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Composite volume of 15th-century manuscripts of miscellaneous works by four hands bound together, with an incunable, in the 16th-century or earlier.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.8
Scope and Contents
The collection has been in one volume since the 16th century at least. The contents are as follows:[(i) A printed book: Johannes de Hildesheim, ‘Liber de gestis ac translatione trium regum’, etc., ([Cologne], 1478) = National Library of Scotland Inc.43 (B.M.Cat. IB 4236) (folio 1)]. Folio 56 blank.(ii) Baebius Italicus (?), `Ilias latina` (‘Poetae latini minores’ ii.3; this manuscript is not included in the list given by P Vollmer in ‘Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen...
Dates:
15th century.
Letters and poems of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet; and poetry and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell.
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Identifier: MS.3115
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, poems, etc., of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet, to Peter Buchan, collector of Scottish ballads, Peterhead, 1828-1850, undated. The letters, which are in Laing's autograph, deal chiefly with literary matters of the day. Most of the poems (folios 4, 6, 10, 19, 23) appear later in published form.(ii) Poems and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell, in his autograph, with one letter to him, 1815-1865, undated. Several of...
Dates:
1815-1865, undated.
Microfilm of ‘M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. V’, being mainly a continuation of the scripts and editorial material for inclusion in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 3.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1583
Dates:
1860-1861.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, relating principally to William Forbes Skene’s work in preparing his ‘Chronicles of the Picts and Scots’ and ‘Celtic Scotland’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.16
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Miscellaneous notes, letters and other items.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Notes of decisions of the Court of Session, 1714-1721. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies, early 18th century, of letters of and to George Buchanan, 1573-1581, and undated, with notes on others of his letters, mostly in Thomas Ruddiman`s hand; these are Epistolae XXVII, XV, XII, XXXI, XXIV, XL, XXXVII in Ruddiman`s edition of Buchanan`s Works, and Ruddiman`s introductory notes to Epistolae XI, XVI, VIII, XII, XX, XXVIII, XXXI, XXXIV,...
Dates:
17th century-1912.
Notebook of Thomas Heart, containing prose translations, poetry, notes and some medical recipes.
Item
Identifier: MS.3004
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains prose translations of most of Horace's ‘Odes and Epodes’ (inverted folio 3, folio 1 verso), a poem entitled "The believer's dowry" with other verses and notes of a religious nature (folio 4), and some medical recipes (folio 27 verso). Dates ranging between the years 1720 and 1763 occur at points throughout the volume.
Dates:
1720-1763.
Papers, 1321-1601, to and of the family of Murray of Falahill.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11403
Scope and Contents
Includes translations of the papers, genealogical notes, genealogies of the families of Falahill and Philiphaugh, and a copy of a poem "The Song of Outlaw Murray", all mid 19th century.
Dates:
1321-1601 and mid 19th century.
Papers and translations collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.16
Scope and Contents
The source material and translations are variously endorsed or annotated by Henry Mackenzie, Donald Mackintosh, and Ewen MacLachlan.The contents are as follows.(M 1). Notes by John Francis Campbell, dated 25 November 1872. (Folio 1.)(i) Cover, probably for folios 12-22, 24-33. Bears hands of Ewen MacLachlan and Mackintosh MacKay. Cf. Adv.MS.73.2.10, folio 207. (Folio 2.)(M 2). Ossianic fragments with some corresponding passages from James...
Dates:
[1794, or after]-1872, undated.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
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Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Papers collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.10
Dates:
1797-1807.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents
Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Papers of the families of Crawfurd of Kilbirnie and of Jordanhill.
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Identifier: MS.20988
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) Legal documents and correspondence, 1488-1789 (folio 1); (ii) Notes, ?1786-1821, on legal cases (folio 33); (iii) Genealogical papers, 1707-1731, undated (folio 65); (iv) Poetry, 18th century-19th century, including an early copy, dated 1734, of Allan Ramsay's poem, 'The Thimble' (folio 93); (v) Notes, undated, by George Crawfurd, the antiquary, and a translation of a charter, 1748, by Thomas Ruddiman (folio 107).
Dates:
1488-1821, undated.
Part of Sir John Sinclair’s general correspondence on Gaelic matters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.14
Dates:
1807-1824.
Part of the Ossianic collection of the Reverend Alexander Campbell of Portree (1770-1811).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.3
Dates:
1798-1806.
Schoolbook of James Fowler, Strathpeffer, containing instructions and problems in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and the construction of sundials, and a translation of the ‘Iliad’, book 3.
Item
Identifier: MS.14284
Scope and Contents
A few miscellaneous notes and poems have been added in a 19th-century hand.
Dates:
1780.
Translation into English by Thomas Ross (later the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross of Lochbroom) of parts of James Macpherson’s concocted originals as published in Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.4
Scope and Contents
Copious notes face part of the text, beginning at verso of folio xiii and ending at folio 33 verso. Thomas Ross submitted at least part of the manuscript to the Highland Society of London (see his letter to their secretary, folio iii). His hand was similar to Ewen MacLachlan’s, and in notes at folio 24 verso Sir John Sinclair attributes his work on ‘Temora’ to the latter.
The manuscript is watermarked 1804.The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of the Reverend W...
Dates:
1807-1809, 1894, undated.
Treatises on medicine, astronomy and astrology written by Francisco Argilagues of Valencia, mostly while he was studying medicine at Siena in 1472-1473, with an addition made at Padua in 1480.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.2
Scope and Contents
From the subscriptions and the physical make-up of the volume it appears that there were originally four booklets, bound together a century later.The contents of the volume are as follows:- Written in 1472 with additions in 1480:`Sermo de conservatione sanitatis` by Filippe Bandini of Arezzo (‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column 1294). The beginning is lost but author (Philip de Roderia) and title (`Regimen...
Dates:
1472-1480.