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Copies, 1688, by J M (possibly James Man) of documents, 1398-1677, concerning Aberdeen.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.6
Dates:
1398-1577.
Copies, chiefly from printed books, of documents concerning Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.19
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Copies, late 16th century, of papers, 1584-1587, concerning the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots and her English supporters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.9
Dates:
1584-1587.
Copies of accounts of and documents connected with the English Mint.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.5.4
Dates:
1702-1710.
Copies of rentals of Roxburghshire, some imperfect.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.7
Dates:
17th century.
Copies of sixteen letters concerning public affairs in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.4
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.2.27.
Dates:
1746.
Copies of warrants and orders by the Lord Chamberlain to the Queen.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.22
Scope and Contents
The documents are from 1665, when Henry Lord Carbury was Lord Chamberlain, to 1683, when the post was held by Louis, Earl of Feversham.
Dates:
1665-1683.
Copy, 18th century, by Samuel Ayscough of documents concerning revenues of religious houses.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.5.5
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is an imperfect copy of the book of assumption of benefices.
The transcript is from the Harleian manuscript (4623 (or 4613) tom 2).
Dates:
16th century-17th century.
Copy, 18th century, of ‘Historia diplomatica’ by Petrus a Thymo (van der Heyden).
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.2.3 (I)-(IV)
Dates:
15th century.
Copy, 1821, of ‘De antiqua Atheniensium religione’, ?16th century, transcribed from an anonymous manuscript treatise in the Royal Library at Hanover.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.7.3
Dates:
?16th century.
Microfilm of collection of thirty-nine seventeenth-century sermons, many of them transcribed in 1624.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1041
Dates:
17th century.
Microfilm of complete transcript of Piobaireachd manuscript of Duncan Campbell.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1083
Dates:
1854.
Microfilm of copy of piobaireachd music, with index compiled by Angus MacKay, Piper to Queen Victoria; and, MacKay’s 'Specimens of Canntaireachd'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.775
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copy of piobaireachd music, 1826-1849, compiled by Angus MacKay: [volume I] (MS.1681), 94 frames;Copy of piobaireachd music, 1826-1849, compiled by Angus MacKay: [volume II] (MS.1682), 105 frames;Copy of piobaireachd music, 1826-1849, compiled by Angus MacKay: [volume III] (MS.1683), 86 frames;"Index to Angus MacKay's MS", [1892, or after] (MS.1684);Transcript of Angus Mackay's 'Specimens of Canntaireachd', of...
Dates:
1826-[1892, or after], 1950.
Microfilm of extracts, 1839, from the lute book, 1627-1629, of Robert Gordon of Straloch, transcribed in tablature by George Farquhar Graham.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.503
Dates:
1627-1629.
Microfilm of letters, and transcripts of letters, of Sir Walter Scott.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1173-1175
Dates:
1793-1832.
Microfilm of Leyden Lyra-Viol Book, a “Copy of the Tunes in Tablature in Doctor John Leyden’s Manuscript Lyra-Viol Book”, transcribed by George Farquhar Graham.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.229
Dates:
1st half of 19th century.
Microfilm of Stewart genealogies: papers on various families of Stewart collected by, and with some notes of, George Chalmers.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1091
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Microfilm of transcripts, 19th century, of official letters and papers of the 3rd Earl of Lothian.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.801
Dates:
1643, 1648-1649.
Microfilm of tunes from assorted music books
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1188
Dates:
1694-1710, 1876.
Microfilm of typescript transcripts of the literary correspondence of John Galt, transcribed by Ian A Gordon.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1185
Dates:
1807-1839.
Microfilm of typescripts of poems, [1922-1929],; and, synopses, [1932-1934], of intended publications of James Leslie Mitchell, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1121
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: Typescripts of poems, [1922-1929], of James Leslie Mitchell, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’ (MS.26058); Synopses, [1932-1934], of intended publications of James Leslie Mitchell, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’ (MS.26060).
Dates:
[1922-1934.]
Microfilm of volume containing a transcript of the diary, 18 June 1913-25 October 1914, of William McKinlay, entitled ‘The drift of the Karluk’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1163
Dates:
1913-1914.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1312-1328
Dates:
Mid 17th century-1937.
‘Nye Eventyr’ by Hans Christian Anderson (Copenhagen, 1845), with verses, 1845, written by the author for Mrs Charlotte Cowan, Glasgow, on the flyleaf; with a photographic copy, a typed transcription, and a translation into English verse.
File
Identifier: MS.3921
Dates:
1845.
Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21669-21713
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
17th century-1972.