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Two copies, early 17th century, of ‘Historie and Chronicles of Scotland’ by Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie, written circa 1565.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.35.4.10-35.4.11
Dates:
Circa 1565.
Two copies of part II of ‘Mock poem, or Whiggs supplication’ by Samuel Colvil.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.3.9-19.3.10
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Two poems, "Her Birthday" and "Reid Reid Rose", by Sydney Goodsir Smith.
File
Identifier: Acc.12358
Dates:
1952.
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"
File
Identifier: Acc.11064
Dates:
circa 1969-1990.
Typescript of set of poems, 1924, of William Soutar, "Over the Goompa Gu".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7104
Scope and Contents
With manuscript notes, 1923, 1941, of Soutar, and four letters, 1940, from him to James Gilchrist, on literary and political matters.
Dates:
1923-1924 and 1940-1941.
Typescripts, 1961, of three versions of Alastair Fowler, "The Confidence Man", including copies of three associated letters.
File
Identifier: Acc.8703
Scope and Contents
With typescript, 1965, of Kitty W Scoular, "Natural Magic", and a photocopy of the Blage Manuscript, circa 1530-1550.
Dates:
1961-1965 and undated.
Various manuscripts written or owned by Thomas Ruddiman.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20491-20496
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts are lettered RA-RK (RC missing) and some also have Roman numerals.
Dates:
4th quarter of 17th century-1st half of 18th century.
Various works of Ovid in a manuscript by Nicolas Crabel, written at Padua in 1448-1449, with additions of the later 15th and 16th centuries
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Ovid. `Ars amatoria` (`de arte amandi` manuscript; ‘P. Ovidi Nasonis Amores’, etc., page 113). The first gathering has been wrongly bound; the correct order of folios is 3, 2, 6-10, 5, 4, 1 (folio 1).(ii) Ovid. `Amores’ (`de sine titulo` manuscript; ‘P. Ovidi Nasonis Amores’, etc., page 5). ii.14. 31-16.8 are omitted (folio 29).(iii) Ovid. `Remedia amoris` (`de remedio amoris` manuscript; ‘P. Ovidi Nasonis...
Dates:
1448-16th century.
Volume compiled by Robert Pitcairn consisting of printed and some manuscript items of and concerning Archibald Pitcairne.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.7.17
Scope and Contents
The items of manuscript interest consist of presentation and other notes (numbers 26, 112), a poem (91) and a letter, 1711 (108), of Archibald Pitcairne; poems by Thomas Kincaid and Allan Ramsay (89, 92) and a poem (90) and notes in other contemporary hands (4, 5, 32, 45, 95, 102, 109); and notes and extracts (2, 3, 6, 39, 46a, 70, 88, 92a, 95a, 102a, 104) in Robert Pitcairn`s hand, and a copy by him, dated 1825, of a decreet of the Privy Council in favour of Archibald Pitcairne, 1700 (111)....
Dates:
1700, 1711.
Volume containing a letter of Lord Byron to Sir John Bowring, 1824; four letters concerning Byron, 1824 and 1828; and a manuscript of his last poem.
File
Identifier: Dep.238- is now Acc.8766.
Dates:
1824, 1828.
Volume containing `Annales Skalholtini, 70-1430`, varia on Icelandic history, 18th century, and Icelandic poems, late 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.2.9
Dates:
18th century.
Volume containing copies of two accounts of the family of Dunbar.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.2
Scope and Contents
(i) `A short account of the noble and ancient Family of Dunbar. Writen, A[?] 1744.` The writer deals with the origin of the family, the family of Dunbar and March descended from the Earls of Northumberland, the families of Dundas and Home, the Dunbars of Cumnock and Mochrum, the Dunbars Earls of Moray, the Dunbars of Westfield and their branches, and the armorial bearings of the Dunbars, and adds genealogical trees of the family of Dunbar and March, of the Earls of Home and Marchmont, and of...
Dates:
1554, 1744.
Volume containing the Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda and other poems, written by Jonas Egilson.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.6.7
Dates:
1750-1753.
Volume of genealogies and poems in the hand of Robert Mylne, engraver, son of the writer and antiquary of the same name (see folio 82), with a few additions by his father.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.24
Scope and Contents
The following dates of writing are given: 15 September 1712 (folio 2), 10 April 1713 (folio 76), 13 November 1712 (folio 80).The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `The Pourtrait of True Loyalty exposed in the Family of Gordon, without interruption to this present year of God, 1691. With a copious relation of the siege of the Castle of Edinburgh in the year 1689. By W.S. An. 1691.` The original manuscript of this work, which was in Blairs College, Aberdeen...
Dates:
1338, circa 1670-1732.
Volume of historical and literary works, 13th century, written in England in the early 14th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.9
Scope and Contents
Sections iv-vii are in the same hand. Folios 33 verso-34 verso are blank. There are a few pen drawings of faces in the margins.
Fragments of a 13th-century contents list from a collection of sermons have been used as binding strips; other fragments from the same source are in Adv.MS.18.2.4 and 18.4.5.
Dates:
14th century.
Volume of Robert Burns’ poems, in manuscript, undated, by an unknown transcriber.
File
Identifier: MS.6302
Scope and Contents
The text appears to have been copied from the subscribers' edition of ‘Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect’ (Edinburgh, 1787). Between pages 36 and 37 is inserted a newspaper cutting giving an explanation of two lines in the second stanza of 'Death and Doctor Hornbook'.
Dates:
[1787, or after.]
"War Work", a collection of manuscript poems of Gavin Ewart.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10527
Dates:
1939-1942.
‘Works of Henry Mackenzie’ (Edinburgh, 1808), volume viii, containing autograph additions.
File
Identifier: MS.1803
Scope and Contents
There are additional sheets, inserted after page 62, containing seven poems of Henry Mackenzie written in 1825 and 1828-1829, all apparently unpublished (folios 1-5). Inserted after page 289 is a further additional sheet (folio 6) containing notes on his tragedy, 'The Spanish Father', with duplicates of pages 283-286 containing autograph notes and alterations to the text.Printed pages missing from the volume (pages 1-17, 33-48) have been supplied in manuscript in a hand not Henry...
Dates:
1825, 1828-1829.
Works of John H Balfour Browne.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4223
Scope and Contents
With manuscript and printed material of Balfour Browne and others, including poetry, essays, plays and novels.
Dates:
circa 1880-circa 1920.
Writings of Robert Lochore, cordiner, poet, and miscellaneous writer.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3585-3588
Dates:
Late 18th century-1851, undated.