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‘Pharmacopœia Pauperum, in usum Nosocomii Regii Edinburgensis’ (Edinburgh, 1752), interleaved with further recipes and notes, apparently the work of a student, Charles Wilson, whose signature appears on the end-paper.
File
Identifier: MS.9757
Dates:
1752, undated.
'Principles of the law of Scotland', 2nd edition (Edinburgh, 1757) by John Erskine, with marginal notes, undated, made by James Boswell.
Item
Identifier: MS.736
Dates:
1757.
Printed items with notes and other bibliographical material inserted by Robert Dickson, the surgeon and bibliographer.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9989-9990
Dates:
4th quarter of 18th century-4th quarter of 19th century.
‘Ratio emendandi leges’ (Utrecht, 1707) by Gulielmus Best, with manuscript notes by Alexander Cuningham.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.7.4
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.10.4).
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.
Research papers and indexes relating to organs and organ music in Scotland and elsewhere, compiled by Colonel Godfrey I B Winn.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.361
Dates:
20th century.
‘Scottish poems, reprinted from scarce editions’ (London, 1792) by John Pinkerton, with marginal additions and corrections by David Laing, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.748-750
Dates:
1792, undated.
‘Some account of the family of Smollett...arranged by J. Irving' (Dumbarton, 1859) by Tobias Smollett; with marginal comments and corrections by Thomas Carlyle.
Item
Identifier: MS.3786
Dates:
1859.
‘Songs of Robert Burns’, edited by J C Dick, and ‘Early Scottish melodies’ by John Glen, with additions and corrections in the form of notes, marginal and inserted, in the printed volumes.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3131-3133
Scope and Contents
Many of the notes are in the autographs of Frank Kidson and Thomas Davidson Cook. They are mainly textual, dealing with sources, language, spelling, etc., but some scores of tunes are given.
Dates:
1900, 1903, undated.
‘The Ogilvies of Boyne’ by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (Aberdeen, 1933), containing inserts; with further letters and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21248-21249
Dates:
1719, 1929-1933, undated.
'Thomas Carlyle ... 1795-1835', 2 volumes (London, 1882), and 'Thomas Carlyle ... 1834-1881', 2 volumes (London, 1884), by James Froude, with notes and corrections on the margins and endpapers by Alexander Carlyle, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.751-754
Dates:
1882, 1884, undated.
'Tracts relative to the history and antiquities of Scotland' (Edinburgh, 1800), by David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Item
Identifier: F.R.33
Scope and Contents
Contains catalogues of Lords of Session, with manuscript additions and of Faculty, 1532-1688.
Dates:
1800.
‘Two Theban queens’ by Colin Campbell (London, 1909); the author's copy.
File
Identifier: MS.9048
Scope and Contents
The volume contains Colin Campbell’s signature on the flyleaf, a sketch at page 84, and a few pencil notes in his hand dispersed through the printed text. Inside the front cover are pasted a cutting from a bookseller's catalogue (folio 1) and a cutting from an unidentified newspaper containing a review of the book (folio 2).Two letters, 1925, to Campbell from Professor Francis Ll. Griffith in search of a copy of the book, which were formerly loosely enclosed at the title page,...
Dates:
1909.
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.
'Verge of the Scottish Highlands’ by William Palmer (London, 1947), containing corrections and other revisions in the author's hand; with the original book jacket and various letters and notes discussing the corrections.
Series
Identifier: MS.9158
Dates:
1947.
"Virgil's Æneis", translated into Scottish verse by Gavin Douglas (Edinburgh, 1710); the glossary is heavily annotated by John Jamieson.
Item
Identifier: MS.14240
Scope and Contents
There are some notes by O K Schram inside the front cover concerning this edition of Gavin Douglas's text.
Dates:
1710, [1808, or before.]
'Voyage round Great Britain' by William Daniell and Richard Ayton (London, 1814-1825); with a list of plates, and with manuscript itinerary and notes by Sir Walter Scott.
File
Identifier: MS.6140
Scope and Contents
The full set of plates is included, but not the folding map.
Dates:
1814-1825.
‘Wizard Peter’ by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (Edinburgh, 1834), with notes and corrections by the author, and a presentation inscription to James Gibson Craig on the half title-page.
File
Identifier: MS.9808
Scope and Contents
There are several manuscript insertions, including Charles Sharpe's draft of five verses, written on the back of a letter, 1832, from the printseller Hugh Paton (folio 2), and explanatory notes and variant readings by James Gibson Craig (folio 3).
Dates:
1832-1834.
Work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical (Adv.MS.34.1.8) and secular (Adv.MSS.34.1.9(i)-34.1.9(ii)) antiquities of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.1.8-34.1.9
Scope and Contents
The work is in the same hand as, and was begun probably as the consequence to, Hay’s ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio` (Adv.MS.34.1.10) in 1700 (the date quoted on each title page) and completed in 1707 or later (Adv.MS.34.1.9(ii), folio 62).
Dates:
1700-1707, or after.
Working copy of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1813) by Sir Robert Douglas, revised and corrected by John Philp Wood: including revised printings of certain pages, extensive annotations by Wood, and related material, including some of later date, also concerning peerages.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1813-1815
Scope and Contents
The material described here would appear to relate to further revision by John Philp Wood of his revised and corrected edition of 1813 of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’.
Dates:
19th century.
Working notes by Alexander Philip, the author of several books on the calendar.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10307-10308
Dates:
1887-1929, undated.
‘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.