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The MacNicol collection, comprising Gaelic songs and other papers collected by the Reverend Donald MacNicol, minister of Lismore, and his son Dugald MacNicol, with some added papers and listings of later owners and users of the collection.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.14850-14864
Scope and Contents
A collection of Gaelic songs and associated papers, brought together by the Rev. Donald MacNicol (1735-1802), minister of Lismore, and continued by his son Dugald (b. 1791), an army officer. The Gaelic songs are from a range of periods and include Ossianic verse, waulking songs and songs by contemporaries of the collectors, such as Dugald Buchanan, Donnchadh Bàn Macintyre and Seumas Mac Gille-Sheathanaich (Shaw). The Ossianic verse was published in John Francis Campbell's 'Leabhar na...
Dates:
1752-ca. 1900 and undated, with most of the material dating from the later 18th and early 19th century.
The Melrosian Annual, 1888
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13258
Scope and Contents
Manuscript volume consisting of essays, short stories, anecdotes and verse contributed by past and present members of staff of the firm of Andrew Melrose, Edinburgh, Tea Dealers and Grocers. Many of the contributions are reminiscences of the shop and its customers including Professor John Stuart Blackie, f.198, Edinburgh and society. The volume is illustrated with a few pen and ink drawings.Inscribed W.R.M. on inside front cover. With note at the front affirming that this volume...
Dates:
1888, 1917
The only known autograph manuscript of the poem "Fragment - Epistle from Esopus to Maria" by Robert Burns (Kinsley number 486).
Item
Identifier: Acc.10982
Dates:
circa 1794-1795.
"The Rambler" (6th edition, 1763), each volume inscribed by Jenny Graham and volume I also containing James Boswell`s presentation note to her dated 1767.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.7779
Dates:
1763-1767.
Thirty-six letters of Sir Alexander Boswell, 1st Baronet of Auchinleck, to James Skene, of Rubislaw, referring largely to personal and family matters.
File
Identifier: MS.3854
Scope and Contents
Three of the letters include poems, none of which appears to have been printed; see the collection of printed items in the Rosebery Collection (Ry.IV.c.8) in this Library.
Dates:
1797-1801, 1804, 1808-1809, 1817.
Thomas Lyle, "Scottish Mosses".
Item
Identifier: Acc.5615
Scope and Contents
Presented to Robert Ker, with a letter and poem of Lyle.
Dates:
1852.
Three documents, some in verse, concerning the families of Learmonth of Dairsie and Balcomie, Fife.
File
Identifier: Acc.10940
Dates:
circa 1620-1651.
Three manuscripts relating to Field-Marshal George Wade, bound in one volume, apparently that formerly in the Junior United Service Club.
File
Identifier: MS.3076
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Poem by a Scottish author, describing the roads, bridges, etc., built by Wade in the Highlands and referring to the manners and resources of the country, 1737. It is followed by notes on allusions and meanings of words, and preceded by a preface in which the author discusses the difficulty which a Scottish writer finds in composing English poetry. It is quoted by J B Salmond, ‘Wade in Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1938), page 204. (Folio 1.)...
Dates:
1737-1744.
Three poems in the autograph of Allan Ramsay, and doubtless of his composition, beginning: 'About the moneth, Sir, of September'; 'Chloe an amourous youth desired'; 'A Knave of Trump when Catch ye play'.
File
Identifier: MS.510
Dates:
18th century.
Three volumes, containing much of David Macbeth Moir's poetry, and the last part of John Galt's novel ‘The last of the lairds’, with related material.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6520-6522
Dates:
1822-1849.
Three volumes of photocopied literary papers of Major Neil Macleod, Royal Artillery, of Waternish, Isle of Skye and Dalkeith.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12321
Scope and Contents
Volume 1: Gaelic verse; volume 2: remarks on the Books of Genesis, Exodus and Revelation; volume 3: reminiscences of his life.
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Three volumes of poems of Alexander Ross, Schoolmaster at Lochlee in Angus, and author of ‘Helinore: the Fortunate Shepherdess’ (Aberdeen, 1768).
