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Book of recipes, started by Anna, Lady Elcho (died 1649), and continued by her daughter Jean, Countess of Sutherland.
Item
Identifier: MS.3031
Scope and Contents
The book of recipes is continued by Anna, Lady Elcho’s daughter Jean, Countess of Sutherland (see her note on folio ii verso), Jean, Viscountess Maitland (see her references to the Countess of Lauderdale as her mother-in-law, folios 73 verso, 77), and others. See the notes and pedigree inserted by William McMath, 1879, who states that the volume came from Dunbar Castle (folios i verso, xii-xiii). The dates 1701 and 1735 occur at folios 70, 75 verso.The recipes are all medical,...
Dates:
1st half of 17th century-1735, 1879, undated.
Collection of copies of letters and papers concerning the formation of the Irish Treasury Board and the procedures to be adopted by it, with notes on the procedures of the British Treasury.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.4.1.2, vols. I-II
Scope and Contents
The volumes have the book-plate of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, and, as he was secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1794-1795, were presumably compiled on his instructions.
Dates:
1793-1794.
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Dates:
1548-1641.
Commonplace book containing poems, household and medical recipes, riddles and notes, written in several hands.
Item
Identifier: MS.14275
Scope and Contents
Folios 1-20 contain a collection of verses, most of which are dated 1789.
Dates:
1783-1828.
Commonplace book of George Anderson, Glasgow.
Item
Identifier: MS.14276
Scope and Contents
As well as poetry, recipes and miscellaneous notes, the book includes instructions for road-making (page 3) and designs for a pump and a building for making lamp-black (pages 37, 66).
Dates:
1818-1827.
"Cookery Notes", 1902-1904, of Elsie Henderson, with later annotations, c 1955, and memoirs, undated, of Catherine Elsie Henderson.
File
Identifier: Acc.11165
Dates:
1902-1904 and circa 1955 and undated.
Copy of the official report, 31 January 1725 [i.e. 1726], by Major-General (later Field-Marshal) George Wade, of his proceedings in disarming the Highlands; followed by copies of several papers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.21
Scope and Contents
The report is signed by Major General George Wade, folio 15.A copy of each of the following papers follows the official report:a list of the arms surrendered by the clans between August and October 1725 (folio 15 verso);Wade’s instructions to the Officers Commanding the Highland Companies, 22 September 1725 (folio 16 verso);letters of submission of persons attainted of high treason, written between August and October 1725 (folio 17 verso);...
Dates:
1726.
Correspondence and papers of Dr Robert Douglas, Minister of Galashiels, and of his own and allied families: Hays, Thomsons, Tods, Lothians.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3116-3123
Scope and Contents
A table of the relationships of the various families has been placed in MS.3116, folio i.
Dates:
1714-1905, undated.
Five 13th-century medical manuscripts, possibly written in England, with additions of the 14th and 15th centuries.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts had been bound into one volume by the 15th century. The contents are: (i) translation, by Constantinus Africanus, of 'De gradibus simplicum' by Isaac and the end of an unidentified work, with recipes added in later hands; (ii) Gerard, 'De modo medendi', with recipes and notes added by later hands; (iii) a work on digestion; (iv) seven works on medical subjects; (v) the end of an unidentified work on the degrees of medicine, with added recipes in French.
Dates:
13th century.
Fragments of at least 7 and perhaps 8 manuscripts on medicine and astrology, some, if not all, English.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.11A-H; (former binding)
Scope and Contents
A and E may be in the same hand and from the same manuscript.
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Interleaved and annotated copy of ’Hamlet … by William Shakespeare … printed from the acting copy, with remarks and critical, by D G … as performed at the Theatre Royal, London’ (London, [?1826-?1847]), used as a prompt book for the 1849 production at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh with Thomas Powrie in the leading role.
Item
Identifier: MS.15942
Scope and Contents
There are notes, instructions and sketches throughout by Thomas Powrie and by the stage manager, J H Smith.
Dates:
[?1826-?1847], 1849.
Journal, 1729, of George Skene, containing ‘An Account of a Journey to London, with the particular rout by Thomas Burnett of Kirkhill, George Skene of that ilk, and David Skene his brother german'.
Item
Identifier: MS.3806
Scope and Contents
In addition to George Skene's journal there are notes of expenditure on the journey and of the mileage of part of the route (folio 1 verso); part of an anti-Hanoverian parody of the ‘Te Deum’, ?1742 (folio 34); and part of a diary, probably of Joseph Mackie, 1837 (folio 35).At the end of the volume, inverted, are detailed accounts of expenditure on the journey of 1729 (folio 1 inverted) and recipes, medical and other (folio 3 inverted), including directions for the treatment of...
Dates:
1729-19th century.
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth.
Item
Identifier: MS.5898
Scope and Contents
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth (folio 28), and subsequently belonging to Robert Blair, Writer in Errol (folio 176 verso).The contents are as follows.(i) Style-book of Scots Law forms based on examples collected in and around Perth (folio 5); preceded by two indices (folios 1 verso, 3).(ii) Latin verses, 1683, entitled 'Carmina auditu digna', possibly written by James Blair. (Folio 92.)(iii) Recipes for dyeing...
Dates:
1682-1683.
