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Xeroxed typescript of Alasdair Gray`s `Lanark`, book 3, chapters 1-7.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13403
Scope and Contents
The typescript is slightly different from the chapters as published in `Lanark`. The manuscript dedication on the title page states that the copy was given by Alasdair Gray to his friends, ---- and Frances McIlhenny, in Glasgow, xxx.
Dates:
1969.
Yester papers.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4862- is now MSS.14401-14825.
Dates:
16th century to 20th century.
Yester papers.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.1611- is now MSS.7001-7120, Ch.7566-7593.
Dates:
1664-1779.
Yester papers.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.1630- is now MSS.7001-7120 (part), Ch.7568-7593.
Dates:
1664-1779.
Yester papers, and papers concerning the Jacobites.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.1853- is now MSS.7001-7120 (part), Ch.7566-7593
Dates:
18th century.
`Πρόνοια. Providentia. Divina Providentia in Rebus Humanis. Divine Providence in humane affaires. A Collection of Providential Passages Antient and Modern Foreign and Domestick by Master James Fraser Minister At Kirkhill. Written Anno 1678.`
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.7
Scope and Contents
Originally part (Inv.XI) of the Rose Collection, Adv. MSS.49.7.1-49.7.20.
Dates:
1678.
‘Συναγωγή’ iii-vi, viii, by Pappus of Alexandria.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.1.3
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was probably written in Italy in the mid-16th century. One scribe wrote from the beginning to folio 94 verso, line 26; another from there to the end. The latter writes a more upright hand, with fewer ligatures, than the former. According to A P Treweek in `The Manuscript Tradition of the Collectio Mathematica’, 195, and what follows, the first scribe, possibly Camillus Venetus, also wrote Naples, Bibl. Naz.IIIc14 and Chicago, Newberry Libr.MS. 110, and copied this...
Dates:
Mid 16th century.