Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of Professor W J Watson to Dr Edmund Crosby Quiggin, dated 29 November 1919, (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Professor John Fraser to Mrs Quiggin, dated 25 May 1937, (folio 2);(iii) ‘Truagh mo dal re deichlaithibh’, 9 stanzas, (folio 4 recto);(iv) Lists of poems from various sources, (folio 4 verso);(v) Index to the Book of the Dean of Lismore, with transcripts of many minor and miscellaneous items,...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of Professor W J Watson to Dr Edmund Crosby Quiggin, dated 29 November 1919, (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Professor John Fraser to Mrs Quiggin, dated 25 May 1937, (folio 2);(iii) ‘Truagh mo dal re deichlaithibh’, 9 stanzas, (folio 4 recto);(iv) Lists of poems from various sources, (folio 4 verso);(v) Index to the Book of the Dean of Lismore, with transcripts of many minor and miscellaneous items,...

Scope and Contents The material was compiled over a number of years, probably between about 1825 and 1840, and consists of accounts of parishes and families, notes and extracts from printed sources and collections of formal documents, and some original documents and printed items. The complete title of the work was apparently intended to be `Dumbartonshire Illustrated with regard chiefly to its Territorial History and Family Antiquities`, but the work appears never to have been finished (for example, there are...

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Comprising:

1. letter book, 1806-1824, concerning the Glenlyon Estate

2. accounts and papers, 1896-1914, concerning Barcaldine

3. ledger, 1848-1854, of Sir Alexander Campbell

4. index, 18th century.

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With papers, 1979-1980, on the security situation in Zimbabwe

Six albums of newspaper cuttings on Zimbabwe, with an index

typescrip of "Go Forth", a history of the Minsitry of Internal Affairs in Rhodesia.

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Almost all of MS.23569 is blank: MS.23570 consists of a single gathering, the leaves having been taken out. MS.23571 consists of papers found loosely enclosed in MSS.23569-23570.

Scope and Contents The more substantial items include:(i) a copy in the hand of Friar Alan Chisholm of a version brought up to date in 1687 of `Indiculus Monasteriorum Scotorum S. Benedicti Extra Scotiam` by James Brown (see `"Germania Sancta": a seventeenth-century trilogy`, pages 118-140) (folio 1).(ii) two engravings depicting the Scottish Benedictine monastery of St James, Ratisbon, followed by notes by Dennistoun on the library, the funerary monuments, extracts from the necrology,...

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Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.

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Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.

Scope and Contents The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...

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The Edinburgh Harmonists’ Society was founded in 1822 as the direct successor to the Catch Club and thereby of the Edinburgh Musical Society which began in 1728. It continued until 1950, when it became part of the Edinburgh Musical Society to which it transferred its papers and above all its valuable library, much of which had belonged to the Catch Club.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...

Scope and Contents Containing:(1) amended typed versions of prepace, pp.i-2 and 193-211(2) amended typed versions of pp.i-104 (passim), 143 and 183-6(3) amended typed versions of pp.3-372 (passim)(4) amended typed versions of pp.29-329 (passim)(5) amended typed versions of various unrelated pages(6) descriptions of plates(7) Bozman’s suggested corrections to text with comments and note on corrections to proof copy...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) 'The Form of Proceeding in matters Criminal', 1673, by Sir William Hamilton of Whitelaw, Lord Justice Clerk in 1704. The title is in a modern hand. There is a note by George Neilson (page 149) in which he refers to MS.2763, a later copy of this work.(ii) A seventeenth-century manuscript of Sir James Steuart of Goodtrees, ‘An Index or Abridgement of the Acts of Parliament’ (Edinburgh, 1685). (Page 174, starting at the end of the...

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Correspondence and papers, literary manuscripts and journals of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie (1744-1823) and of earlier members of the Douglas family, mainly his great-grandfather, Robert Douglas (1625-1716), Bishop of Brechin, 1682-1684, and the last Bishop of Dunblane (1684-1689) in the pre-Revolution episcopal establishment of the Church of Scotland; and his father, John Douglas of Fechil in the parish of Ellon, Aberdeenshire (1714-1762).

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With an index compiled by Rosalie Trail Fuller.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) 'Practiques of the Lords of Session'. According to a note, “they appear to be President Spotswoods tho' in some things different”; see Hector McKechnie, 'Practicks, 1469-1700', in ‘An introductory survey of the sources and literature of Scots law’, ‘Stair Society’, volume i (1936). (Page 1.)(ii) A version of Haddington's Decisions, 1592-1593; see also MS.2707. (Page 155.)(iii) Copies of statements in the process begun by the...

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The writer was possibly Archibald Gibson, admitted Writer to the Signet in 1661. For this work and the manuscripts of it see the catalogue entry for Adv.MS.6.1.7.

Scope and Contents The sermon topics are arranged alphabetically, with an index at the beginning (folios 7-9); the heading and number of each is repeated at the top of each page. The last three in the index (numbers 141-143, De Vsura, De Vita, De Veste) are missing from the text. The topics are predominantly in Latin, a very few in French, and consist of quotations (from the Bible, classical authors, especially Cicero and Seneca, the Fathers, and medieval authors) and moral tales and happenings. Interspersed...

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With the exception of MS.8455, these volumes of printed correspondence were prepared by James Stuart in answer to the accusations raised against him. The contents duplicate to a large extent letters recorded elsewhere in the catalogue. The majority of the volumes contain manuscript indexes and abstracts, and manuscript marginal notes.