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David Macpherson`s copy of ‘An Enquiry into the History of Scotland ...’ by John Pinkerton, 2 volumes (London, 1789), containing his signature on the verso of the title page of each volume, numerous marginalia throughout (some quite lengthy) and a number of sheets and scraps of paper tipped in (most are in the second volume) on which are further notes and other writings.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.6.3(i)-(ii)
Dates:
1789.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘Annals of Scotland’, 2 volumes (Edinburgh, 1776, 1779) by Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.13(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
Each volume contains Macpherson`s signature on the verso of the title page and numerous marginalia, many of which are quite lengthy, throughout, as well as additional notes and extracts on scraps, and some sheets, of paper tipped in at appropriate places. According to a note on the verso of the title page of volume i, Macpherson `inserted everything that occurred to me in printed authors or in manuscript records, which is useful correcting the errors, or supplying the defects of Sir David...
Dates:
1776, 1779.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘History of Scotland from the accession of the House of Stuart to that of Mary’, 2 volumes, (London, 1797) by John Pinkerton.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.14(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
Macpherson’s signature is on the verso of the title page of each volume, and a number of usually brief marginalia are scattered throughout volume i, and a few more in volume ii, mostly at the beginning. A few undated notes on scraps of paper are tipped in.
Dates:
1797.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘The History and Antiquities of Scotland’ by William Maitland, 2 volumes (London, 1757), containing many marginal notes and comments on the text.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.21(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
By far the majority of the notes are in volume i, volume ii being quite lightly marked. Some of these are quite lengthy, and many express disagreement with Maitland. One note, at page 142, is dated 1788, another, at page 227, refers to 1791; the rest are undated.The only additions to the printed leaves are a scrap of paper tipped in between pages 414-415, a prospectus for Macpherson`s edition of ‘Orygynall Cronykyl of Scotland’, 1795, tipped in between pages 756-757, and a...
Dates:
1757.
‘The Ogilvies of Boyne’ by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (Aberdeen, 1933), containing inserts; with further letters and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21248-21249
Dates:
1719, 1929-1933, undated.
Work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical (Adv.MS.34.1.8) and secular (Adv.MSS.34.1.9(i)-34.1.9(ii)) antiquities of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.1.8-34.1.9
Scope and Contents
The work is in the same hand as, and was begun probably as the consequence to, Hay’s ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio` (Adv.MS.34.1.10) in 1700 (the date quoted on each title page) and completed in 1707 or later (Adv.MS.34.1.9(ii), folio 62).
Dates:
1700-1707, or after.