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Copies of documents relating to roads in the Highlands.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.19
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Copy of a memorial to the Treasury, 1799, by Robert Anstruther, Inspector of Military Roads, asking that the majority of the roads constructed in the Highlands continue to be maintained at public expense (folio 1), and two copies (folios 5, 8) of a letter, 1796, of Captain (afterwards Lieutenant-General) Henry Rudyerd to the Secretary of the British Society for extending of the Fisheries and improving the Seacoasts of the Kingdom, reporting on the road recently constructed from Contin to...
Dates:
1796, 1799.
Copies of letters and instructions of Thomas, Baron Wharton, deputy warden of the marches.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.8
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Most of the material concerns the order of the watches in the three marches, giving the areas covered and, in some cases, the names of those concerned.
The volume may have been intended for John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland; his arms are painted on page 2, and the bear and ragged staff of Warwick drawn on page 3. There are large decorated initials in pen and ink on pages 3, 7, 13, 37, 121 and 153, some of which bear the letters IN, TP, CC or TW.
Dates:
1552-1553.
Copies of miscellaneous documents.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.28
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(i) Papers concerning the presentation of a Jacobite Medal to the Faculty of Advocates by the Duchess of Gordon in 1711, namely:`The Faculty of Advocats Loyalty in a letter to the Queen`s Most Excellent Majesty. By one of the Dean of Faculty`s Council. Printed in the Year MDCCXI. ` No such printed work seems to be recorded. (Folio 2.)`The Double of Criminal Letters against Mr. James Dundas, Advocat, 1711.` (Folio 12.)(ii) `A Letter from Jack Straw in the...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Copy, 17th century, of ‘Humii vindiciæ Buchanani contra Camdenum’ or ‘Camdenea; id est examen nonnullorum a G. Camdeno in Britannia sua positorum, præcipuē quæ ad irrisionem Scoticæ Gentis et eorum et Pictorum falsam originem’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.9
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At the end is a copy of a Latin letter, 7 Cal. May 1604, of Andrew Melville to David Hume.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.5.16.
Dates:
16th century, 1604.
Copy, 17th century, of `The Life, Araignment, and Death of the famous and learned Sir Thomas More Knight, sometimes Lord Chauncellor of England. Together with his Vision`.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.16
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The text is closely related to the life by William Roper, but there are interpolations and the dialogues are in the third person. Roper`s preface is replaced by a dedicatory letter to Captain Marmaduke Rawdon from John Hawkins, stating that Hawkins had originally intended to publish the text (Roper`s biography was first published in 1626). The life is followed by a poem `Sir Thomas More his Vision` (folio 80) which has been published by Constance Smith in ‘Moreana’, number 37 (1973), pages...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Copy, made apparently in or about 1704 by Thomas Ruddiman, Keeper of the Advocates` Library, of (i) a letter written by James V in 1528 to the authorities of the town of Ratisbon (now Regensburg) in favour of the Scots monks there (folio i); and (ii) the preface, entitled `Praefatio, sive Velitatio in Irlandos`, of the `Germania Christiana` of Robert (in religion, Boniface) Strachan, Benedictine monk at Ratisbon (folio 1, where his name is wrongly recorded as Bonaventure).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.6
Dates:
1528, 17th century.
Copy, made in 1702, of letters and memoirs of Major-General Hugh Mackay of Scoury (?1640-1692), concerning the campaigns in Scotland in 1689-1690, and in Ireland in 1691.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.1
Dates:
1689, and after.
Copy of an apparently unpublished work entitled 'Practical Tracts of Artillery', written by Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald, Fellow of the Royal Society.
File
Identifier: MS.8185
Scope and Contents
The work was written by John Macdonald when he was Captain Commanding the Artillery at Fort Marlborough, [Sumatra]. The text is preceded by a letter to the Governor and Council of the Military Department there, an introduction to the work, and a letter to the Governor-General and the Supreme Council at Fort William.
Dates:
1787.
Copy of David Hume's original manuscript account of the quarrel between himself and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with additions and corrections in Hume's own hand.
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Identifier: MS.5722
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Included are copies of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s letters and three of David Hume's, 1763-1766. The statement itself is undated, but was the original version of the ‘Exposé succinct de la contestation qui s'est élevée entre Mr. Hume et M. Rousseau, avec les piéces justificatives’, translated by J B A Suard; and of the ‘Concise and genuine account of the dispute between Mr Hume and Mr Rousseau (London, 1766), which was mainly re-translated from the French. The text of the...
Dates:
1763-1766.
