Manuscripts.
Found in 2109 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of mediaeval manuscripts and two printed books with manuscript notes, formerly in the possession of the family of Borthwick of Crookston.
Collection of miscellaneous poems, some of which relate to Scottish affairs, written mainly before the Restoration.
On the flyleaf is written "Incept. March 23 1652/3".
The poems are written in two different hands and at the rear of the volume there are several pages written in cypher or shorthand.
Collection of papers, chiefly seventeenth century, which appear to have belonged to Richard Almack, Suffolk.
`Collection of Papers Experiments And Observations Relating to Husbandry, Grass, And other Branches Of Country Affairs,’ by William Baird of Auchmeddan.
The collection was compiled over the years 1736 to 1756, and was written in the latter year (pages iii, 234). It is made up of extracts from books, copies of letters, and notes of the experiences of the writer.
Collection of quarto volumes of transcripts by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1st quarter of 19th century, of several of the surviving cartularies and other registers, and of some collections of charters and other deeds, of the medieval dioceses, churches and religious houses of Scotland, 1164-1639.
Collection of romances and religious material, mostly in verse, written in the North Midlands by Richard Heeg with some items by James Hawghton and additions in other hands.
Collection of rough notes or memoranda on various legal topics in the hand of Francis Jeffrey.
The notes, which are written on various gatherings of leaves, vary considerably in length, and some have additions of varying length in the margins, also in Jeffrey`s hand. Some of the notes appear to be incomplete.
Collection of Scottish pasquils in the hand of Sir James Balfour of Denmilne.
Collection of Scottish poems and Jacobite songs.
The majority of the poems are anonymous but there are two by Allan Ramsay, one by Jonathan Swift, and one attributed to Colley Cibber. Several of the other poems have been printed and some appear in ‘First Line Index of English Poetry’. A list of these poems is inserted at the beginning of the volume.
Apart from the poems there are several pages written in a cypher and folios 71-73 contain dressmaking accounts, dated 1722-1729, in a different hand.
Collection of Scottish poems and satirical verse.
The first 70 folios are in manuscript while the latter half of the volume consists of a collection of printed broadsides of the 18th century. Several of the manuscript items appear in print and a list of them is inserted at the beginning of the volume.
‘Collection of the principal officers of state & others in the Kingdom of Scotland, the erection of Abbacies & other such, & the genealogy of the nobility’, in the handwriting of Walter Goodall.
‘Collections’ made by Robert Beatson, Doctor of Laws, containing a number of genealogical papers and copies of military documents which he probably used when engaged on compiling ‘Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain from 1727 to 1783’.
`Collections of papers and informations in order to the description of Scotland` by Sir Robert Sibbald.
`Collections of the most remarkable accounts that relate to the families of Scotland drawn from ther own charters and other authentick writts ... with ane account of ther armes’.
`Coloquy betwixt Philander and Silvia` and other Scottish poems, mainly satirical.
All the poems are apparently unpublished.
`Commentarii juridico-archeologici` by Páll Jónsson Vídalín.
Commentary on ‘Isagoge’ on Galen’s 'Tegni', by Johannicius (Honein ben Ishak); and, commentary on the 'Aphorisms' of Hippocrates by Oribasius, both written by the same scribe in the 12th century and bound together at least from the 15th century.
Commonplace book of James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane.
Commonplace book of the Earl of Buchan.
Commonplace book, probably English, mostly compiled from classical authors and church fathers.
Later authors include Bishop Stillingfleet (folio 197), Thomas Hooker (folio 92) and John Paul Marana, author of ‘The Turkish Spye’ (1686) (folio 178).
The date of the volume is no earlier than 1686.
Compendium of medical treatises in Gaelic written by Angus Beaton.
‘Compendium physiologicae’, being works on logic and natural and moral philosophy by George Sibbald of Rankeillour.
At the end are a number of verses addressed by different persons.