Fragments.
Found in 371 Collections and/or Records:
Fragments of two consecutive bifolia from a heavily glossed Bible., 13th century.
Fragments of unidentified prose pieces of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1940-1950, undated.
Fragments of various poems of Tom Scott., Undated.
Including correspondence, notebooks, autobiographical and editorial papers.
Fragments of verse by Robert Louis Stevenson, addressed to his wife, Fanny Stevenson, titled, 'What can I wish, what can I promise, dear', with notes by Everard Meynell., 1887.
All, except the poems in MS.3791, are accompanied by transcripts.
Fragments, undated, of reviews in the autograph of Robert Southey, with some notes on John Dryden by Sir Walter Scott., Early 19th century.
General papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on language., [Circa 1735]-1796, undated.
Half a leaf from a missal., Late 12th century.
It consists of the outer columns of the leaf, containing part of the Gospel for Tuesday in Holy Week (Mark xiv, 22-52). The text is rubricated for reading or singing by three lectors. The fragment was used in a binding.
'Impavidi Progrediamur' by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’, intended as the second volume of 'Mature Art'., 1956, undated.
The contents are as follows. (i) Fragmentary manuscripts and typescripts, undated (folio 1); (ii) Incomplete corrected typescript, 1956 (folio 56). The different sections of the poem (which incorporates poems already published in ‘Lucky poet’ (London, 1943), and elsewhere, as well as new material) are linked by passages of prose.
Incomplete translation, late sixteenth or early seventeenth century, of Adam Blackwood's ‘Martyre de Marie Stuart’, being the manuscript edited for the Maitland Club as ‘History of Mary, Queen of Scots’, by Alexander Macdonald., Late 16th century-early 17th century.
At the end are copies of an instrument of sasine following on a charter of Queen Mary to William Livingstone of Kilsyth, 1564 (folio 66), and of papers relating to Susanna Bruce and Barbara Livingstone, sister-in-law and daughter of William Livingstone of Easter Greenyards, 1629 (folios 67-67 verso), besides another fragmentary legal note, 1629 (folio 68 verso).
`Inventory of writs belonging to the Earl of Hyndford, 1757`, with additions to 1765., 1497, 1567, 1757-1765.
Tipped-in at the front of the volume are a bond, 1497, of the Lordship of Abernethy by George Douglas, Master of Angus, in favour of James Carmichael of Folkartoun (folio i), and a fragment of a document, 1567, concerning John Carmichael of Meadowflat (folio 11).
Journal of Alexander Graham Dunlop, of a tour during which he sailed to Malta, Egypt, Constantinople, and back to Malta before travelling through Italy, Germany and Belgium, containing entries of a religious and philosophical nature. , 1838-1839, [?1843.]
The diary also includes notes on various unrelated subjects and a fragment of a journal kept in Jamaica, possibly in 1843 (folio 22). A number of pages have been torn out.
Journal of Laurence Oliphant of Gask (died 1767)., 1746-1748.
Leaf from a sermon on angels., 14th century.
The first part of the text is a passage from the ‘Gregorianum’ of Garnerus of St Victor, book 1, chapter 2 (J P Migne, ‘Patrologia latina’ CXCIII, columns 26-27).
The leaf was used in a binding.
Leaf from the copybook of John Scott.
With an associated article.
Leaf of a letter of James Elroy Flecker to Trelawney Dayrell Reed.
Containing manuscripts of two Bathrolaire sonnets.
With a copy of "Bridge of Fire" (1907), in which the above sonnets were published.
Lesmahagow missal, probably written for use in the Tironensian priory of Lesmahagow, first half of the 13th century; and additional related material acquired at the same time.
Letter, 1792, of John Gillies to the Earl of Buchan.
With a letter, undated, to Harry Plunket Greene, fragment of a letter, undated, of Cécile Chaminade, and other scraps.
Letter of John Gibson Lockhart to Mrs Thomas Hughes, containing a fragment of Sir Walter Scott’s, ‘Tales of a Grandfather’., 1837.
Letters and papers chiefly concerning the families of Forbes and Skene., 1622-1713.
Letter of Elizabeth Sinclair, Lady Sinclair, to Lord Forbes, 1622; fragment of a covenant with the Almighty signed by John Skene of Skene, 1677, l680; covenant with the Almighty by John Forbes of Balfluig, 1697; memoranda of Colin Campbell, Minister of St Nicholas, Aberdeen, 1703; poem on the union of the Parliaments, circa 1707; letter, 1713, of George Skene of Skene, Rector of Marischal College, Aberdeen.
Letters and papers of John H Balfour-Browne, Kings Counsel (1885-1921).
Letters and papers of Thomas Carlyle, with a few of his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle and others.
Letters and poems of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet; and poetry and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell.
Letters chiefly of Sir Walter Scott., 1792-1831, undated.
The contents are as follows: letters, 1792-1801, of Sir Walter Scott and his wife to the Marquess of Downshire or with reference to him; letters, 1807-1831, of Scott to the Ballantynes; and a few letters of Scott to other persons.
Letters chiefly of Sir Walter Scott, and a fragment in Scott's hand of an article which was published in the ‘Edinburgh Weekly Journal’, 7 February 1821, over the signature 'A Modest Whig'., 1818-1823.
The contents are as follows: letters, 1792-1801, of Sir Walter Scott and his wife to the Marquess of Downshire or with reference to him; letters, 1807-1831, of Scott to the Ballantynes; and a few letters of Scott to other persons.