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Copies. Derivative objects.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 959 Collections and/or Records:

Copies, late seventeenth century, of anti-religious tracts, ‘Cymbalum mundi ceu symbolum sapientiae’ and 'De tribus impostoribus’.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.5
Scope and Contents

1. ‘Symbolum sapientiæ, hoc est doctrina solida de Religione et vulgo sic dicta S. scriptura, superstioni Paganæ, Iudaicæ, Christianæ et Muhammedanæ opposita ex M.S. autoris Itali ... Eleutheropolis Anno 1678';

2. ‘De tribus impostoribus’, juxta exemplar impressum 1598.

Dates: 1598, 1678.

Copies, made by Adam S Douglas in 1838, of a collection of letters, 1744-1746, addressed to Robert Craigie of Glendoick, Lord Advocate for Scotland.

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Identifier: MS.3030
Scope and Contents

The letters, which are chiefly of the later part of 1745, deal almost entirely with the Jacobite rising.

Dates: 1744-1746.

Copies of 12 songs of Meta Maclean.

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Identifier: Acc.6730
Scope and Contents

With associated photographs and press cuttings.

Dates: 1925-1939.

Copies of 14 photographs of a Kirkcaldy linoleum workers` strike.

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Identifier: Acc.7621
Scope and Contents

With a typescript account, circa 1980, of the incident by James Bogie.

Dates: 1939-circa 1980.

Copies of Acts and minutes of sederunt of the second session of the first parliament of King William and Queen Marie, in a contemporary hand.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.15.2.12
Scope and Contents

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: W.6.8.

Dates: 15 April 1690.

Copies of ‘Ane essay on the office of notary’.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.7.7-25.7.8
Scope and Contents

The authors name is not known.

Dates: 18th century.

Copies of correspondence and papers concerning a dispute between Colonel (later Major-General) Charles Ross and Lieutenant-General Robert Boyd.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.1
Scope and Contents

Both officers belonged to the 39th Foot which was then stationed in Gibraltar. The papers, which are not in chronological order, include letters to and from George Elliot, the Governor, extracts from regimental orders, and Ross`s own comments on the affair.

Dates: 1778-1780.

Copies of correspondence of the French jurist, Athanase J L Jourdan (1791-1826), apparently intended for publication.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.20
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Biographical notice of Jourdan by Leopold Warnkoenig. Jourdan`s date of birth is wrongly given as 1769. (Folio 1.)(ii) Correspondence with Warnkoenig, 1821-1826. (Folio 20.)(iii) Letters to David Irving, 1822-1826. (Folio 158.)(iv) Correspondence with K J A Mittermaier and others, 1825-1826. (Folio 179).The letters concern the history and study of Roman law, with particular stress on a return to the...
Dates: 1821-1826.

Copies of critical and bibliographical articles of J Randolph Cox.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6524
Scope and Contents

Concerning John Buchan.

Dates: 1966-1969.

Copies of dispatches and correspondence of Charles Pasley.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6538
Scope and Contents

Concerning his part in Sir John Malcolm`s mission to Persia.

Dates: 1808.

Copies of documents concerning the Commission for Valuation of Teinds.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.7
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Copies or styles of deeds more or less connected with tythes and patronages; (ii) Decisions and proceedings of the Commission for Plantation of Kirks, 1631-1673.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (Jac.V.2.5).

Dates: 17th century.

Copies of documents relating to roads in the Highlands.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.19
Scope and Contents Copy of a memorial to the Treasury, 1799, by Robert Anstruther, Inspector of Military Roads, asking that the majority of the roads constructed in the Highlands continue to be maintained at public expense (folio 1), and two copies (folios 5, 8) of a letter, 1796, of Captain (afterwards Lieutenant-General) Henry Rudyerd to the Secretary of the British Society for extending of the Fisheries and improving the Seacoasts of the Kingdom, reporting on the road recently constructed from Contin to...
Dates: 1796, 1799.