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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.
Autograph poem “An Eala Bhàn” by Iain Crichton Smith, with typed transcript and English translation.
File
Identifier: MS.14971
Dates:
1968.
Gaelic Ossianic verse of James Macpherson and John Smith written out in a neat Gaelic script by John Sinclair of 70 Bell Street, Glasgow.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.8
Scope and Contents
The scribe, John Sinclair, extended the James Macpherson material, notably by translating from Macpherson’s English what was missing from his Gaelic. He explains his editorial principles in a foreword addressed to his namesake Sir John Sinclair (folios i-ii). He had borrowed Adv.MS.72.2.4 and Adv.MS.72.2.6 from Peter Turner at some time between 1802 and 1809, and includes brief transcripts from these; that with which the manuscript begins is cut short, as he was obliged to return the...
Dates:
1812-1813.
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).
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.27
Scope and Contents
It was originally Ferguson`s intention to print Dutch text and English translation of all Dutch documents quoted, but this scheme had to be abandoned for reasons of space, and only the English translations were ultimately printed (Volume I, page xxxiii). Before this change of plan, the Dutch texts had been inserted into the appropriate places of the manuscript of Volume I and part of Volume II; the rest are preserved separately, Adv.MSS.81.3.15-81.3.23.Summaries and extracts of...
Dates:
1698-1901.
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’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.16
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Notes, transcripts and extracts compiled by and for Lieutenant-General George Henry Hutton relating to Aberdeen and its ecclesiastical antiquities.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.22
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows: (i) Extracts in Hutton`s hand from the index to the Records of the City of Aberdeen by William Kennedy, advocate,Aberdeen, 1814. The entries, which are alphabetically arranged by subject, range in date between 1401 and 1799. (Folio 1.)(ii) Translations in another, unidentified hand of formal documents relating to the Dominicans of Aberdeen ranging in date between 1392 and 1585. According to a note in Hutton`s...
Dates:
Late 12th century-1799.
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 of Edmund Crosby Quiggin (1875-1920), Munro Lecturer in Celtic, Cambridge University, relating to the preparation of editions of Gaelic texts.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14870-14872
Scope and Contents
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’.
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Papers of Hamish Henderson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10157
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
circa 1947-1987.
Photocopies of transcription and translation of Peithynen, by Miss Selby.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4073
Dates:
circa 1966.
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).
File
Identifier: MS.14952
Scope and Contents
The Reverend Donald Stewart, a native of the Loch Earn district of Perthshire, was a minister of St Mark’s, Demerara, from his arrival 29 April 1831 to his death seven months later. The contents are as follows.(i) Lease of Lednascriden, Balquhidder, 1776 (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Donald Stewart, Georgetown, 30 April 1831, to his father and brother, both John Stewart, Findglen, Loch Earn. A further letter, dated Georgetown, 2 May 1831, is cross-written on...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1776, 1831, undated
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 and translations, 1776-?1781, of ecclesiastical records of Perth, 1241-1732.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.186-194
Dates:
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.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.13.1.1-13.1.7
Scope and Contents
This is part i of Scott`s transcripts and translations.
Scott`s transcribing work is interspersed with historical notices by him.
Dates:
1241-1732, 1788.
Transcripts made by the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross (later Minister of Lochbroom) of James Macpherson`s Gaelic manuscripts of the Ossian poems, together with the Latin translation by Robert Macfarlane, made for the edition published by the Highland Society of London in 1807.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.73.4.1-73.4.6
Dates:
3rd quarter of 18th century, 1804, or before.