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Emendations and additions to Morris and Le Clerc`s "Universal Dictionary", compiled by James Gordon of Aberdeen.
With observations and additions to Jeremy Collins, "Historical Dictionary", and a description of Aberdeen as an intellectual centre.
‘Extracta ex variis chronicis Scotiae’, a transcript made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane, 1738, taken from the original manuscript, Adv.MS.35.6.13, a collection of extracts of chronicles, late 15th century-early 16th century, mostly taken from Fordun and Boece with extensive annotations in the hand of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin.
Later additions in the original are here collected at the end (pages 249). The folio numbers of the original are given in the margin, and the index which is placed at the beginning in the original, is here transferred to the end (page 263).
‘Extracta ex variis chronicis Scotiae’, an incomplete transcript, early 18th century, taken from the original manuscript, Adv.MS.35.6.13, a collection of extracts of chronicles, late 15th century-early 16th century, mostly taken from Fordun and Boece with extensive annotations in the hand of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin.
A number of items in the Wodrow collection are in the same hand, and the copyist appears to have worked fairly frequently for Robert Wodrow. Later additions in the original are here collected at the end (page 159) and partially in a different hand, but the copyist breaks off in mid-entry at folio 296 verso of the original. The folio numbers of the original are given in the margin, and the index, which is placed at the beginning in the original, is omitted.
First edition of Alasdair Gray's "Lanark" (1981) with annotations in the hand of the author.
Manuscript annotations to the text on pages 490, 491, 538, 539 and 545 were intended by Gray to be included in new editions of the novel.
Five volumes of newspaper cuttings with annotations by James Logie Robertson and a letter of George Fothergill to Robertson.
Four copies of George Combe, "An Inquiry into Natural Religion" (Edinburgh, 1853), with author`s ammedments.
Gaelic manuscript known as the ‘Emanuel Manuscript’, written by Tadhg Ó Cianáin and containing 'An Cath Cathardha', a medieval Irish version of the Latin epic poem 'Pharsalia' by Lucan.
Galley proofs, circa 1958, of Ian Hamilton Finlay, "The Sea-Bed and Other Stories", with corrections by Finlay.
With printed copies of two short stories, undated, of Finlay with his annotations and corrections.
Glenmasan manuscript (Ulster cycle).
‘Handbook of Irish folklore’ (Dublin, 1942) by Seán Ó Suilleabháin, with extensive manuscript annotations by Professor Kenneth Jackson.
‘Historical and Critical Enquiry into the Evidence ... against Mary Queen of Scots’ by William Tytler (Edinburgh, 1760), containing many critical marginalia throughout in the hand of Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
Interleaved copy, bound in two volumes, of ‘Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D.1153’ by Sir Archibald C Lawrie (Glasgow, 1905), with annotations by the author on the printed leaves, the interleaves and other leaves bound in.
The annotations comprise corrections, additions and further discussion of doubtful matters. They have not been indexed in detail.
Interleaved copy of Erskine Beveridge, "Bibliography of Dunfermline and West Fife" with numerous corrections and additions by the author.
Interleaved copy of William Shakespeare, "Timon of Athens" (1851), with annotations by George MacDonald.
James D Law, "Here and There in Two Hemispheres", with author`s annotations.
‘James Hogg’ by Sir George Douglas (Edinburgh, 1899), with a few annotations by the author.
A letter, 1920, to George Douglas from Adam Scott, concerning portraits of Hogg, and a copy of a letter of Hogg, 1835, are inserted.
Joseph Robertson`s extensively annotated copy of the revision published in 1824 by Michael Russell (subsequently Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway) of the ‘Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops’ of Robert Keith, Bishop of Fife.
The annotations, some of which are extensive, consist mostly of additional information not available either to Keith or to Russell, and of corrections of errors. A few of the annotations (which are all in Robertson`s hand) are written on extra sheets of paper tipped in at relevant places, but most are written in the margins of the text. Robertson`s signature, dated Edinburgh 1836, is on the recto of the leaf preceding the half-title.
Journal kept by his eldest son and annotated by the Reverend Whitwell Elwin.
'Kilberry book of Ceol Mor’, 2nd edition, by Archibald Campbell (1953), containing various annotations in Francis Collinson's hand throughout.
The annotations are dated between 1960 (page 8) and 1982 (page 9) and most are in pencil.
A photostat copy of a piobaireachd found loosely enclosed has been tipped in at the back.
Late 10th-century manuscript, produced in England, which contains a selection of the poetry of Coelius Sedulius, with glosses in Latin and Old English.
Late 14th- or early 15th-century manuscript of the ‘Roman de la Rose’, written in two stages by Guillaume de Lorris, circa 1230, and Jean de Meun, circa 1270.
Letter of George Chalmers to Robert Cadell.
Concerns Chalmers` work on later volumes of "Caledonia", his wish to see a print of the author in the last volume and on his possible diversion by his life of David I, a move opposed by Cadell in a note on the letter.
Letters of John D Fergusson to Nigel McIsaac.
With letter of McIsaac concerning Ferguson, letters of Margaret Morris and annotated catalogues of Ferguson`s work.
Letters of literary and historical figures.
This accession comprises:
letter, 1837, of Lady Burnett to Mr Banting;
letter, 1845, of Thomas Chalmers to Sir David Brewster;
letter, 1857, of William Baring, Lord Ashburton, after the death of his wife, to Thomas Carlyle;
letter, 1876, of Ellen Wood to Ann Sansome;
letter, undated, of Adelaide Drummond to Mr Gaskell.