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Annotated typescript translation of the diary of Alexander Amman, Polish Army. Translated by Michael Allan.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10077
Dates:
1939-1942.
Annotated typescripts of eight poems of W S Graham.
File
Identifier: Acc.11274
Dates:
1941-1977 and undated.
Anonymous letter to Thomas Carlyle, with annotations by the recipient.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7672
Dates:
? 1866
‘Antient metaphysics’ (Edinburgh, 1779-1799), volumes 1-5, by James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, with manuscript annotations by Monboddo and an amanuensis.
Series
Identifier: MSS.25253-25257
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
[1779, or after]-[1797, or after.]
Author’s annotated copies of ‘The Grants of Corrimony’ (Berwick, 1895), and ‘The county families of the Zetland Islands’ (Berwick, 1893) by Sir Francis J Grant.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10971-10972
Dates:
1893, 1895, 1906-1950.
Author's interleaved proof copy of ‘Occasional verses, translations and imitations’ by Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie; with letters and papers to Glenbervie formerly loosely inserted therein.
Series
Identifier: MSS.16493-16494
Dates:
[?1820.]
Author’s own copy of ‘The Gareloch as military port no. 1’ by Arnold Fleming (Helensburgh, [1949]); with corrections and additions throughout in manuscript, and numerous inserts.
File
Identifier: MS.16483
Scope and Contents
Pasted in at beginning and end are newspaper cuttings, typescripts, and manuscripts, consisting of reviews of the book and of articles and notes on its subject, on Clyde steamers, and on Madeleine Smith.
Dates:
[1949], [1949, or after.]
Barbara Balfour-Melville, "The Balfours of Pilrig" (1907), with interleavings annotated by Sir Graham Balfour.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9458
Scope and Contents
With photographs and letters including five, 1870, 1887-1892, of Robert L Stevenson, and two, 1859, 1869, of Florence Nightingale.
Dates:
circa 1859-1907.
Bazett Michael Haggard, "Objects of Pity" (1892), with author`s corrections and associated correspondence.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8232
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Lloyd Osbourne, 1901, and Isobel Field, 1941.
Dates:
1892-1941.
Biographical notices of Scottish pipers, in continuation of a series published in "Piping Times".
File
Identifier: Acc.11003
Scope and Contents
Includes additions and corrections.
Dates:
circa 1984.
Compendium of medical treatises in Gaelic written by Angus Beaton.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.10
Scope and Contents
The compendium of medical treatises was written 1611-1614 by Angus Beaton. He gives only his patronymic, Aonghus mac Fearchair mhic Aonghuis (pages 126, 192, 260), but this is sufficient to identify him as of the Beatons of Husabost in Skye. Apart from one visit to Skye (Trumpan, page 66), and a meeting or consultation with Cameron of Lochiel at a place called Dunán Eachain (page 106), Angus’ line-fillers and other notes indicate that the manuscript was written on circuit in the contiguous...
Dates:
1611-1614.
Composite manuscript of miscellaneous Gaelic texts.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.8
Scope and Contents
A composite ('mangeral', page 194) manuscript of 3 sections, the first probably from Ulster, the others from Munster.Section 1: Pages 13-182. ‘Foolscap’ watermark typical of latter half of 17th century. The hand at pages 13-120 is otherwise unknown, but the date ‘1709’ (page 44, margin) may be an indication of the year of writing. That at pages 121-180 is Hand X of the Antrim Manuscript, National Museum of Scotland MCR 40.Section 2: Pages 182a-272. ‘Coat of arms’...
Dates:
18th century.
Composite volume of 15th-century manuscripts of miscellaneous works by four hands bound together, with an incunable, in the 16th-century or earlier.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.8
Scope and Contents
The collection has been in one volume since the 16th century at least. The contents are as follows:[(i) A printed book: Johannes de Hildesheim, ‘Liber de gestis ac translatione trium regum’, etc., ([Cologne], 1478) = National Library of Scotland Inc.43 (B.M.Cat. IB 4236) (folio 1)]. Folio 56 blank.(ii) Baebius Italicus (?), `Ilias latina` (‘Poetae latini minores’ ii.3; this manuscript is not included in the list given by P Vollmer in ‘Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen...
Dates:
15th century.
Composite volume of English origin containing two manuscripts of the 12th and 13th century; the 'Thebaid' of Statius, and the 'Aeneid' of Virgil
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.12
Scope and Contents
(i) Statius, 'Thebaid' (folio 1). There is a prose argument on folio v verso, and verse arguments to books ii-v, vii-ix, and xii. The text of this manuscript belongs to Boussard's group σ⁴ (Paris.lat.8280, Vatican Barb.lat.106, Vatican Pal.lat.1692, Florence Laur.pl.58.7 - all 13th century; and Milan Ambros.H.21 inf., 14th-15th century), as omitting x.104-105 and 112-117, having the interpolation before x.131, and having varying readings in the other test passages (x.62 'pudorem', s.1....
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
‘Confessio Fidei’ (Cambridge, 1659), interleaved, with manuscript annotations by Hugh MacKail.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.18
Dates:
[1659, or after.]
Copies of Constantinus Harmenopoulos, “Πρόχειρον νόμων” (Paris, 1540), with manuscript notes and annotations by various scholars.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.5.1-Adv.MS.28.5.7
Scope and Contents
Seven copies of “Πρόχειρον νόμων, sive epitome juris civilis" with marginal annotations of collation and correction by various scholars of Esusciluce whose names are noted on each.
Dates:
Mid 16th century-18th century.
Copies of Edwin Muir, "First Poems" (1925) and "Chorus of the Newly Dead" (1926), the former inscribed by Muir to John and Dorothy Holms.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9645
Scope and Contents
Both annotated by Beatrix Holms
Dates:
circa 1925-1926.
Copies of "The Works of Robert Burns..." (Liverpool, 1800), and "Reliques of Robert Burns" (London, 1808), both annotated by Alexander Fraser Tytler.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9852
Dates:
1800-1808.
Copy-book and Latin exercises written by John, Robert and William Scott of Gilmanscleuch.
File
Identifier: MS.5068
Scope and Contents
Comments on the manuscript by Sir J A H Murray are interspersed throughout the volume. Also included is his article, 'Concerning an old copy-book', in 'Leisure Hour', 1 January 1871.
Dates:
1629-1632, [1871, or before].
Copy of Alexander MacKain, "Badenoch: It`s History, Clans and Place Names", with corrections and annotations by the author.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9611
Dates:
circa 1910.
Copy of "An Early Norse Reader", edited by G N Garmonsway, with annotations of David D Murison.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7517
Dates:
1928.
Copy of "Ballads of the Bench and Bar", with manuscript annotations.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5780
Dates:
1882.
Copy of 'Critical dissertations', by John Macpherson, with annotations of Robert Forbes.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14451
Dates:
1768-1772.