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Autograph second draft with alterations and additions of short score of Concerto for String Orchestra, opus 39, by Kenneth Leighton, when Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
Item
Identifier: MS.21977
Dates:
[Circa 1960.]
Autograph sermon on 1 Peter iii. 15 by the Reverend Sydney Smith, Canon of St Paul`s; with explanatory letter of the donor, 1919.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.5.17
Dates:
Circa 1831-1840.
Autograph sermons, apparently unpublished, of Hugh Anderson of Udol, Presbyterian minister of Cromarty.
File
Identifier: MS.8483
Scope and Contents
Most of the sermons are undated, but one is written on the back of a letter of 1702, another is of 1662, and two others of 1666. These last refer to the plague in England, while another was used as a 'presbyterial exercise'.
The papers also includes a summons, ?1662, ordering Hugh Anderson to answer charges before the Bishop of Ross.
Dates:
1662, 1666, ?1702, undated.
Autograph settings by Robin Orr of “The Kimmers o' Cougate” and Three Songs of Innocence by William Blake.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.22016
Dates:
1929, 1955.
Autograph version, apparently unpublished, of 'Peebles to the Play' by James Ballantine.
Item
Identifier: MS.8489
Scope and Contents
The manuscript does not appear to have been published. However, a version of the poem was prepared for the inauguration of the Chambers' Institution, Peebles, 1859.
Dates:
[1859, or before].
Autograph vocal scores of works by Hamish MacCunn.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21979-21980
Dates:
[Before 1890, before 1891.]
Autograph working manuscript of William Douglas Home "Now Barabbas..., Act I".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10813
Scope and Contents
Contains verses by the author.
Dates:
circa 1947.
Bābar-nāmah, being memoirs of the Emperor Ẓahîr al-Dîn Muḥammad Bâbar in the original Turkî.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.18
Dates:
16th century.
Bagpipe music, consisting of both piobaireachd and more popular pieces, collected and copied by Donald Dow, Glasgow.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3750-3752
Scope and Contents
Donald Dow died in Glasgow in 1892, aged 56.
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Balcarres Papers.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.29.2.1-29.2.9a
Scope and Contents
In the original inventory (a copy of which is at MS.3581, folios 6-7) signed by Thomas Ruddiman, then Underkeeper of the Library, the papers are listed in thirty-eight bundles. Most of these were arranged and bound during the period 1820-1849. Of the remainder, Adv.MSS.19.1.24 and 29.2.9a were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that Adv.MS.19.1.24 belonged to the collection. Adv.MS.16.2.3, now a small quarto volume, had also become separated from the rest of the papers, but can be...
Dates:
1231-1686, and undated.
Bannatyne Manuscript: a collection of some 400 poems, mostly Scottish, compiled and written by George Bannatyne.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.6
Scope and Contents
George Bannatyne, a student at St Andrews, and a merchant burgess of Edinburgh, wrote the manuscript in the last three months of 1568, when an outbreak of plague in Edinburgh compelled him to refrain from work; see his colophon on folio 375. The year is also given on page 1 and folios 97, 290, and 298; on folio 290 it was originally written 1565 and on folio 298 1566, but these must be slips of the pen.Some forty authors are represented; those with most poems are William Dunbar,...
Dates:
1568.
`Beacone upon the Rock of European and Brittanick alchimie or The phisicianes philosopheres and chimist`s alchimie displayed or the minthouses defended against the grand imposture of transmutatione of mettalles by the universale cure. In a second letter to his Brittanick majestie Queen Anne of Brittaine and Irlande`; an unpublished alchemical treatise by John Leslie, written in the form of two letters to Queen Anne and one to the Duke of Queensberry.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.14
Scope and Contents
The work is undated but was probably written sometime in the early 18th century.
Dates:
?Early 18th century.
‘Beginning and the end of the Lewis Chemical Works', a detailed account written by D Morison, former foreman of the plant, of its operation from 1857 to 1874.
Item
Identifier: MS.9586
Scope and Contents
The Lewis Chemical Works was established by Sir James Matheson, proprietor of Lewis, to distil tar and paraffin oils from the abundant local peat. Sited above the south side of the River Creed, near Stornoway, it suffered, according to Morison's account, from incompetent management, lack of expert supervision, and peculation by imported employees, accumulating financial losses which led to closure in 1874. Seven line drawings and plans (folios 2, 39, 40, 43, 47, 50, 61) are...
Dates:
1895.
Bhagavadgītā.
Item
Identifier: MS.3014
Scope and Contents
Complete Sanskrit text, preceded by a set of mālāmantras (folio 1 verso) and nine devotional stanzas (folios 3-5 verso). The adhyāyas end as follows: i, folio 14; ii, folio 27 verso; iii, folio 35; iv, folio 42; v, folio 47 verso; vi, folio 56; vii, folio 61; viii, folio 66 verso; ix, folio 72 verso; x, folio 80; xi, folio 91 verso; xii, folio 95; xiii, folio 101; xiv, folio 105 verso; xv, folio 109 verso; xvi, folio 114; xvii, folio 118 verso; xviii, folios 132, 132 verso.The...
Dates:
?Early 18th century.
Bhagavadgītā (The Song of the Holy One), a philosophical poem, forming part of the epic poem Mahābhārata.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.12
Scope and Contents
The manuscript, on European watermarked paper, is in Devanāgarī script.Colophon (folio 140 recto): hariḥ oṃ tat sad iti śrībhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṃvāde mokṣasanyāsayogo nāma aṣṭādaśādhyāyaḥ śrhī ॥ [that is, the standard colophon to chapter 18 (and so to the whole text), but there is no information about the scribe, owner or date of writing].On folio 140 verso: iti bhagavadgītā samāptā [‘Here ends the...
