Prefaces
Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:
`Account of the Scotish Poets either printed or manuscript which I have seen, from Ancient tymes to the year 1701` compiled by Sir Robert Sibbald, being the preface and drafts of two books consisting respectively of lists of poems in Latin or Greek, and lists of vernacular poems.
The poems are arranged under their authors and there are a few biographical notes.
`Adversaria`, being miscellaneous notes and copies of correspondence of Sir Robert Sibbald, with scholars such as William Nicolson, Edward Lhuyd and John Smith of Durham on Scottish history and antiquities.
‘Christian. Spiritual Poems on Several Subjects, Relating to the conduct of providence and cases of the soul. In four parts. Part I’, by James Meikle, a surgeon of Carnwath, probably written between 1750 and 1780.
As explained by the author in his Preface to the Reader, the poems were written over a period of many years, with additions and revisions being made at later dates. This first part contains 101 poems, only a few of which are dated.
According to ‘The Life of James Meikle’, it was Meikle`s intention to publish the poems in four volumes, but for various reasons, publication never took place.
Collection of 26 letters of and to George Buchanan.
Copy, 17th century, of `Prince Henry his Life, Death and Funeralles`, the life of the Prince of Wales, which was published in 1641 attributed to Sir Charles Cornwallis.
Copy, early 17th century, of ‘Historie and Chronicles of Scotland’ by Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie, written circa 1565., Circa 1565-1603.
Copy, early 17th century, of ‘Historie and Chronicles of Scotland’ by Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie, written circa 1565., Circa 1565-1598.
The manuscript contains the author`s preface in full but excludes the verses dedicated to the Bishop of Caithness and the introduction is slightly abbreviated.
The addition to Pitscottie`s text (folio 107) only continues to 25 February 1598.
The narrative is divided into Books, beginning with Book xviii which is sub-divided into chapters, but there are no sub-divisions in the remaining Books.
This copy also lacks marginal notes and a table of contents.
Copy in a contemporary hand, apparently that of one of his secretaries, of `A Discourse, conteyninge A perfect Accompt given to the moste vertuous and excellent Princesse Marie Queene of Scotts and her Nobility, by John Leslie B. of Rosse, Ambassador for her highnes toward the Queene of England Of his whole charge and proceedings duringe the time of his Ambassadge from his entres in England in September 1568 to the xvj[??] day of March 1571’.
Copy, made apparently in or about 1704 by Thomas Ruddiman, Keeper of the Advocates` Library, of (i) a letter written by James V in 1528 to the authorities of the town of Ratisbon (now Regensburg) in favour of the Scots monks there (folio i); and (ii) the preface, entitled `Praefatio, sive Velitatio in Irlandos`, of the `Germania Christiana` of Robert (in religion, Boniface) Strachan, Benedictine monk at Ratisbon (folio 1, where his name is wrongly recorded as Bonaventure).
Fifteenth-century manuscript of the 'short version' of the 'Polychronicon' of Ranulph Higden.
'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.
Incomplete manuscript, "The Book of the Church", by Robert Southey., 1824, or before.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Bircham and Co to Birkmyre, J., 1826-1939.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Bisset, C to Black, W., 1808-1904.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Bovill to Bowen, E., 1822-1904.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Kemble, C. to Kemp, T., 1831-1904, 1998.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of Edward Harper Parker, with related papers., 1879, 1902-1925 and undated.
Manuscript of ‘Frost and Fire’ by John Francis Campbell, being a collection mainly of his geological observations while on his travels from July 1862 to November 1863, including extracts from earlier journals., 1862-1865.
On the whole the manuscript and printed versions correspond.
Manuscript of ‘Frost and Fire’ by John Francis Campbell, chapters 43-58., 1862-1865.
Manuscript of part 1 of ‘Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn., 1940-1946, 1949, 1951-1952.
Manuscript of part 3 of ‘Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn., 1943-1946, 1951-1957.
Manuscript of parts 1 and 2 of ‘Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn., 1927-1949, 1951-1952.
Manuscript of the title-page, dedication and preface for the "History of the Peninsular War" by Robert Southey., 1822.
The manuscript has the following arrangement :
folio 1 : title page;
folio 2 : dedication to "The King", George IV;
folio 3 : preface.
The date of the manuscript has been taken from the preface which was dated by Southey, "Keswick 22 July 1822".