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Six albums of pen and watercolour sketches by H G M Kirby depicting a history of his sporting life and his friends.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.12786
Scope and Contents

Scottish scenes set at Forsinard, Sutherland, the English at Bradwell Grove, Oxon, and London and Cambridge; with scenes also in France and Egypt.

Dates: circa 1890-1919.

Sketch, 1831, by David Roberts of his design for a new drop scene for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10170
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With a letter, 1863, of Roberts to a Mrs Jones.

Dates: 1831-1863.

Sketch and description, by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, of an alleged "antiquity" from the Trinity College Church, Edinburgh.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12048
Scope and Contents

The drawing was presented as a joke by Sharpe to David Laing.

Dates: circa 1825-1850.

Sketch by Colonel Mikailovitch, commander of the artillery of the Second Serbian Army, illustrating the disposition of guns and troops for an attack on the Bulgarian front.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.30
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The attack took place at 0535 on 15 September 1918 and was the first break-through on the Bulgarian front.

The sketch was made for the information of the 4.7 inch gun section of the 84th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, British Army.

Dates: 12 September 1918.

Sketchbook of Christopher Norton, business partner of James Byres, 1764-1765.

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Identifier: Acc.11873
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Includes a note and copy-letterbook of Norton, 1788-1794.

Dates: 1764-1794.

Sketchbook of `Pencil sketches to commemorate my journey to Scotland in the summer and autumn of 1846.`

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13646
Scope and Contents Julius Jacob the Elder (1811-1882) was a German Jewish artist born in Berlin who lived in London between 1844 and 1855. He is known both for his landscapes and society portraits.The sketchbook contains more than 150 pencil sketches of a tour in Scotland from August 1846 to February 1847. Almost all the sketches are dated and identifed. The earliest sketch is of the Isle of Arran. He then moved on to Greenock, Loch Long, Loch Lomond, Inverary, Loch Awe, Fingal`s Cave and Staffa,...
Dates: 1846-1847

Sketches and proof wood engravings of Joan Hassall for `The Collected Poems of Andrew Young` (1950).

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13627
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Sketches and proof wood engravings of Joan Hassall for `The Collected Poems of Andrew Young` (London: Jonathan Cape, 1950), bound in an album with 4 letters, 1949-1950, of Andrew Young and an undated commentary on the work by Joan Hassall.

Dates: 1938-1950.

Sketches of Edinburgh and environs by the Rev William Paget.

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Identifier: Acc.12209
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Includes sketches illustrating the great fire of Edinburgh in November 1824.

Dates: 1824.

Sketches of Scottish scenery, chiefly in pencil, by Jean Goldie of Summerhill, author of ‘Familiar recollections and national progress’.

 File
Identifier: MS.508
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Information about the artist was supplied by the donors. Contains 74 sketches mounted on sheets containing one to four sketches.

Dates: 1820-1825.

Songbook containing the words of 150 popular Scottish, Irish, French and Dutch ballads.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6299
Scope and Contents There is an index on folio 1; the songs begin on folio 5.The Scottish songs appear to come mainly from Allan Ramsay's ‘Tea table miscellany’ and David Herd's ‘Ancient and modern Scottish songs’ (1776), though some of the songs may have been picked up by ear, as they include a very debased version of Henry Carey's 'Sally in our alley' (folio 17 verso) and "My heart's in the Highlands" in an apparently unknown version different from that of Burns (folio 81 verso)....
Dates: 18th century.

'Tea Assistant in Cachar' by D Foulis, an essay on growing tea and managing an estate in Assam.

 File
Identifier: MS.9659
Scope and Contents

The essay is followed (folio 55) by examples of estate records, diagrams, and sketches of tea plants drawn in 1870. Reference is made to a periodical published in October 1870.

Dates: [Circa 1870.]

'The Arms of Noblemen, Knights, and others who have been Recorded in the Books of the Lyon Office at Edinburgh. [Compiled, over a period of years at the end of the seventeenth century, by] Henry Frazer, Ross Herauld & Painter'.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2564
Scope and Contents

Henry Frazer’s signature is on page 710.

