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Miscellaneous Ossianic papers.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.3.1

Miscellaneous papers.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.10
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Translation, 17th century, of Jan de Laet`s edition of ‘Lexicon Vitruvianum’. The beginning is missing; the text starts at `Abstantia` and breaks off at `Mataxa`. (Folio 1.)(ii) Article attacking the service-book, circa 1638. (Folio 51.)(iii) Manuscript, 1709, of ‘A Letter directed thus, for Mr James Lyon in Kirkwal’ by James Sands. (Folio 72.)(iv) Copy, late 17th century, of George Buchanan`s...
Dates: ?1595-18th century.

Nonsense verses and English translations of Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Identifier: Acc.11145
Scope and Contents

Some written on Advocates` Library paper.

Dates: late 19th century.

Notebook of Thomas Heart, containing prose translations, poetry, notes and some medical recipes.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3004
Scope and Contents

The notebook contains prose translations of most of Horace's ‘Odes and Epodes’ (inverted folio 3, folio 1 verso), a poem entitled "The believer's dowry" with other verses and notes of a religious nature (folio 4), and some medical recipes (folio 27 verso). Dates ranging between the years 1720 and 1763 occur at points throughout the volume.

Dates: 1720-1763.

Notes, transcripts and extracts compiled by and for Lieutenant-General George Henry Hutton relating to Aberdeen and its ecclesiastical antiquities.

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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, 1321-1601, to and of the family of Murray of Falahill.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11403
Scope and Contents

Includes translations of the papers, genealogical notes, genealogies of the families of Falahill and Philiphaugh, and a copy of a poem "The Song of Outlaw Murray", all mid 19th century.

Dates: 1321-1601 and mid 19th century.

Papers and translations collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.16
Scope and Contents The source material and translations are variously endorsed or annotated by Henry Mackenzie, Donald Mackintosh, and Ewen MacLachlan.The contents are as follows.(M 1). Notes by John Francis Campbell, dated 25 November 1872. (Folio 1.)(i) Cover, probably for folios 12-22, 24-33. Bears hands of Ewen MacLachlan and Mackintosh MacKay. Cf. Adv.MS.73.2.10, folio 207. (Folio 2.)(M 2). Ossianic fragments with some corresponding passages from James...
Dates: [1794, or after]-1872, undated.

Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).

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Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates: 17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.

Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).

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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates: 17th century-19th century.

Papers of Alexander Huchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10158
Scope and Contents

Manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and translations, correspondence and artwork.

Dates: 1972-1990.

Papers of and concerning the Reverend George Murray Reith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3564
Scope and Contents

Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.

Dates: [?1885]-?1st half of 19th century.

Papers of Archibald Shiells, merchant in Edinburgh, and his family.

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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.

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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 G S Fraser.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11756
Scope and Contents

Includes typescripts of articles, essays, reviews and translations, many arranged in order by Fraser`s wife, Eileen, with a view to publication in collected form; also includes printed material by Fraser and correspondence concerning his work.

Dates: circa 1957-1980.

Papers of Hamish Henderson.

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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.

Papers of James Logie Robertson.

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Identifier: Acc.6578/1-3
Scope and Contents James Logie Robertson was born in Milnathort, Kinross-shire in 1846 and educated at Orwell Parish School and Edinburgh University. He was assistant master at Heriot’s Hospital and George Watson’s College before joining the staff at Edinburgh Ladies’ College in 1876. His writings, some under the pen-name of ‘Hugh Haliburton’, include English text-books, essays and poetry. Robertson died in 1922. 1. corrected manuscript, circa 1880, of "Orellana: a Poem"2. corrected...
Dates: [Circa 1880]-1889.

Papers of Magnus Magnusson.

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Identifier: Acc.13542/1-1198
Scope and Contents This archive contains the papers of Magnusson Magnusson (1929-2007), broadcaster, scholar, author and environmentalist accumulated over the course of his career. After embarking on a career in journalism in the 1950s Magnusson moved into television in the-mid 1960s where he presented such programmes as "Chronicle" which was dedicated to achaeological discoveries. Magnusson may be best known for his role of quizmaster on the long-running BBC show Mastermind. Magnusson had a strong connection...
Dates: circa 1948-2006.

Papers of S Marshak.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.3945
Scope and Contents

Including, chapter of autobiographical novel, "At the Beginning of Life", two poems and translations of poems of Burns and others.

Dates: 20th century.