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.18A-C
Scope and Contents
The poems are mainly of a religious nature and written in English, with the exception of ‘The Fortunate Shepherd or the Orphan’, which is in Scots.
Dates:
?1753-1782.
'Tom: 2d of the juvenile poetic works of John Black’, containing drafts of verse dramas and other poems including fragments of ‘The Falls of Clyde, or the fairies’ by John Black, minister of Coylton.
File
Identifier: MS.14233
Scope and Contents
According to a note inside the back cover, John Black was aged from 15 to 19 when he wrote the verses (1793-1797). There are a number of pen and ink and watercolour sketches.
Dates:
1797-1798.
Topographical and other works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.22
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Scotia illustrata sive Theatrum Urbium, Arcium, Monasteriorum et aedium quarundam illustrium in Scotia`, circa 1692. The Latin text by Sibbald intended for John Slezer`s ‘Theatrum Scotiae’. It is very different from the published text which Slezer had had translated without Sibbald`s authority. The preface is in Slezer`s hand, and each entry is signed by both Sibbald and Slezer. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copy of William Harvey`s...
Dates:
Circa 1692-1709, and undated.
Transcript by John Dougall, 1821, from the Harley manuscript, ‘The Morall fabillis of Esope’ by Robert Henryson, schoolmaster of Dunfermline.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.5
Scope and Contents
A modern transcript from the Harleian MS.3865. Prefixed are five leaves of notices respecting the manuscript and the transcriber John Dougall, London, 1821.
Dates:
1571, 1821.
Transcript copy, late eighteenth century, of ‘De hortorum cultura’, book III, by Josephus Mylius, and other poems.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.37
Scope and Contents
‘De Hortorum Cultura, libri III. Josephi Misii Voltalinæ, ad Isabellam Sociam. Brixiæ apud vimentium Sabium, M.D.LXXIII’.
Dates:
1574.
Transcript, early 19th-century, of 'The Passioun of Crist' by Walter Kennedy, from British Library Arundel MS 285, folios 6-46.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.2
Scope and Contents
The transcript has been corrected in another contemporary hand.
Dates:
16th century.
Transcript made by Ewen MacLachlan of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.3
Scope and Contents
Manuscript in the hand of Ewen MacLachlan, Aberdeen, entitled ‘An t-Easpaig’ - presumably because it contains the work of the Dean of Lismore, whom MacLachlan calls (page 1) “Easpuig Leasmòr”. This is valuable, as being MacLachlan’s original Book of the Dean of Lismore transcript, subsequently (but not always accurately) copied by himself and others. (See Adv.MS.72.3.6). It does not strictly follow the order of the original, but the order in which MacLachlan found it easiest to read the...
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Transcript titled ‘The Gododdin’ by the Reverend John Williams Ab Ithel (1811-1862).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.19
Dates:
[1852, or after.]
Transcripts made by the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross (later Minister of Lochbroom) of James Macpherson`s Gaelic manuscripts of the Ossian poems, together with the Latin translation by Robert Macfarlane, made for the edition published by the Highland Society of London in 1807.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.73.4.1-73.4.6
Dates:
3rd quarter of 18th century, 1804, or before.
Translation into English by Thomas Ross (later the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross of Lochbroom) of parts of James Macpherson’s concocted originals as published in Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.4
Scope and Contents
Copious notes face part of the text, beginning at verso of folio xiii and ending at folio 33 verso. Thomas Ross submitted at least part of the manuscript to the Highland Society of London (see his letter to their secretary, folio iii). His hand was similar to Ewen MacLachlan’s, and in notes at folio 24 verso Sir John Sinclair attributes his work on ‘Temora’ to the latter.
The manuscript is watermarked 1804.The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of the Reverend W...
Dates:
1807-1809, 1894, undated.
Translation of Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas, ‘La premiere sepmaine’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.11
Scope and Contents
Hebdomadis de Cleatione Mundi Di VII. The old marking extends to page 181, but pages 86-87 are bifurcated and pages 143-144 are omitted. The volume contains in all 92 leaves. The work is a free translation of ‘The Seven Days’ of the French poet Du Bartas, with Latin verse.
Dates:
Late 16th century-early 17th century.