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Sermons and papers of John Sime with papers of the Philadelphian Society.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10493
Dates:
13th century-1859 and undated.
Society of Writers to Her Majesty`s Signet manuscripts.
File
Identifier: Acc.4245
Scope and Contents
Including mediaeval vellum fragments, facsimiles of letters and documents (with some original manuscripts), and annotated printed items.
Dates:
circa 1200-circa 1900.
Store book of Colonel [John] Adlecron's Regiment, 39th Foot, kept by Stephen Julian and Edward Forde, successive quartermasters, when the regiment was based in the Carnatic at Fort St David and Fort St George.
File
Identifier: MS.6291
Scope and Contents
Copies of other documents of a military nature have been added. The volume has been damaged and several pages are missing, particularly at the end.The contents are as follows:(i) Quarterly records of stores issued for the use of the regiment, September 1754, to March 1759 (folio 1);(ii) Copy of 'Instructions for the Commanding Officer of Train of Artillery attending His Majesty's Forces ordered to the East Indies', dated 21 February 1754 (folio 30...
Dates:
1744-1778.
Successive typescript texts, fragmentary notes, and revisions of 'The last heir', a dramatization, in four acts, of ‘The bride of Lammermoor’ by Sir Walter Scott, made for Sir John Martin-Harvey by Stephen Phillips; together with an orchestral score by Norman O'Neill.
Series
Identifier: MSS.7151-7170
Scope and Contents
The first four drafts (MSS.7151-7157) are entitled 'The bride of Lammermoor'.
Dates:
1907-1908.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Dates:
17th century.
The Chronicle of Fortingall, a 16th-century manuscript written in Highland Perthshire, Scotland.
Item
Identifier: MS.50300
Scope and Contents
A manuscript of varied contents, written by a group of scribes in Fortingall, Perthshire, mostly in the third quarter of the 16th century. The volume chronicles deaths and other events mainly in Highland Perthshire and other Highlands areas, but it also occasionally includes events of national concern, such as those surrounding the forced abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots. The chronicle entries are mainly in Latin, sometimes with Scots words used instead Latin terms, but a number of...
Dates:
ca. 1550-1579
Three letters, 1712, of William Nicolson to Archibald Campbell.
File
Identifier: Acc.5915
Scope and Contents
With notes and fragments mainly of Alexander Jolly.
Dates:
1712 and undated.
Two collections of writings of Allan Ramsay, in his hand.
File
Identifier: MS.2233
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Drafts of poems, of a prose treatise in defence of the theatre (fragmentary, but not ‘Some Few Hints in Defence of Dramatic Entertainments’), and of a letter to a lady, containing a poem. Some of the poems appear to be unpublished; others differ greatly from the printed version. On folio 10 there are marginal references, apparently contemporary, to the pages of ‘Poems by Allan Ramsay’ (Edinburgh, 1728), volume ii. Some of the leaves are paginated,...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Two separate and apparently independent fragments of manuscript in Gaelic bearing different portions of the same text, the commentary on the Aphorisms of Damascenus.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.17
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.Folio 1: (John Mackenchie’s ‘B’).The text is written by an undistinguished and rather variable hand, small to average in size.On Isidore’s commentary on Aphorisms of Johannes Damascenus, cf. Adv.MS.72.1.13, folio 1 recto, column a, line 1. Beginning ‘(I)lla non debet nos commovere [et] [c]eter[a]’ = Adv.MS.72.1.13, folio 2 recto, column b, line 35. Ends incomplete ‘mar at[a] reubarbarum ar meid as cosm[ail]’ = Adv.MS.72.1.13,...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Two vellum fragments from a religious or theological work, possibly a collection of sermons.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.49
Dates:
14th century.
Volume of Covenanting documents, containing copies of papers representing an extreme 'Cameronian' view.
File
Identifier: MS.5408
Scope and Contents
Some leaves are missing from the beginning of the volume.The contents are as follows:(i) Fragment of a declaration against those who accepted the Declaration of Indulgence (folio 1);(ii) A declaration of 'the poor society of Tindwall' against William III, the established Presbyterian Church, and the defection of Alexander Sheilds, William Boyd and Thomas Linning (folio 10);(iii) 'Some causes of Lords contraversie, holding forth some few steps...
Dates:
[Circa 1700.]