Copies. Derivative objects.
Found in 3635 Collections and/or Records:
Contemporary copy of the 'Pockmantie sermon', 'a Sermon preached att St Giles the great Church in Edenburgh uppon a fast day, the last Sunday in July [1638] by Mr James Rowe', on 'Jeremiah', xxx. 17.
Another version of the 'Red-shankes Sermon' (preached in April) and the 'Cupp of Bon-Accord', printed in 'Memorials of the Family of Row'.
Contemporary copy of the score of acts I-II of ‘Il Trovatore’ by Verdi., 1853.
Contemporary copy of the score of acts III-IV of ‘Il Trovatore’ by Verdi., 1853.
A leaf has been torn out after folio 87 but without loss of text.
Contemporary copy of the score of ‘Il Trovatore’ by Verdi.
Contemporary manuscript draft or copy of a pamphlet concerning the Darien scheme., [?1699.]
The manuscript begins: 'Sir, you were pleased by your last to tell me, that the face of things being so much changed in England by yor late Revolution you thought there might now be opportunity to promote that affair which wee have been see long upon'.
Contemporary or near-contemporary copies of letters and extracts, nineteenth century, from a journal, 1755, concerning the defeat of Major-General Edward Braddock at Fort Duquesne, Pennsylvania., 1755.
It was on the occasion of the defeat at Fort Duquesne that Sir Peter Halkett, Baronet, of Pitfirrane (succeeded 1746) and his son James lost their lives.
The letters are from Alexander and John Hamilton in Maryland to their brother Gavin, bookseller in Edinburgh (pages 1-22).
The selections from the journal (pages 25- 41) concern a detachment of seamen sent to assist in the expedition to the Ohio.
Contemporary transcript of ‘The Ancient Method and Manner of holding of Parliaments in England’, attributed to Henry Elsynge, Younger, Clerk of the House of Lords., [1660, or before.]
The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.
‘Copie of the Depositions of the Chirurgeons and Apothecaryes upon therle of Athollis deathe', giving a full medical account of the illness and death of the Earl of Atholl, and of the subsequent post-mortem examination., 1579.
Copied by Alexander Macdonald from a manuscript communicated to Thomas Thomson by Sir Cuthbert Sharpe (see note in Thomson's hand on folio 6 verso). The deposition is followed by 'Lady Athollis Protestatioun anent her husbandis death' (folio 7).
Copies, 2nd half of 17th century, of Sir Andrew Gilmour's selections of Acts of Parliament.
Copies, 2nd half of 17th century, of Sir Andrew Gilmour's, selections of Acts of Parliament.
Copies, 17th and 18th century, of English and Scottish state papers, 1558-1641.
The papers include correspondence relating to the Earl of Essex, 1599, and material on the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland, 1638-1640.
Copies, 17th century, of correspondence, 1586-1623, and undated.
The topics are very miscellaneous and include the Spanish match (1620), appeals for royal clemency, voyages of exploration and political events.
Copies, 17th century, of diplomas, gifts, and other documents, 1615-1651, in favour of Sir James Carmichael, 1st Baronet, of Westraw, and 1st Lord Carmichael; and of papers, 1600-1618, concerning the vicarage and stipend of Pettinain., 1600-1651.
Copies, 17th century, of documents relating to heraldry.
Copies, 17th century, of letters, 1636-1640, of Samuel Rutherfurd chiefly written during the period of his banishment to Aberdeen in 1637.
The letters are followed (folio 56) by copies of sermons and similar material of Hugh Mackail, David Dickson and others.
The inverted folios contain political and other poems, including 'The black bastel' by James Melvill.
Copies, 17th century, of Ramón Lull, ‘Ars juris’ and ‘De inventione mediorum juris civilis’.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.5.7).
Copies, 17th century, of `Sayings and Observations` by John Livingstone, minister of Ancrum (page 1) and of his notes on the lives of eminent ministers of the Church of Scotland (page 15).
The end of a religious meditation is written upside-down on page 108.
Copies, 17th century, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall`s renderings in Latin verse of the Psalms and the Song of Solomon.
The original was probably written after 1616, since it includes a dedicatory poem to Charles I as Prince of Wales.
Copies, 17th century, of treaties and other documents, 13th-16th century, concerning France and Scotland.
Copies, 18th century, of charters and other formal documents, ?1195-1766, concerning the Haldane claim to the earldom of Lennox., ?1195-1766.
A number of other copies made earlier in the 18th century for some unknown purpose have been included in the sequence.
Copies, 18th century, of parts of ‘La Navigation du roy d`Escosse Iaques cinquiesme du nom, autour de son royaume’ by Nicolas de Nicolay (Paris, 1583) (folio 1), and of documents concerning the foundation of the University of Aberdeen, 1494-1538 (folio 6).
The parts of ‘La Navigation du roy d`Escosse Iaques cinquiesme du nom, autour de son royaume’ were copied by Tait for Walter Macfarlane. The sections copied concern Orkney and the East coast from Leith to Duncansby Head.
With one exception, the documents concerning the foundation of the University of Aberdeen are all printed in ‘Fasti Aberdonenses’.