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‘Act of the Associate Presbytery for Renewing the National Covenant’ (Edinburgh, 1748), bound with blank pages for subscriptions, issued to the Congregation at Muckhart.
Item
Identifier: MS.3923
Scope and Contents
The blank pages are filled with: (i) copies, made in 1763, of the sets of signatures for seven years from 1745 to 1758; (ii) original signatures, and the names of those who could not write, for 1769, 1776, and 1781. A Communion Roll of the United Presbyterian Congregation at Muckhart, 1886, is inserted at folio 29.There are on the fly-leaf a modern inscription in shorthand, with the name James Duncan (possibly a relative of the United Presbyterian Church Presbytery Clerk whose...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1745-1781, 1886.
Imperfect copy, lacking the title page, of the libretto of ‘La Traviata’ by Verdi (Paris, 1865).
File
Identifier: MS.21855
Scope and Contents
The copy contains two printed summaries of the plot tipped in at the front (folios i-ii) and numerous stage directions written on leaves tipped in throughout the volume and in the margins of the printed pages, as well as alterations to the text, for an unidentified apparently late nineteenth-century French production.The volume is signed by Ernest Marchand (deleted) and Francois Runaio on the upper cover which is inscribed 'Travrata mise en Scène n[o]. 2', and by Marchand on page...
Dates:
1865, late 19th century.
Perth Psalter, containing calendar, psalter, canticles, and litany.
Item
Identifier: MS.652
Scope and Contents
Referred to as the Perth Psalter from the entry in the calendar on 3rd September, ‘Dedicacio ecclesie de Perth’.The calendar and the litany are based on the use of Sarum, with additional entries for Scottish Saints. There are several illuminated capitals, four of the larger of these are accompanied by full-page borders of conventional foliage. Accompanying the manuscript is a list of additions to the calendar in a later cursive hand which were brought out by chemical action by F...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Presentation inscription, December 1942, by Joyce Cary to Professor John Dover Wilson, in Cary's 'To be a pilgrim' (London, 1942).
Item
Identifier: MS.10798
Scope and Contents
A watercolour by Joyce Cary depicting the scene described on page 306 is pasted inside the front cover. The title page is also signed by him.
Dates:
1942.
Various single and small quantities of musical compositions and letters of James Scott Skinner.
Series
Identifier: MS.22078
Dates:
1870-1924, undated.