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15th-century English manuscript containing three Middle English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the chivalric poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
Chronicles and historical works, written in England.
Collection of Scottish poems and satirical verse.
The first 70 folios are in manuscript while the latter half of the volume consists of a collection of printed broadsides of the 18th century. Several of the manuscript items appear in print and a list of them is inserted at the beginning of the volume.
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.
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`.
'Collection of the ancient martial music of Caledonia’ by Donald Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1822), with the signature of Peter Reid dated Glasgow 1826, a poem in his hand, and other material bound in at the back.
Commonplace book of Patrick Turner containing ‘Bolg an t-Sholair’ and other miscellaneous verse in Gaelic.
Commonplace book of the Earl of Buchan.
Copy, late 17th century, of `De jure prelationis Nobilium scotie or A Memoriall of the evidents and writs produced ... before the Comissioners ... anent the precedency and prioritie of dignitie [1606]`, incorporating additional information up to 1667.
The text is followed by a list of titles of the nobility and other related material (folio 34 verso), and verses and notes on the history of Aberdeen (folio 45). An 18th-century hand has added a list of dates of the patents of Scottish nobles (folio 52).
Correspondence and papers of and concerning the family of Anderson of St. Germains and their descendants, being chiefly the correspondence of Warren Hastings Anderson (died 1875), son of David Anderson of St. Germains (1751-1825).
Warren Hastings Anderson entered the merchant house of his uncle, Robert Anderson and Company, St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1813, becoming a partner in 1818. From then until the 1850s he spent most of his life in Italy and France engaged in trade, finally retiring to Bowerhouse near Dunbar. Family, personal and legal material predominates in this collection.
Correspondence and papers of the artist William Skeoch Cumming (1864-1929) and of his wife Isabella ('Belle') Sutton.
Correspondence of Samuel Brown, the chemist, and his family.
Among Samuel Brown's more frequent correspondents, outside the family, are Thomas Aird, George Combe (the phrenologist), Sydney Dobell, and Coventry Patmore; those of his widow and daughter (the donor) include Alexander Anderson ('Surfaceman') and Harriet Martineau.
Donald Smith’s Irish miscellany.
Further papers of Gordon Jarvie.
The papers comprise: (1) draft, 2013, of "Bessy Bell", a collection of poems by Gordon Jarvie, (2) drafts and correspondence relating to 1st and 2nd editions of "Climber`s Calendar" (2001, 2007), with correspondence, papers and ephemera relating to Jarvie`s Scottish mountain climbing and `Munro-bagging`, (3) finding list for Jarvie`s literary works.
Italian manuscript of Books 1-5 of 'De consolatione philosophiae' by Boethius.
Jacobite Papers.
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.
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'.
Lindsay Armorial: the armorial register of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Lyon King of Arms from 1542 to 1555.
Manuscript and typescript drafts and fair copies of single poems and small collections of poems by various poets.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, baron court laws, burgh and guild laws, and some other legal texts, some in Scots, written by George Cuyk (later clerk of the Privy Seal) in 1528.
Manuscript volume of poems and prose pieces by Alexander Pennecuik, entitled `The Whole Works of Alexr Pennecuik Gent. Volura 2d`.
Microfilm of lectures of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, and some related papers.
The contents are as follows:
Introductory lectures, 1856-1864, of William Edmondstoune Aytoun: a series of lectures opening Aytoun's yearly courses (MS.4897);
Miscellaneous lectures, [1845-1865], of William Edmondstoune Aytoun (MS.4912);
Examination papers and class lists, [?1852-?1870], of William Edmondstoune Aytoun (MS.4913);
Exercises, [?1863-?1864], of William Edmondstoune Aytoun’s students (MS.4914).
Microfilm of manuscripts of three Middle-English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.
Microfilm of the letters, 1792-1796, of Robert Burns to George Thomson together with a letter of Burns to John Ballantine, 1787, and one of George Syme to Thomson, 1797.
A list of the poems included in the letters precedes them.
Microfilm of three Gaelic manuscripts.
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, 17th-18th century, of bardic fragments, containing a strong element of MacMhuirich poetry (Adv.MS.72.2.2);
Donald Smith’s Irish miscellany, [circa 1798] (Adv.MS.72.3.2);
Part of a Gaelic grammatical treatise, 17th century, (written in the traditional character) giving the paradigms of a number of nouns and verbs.(MS.1745).