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Berlioz's marked copy of a printed score of ‘Iphigénie en Tauride’ by Christoph Willibald von Gluck ([?Paris, ?1779]).
Item
Identifier: MS.21852
Scope and Contents
The copy is imperfect, lacking the title page. In addition to the amendments of Berlioz to instrumentation and dynamics, strips of blue paper on which is written an Italian version of the libretto are pasted to the printed pages, covering the French libretto, through the greater part of the volume. The paper covers in which the volume was previously enclosed are bound in at the back (folios i-iv).
Dates:
[?1779, ?1779, or after.]
"Bibliography of Thomas Carlyle's writings and ana" by Isaac Watson Dyer (Portland, Maine, 1928), presented by the author to James A S Barrett, with pencil notes and other additions.
File
Identifier: MS.9852
Scope and Contents
James A S Barrett contributed Section C (a list of the principal portraits, etc., of Carlyle, pages 533-542) to the work.
The volume contains Isaac Dyer's inscription to James Barrett, dated 1928, on the flyleaf, and pencil notes and amendments in Barrett's hand throughout. Press cuttings and a letter, 1930, of Robin Flower, Deputy Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum, doubtless to Barrett, which were loosely enclosed at various places within the volume, have been tipped in.
Dates:
1928-1930.
'Bibliothecae ... D. Jacobi, Marchionis Annandiae &c., catalogi index, a Thoma Ruddimanno, Facultatis juridicae Edinburgenae Bibliothecario, annis 1722 & 1723 Craigiehalliae confectus'.
Item
Identifier: MS.3075
Dates:
1722-1723.
Bifolium from a Bible written in Italy.
Item
Identifier: MS.10272
Scope and Contents
The bifolium contains Amos ix, 7-15, the prologues to Obadiah (F Stegmüller, ‘Repertorium biblicum medii aevi’ (Madrid, 1940), volume i, numbers 519 and 517) and Obadiah 1-20 (folio 1), and Micah ii, 4-v, 6 (folio 2).
Written in a large littera textualis with running titles, headings and chapter numbers in red. There is one ten-line decorated initial in red and an eight-line decorated initial in yellow, red, blue and green. Obadiah is marked 'Liber xix' and Micah 'Liber xxi'.
Dates:
1st half of 12th century.
Bills concerning repairs and maintenance work done at properties in Auchentoshan, and miscellaneous correspondence from the Auchentoshan Deeds, Ch.5911-5945.
File
Identifier: MS.5055
Dates:
[Circa 1802-1843.]
Binders' account books of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Series
Identifier: F.R.312b-F.R.312l
Dates:
1889-1924.
Binder's books in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Series
Identifier: F.R.311-F.R.312a
Dates:
1850-1933.
Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Barons of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood (died 1838), Auditor of Excise, Scottish antiquary and biographer.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.37.2.1-37.2.11
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Biographical notes on the Senators of the College of Justice from 1532 to 1789, collected by John Philp Wood, probably in connection with his biographies in Adv.MSS.37.2.2-37.2.4.
File
Identifier: MS.2995
Scope and Contents
The notes are followed by extracts from the Balcarres Papers and notes on the Court of Session, undated; with an index and a note on the papers by John Philp Wood's daughter, Marion Wood, who arranged them, 1877 (folio 29).
A list of Advocates (folio 1) and an account of the Duke of Hamilton's duel with Lord Mohun (folio 25), found loose in the volume, have been pasted in.
Dates:
1877, undated.
Biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22130-22133
Scope and Contents
The collection was begun in the late nineteenth century and continued in the twentieth, being entrusted to Ian Scobie in 1944 (MS.22130, folio 2). The latest entry appears to be dated 1956. The entries are written on folio sheets. Press cuttings and other printed extracts and photographs (both originals and copies) have been added, pasted on separate sheets of the same size, to illustrate many of the entries. A number of the additional entries, and additions to existing entries, appear to be...
Dates:
Late 19th century-?1956.
'Blackadder prayerbook', written probably in France.
Item
Identifier: MS.10271
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Calendar in red and black. A number of Scottish saints are included, such as Kentigern (13 January in red), Duthac (8 March), Kessog (10 March), Columba (9 June) and Ternan (12 June). 8 July has 'Dedicatio eccliesie glasguensis' in red, and 2 November 'Dedicatio ecciesie aberdonensis' in black. (Folio 2.)(ii) Sequences of the Gospels. (Folio 8.)(iii) 'Obsecro te' and other prayers and hymns, mostly to the Virgin. They...
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.4001-4940
Scope and Contents
The papers consist mainly of letters written by authors to Blackwood as their publisher, and by others in search of publication, but they also include some manuscripts and proofs of works considered for publication, together with some papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun and John Wilson ('Christopher North'). Broadly, this is the incoming correspondence of the firm during the nineteenth century. The outgoing correspondence, so far as it is represented by copies in letter-books, etc.,...
Dates:
1805-1900, undated.
“Blair’s Collections”: Session papers of Robert Blair of Avonton, Lord President of the Court of Session.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.7.1.11-7.1.17
Dates:
1796-1811.
