Prefaces.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Texts preceding the main work and containing comments about such matters as the reason for or circumstances of the author's writing the work, or comments by another about the author or the work.
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
‘1467 MS’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists of two sections, folios 1-9 ('1467 MS'), written in and about that date (folio 7 recto) by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail (folios 3 recto, 5 recto, 7 recto, 8 recto), who was presumably a MacMhuirich; and folios 10-25 (Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’), written circa 1425 by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín (date and hand established by Tomás Ó Concheanainn, “The scribe of John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’”, pages 99-101.The manuscript begins with Cormac’s Instructions...
Dates:
[Circa 1425, circa 1467.]
Autograph manuscript of the novel ‘Deep down: a tale of the Cornish mines’ by R M Ballantyne.
Item
Identifier: MS.20443
Scope and Contents
The preface is signed and dated at Edinburgh in 1868. The manuscript is heavily corrected and includes a page-proof of the preface.
Dates:
1868.
Collection of tales and verse compiled for Ronald MacDonald of Staffa, Advocate, by Iain MacMhuirich (John MacPherson), schoolmaster in Mull.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.1
Scope and Contents
Tales and Ossianic verse written down from the recitation of Donald MacLean (born 1715), who had most of his material from his grandfather Malcolm MacPhail (Calum Mac Phail), Rothill, Torosay. Macpherson's foreword is dated April 1803; the date on the back of the final leaf gives the dating of ‘1802-3-& 4’.The contents are included as collection "P" in John Francis Campbell of Islay's 'Leabhar na Feinne' (London 1872), and page numbers are given below; see also pages...
Dates:
1802-1804, 1871.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20534-20654
Dates:
1907-1964, undated.
‘Gaelic Proverbs, Adages, Maxims & Common Sayings, with an English translation & explanatory notes. To which is added, A Specimen of a Gaelic Calendar', by James McIntyre, schoolmaster in Glasgow.
File
Identifier: MS.1832
Scope and Contents
The author died in January 1835, when the work was about to be published. At the end are printed proofs of part of the preface and selections in manuscript from the proverbs given before. At the beginning is a note on McIntyre's life and work.
Dates:
[1835, or before.]
Letters of and concerning Hugh Miller and his relatives.
File
Identifier: MS.7528
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Letters, 1802-1807, of Hugh Miller, father of the geologist, to his wife (folio 1);(ii) Letters, 1844-1850, of Hugh Miller to his mother, wife, and daughter (folio 14);(iii) Letters, 1834-1857, to Hugh Miller and his wife (folio 26);(iv) Letters and documents, 1841-1872, concerning the family of John Davidson, husband of Hugh Miller's daughter Harriet (folio 38);(v) Draft of letter and of part of the...
Dates:
1802-1872.
Letters to Rachel Annand Taylor.
File
Identifier: MS.20436
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Letters, 1909-1956, undated, from Professor Gilbert Murray and his wife. They concern Rachel Annand Taylor's work, in particular her ‘Aspects of the Italian Renaissance’. The typescript of Murray's preface to this is included (folio 32). (Folio 1.)
(ii) Letters, 1931, 1933, from George Blake of the publishers Faber and Faber, concerning the publication of ‘Dunbar’. (Folio 58.)
(iii) Letters, 1948-1951, undated, from John Gawsworth. (Folio 74.)
(iv) Letter,...
Dates:
1909-1956, undated.
‘Metaphysic the science of the absolute’, an essay by Richard B Haldane, in his autograph.
Item
Identifier: MS.20230
Scope and Contents
According to a note in pencil in the hand of Richard B Haldane at folio i, dated 1914, this appears to have been the essay which he wrote in 1876 whilst a student at Edinburgh University for the Bruce of Grangehill prize and Falkland medal.
The text is preceded by a list of contents (folio 1), and begins with a preface (folio 1) and an introduction (folio 4).
Dates:
[1876.]
Microfilm of ‘Imago mundi’ by Honorius of Autun; ‘Speculum regum’ by Godfrey of Viterbo; and, an anonymous poem ‘De laude civitatis Laudae’. A manuscript written in Italy in the late 13th or early 14th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.883
Dates:
Late 13th century-early 14th century.
Microfilm of Peninsular War papers of General Sir Hew Whiteford Dalrymple.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1106-1107
Dates:
1807-1809.
Microfilm of three Gaelic manuscripts of religious and medical texts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.666
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘1467 MS.’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín, [circa 1425, circa 1467], (Adv.MS.72.1.1);
Manuscript, 16th century-17th century, containing a medical compendium, in Gaelic, asembled by the Mull Beatons (Adv.MS.72.1.2);
‘Materia medica’, 15th century, formerly belonging to the Beaton family of physicians (Adv.MS.72.1.3).
Dates:
15th century-17th century.
Papers and translations collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.16
Scope and Contents
The source material and translations are variously endorsed or annotated by Henry Mackenzie, Donald Mackintosh, and Ewen MacLachlan.The contents are as follows.(M 1). Notes by John Francis Campbell, dated 25 November 1872. (Folio 1.)(i) Cover, probably for folios 12-22, 24-33. Bears hands of Ewen MacLachlan and Mackintosh MacKay. Cf. Adv.MS.73.2.10, folio 207. (Folio 2.)(M 2). Ossianic fragments with some corresponding passages from James...
Dates:
[1794, or after]-1872, undated.
Political tract titled "Non Nobis Domine. My Help is onelie in God. My heart trusted & I am helped. A Conference betwixt Orthodoxus and Sophronus, concerning the contents of Buchanan's tractate entituled de jure Regni apud Scotos, and that other entitled Vindiciae contra Tyrannos".
Item
Identifier: MS.2567
Scope and Contents
The work, apparently not known in print, is in a hand of the early eighteenth century, with a dedication to the Marquess of Huntly and a preface, both signed 'Aretophilus'.
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Three manuscripts relating to Field-Marshal George Wade, bound in one volume, apparently that formerly in the Junior United Service Club.
File
Identifier: MS.3076
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Poem by a Scottish author, describing the roads, bridges, etc., built by Wade in the Highlands and referring to the manners and resources of the country, 1737. It is followed by notes on allusions and meanings of words, and preceded by a preface in which the author discusses the difficulty which a Scottish writer finds in composing English poetry. It is quoted by J B Salmond, ‘Wade in Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1938), page 204. (Folio 1.)...
Dates:
1737-1744.