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‘Brema literata’ (Bremen, 1726), interleaved with manuscript corrections and additions.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.16
Dates:
[1726, or after.]
'Catalogue of British family histories’ (London, 1935) by Theodore Radford Thomson, interleaved, with corrections and additions by the author.
File
Identifier: MS.2611
Dates:
1935.
"Catalogue of Valuable Books ... which belong'd to Sir Alexander Seaton of Pitmedden, Baronet [Seton, Lord Pitmedden] ... to be sold by way of auction ... in Edinburgh" (Edinburgh, 1719), being the interleaved copy belonging to John Willson, clerk to the auction, who has entered the names of purchasers and the amounts paid.
Item
Identifier: MS.3802
Dates:
1719-1720.
Interleaved copies of ‘Treatise on the laws concerning the election of the different representatives sent from Scotland to the Parliament of Great Britain’, 2 volumes,(Edinburgh, 1773) by Alexander Wight, with manuscript notes apparently by the author.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.6.3(i)-(ii)
Dates:
[1773, or after.]
Interleaved copy of "A vindication of Mr. George Buchanan's paraphrase of the Book of Psalms" (Edinburgh, 1745), by Thomas Ruddiman, with corrections and additions by the author.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3526-3527
Dates:
1746.
Interleaved presentation copy of ‘Memorabilia curliana mabenensia’ by Richard Broun (Dumfries, 1830), containing manuscript additions in verse and prose by the author's brother, William.
File
Identifier: MS.9226
Scope and Contents
A few cuttings from the ‘Dumfries Times’ and the ‘Dumfries Journal’ are pasted in, and the annotations include a set of proposed rules for the Dumfries Curling Club, 1831 (folio 16).
Dates:
1830-1831.
'List of books printed in Scotland before 1700’ (Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 1904) by Harry G Aldis, interleaved, with additions and corrections by George Pyper Johnston.
Item
Identifier: MS.2612
Dates:
1904.
'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', by Allan Cunningham, various editions, (London, 1830-1839), 6 volumes, interleaved, with original letters to the author and others (1829-1837), copies of letters (1710-1830) and notes in the autograph of his son Francis, printed cuttings, and portraits.
Series
Identifier: MSS.826-832
Scope and Contents
This material was collected by the author, Allan Cunningham, and his son with a view to a new edition. Loose papers have been pasted into the interleaved volumes or collected in a separate volume (MS.832).
Dates:
1710-1837.
‘Magnum Opus’ of the ‘Waverley novels’ of Sir Walter Scott, chiefly the ‘Interleaved Waverley novels’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.23001-23041
Dates:
1822-1833.
Microfilm of interleaved and annotated copy of ’Hamlet … by William Shakespeare … printed from the acting copy, with remarks and critical, by D G … as performed at the Theatre Royal, London’ (London, [?1826-?1847]), used as a prompt book for the 1849 production at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh with Thomas Powrie in the leading role.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1375
Dates:
[?1826-?1847], 1849.
Microfilm of ‘Magnum Opus’ of Sir Walter Scott, volume 24: ‘Novels and romances of the author of Waverley [Sir Walter Scott]. Volume VI. Peveril of the peak [continued and] Quentin Durward [part only]’ (Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co. 1824); interleaved with the author’s annotations, corrections and additions, 1828-1831.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1829
Dates:
1824, 1828-1831
Notes taken by Alexander Cunningham, afterwards Sir Alexander Dick, Baronet, of Prestonfield, when attending Herman Boerhaave’s lectures in Leyden from 1724 to 1726, interleaved with Herman Boerhaave’s ‘Institutiones medicae’, 3rd edition (1720), wanting all after page 320.
File
Identifier: MS.737
Dates:
1724-1726.
Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21193-21198
Dates:
1569-1876, undated.
‘Peninsular scenery illustrated in a series of views, taken from nature A.D. 1819. By an amateur’ (London, 1824), with manuscript descriptions by the author, George Lewis Augustus Douglas, of the engraved scenes.
File
Identifier: MS.10341 [AB.9.204.07]
Scope and Contents
This text is a condensed version of an earlier text (MS.10361), but contains all the engravings included in the earlier journal in a later, possibly a third, state.
Although the engraved title page is dated 1824, the manuscript interleaves were probably written in 1836 as the paper of the text is watermarked 1835. The item is inscribed 'Presented, by the author, to his much esteemed friend Alexander Thomson, of Banchory, Esq. A.D.1836' (folio 2), and a copy of a note (folio 4) from the Duke...
Dates:
1819, [?1836].
‘Pharmacopœia Pauperum, in usum Nosocomii Regii Edinburgensis’ (Edinburgh, 1752), interleaved with further recipes and notes, apparently the work of a student, Charles Wilson, whose signature appears on the end-paper.
File
Identifier: MS.9757
Dates:
1752, undated.
Printed copy of the song, 'Tranent Muir' by Sir Walter Scott, interleaved with anonymous explanatory notes and annotations, with an endorsement by Scott.
File
Identifier: MS.23056
Scope and Contents
The endorsement by Sir Walter Scott is as follows, 'Tranent Muir & Notes to be taken in page 189'.
Dates:
[1791, or after.]
Printed items with notes and other bibliographical material inserted by Robert Dickson, the surgeon and bibliographer.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9989-9990
Dates:
4th quarter of 18th century-4th quarter of 19th century.
Printed 'Specimen of notes on the statute law of Scotland, from the first parliament of James I to the accession of James VI', by David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, interleaved, with autograph notes by Andrew Crosbie, Advocate.
Item
Identifier: MS.1697
Scope and Contents
This is one of the copies issued privately and sent to legal authorities for their remarks.
Dates:
[?1768.]
Prompt copy of two productions of ‘Guy Mannering’ a musical play by Daniel Terry, based on the novel of Sir Walter Scott.
File
Identifier: MS.23133
Dates:
1827, 1840-1869.
Proof copy of a reprint of "Jones’s directory or, useful pocket companion, for the year 1786", interleaved and heavily annotated by John Buchanan, 'Glasguensis'.
Item
Identifier: MS.2558
Scope and Contents
There are some proof corrections on the title-page by James MacLehose, the publisher, and on the fly-leaf his signature and a note by his son, the donor.
Dates:
1863.
‘Rob Roy’, a national drama based on the novel of Sir Walter Scott, consisting of annotated pages from the book, interleaved with plans of scenery and stage settings, as performed at the Theatre Royal Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: MS.23061
Scope and Contents
The play was produced on the occasion of Sir Walter Scott’s centenary under the supervision of Mr and Mrs Wyndham.
Dates:
1822-1871.
Specimen of notes on the statute law of Scotland, from the first parliament of James I to the accession of James VI, by David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
File
Identifier: MS.990
Scope and Contents
Contains three of the printed, interleaved copies which Lord Hailes issued privately and sent to legal authorities for their remarks, with autograph notes by Lord Auchinleck, James Gordon, Advocate, and Hailes himself.
Dates:
[?1768.]