'Book containing minutes of what passed in the Convention of Estates, 1648.'
File
Identifier: MS.8482
Scope and Contents
The text describes the proceedings of Parliament, 9 March to 18 April, 1648, including meetings of the committees of eighteen and twenty four, and, occasionally, of the separate estates. Two of the meetings were also attended by ministers delegated by the Commission of the General Assembly. The debates mainly concern the conflict between the Parliament and the Church over the terms of the Engagement.The record is, in some respects, fuller than that in the ‘Acts of the Parliament...
Dates:
1648.
Book of autographs begun by Catherine E Moir, wife of David Macbeth Moir, 1829, and continued by her daughter Anne Mary Milligan, 1853, and her grandson, George Milligan, biblical scholar, 1872.
Item
Identifier: MS.10256
Scope and Contents
The album for the most part contains cut-out signatures of well-known nineteenth-century figures but there are also several letters notably of Charles Dickens, Fanny Kemble, Henry Siddons, Samuel Warren and Baroness Wentworth. Also included are autograph poems by Thomas Campbell and James Hogg. The poems of Hogg (folios 64-66) are "Lenochan's farewell", 'The Stuarts of Appin' and 'The poor man', all published in ‘The works of the Ettrick Shepherd' (London, 1873). The verses of Thomas...
Dates:
1829-1872.
Book of English and Scottish tunes; with a list of the contents, and remarks, by Davidson Cook, a previous owner of the manuscript.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2833-2834
Dates:
18th century.
Book of hours, according to the use of Amiens.
Item
Identifier: MS.8893
Scope and Contents
(i) Calendar in French in red and black. Entries in red include Saints Firmin (13 January, 1 and 25 September) and Fuscian (11 December). A table for determining the date of Easter is included in March. (Folio 1.)
(ii) St John's Gospel, I, volumes 1-14, and prayers. (Folio 13.)
(iii) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary. (Folio 17.)
(iv) Hours of the Cross. (Folio 76.)
(v) Hours of the Holy Ghost. (Folio 88.)
(vi) 'Deus propicius esto', 'Obsecro te' and Suffrages, including Saints Fiacre and...
Dates:
15th century.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Paris.
Item
Identifier: MS.10981
Scope and Contents
(i) Suffrage to St Anthony and a prayer to the Virgin, 'Veni vena venie'. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Sequences of the Gospels. (Folio 3.)
(iii) 'Obsecro te' and 'O intemerata'. (Folio 9.)
(iv) Hours of the Virgin. (Folio 17.)
(v) Penitential psalms, litany hymn 'Salve sancta caro Dei' (U. Chevatier, ‘Repertorium hymnologicum’ (Louvain, 1892-1921), number 18175) and prayers (Folio 80.)
(vi) Hours of the Cross. Matins and Lauds are missing. (Folio 106.)
(vii) Hours of the Holy Ghost. Matins and Lauds and...
Dates:
1st half of 15th century.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Rome, probably written in Padua.
File
Identifier: MS.9742
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Hours of the Virgin. (Folio 1 verso.)
(ii) Penitential Psalms and Litany. (Folio 97.)
(iii) Mass of the Virgin from the Common of Saints. The text up to the Gospel has been deleted with red paint. (Folio 129.)
(iv) Hours of the Cross. (Folio 133.)
(v) Hours of the Holy Ghost. (Folio 138.)
(vi) Office of the Dead. (Folio 145.)Written in littera semi-gothica textualis. Folio 9 appears to have been written after folio 10. Folios 94 verso-96, 128,...
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Rome, written in Florence.
Item
Identifier: MS.9743
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Calendar in red and brown, KL monograms in blue. Entries include Saints Aquilinus (15 May, in red), Clare of Assisi (12 August), and Nicholas of Tolentino (10 September). Folios 13-14 are blank but ruled. (Folio 1.)(ii) Hours of the Virgin. (Folio 15.)(iii) Office of the Dead. (Folio 81.)(iv) Penitential Psalms and Litany. (Folio 119.)(v) Hours of the Cross. (Folio 140.)(vi) Hours of the...
Dates:
[Circa 1450-circa 1460.]
Book of household and medical recipes marked 'Given to Lady Mary Murray, Sept. 5th 1787', written in several hands, and apparently compiled in the household of her father, the third Duke of Atholl.
Item
Identifier: MS.9478
Scope and Contents
The first fifty folios contain kitchen recipes. These are followed (folio 51) by a medical section, which includes some veterinary remedies, and (folio 124 verso) by a few recipes for home-made wines.
Dates:
1787.
Book of household recipes compiled by a Mrs William Spence.
Item
Identifier: MS.9479
Scope and Contents
The larger part consists of kitchen recipes, but a few medical remedies are contained in the inverted pages. Many of the informants appear to be Scottish.
Dates:
1825.
'Book of Liddesdale', being an account of the history, antiquities, etc., of the district by the Reverend James Snadden, minister of the United Presbyterian (afterwards United Free) Church at Newcastleton.
Series
Identifier: MSS.949-953
Dates:
1880-1929.
Book of nursery rhymes written and illustrated by Frances Lindesay.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14301
Dates:
1918.