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Verses by Sir Henry Yule regarding Gladstone.

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Identifier: Acc.560- is now MS.1704(xiii).

Verses of Hans Andersen.

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Identifier: Acc.2386- is now MS.3921.

Verses of Robert Tannahill.

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Identifier: Acc.10215

Video recording of T S Law poetry reading.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12208
Dates: 2nd half of 20th century.

Video tape of a recording of a poetry reading by Joy Hendry, Norman MacCaig, William Neill and Iain Crichton Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12310
Scope and Contents

Includes letters of Valda Grieve, Brian Merriken Hill, Henry Mair, William Neill and Jim C Wilson.

Dates: circa 1982-2003.

Videocassette recordings and a DVD produced by Jim Taylor of reminiscences of life and work in north-east Scotland and of World War II.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.12939/1-26
Scope and Contents

Each of the videocassettes has a label on it. There are also labels on both the card sleeve and the plastic outer container. The label on the plastic container has been used to provide the descriptions as it has, generally, fuller information.

Included is an account book, 1918-1922, of George Riddle, shoemaker, Rosehearty.

Dates: Circa 1980-1994.

Videocassette recordings, made by Freeway Films, chiefly of television versions of plays by John McGrath.

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Identifier: Acc.12562/1-7
Scope and Contents

Freeway Films was John McGrath's own production company.

Dates: Circa 1984-1991.

‘View of the diocese of Aberdeen’, a volume of historical narrative written by Alexander Keith, episcopal minister at Cruden.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.12
Scope and Contents

It includes descriptions of the civil parishes, biographies of bishops of the diocese, accounts of the old religious houses, collegiate churches and deaneries and of King`s College and University, parochial histories arranged by presbyteries and transcripts and extracts of documents relating to the history of the see.

Dates: 1732.

'Views in Scotland, from sketches by Thomas Oliphant . . . 1852.'

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Identifier: MS.10990
Scope and Contents

A volume of pencil sketches of landscapes and buildings in Orkney, Shetland, Caithness, Sutherland, Rossshire, Inverness-shire and Perthshire. The title is on a label pasted on the front cover. The first sketch is missing.

Dates: 1852.

‘Vinum aqua macerandum - poema heroicum' by Marcus Antonius Valentinus de Chantrayne.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.34
Scope and Contents

At the end ‘Cecinit Marcus Antonius Valentinus de Chantrayne’.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.190) includes the reference: (Ao.5.1).

Dates: Late 17th century-18th century.

"Virgil's Æneis", translated into Scottish verse by Gavin Douglas (Edinburgh, 1710); the glossary is heavily annotated by John Jamieson.

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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.]

‘Viriadas do Doutor Isac de Sequeyra Samuda, medico Lusitano e Socio da Real Sociedade de Londres, Obra posthuma digesta, corrigida, e conclusa pelo Doutor Jacob de Castro Sarmento, medico Lusitano do R. E. Ros medicos de Londres, que aofferece ao D. Juaõ V. Rey de Portugal’.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.15
Scope and Contents The manuscript is without a date, but written in England before the year 1760. This posthumous work is a Portuguese poem, comprising 13 books, in stanzas of 8 lines. The author, Isaac de Sequeyra Samuda, Doctor of medicine, was elected June 27th, and admitted as a member of the Royal Society, London, October 24th 1724; and died in 1743. The cantennator of the poem, Dr Jacob de Castro Sarmento, also was a Fellow of the Society, having been elected in February 1729. He died September 14th...
Dates: ?18th century.

Visitors' book for the Byron family vault.

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Identifier: Acc.13253
Scope and Contents

Created by Sir John Bowring (1792-1872) writer, diplomat and secretary of the secretary of the London Greek Committee, as a memorial book for visitors to the family vault of Lord Byron (1788-1824 in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. It contains over 800 visitors entries, recording date of visit and name, and often hometown and occupation, along with 28 poetic and 36 prose inscriptions.

