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'Act presented to Parliament for erecting the Advocates in to a Society'.
Item
Identifier: F.R.35b
Dates:
[Circa 1707.]
‘Act to Raise a Fund for Provisions to Widows of the Members of the Faculty of Advocates of Scotland’ (Law Room and Trustee Copies).
Series
Identifier: F.R.397-F.R.401
Dates:
1830.
‘Acta Scotica’, containing styles, chiefly of commissions and safe conducts for Ambassadors, with extracts of some proceedings in Parliament.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.5
Dates:
[?1488-?1489.]
Adaptation of ‘Philotus’, by the playwright Jack Ronder (born 1924), an anonymous play in Scots verse originally published in 1603.
File
Identifier: MS.26488
Scope and Contents
The adaptation is a typescript of the 17th century text, with manuscript alterations and stage directions by Jack Ronder.
Dates:
[Circa 1953.]
'Additions and corrections' to a work of the writer's own, which appears to have been entitled 'The History of the Rebellion in the years 1745 and 1746'.
Item
Identifier: MS.3865
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was probably written in or shortly after 1755, a date which occurs on page 31.The original work has not been traced; it may or may not have been printed. It was divided into at least twelve sections, and should be identifiable from many references to its pages in the present manuscript, for example: page 86, Lovat's escape from Inverness; pages 15, 153, the meeting of Jacobite leaders at Muirlaggan in May, 1746; pages 165, 246, Murray of Broughton's capture and...
Dates:
[1755, or after.]
Address of the Bishop of London to the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3053- is now MS.8916
Dates:
Undated.
‘Admiralty collections’, containing copies of ordinances, tables, orders and notes concerning the office and jurisdiction of the Court of Admiralty of England.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.4.6
Dates:
17th century.
Agenda books of the Faculty of Advocates Widow’s Fund.
Series
Identifier: F.R.378-F.R.381
Dates:
1918-1954.
Airs of songs and ballads collected, chiefly in Buchan, with a few from Angus and elsewhere, by George Riddell, Rosehearty (died 1942).
Series
Identifier: MSS.3041-3043
Scope and Contents
Accounts of George Riddel's life will be found in MS.3042, inside the front cover.
Dates:
Late 19th century-early 20th century.
Al-Shuẕûr al-Ẕahabiyyah, a grammar and a vocabulary of the Uṣmānlī Turkî language explained in Arabic.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.20
Dates:
?16th century.
Album amicorum of Sir Michael Balfour, later Lord Balfour of Burleigh.
Item
Identifier: MS.16000
Scope and Contents
The entries include autographs by members of the British and Danish royal families, continental statesmen, nobility and gentry, and Scots travelling or studying in Europe. Many are illustrated with coats of arms. There are a number of paintings depicting personages and scenes, mostly in Padua and Venice; other more imaginative scenes such as a highway robbery and a street battle at night; and some coloured engravings by Ralph Sadeler, Adrien Collaert and others have been inserted....
Dates:
1596-1610.
Album, containing autograph letters of celebrities, chiefly literary, dating chiefly from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with some portraits.
Item
Identifier: MS.948
Scope and Contents
Several of the letters are addressed to the two Thomas Cadells, publishers.
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Album containing copies of religious tracts, at least one of which is of John Livingstone, Minister of Ancrum, in the same hand as the 'Life' of Livingstone in Adv. MS.34.5.19.
Item
Identifier: MS.3858
Scope and Contents
The date 1673 (folio 53 verso) indicates that the manuscript was written after John Livingstone's death.The contents are as follows.(i) Livingstone's 'Memorable Characteristics' (folio 1); this is not one of the copies used for W K Tweedie's edition in ‘Select Biographies’ (Wodrow Society, 1845), volume i;(ii) 'The notes of some sermons knit together anent personall covenanting &c.' (folio 30);(iii) Questions on the duties of Christians,...
Dates:
1673.
Album containing correspondence, chiefly relating to Mary, Queen of Scots, with transcripts (not wholly accurate), portraits, and views.
