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28 sketchbooks of Robert Somerville.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10649
Scope and Contents

Includes printed material.

Dates: 1895-1933.

‘Antient metaphysics’ (Edinburgh, 1779-1799), volumes 1-5, by James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, with manuscript annotations by Monboddo and an amanuensis.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.25253-25257
Scope and Contents

Notes by Professor William Fraser Mitchell on the front flyleaf of MS.25253 and inside the front covers of MSS.25256-25257 state that the second hand is that of Lord Monboddo's son-in-law, Kirkpatrick Williamson Burnett.

Dates: [1779, or after]-[1797, or after.]

Autograph of Queen Mary on the fly-leaf of 'Buckingham Palace: its furniture, decoration and history (London, 1930), by Harold Clifford Smith.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1094
Scope and Contents

This copy of the book was made specially for Their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary.

Dates: 1931.

Berlioz's marked copy of a printed score of ‘Iphigénie en Tauride’ by Christoph Willibald von Gluck ([?Paris, ?1779]).

 Item
Identifier: MS.21852
Scope and Contents

The copy is imperfect, lacking the title page. In addition to the amendments of Berlioz to instrumentation and dynamics, strips of blue paper on which is written an Italian version of the libretto are pasted to the printed pages, covering the French libretto, through the greater part of the volume. The paper covers in which the volume was previously enclosed are bound in at the back (folios i-iv).

Dates: [?1779, ?1779, or after.]

"Bibliography of Thomas Carlyle's writings and ana" by Isaac Watson Dyer (Portland, Maine, 1928), presented by the author to James A S Barrett, with pencil notes and other additions.

 File
Identifier: MS.9852
Scope and Contents

James A S Barrett contributed Section C (a list of the principal portraits, etc., of Carlyle, pages 533-542) to the work.

The volume contains Isaac Dyer's inscription to James Barrett, dated 1928, on the flyleaf, and pencil notes and amendments in Barrett's hand throughout. Press cuttings and a letter, 1930, of Robin Flower, Deputy Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum, doubtless to Barrett, which were loosely enclosed at various places within the volume, have been tipped in.

Dates: 1928-1930.

Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.8.1-26.7.37
Scope and Contents The collection consists of printed books, 1718-1850 (Adv.MSS.25.8.1-25.8.42), and manuscripts, 1511-1857 (Adv.MSS.25.9.1-25.9.23), owned by Riddell, correspondence and papers (many incomplete) ?1799-1860, and undated, relating to peerages (Adv.MSS.26.1.1-26.1.29), to baronetcies, to landed families and to various related topics (Adv.MSS.26.2.1-26.2.23), and a large number of notebooks, circa 1805-1852, containing excerpts from the public records of Scotland, and other matter...
Dates: 1511-1860.

Bound volume made up for James Simpson Fleming of articles published by him.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.7
Scope and Contents The articles in the volume are: an interleaved copy of the third edition of Fleming’s ‘Scottish Banking’ (Edinburgh, 1877); a reprint from ‘Blackwood`s Magazine’, volume 118 (June 1875), of his “Banking and Mr Goschen`s Bill”; `The Interview between Sir Stafford Northcote and the English Bankers` and `Extension of Scottish Banks into England` from “Bankers` Magazine”, volume 36 (July 1876). Pasted in amongst the binder`s blank endpapers are a collection of press-cuttings,...
Dates: 1875-1877.

'Collection of the ancient martial music of Caledonia’ by Donald Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1822), with the signature of Peter Reid dated Glasgow 1826, a poem in his hand, and other material bound in at the back.

 File
Identifier: MS.22118
Scope and Contents Peter Reid's signature is on the flyleaf (folio i) and the poem in his hand on the recto of page 2 of the 'Instructions'.Bound in at the back are:(i) Leaves ruled for music on most of which Reid has written out additional tunes, below which, on some of the leaves, are marginalia, parts of which have been lost due to trimming of the leaves (folio 1);(ii) Unruled leaves on which he has written various poems and songs (folio 35), and a list of the clans of...
Dates: 1822-1826

Composite volume containing works on Latin grammar and versification.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.13
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) ‘Doctrinale’ by Alexander, de Villa Dei, with the anonymous commentary ‘Aurea Grammatica’ [Nuremberg: Friedrich Creussner, ca.1482] (‘Repertorium Bibliographicum’, number 7859; ‘Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum’, number 2174), containing some, but not all, large initials supplied in red or blue, numerous interlinear and marginal additions, mostly quite brief, rubrication and other marks added to initials, and a...
Dates: Late 15th century.

Copies of Constantinus Harmenopoulos, “Πρόχειρον νόμων” (Paris, 1540), with manuscript notes and annotations by various scholars.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.5.1-Adv.MS.28.5.7
Scope and Contents

Seven copies of “Πρόχειρον νόμων, sive epitome juris civilis" with marginal annotations of collation and correction by various scholars of Esusciluce whose names are noted on each.

Dates: Mid 16th century-18th century.

