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Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates:
?1825-1856.
Autobiographical notes, transcribed diary and anecdote of James Wardrop.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.5653
Scope and Contents
With diary, 1841-1861, of his daughter, Shirley.
Dates:
circa 1855-1969.
Common-place book containing a collection of verse transcripts and reminiscences relating chiefly to Frasers and Roses, with some of the writings or compositions of Forbes and Culloden and John Roy Stewart, written by Peter Rose.
Item
Identifier: MS.14898
Scope and Contents
The manuscript, watermarked 1827, was written by Peter Rose who lived circa 1764-1841, a cadet of a family which had a lease of Ardachy, Abertarff, 1726-1770. He spent his working life in the West Indies, retiring to Scotland 1824 or 1825. A cloth label on the inside front cover is inscribed ‘P. ROSE OF ROSE HALL’, and pencilled note on the flyleaf reads “Bd. At B’pool 1 Sep /36” (i.e. 1836?). The contents are as follows.(i) Contents list (folio ii);(ii)...
Dates:
[1827 or after.]
Commonplace book of James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.3
Scope and Contents
Composite manuscript produced in Scotland and compiled in the late 15th century, probably circa 1500, by James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane and secretary to William Scheves, Archbishop of St Andrews. The manuscript is a commonplace book and consists of a variety of religious, historical, legal, and literary material. There are several hands evident throughout the manuscript. Anderson states that folios 1r-24v are written by very similar hands, and could...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Commonplace book of Mrs C E R Drummond-Hay, of Seggieden, containing religious verses and transcripts of letters from her son, Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel) James Adam Gordon Richardson Drummond-Hay while on active service.
Item
Identifier: MS.8907
Scope and Contents
The thirteen letters, written between February and April 1885, are addressed by James Drummond-Hay to his parents and other members of his family, and recount in diary form his experiences as a member of the Coldstream Guards contingent both on the voyage to the Sudan and on arrival there. There is much detailed description of military activity in the Suakin region.
Dates:
1868-1885.
Commonplace book of Robina Chisholm, containing newspaper cuttings and transcripts of poems, chiefly of her brother Walter (1856-1877), a Berwickshire shepherd.
Item
Identifier: MS.20442
Dates:
1872-1881.
Microfilm of Panmure music books containing; 'Pieces de viole de Mʳ Marais'; "Folies d'Espagne" by Marin Marais; and, transcripts of 111 pieces for bass viol by Jean de Ste Colombe.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.473
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
'Pieces de viole de Mʳ Marais', compiled before 1685 (MS.9465), 46 frames;'Pieces de viole de Mʳ Marais', compiled before 1685 (MS.9466), 48 frames;"Folies d'Espagne" and other pieces for bass viol by Marin Marais, compiled before 1685. (MS.9467), 29 frames;Transcripts, possibly by Harie Maule, of a total of 111 pieces for bass viol by Jean de Ste Colombe, 4th quarter of the 17th century (MS.9468), 19 frames;...
Dates:
4th quarter of 17th century.
Papers of Archibald Shiells, merchant in Edinburgh, and his family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12591
Scope and Contents
Includes papers of, and relating to, the family of Wilsone of Murrayshall, Stirlingshire, 1701-1925; and Scottish charters and other legal and administrative documents, mainly from Fife.
Dates:
1529-1925.
Papers relating to Ritchie Calder`s work with the Political Warfare Executive during the Second World War.
File
Identifier: Acc.12799
Dates:
circa 1942-2005.
Transcript by Pier Asdentz of an Italian translation of the philosophical work by the Reverend Father Pier Maria Ferrari: ‘"Introduzione d`Alcinoo Filosofo agli Insegnamenti di Platone". Tradotta dalla Greca favella nella nostra Italiana dal R.P. Pier Maria Ferrari, Genovese delle Scuole Pie, trascritta dall`originale da me. Pier Maria Asdentz, Genova: 1737’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.2
Scope and Contents
Bound with the transcript is the Greek text ‘Alkinoou Philosophou Eis Ta Ton Platonos Dogmata Eisagoge/Alcinoi Philosophi ad Platonis Dogmata Introductio’, printed in Venice by Aldus, 1521 (folios 56-83 verso). Alcinous, 2nd century AD Middle Platonist philosopher (long misidentified with another Middle Platonist philosopher, Albinus), wrote a handbook of Platonism entitled ‘Didaskalikos ton Platonos dogmaton’ (cf. ‘Alcinoos, Enseignement des Doctrines de Platon’ and ‘Alcinous,...
Dates:
1737.
Transcripts of letters of and to David Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8788
Scope and Contents
Volume made at Buchan`s behest as one of his "Gleanings of Literature", and sent to the Bishop of Llandaff.
Letters concern Celtic languages and correspondents include Sir James Foulis of Colinton, Charles Vallancey, the Reverend Donald MacQueen and Jacob Bryant Phillipps.
Dates:
circa 1794.
Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.3134-3185
Scope and Contents
Many of the papers are accompanied by transcripts or summaries by Alexander Macdonald.
Dates:
1552-19th century