Fragments.
Found in 371 Collections and/or Records:
Family papers and correspondence of and concerning Hugh Miller., 1650-1864, undated.
Financial and miscellaneous papers of George Moncrieff-Scott., ?1956-1969, undated.
The contents are as follows. (i) Financial papers, including returns for a production of 'Try and be sensible' by Perth Theatre in 1951, and royalty statements, 1965-1969 (folio l); (ii) Miscellaneous papers, including fragments of literary works, ?1956-1966, undated (folio 15).
Five leaves from a book of hours, England., 15th century.
The leaves contain part of the first nocturn of matins in the Office for the Dead, from Psalm 6, verse 6 to the second reading (Job 10, verse 4). There is a lacuna between folios 3 and 4 and two leaves are probably missing here.
There are two illuminated 2-line initials (folios 2 and 5) with bar borders in red, blue and gold. Small initials in gold and penwork throughout.
Five leaves from an autograph album.
Including letters, receipts, drawings and engravings.
With items of Sir Richard Westmacott, Sir Francis Chantrey and Benjamin Haydon.
Five leaves from an illuminated copy, dated 1665, of the diploma awarded by the University of Padua in 1658 to Jacobus Pasquali on his graduation as Doctor of Laws., 1658, 1665.
Formal documents from the papers of the Borthwicks of Crookston.
Four contiguous vellum fragments, together forming the upper outer quarter of a leaf of a mediaeval rubricated and noted service book, possibly a breviary of Italian provenance., ?13th century.
There is no stave, the notes being written above the various syllables. The portion of text visible appears to relate to the Feast of Saint Lucy (13 December). In the margin of the recto are written, in a German hand of the 18th century, what appear to be notes of five book-titles, the significance of which is not known.
Four fragments from the Temporale of a missal of Scottish provenance., Late 12th century.
Four pages probably from a Dutch catechism., ?Early 17th century.
Fourteen narrow strips of vellum from a breviary., 14th century.
Only three pairs of fragments are contiguous and at least four bifolia have been cut up to provide these strips; (one fragment which is blank on both sides cannot be located). The breviary appears to have been of a rather plain nature, there being no illumination and no stave visible in the fragments. The text is written in double columns, and some initials and rubrics in red may be discerned.
Fragment of a court roll referring to Ely and Swaffham., 14th century.
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 disposition by Robert Scott, merchant in Edinburgh, to Lt Harry Drummond., 1690.
Papers, nearly all formal documents, mostly relating to the lands of Foulshields and the families associated with them. The papers are principally those of the Wardrops and their heirs, the Scotts, but also include documents relating to Shaw, Kinloch, Baillie, Weir, and Carmichael families.
Fragment of a document concerning the priory of North Berwick., 16th century.
Fragment of a document proceeding on apostolic letters of Pope Sixtus IV, regarding ecclesiastical events in Perth in 1483., ?4th quarter of 15th century.
This fragment was used by William Rose as a wrapper for the Pluscarden rental (Adv.MS.49.7.2).
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.
Fragment of a manuscript, written by two hands of the early 17th century, of David Moysie's 'Memoir of the Affairs of Scotland', covering December 1586-March 1589., Early 17th century.
The text is much closer to that of Adv.MS.31.7.5 than to that of the edition by James Dennistoun, Bannatyne Club, 1830.
Fragment of a presentation in favour of Sir Thomas Burnet, physician, as tenant of James Johnston of Sciennes, on the forfeiture of the estate of Archibald Johnston, Lord Warriston., 1663.
Fragment of a summons to Chancery by George III to Sir Robert Strange, John and Charles Alderman., 1785.
Fragment of a work on the remuneration of the clergy., 14th century.
The fragment contains the upper part of the outer columns of the leaf. The recto has the folio number CCCXX, but the number has been cut off and may originally have been longer. The fragment was used in a binding and bears the signature of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1655-1716).