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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.]

Common-place book of medical, chemical and alchemical recipes and experiments.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.10
Scope and Contents At the end of the manuscript are numerous prescriptions by a physician in high practice in Scotland in the beginning of the 17th century. One commences ‘Dedi Alexandro comiti Eglintonis uxoris meae confebr[...]ino… 30 Octob.1625’.On a fly leaf is written ‘I wagered with the young laird of Darfie that his wyff was with a sone (deprehenso pulsu brachii dextri maiore) a paire of stage ledder gloves the last of Januar 1634’.The description of the manuscript in the folio...
Dates: Early 17th century.

Commonplace book.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10700
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) 'Some hints of ye occasion and manner of Lady Anna Elcho her Death.' This is substantially the same as "A short account of Lady Anne Elcho's death" (no publisher, 1741), attributed to Thomas Halyburton, who is mentioned in the text and later became Professor of Divinity at St Andrews University. Her epitaph by Halyburton follows the text. (Folio 1.)(ii) Brief biographical notes on some ministers, most of whom lived in the 16th century....
Dates: Early 18th century.

Commonplace book.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7837

Commonplace book, 1863-1896, of Robert Dickson Glover, a merchant at Roslin and later in Portobello.

 Item
Identifier: MS.14277
Scope and Contents

The book contains verses, historical and literary material, notes of events in Roslin, 1869-1873, and fragments of a diary for 1895-1896. A later hand has added copies of poems and of the will, May 1927, of John Glover who died in 1933 (folio 96).

Dates: 1863-1896, 1927, undated.

Commonplace Book compiled by Reverend John Fairley.

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Identifier: Acc.14554
Scope and Contents

Contains extensive notes on "Popery" in Scotland, the Scottish Covenanters and Cameronians, temperance and abstinence, proverbs and quotations, and observations on the rules of composition.

Dates: Circa 1837.

Commonplace book containing poems, household and medical recipes, riddles and notes, written in several hands.

 Item
Identifier: MS.14275
Scope and Contents

Folios 1-20 contain a collection of verses, most of which are dated 1789.

Dates: 1783-1828.

Commonplace book in verse and prose.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6824
Scope and Contents

701 pages, with Aberdeen connections, bookplate of Charles Gordon of Beldornie and Wardhouse, and ownership inscription of Thomas Mercer.

Dates: late 17th century.

Commonplace book of Donald Mackay, 1848, containing miscelleanous texts including medical prescriptions, texts of religious instruction, songs partly with music, and Gaelic songs, partly composed by Mackay himself.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14338
Content Description Commonplace book dated 1848, paginated by the scribe 1-732, 781-790, blank after page 727. A leather label pasted onto the front paste-down reads "Donald McKay 1848". The scribe was possibly the Rev. Donald Mackay (1829-1910), a native of Creich, Sutherland, minister of various parishes including Paisley and Nova Scotia. From 1848-1853, around the time of writing of the commonplace book, he was schoolmaster in Ullapool. If Mackay's identity could be confirmed, this time scale might explain...
Dates: 1848.

Commonplace book of Donald McDugald.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11971
Scope and Contents

Contains a digest of largely religious and theological remarks.

Dates: 1772.

Commonplace book of George Anderson, Glasgow.

 Item
Identifier: MS.14276
Scope and Contents

As well as poetry, recipes and miscellaneous notes, the book includes instructions for road-making (page 3) and designs for a pump and a building for making lamp-black (pages 37, 66).

Dates: 1818-1827.

Commonplace book of Hew Love.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7502
Scope and Contents

Including translations from Ovid, Virgil, and Terence.

Dates: 1667-1668.

Commonplace book of James Brown, a teacher of Latin in Monimail and Edinburgh.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.8
Scope and Contents

The volume contains poems, including a satire on James Sharp, Archbishop of St Andrews (page 54), epitaphs, acrostics, and items copied from printed works. There are also copies of Brown`s correspondence, chiefly with Sir Robert Sibbald.

Dates: 1665-1690.

Commonplace book of James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane.

