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Collection of manuscript material transferred from printed theses collection, 1637-late 19th century, chiefly consisting of German academic papers, but including a small cache of Scottish legal papers, 19th century.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.3591
Scope and Contents

With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.

Dates: 14th century-19th century.

Collection of romances and religious material, mostly in verse, written in the North Midlands by Richard Heeg with some items by James Hawghton and additions in other hands.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.1
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘The Hunting of the Hare` (‘The Index of Middle English Verse’, 973) (folio 1), followed by a mock sermon in prose (folio 7 verso) and nonsense verses (folio 10 verso) (the latter ‘The Index of Middle English Verse’, 3425, both printed in ‘Reliquiae Antiquae’, volume 1, pages 82-84). See ‘The “Hunting of the Hare” in the Heege Manuscript’. Written by Richard Heeg.(ii) `Sir Gowther` (‘The Index of Middle English Verse’,...
Dates: Circa 1480.

Copies, 17th century, of letters, 1636-1640, of Samuel Rutherfurd chiefly written during the period of his banishment to Aberdeen in 1637.

 File
Identifier: MS.15950
Scope and Contents

The letters are followed (folio 56) by copies of sermons and similar material of Hugh Mackail, David Dickson and others.

The inverted folios contain political and other poems, including 'The black bastel' by James Melvill.

Dates: 1636-1640.

Correspondence and documents concerning the families of Thomas Smith, Professor of Evangelistic Theology at New College, Edinburgh, and John Smith, tenant in Libberton, Lanarkshire.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.7185-7186
Scope and Contents

The families of Thomas and John Smith were related by marriage and an outline genealogy is provided (MS.7185, folio i.).

Dates: 1790-1914.

Correspondence, notebooks, journals and other papers of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, Bishop Robert Douglas, and of the Douglas family and estates.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10229/1-132
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and papers, literary manuscripts and journals of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie (1744-1823) and of earlier members of the Douglas family, mainly his great-grandfather, Robert Douglas (1625-1716), Bishop of Brechin, 1682-1684, and the last Bishop of Dunblane (1684-1689) in the pre-Revolution episcopal establishment of the Church of Scotland; and his father, John Douglas of Fechil in the parish of Ellon, Aberdeenshire (1714-1762).

Dates: 1597-1823.

Microfilm of 11th and 12th century manuscripts.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.350
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Manuscript of the late 11th and early 12th century containing: the 'Paradisus' of Heraclides; the 'Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae temper Wandalorum' of Victor Vitensis; 'De corpore et sanguine Domini' of Paschasius Radbertus (attributed to Rabanus Maurus); 'De corpore Domini contra Berengarium' of Guitmund; and two sermons of St Augustine of Hippo (Adv.MS.18.4.3);Medical manuscript, 1st half of 12th century, written in South France or...
Dates: Late 11th century-1st half of 12th century.

Microfilm of papers, 1592-1654, of Sir James Balfour; and, sermons, 1660, of Presbyterian preachers.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.361
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: “Order of King Charles’ entering Edinburghe in stait at ye vest porte, and his march trough the towne to Holyrood House 15 Junij 1633”, and notes on other ceremonies, by Sir James Balfour, in his own handwriting (Adv.MS.15.2.17);Notes, 1592-1606, of Sir James Balfour on the order of court dignitaries on ceremonial occasions. (Adv.MS.15.2.18);Collection of sermons, 1660, by Presbyterian preachers (Adv.MS.15.2.20);Commonplace...
Dates: 1592-1660.

Microfilm of Sermones de Tempore, a homiliary, early 12th century; and, medical manuscripts, 13th century.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.423
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Sermones de Tempore, a homiliary written in the early 12th century for Rochester Cathedral Priory (Adv.MS.18.2.4).

Two English medical manuscripts, each written by two scribes of the thirteenth century, bound together from an early date (Adv.MS.18.2.5).

Dates: Early 12th century, 13th century.

Miscellaneous letters and manuscripts.

 Series
Identifier: MS.3112

Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.19
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Printed prospectus of the Sanitary Protection Association of Edinburgh, late 19th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Printed list of members, with subscriptions, of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries (Konungliga Norraena Fornfraeda-Felag), 1849, in Icelandic. There are also an extract from the constitution of the Society (in French), a note on the subscriptions (in Danish), and a list of the books published by the Society....
Dates: 1561, 17th century-late 19th century.

Notebook belonging to William Rankin, James Rankin, and, finally, to Gabriel Rankin of Orchardhead.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6159
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Memoranda relating to financial and other transactions of Rankin of Orchardhead, 1605 (folio 1); 1605-1609 (folio 2 inverted);(ii) Miscellaneous material, mid-seventeenth century: 'Lactari cordato et greca lingua studioso' (folio 4); latin verses (folio 12 inverted); sermons and historical notes (folio 13 inverted);(iii) Material relating to Alexander Mure, portioner of Grange of Bothkennar: 'Rentall of the Bacraw', 1639,...
Dates: 1605-1725.

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.

Papers of and concerning the Reverend George Murray Reith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3564
Scope and Contents

Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.

Dates: [?1885]-?1st half of 19th century.

Papers of the Reverend Thomas Veitch.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11175
Scope and Contents

Includes typescripts of sermons, talks, essays, plays and poems.

Dates: 1948-1974 and undated.

Papers of the Sutherland Estates.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.314
Scope and Contents

This deposit comprises special items from the Sutherland archives as listed in the agreement of 19 March 1978.

Dates: 15th century-1814.

Records of Saint Ninian`s Cathedral, Perth; of the diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane; and of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.251
Scope and Contents

Also included are papers of clergymen connected with Saint Ninian`s, including sermons, historical and liturgical works by Bishop Charles Wordsworth, Bishop George Howard Wilkinson, Dean George Taylor Shillito Farquar, and Dean James Wilson Harper.

Dates: 1648-20th century.

Sermons, speeches and declarations by Covenanters involved in the Pentland Rising of 1666 and subsequently executed.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11722
Scope and Contents

Includes work of Humphrey Colquhoun and Hugh Mackail.

Dates: circa 1666.

Various manuscripts written or owned by Thomas Ruddiman.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20491-20496
Scope and Contents

The manuscripts are lettered RA-RK (RC missing) and some also have Roman numerals.

Dates: 4th quarter of 17th century-1st half of 18th century.

Writings of Savonarola, translated into English, in the hand of Alexander Falconar, Advocate, who added some comments in the margins, late seventeenth or early eighteenth century.

 File
Identifier: MS.3859
Scope and Contents

Contains: ‘De Simplicitate Christianae Vitae’, preceded by the ‘Epistola’, as in the Cologne edition (1550), and followed by a sermon on John, iv, I, preached on 9 June 1495 (folio 101).

There are notes on the manuscript and its writer on folios i and iii.

Dates: Late 17th century-early 18th century.

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