Lecture notes, 1932, on poultry keeping compiled at the East of Scotland School of Agriculture.
File
Identifier: Acc.10078
Scope and Contents
With pharmacist`s notes and recipes, circa 1840, from Germany, containing notes on the Daguerreotype process.
Dates:
1840-1932.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.14
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:List, 1606, of Scottish nobility (folio 1);Process of apprising of the Bishop of Orkney against Sinclair, 1572 (folio 3);Process of apprising of Sir Thomas Hamilton against Sir Blaise Belmer, 1607 (folio 13 verso);Reduction of a decreet of perambulation obtained by Lord Hay of Yester against the James Heriot of Trabroun, 1572 (folio 21 verso);Registered submission and decreet arbitral, 1614, between...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Manuscript on botany, entitled `Manuel de botanique ou Principes pour connoitre les Plantes que la nature produit leurs Noms, Caracteres, Et Vertus. MDCCXXXVI’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.5.12
Scope and Contents
Under each plant, there is a brief note about its habitat, but most of the entry concerns its medicinal uses. The text is followed (folio 215) by an appendix, indices of names in Latin and French, and an index of diseases. Folios 272-279 contain miscellaneous medical recipes, some of which have been written on loose sheets of paper and inserted.The inscription `J.B.M. Guidi scripsit anno 1757 et 1758` occurs on folio 271 verso, and the title-page (folio 1) bears his initials and...
Dates:
1757-1758.
Microfilm of letters and papers, 1826-1831, undated, of Sir Walter Scott and correspondence, 1831-1846, of his son Walter and Lady Scott, and some other papers.
Item
Identifier: MS.15555 [Mf.MSS.63]
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Letters and papers of Sir Walter Scott, consisting of notes on Malta, undated, fragments of the manuscript of an article, 'Ancient history of Scotland' in ‘Quarterly review’, volume xli (1828), instructions for his will, 1831, and some letters, 1826, undated. (The letters from this collection which are published in ‘The letters of Sir Walter Scott’, edited by Sir Herbert J C Grierson (London, 1932-1937) or copies of which are included in MSS.1750-1753, are...
Dates:
1826-1846, undated.
Microfilm of notebook containing works on musical theory, psalm tunes, miscellaneous recipes and a poem.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.126
Dates:
[Circa 1754.]
Microfilm of proof-sheets, [1827, or before], of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott; and, letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.54
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Proof-sheets of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott, volume v, pages 225-240, with autograph corrections by Scott, [1827, or before] (MS.496);
Letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland (MS.2991).
Dates:
[1548-1550, 1827, or before].
Microfilm of works, 17th century, of Esther Inglis and a book of recipes, 1st half of 17th century-1735, 1879, started by Anna, Lady Elcho (died 1649).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1052
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Moral sentences, written as specimens of penmanship, by Esther Inglis, 17th century (MS.2197); Book of recipes, 1st half of 17th century-1735, 1879, started by Anna, Lady Elcho (died 1649), and continued by her daughter Jean, Countess of Sutherland (MS.3031); 'Pseaumes de David. Escrits a Londres par Esther Inglis pour son dernier adieu, ianvier, 1.1615', a calligraphic copy of the Psalms from the Geneva version of 1588, with a...
Dates:
17th century-1735, 1879.
Miscellaneous historical and topographical tracts, copied in the 17th and early 18th centuries.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.1(i)-(xv)
Scope and Contents
There is a list of contents (folio i) in the same 19th-century hand which drew up the contents list in Adv.MS.22.2.10.
Dates:
17th century-circa 1754.
Narrative of Robert Landess of Robroyston, Minister of Blantyre, in his autograph, with related material.
File
Identifier: MS.548
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) The narrative (which begins on page 39 - pages 1-38 are wanting). The portion from 1662 to 1672 (pages 39-67) is printed in Robert Lamond, ‘Ecclesiastical persecution in the seventeenth century’, ‘Scottish Historical Review’, volume vi (1909), page 373. See also, ‘Scottish Historical Review’, volume vii, page 215. (Folio 6.)(ii) Record by Robert Landess, son of the Minister, of the births and deaths of his children, 1732-1757, and other...
Dates:
1662-1757.
Notebook containing works on musical theory, psalm tunes, miscellaneous recipes and a poem.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.16
Scope and Contents
The arrangement of the notebook is as follows:musical theory (folios 1-19, 35-66);tenor and bass parts only to 13 common psalm tunes, all in the psalter of 1635 (folios 20-32);the proper tune for psalm 119, tune only (folio 33);melody and figured bass parts to 10 psalm tunes, possibly from a collection circa 1750 (folios 66 verso-71);miscellaneous recipes for colours, medicines, etc. (folios 76-115); and,a poem...
Dates:
Circa 1754.
Notebook of Thomas Heart, containing prose translations, poetry, notes and some medical recipes.
Item
Identifier: MS.3004
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains prose translations of most of Horace's ‘Odes and Epodes’ (inverted folio 3, folio 1 verso), a poem entitled "The believer's dowry" with other verses and notes of a religious nature (folio 4), and some medical recipes (folio 27 verso). Dates ranging between the years 1720 and 1763 occur at points throughout the volume.
Dates:
1720-1763.