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Volume containing notes and speeches on some questions debated in the Theological and Belles Lettres Society, in the hand of William Lothian, Minister of Canongate Church, Edinburgh.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.3.8
Scope and Contents
At the end of the volume are additional notes on the `Value and Proportion of Ancient and Modern Coins` and `Signification and Use of some Words` extracted from Johnson`s English Dictionary.
A scrap of paper (pages 201-202) containing draft notes of the debate on polygamy (pages 102-106) which was found loosely enclosed between pages 106 and 107 has been tipped in after page 200.
Dates:
1761-1764.
Volume containing notes, copies and extracts from manuscripts and documents, together with a few extracts from printed books, collected between about 1709 (folio 15) and about 1717 (folio 230 verso), many of the entries, which include a number of genealogies, relating to persons, families and places in Fife.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.24
Scope and Contents
A large number of the sources used were at the Advocates` Library, and of these many had previously been in the possession of Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms (for example, the charters (now in Adv.MSS.15.1.18 and 15.1.19) excerpted at folio 91, and what follows, and folio 263, and what follows, and the cartularies excerpted at folios 1-8, 22-33, 43-49 verso, 230 verso-274 verso), as had the manuscript (now British Library, Harl MS. 4693) once in his possession which is...
Dates:
Circa 1709-circa 1717.
Volume containing philosophical works.
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Identifier: MS.1546
Scope and Contents
The volume contains, ‘Theses Æthicae’ (page1); ‘De Philosophia ejusque divisione in speculativam et practicam’ (page 7); ‘Theses Physicae’ (page 693).
Dates:
[Before 1655.]
Volume containing surveying instructions and a business ledger, compiled at Yarrow.
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Identifier: MS.14283
Scope and Contents
The author is unknown, but the name E L Brown is stamped on the front cover.The contents are as follows.(i) Instructions for surveying, illustrated with examples taken from the Duke of Buccleuch's estates along Yarrow Water. (Folio 2.)(ii) Business ledger of a merchant with trading interests in La Rochelle, Leghorn and Jamaica. The commodities include wool, wine, sugar, wheat and cotton (folios 1 verso, 59). It is followed by incomplete notes on balancing...
Dates:
1812.
Volume containing the Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda and other poems, written by Jonas Egilson.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.21.6.7
Dates:
1750-1753.
Volume containing transcripts by Alexander Brown, Keeper of the Advocates’ Library, of some early Scottish charters, with a few other writings.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.4
Scope and Contents
The volume appears to have been begun about 1780 and entries made until about 1787, but by far the greater part of the volume is blank. The contents are as follows:(i) transcript of instrument and protest of Sir Alexander Moray of Abercairnay, 7 December 1391 (page 1). Printed (from the original, then at Abercairney) in ‘Liber Insulae Missarum’, page xlix; see page xii.(ii) memorandum, 1781, concerning chapel in grounds of seat of Cockburn family at...
Dates:
Before 1172-1781.
Volume containing two descriptions by the Scottish author David Buchanan (?1595-?1652): `Provinciae Edinburgenae Descriptio` and `Edinburgi Descriptio`, possibly written in his own hand.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.19
Dates:
Circa 1648.
Volume containing typed copies of diaries of Jane C Burdon-Sanderson of journeys to India in the winters of 1885-1886 and 1888-1889 for the sake of her health; with associated papers.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20668-20669
Dates:
1885-1889.
Volume containing verse and prose, chiefly Jacobite and satirical.
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Identifier: MS.3807
Scope and Contents
The longer pieces include 'The Tragedie of Glenco', 'Proelium Gilliekrankianum', 'Bellum Bothwellianum', 'Tarquin and Tullia', and Dr Archibald Pitcairne's 'Assembly' and 'Babell'.
There is a recipe for stomach-ache on folio x verso.
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Volume entitled 'Celtic music', compiled by David R Robertson, a mercantile clerk in Dundee, consisting of pipe tunes, poems, notes and memoranda, extracts from published sources, letters from correspondents interested in Gaelic culture, and some press cuttings and photographs.
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Identifier: MS.22164
Scope and Contents
The title is taken from folio 1, a vellum leaf.Some items found loosely enclosed have been tipped or pasted in.The work consists of an introduction (folio 6) preceded by prefatory poems (folio 2), and eight sections: Old highland airs (folio 39), Clan tunes (folio 90), Jacobite airs (folio 131), Battle tunes (folio 159), Laments (folio 209), Old Scottish airs (folio 223), Army tunes (folio 244) and General marches (folio 276).There are two unrelated items:...
Dates:
1911-1912.
Volume entitled `Field Marshal Earl Haig K.T. Letters 1920 to 1927`, containing forty-one letters to James Curle with associated printed material and a photograph.