There are additions throughout in various hands including that of David Deuchar, Seal Engraver, Edinburgh, who also compiled the indexes (cf. Adv.MSS.35.6.15-35.6.16). There are thirteen coats crudely emblazoned and a sketch of the seal of office of the Lyon King of Arms.

Dates: Late 17th century.

Three examples of miniature handwriting by James McKay, with related correspondence.

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Identifier: Acc.12866
Scope and Contents

Includes an album of sketches and postcards from the First World War.

Dates: circa 1914-1946.

'Tom: 2d of the juvenile poetic works of John Black’, containing drafts of verse dramas and other poems including fragments of ‘The Falls of Clyde, or the fairies’ by John Black, minister of Coylton.

 File
Identifier: MS.14233
Scope and Contents

According to a note inside the back cover, John Black was aged from 15 to 19 when he wrote the verses (1793-1797). There are a number of pen and ink and watercolour sketches.

Dates: 1797-1798.

Two English medical manuscripts of the 12th century (each with later additions), bound together probably in the medieval period; the second at least belonged to a monk of Peterborough.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.16
Scope and Contents A. (i) 'Macer Floridus, de viribus [so in title, 'virtutibus' in explicit] herbarum' by Odo of Meung(?). There are marginal headings throughout and two glosses on folio 1. A slightly later hand has added English equivalents of the plant-names (and also started to list them on folio 93 verso). A contents-list in a court-hand of the 13th century is on folio 39 verso. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Liber de virtutibus lapidum’, i.e. 'De lapidibus' by Marbod. (Folio 40.)(iii) Medical...
Dates: 12th century.

Two letters, a leaf of manuscript, and a watercolour sketch by Joyce Cary, inserted in a copy of her 'A house of children' (London, 1941).

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Identifier: MS.5318
Scope and Contents

The manuscript contains a passage from the novel corresponding to page 30 and notes for another work. The sketch illustrates the scene described on page 30.

Dates: 1941-1942.

