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Volume of correspondence of James Nairne, WS, and papers of, and concerning, the Bannatyne Club.

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Identifier: Acc.12693
Scope and Contents

Includes letters of Sir Walter Scott, James Ballantyne and David Laing.

Dates: 1827-1844.

Volume of Covenanting documents, containing copies of papers representing an extreme 'Cameronian' view.

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Identifier: MS.5408
Scope and Contents Some leaves are missing from the beginning of the volume.The contents are as follows:(i) Fragment of a declaration against those who accepted the Declaration of Indulgence (folio 1);(ii) A declaration of 'the poor society of Tindwall' against William III, the established Presbyterian Church, and the defection of Alexander Sheilds, William Boyd and Thomas Linning (folio 10);(iii) 'Some causes of Lords contraversie, holding forth some few steps...
Dates: [Circa 1700.]

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.

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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.

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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 manuscript material for a proposed publication on the English Peerage by Robert Beatson, Doctor of Laws, compiler and miscellaneous writer (1742-1818).

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.9
Scope and Contents

The volume seems to have been written about 1802-1803 and contains detailed genealogical accounts of a number of English peers and their families. The volume was apparently never published.

Dates: Circa 1802-1803.

Volume of miscellaneous letters and a poem of Robert Louis Stevenson, together with letters of Sir Sidney and Lady Colvin concerning Stevenson.

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Identifier: MS.8790
Scope and Contents

The letters are unpublished unless otherwise stated.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1873-1893, 1921.

Volume of miscellaneous papers concerning genealogy and religion which belonged to Robert Mylne, the antiquary.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.1
Scope and Contents Sections (i), (ii), (v), and (vi) are written by Mylne himself; (iii) and (iv) by another late-seventeenth- or early-eighteenth-century hand; the last addition in (vi) is by an eighteenth-century hand. Sections (i), (ii), (iii)-(iv), and (vi) originally had separate paginations: Mylne has overwritten these in paginating throughout. An instruction to his binder survives on folio 75. There is the beginning of an index on folios 177-178, deleted and with the note that `the index is in loos...
Dates: 1st quarter of 15th century-1st half of 18th century.

Volume of notes taken down by a student at Glasgow University from lectures on the civil law delivered by John Millar of Milheugh, Professor of Civil Law from 1761 to 1801.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.28.6.8
Scope and Contents

The lectures, delivered in two courses between November 1777 and May 1778, appear to be those on the ‘Institutes’ of Justinian given by Millar to students in the first year of their legal studies. The first course, in 73 lectures (folios 1-88), gave an overview of the text, while the second, in 46 lectures, February-May 1777 (folios 89-292), studied the ‘Institutes’ in more detail.

The notes are in longhand, but with a few shorthand additions.

Dates: 1777-1778.

Volume of 'Opera songs' belonging to Hugh Rose of Kilravock (died 1755), whose name as Hugh Rose of Geddes, with the date 25 November 1738, are on the inside of the back cover.

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Identifier: MS.21748
Scope and Contents

The songs are set with a melody line and bass only, and consist of excerpts from works of many of the major opera composers of the first third of the 18th century, notably Hasse, Handel, Porpora and Vinci.

One or two small dances have been put into blank spaces, and on page 1 there is a set of variations by William McGibbon on a theme by Corelli.

Dates: 1738.

Volume of poetry, 1858-1862, of Corporal William Beattie Hadden, 42nd Royal Highland Regiment (The Black Watch), in India.

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Identifier: Acc.13781
Scope and Contents Miscellaneous poetry and other writings by William Beattie Hadden, Corporal in the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment (the Black Watch), Lucknow, March 1858. Contains poems on various subjects, many regarding the author`s home in Scotland, other on his acquaintances, reflections on life, and general thoughts and opinions, such as `Lines on leaving India`, and `Lines on woman`s virtue`. A later note from 1862 places Hadden in Dugshai [Dagshai], in the foothills of the Himalayan mountains, and...
Dates: 1858-1862

Volume of poetry by James Cargill, Edinburgh.

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Identifier: Acc.3326- is now MS.8931.

Volume of poetry from the Dalkeith House Circle.

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Identifier: Acc.2007- is now MS.3814.

Volume of practicks.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.8
Scope and Contents (i) `Practiques Observed By the Judicatories of the Kingdome of Scotland, According to the Municipal Lawes Sett ffurth By Sir Thomas Hope of Carse, Knight Advocat for his Majesty. Written by Charles Tais yor Writter in Perth. 20 December 1701`, i.e. ‘Minor Practicks’ by Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall. In the title ‘Carse` is scored through and ‘Craig Hall’ added in pencil. The confusion of father and son appears also in MS.5898(vii) (a volume which was compiled in 1682-1683 by James Blair of...
Dates: 1626-1639, 1701.

Volume of prayers in German.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.20
Scope and Contents

There were originally two volumes containing prayers to be said throughout the liturgical year, but the second volume is missing. This manuscript contains prayers from the Sunday before Advent until Easter. Incipit `Hier hebet sich an Ein Andechtig Buchlein mit etzlichenn gutenn Ubungenn durch das iar` (folio 1). Some prayers to be said at New Year, which should follow folio 114, were omitted and copied later by the scribe (folios 309-322).

Dates: Circa 1600.

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English 15870
Undetermined 3975
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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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