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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.
`Collection of armorial bearings, inscriptions, etc.` made by Alexander Deuchar.
Composite volume made up in or about 1819 (the date of the watermark of the binder`s blanks) from five folio notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton.
Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
Correspondence, diaries, articles and other papers of or collected by William Laird McKinlay concerning the Canadian National Arctic Expedition and the expedition of the 'Karluk' to Wrangel Island, Russia.
The bulk of the papers in this collection relate to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, and the part played in it by William McKinlay and the expedition leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. McKinlay's account of his experiences, especially those of being shipwrecked and marooned on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, were published by him in 'Karluk: the great untold story of Arctic expedition'.
Correspondence, sketches, notebooks and other papers of and concerning Sir David Young Cameron, Katharine Cameron Kay, and her husband Arthur Kay.
Papers of Sir David Young Cameron including sketches, manuscripts and typescripts of lectures and addresses, and correspondence.
Papers of Katherine Cameron Kay include sketches, notes on paintings and etchings, and correspondence.
Correspondence, teaching materials and papers of Tom Gourdie, mostly concerning the teaching and promotion of handwriting.
Friendship album in which are illustrated the likes and dislikes of various contributors.
‘Institutionum Chemicarum Pars Prima`; a treatise on chemistry in two parts, including comments on other writers on the subject.
Mention is made of Nicolas Lemery`s work, published in Paris, `hoc Anno 1713` (folio 10 verso). There are a few small pencil sketches of pieces of equipment, and the work is followed by an index.
John Sawers` Armorial, containing the arms of the Scottish nobility, mostly painted on engraved outlines.
Journal, probably of George Joseph Bell, the son of the advocate of that name.
Literary papers of Séan Rafferty.
Includes notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of poems, short stories, sketches and ???, typescripts of poems by Ted Hughes, and correspondence with Nicholas Johnson and Kevin Perryman.
Manuscript contributions to "The Peripatetic: a Quarterly Magazine"
Manuscript material from the 5th Earl of Rosebery's library at the Durdans, Epsom.
Manuscript of an English work entitled `A Compendious explication of all coats of armes in apt termes of Blazon`, intended for the amateur, in two parts, Blazoning and Marshalling.
The text breaks off in the second part. The author refers to works by Nicholas Upton and Gerard Legh. There are several pen sketches and shields are drawn in trick.
Manuscript of the English text of the `Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern` by Sir Robert Sibbald; with maps.
Manuscript poems and sketches of Sir William Quiller Orchardson.
With associated photographs.
Manuscripts and corrected typescripts of twenty-four short stories, articles and sketches by John M Reid.
Manuscripts with translations from Sanskrit, folk tales and sketches.
Material of Sir James Balfour on the Irish nobility.
Notes on astronomy, from the lectures of Professor William Law at Edinburgh University, by John Erskine.
The notes consist of commentaries on Ptolomy`s ‘Almagest’ and descriptions of the rotations of the planets, with several sketches. There is also part of a lecture on biology (‘De Corpore Animato`, folio 79); some pages are missing at the end of the latter lecture.
Notes on the Romans, and on a Greek author, written by Sir Charles Erskine of Alva, probably from the lectures of his Regent, Andrew Burnet, at Glasgow University.
The volume contains part of a series of lectures on the social, religious, and cultural life of the Romans (folios 1-38), very incomplete due to missing pages. An inverted series of notes contains a glossary or vocabulary to the oration of Isocrates to Demonicus, sections 1-9, also very incomplete (inverted folios 1-12). Two pages (inverted folios 13-14) contain an ink sketch of a man training a horse.
Papers, including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, sketches and correspodence, of William McArthur.
Including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, and sketches, and circa 500 letters to, and copies of letters of McArthur, mostly concerning the broadcasting of his works.