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Society of Writers to Her Majesty`s Signet manuscripts.
Including mediaeval vellum fragments, facsimiles of letters and documents (with some original manuscripts), and annotated printed items.
'Tabula super bibliam': an early 15th-century glossed copy of a summary of the Bible in Latin verse by Johannes Vasco, Order of Friars Minor, with explanatory verses which give the date of composition as 1393.
Testimonials and other notices, 1837, concerning the election of David Laing as Librarian of the Signet Library.
With two annontated copies (one a proof), 1890, of "History of the Society of Writers to... [the] Signet".
"The Course of Hannibal over the Alps Ascertained" (London, 1794) by John Whitaker and annotated by Alexander Fraser Tytler.
Includes manuscript [laid in] of "Hannibals [sic] Passage thro` the Alps, According to, Gen[era]l Melville", watermarked 1801-1802 and endorsed by A F Tytler. Not in the hand of General Robert Melville.
"The Holy Bible" with annotations by and concerning Sir James Y Simpson.
‘The Library. A poem.’ (Paisley: R Smith Bookseller, 1804), by Thomas Crichton; with interleaved authorial amendments.
Thomas Pennant, "Tour in Scotland" (1774), with annotations of Bishop Forbes.
Transcripts, circa 1806, of letters, 1746-1758, of James Hervey made for the Reverend John Brown.
With annotations by Brown.
Two home-produced magazines and related printed books (annotated) of George Henry Nettle.
The 1914 magazine "The Rambler" contains many pastel/pencil drawings and photographs of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison`s funeral procession, 1913.
Two volumes entitled "Suez Canal Tracts", containing the manuscript of "Report on the Means of Establishing a Ship Navigation between the Mediterranean and the Red Seas", by James Vetch.
Includes pamphlets on Suez Canal, many with annotations by Vetch.
Typescript copy of "Country Magazine", nos 25-50, a series of BBC Home Service broadcasts, 1943-1944, annotated by Francis Collinson, and a typescript copy of a Scottish Home Service broadcast, 1955.
The Scottish Home Service broadcast typescript is of "A Scottish Journey", in which Collinson makes a musical journey of Scotland.
Typescript, undated, of 'Tarravore', a play in three acts by James Shaw Grant (born 1910), director of Grampian Television and author of books on the Highlands.
The typescript is annotated for a production by the Park Theatre, Glasgow.
Typescript (with manuscript corrections) memoir entitled "Family Album" by George Blake .
Typescript, with manuscript corrections, of three papers of Hugh MacDiarmid, Ronald Stevenson and John Ogdon, and a discussion by them on the musician Kaikhosru Sorabji.
Typescript with some manuscript additions and corrections entitled "The History of Clan MacLeod" by Dr Isabel F Grant, published as "The MacLeods: the History of a Clan" (London, 1959).
"Virgil's Æneis", translated into Scottish verse by Gavin Douglas (Edinburgh, 1710); the glossary is heavily annotated by John Jamieson.
There are some notes by O K Schram inside the front cover concerning this edition of Gavin Douglas's text.
Walter Macfarlane’s annotated copy of George Crawfurd’s ‘The peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1716).
Working copy of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1813) by Sir Robert Douglas, revised and corrected by John Philp Wood: including revised printings of certain pages, extensive annotations by Wood, and related material, including some of later date, also concerning peerages.
The material described here would appear to relate to further revision by John Philp Wood of his revised and corrected edition of 1813 of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’.