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Manuscript of Geoffrey Keating’s ‘History of Ireland’ written by the scribe Sémus Ó Gribín.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.11
Scope and Contents
The scribe of the manuscript is Sémus Ó Gribín, who also wrote Royal Irish Academy 24 L 17, Geoffrey Keating’s ‘Eochair-Sgiath an Aifrinn’. He completed the manuscript in March 1696 for Patrick Logan, schoolmaster at Lurgan. Bound in (folios vi-vii) is a letter dated Lurgan, 17th August 1696, from Logan to an unnamed friend, consigning the manuscript to him for scholarly perusal and ultimate delivery to the Advocates Library. It thus became the first of the Advocates’ Gaelic manuscripts....
Dates:
1696.
Manuscript of ‘Leycester`s Commonwealth’, `The Copie of a Letter written by a M[?] of Arte of Cambridge to his friend in London concerninge some talke past of late ... about the present state and some proceedinges of the Earle of Leicester and his Frends in England.`
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.3
Scope and Contents
The name W Hepburne appears on folio ii in a 17th-century hand.
Dates:
Late 16th century.
Manuscript of ‘Leycester`s Commonwealth’, `The Coppie of a Lettre written by A M[?] of Arte of Cambridge to his friend in London Concerning some talke ... aboute the present state and some proceedings of the Earle of Leister and his Frinds in England.`
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.13
Dates:
Late 16th century.
Manuscript of ‘Meteorologicae Peripateticae adversus Aristotelem Liber singularis’ by Constantyn Huygens, together with letters to Huygens from various people.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.15
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Manuscript, apparently autograph, of ‘Meteorologicae Peripateticae adversus Aristotelem Liber singularis’ by Constantyn Huygens, 1636, printed in his ‘Momenta Desultoria’, 2nd edition, pages 119-131, and in ‘De Gedichten van Constantijn Huygens’, edited by J A Worp, volume 3, pages 15-26. This manuscript stands between ‘Momenta Desultoria’ and the manuscripts used by Worp; details of the variants have been placed before the...
Dates:
1627-1644, 1660-1684.
Manuscript of "No one to worry us", a novel by Tony Strachan.
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Identifier: Acc.12954
Scope and Contents
With a related letter of Rebecca West.
Dates:
1947-1949.
Manuscript of 'Secretum secretorum' by Pseudo-Aristotle, 'De excidio Troiae' by Dares Phrygius, and 'Historia regum Britannie' by Geoffrey of Monmouth; written by a 13th- or 14th-century hand of uncertain origin.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Pseudo-Aristotle, 'Secretum secretorum' (edited by R. Steele, in 'Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi', fascicule V, pages 25-172). This manuscript contains the letter of Philip, a list of chapters, and the text in seven books (the headings for i, iv, and vi are omitted). It is of the common class, omitting all the test passages of Gilson and Steele (cf. 'Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi', pages xxv-xxvi); further omissions are...
Dates:
13th century-14th century.
Manuscript of `The Life and Tragedy of the roiall Lady Mary, late Queene of Scotts. Together with the speeches and accidents at her Execution in Fotheringham Castell the 8th day of February 1586`.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.3
Scope and Contents
The poem is preceded by a dedicatory letter from John Woodward to James Douglas, `one of his Majesties Secretaries for Scottland` (folio 2). Dr Lohmann attributes the authorship of the poem to Woodward, but it is probable that his name is included because he had the manuscript copied for presentation. Adv.MS.33.7.14 contains a similar dedication by him. Dr Lohmann identifies Douglas as Sir James Douglas of Spott, but he may have been the youngest brother of Archibald Douglas of Whittinghame...
Dates:
17th century.
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.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.21
Scope and Contents
(i) St Dorotheus: letter (folio 1; ‘Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca’, ‘Auctarium’ 2116z, ‘Patrologia Graeca’, lxxxviii, 1613); beginning of life of St Dositheus, differing from the version below, folio 17 verso (folio 5); teachings 21 (folio 5 verso; ‘Patrologia Graeca’, lxxxviii, 1812), 18 (folio 11; ‘Patrologia Graeca’, lxxxviii, 1804, ‘Oeuvres spirituelles’, 504), 16 (folio 13 verso; ‘Patrologia Graeca’, lxxxviii, 1793, ‘Oeuvres spirituelles’, 488); life of St Dositheus (folio 17 verso,...
Dates:
Late 10th century-early 11th century.
