Detached leaves.
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Fragments of a Latin commentary on Aristotle's ‘Categoriae', including parts of the 'Liber predicabilium' and 'Liber predicamentorum'.
The commentary is followed by a fragment of a manuscript in English (folio 34) and part of a vellum leaf from a 13th-century noted service book (folio 36).
Leaf from the manuscript of ‘The life of Napoleon Buonaparte’ by Sir Walter Scott., 1827.
Leaf from the manuscript of ‘Waverley’ by Sir Walter Scott., [Circa 1813.]
Leaf from the Sanctoral of a noted breviary, probably of Sarum use., 15th century.
The leaf contains the offices from None on All Saints Day to the end of All Souls. These are followed by the collects for the feasts of St Leonard, the Four Crowned Martyrs, and St Theodore. In 1591 the leaf was being used as the cover of a 'Liber responsionum'.
Leaf possibly from a missal, containing a painting of the Crucifixion, possibly Bohemian work., [Circa 1400.]
In the lower part of the leaf, are the Virgin and other figures, and in the upper, angels with symbols of the sun, moon, stars and the pelican in her piety. The painting is on a tooled gold ground surrounded by scrolls of Biblical texts and medallions containing the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah and the symbols of the Evangelists. The verso is blank.
Loose leaves from notebooks, undated, of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., Mid 19th century.
The loose leaves consist of fragments of prose works, excerpts from reading, occasional scraps of poetry, and miscellaneous notes.