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Microfilm of manuscripts chiefly concerned with Orkney and Shetland.
Microfilm of manuscripts concerning orders of Collars and first statutes of the Ordre de Saint-Michel.
The contents are as follows:
‘Original institutions of the princely orders of collars’ by Sir William Segar, [1603, or after] (Adv.MS.31.4.5), 25 frames;
Manuscript, 1469-1476, containing the first statutes of the Ordre de Saint-Michel drawn up in 1469, but not those of 1476. (Adv.MS.31.7.15), 26 frames.
Microfilm of manuscripts of Statius, Virgil, Ovid and Claudian.
The contents are as follows:
Two originally separate manuscripts, 12th century-13th century, of Statius and Virgil, bound together from at least the late 14th century, when the volume was in the Library of Dover Priory (Adv.MS.18.5.12);
Two originally separate manuscripts, late 12th century-13th century, of the ‘Fasti’ by Ovid and of major poems of Claudian, the former of which belonged to Leicester Abbey, bound together from at least the 16th century (Adv.MS.18.5.13).
Microfilm of medical manuscript of undetermined origin.
Microfilm of miscellaneous historical and topographical items, copied in the 18th century.
Microfilm of miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries.
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.
Microfilm of music manuscript of George Waterston.
Microfilm of Panmure manuscripts containing viol music by Marin Marais and Jean de Ste Colombe.
The contents are as follows:
'Pieces de viole de Mʳ Marais', compiled before 1685 (MSS.9465-9466);
"Folies d'Espagne" and other pieces for bass viol by Marin Marais, compiled before 1685 (MS.9467);
Transcripts, possibly by Harie Maule, of a total of 111 pieces for bass viol by Jean de Ste Colombe, 4th quarter of 17th century (MSS.9468-9469).
Microfilm of papers of Edwin Muir.
The contents are as follows:
Copy of ‘First poems’ (London, 1925) by Edwin Muir, with numerous manuscript corrections and notes, [1925, or after], by the poet (MS.19651);
Copy of ‘Chorus of the newly dead’ (London, 1926) by Edwin Muir, with Muir's corrections, [1926, or after] (MS.19652);
Manuscript and typescript drafts and fair copies of poems, [?1942-?1959], by Edwin Muir (MS.19653);
Notebook, 1947-1948, of Edwin Muir (MS.19663).
Microfilm of papers of Field-Marshall Sir Douglas Haig, the first Earl Haig.
Microfilm of Psalter of French provenance; and, Book of hours.
The contents are as follows:
Psalter of French provenance, 2nd half of 15th century, written for a community of Dominican nuns (MS.7122);
Book of hours, 2nd half of 15th century, probably according to the Use of Rome (MS.7124).
Microfilm of ‘Roman de la Rose’, [circa 1230, circa 1270]; and, ‘The Talbot Hours’, 15th century.
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, late 14th or early 15th century, of ‘Roman de la Rose’, written in two stages by Guillaume de Lorris, circa 1230, and Jean de Meun, circa 1270 (Adv.MS.19.1.7);
‘The Talbot Hours’, Psalter and Hours, 15th century (Dep.221/1).
Microfilm of romance of the lovers Pamphilia and Deiphebo.
Microfilm of Sermones de Tempore, a homiliary, early 12th century; and, medical manuscripts, 13th century.
The contents are as follows:
Sermones de Tempore, a homiliary written in the early 12th century for Rochester Cathedral Priory (Adv.MS.18.2.4).
Two English medical manuscripts, each written by two scribes of the thirteenth century, bound together from an early date (Adv.MS.18.2.5).
Microfilm of Skene Manuscript: a collection of 117 pieces in tablature for the mandora, apparently compiled by John Skene (? of Hallyards, Midlothian, died 1644).
Microfilm of ‘Speculum peccatoris’ by an unknown author.
Microfilm of the Auchinleck manuscript, a compilation of Middle English verse, including romances and religious and historical pieces.
A new master negative microfilm.
Microfilm of the Codex Edinburgensis, a Hebrew manuscript of the Old Testament.
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.
Microfilm of the heraldic manuscript of Adam Loutfut.
See ‘The book of the Ordre of Chyvalry’ edited by Alfred T P Byles (Early English Text Society, Original Series, 168), pages xxvi-xxix.
Microfilm of the manuscript of chapters 4 and 1-2 of 'Il bizarro, a Calabrian tale', an unpublished novel by Sir Walter Scott.
There is a summary of the novel in ‘The journal of Sir Walter Scott’, page 709.
Microfilm of the manuscript of ‘The talisman’ by Sir Walter Scott.
See Gillian Dyson, 'The manuscripts and proof sheets of Scott's Waverley novels', ‘Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions’, volume iv, part 1 (1960), page 35.