, and Adv.MSS.33.7.12-33.7.13 and 49.7.6. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies, late 17th and early 18th century, of two Latin poems by Archibald Pitcairne, with translations: `Elegy on the Viscount of...
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Fair copy in an unidentified hand of apparently early 18th-century provenance of `Buchanan Revis`d [:] Annotations or Animadversions on Buchanan`s Historie and his Dialogue, etc.` by Sir James Turner, along with the rest of the contents of Adv.MS.31.1.14.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.15
Scope and Contents
The transcript of Turner`s `observations` on O`Flaherty`s ‘Ogygia’ is written in the same hand but on slightly smaller leaves.
The copy may have been made for Sir Robert Sibbald who appears to have made a few brief additions at various places.
The volume appears to have been re-bound early in the 19th century.
Dates:
1643-1679.
`Observations on a work called Remarks on Colonel Stewart`s Sketches of the Highlanders`, a copy of Major-General David Stewart of Garth`s reply to the anonymous author of the ‘Remarks’, who had criticised Stewart`s ‘Sketches of the Highlanders’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.5
Scope and Contents
A printed copy of the ‘Remarks’ is bound with the manuscript.
Dates:
1823, or after.