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Papers of Paul Henderson Scott.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11894
Scope and Contents
Papers concern Scott`s service in the British Military Government of Berlin, 1945-1949, and his candidacy in the Scottish Parliamentary Election, 1999. Includes printed material concerning military training and the Allied Military Government of Germany.
Dates:
circa 1942-1999.
Papers of Professor John Erickson concerning the `Edinburgh Conversations`.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13596
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, memoranda and related papers, 1974-1997, concerning the ‘Edinburgh Conversations’ and Professor John Erickson`s involvement in them.John Erickson (1929-2002) was a British military historian and the West’s leading authority on the Soviet military during and after the Second World War. During the ‘Cold War’ he was one of the very few academics to earn the trust of both sides and a key channel for contact between the Soviets and the Americans.After...
Dates:
c.1970s-1994
Papers of Robert Titilah, relating to his service during World War Two with the Parachute Regiment, including imprisonment at Stalag IVB, Muhlberg.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13648
Scope and Contents
Photographs, letter and army papers of Robert Titilah, 1897-1991, relating to his service with the 1st Parachute Regiment during the Second World War, particularly his internment as a Prisoner of War at Stalag IVB, Muhlberg, Germany.The papers include Titilah`s `Soldier`s Release Book`, which indicates that he enlisted in April 1942. He apparently enlisted on a whim after he had been drinking with a friend, and a studio portrait captures the men together shortly after this event....
Dates:
1897-1991
Papers of T J Douglas MacDonald (Fionn MacColla), including literary and autobiographical notebooks.
Series
Identifier: Dep.265
Dates:
Circa 1957-1975.
Papers of the Rev Dr Neil Ross, Gaelic scholar and poet.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12354
Dates:
circa 1824-1943.
Papers of Werner Bienert, migrant from Germany to Scotland.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13593
Scope and Contents
Papers, c.1910-1970s, of Werner Bienert, migrant from Germany to Scotland.Werner Bienert was born in Thale Am Harz, Germany in1902 to a sawmill owner. His early life until 1922 was spent working in the timber trade in Germany and Holland before moving to Edinburgh, Scotland in 1924 on a year’s visa. There he met his future wife, Rose Tinney, with whom he had three children. They were married in 1925 before Bienert was forced to move back to Germany, settling in Hamburg. The...
Dates:
c.1903-1979
Photocopies and translation of letter and examples of calligraphy of Marie Presot.
File
Identifier: Acc.4191
Dates:
1574.
Photocopies of papers connected with the process of canonizaton of St John Ogilvie.
File
Identifier: Acc.7251
Dates:
20th century.
Photocopies of ten letters (some fragmentary) of Madame Tussaud from Edinburgh and Glasgow.
File
Identifier: Acc.8001
Scope and Contents
With translations.
Dates:
1803-1804.
Photocopy and translation of the record of registration of the Greig family coat of arms by the Heraldic Department, St Petersburg, Russia.
File
Identifier: Acc.11399
Dates:
1915.
Photocopy of Kurt Wittig, "Die Nationale Literatur Schottlands der Gegenwart" (1945).
File
Identifier: Acc.5450
Scope and Contents
With photocopy of letter, 1958, of Neil Gunn to Kurt Wittig.
Dates:
1945, 1958.
Poems translated from the German by James Geikie.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8796
Dates:
circa 1880-1915.
Preaching-book of John of Grimestone, a Franciscan friar from Norfolk.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.21
Scope and Contents
The sermon topics are arranged alphabetically, with an index at the beginning (folios 7-9); the heading and number of each is repeated at the top of each page. The last three in the index (numbers 141-143, De Vsura, De Vita, De Veste) are missing from the text. The topics are predominantly in Latin, a very few in French, and consist of quotations (from the Bible, classical authors, especially Cicero and Seneca, the Fathers, and medieval authors) and moral tales and happenings. Interspersed...
Dates:
1372.
Records of the Highland Society of London, including minutes, account books, correspondence and letter books.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.268
Dates:
1781-1931.
Regula of the Knights Templar, and works concerning ceremonial orders, heraldry and tournaments.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Statutes of the Order of the Garter in English (folio 1). The Statutes are those of Edward VI, 17 March 1552/1553, and are followed by a list of knights present at that Chapter. For other Statutes in English, see Adv.MS.31.7.18.(ii) `Regula pauperum commilitonum Christi templique salomonici` by Joannes Michaelensis, written in two hands of the 12th century (folio 18). The order of chapters differs from that given in...
Dates:
12th century-17th century.
`Saga og páttr af Sneglu-Halla`, with Danish and Latin translations, index, and notes by Finnur Magnússon.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.2.8
Dates:
1807.
Schoolbook, transcribed in the early 12th century, containing notes and glosses (in Latin and German) on authors studied in schools and other texts which could be used in teaching.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Juvenal, 'Satires': citations with commentary in alphabetical order of keyword, incipit 'Maior auaritie patuit'. (i.88). (Folio 1.)(ii) Lucan, 'Civil War': introduction and citations with and without commentary from books 1-6 and 9, incipit 'Lucanii sum(m)a utilitas e(st) i(n) topog(ra)phia'. (Folio 5 verso.)(iii) Philosophical notes, possibly connected to Porphyry's introduction to Aristotle's 'Analytica...
Dates:
Early 12th century.
Sketchbook with portraits and scenes from India.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8289
Scope and Contents
With translation of Indian religious work, including a vocabulary
Dates:
19th century.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Dates:
17th century.
Three letters, one in English and two in German, concerning Alexander Bruce, later 2nd Earl of Kincardine, and his involvement in the salt trade between Fife and Bremen.
File
Identifier: Acc.12868
Dates:
1656.
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.
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.
Two poems by Alexander Hutchison.
File
Identifier: Acc.11358
Scope and Contents
Includes Gaelic translation by Rody Gorman.
Dates:
1996 and undated.