Dates:
Undated.
Bible, written in France.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.1.2
Scope and Contents
The order of contents (from folio 3) is that usually found in French bibles of the period, with the common set of 64 prologues (see ‘Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries’, pages 210-212). The biblical books are followed (folio 412) by the interpretations of Hebrew names beginning ‘Aaz apprehendens` (see ‘Repertorium Biblicum medii aevi’, number 7709). Leaves containing II Maccabees 8, verses 22-10, verse 30 and 14, verse 5 - Matthew 1, verse 11 are missing.There are...
Dates:
2nd half of 13th century.
Bibles and a book of common prayer belonging to the Steuart family, with manuscript notes.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3642
Dates:
1726-[after 1849].
Bibliographical material of Sir Robert Sibbald.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.18
Scope and Contents
(i) `Catalogus Scriptorura Historicorum, Geographicorum et Politicorura qui de rebus Scoticis scripsere` (folio 1). This lists both manuscript and printed material and includes Sibbald`s ‘Memoria Balfouriana’. There are 224 entries arranged on a roughly chronological basis. It is followed (folio 12 verso) by other titles, mostly of works on Scottish history.(ii) `Catalogus poetarum Scotorum qui Latine scripsere pro compositione Corporis poetarum Scotorura` (folio 21). For a...
Dates:
Circa 1700.
Biographical account of William Cowper, Bishop of Galloway, who died in 1619.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.3.12
Scope and Contents
The account is headed "Life of William Cowper, Bishop of Galloway and Dean of the Chapel Royal of Holyrood." A note at folio 1 refers to the "Address of Principal Lee to the students of the University of Edinburgh at the opening of the session 1846" and this date is added in pencil at folio 1; but the present text is the work of a different author. Neither the hand nor the subject-matter of this account seems to resemble either in Lee`s discourses in MS.3452; it is not in the selection...
Dates:
19th century.
Biographical notes concerning Scotsmen settled in Sweden, compiled from the archives of Swedish noble families by C D Arfwedson for Sir George Webbe Dasent.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.2.14
Dates:
1845.
"Bishop Guthrie`s Observations on the late Rebellion Observed", by Sir James Turner, being critical remarks on the chronicle of the Civil War in Scotland compiled by Henry Guthrie, Bishop of Dunkeld.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.11
Scope and Contents
From the folio references given, Turner appears to have had access to a folio-sized copy of Guthrie`s ‘Memoirs’, possibly even to Guthrie`s holograph manuscript.
Turner`s criticisms, which are based on personal knowledge or experience of the events discussed, were written specifically to rebut a number of allegations made by Guthrie concerning James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton.
Dates:
Mid 17th century.
Blazons of Scottish and a few English arms, compiled in the 18th century by two hands.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.12
Scope and Contents
The blazons are arranged alphabetically under the first letter of the family name, with an appendix at folio 89 verso. Many of the individuals mentioned lived in the late 17th or early 18th centuries.
The signatures of James Norie and Walter Smiton occur on folio 1. These may have been the painters who became burgesses of Edinburgh in 1708 and 1779 respectively.
Dates:
18th century.
Book of autographs begun by Catherine E Moir, wife of David Macbeth Moir, 1829, and continued by her daughter Anne Mary Milligan, 1853, and her grandson, George Milligan, biblical scholar, 1872.
Item
Identifier: MS.10256
Scope and Contents
The album for the most part contains cut-out signatures of well-known nineteenth-century figures but there are also several letters notably of Charles Dickens, Fanny Kemble, Henry Siddons, Samuel Warren and Baroness Wentworth. Also included are autograph poems by Thomas Campbell and James Hogg. The poems of Hogg (folios 64-66) are "Lenochan's farewell", 'The Stuarts of Appin' and 'The poor man', all published in ‘The works of the Ettrick Shepherd' (London, 1873). The verses of Thomas...
Dates:
1829-1872.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Paris.
Item
Identifier: MS.10981
Scope and Contents
(i) Suffrage to St Anthony and a prayer to the Virgin, 'Veni vena venie'. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Sequences of the Gospels. (Folio 3.)
(iii) 'Obsecro te' and 'O intemerata'. (Folio 9.)
(iv) Hours of the Virgin. (Folio 17.)
(v) Penitential psalms, litany hymn 'Salve sancta caro Dei' (U. Chevatier, ‘Repertorium hymnologicum’ (Louvain, 1892-1921), number 18175) and prayers (Folio 80.)
(vi) Hours of the Cross. Matins and Lauds are missing. (Folio 106.)
(vii) Hours of the Holy Ghost. Matins and Lauds and...
Dates:
1st half of 15th century.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Rouen.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.12
Scope and Contents
(i) Calendar in French in red, blue and gold (folio 1). Entries in gold include Saints Martial (3 July), Stephen (3 August), Romain (23 October) and Thomas (29 December). A number of feasts of the Rouen diocese appear in red or blue, including the translation of St Ouen (5 May), and Notre-Dame des Neiges (5 August) instituted in 1454.(ii) Sequences of the Gospels (folio 7).(iii) Prayers (folio 9), including ‘Obsecro te`, `O intemerata’ (in the masculine form) and `Ave...
Dates:
Late 15th century.