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Prices of different sorts of grain in the counties of Berwick, Clackmannan, Edinburgh, Fife and Stirling, printed and manuscript, with newspaper-cuttings regarding court cases.
File
Identifier: MS.2261
Dates:
1794-1856.
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 and manuscript papers concerning the Jacobite rebellion, collected by John Blair, Canongate, Edinburgh, who was at first a Jacobite, but later became a Government spy.
Series
Identifier: MSS.487-490
Dates:
1715-1750.
Printed copies of the 'Rules of the Advocates Library'.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/36
Dates:
23 December 1898.
Printed copy of the song, 'Tranent Muir' by Sir Walter Scott, interleaved with anonymous explanatory notes and annotations, with an endorsement by Scott.
File
Identifier: MS.23056
Scope and Contents
The endorsement by Sir Walter Scott is as follows, 'Tranent Muir & Notes to be taken in page 189'.
Dates:
[1791, or after.]
Printed copy of the three parts published of the English-Gaelic dictionary of Alexander Robertson, schoolmaster, Kirkmichael, Perthshire.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.18
Scope and Contents
This is a printed volume, being the only complete copy now known to exist of the three parts published of the dictionary of Alexander Robertson, schoolmaster, Kirkmichael, Perthshire. It was printed by Charles Stewart, Edinburgh, 1803, on paper watermarked 1802.Another copy of the three specimens was sent by Robertson to the Highland Society of Scotland in 1808 subsequent to sending the manuscripts of the remainder of his work (now Adv.MS.73.3.16 etc.) and receiving £30. His...
Dates:
1803, 1820.
Printed form of thanks for a donation to the Balliol College (1904) Endowment Fund, signed by the Master and Fellows.
Item
Identifier: MS.3023
Dates:
1907.
Printed general correspondence and papers concerning the Library and members of the Faculty of Advocates, collected by David Constable, Advocate.
File
Identifier: F.R.144
Dates:
1820-1824.
Printed menu of the dinner given for James Maclehose, as editor of the 'Scottish Historical Review', with associated correspondence inserted at the back.
File
Identifier: MS.9592
Scope and Contents
The letters are to James Maclehose and George Neilson from various people, including Peter Hume Brown, the historian, and Sir Herbert Maxwell. There is also a page of verse by W P Ker, written for the occasion (folio 5).
Dates:
1909.
Printed pamphlet by Sir Gilbert Elliot 2nd Baronet, Lord Minto, entitled ‘Proposals for carrying on certain Public Works in the City of Edinburgh’, [1752], with manuscript alterations and additions possibly in the hand of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet.
Item
Identifier: MS.19979
Scope and Contents
The proposals concern the need for certain public buildings, including those which eventually became Register House, the Signet Library, the Court of Session, and the North Bridge.
Dates:
[1752, or after.]
Printed papers and manuscript notes by Lord Shand concerning the Free Church Appeal Case in the House of Lords.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.36.1.8
Scope and Contents
The contents consist of Lord Shand’s copy of the House of Lords papers in the Free Church appeal case (The general assembly of the Free Church of Scotland and others v the Right Honourable John Campbell, Lord Overtoun and others), 1904, with his Lordships manuscript notes and the printed draft judgements of Lords Davey, Robertson, and Lindley.
Dates:
1904.
Printed papers and manuscripts concerning the troubles in Geneva.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.7
Dates:
1734-1737.
Printed papers concerning the election of the Librarian for the Faculty of Advocates.
File
Identifier: F.R.143
Dates:
1820.
Printed papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Widow’s Fund.
Series
Identifier: F.R.403-F.R.408
Dates:
1830-1927.
Printed papers of the Highland Society of Scotland chiefly relating to the poetry of Ossian, and bearing occasional notes by Sir John Sinclair.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.17
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(M 1). Prospectus (1804) of ‘The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’. (Folio 1.)(M 2). Sir John Sinclair, ‘A scene from Ossian’ (1806). (Folio 9.)(M 3). Chapter on Ossian from Sinclair’s ‘Correspondence’ (1831). (Folio 13.)(M 4). Pages xcvii-cxii of the ‘Dissertation’ in ‘The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’ (1807). (Folio 18.)(M 5). Sinclair’s ‘Additions to the tragedy of Fingal’. (Folio...
Dates:
1777-1831, undated.
‘Printed Papers Relative to the Widows’ Fund of the Faculty of Advocates’.
Series
Identifier: F.R.402-F.R.402a
Dates:
1829-1852.
Printed 'Particulars and Plan of the Fine Residential and Sporting Estate of Bowland situated in the Parish of Stow and Counties of Midlothian and Selkirk', including a map and a few manuscript annotations.
File
Identifier: MS.13600
Dates:
1889.
Printed proof of “Carle, now the King’s come!”, with corrections in Sir Walter Scott’s autograph, followed by a manuscript Latin version of the song [?1822].
Series
Identifier: MSS.1665-1666
Dates:
1822, undated.
Printed 'Specimen of notes on the statute law of Scotland, from the first parliament of James I to the accession of James VI', by David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, interleaved, with autograph notes by Andrew Crosbie, Advocate.
Item
Identifier: MS.1697
Scope and Contents
This is one of the copies issued privately and sent to legal authorities for their remarks.
Dates:
[?1768.]
Printer’s copy of the text of Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’, the Gaelic and Latin each divided into three volumes as printed.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.73.4.1-73.4.6.
Scope and Contents
The Gaelic text is in the hand of the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross of Lochbroom (1768-1843), then a tutor in Edinburgh. It is his adaptation (into the orthography of the Gaelic Bible) of the manuscripts left by James Macpherson in 1796 as the ‘originals’ of his ‘translations’ of Ossian’s poems. These were written partly by Macpherson, partly by another hand (Adv.MSS.72.3.11, folio 50 verso; 72.3.13, folio 80 recto). They are now lost. Sinclair describes the circumstances of the work in ‘Poems of...
Dates:
[Circa 1798.]
Related material inserted in ‘Our Journall into Scotland, Anno Domini 1629, 5th of November’ by Christopher Lowther (Edinburgh, 1894).
File
Identifier: MS.20755
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Photographs of the original manuscript (folio 1, 2, 5, 6);
(ii) Letters, 1894, 1918, to the publisher, David Douglas, about the edition (folios 3, 7, 10, 18-48);
(iii) A copy with manuscript corrections of pages 73-88 of the ‘Thirteenth report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission’, Appendix, Part VII (London, 1893) (the first publication of Lowther's journal) (folio 11);
(iv) Press cuttings, 1894, containing reviews of the book (folio 50);
(v) A...
Dates:
[1893, or after]-1918.
Religious poems and epigrams in Latin, with a few in Dutch, printed and manuscript by Joannes Heymans and other members of the Carmelite College at Geldern.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.35
Dates:
1645-1652.
'Report by Patrick Alexander Blair, Chartered Accountant in Edinburgh, to the Treasurer of the Honourable the Faculty of Advocates on the Library Expenditure'.
Item
Identifier: F.R.339e/39
Dates:
31 December 1913.
‘‘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.