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Manuscript of 'William and Helen' by Sir Walter Scott.
File
Identifier: MS.5278
Scope and Contents
There is an inscription to Lady Charlotte Home and Miss Haldane on folio 1.
Dates:
1796.
Manuscript, seventeenth century, of 'Diurnal of occurrents, 1513-1572', based, perhaps indirectly, on the same original as the Pollok Manuscript, published as ‘A diurnal of remarkable occurrents’.
Item
Identifier: MS.3805
Scope and Contents
The manuscript differs considerably from the Pollok Manuscript; in parts it is fuller, but it ends in 1572 (page 299 of the Bannatyne volume).
A note of the donor (folio ii) suggests it is one of the Demnilne Manuscripts.
Dates:
Late 16th century.
Manuscripts and typescripts of 27 poems of Joe Corrie.
File
Identifier: Acc.10040
Scope and Contents
With four inscribed copies of published collections of Corrie`s poems and short stories.
Dates:
1927-1928 and undated.
Manuscripts and typescripts of, with correspondence relating to, 'A cluster of clerihews' by Gavin Ewart; with a signed copy.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11326/1-2
Dates:
1981-1985.
Medical treatise, titled ‘An enquiry into the principal cause of the wide destruction of mankind in time of war, and of the slow ineffectual progress and permanency of military and naval operations in general’, exemplified by reference to various campaigns, long voyages and colonizations.
Item
Identifier: MS.3718
Scope and Contents
The author, who describes himself in an inscription to Henry Dundas, 1789, as a citizen of Edinburgh, was apparently Alexander Bruce whose son William was a major commanding the 24th Battalion in the Carnatic in 1787-1788 (page 204), and he may have been that Alexander Bruce, leather merchant, at the West Bow, to whom is ascribed, in an unknown hand in a copy of the work in this Library, 'An inquiry into the cause of the pestilence'.Accompanying the volume are two letters of...
Dates:
[1789, or before.]
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, including that of William Forbes Skene.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.15
Dates:
19th century.
Music books belonging to a member, or members, of the family of James Sanderson, a surgeon in the Madras Army; with a song setting and verses, undated, written on sheets formerly loosely inserted in MS.22167.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22165-22168
Dates:
1856-1864, undated.
Notebook in several hands containing culinary, household and medical recipes.
Item
Identifier: MS.24775
Scope and Contents
The volume is inscribed at folio 1 'Pastry Book Elgin 20th August 1734' and at folio 15 'Jean Robinson 23rd January 1749/50'. Later entries are largely copied from newspapers and magazines, particulary 'The Edinburgh Evening Courant' and 'The Edinburgh Advertiser'
Dates:
1734-1802, undated.
'Ocean, Stella, and other poems', 2nd edition (Edinburgh, 1830) by John Mackenzie, minister of Portpatrick, inscribed 'from the author', with an anonymous poem, 'The charming woman', tipped in at the end.
File
Identifier: MS.9227
Scope and Contents
The poem, 'The charming woman', is addressed to Miss Agnes Mackenzie, probably by John Mackenzie to his daughter.
Dates:
1830.
Original manuscript of "The Ship o' the Fiend", a ballad for Orchestra, Opus 5, composed by Hamish MacCunn.
File
Identifier: MS.3365
Scope and Contents
The ballad is preceded by a version, in Hamish MacCunn's hand, of the verse ballad that inspired the music, i.e., 'The Daemon Lover', number 243 of ‘The English and Scottish popular ballads’. A pencilled note records two performances in 1888.
Dates:
[1888, or before.]
Papers concerning Tom Gallacher and Moray McLaren.
File
Identifier: Acc.12216
Dates:
1969, 1984-1993.
Papers from the collection of Thomas Ruddiman.
File
Identifier: MS.2918
Scope and Contents
Numbers (i), (iv)-(vi) are in Thomas Ruddiman's hand, and some of the others are doubtless copied from his drafting.(i) Epitaph on Sir George Ogilvie, 1st Baronet of Barras.(ii) 'Presbyter Reformatus ad Reginam', Latin Second Asclepiadeans, signed 'Nabothus Chamaeleon' and inscribed by the author to Sir George Lockhart of Carnwath.(iii) Printed address of the corporation and people of Kirkwall to Alexander Geddes, a bailie of that town, to accompany a...
Dates:
18th century.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
File
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 Callum Macdonald.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9476
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscripts, corrected typescripts and proofs of publications, together with associated correspondence and printed items.
Dates:
1953-1986.
Papers relating to Ritchie Calder`s work with the Political Warfare Executive during the Second World War.
File
Identifier: Acc.12799
Dates:
circa 1942-2005.
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.
Plans for alterations in the High Kirk of St Giles, Edinburgh, by James Craig, including a 'design of a Gothic pulpit', inscribed to the Reverend Hugh Blair, Doctor of Divinity.
File
Identifier: MS.502
Dates:
1777.
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.
Printed copy of thesis of Sir Walter Scott titled, 'De cadanesibus damnatorum' (Edinburgh, 1792), for his admission to the Faculty of Advocates, with autograph inscription by Scott.
Item
Identifier: F.R.106
Dates:
1792.
"The Rambler" (6th edition, 1763), each volume inscribed by Jenny Graham and volume I also containing James Boswell`s presentation note to her dated 1767.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.7779
Dates:
1763-1767.
Theological works written in Germany.
File
Identifier: MS.9741
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Abbreviations of the Sentences of Peter Lombard in four books – Friedrich Stegmülller, ‘Repertorium commentariorum in Sententias Petri Lombardi’ (Würzburg, 1947), number 9. Ends 'Et videbunt cadavera virorum etc piitet unusquisque deo gratias etc est finis'. (Folio 1.)(ii) Albertus Magnus, 'Quaestiones super missus est', or 'De laudibus beatae Mariae Virginis' – Stegmüller, ‘Repertorium biblicum medii aevi’, (Madrid, 1940-) number 1061....
Dates:
15th century.
‘Things which have interested me’ (2nd series) by Arnold Bennett (Burslem, 1907), with a presentation inscription by the author to Neil Munro, and two letters to Munro from Joseph Conrad, 1898, and Bennett, 1910, inserted.
File
Identifier: MS.9043
Dates:
1898, 1907, 1910.
"To Hugh MacDiarmid on His Eightieth Birthday a Henrysonian Offering from the National Library of Scotland", inscribed to the Library by C M Grieve.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5736
Dates:
1972.