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21 letters and fragments of and to Scottish clergymen.
Correspondents include Charles Cowan, Alexander Duff, Robert H Lundie, Thomas Guthrie and George S Duncan.
26 manuscript fragments of paper and vellum, recovered from bindings.
32 letters and fragments of letters of or to the Kerr family, Dalry, Ayrshire and their Kerr, Currie, Boyle and Glen relatives in the United States.
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
Charters and related writs of the Rutherford family of Edgerston.
Children`s rhymes and other scraps of Scottish poetry, possibly collected by Abijah Murray.
`Chronicle of Perth`, 1210-1668, also known as Mercer`s Chronicle and Fleming`s Chronicle, with other documents relating to the burgh of Perth.
The `Chronicle` was compiled probably between 1600 and 1668 by more than one person. Though attributed to John Mercer, town clerk of Perth, only the latter part appears to be his work. From 1660 it is almost entirely a register of burials.
Other items in the volume are a fragment of a legal memorial, circa 1597, concerning the foundation of the King James VI Hospital in Perth (folio 1), and a group of letters concerning Royal Burgh affairs (1614-1628), all copies (folio 20).
Collection of illuminated manuscripts and fragments, chiefly Italian, acquired by the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art from 1868 to 1895.
Collection of manuscript fragments containing classical verse in Gaelic.
Copies, apparently by Alexander Ross, of Johannes Ferrerius "Historiae Compendium de Origine et Incremento Gordonias Familiae", 1545, and of his own "Suthirlandiae Comitum Annales", 1625.
Indluding:
1. "Vera Narratio...Victoriae...quod Auinum Amen [Glenlivet]... Anno Dmi 1594", with ownership inscription of Robert Gordon and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
2. incomplete charter, undated, of John, Earl of Sutherland
3. letters, 1605, 1623 and undated
4. two fragments of a writing excercise, undated
5. poems, undated, mostly of Robert Southwell, with a photocopy of typescript on the poems.
Copies, in an eighteenth-century hand, of Jacobite tracts, in a book containing Thomas Ruddiman's bookplate and a list of contents in his autograph.
Copy of the ‘Memoirs’ of Walter Pringle of Greenknowe, the covenanter, with two genealogical manuscripts, concerning respectively the Clan Chattan and the Drummond family in Madeira.
Corrected manuscripts of three essays of William Sharp, "The Cuckoo", "The Heralds of March", and "Mäya", with parts of two other essays.
Correspondence and literary papers of and concerning George Borrow collected by Sir Angus Fraser, with working papers of Sir Angus Fraser relating to George Borrow.
Includes photocopies, extensive notes on Borrow by Sir Angus Fraser and an annotated copy of 'George Borrow: a Bibliographical Guide' (1984).
Correspondence and other papers of John Dowden, Bishop of Edinburgh.
Correspondence of Samuel Brown, the chemist, and his family.
Among Samuel Brown's more frequent correspondents, outside the family, are Thomas Aird, George Combe (the phrenologist), Sydney Dobell, and Coventry Patmore; those of his widow and daughter (the donor) include Alexander Anderson ('Surfaceman') and Harriet Martineau.
Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘The History and Antiquities of Scotland’ by William Maitland, 2 volumes (London, 1757), containing many marginal notes and comments on the text.
Five leaves from an autograph album.
Including letters, receipts, drawings and engravings.
With items of Sir Richard Westmacott, Sir Francis Chantrey and Benjamin Haydon.
Formal documents from the papers of the Borthwicks of Crookston.
Fragment of a disposition by John Clerk, Younger of Penicuik, Baron of the Exchequer (later Sir John, 2nd Baronet, of Penicuik), providing for his children in the event of his death.
Fragment of a letter of David Livingstone to John Murray.
Probably the second half of letter number 1645 in "David Livingstone: a Catalogue of Documents" (1979), compiled by G W Glendennen, assisted by I C Cunningham.
Fragment of a manuscript of the Gospels in the Syriac Peshitta version.
Only eight leaves are present, containing St John xvi, 23-xxi, 23; but damage to the top, bottom, and outer edges of the leaves has reduced considerably the amount of legible text. The manuscript has only a small number of minor variants from the standard text.
The script is a bold, clear Nestorian estrangela, well supplied with vowels and other reading signs, including the linear occultans. It was probably written in the early thirteenth century.