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Copies, late seventeenth century, of anti-religious tracts, ‘Cymbalum mundi ceu symbolum sapientiae’ and 'De tribus impostoribus’.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.5
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1. ‘Symbolum sapientiæ, hoc est doctrina solida de Religione et vulgo sic dicta S. scriptura, superstioni Paganæ, Iudaicæ, Christianæ et Muhammedanæ opposita ex M.S. autoris Itali ... Eleutheropolis Anno 1678';

2. ‘De tribus impostoribus’, juxta exemplar impressum 1598.

Dates: 1598, 1678.

Copies, made by Adam S Douglas in 1838, of a collection of letters, 1744-1746, addressed to Robert Craigie of Glendoick, Lord Advocate for Scotland.

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Identifier: MS.3030
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The letters, which are chiefly of the later part of 1745, deal almost entirely with the Jacobite rising.

Dates: 1744-1746.

Copies of 12 songs of Meta Maclean.

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Identifier: Acc.6730
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With associated photographs and press cuttings.

Dates: 1925-1939.

Copies of 14 photographs of a Kirkcaldy linoleum workers` strike.

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Identifier: Acc.7621
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With a typescript account, circa 1980, of the incident by James Bogie.

Dates: 1939-circa 1980.

Copies of Acts and minutes of sederunt of the second session of the first parliament of King William and Queen Marie, in a contemporary hand.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.15.2.12
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The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: W.6.8.

Dates: 15 April 1690.

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

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

The authors name is not known.

Dates: 18th century.

Copies of correspondence and papers concerning a dispute between Colonel (later Major-General) Charles Ross and Lieutenant-General Robert Boyd.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.1
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Both officers belonged to the 39th Foot which was then stationed in Gibraltar. The papers, which are not in chronological order, include letters to and from George Elliot, the Governor, extracts from regimental orders, and Ross`s own comments on the affair.

Dates: 1778-1780.

Copies of correspondence of the French jurist, Athanase J L Jourdan (1791-1826), apparently intended for publication.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.20
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Biographical notice of Jourdan by Leopold Warnkoenig. Jourdan`s date of birth is wrongly given as 1769. (Folio 1.)(ii) Correspondence with Warnkoenig, 1821-1826. (Folio 20.)(iii) Letters to David Irving, 1822-1826. (Folio 158.)(iv) Correspondence with K J A Mittermaier and others, 1825-1826. (Folio 179).The letters concern the history and study of Roman law, with particular stress on a return to the...
Dates: 1821-1826.

Copies of critical and bibliographical articles of J Randolph Cox.

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Identifier: Acc.6524
Scope and Contents

Concerning John Buchan.

Dates: 1966-1969.

Copies of dispatches and correspondence of Charles Pasley.

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Identifier: Acc.6538
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Concerning his part in Sir John Malcolm`s mission to Persia.

Dates: 1808.

Copies of documents concerning the Commission for Valuation of Teinds.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.7
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Copies or styles of deeds more or less connected with tythes and patronages; (ii) Decisions and proceedings of the Commission for Plantation of Kirks, 1631-1673.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (Jac.V.2.5).

Dates: 17th century.

Copies of documents relating to roads in the Highlands.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.19
Scope and Contents Copy of a memorial to the Treasury, 1799, by Robert Anstruther, Inspector of Military Roads, asking that the majority of the roads constructed in the Highlands continue to be maintained at public expense (folio 1), and two copies (folios 5, 8) of a letter, 1796, of Captain (afterwards Lieutenant-General) Henry Rudyerd to the Secretary of the British Society for extending of the Fisheries and improving the Seacoasts of the Kingdom, reporting on the road recently constructed from Contin to...
Dates: 1796, 1799.

