Inscriptions.
Found in 182 Collections and/or Records:
11 letters, 1967-1983, to and copies of two letters, 1970-1971, of W R Aitken
With inscribed copies of Robert Bain, "James the First of Scotland" (1921), and William Montgomerie, "A Selection of Three Poems" (1965), each with letters, 1921 and 1965, from the authors.
22 notebooks, 1942, containing the corrected manuscript of A J Cronin, "The Keys of the Kingdom".
With a copy of the novel inscribed by Cronin and a letter, 1950, of Cronin.
64 letters, 1899-1949 and undated, to John Purves, mostly on literary matters, from among others J M Barrie, John Davidson, Luigi Pirandello and Walter de la Mare.
With literary and historical manuscripts, 1388, 1798-1911 and undated, collected by Purves, including single letters of D G Rossetti, John Ruskin, Sir Walter Scott, and William Wordsworth.
Also two albums, 1936-1952, of Purves, containing inscriptions in poetry and prose by various contributors.
‘Act of the Associate Presbytery for Renewing the National Covenant’ (Edinburgh, 1748), bound with blank pages for subscriptions, issued to the Congregation at Muckhart.
Airs of dances, etc., inscribed 'To Mr. Cumming, from a poor devil going to push his fortune in South America. R.C., Dankeith ... 1819'., [1802, or after.], 1819.
The airs are written on paper watermarked 1802.
'Alphabetical list of all the Parishes in Scotland, shewing the Shire, Diocese, Presbytery, & Commissariot . . . and there patrons'., 1744.
The list is inscribed (folio ii): 'Edinburgh, November, 1744. This list ... drawn up by ... William Smith, Esqr., First Clerk of Chancery, was given by him . . . to Andrew Lumisden' (from the handwriting, probably Prince Charles Edward's secretary). From the mention of dioceses, the inclusion of bishops and arch-bishops among the patrons, and the character of the ecclesiastical dignities given on pages 36-37, the drafter seems to have been an Episcopalian.
Alphabetical list of commercial regulations in Old Slavonic.
Annotated and inscribed printed Harrow School lists., 1853-1860.
Antiphoner of Benedictine use, Italy, probably Lombardy., [Circa 1460.]
Apparently unpublished poem by Mrs Alison Cockburn entitled 'Adieu to My Garden 23rd Novʳ. 1777', tipped into a copy of ‘Letters and Memoir of her own Life by Mrs Alison Rutherford or Cockburn’ (Edinburgh, 1900).
On the page facing the half-title page is an inscription dated May 1900 of T Craig-Brown, who compiled the notes to the printed work, presenting this copy to his daughter.
'Appendix ad Repetitionem Institutionem' (Trajecta ad Rhenum, 1740) by Abraham Welling, inscribed 'David Dalrymple’., Mid 18th century.
Article on romance by Sir Walter Scott for the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica'., 1824.
Includes a portrait of Sir Walter Scott.
Assorted, printed items concerning William Gifford either personally, or in his capacity as editor of the "Quarterly Review"., 1815-? 1827.
Autograph album of Cherna Schotz.
With inscriptions by, among others, Duncan Grant, Hugh MacDiarmid and Francis George Scott.
Autograph book inscribed 'Charles Dalrymple from Aunt Agnes, Sept. 25th 1856', consisting chiefly of pasted in signatures removed from letters., 1807-1887, undated.
The autograph book contains a few entire letters sewn, pasted, or loosely tipped in.
Autograph manuscript, undated, of 'Donald Morrison', a strathspey by James Scott Skinner, with a presentation inscription to an unidentified recipient., [?1870-?1924.]
"Bibliography of Thomas Carlyle's writings and ana" by Isaac Watson Dyer (Portland, Maine, 1928), presented by the author to James A S Barrett, with pencil notes and other additions.
James A S Barrett contributed Section C (a list of the principal portraits, etc., of Carlyle, pages 533-542) to the work.
The volume contains Isaac Dyer's inscription to James Barrett, dated 1928, on the flyleaf, and pencil notes and amendments in Barrett's hand throughout. Press cuttings and a letter, 1930, of Robin Flower, Deputy Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum, doubtless to Barrett, which were loosely enclosed at various places within the volume, have been tipped in.
Bifolium containing parts of a commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew in a version similar to the earlier Wycliffite translation., 15th century.
The leaves are not consecutive. The commentary runs from Matthew iii, 16-iv, 7, and v, 10-12.
Large initial in blue with pen-work decoration in red. Paragraph marks in red and blue.
On folio 1 is a sixteenth-century inscription relating to a survey of Swanton Abbot (Norfolk).
Book of hours according to the Use of Utrecht., 1473.
'Book of verses’ by W E Henley (London, 1888), inscribed on the flyleaf and presented to Frederick Locker-Lampson by the author.
W E Henley's letter accompanying the volume, together with a later letter, 1890, to Frederick Locker-Lampson, are enclosed in an envelope that has been tipped in inside the front cover.
Bound volumes of official military returns, orders and correspondence concerning the War of the Austrian Succession., 1746-1748.
‘Catalogue and succession of the Kings ... of this Realme of England' ([London], 1622), by Ralph Brooke., 1622, [circa 1804].
The notes by John Borthwick include some observations by Thomas Hamilton, Lord Binning, on the claims of the Borthwicks of Crookston to the title of Lord Borthwick (folio 1 verso).
'Cokkils' (Edinburgh, 1953) by Sydney Goodsir Smith, with an inscription by the author to Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1953.
Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.
‘Collection of epitaphs and inscriptions out of the counties of Hampshire (Isle of Wight), Hertfordshire, Essex, Cambridgeshire, as copied literally from tomb & other stones by Russell Skinner'.
Only Hertfordshire inscriptions are given, but the index of first lines (folio i) refers to those in other counties.