Dates: 1824-1834

Vocal and keyboard music.

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Identifier: Acc.6813- is now MSS.21850-21851.
Dates: 18th century to early 19th century.

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Language
English 15870
Undetermined 3975
Latin 280
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 188
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Names
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 174
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 97
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 93
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 78
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 69
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British Broadcasting Corporation 65
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 46
Roberts, David, painter, 1796-1864 46
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 44
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873 43
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 41
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 40
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 40
Stevenson, Ronald J, composer and pianist, 1928-2015 36
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 32
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 32
Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928 31
Saltire Society 31
Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd (Scottish poet, novelist and essayist) 30
Soutar, William (poet) 29
Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, poet and writer, née Welsh, 1801-1866 27
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 27
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 26
National Library of Scotland 25
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 25
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 24
Church of Scotland 23
Cockburn, Henry, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice, 1779-1854 23
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 23
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 23
Balfour, James, Sir, 1st Baronet of Denmilne and Kinnaird (antiquary) 22
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 22
Cunningham, Allan, miscellaneous writer, 1784-1842 21
Primrose, Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery (statesman) 21
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 20
McLean, John David Ruari McDowall Hardie, typographer and author, 1917-2006 20
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 20
Scottish National Party 20
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 20
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 19
Henderson, Hamish, poet and folklorist, 1919-2002 19
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 19
Lockhart, John Gibson (biographer of Scott) 19
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 19
Muir, Wilhelmina Johnston, née Anderson, author, pseudonym 'Agnes Neill Scott' , 1890-1970 19
Campbell, Thomas (poet) 18
Erskine, David Steuart, 11th Earl of Buchan (succ 1767), 1742-1829 18
Jeffrey, Francis, Lord Jeffrey, Senator of the College of Justice, 1773-1850 18
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 18
Scottish Film Council (SFC) 18
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 18
Turnbull, Gael Lundin, poet and physician, 1928-2004 18
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 17
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 17
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 17
Morrison, Trevor, poet, d 2013 17
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 17
Scottish Mountaineering Club 17
Stuart, Charles, Baron Stuart de Rothesay, 1779-1845 17
Wilkie, Sir David, Knight, painter, 1785-1841 17
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 16
MacCaig, Norman Alexander, poet, 1910-1996 16
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 16
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 16
Beattie, William, Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, 1903-1986 15
Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 15
Hume, David, philosopher, 1711-1776 15
Raffalovich, Marc André, poet, 1864-1934 15
Scott, Francis George, composer, 1880-1958 15
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 14
Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant Wilson, novelist and biographer, née Wilson, 1828-1897 14
Stuart, Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir, Prince, 1720-1788 14
Ballantyne, James (printer) 13
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician 13
Douglas, family, of Cavers 13
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 13
MacDonald, James Ramsay, statesman, 1866-1937 13
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 13
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 13
Smith, Iain Crichton (poet and author) 13
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 12
John Murray (publishers, London) 12
Mackenzie, Henry, author of "The Man of Feeling", 1745-1831 12
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 12
Wilson, John, author and journalist, pseudonym Christopher North, 1785-1854 12
Brewster, Sir David, Knight, natural philosopher and academic administrator, 1781–1868 11
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 11
Chambers, Robert (publisher and writer) 11
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 11
Hay, George Campbell, poet, 1915-1984 11
James I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1566-1625 11
Mitchell, James Leslie, author, pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon, 1901-1935 11
Morgan, Edwin George, Professor of English, University of Glasgow, and poet, 1920-2010 11
Paton, Sir Joseph Nöel, Knight, painter, 1821-1901 11
Blackie, John Stuart, Professor of Greek, University of Edinburgh, 1809-1895 10
Boswell, James, of Auchinleck, author, 1740–1795 10
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (afterwards Noel, poet, known as 'Lord Byron') (1788-1824) 10
Church of Scotland, Foreign Missions Board 10
Edinburgh International Festival 10
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 10
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