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Language
English 77
Undetermined 57
Multiple languages 21
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 19
Latin 19
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Names
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 3
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 2
Gramsci, Antonio, writer, 1891-1937 2
Hay, George Campbell, poet, 1915-1984 2
Henderson, Hamish, poet and folklorist, 1919-2002 2
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Hutchison, Alexander, poet, b 1943 2
Magnusson, Magnus, scholar, broadcaster and enviromentalist, 1929-2007 2
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 2
Allan, Michael, Stirling, fl 1975-1990 1
Althaus, Friedrich, Professor at University College, London, 1829-1897 1
Amman, Alexander, Polish Army, fl 1939-1942 1
Anderson, William James, Senior Curate, St Mary's, Chelsea, 1894-1972 1
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 1
Bellenden, John (Archdeacon of Moray, writer) 1
Bochanan, Dùghall, poet, 1716-1768 1
Borrow, George Henry (writer and traveller) 1
Brown, James, Minister of Colmonell, b 1896 1
Burness, Robert, translator, fl 1948 1
Calvin, Jean, theologian, 1509-1564 1
Campbell, John, pseudonym Morvernensis, fl 1743-1746 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Cavo, Mario, translator of poems of Gael Turnbull, fl 2006-2007 1
Chaloner, Thomas, politician and regicide, 1595-1660 1
Chapman, Scotland, literary magazine 1
Clifford, Bertram, electrical engineer, 1877-1954 1
Clifford, Jo, playwright, b 1950 1
Craigie, Sir William Alexander, Knight, philologist, 1867-1957 1
Daudet, Alphonse, novelist, 1840-1897 1
Denham, Sir James Steuart, 3rd Baronet, of Coltness and Westshield, economist, formerly Steuart, 1713-1780 1
Douglas, Gavin, Bishop of Dunkeld, poet, c 1476-1522 1
Drummond, William, 1st Viscount Strathallan, c 1617-1688 1
Eleanor, Consort of Sigismund, Archduke of Austria, 1433-1480 1
Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland, 1533-1603 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Friseal, Ailean, Lecturer in Animal Husbandry, Aberdeen, and author, 1900-1979 1
Gorman, Rody, poet, b 1960 1
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 1
Greig, family 1
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 1
Irving, Alexander, army officer in the Swedish service, d 1659 1
Isles, Rita, Aberdour, fl 1973 1
James I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1566-1625 1
Lagerkvist, Pär, 1891-1974 1
Lim Se Siu, China, Christian convert, fl 1864-1875 1
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 1
Lockhart, Sir James Haldane Stewart, Knight, colonial official and art collector, 1858-1937 1
London Missionary Society 1
Love, Hew, schoolmaster at Johnshill, Lochwinnoch, fl 1667-1668 1
Lucian, of Samosata, rhetorician, c 120-c 200 AD 1
MacIntyre, John Walker, Minister of Kinloch Rannoch, 1840-1924 1
MacIntyre, John, Minister of Kilmonivaig, 1794-1870 1
Macdonald, Sir Hector Archibald, Knight, Major-General, 1853-1903 1
Mackenzie, Evan, missionary in Tibet, b 1868 1
Mackie, Alastair, poet, 1925-1995 1
Marsak, Robyn Louise, Director, The Scottish Poetry Library, b. 1953.: Publisher 1
Marshak, Samuil Iakovlevich , poet and translator, 1887-1964 1
McLeod, John, composer, b 1934 1
Mesmin, Etienne-Aulède-Sophie Fevret de Saint, Vicomtesse de Juigné, fl 1826 1
Morison, Duncan M (musician) 1
Morison, Duncan M, musician, Stornoway, ? 1906-1998: collector 1
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 1
Muir, Wilhelmina Johnston, née Anderson, author, pseudonym 'Agnes Neill Scott' , 1890-1970 1
Murray, Malcolm, writer on Alexander Irving, army officer in the Swedish service, fl 1976-1986 1
Murray, family, of Falahill and Philiphaugh 1
Möller, Johann Heinrich, 1792-1867 1
Nazhivin, Ivan Fedorovich, writer, 1874-1940 1
Newport, G O, missionary, London Missionary Society, China, fl 1864-1875 1
Nordal, Sigurður Jóhannesson, Professor of Icelandic Studies, University of Iceland, 1886-1974 1
Presot, Marie, mother of Esther Inglis, calligrapher, fl 1569-1574 1
Purves, Andrew, Shepherd and Gaelic translator, 1912-2002 1
Purves, David, poet and playwright, b 1924 1
Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford, Knight Colonial Governor, 1781-1826 1
Reith, George Murray, Minister of St Cuthbert’s United Free Church, Edinburgh, 1863-1948 1
Robertson, James Francis, poet and novelist, b 1958 1
Robertson, James Logie, literary scholar and author, pseudonym Hugh Haliburton, 1846-1922 1
Ronsard, Pierre de, poet, 1524-1585 1
Ros, Rev Coinneach, 1914-1990 1
Ross, Neil, Minister of Laggan, Inverness-shire, Gaelic scholar and poet, 1873-1943 1
Rutherfurd, family, of Edgerston : former owner 1
Schlapp, Otto, Emeritus Professor of German, University of Edinburgh, 1859-1939 1
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 1
Shakespeare, William, playwright, 1564-1616 1
Shiells, Archibald, merchant, Edinburgh, 1677-1752 1
Shostakovich, Dmitri Dmitrievich, composer, 1906-1975 1
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 1
Stone, Bessie, Broughty Ferry, fl 1903-1907 1
Stronach, Alexander, missionary, London Missionary Society, China, 1800-1879 1
Stronach, John, missionary, London Missionary Society, China, 1810-1888 1
Sturm, Leonhard Christoph, mathematician and architect, 1669-1719 1
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 1
Tannahill, Andrew, poet and translator, 1900-1986 1
Thub-bstan-rgya-mtsho, 13th Dalai Lama, 1876-1933 1
Thub-bstan-rgya-mtsho, 13th Dalai Lama, 1876-1933. 1
Turnbull, Gael Lundin, poet and physician, 1928-2004 1
Tussaud, Anna Marie, founder of a waxwork exhibition, née Grosholtz, called Madame Tussaud, d 1850 1
Vergilius Maro, Publius (poet) 1
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 1
Whyte, Christopher, poet and novelist, b 1952 1
Wilsone, family, Stirlingshire, of Murrayshall 1
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