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Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 7
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 5
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 4
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 4
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873 3
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Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 3
Aitken, William Russell, bibliographer, 1913-1998 2
British Broadcasting Corporation 2
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 2
Campbell, Sir Colin, 2nd Baronet, of Glenorchy, 1577-1640 2
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 2
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 2
Cuthbert, Walter Robertson, Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, husband of Gwendoline Emily Meacham, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1887-1970 2
Ellis, Frances Sterling, Walter Scott scholar, fl 1968-1998 2
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 2
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 2
Macarthur, family, Nairn, Scotland, Manitoba, Canada 2
Masefield, John Edward, Poet Laureate, 1878-1967 2
Soutar, William (poet) 2
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 2
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 2
Wilkie, Sir David, Knight, painter, 1785-1841 2
Adolphus, John Leycester, barrister and author, 1795-1862: recipient 1
Alexander, Sir William, Earl of Stirling, founder of Nova Scotia, c 1577-1640 1
Allen, Gladys Hope, genealogist, b 1875 1
Alpine Club 1
Anderson, George, 1865-1925 (sheep farmer, Falkland Islands) 1
Andrew, Elizabeth, lover of Robert Burns, poet, née Paton, fl 1786 1
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 1
Anne, Queen Consort of James I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1574-1619 1
Apthorp, D P, Captain, Royal Norfolk Regiment, fl 1942-1945 1
Armistead, John, commentator on occupation of Newcastle by Scottish army, fl 1641 1
Armstrong, Robert B, antiquary, fl 1880 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Garrison Artillery, 11th Siege Battery 1
Bain, Margaret I, correspondent of Henry W Meikle, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, fl 1932 1
Bain, Robert, dramatist and poet, 1865-1955 1
Baird, John Lawrence, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, 1874-1941 1
Balfour, Arthur James, 1st Earl of Balfour (statesman) 1
Ball, Sir Alexander John, Baronet, Rear-Admiral, 1756-1809 1
Ballantyne, Charles K N, Secretary of the New Club, Edinburgh, 1903-1985: recipient 1
Ballantyne, James (printer) 1
Bannerman, Sir Henry Campbell-, Prime Minister, 1836-1908 1
Bannerman, Sir Henry Campbell-, Prime Minister, 1836-1908: recipient 1
Barnett, David, Curator of Lady Stair's House Museum, Edinburgh, fl 1918-1936 1
Barnwell, Henry Thomas, Professor of French Language and Literature, b 1920 1
Beattie, George, poet, 1786-1823 1
Bell, Alexander Graham, inventor of the telephone, 1847-1922 1
Bell, Henry, builder of the "Comet", 1767-1830 1
Bell, William, great grand-nephew of Henry Bell, builder of the "Comet", d 1978 1
Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene (poet and author) 1
Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre René, poet and author, 1870-1953: recipient 1
Boece, Hector, historian, c 1465-1536 1
Bogie, James, Kirkcaldy, fl 1939-1980 1
Boston, Thomas, divine, the Elder, 1676-1732 1
Boswell, Euphemia, wife of Alexander, Lord Auchinleck, née Erskine, 1718-1766 1
Boswell, John, Lieutenant, 21st (Royal North British Fusilier) Regiment of Foot, 1743-c 1798 1
Boswell, John, clerk, fl 1774-1779 1
Bottomley, Gordon, author, 1874-1948 1
Braithwaite, Joseph Bevan, barrister, 1818-1905: recipient 1
Brecht, Eugen Berthold Friedrich, playwright, 1898-1956 1
British Broadcasting Corporation, Home Service, public service broadcaster 1
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British Order of Ancient Free Gardeners, fraternal society 1
Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (statesman, Lord Chancellor) (1778-1868) 1
Brown, Iain Gordon, Principal Curator of Manuscripts, National Library of Scotland, b 1950 1
Brown, T Gordon, correspondent of Michael Roberts, poet and mountaineer, fl 1946 1
Brown, William Alexander, military adventurer, 1922-1984 1
Bruce, James, of Kinnaird, traveller in Africa, 1730–1794 1
Bruce, Robert, Cape May, New Jersey, fl 1933-1983 1
Bruce, Robert, Cape May, New Jersey, fl 1933-1983: recipient 1
Burgess, Alexander, author of "Passport from China", fl 1900-1956 1
Byres, James, of Tonley, antiquary and architect, 1734-1817 1
Cadell and Davies, Edinburgh, publishers 1
Calder, Angus Lindsay Ritchie (historian, writer, and poet) 1
Calder, Peter Ritchie, Baron Ritchie-Calder, author and journalist, 1906-1982 1
Caledonian Railway Company 1
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 1
Campbell, George William, 6th Duke of Argyll, 1768-1839 1
Campbell, Jean Davidson, missionary in India, fl 1900-1940 1
Canning, George, statesman, 1770-1827: recipient 1
Carey, William (Baptist missionary in India) 1
Cargill, Dame Helen Wilson, Air Commandant, 1896-1969 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881: transcriber 1
Chalmers, John, son of Theodore, medical missionary, fl 2005 1
Chalmers, Theodore, medical missionary, 1884-1973 1
Chapman, Sir Stephen Remnant, Knight, Colonel-Commandant, Royal Engineers, 1776-1851: recipient 1
Charles I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1600-1649 1
Charlton, Bruce G, Professor of Theoretical Medicine, University of Buckingham, fl 1982-2000 1
Clerk, Sir John, 2nd Baronet, of Penicuik, 1676-1755 1
Cochrane, Hon Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis, Knight, Admiral, 1758-1832: recipient 1
Cochrane, Jane, wife of Thomas, 8th Earl of Dundonald, née Stuart, d 1808 1
Cockburn, John M, Sergeant, 23rd London Regiment, fl 1915 1
Collinson, Francis James Montgomery, musical director and musicologist, 1898-1984 1
Combe, George (Writer to the Signet, phrenologist) 1
Combe, George, Writer to the Signet, phrenologist, 1788-1858 1
Connel, John, emigrant to Quebec, fl 1845-1860 1
Cormack, William S, Principal, Stow College School of Engineering, Glasgow, fl 1945 1
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