Fragments.
Found in 259 Collections and/or Records:
Fragments of letters of William and John Wardrop., 1705-1706.
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.
Fragments of manuscript and typescript of ‘Fotheringhay’ by George Scott Moncrieff, with two printed items concerning the production in 1953., 1951, 1953.
Fragments of speeches given by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., ?1954-1965, undated.
While some are the final texts, others are in the form of notes or drafts. MSS.27072-27076 contain material on literature, art, nationalism, Scottish independence, and other topics.
Fragments of the Greek poets, collected by John Callander of Craigforth., 1750, 1755.
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.
Fragments of the Greek poets, collected by John Callander of Craigforth, volume I, titled 'Collectanea seu Παρέκβολαι ad Σύλλογην fragmentorum poætarum Græcorum illustrandam.', [?1750-?1755.]
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.
Fragments of the journal kept by Sir John Erskine, 3rd Baronet, of Alva, when sent to France by the Old Pretender and the Earl of Mar, 1716; and part of a narrative describing the Old Pretender's attempt to regain his throne in 1715, and giving reasons for his failure., 1715-1716.
The papers are chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
For a genealogical tree of the Erskine family, see MS.5115.
Fragments of three manuscripts of the legal works of Justinian bound together., 13th century-14th century.
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.
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 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.