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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 Janet W M Stewart.

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Identifier: Acc.14402
Scope and Contents

Includes excerpts from the novels of Sir Walter Scott, the poetry of Lord Byron and John Milton, and the plays of Joanna Baillie. The volume also includes a number of drawings of buildings and landscapes and several illustrations of flowers.

Dates: 1820-1834.

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Bell, William, 1704-1779, Incumbant of Doune Episcopal Church 1
Belsis, James (Canon of Dunblane) 1
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 1
Blackwood, James (Canon of Dunblane) 1
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 1
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Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Currie, James (physician) 1
Drummond, William, Stirling, fl 1795-1817 1
Edward, Alexander, Minister of Kemback, d 1708 1
Ewart, John, fl 1817-1820 1
Fairley, John, Reverend (minister in the Reformed Presbyterian Church) 1
Fletcher, Francis, son of Andrew, Lord Milton, fl 1730-1770 1
Galsworthy, John, author, 1867-1933 1
Grant of Kilgraston, John, 1799-1873 1
Grant, Francis, Sir, Knight (portrait painter) 1
Grant, Patrick, 1783-1867 (minister of the Baptist church at Granton-on-Spey, Gaelic poet) 1
Gray, James (Priest and Secretary to Archbishop of St Andrews) 1
Hadfield, Jen (poet and artist) 1
Hume, David, Baron of the Exchequer, d 1838 1
Innes, Thomas (Priest and Historian) 1
Ker, John (Professor of Latin at Edinburgh University, neo-Latin poet) 1
Kippen, Andrew, Edinburgh, fl 1840-1850 1
Law, Alfred (mill owner) 1
Law, Alfred Joseph, Sir (Knight, politician) 1
Law, William (mill owner, and bilbliophile) 1
Lawrence, Thomas Edward, intelligence officer and author, called Lawrence of Arabia, 1888-1935 1
Love, Hew, schoolmaster at Johnshill, Lochwinnoch, fl 1667-1668 1
MacDonald, John (minister of Ferintosh) 1
MacKay, Benjamin Skene, trade union organiser, 1883-1930 1
MacLeod, Norman, 1783-1862 ("Caraid nan Gaidheal") 1
Macdonald, Maria Anne Bosville, wife of Godfrey, 4th Baron Macdonald of Slate, née Wyndham, 1819-1892 1
Macintyre, James, of Glenoe, 1727-1799 1
Mackay, Donald (possibly Reverend.) 1
Mackenzie, Grace (Gaelic spiritual poet, Badenoch) 1
Macmillan, Hugh Pattison, Baron Macmillan of Aberfeldy, 1873-1952 1
Matthew, Charles Geekie (naval surgeon and botanist) 1
McDugald, Donald, Jura, fl 1772 1
Mill, E H, of The Burn, Kincardineshire, fl 1872-1882 1
Moffat, John, Edinburgh, photographer, fl 1856-1858 1
Napier, George Glen, miscellaneous writer, fl 1889-1940 1
Pound, Ezra Loomis, poet, 1885-1972 1
Ritchie, Charles, Minister of Kirkliston, 1765-1825 1
Rush, Christopher, author, b. 1944. 1
Rutherfurd, family, of Edgerston : former owner 1
Shaw, C, York, fl.1826-1865: collector 1
Stevenson , William (missionary; Secretary of the Womens' Foreign Missions of the Free Church and United Free Church of Scotland ) 1
Stewart, Janet W. M. (compiler of commonplace book) 1
Syme, John (Writer to the Signet) 1
Tolmie, Alexander McDonald Cornfute, minister of Campbeltown and Southend, Kintyre, 1861-1909 1
Tolmie, Frances, folklorist, 1840-1926 1
Tolmie, John, 1859-1923 1
Turnbull, Gael Lundin, poet and physician, 1928-2004 1
Tytler, Alexander Fraser, Lord Woodhouselee (Historian and Lawyer) 1
Wardrop, James, surgeon, 1782-1869 1
Wardrop, Shirley, daughter of James, surgeon, fl 1841-1861 1
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