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Berlioz's marked copy of a printed score of ‘Iphigénie en Tauride’ by Christoph Willibald von Gluck ([?Paris, ?1779]).
Item
Identifier: MS.21852
Scope and Contents
The copy is imperfect, lacking the title page. In addition to the amendments of Berlioz to instrumentation and dynamics, strips of blue paper on which is written an Italian version of the libretto are pasted to the printed pages, covering the French libretto, through the greater part of the volume. The paper covers in which the volume was previously enclosed are bound in at the back (folios i-iv).
Dates:
[?1779, ?1779, or after.]
Copies of printed books associated with James Augustus Grant.
Series
Identifier: MSS.17927-17928
Dates:
1858, 1864.
‘Gem selection: Scottish songs’ edited by Alfred W Tomlyn, 7th edition (Edinburgh, undated); signed, with an autograph portrait sketch, Perth, 1928, of himself by Sir Harry Lauder; with other signatures inside the front cover.
Item
Identifier: MS.21833
Dates:
1928.
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.
Material collected by Captain George Sitwell Campbell Swinton, Lyon King of Arms, supplementary to the work of his father, Archibald Campbell Swinton of Kimmerghame, ‘The Swintons of that Ilk and their Cadets’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.350A-B
Dates:
1814, 1883, 1927-1929.
Printed and manuscript material concerning mathematics, compiled circa 1785 by Thomas White, schoolmaster in Dumfries.
File
Identifier: MS.15520
Scope and Contents
The volume consists of Bernard de Fontenelle, ‘The life of Sir Isaac Newton’ (folio 3); John Lawson, ‘A synopsis of all the data for the construction of triangles’ (folio 17); and John Landen, ‘Observations on converging series’ (folio 29).The remaining material is in manuscript: 'An investigation of the theorem on which the foregoing operations [i.e. Landen's article] are grounded' (folio 45); 'Geometrical analysis' a general criticism of the work of Thomas Simpson (folio 63);...
Dates:
1691-1781.
Printed papers and manuscripts concerning the troubles in Geneva.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.7
Dates:
1734-1737.
‘‘Rerum Scoticarum historia’ by George Buchanan (Elzevir, 1668), interleaved and annotated in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.5.21-33.5.22
Dates:
1668.
‘The Ogilvies of Boyne’ by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (Aberdeen, 1933), containing inserts; with further letters and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21248-21249
Dates:
1719, 1929-1933, undated.