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Andrew Ross`s annotated interleaved copy of his, "The Lyons of Cossins and Wester Ogil, Cadets of Glamis" (Edinburgh, 1901).
Item
Identifier: Acc.7526A
Dates:
1901.
‘Magnum Opus’ of the ‘Waverley novels’ of Sir Walter Scott, chiefly the ‘Interleaved Waverley novels’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.23001-23041
Dates:
1822-1833.
Manuscript annotations of the first half of the eighteenth century on interleaved copies of ‘Fabularum aesopicarum delectus, cum Rogeri L'Estrange, equitis, interpretatione Anglica, necnon Latina variorum, Horatii, Phaedri, Faerni, &c. In usum studiosae juventutis Academiae Edinensis’ (Edinburgi, apud Jacobum Watson, MDCCX).
Series
Identifier: MSS.16484-16485
Scope and Contents
The similarity of the annotations suggests that these volumes reflect closely the elementary teaching of Greek at Edinburgh University in that period, and possibly that students were able to buy or encouraged to have the book interleaved. The only other copy recorded by D Wyn Evans in ‘James Watson of Edinburgh: a bibliography of works from his press 1695-1722’, Edinburgh Bibliography Society Transactions, volume V, part 2, 1982, number 190, in Edinburgh Central Public Library, is not...
Dates:
1st half of 18th century
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
Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21193-21198
Dates:
1569-1876, undated.
Photocopies of six sample pages of annotations on the interleavings of a Bible.
File
Identifier: Acc.6170
Dates:
1610.
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.]
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.
‘‘Rerum Scoticarum historia’ by George Buchanan (Elzevir, 1668), interleaved and annotated in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.5.21-33.5.22
Dates:
1668.
‘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.