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Manuscript of `The Lief of the Holy Kinge St Edwarde the Confessor translated into Englishe by G.L. accordinge to the wrytten copye thereof`, being a translation of the work by Ailred of Rievaulx.
The work is preceded by a note on Ailred`s life and works, and is followed (folio 67) by a table of contents. The translator has noted a number of other sources for the history, such as John Bale, William of Malmesbury, and the Polychronicon; he has also made a few remarks, mostly opposing William Lambarde`s objections to the miracles, in the latter`s ‘Perambulation of Kent’.
Inside the front cover is the name Richard Chenery in a 17th-century hand.
Manuscript, possibly from Mount Athos, of St Dorotheus and the sermons of Isaias, with an account of the miracle performed by the Virgin at Blachernae.
Manuscript, probably Scottish, of the 'Vitae Caesarum’ of Suetonius.
The final lines, ‘pro certo habuisse’ etc., are lost.
Before the text is placed without heading Ausonius, `Caesares` (XXI Monosticha 6-41 in Karl Schenkl`s edition), which is found in other 15th-century manuscripts of Suetonius, and a list of chapters.
Ornamental initials in blue and red.
Marginalia throughout in the hand of Archibald Whitelaw, secretary to James III.
Manuscript, written in England in the late 11th century, containing the satires of Persius, the fables of Avianus, and miscellaneous poetry and other works.
Manuscripts of biographical articles for the 8th edition of the `Encyclopaedia Britannica` by Lord Macaulay.
Essays on Atterbury, Bunyan, Goldsmith, Johnson, and William Pitt
Material for Sir Robert Sibbald`s projected `Bibliotheca Scotica`.
Microfilm of manuscript of Persius, Avianus, etc. from Thorney Abbey.
Microfilm of manuscript, possibly from Mount Athos, of St Dorotheus and sermons of Isaias, with an account of the miracle performed by the Virgin at Blachernae.
Microfilm of the correspondence and literary manuscripts of Margaret Oliphant (Adam Matthew, 1999).
The content descriptions for each microfilm are taken from the catalogue descriptions of the original items and as such there may be variations between the contents of the microfilms and the descriptions provided.
The dates are taken from the accession records for the original documents and might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.
Notes and drafts of articles by David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan.
Original manuscript of the 'Life of Robert Macnish' by David Macbeth Moir.
Papers of and concerning O H Mavor, pseudonym James Bridie.
Includes correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of plays, articles, broadcast talks and biography.
Papers of Dr George Pratt Insh, mostly concerning his unpublished biography of Thomas Muir of Huntershill.
Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary.
Papers relating to the publication of works of Michael Strachan.
Includes correspondence, manuscript drafts, copies and transcripts of 17th-century documents relating to the following works of Michael Strachan: 'The life and adventures of Thomas Coryate' (Oxford University Press, 1962); 'The East India Company journals of Captain William Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 1615-1617' (University of Minnesota Press, 1971); 'Sir Thomas Roe (1581-1644): a life' (Salisbury, 1989).
Sermons of Adam of Dryburgh and other works.
Six volumes of Wodrow Manuscripts; and two volumes of biographies of ministers entitled "Wodrow`s Collections".
The Wodrow manuscripts are numbers XXV-XXVI and XXVIII-XXXI.
Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice from 1532 to 1920, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie (born 1849, died 1920), and Jessie E Macdonald.
The contents consist of 4 volumes of lists, and miscellaneous papers.
The manuscripts were compiled by Lord Guthrie as material for a book projected by him.
Typescript of J K Annand "Two Voices, a Poem Sequence", manuscript journal, 1990, of visit to Norway and first draft typescript, 1969, "Hugh Macdiarmid, Some Notes on the Chronology of the Poet`s Early Career"
Varia on Icelandic history, including lives of the prefects and bishops of Iceland by Jón Haldórsson.
‘View of the diocese of Aberdeen’, a volume of historical narrative written by Alexander Keith, episcopal minister at Cruden.
It includes descriptions of the civil parishes, biographies of bishops of the diocese, accounts of the old religious houses, collegiate churches and deaneries and of King`s College and University, parochial histories arranged by presbyteries and transcripts and extracts of documents relating to the history of the see.