Manuscript, probably written by Giovan Marco Cinico, of the Latin translation by Francesco Griffolini (formerly attributed to Francesco Accolti) of the spurious letters of Diogenes and Phalaris.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.10
Scope and Contents
The volume is now confused and imperfect, but it is clear that originally there were two compilations: Diogenes with prefatory material (sections (i), (ii), (v), (vi)), and Phalaris with prefatory material (beginning lost, sections (iv), (iii)). The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Elegy dedicating the translation of Diogenes to Pius II, beginning `Ad uaticani praeclara palatia petri` (folio 1).(ii) Title of the translation of Diogenes (folio 3...
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Manuscripts and letters of the novelist William Black (1841-1898).
Series
Identifier: MSS.19644-19650
Dates:
1857-[1898, or before.]
Manuscripts and typescripts of Sydney Goodsir Smith; with letters to Hazel Goodsir Smith.
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Identifier: Acc.12006
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts and Typescripts of Sydney Goodsir Smith:Corrected carbon copy of typescript, circa 1948, of 'Under the Eildon Tree'.Manuscripts, circa 1952-1953, of four poems dedicated to Hazel Goodsir Smith.‘Tis Late’ was published in 'Lines Review', 6 (1954), page 23; ‘Mareeld’ was published in 'Omens' (Edinburgh: M.Macdonald, 1955), page 16.Letter, undated, to Hazel Goodsir Smith.Manuscript drafts, undated, of ‘Said Heraclitus’....
Dates:
Circa 1948-1976, undated.
Manuscripts and typescripts of the writings of William Sharp and of the works in the Celtic vein which Sharp wrote under the name of 'Fiona MacLeod'.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8771-8786
Scope and Contents
The papers include a substantial amount of apparently unpublished material and some correspondence.
Dates:
1871-1910, undated.
Manuscripts and typescripts of, with correspondence relating to, 'A cluster of clerihews' by Gavin Ewart; with a signed copy.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11326/1-2
Dates:
1981-1985.
Manuscripts associated with Kelso, formerly in the possession of the Tweedside Physical and Antiquarian Society.
Series
Identifier: MSS.847-849
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Manuscripts collected by William Lee Ferguson, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5170-5177
Dates:
1537-1934.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates:
1177, 15th century-1924.
Manuscripts from the Bishop Dowden Memorial Library, St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20483-20486
Dates:
Mid 17th century-1743.
Manuscripts of two poems, undated, of James Ballantine.
File
Identifier: Acc.5999
Scope and Contents
With letter, 1850, of Ballantyne to Lord Cockburn.
Dates:
1850 and undated.
Material relating to Professor Derick S Thomson’s collection of poems ‘Eadar Samhradh is Foghar’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14969-14970
Dates:
1958, 1966-1967, undated.
Material relating to Thomas Muir, the political reformer.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3824-3829
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Medical manuscript in Gaelic written by Feargus Ó Caiside.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.11
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written by Feargus Ó Caiside in the house of Énrigh Ó Caiside, perhaps at a place called Faithche Caorach in County Monaghan or Fermanagh (folio 4 recto, column a, line 34; cf. “Éigse”, volume 2, page 165). His hand is simple, small and neat. The sole marginalium, ‘amen’, (folio 4 recto), may be by another hand. Due to the illegibility of folio 4 verso through staining and rubbing, the account of it below is in some respects tentative.With the manuscript is a...
Dates:
?16th century.
Microfilm, chiefly of correspondence of James Augustus Grant and his family.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.513-515
Dates:
1843-1900.
Microfilm of 14th century copy of the ‘Historia Anglorum’ of Henry of Huntingdon, 12th century; and, late 14th century manuscript of the ‘Chronicle’ of Walter of Guisborough.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.454
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
English manuscript, 14th century, of the ‘Historia Anglorum’ of Henry of Huntingdon, 12th century (Adv.MS.33.5.2);
Manuscript written in England in the late 14th century by several hands of the ‘Chronicle’ of Walter of Guisborough (Adv.MS.33.5.3).
Dates:
12th century, late 14th century.
Microfilm of ‘Autograph letters of Sir Walter Scott, 1800-1826’, chiefly to Charles Erskine and James Curle.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.972
Dates:
1800-1826.
Microfilm of Kilberry book of piobaireachd. Papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus, numbers 148-290.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.951-952
Dates:
[?1892-?1958.]