Copy of ‘Hamewith’ (London, 1910) by Charles Murray, enclosing a letter of Murray to the publisher William Fordie Forrester concerning a publishing agreement with Constable.

 File
Identifier: MS.27286
Scope and Contents

There are transcripts by William Fordie Forrester of Charles Murray's poems "It wasna his wyte" and "The Thraws o' Fate" on the endpapers.

Dates: ?1926

Copy of Justinian ‘Institutiones’, edited by Arnold Vinnius (Leyden, 1646), with manuscript notes by Alexander Cuningham.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.7.3(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents

Also contains notes of Lord George Douglas, to whom Alexander Cuningham was tutor.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.10.2-3).

Dates: 1646.

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Letters. Correspondence. 45
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Articles. 10
Histories. 10
Minutes. Administrative records. 10
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Reports 8
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Sketches. 7
Illustrations. Layout features. 6
Portraits. 6
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Legal documents. 5
Plays. 5
Signatures. Names. 5
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Piobaireachd. Great Highland Bagpipe music. 3
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Undetermined 122
English 69
Multiple languages 4
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 2
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Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 2
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 2
Saltire Society 2
A and C Black Ltd, Edinburgh, publishers and booksellers 1
Anderson, Marshall (artist, and curator of the Attic Archive, Dundee) 1
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Andrew, Elizabeth, lover of Robert Burns, poet, née Paton, fl 1786 1
Attic Archive (Dundee) 1
Ballantyne (family, of Holylee ) 1
Beecher, Charles (minister, composer and author) 1
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Cadell, Robert, publisher, 1788-1849 1
Christie, family, of Cowden Castle, Clackmannanshire 1
Church of Scotland, Blantyre Mission, Malawi 1
Citizen's Theatre, TAG, Glasgow, theatre company 1
Clark, Robert (printer, Edinburgh) 1
Coles, Cecil Frederick, composer, 1888-1918 1
Coles, Penny Catherine, daughter of Cecil F, composer, 1917-2003. 1
Cording, Alastair, actor and playwright, fl 1971-2008 1
Dunlop, family, of Stevenson 1
Dwelly, Edward, Gaelic lexicographer, pseudonym Ewen MacDonald, 1864-1939 1
Edinburgh Cine and Video Society (ECVS) 1
Ewing, Winifred Margaret, politician, SNP MP, MSP, b. 1929 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964. 1
Finch, George Ingle, chemist and mountaineer, 1888-1970 1
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 1
Flynn, Ann, wife of Thomas Vincent, General Secretary of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades, fl 1950-1991 1
Flynn, Thomas Vincent, General Secretary of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades, fl 1950-1991 1
Gairdner, Charles Campbell, poet and author, fl 1955 1
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 1
Haining, Peter (artist, and curator of the Attic Archive, Dundee.) 1
Hanson, Neil, writer, b 1948: recipient 1
Horobin, Peter (artist) 1
Kay, Ada F, writer, pseudonym A J Stewart, b 1929 1
Kinematograph Renters' Society 1
Lockhart, John Gibson (biographer of Scott) 1
Lockhart, Sir James Haldane Stewart, Knight, colonial official and art collector, 1858-1937 1
MacDonald, Charles, priest in Moidart, 1835-1894 1
Macdonald, Thomas Joseph Douglas, pseudonym 'Fionn MacColla' (writer) 1
Macgillivray, James Pittendrigh, sculptor, 1856-1938 1
Mackay, Lucinda Louise, Lady, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Inchcape (artist) (b 1941) 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn, political scientist and politician, 1929-1978 1
Magnusson, Magnus, scholar, broadcaster and enviromentalist, 1929-2007 1
McLetchie, David William, WS, Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party, b 1952 1
Mitchell, James Leslie, author, pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon, 1901-1935 1
Neill and Co Ltd, Edinburgh, printers 1
Play in Scottish Hospitals, voluntary organisation 1
Price, Thomas, co-author of "Independent African", b 1907 1
Reid, Alastair, poet, b 1926 1
Royal Highland Yacht Club, 1881- 1
Russell, Robert Scott, botanist and mountaineer, 1913-1999 1
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 1
Scottish Covenant Association 1
Scottish National Party 1
Searle, Ronald William Fordham, cartoonist and illustrator, 1920-2011. 1
Sears, Matthew Urlwin (wood engraver) 1
Social Democratic Party, political party 1
Somerville, Alexander George, missionary, 1917-1999 1
Somerville, Robert, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, fl 1895-1933 1
Stewart, family, of Murdostoun 1
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (author and humanitarian) 1
Stuart Forbes (family, of Fettercairn and Pitsligo ) 1
Train, Joseph, antiquary, 1779-1852 1
Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh 1
Union of Communication Workers 1
Whitley, Henry Charles, Minister of St Giles', Edinburgh, 1906-1976 1
Winn, Godfrey I Burgess, Colonel, member of the Edinburgh Society of Organists, d 1981 1
aitch (artist, creator of the ae phor digital archive, and curator of the Attic Archive.) 1
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