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13th-century manuscript containing the 'Decretum' of Gratian, with the gloss of Bartholomeus Brixiensis.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.10.1.2
Scope and Contents
13th-century canon law manuscript containing an incomplete text of the 'Decretum' of Gratian with the gloss of Bartholomeus Brixiensis, a correction of the gloss of Johannes Teutonicus Zemeke. The work has been dated to the 13th century by Borland, and to the 14th century by Dolezalek. The manuscript was probably written in Italy and illuminated in France or England. The main body of text is written in double columns of 50 lines, with glosses in two columns. Both the...
Dates:
13th century
25 letters of Roderick Watson Kerr to George M Thomson.
File
Identifier: Acc.6831
Scope and Contents
Concerning the Porpoise Press.
With typescript copies annotated by Thomson.
Dates:
1925.
‘1467 MS’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists of two sections, folios 1-9 ('1467 MS'), written in and about that date (folio 7 recto) by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail (folios 3 recto, 5 recto, 7 recto, 8 recto), who was presumably a MacMhuirich; and folios 10-25 (Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’), written circa 1425 by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín (date and hand established by Tomás Ó Concheanainn, “The scribe of John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’”, pages 99-101.The manuscript begins with Cormac’s Instructions...
Dates:
[Circa 1425, circa 1467.]
Album containing portraits of Sir Walter Scott, with papers of and concerning him.
File
Identifier: MS.23060
Dates:
1821-1827.
"An Exact and Circumstantial History of the Battle of Flodden" (1774), with annotations by the Reverend D Watson (possibly David Watson, Minister of St Clement`s, Glagow.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9360
Dates:
1774.
Andrew Ross`s annotated interleaved copy of his, "The Lyons of Cossins and Wester Ogil, Cadets of Glamis" (Edinburgh, 1901).
Item
Identifier: Acc.7526A
Dates:
1901.
Andrew Symson, "A letter from Mr Andrew Symson to William Forbes" (1706), with extensive annotations.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9596
Dates:
circa 1706.
Anna Jean Mill, "Mediaeval Plays in Scotland" (St Andrews University Publications, number XXIV), with author`s additions and corrections.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6024
Dates:
1927.
Annotated and corrected typescript of "Scotland, an Anthology" compiled by George Campbell Hay.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10651
Scope and Contents
Includes translations of Gaelic poetry.
Dates:
circa 1950-1984.
Annotated copies of Archibald Stalker, "Shakespeare, Marlowe and Nashe" (1936) and "The Exposition of "Shakespeare`s Sonnets"" (1971).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7875
Dates:
1936-1971.
Annotated copy of Archibald Stalker, "Conversation with Himself".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6935
Scope and Contents
Comprising extracts from his diary for 1957-1969.
Dates:
1969.
Annotated copy of Douglas`s "Baronage of Scotland", possibly belonging to Alexander Sinclair.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12744
Dates:
1798.
Annotated copy of F R Grahame, "The Progress of Science, Art and Literature in Russia (London, ? 1865).
File
Identifier: Acc.10321
Scope and Contents
Includes additional material in the hand of the author.
Dates:
circa 1865.
Annotated copy of J L Campbell and Francis Collinson, "Hebridean Folksongs" (1969).
Item
Identifier: Acc.9003
Scope and Contents
With five letters, 1979, of Campbell to Collinson.
Dates:
1969-1979.
Annotated copy of May Sinclair, "A Defence of Idealism" (1917).
Item
Identifier: Acc.11190
Scope and Contents
Includes three letters, 1923-1924, of the author to W J Jupp and Jupp`s annotations and presentation note, 1925, to J Ramsay MacDonald.
Dates:
1917-1923.
Annotated copy of "Meet the Members", a Women`s Land Army publication.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12317
Dates:
circa 1944.
Annotated copy of "Peerage of Scotland" (Edinburgh, 1813), by Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12047
Scope and Contents
This being the 2nd edition by John Philp Wood.
Notation, circa 1821-1860, by genealogist and author of family histories, Alexander Sinclair.
Dates:
circa 1813-1860.
Annotated copy of "The Iona Autograph Album", presented to Patrick Geddes and Anna Geddes by `Fiona Macleod` (William Sharp).
Item
Identifier: Acc.12401
Dates:
1894.
Annotated copy of volume one of James Burnett`s "Of the Origin and Progress of Language" (2nd edition, 1784).
Item
Identifier: Acc.11441
Scope and Contents
Annotated by author apparently for a new edition, never published.
Dates:
1784.
Annotated New Testament belonging to Prof Henry Drummond.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9197
Scope and Contents
With photographs.
Dates:
circa 1873-1897.
Annotated offprints of four articles of Archibald Stalker.
File
Identifier: Acc.8597
Scope and Contents
Published in "The Quarterly Review" and the "Cornhill Magazine", concerning literary subjects.
Dates:
1919, 1940-1947.
Annotated photocopy, 1989, of xerox copy of map of Orkney in 1931, in two parts.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9965
Scope and Contents
Annotations by Peter MacDonald indicate World War II military installations, together with explanatory correspondence, 1989.
Dates:
1931-1989.
Annotated printed reports on the proposed scheme to provide for the widows of members of the Faculty of Advocates.
File
Identifier: F.R.395
Dates:
1826-1830.
Annotated proofs of extracts from reports of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7956
Dates:
1874-1879.
Annotated typescript of the short story "The Search for the Perfect Hamburger" by Alexander McCall Smith.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12282
Dates:
circa 1982.