Item
Identifier: Dep.214- is now Acc.9431.
Dates:
1920-1927.
Volume entitled (folio 2) `Memoirs of the Family of Rose of Kilravok`, being the epitome by Lachlan Shaw, minister of Elgin, of `A Genealogical Deduction of the Family of Rose of Kilravock`, by Hugh Rose, minister of Nairn.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.7
Scope and Contents
Rose`s work was first written in 1683-1684: Shaw`s epitome records also later members of the family until about 1756 (folio 69 verso), with a supplement until about 1772 (folio 83 verso). This copy appears to have been written for the antiquary William Rose in Montcoffer in the same hand as Adv.MS.32.6.8, and has a note inside the front cover, a contents list at folio 1 and a few textual additions in his hand.
Dates:
3rd quarter of 18th century.
Volume entitled (folio i) `Miscellania [sic] Scotica Curiosa Or A Collection of Curious, rare, and valuable Paper`s: Relating to Scotland, and Scots Affaires. Collected and Coppied, from the Originalls. by C:R:S:` containing transcripts of Scottish historical documents, extracts of manuscripts and copies of correspondence, from various sources, 1419-1731, and undated.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.18
Scope and Contents
The collection was compiled by Captain Robert Seton, Judge Advocate for Scotland, and consists of:(i) Copies of correspondence, 1566-1567, of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (folio 1) including two letters of Mary, Queen of Scots not recorded in Labanoff`s collection. The letters are similar to, but not the same as many of the letters in MS Calig CI from the Cottonian Library in the British Library: they may have been copied from the portion of the collection that was destroyed in the...
Dates:
1419-1731.
Volume entitled "Some Events in the Early Days of the Socialist Movement in Bo'ness" by James Livingstone.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9629
Scope and Contents
An unpublished history, compiled from family papers, newspapers and other contemporary sources, of Independent Labour Party and other socialist activities in the burgh of Bo'ness and district, 1903-1914.
Dates:
1985.
Volume entitled `Statuti della Mercanzia` (folio 1) containing a copy in a 17th-century hand of the statutes on trade enacted under Francesco de` Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, shortly after his accession in 1574.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.2.9
Scope and Contents
The text of the work, which is in three books, is preceded by an engraved title page (folio 1), lists of contents (folio 3) and an index of the most frequently occurring topics (folio 7), and is followed by additional statutes dated 1522-1523, 1526, 1528, 1613, and other material (folio 184).
Dates:
1522-1613.
Volume IV of R M Gall Inglis, "Notices of the Family of Inglis".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6587
Dates:
Undated.
Volume made up of three pamphlets by James Hog; with manuscript 'Queries of the Synod of Fife to Mr James Hogg [sic] Minister at Carnock w[t] his answers to these queries. Apr. 5th 1722', formerly contained in the pamphlet volume, but now kept separately.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9769-9769A
Dates:
1716-1722.
Volume of 12 sermons of an itinerant preacher, East Fife.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3201- is now MS.9351.
Dates:
1817-1845.
Volume of anonymous historical dissertations.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.20
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) a history of Scotland from the legendary period to the 18th Century (page 1);(ii) historical remarks on the antiquity and anecdotes of the noble family of Buccleuch (page 111) (incomplete);(iii) historical remarks concerning the antiquity of the Macdonalds of Sleat Lords of the Isles, Thains of Argyllshire and Lochaber. (page 122);(iv) dissertation concerning the Family of Ruthven, Earls of...
Dates:
18th century.
Volume of `Autograph Letters of Sir Walter Scott, 1800-1826`, containing letters mainly to Charles Erskine and James Curle, with associated documents.
Item
Identifier: Dep.213- is now Acc.9430.
Dates:
1800-1826.
Volume of caricatures by Lord Archibald Campbell.
Item
Identifier: Acc.1278- is now MS.7195.
Dates:
1875-1879.
Volume of copies and extracts apparently made for William Rose, in Montcoffer, the genealogist.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.8
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Copy of the accounts of Robert Lord Boyd, Collector General of Thirds, for the year 1576, covering Kirklands in Inverness, Ross, Caithness, Sutherland, Fife, Strathearn, Nairn, Banff, Elgin, and Forres (folio 1).(ii) Minutes extracted from the Exchequer Register, covering the periods July 1630 to November 1634 (folio 73), January 1642 to June 1647 (folio 104 verso), and July 1661 to June 1674 (folio 116)....
Dates:
1576-1684.
Volume of copies, undated, of epitaphs.
Item
Identifier: Acc.922- is now MS.1885.
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Volume of copies, undated, of epitaphs.
Item
Identifier: Acc.923- is now MS.1886.
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Volume of correspondence of, and relating to, James Hogg.
File
Identifier: Acc.547- is now MS.2245.
Dates:
1813-1905.