File
Identifier: MS.3657
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Letter of Lethington to Mary, Queen of Scots, describing an interview with Elizabeth, 1562 (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Lethington to Dudley, on Mary's attitude to negotiations, apparently for her marriage with Dudley, Stirling, 1563 (folio 5);(iii) Letter of Throckmorton to Lethington, on the prospects of the marriage, London, 1565 (folio 8);(iv) Letter of Randolph to Leicester, on the same subject, Edinburgh, 1565...
Dates:
1562-1586, undated.
Album containing eight letters, 1833-1837, from Hugh Miller to Sir Thomas Dick-Lauder; and a transcript of a letter from Miller to Miss Dunbar of Boath, and of one from Miss Dunbar to Dick-Lauder, both of 1829.
Item
Identifier: MS.9654
Scope and Contents
The album contains (folios 13-18) a printed octavo prospectus for ‘The traditional history of Cromarty (Inverness, 1834).
Dates:
1829, 1833-1837.
Album, containing notes taken by the father of Thomas Ross, the architect, of sermons preached by the Reverend John Caird, and drawings by Ross.
Item
Identifier: MS.3646
Scope and Contents
The sermons were preached in Errol Church in 1851 (folio 1).
Some of Thomas Ross's drawings bear dates from 1858 to 1919 (chiefly architectural sketches and designs), and some are evidently juvenile. Loose drawings and a sermon (folio 94) have been pasted in.
Dates:
1851, 1858-1919, undated.
Album containing portraits of Sir Walter Scott, with papers of and concerning him.
File
Identifier: MS.23060
Dates:
1821-1827.
Album, containing 'Universal grammar...' written by James Trail, Minister of St Cyrus, and lecture notes on logic by his brother David Trail, Minister of Panbride.
File
Identifier: MS.3125
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'Universal Grammar, written by James Trail ... Panbride ... 1773' (folio iv);(ii) 'A Compend of Logic, in four parts, by Robert Watson, Master of Arts, Professor of Rhetoric & Logic in the University of St. Andrews' (folio 30).From the notices on folio i, 'James Trail, May, 1775', 'To Da. Trail, 1782', and 'Bot at Dr. Trail's roup by C.R.' (i.e., Reverend Charles Rogers), it seems that the grammar was written by James...
Dates:
1773-1850.
Album entitled 'Military autographs', containing fourteen photographs of British and French generals and two signatures pasted in; together with a collection of autographs chiefly concerning the 1st Duke of Wellington, which were tipped in or loosely enclosed in the album, but have now been removed and are kept separately.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15351-15352
Dates:
19th century.
Album of Adam White, the naturalist (1817-1879), entitled on the cover 'Weeds and wild flowers'.
Item
Identifier: MS.10306
Scope and Contents
A draft title-page (folio 24) suggests that in 1850 Adam White was proposing to publish a work on 'Weeds and wild-flowers loved by Wordsworth', and the first part of the album contains a collection of materials towards this purpose: drawings and engravings of wild flowers with some specimens of pressed flowers, newspaper-cuttings, and copies of letters and poems of Wordsworth.The collection of information is then extended to include other poets: Coleridge, Cowper, Southey,...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-?late 19th century.
Album of drawings in pencil and watercolour, collected by Caroline, Marchioness of Queensberry, in 1833.
Item
Identifier: MS.10784
Scope and Contents
Many of the drawings are by E C Douglas, possibly Lady Queensberry's sister-in-law Elizabeth. The subjects include humorous sketches, animals and landscapes.
Dates:
1833.
Album of Draycott House, Derbyshire.
Item
Identifier: MS.3009
Scope and Contents
Hugh Scott of Draycott (Draycot, Draycote) House, a Captain in the East India Marine, was a son of Walter Scott of Raeburn (died 1830) and cousin of Sir Walter Scott of Abbotsford. The album, compiled by Hugh Scott's descendants, contains letters of Sir Walter Scott and members of his family, printed matter relating to the subscription raised to purchase Abbotsford for the Scott family, drawings and photographs of Draycott, notes on family history by William Scott of Raeburn (died 1855),...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-1936.
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
File
Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents
The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates:
1696-1891, undated.
Album of letters, notes, accounts, parish records, printed notices, and political cartoons of Duncan Campbell, Minister of Moulin, and his son Duncan Campbell, Minister of St. Matthews, Edinburgh; with original binding.
Series
Identifier: MS.20403
Dates:
1805-1900, undated.