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Copies, early 18th century, of autobiographies and other works of covenanters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.19
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is apparently in the hand of John Elphinston: see Adv.MS.32.3.9, folio 78 verso. Several items in Adv.MS.32.3.9 are also in this hand.The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Autobiography of John Livingstone, minister of Ancrum. It has been published from the version in Wod.Qu.XVIII in ‘Select Biographies’, i, pages 129-197. This manuscript has a few variants from the published version. (Folio 1.)(ii) `An Account of what past when...
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century-early 18th century.
Copy, 1828, of the account of his activities leading to his flight from Scotland in 1567 and his subsequent adventures on the coast of Norway composed by James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, in 1568, whilst he was confined at Copenhagen by order of the King of Denmark.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.14
Scope and Contents
The account was intended to show that Bothwell was the victim of ill will on the part of the Scottish nobility, and to persuade the King to release him; but he was unsuccessful and remained in prison until his death in 1578.
Following an application by the Curators of the Advocates` Library to the philologist R C Rask, this copy was made in 1828 from the original, in Drottningholm, by P A Wallmark, Librarian to the King of Sweden.
Dates:
1568.
Copy, dated June 16 1727 (page 178), of the autobiography of William Veitch, minister of Dumfries, which was written (in the third person) apparently in 1714 (page 171).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.25
Scope and Contents
The text ends at page 171: the following pages contain passages intended for previous insertion.
Dates:
1714.
Copy of James Hog, minister of Carnock’s autobiography, `Memorial written by Philomathes and addressed to his surviving Friends`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.8
Scope and Contents
The work is written in the third person in eleven chapters, most of which concern Hog’s spiritual life.
The hand is probably the same as that of Adv.MS.32.3.9(i).
Dates:
18th century.
Copy of ‘The Life of Sir Robert Sibbald, M.D.’, made by William Gibb, writer, for the Advocates` Library, 1805, from the original manuscript, 1695, which has apparently been lost.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.1
Dates:
1695.
Corrected typescript drafts of `Points in time: an autobiography` by Dr William Johnstone, and related materials.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.332
Dates:
1980.
Microfilm of copy written in an unidentified hand of Alexander Carlyle's 'Recollections'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2106
Dates:
1801-1805.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1312-1328
Dates:
Mid 17th century-1937.
Transcript in a contemporary hand, of the ‘Autobiography’ of Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk.
File
Identifier: MS.3732
Scope and Contents
This version of the ‘Autobiography’, the same as that found in MS.3462 (folios 1-371), contains also the opening pages which are missing in that manuscript. Included (as far as folio 34 verso) are numerous excerpts from Thomas Carlyle's 'Recollections', some of which were printed for the first time, perhaps from MS.3463, in the form of footnotes in the 1910 edition of the ‘Autobiography’. Thereafter, apart from minor variations in arrangement and the omission of several paragraphs, the text...
Dates:
1765, 1800, 1819.