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Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 4
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 3
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 2
Cumming, Constance Frederica Gordon-, travel writer, 1837-1924 2
Cuthbert, Walter Robertson, Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, husband of Gwendoline Emily Meacham, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1887-1970 2
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Macgillivray, James Pittendrigh, sculptor, 1856-1938 2
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 2
Nasmyth, James Hall, engineer, 1808-1890 2
Reid, Walter, seal engraver in Paris and Edinburgh, fl 1838-1886 2
Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, antiquary, 1781-1851 2
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 2
Waddell School of Music, Edinburgh 2
Aitken, Edward Hamilton, writer on India, 1851-1909 1
Allan, Robert Weir, 1852-1942 (painter) 1
Allan, William, Major-General, 1832-1918 1
Amelia, Hill, 1820-1904 (née Paton, Sculptor, wife of David Octavius Hill) 1
Anstruther, Mary Elma (née Hovell-Thurlow, wife of Arthur Wellesley, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, then Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce) 1
Bailey, James (vicar of Otley, Yorkshire.) 1
Ballantyne, Alexander Thomson, printer, 1776-1847 1
Ballantyne, James (printer) 1
Ballantyne, John, artist, 1815-1897 1
Bannerman, Helen Brodie Cowan, children's writer, née Watson, 1862-1946 1
Bannerman, Helen Brodie Cowan, children's writer, née Watson, 1862-1946: recipient 1
Barclay, Annie, wife of David Black, Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, fl 1943-1948 1
Barclay, David Black, Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, fl 1943-1946 1
Barr (family, Waldingham) 1
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1st Baronet, playwright and novelist, 1860-1937 1
Begg, Isabella Burns, sister of Robert Burns, poet, 1771-1858 1
Begg, Isabella, 1807-1886 (daughter of Isabella, sister of Robert Burns, poet) 1
Behan, John, sculptor, b 1938 1
Bell, Henry Glassford, 1803-1874 (writer and sheriff) 1
Bone, James, journalist, 1872-1962 1
Bone, Phyllis M, sculptor, 1897-1972 1
Boyd, Alexander Stuart, artist, 1854-1930 1
Boyd, James Robert, Principal of the Black River Literary and Religious Institute, 1804-1890 1
Braehead Secondary School, Buckhaven 1
Brown, John, 1784-1858 (minister of the United Presbyterian Church, Theologian) 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Calderwood, Anna, sister of Major Douglas Cunninghame Graham, fl 1839 1
Carnegie, Andrew, philanthropist, 1835-1919 1
Carr, Anna Margaret, artist, fl 1838-1859 1
Chalmers, Thomas (Principal of New College, Edinburgh) 1
Chalmers, Thomas, 1780–1847 (Principal of New College, Edinburgh) 1
Clinton, Margery (ceramist) 1
Cochrane, Hon Sir Archibald Douglas, Knight, Captain, Royal Navy, Governor of Burma, 1885-1958 1
Cockburn, Henry, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice, 1779-1854 1
Cookesley, Margaret Deborah Murray, 1844-1927 (née Garland, artist, wife of Edward Murray Cookesley) 1
Coventry Sketching Club 1
Crosbie, William, artist, 1915-1999 1
Cumming, Constance Frederica Gordon-, 1837-1924 (travel writer) 1
Dick, Robert, c 1733-1824 1
Dundas, family, of Ochtertyre 1
Edinburgh International Festival 1
Faed, John, painter, 1819-1902 1
Fairlie, Francis Archibald, 1854-1939 (tea planter and golfer) 1
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 1
Forsyth, Julia Selina, 1840-1874 (daughter of James Forsyth of Glengorm) 1
Gascoigne, John Henry, Senior Clerk, Scottish Office, 1856-1928 1
Gilchrist, Anne Geddes, musical antiquary, 1863-1954 1
Girdwood, John, correspondent of Sir William Orpen, painter, fl 1916: recipient 1
Gordon, Charles, Tain, fl 1867 1
Gourdie, Tom (calligrapher) 1
Graham, Douglas Cunninghame, Major, fl 1828-1839 1
Grant of Kilgraston, John, 1799-1873 1
Grant, Francis, Sir, Knight (portrait painter) 1
Gray, Alasdair (author) 1
Grieve, Christopher Murray, poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid, 1892-1978 1
Hadfield, Jen (poet and artist) 1
Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928 1
Haldane, Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane (Lord Chancellor) 1
Harvey, Michael, letter cutter and typographer, b 1931 1
Hassall, Joan, artist and wood-engraver, 1906-1988 1
Henry, William Stuart, artist, pseudonym Henry Stuart, fl 1942-1973 1
Hill, Ann, 1804-1841 (née Macdonald, wife of David Ocatvius Hill) 1
Hill, David Octavius, photographer, 1802-1870 1
Hislop, Joseph Dewar, singer, 1884-1977 1
Hodgkinson, James, correspondent of James Hall Nasmyth, engineer, fl 1870: recipient 1
Howard, Pamela, stage designer, b 1939 1
Hughes, Edward James, poet, 1930-1998 1
Hume, Elizabeth, Edinburgh, fl 1816 1
Hutchison, John, cartographer, fl 1736 1
Imlach, Archibald Francis, 1852-1903 (son of Francis Brodie Imlach) 1
Ingleby, Clement Mansfield (Shakespearean scholar) 1
Jacob, Julius, artist, the elder, 1811-1882 1
James Robertson and Sons, Edinburgh, jeweller 1
Jay, Ronald Louis Jack, cameraman and filmmaker, 1901-1979 1
Johnson, Nicholas, poet, editor and festival director, b 1963 1
Kay, Katharine Cameron, painter and etcher, née Cameron, 1874-1965 1
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 1
Kennedy, Campbell, artist, fl 1967-2011 1
Kerr, Lord Mark, Admiral, 1776-1840 1
Kirby, Henry G M, lawyer, London, d 1912 1
Kirk, John, Minister of Barry, d 1858. 1
Laing, David, Librarian of the Signet Library, 1793-1878: recipient 1
Leith, Alexander, of Glenkindie and Freefield, fl 1736-1756 1
Lemaire, Angela, artist, engraver, b 1944 1
Lindsay, Maurice, poet and writer, 1918-2009 1
MacColl, Dugald Sutherland, painter, 1859-1948 1
MacKenzie, Donald, illustrator, fl 1977 1
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