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Asloan Manuscript: a miscellany of prose and verse, chiefly Scottish, written almost entirely by John Asloan early in the reign of James V (1513-1542).
Bannatyne Manuscript: a collection of some 400 poems, mostly Scottish, compiled and written by George Bannatyne.
Collection of genealogical material on various Scottish families and items of historical interest copied by Robert Mylne, the antiquary, in the late 17th or early 18th century.
Early 16th-century manuscript of 'The oryginale cronykil of Scotland' by Andrew Wyntoun, with part of the anonymous 'Brevis Cronica' appended.
"First Commonplace Book" of Robert Burns.
Further papers of and relating to Harvey Holton.
Late 15th-century manuscript of 'The oryginale cronykil of Scotland', or 'Original Chronicle', of Andrew Wyntoun.
Letter, 1795, of Robert Burns to Maria Riddell, tipped into an edition of "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" (1787).
Manuscript drafts of poems and limericks probably by Thomas Cowan, bookseller, Haddington.
Many of the verses are in Scots. Some of the poems were published in local newspapers.
Manuscript of 'Ane Abbregement of Roland Furious translait out of Ariost togither with sum rapsodies of the author's youthfull braine. And last, ane schersing out of trew felicitie composit in Scotis meitir’ by John Stewart of Baldynneis, written in his own hand.
The text is enclosed in red double straight lines: proper names and titles are also in red ink.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, baron court laws, burgh and guild laws, and some other legal texts, some in Scots, written by George Cuyk (later clerk of the Privy Seal) in 1528.
Manuscript, written in 1488, of the 'Wallace' of Blind Hary.
Manuscript, written in 1489, of 'The Brus' of John Barbour.
'Meroure of Wyssdome' by John Ireland.
Microfilm of Bannatyne Manuscript, a collection of some 400 poems, mostly Scottish, compiled and written by George Bannatyne
Microfilm of Bannatyne manuscript: a collection of some 400 poems, mostly Scottish, compiled and written by George Bannatyne.
The contents are as follows:
Draft manuscript (Adv.MS.1.1.6 (1 of 2));
Main manuscript (Adv.MS.1.1.6 (2 of 2)).
Microfilm of Bannatyne Manuscript: a collection of some 400 poems, mostly Scottish, compiled and written by George Bannatyne.
The contents are as follows:
Bannatyne manuscripts, the draft manuscript (Adv.MS.1.1.6 (i));
Bannatyne Manuscript, the main manuscript (Adv.MS.1.1.6 (ii)).
Microfilm of 'Roit or Quheill of Tyme', a chronicle of the Kings of Scotland, with a history of the world, from the Creation to the marriage of James V of Scotland in 1537, by Adam Abell.
'Poems and songs cheifly (sic) in the Scottish dialect by Charles Lockhart Ramsay [subsequently of Fala], Edinburgh 1816', to which '-1835' has been added in pencil.
The volume contains ballads headed by dedications to various ladies, letters in verse addressed to various friends, and poems concerning or inspired by political events of the time.
Poems in Scots of the Reverend James Melville, minister of Kilrenny, mostly on religious themes
Poems of George Algernon Fothergill inspired by Robert Burns.
The poems covers observations on Burns Nights, as well as on whisky and haggis.
Fothergill noted that he resided at the Craigiehall Estate, just outside Edinburgh, when he wrote all but three of the poems. This view appears repeatedly throughout the volume.
Three volumes of poems of Alexander Ross, Schoolmaster at Lochlee in Angus, and author of ‘Helinore: the Fortunate Shepherdess’ (Aberdeen, 1768).
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.
Transcript, early 19th-century, of 'The Passioun of Crist' by Walter Kennedy, from British Library Arundel MS 285, folios 6-46.
The transcript has been corrected in another contemporary hand.