Manuscripts.
Found in 2102 Collections and/or Records:
15th-century manuscript containing 'De vero et falso bono' of Bartolomeo Platina in the hand of Bartolomeo Sanvito.
15th-century manuscript containing saints' lives and other religious material.
15th-century manuscript of 'Collationes' attributed to Robert Holcot.
15th-century manuscript of the chartulary of Arbroath Abbey, known as the 'Registrum nigrum'.
15th-century manuscript of the chartulary of Scone Abbey.
15th-century manuscript of the 'Filostrato' of Giovanni Boccaccio.
15th-century manuscript of the 'Jónsbók', containing the laws of Iceland.
15th-century manuscript of the 'Moralia in Job' of Pope Gregory I.
15th-century manuscript written in the Low Countries containing devotional texts.
15th-century manuscript written in the Low Countries, containing various works attributed to, or written by, St Bernard.
15th-century transcript of the chartulary of Dryburgh Abbey.
16th-century manuscript containing a register of charters and leases of St Andrews Priory, Pittenweem Priory and the archbishopric of St Andrews, covering the years 1553-1574.
16th-century manuscript containing the Accounts of the Archbishopric of St Andrews, covering the years 1539-1549.
16th-century manuscript containing the 'Vie de saint Louis' of Jean de Joinville.
16th-century manuscript of the romance 'Clariodus', a translation of a French prose original into Older Scots verse.
The Manuscript is imperfect; according to the old foliation, seven folios are missing at the beginning, and another one or more at the end. A passage of eight lines has been pasted in on folio 125 verso.
Written in one hand throughout, with large decorative initials at the beginning of each book. Watermark of pot with letters IB (cf. Briquet number 12804).
17th-century extracts and transcripts, in the hand of Sir James Balfour, of chartularies and other historical works.
17th-century manuscript, probably written in Scotland, containing a translation into Latin of the 'Οἰκουμένης περιήγησις' ['Description of the Known World'], by Dionysius Periegetes.
17th-century transcripts of foundation charters of religious houses in Scotland made by Sir James Balfour; and a transcript, probably late 16th-century, of the Chartulary of Balmerino Abbey.
19 photographs of buildings in Edinburgh, with manuscript notes of F M Chrystal.
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.
25 letters of Roderick Watson Kerr to George M Thomson.
Concerning the Porpoise Press.
With typescript copies annotated by Thomson.
26 manuscript fragments of paper and vellum, recovered from bindings.
33 letters of Douglas Dunn to Douglas Houston.
Concerning literary and personal matters.
With corrected manuscript of an article, undated, by Dunn.
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.
115 letters to W R Aitken and his family of Hugh MacDiarmid, and four from Valda Grieve.
With manuscripts of a short story and essay of MacDiarmid, proof copy of "Sanschaw" and typescript copy of a thesis on MacDiarmid by Claude Henry.