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Animadversions by Henry Cockburn on his client, the murderer David Haggart, and on ‘The convict’, a poem occasioned by his execution; written in a copy of ‘The convict’ (Edinburgh, 1821).
‘Annals of Scotland’ by Sir James Balfour.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.2.8-9.
Annotated printed reports on the proposed scheme to provide for the widows of members of the Faculty of Advocates.
Annotated printed works, typescripts, and manuscripts connected with piobaireachd, in particular with the exact musical interpretation of canntaireachd, compiled by Alexander K Cameron, Montana, USA.
Annual reports of the curators and abstracts of funds of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Anonymous description of a proposed route from Port Patrick, Wigtonshire, to Edinburgh for Sir Edward Baker, formely Littlehales, 1st Baronet of Ashcombe, Surrey, with maps and mileage tables.
This is a carefully planned tour. The writer states his reasons for the selection of the route and for rejecting the alternatives, and comments on the history and contemporary situations of the major settlements en route.
Anonymous letter, endorsed 1706, criticising the proposed Act of Union, with a list of ‘Queries in case of an Incorporating Union’.
Anonymous treatise entitled "Anent the Scott's Law in Civils".
The treatise describes the jurisdictions involved and goes on to deal systematically with the law of property, contract, and inheritance. Church property is discussed separately.
'Answer to the letter of the Ministers of the Presbitrie of Stirling to the Commission of the General Assemblie from the said Assemblie. Janr. 1651.'
‘Antient metaphysics’ (Edinburgh, 1779-1799), volumes 1-5, by James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, with manuscript annotations by Monboddo and an amanuensis.
Notes by Professor William Fraser Mitchell on the front flyleaf of MS.25253 and inside the front covers of MSS.25256-25257 state that the second hand is that of Lord Monboddo's son-in-law, Kirkpatrick Williamson Burnett.
Apology for his conversion to Roman Catholicism by Alexander Cameron, a younger son of John Cameron of Lochiel, and subsequently a Jesuit missioner in Scotland.
Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.
William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.
Apparently unpublished poem by Mrs Alison Cockburn entitled 'Adieu to My Garden 23rd Novʳ. 1777', tipped into a copy of ‘Letters and Memoir of her own Life by Mrs Alison Rutherford or Cockburn’ (Edinburgh, 1900).
On the page facing the half-title page is an inscription dated May 1900 of T Craig-Brown, who compiled the notes to the printed work, presenting this copy to his daughter.
Apparently unpublished work entitled "Mélographie, ou l'art d'écrire la musique comme le discours, par Joseph Delurtier".
The work describes a method of notation by stenographic symbols written on one line, giving many examples of its use.
Arguments of the judges in the Court of Exchequer in the Bankers’ case, 23rd June 1696.
Armorial coats-of-arms of the Scottish gentry, drawn first in pencil, then inked over, a very few being partially coloured.
At the beginning 30 folios have been left blank and the last drawings, on folio 47, have not been completed. From the watermark and the hand, the manuscript may be dated to the late 16th century; it is possibly an English production as many Scottish family names have been misspelt in a non-Scottish manner.
Arrangement, in a nineteenth-century hand, for two pianofortes, of Concerto Number 3 in G major from the set of six Concerti Grossi by George Frideric Handel first published in 1734.
Ars dictaminis of Giovanni di Buonandrea, with gloss, written in Italy.
Begins 'Bononie natus nataii dum sttidet urbe'; gloss begins 'Quid est Rethorica nisi ratio benedicendi'. The manuscript is incomplete, breaking off in the section on 'Petitio'.
A cutting from the sale catalogue of Maggs Bros, February 1960[?], number 67, is inserted describing the text as the work of Johannes de Bologna. Written in brown ink by one scribe, the text in littera semi-gothica textualis and the gloss in cursiva libraria. Spaces have been left for initials.
Article entitled 'A summer night's dream', published in three parts in the ‘United service magazine’, 1890, bound for Lieutenant Douglas Haig of the 7th Hussars (afterwards Field-Marshal Earl Haig) whose signature dated Secunderabad, 1890 is inside the front cover, and whose book-plate (when Earl Haig) is pasted to the flyleaf.
The article was published in ‘United Service magazine’, June, July and August, 1890, pages 205-229, 357-376 and 385-402.
Article entitled 'Early Scottish history and its exponents' by Alexander Henry Rhind.
The article was originally contained in the ‘Retrospective Review’, volume i (1853), pages 273-291. It has been separately re-bound, with interleaves, and there are extensive alterations in the author's autograph on most of the printed pages and the interleaves.
Article from 'Books and Bookplates', titled 'The Advocates' Library' by William Kirk Dickson.
‘Assumption of the benefices’, copy, 18th century, of a book of assumptions, tax rolls of church properties, and retour of Fife.
Atlas of Scotland.
A volume of county maps outlined in colour, with decorative cartouches in pen and wash. They are preceded by an index (folio i) and a map of the whole of Scotland showing the counties. The maps are based on ‘A general map of Scotland and Islands’ by James Dorret. They include a number of estates and the sites of several battles. The paper has the shield watermark with GR appendage used by James Whatman the younger from about 1762.