Translations. Documents.
Found in 546 Collections and/or Records:
`A declaratione of the King off France [Louis XIV] for regulating Navigatione Equipping off Ships and Concerning prizes`, 1 February 1650, with Acts of the Council of State on the same subject till 1670., 1650-1670.
The manuscript is in the hand of Robert Mylne, and his initials are recorded on the inside front cover. The latest document is dated 1706, and the manuscript was probably written soon after that date. On the flyleaf a contemporary hand has written `This Book Considering the Valuable Miscellanies therein cannot be sold under ten dollars at least [[ … ]] I.V.G.`
`A Treatise concerning averidge Written originallie in Dutch by Quijntyn Weytsen Counseller to the King of Spain in the Court of Holland.`
The manuscript is in the hand of Robert Mylne, and his initials are recorded on the inside front cover. The latest document is dated 1706, and the manuscript was probably written soon after that date. On the flyleaf a contemporary hand has written `This Book Considering the Valuable Miscellanies therein cannot be sold under ten dollars at least [[ … ]] I.V.G.`
'Abridgement of the History of the Orkneys, or Islands of Orkney, from Tharmodus Torfaeus, Historiographer to the King of Denmark', by the Reverend Alexander Pope, Minister of Reay., [Circa 1780.]
Account of the manuscript of 'The Talisman' by Sir Walter Scott, preserved in the State Historical Museum at Moscow, with photographs and relative articles and correspondence., 1934.
Annotated and corrected typescript of "Scotland, an Anthology" compiled by George Campbell Hay.
Includes translations of Gaelic poetry.
Annotated typescript translation of the diary of Alexander Amman, Polish Army. Translated by Michael Allan.
Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication., 1789-1821.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Apparently unpublished manuscript of `Gleanings of Antiquity in Forfarshire’ by James Thomson of Dundee.
`Argenis` by John Barclay: an Icelandic translation by Jón Einarsson.
`Arnbiörg æruprydd dandis kona á Vestfiördum Islands` by Björn Haldórsson, with a Danish translation by Jón Ólafsson.
Assignation and translation of the 2nd Earl of Tweeddale and Alexander Hay of Barro., 1638.
Most of the documents are drafts and cancelled charters which concern the 1st Marquess.
Autograph manuscript of `Ragionamento di Carlo V. Imperatore tenuto al re Philippo suo figliuolo In dargli la libera signoria di tutti gli stati suoi`, Giacomo Castelvetro`s translation, 1592, of Charles V`s advice to his son, 1555.
The colophon (folio 42) is signed `Giacopo Castelvetri cittadino modonese.`
The text is preceded (folio vi) by Castelvetro`s dedicatory letter to James VI.
Autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine., Early 19th century.
Autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine.
The majority of the works are unpublished, and those which are published present considerable divergences. All the plays were written for the stage, and in some cases the names of the actors appear in the list of dramatis personae. Adv.MS.5.1.16, (i) and (ii) seem to be unconnected with the remainder of the collection.
Autograph poem “An Eala Bhàn” by Iain Crichton Smith, with typed transcript and English translation.
"Bellenden's Livy": a manuscript of the first five books of Livy’s ‘History of Rome’ translated into Scots by Archdeacon John Bellenden.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.7.8.
Books IV-VI (incomplete) of the "Handbook of painting" by Franz Kugler, with annotations by ? Austen Henry Layard., ? 1884-? 1886.
The fifth edition of the "Handbook of painting", a translation of Kugler`s "Handbuch der Geschichte der Malerei", was "thoroughly revised and in part rewritten" by Austen Henry Layard. This copy of the handbook would appear to have been used by Layard in his preparation of the fifth edition.
Calligraphic copy by Rita Isles, of a translation of the last letter of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Catalogue of books belonging to the Reverend Donald Sage, Minister of Kirkmichael and Cullicudden, drawn up 28 October 1823.
There are also excerpts and translations from Martial and translations of the ‘Faolan’ and ‘Song on a Jilted Lover’ of Rob Donn. Bound at the beginning and end of a volume containing ‘An Epistle address'd to a Friend’ ([Edinburgh], 1740), and 'Love of fame, the universal passion: In seven characteristical satires' (Glasgow, 1755) by Edward Young, both formerly the property of Sage.
'Collection of Ballads, collected chiefly from tradition, by R. Pitcairn . . . Commenced Edinr., 1817', volume I: 'Romantic Ballads', translations from Scandinavian and other languages, all published, chiefly by Robert Jamieson., 1817-1823.
The verse is accompanied by notes by Robert Pitcairn.
Collection of genealogical material on various Scottish families and items of historical interest copied by Robert Mylne, the antiquary, in the late 17th or early 18th century.
Commonplace-book, in various hands of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, including apparently original poems, translations of Horace, and theological notes., Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Many of the manuscripts contain notes, indexes, etc., by George Neilson.
Commonplace book of Alexander Fraser Tytler., ?1778-1802.
Includes observations and anecdotes on contemporary Enlightenment figures including Dugald Stewart, James Boswell, Tobias Smollett and Lord Kames, and an inventory of Fraser Tytler’s publications up to 1793. Also included are copies of letters sent by David Dalrymple (Lord Hailes), and a number of verses by William Shenstone, Allan Ramsay, James Beattie and William Shakespeare translated into Latin by Fraser Tytler.
Commonplace book of Alexander Fraser Tytler., 1802-1812.
Includes further observations and anecdotes on contemporary Enlightenment figures including Lord Kames, Adam Smith, David Hume, Lord Monboddo and William Robertson. There are extensive extracts of David Dalrymple’s (Lord Hailes) commonplace book and Alexander Carlyle’s autobiography. Several letters and notes on Tytler have been added to the volume after his death. Three printed dedications, including those to Joseph Black and James Beattie, have been tipped in by Tytler.