Bookplates.
Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:
'Akbar-nāmah' of Abu'l Faẓl ibn Mubārak al-'Allāmī., 1655.
Manuscript, apparently of the eighteenth century, containing Book I only (composed AD 1655). Illumination at beginning of Part I (folio 2 verso) and Part II (folio 418 verso). Miniatures on folios 27, 58, 94, 123, 130, 145, 158, 194, 197, 221, 238 verso, 254 verso, 265 verso, 307 verso, 365, 399. In Part II there are no miniatures, but several pages have been left blank, evidently for receiving them.
Album of reels, minuets, hornpipes, marches, and other dances, with a list of reels (incomplete) at the beginning and notes of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe., 1st half of 19th century.
Inside the end cover is a note, "Mr. Stenhouse's Vol. X. MSS".
Book of hours, according to the Use of Rome, written in northern France., Late 15th century.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Rouen., Late 15th century.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Sarum., 15th century.
Book of hours according to the Use of Utrecht., 15th century.
Book of sermons on Exodus, xx, preached in the South-East Kirk, Edinburgh, presumably by the Minister, David Blair., 1706-1707.
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Bookplate of Maurice Lothian., Undated.
Charms and spells etc., including notes on witchcraft and astrology., Late 18th century, 1818.
A late eighteenth-century manuscript bearing the signatures 'John Blakey' (page 15) and 'Thomas Wyld' (pages 30, 72), with some additional matter (page i), dated 1818, written perhaps by the James Lomax whose signature is on page 3.
Chronicle of England, and theological works., 14th century.
Copy, early 19th century, of a manuscript tilted ‘Tractatus Theologicus de directione, usu, & necessitate sciae mediae inter vocandum providendum et praedestinandum’., ?17th century.
The manuscript is early 19th century in date and is probably a copy of a 17th century manuscript.
Copy, in an eighteenth-century hand, of ‘Pièces en trio pour les flutes, violon et dessus de viole’ by Marin Marais: first treble part., 1692.
Copy, late seventeenth century, of the chronicle of the Civil War in Scotland compiled by Henry Guthrie, Bishop of Dunkeld., Mid 17th century.
The text of the manuscript is the same as that of the printed book, excepting some small omissions and additions, and numerous variants in vocabulary, spelling, and word order.
Copy of Stair's ‘Institutions of the law of Scotland’., [Circa 1671.]
The general arrangement is that of the first printed edition of 1681, but in several places the text is shorter and rather different. About 20 blank leaves at the end of the volume have been torn out.
Envelope containing circa 25 Derby Owner badgers and Durdans bookplates., Undated.
Excerpts, in a nineteenth century hand, from the 'Appendix To the Memoirs of Dr Alexander Carlyle of Inveresk' ... 'Being the proceedings before the Church Courts against him for attending the representation of the Tragedy of Douglas [by John Home] in 1757'., 1757.
The contents consists almost entirely of excerpts from the proceedings of the Presbytery of Dalkeith. The excerpts are written on the rectos of the leaves, with additions, and some headings, written in another nineteenth-century hand on some of the versos. A leaf containing an excerpt in a hand wrongly ascribed to Sir Walter Scott which was formerly loosely enclosed is tipped in after folio 108.
Glossed manuscript of German provenance, written in or about 1508, of the first part (Epp. 1-88) of Seneca's 'Epistulae Morales'., [Circa 1508.]
'Illustrations of the genealogy of Sir Coutts Trotter', 1st Baronet of Westville, being an abridgement, 1830, of a manuscript genealogy then in Trotter’s possession of the various branches of the family of Moubray, his maternal ancestors., 1830.
The title is taken from folio 5.
The abridgement was made by John Philp Wood for presentation to Alexander Trotter of Dreghorn, brother of Sir Coutts.
A drawing of the arms of Sir Coutts Trotter is pasted inside the front cover.
Letter, 1893, of William Sharp to the publisher Frank Murray, inserted in Murray’s own copy of ‘Pharais’ by Sharp (Derby, 1894)., 1893, 1894, 1899, undated.
The letter concerns the publication of ‘Pharais’ and the author's wish to maintain his pseudonym.
Two press cuttings are tipped in to the volumes:
A poem, undated, of Fiona Macleod;
A letter of Fiona Macleod published in ‘The athenaeum’, 13 May 1899.
The volume contains the bookplate of Frank Murray.
Letter, 1893, of William Sharp to the publisher Frank Murray, inserted in Murray’s own copy of ‘Vista’ by Sharp (Derby, 1894)., 1893, 1894.
The letter gives William Sharp's view of ‘Vistas’ as a series of psychological problems in dramatic form.
A postcard, 1894, of Louise Chandler Moulton to Frank Murray is tipped in to the volume.
The volume also contains the bookplate of Frank Murray.
Letters, accounts and other papers of, to, or concerning, Thomas and J A Carlyle., 1833-1880, undated.
Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his family, with undated drafts and miscellanea., 27 June 1865-1870, undated.
Includes 22 draft letters, ?1867-?1870, an "Author’s note of 1868" to 'Sartor Resartus', a page of manuscript of 'Past and present', a note for 'Cromwell', a galley-proof of 'Frederick', other fragments, a book-plate, and a stencil for a silhouette.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Burgess, M. to Burgoynes., 1772-1915.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of Mountstuart Grant Duff., 1862-1898.
Manuscript full orchestral score by Norman O'Neill for the complete play of ‘The last heir’ by Stephen Phillips., 1907-1908.
The first four drafts (MSS.7151-7157) are entitled 'The bride of Lammermoor'.