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Printed edition of the metrical Psalms (Edinburgh, 1615), (Aldis 480.5), with contemporary manuscript additions of musical parts for the Psalms, probably by Edward Millar.
File
Identifier: Acc.12805
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and papers on the item, 1913-1962.
Dates:
1615.
Printed 'Particulars and Plan of the Fine Residential and Sporting Estate of Bowland situated in the Parish of Stow and Counties of Midlothian and Selkirk', including a map and a few manuscript annotations.
File
Identifier: MS.13600
Dates:
1889.
Producer`s marked copy of R MacKelvie Black, "For Faith and Freedom: a Drama of Covenanting Days".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10048
Dates:
early 20th century.
Programme and annotated prompt copy of Frederic Mohr`s play "The Admiral Jones", as produced by the Dumfries and Galloway Arts Association.
File
Identifier: Acc.11004
Dates:
1993.
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.
Proof copy of Andrew L Drummond, "German Protestantism Since Luther" (1951), and annotated copy of "The Story of American Protestantism" (1st [British] edition, 1949) by the same author.
File
Identifier: Acc.10076
Scope and Contents
With associated letters and papers.
Dates:
1949-1963.
Proof copy of 'Poor things', by Alasdair Gray, with a related letter.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11160/1-2
Scope and Contents
A heavily annotated paperback proof of 'Poor things', donated by Alasdair Gray to Mark Fleming for auction at a Scotland in Europe fundraising event, with an accompanying letter explaining the donation.
Dates:
1992-1993.
Proofs of George MacDonald, "St George and St Michael" (1876), with corrections and revisions by the author.
File
Identifier: Acc.8692
Dates:
1876.
Quintin Kennedy, "Ane Compendius Tractive", with annotations by the author.
File
Identifier: Acc.9268 [RB.s.2950]
Scope and Contents
With manuscript copy of "De Praesentia Corporis in Sacramento Altaris".
Dates:
1558.
"Remarks on Dr Samuel Johnson`s Journey to the Hebrides..." (1779) by Donald McNicol.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12511
Scope and Contents
Includes annotations possibly by former owner James McNicol.
Dates:
1779.
‘‘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.
Review copy of T A Robertson, 'Mair laeves fae Vagaland' (Lerwick, 1965), with annotations by George Campbell Hay.
Item
Identifier: MS.26798
Dates:
[1965, or after.]
Richard Wharton, "Observations on the Authenticity of Bruce`s Travels" (1800), with extensive annotations by William George Browne.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8454
Scope and Contents
With a letter, 1789, of James Bruce to George Robinson.
Dates:
1789, 1800.
‘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.
Robert Burns "Poems" (Edinburgh, 1787).
Item
Identifier: Acc.10981
Scope and Contents
With names added in manuscript by Burns.
Dates:
1787.
"Roll of Members of the Auld Callants Club Instituted 1834", includes amendments.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10550
Dates:
circa 1845.
`Satires` of Juvenal. Edition with the commentaries of Antonio Mancinelli and Jodocus Badius Ascensius (Paris: Ascensius, 1505), with manuscript annotations.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.11
Scope and Contents
The annotations are of various types:(i) The title page is supplied on the second flyleaf by a 16th-century hand.(ii) Underlining and summarising occur sporadically.(iii) Interlinear glosses and marginal explanations by a 16th-century hand (probably the same as in (i)) are frequent up to folio lxiv.(iv) Notes of variant readings in two manuscripts of Isaac Voss are added in the margins by Peter Lambeck, who inscribed the volume in Amsterdam in...
Dates:
16th century-1646.
Schoolbook, transcribed in the early 12th century, containing notes and glosses (in Latin and German) on authors studied in schools and other texts which could be used in teaching.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Juvenal, 'Satires': citations with commentary in alphabetical order of keyword, incipit 'Maior auaritie patuit'. (i.88). (Folio 1.)(ii) Lucan, 'Civil War': introduction and citations with and without commentary from books 1-6 and 9, incipit 'Lucanii sum(m)a utilitas e(st) i(n) topog(ra)phia'. (Folio 5 verso.)(iii) Philosophical notes, possibly connected to Porphyry's introduction to Aristotle's 'Analytica...
Dates:
Early 12th century.
'Scottish heraldic seals: royal, official, ecclesiastical, collegiate, burghal, personal' (Glasgow, 1940), by John Horne Stevenson and Marquerite Wood, with annotations and photographs.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.6841/1-3
Dates:
1940.
Scribal copy of letter, 1643, of Oliver Cromwell to Lawrence Crawford
File
Identifier: Acc.5003
Scope and Contents
With annotated transcript and notes, circa 1840-circa 1845, of Thomas Carlyle.
Dates:
1643-circa 1845
Script of broadcast of reminiscences of H W Meikle and H J C Grierson, with annotations by Grierson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5350
Dates:
circa 1950-circa 1960.
Seven letters of John Claudius Loudon to John Milne, Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Acc.10709
Scope and Contents
On subjects connected with architecture, gardening, natural history and publishing in these fields.
Together with copy letter, 1832, of Milne to Loudon, and an annotated prospectus for Loudon`s "Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture" (1832).
Dates:
1829-1832.
Short book of verses and caricatures by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepdaughter, Mrs Strong.
Item
Identifier: MS.8791
Scope and Contents
The book describes Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepdaughter's famous visit, paid in company with the Countess of Jersey, to the rebel king Mataafa at Malie (see ‘The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson’, volume iv, pages 223-234). Three letters, 1892, of Stevenson are also included. One, apparently unpublished, is addressed to Mataafa and the other two (see ‘The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson’, volume iv, pages 216-217) to 'Amelia Balfour', a pseudonym for Lady Jersey. All these items...
Dates:
1892.
Signed and annotated copies of works by Professor John Dover Wilson, together with copies of works on Shakespearean scholarship (some annotated by Wilson) presented to him.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12697
Dates:
1905-1966.