Annotations.
Found in 173 Collections and/or Records:
‘Handbook of Irish folklore’ (Dublin, 1942) by Seán Ó Suilleabháin, with extensive manuscript annotations by Professor Kenneth Jackson.
Interleaved copy, bound in two volumes, of ‘Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D.1153’ by Sir Archibald C Lawrie (Glasgow, 1905), with annotations by the author on the printed leaves, the interleaves and other leaves bound in.
The annotations comprise corrections, additions and further discussion of doubtful matters. They have not been indexed in detail.
Interleaved copy of Erskine Beveridge, "Bibliography of Dunfermline and West Fife" with numerous corrections and additions by the author.
Interleaved copy of William Shakespeare, "Timon of Athens" (1851), with annotations by George MacDonald.
James D Law, "Here and There in Two Hemispheres", with author`s annotations.
‘James Hogg’ by Sir George Douglas (Edinburgh, 1899), with a few annotations by the author.
A letter, 1920, to George Douglas from Adam Scott, concerning portraits of Hogg, and a copy of a letter of Hogg, 1835, are inserted.
Joseph Robertson`s extensively annotated copy of the revision published in 1824 by Michael Russell (subsequently Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway) of the ‘Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops’ of Robert Keith, Bishop of Fife.
The annotations, some of which are extensive, consist mostly of additional information not available either to Keith or to Russell, and of corrections of errors. A few of the annotations (which are all in Robertson`s hand) are written on extra sheets of paper tipped in at relevant places, but most are written in the margins of the text. Robertson`s signature, dated Edinburgh 1836, is on the recto of the leaf preceding the half-title.
Journal kept by his eldest son and annotated by the Reverend Whitwell Elwin.
'Kilberry book of Ceol Mor’, 2nd edition, by Archibald Campbell (1953), containing various annotations in Francis Collinson's hand throughout.
The annotations are dated between 1960 (page 8) and 1982 (page 9) and most are in pencil.
A photostat copy of a piobaireachd found loosely enclosed has been tipped in at the back.
Late 14th- or early 15th-century manuscript of the ‘Roman de la Rose’, written in two stages by Guillaume de Lorris, circa 1230, and Jean de Meun, circa 1270.
Letter of George Chalmers to Robert Cadell.
Concerns Chalmers` work on later volumes of "Caledonia", his wish to see a print of the author in the last volume and on his possible diversion by his life of David I, a move opposed by Cadell in a note on the letter.
Letters of John D Fergusson to Nigel McIsaac.
With letter of McIsaac concerning Ferguson, letters of Margaret Morris and annotated catalogues of Ferguson`s work.
Letters of literary and historical figures.
This accession comprises:
letter, 1837, of Lady Burnett to Mr Banting;
letter, 1845, of Thomas Chalmers to Sir David Brewster;
letter, 1857, of William Baring, Lord Ashburton, after the death of his wife, to Thomas Carlyle;
letter, 1876, of Ellen Wood to Ann Sansome;
letter, undated, of Adelaide Drummond to Mr Gaskell.
Lists of Scottish Presbyterian and Episcopalian ministers.
Literary papers of Alexander Law.
Papers mainly concern studies of Scottish schools and school books, education in Edinburgh, and the works of Allan Ramsay. Includes correspondence and papers of Burns Martin and John Walter Oliver on earlier editions of the works of Ramsay.
‘Magnum Opus’ of the ‘Waverley novels’ of Sir Walter Scott, chiefly the ‘Interleaved Waverley novels’.
Manuscript and annotated printed copy of the catalogue of the sale of the books of the Reverened James Anderson.
Manuscript annotations of the first half of the eighteenth century on interleaved copies of ‘Fabularum aesopicarum delectus, cum Rogeri L'Estrange, equitis, interpretatione Anglica, necnon Latina variorum, Horatii, Phaedri, Faerni, &c. In usum studiosae juventutis Academiae Edinensis’ (Edinburgi, apud Jacobum Watson, MDCCX).
Manuscript annotations of the Reverend John Lightfoot interleaved with a dis-bound copy of his ‘Flora Scotia’ (London, 1777).
Manuscript material from the 5th Earl of Rosebery's library at the Durdans, Epsom.
Manuscript of the 'Memoirs of Sir Henry Slingsby From 1638 to 1648', which was used by Sir Walter Scott in his edition of 'Original memoirs, written during the Great Civil War: being the life of Sir Henry Slingsby, and memoirs of Capt. Hodgson. With notes. &c'.
Manuscript of three papers read to the Glasgow Bibliographical Society on 21 January 1918 by Dr George Neilson.
The subjects of the papers are:
“The unique copy of the first edition of Hume of Godscroft's ‘History'” (folio 1);
"Principal Baillie's copy of Osorius" (folio 6);
'An early Virgil' (folio 8).
A page of annotations by George P Johnston, 1928, has been inserted (folio i).
Marked proof, undated, of "Carmina Gadelica", corrected by J C Watson and William Matheson.
With marked proof, undated, of J L Campbell, "Edward Lhuyd in the Scottish Highlands", corrected by Angus Matheson, with letters, 1962, of Campbell to Matheson on the book.