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Copies of ‘Ane essay on the office of notary’.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.7.7-25.7.8
Scope and Contents

The authors name is not known.

Dates: 18th century.

Copy, 18th century, of ‘Ane Essay upon Tiends`, an anonymous essay in six chapters.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.3
Scope and Contents

Internal evidence suggests that the original essay was written circa 1732. It begins on folio 1, and is followed by a discussion on `patronage` (folio 28 verso), apparently a memorial by C Talbot for an unnamed litigant; and a copy ‘Memorial for Mr Thomas Linning, Min[?]. at Walstoun` (folio 30). The original of this memorial must have been written before Linning`s death in 1731.

Dates: Circa 1732.

Copy, written in the 2nd half of the 17th century, probably in Holland, of essays against Georgios Plethon by Matthaeus Camariota, 15th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.1.4
Scope and Contents

The manuscript gives the author`s name as Μακαριώτης and the title as πρὸς Πλήθωνα κατὰ (for περὶ) εἱμαρμένης.

Dates: 15th century.

Correspondence of Samuel Brown, the chemist, and his family.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.1889-1890
Scope and Contents

Among Samuel Brown's more frequent correspondents, outside the family, are Thomas Aird, George Combe (the phrenologist), Sydney Dobell, and Coventry Patmore; those of his widow and daughter (the donor) include Alexander Anderson ('Surfaceman') and Harriet Martineau.

Dates: 1833-1910, undated.

Essays, probably by Margaret Inglis, a schoolgirl in Edinburgh.

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Identifier: MS.14274
Scope and Contents

The subjects include themes from literature and history as well as more general topics and descriptions. Also included is a copy of a letter of Margaret Inglis (page 39), and miscellaneous notes and paraphrases.

Dates: 1868-1872.

Manuscript of ‘Ane Essay Relating to the Natural History of Scotland by way of Supplement to the Prodromus Naturalis Historae Scotae published anno 1684’ in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.19
Scope and Contents The manuscript contains, for the most part, discourses on natural history and scientific and medical phenomena found in Scotland, taken from manuscript and printed sources.Accounts taken from printed sources include ‘Philosophical Transactions’, ‘Description of the Islands of Orkney’ and ‘Large Description of Galloway’. Manuscript sources include letters and extracts of letters to Sibbald from Dr George Garden of Aberdeen and Matthew MacKaile, an Aberdeen apothecary....
Dates: 4th quarter of 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century.

Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).

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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates: 17th century-19th century.