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Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Autograph poem “An Eala Bhàn” by Iain Crichton Smith, with typed transcript and English translation.
Gaelic Ossianic verse of James Macpherson and John Smith written out in a neat Gaelic script by John Sinclair of 70 Bell Street, Glasgow.
Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, relating principally to William Forbes Skene’s work in preparing his ‘Chronicles of the Picts and Scots’ and ‘Celtic Scotland’.
Notes, transcripts and extracts compiled by and for Lieutenant-General George Henry Hutton relating to Aberdeen and its ecclesiastical antiquities.
Papers of Archibald Shiells, merchant in Edinburgh, and his family.
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.
Papers of Edmund Crosby Quiggin (1875-1920), Munro Lecturer in Celtic, Cambridge University, relating to the preparation of editions of Gaelic texts.
Due to the War and Dr Edmund Crosby Quiggin’s early death, neither work was published. The papers were used however by Professor John Fraser in publishing his collection of Quiggin’s Book of the Dean of Lismore transcripts, ‘Poems from the Book of the Dean of Lismore’.
Papers of Hamish Henderson.
Includes a notebook and drafts of Henderson`s translation of Antonio Gramsci, "Lettere dal Carcere".
With autograph transcriptions, undated, compiled by Robert Garioch for the School of Scottish Studies.
Photocopies of transcription and translation of Peithynen, by Miss Selby.
Photographic copies of some family papers of Mr and Mrs Thomas Adams, Alloway, relating chiefly to Mrs Adams’ great-great-uncle, the Reverend Donald Stewart (1803-1831).
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’.
Transcripts and translations, 1776-?1781, of ecclesiastical records of Perth, 1241-1732.
Transcripts and translations, 1776-?1781, of ecclesiastical records of Perth, 1241-1732, and an essay entitled `The Superstitions of Perth`, 1788, by the Reverend James Scott, minister of the East Church, Perth.
This is part i of Scott`s transcripts and translations.
Scott`s transcribing work is interspersed with historical notices by him.