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Fragments.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Portions of something that are torn, broken off from, or dislocated from their original whole.

Found in 259 Collections and/or Records:

Vellum fragment apparently from a folio-sized legal work with extensive glosses., ?14th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.15
Scope and Contents

The text of the work, which is not recorded in ‘Patrologia Latina’, is written in two columns.

The fragment was recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark K.34.e) of ‘ἐκλογων ἀποφθεγματων ὑποθηκων, περι φρονησεων λογος πρωτος’ (Venetiis, 1534), by Iohannes Stobaeus, where it was used as a binding strip inside the back cover.

Dates: ?14th century.

Vellum fragment, being an almost complete leaf from what appears to be a commentary on a legal text; with 13 very small parchment fragments., ?14th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.16
Scope and Contents From ?16th century to 1970 this was the outer cover of Adv.MS.72.1.27.The text, written in Latin in two columns in a current book-hand tending towards rotunda, appears to be a commentary on a legal treatise. The quoted words and phrases are underlined in red, and spaces have been left (unfilled) for coloured initials. Ownership and other notes in Gaelic are written in a later hand in some of the margins. The following notes were added in some of the spaces on the recto, clearly...
Dates: ?14th century.

Vellum fragment, the visible text of which appears to belong to a gloss (adjacent to the inner margin) to a legal text., 14th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.39
Scope and Contents

The fragment had been used as the binding strip inside the back cover of a copy (pressmark M.13.g.16) of ‘In libros Galeni de arte curandi explanationes’ (Lugduni, 1556), by Joannes Baptista Montanus.

The text is written in a hand which may be of French provenance. Remains of a large rubricated initial are visible also.

Dates: 14th century.

Verse, undated, by John Stuart Blackie., Mid 19th century-late 19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.2651
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: sonnets (folio 1), songs (folio 42), an epic on Jack the Giant-killer, in Greek and English (folio 80), fragments of a drama on Prometheus (folio 132), and miscellaneous (folio 148).

Dates: Mid 19th century-late 19th century.

Wartime notebook of George Campbell Hay, including drafts and fragments of "Mochtàr is Dùghall"., 1943-1945.

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Identifier: MS.26729
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

In November 1942, George Campbell Hay went to North Africa with the Ordnance Corps. During his service there he learnt French, Arabic and Italian. By 1945 he was in Italy, and in the autumn of that year he was transferred to the Education Corps and posted to Greece before being sent home in 1946. His notebooks contain poetic, linguistic and political material in several languages.

Dates: 1943-1945.

Wartime notebooks of George Campbell Hay, including drafts and fragments of "Mochtàr is Dùghall"., 1943-1945.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26729-26730
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

In November 1942, George Campbell Hay went to North Africa with the Ordnance Corps. During his service there he learnt French, Arabic and Italian. By 1945 he was in Italy, and in the autumn of that year he was transferred to the Education Corps and posted to Greece before being sent home in 1946. His notebooks contain poetic, linguistic and political material in several languages.

Dates: 1943-1945.

Working autograph of ‘Rob Roy’ by Sir Walter Scott, with some associated papers., 1817.

 Item
Identifier: MS.50702
Scope and Contents Complete working manuscript of 'Rob Roy'.Associated content.Letter, circa 1817, of Sir Walter Scott to James Ballantyne on the completion of 'Rob Roy'. Folio i.Fragment of a sales catalogue, 4th quarter of 19th century. Folio ii.Card from Honresfield, Littleborough, marked 'Scott original manuscript of 'Rob Roy''. Folio iii.Newspaper clipping from 'The Times', 19 March 1901, on the effect of 'Rob Roy' on James Russell Lowell. Folio...
Dates: 1817.