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Mid-14th century manuscript of the ‘Roman de la Rose’, written in two stages by Guillaume de Lorris, circa 1230, and Jean de Meun, circa 1270

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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.6
Scope and Contents The first author, Guillaume de Lorris, wrote, circa 1230, a courtly allegorical poem of about 4000 verses, which sought to be an ‘art of love’, and which was continued, circa 1270, by Jean de Meun, who added about 17000 verses in a very different style and ideological frame. The whole opus is one of the most important literary works of the late Western Middle Ages, its influence upon the world of literature running until late in the Renaissance. This encyclopaedia of love (which also, in the...
Dates: Mid-14th 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 concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.

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Identifier: MSS.21193-21198

Robert Burns "Poems" (Edinburgh, 1787).

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Identifier: Acc.10981
Scope and Contents

With names added in manuscript by Burns.

Dates: 1787.

`Satires` of Juvenal. Edition with the commentaries of Antonio Mancinelli and Jodocus Badius Ascensius (Paris: Ascensius, 1505), with manuscript annotations.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.11
Scope and Contents The annotations are of various types:(i) The title page is supplied on the second flyleaf by a 16th-century hand.(ii) Underlining and summarising occur sporadically.(iii) Interlinear glosses and marginal explanations by a 16th-century hand (probably the same as in (i)) are frequent up to folio lxiv.(iv) Notes of variant readings in two manuscripts of Isaac Voss are added in the margins by Peter Lambeck, who inscribed the volume in Amsterdam in...
Dates: 16th century-1646.

Schoolbook, transcribed in the early 12th century, containing notes and glosses (in Latin and German) on authors studied in schools and other texts which could be used in teaching.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.10
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Juvenal, 'Satires': citations with commentary in alphabetical order of keyword, incipit 'Maior auaritie patuit'. (i.88). (Folio 1.)(ii) Lucan, 'Civil War': introduction and citations with and without commentary from books 1-6 and 9, incipit 'Lucanii sum(m)a utilitas e(st) i(n) topog(ra)phia'. (Folio 5 verso.)(iii) Philosophical notes, possibly connected to Porphyry's introduction to Aristotle's 'Analytica...
Dates: Early 12th century.

Short book of verses and caricatures by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepdaughter, Mrs Strong.

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Identifier: MS.8791
Scope and Contents The book describes Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepdaughter's famous visit, paid in company with the Countess of Jersey, to the rebel king Mataafa at Malie (see ‘The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson’, volume iv, pages 223-234). Three letters, 1892, of Stevenson are also included. One, apparently unpublished, is addressed to Mataafa and the other two (see ‘The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson’, volume iv, pages 216-217) to 'Amelia Balfour', a pseudonym for Lady Jersey. All these items...
Dates: 1892.

"Virgil's Æneis", translated into Scottish verse by Gavin Douglas (Edinburgh, 1710); the glossary is heavily annotated by John Jamieson.

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Identifier: MS.14240
Scope and Contents

There are some notes by O K Schram inside the front cover concerning this edition of Gavin Douglas's text.

Dates: 1710, [1808, or before.]

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