Copy of ‘Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky (London, 1733) with manuscript annotations.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.2
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The volume also contains extracts of two letters, ?circa 1690, concerning the attitude of James VII towards the Church of England (folio 1), and `Some additional Characters of the chief of the last Ministry`, 1715, signed M S (folio 3). The characters, which are apparently copied from another manuscript, are of Bolingbroke, Stafford, the Bishop of London and others. The annotations, writtenbetween 1781 and 1797, are signed `M.` and `E.M.` and are mostly copies of notes by...
Dates:
Circa 1690, 1715, 1733, 1781-1797.
Copy of the `Velitatio in Georgium Buchananum` of Ninian Winzet, which was published as part of his ‘Flagellum Sectarioram’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.8
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The manuscript is a copy of the complete text preceded by the dedicatory epistle but without the marginal summaries and the Synopsis.Together with Adv.MS.33.7.20 it was made at the Benedictine Abbey of St. James, Ratisbon, in or about 1684, for the Abbot, Thomas (Dom Placid) Fleming by Andrew Cook, one of the monks (who subsequently became Prior), as a present to Christopher Irvine, physician and philologist.The text is followed by copies of documents relating to the...
Dates:
1582.
Copy of William Maitland, "History of Edinburgh" (Edinburgh, 1753), with additional papers bound in to the book.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9932
Scope and Contents
Additional papers include:
printed proposals for the work
printed and manuscript papers concerning alterations to the text
papers concerning defamation of James Coutts and Mrs Little of Liberton.
Dates:
1753 and undated.
Corrected manuscripts and typescripts of Forbes Macgregor, "Famous Scots" (1984), "More Macgregor`s Mixture" (1983), and "Excursions with Garioch".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8925
Scope and Contents
With four letters, 1963-1978, of Robert Garioch to Forbes Macgregor.
Dates:
1963-1984.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning Gaelic manuscripts.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e(ii)
Dates:
1863-1925.
Cowie collection of manuscripts of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Allan Ramsay and others, made by Charles R Cowie of Glasgow.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.15951-15975
Scope and Contents
The Cowie manuscripts include the final version of ‘The gentle shepherd, a Scots pastorall comedy’ by Allan Ramsay (MS.15972).
Dates:
1720-1914, undated.
Drafts of lectures, notes, and other papers on ecclesiastical subjects by John Dowden, Bishop of Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3555-3563
Dates:
Late 19th century-[before 1911].
Dyson Perrins Collection: material relating to affairs, chiefly Scottish and military, of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3738-3742
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Eight letters and postcards of Agnes Miller Parker to Ernest Rasdall.
File
Identifier: Acc.7288
Scope and Contents
With a manuscript list of books illustrated by Miller Parker.
Dates:
1961-1962.
Essay on female conduct, detailing the way in which a girl should conduct her life, composed by and apparently in the autograph of Alexander Monro, primus, probably in 1738 or 1739, in the form of letters to his daughter Margaret.
Item
Identifier: MS.6658
Scope and Contents
The sheets on which the 'letters' were written were inserted in a blank notebook as interleaves. Additional paragraphs, sentences, etc., were written in the margins of the interleaves, as well as on some of the original pages, on which is also written by the same hand an essay entitled, 'Of the Origine of Government and of the Right to the Supream Power applyed to the disputed Succession of the Crown of Britain' (folio 193).
Dates:
1738-1739.
Extracts from published sources and some notes and other writings compiled by John Young, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1786).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.5.6-31.5.9
Scope and Contents
The extracts are taken from periodical publications, especially the ‘Caledonian Mercury’ and the ‘Edinburgh Courant’, largely recording English legal cases, and from books on a wide variety of topics, especially history, medicine, law, literature, husbandry, travel, science, theology and biography.The notes and other writings relate to various topics and include a few examples of letters of and to Young.The earliest extract is dated 13 December 1794 (Adv.MS.31.5.6,...
Dates:
1794-circa 1855.
Extracts from the manuscript lute-book of Robert Gordon of Straloch, 1627-1629 (now lost), made by George Farquhar Graham, 1845.
File
Identifier: MS.349
Scope and Contents
Inserted is a letter of John Muir Wood, 1884 (folio 4), correcting Graham’s scale in Adv.MS. 5.2.18.
Dates:
1627-1629.
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.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.15
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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.
Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3942-3988
Scope and Contents
Among the papers of the Robertsons the chief correspondents are Principal William Robertson, the historian, and his son William, a Senator of the College of Justice. The correspondence of the Principal includes letters of scholars, British and foreign (Voltaire among others), about his works, information on the American Indians, 1774-1777, and threats regarding his attitude to Roman Catholics, 1778-1779. That of Lord Robertson deals with his legal and political activities and the publication...
Dates:
1608-1913, undated.
Five letters of Robert Nye to Derk Stanford.
File
Identifier: Acc.6927
Scope and Contents
On literary matters, with associated printed and manuscript items.
Dates:
1975.