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Found in 683 Collections and/or Records:
Miscellaneous papers of the Incorporation of Candlemakers, Edinburgh, including deeds and other legal documents, boxmasters' accounts, extracts from the minutes, memoranda and reports., 1569-1884, 1913, undated.
The later papers consist almost entirely of tradesmen’s bills and receipts.
Miscellaneous rough drafts of MS.13730 and MSS.13732-13733., 1783-1815.
Miscellaneous Traill family papers., 1670-1863, undated.
The papers include geographical notes and tables; a list of guests at the wedding of Robert Omond and Mary Eliza Traill, 1838; extracts from the journal of Thomas Rickman, the architect, concerning Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, 1811-1819; papers of Traill's executors, 1862-1863; and notes by Traill on fossil fishes found at Skaill, Orkney, published in ‘Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’, volume XV, part 1, 1841.
Miscellany of antiquarian papers compiled by Richard Augustine Hay in 1725-1726 and probably over a somewhat longer period, consisting for the most part of transcripts of royal, episcopal, baronial and other charters and other formal documents from the 12th to the 17th centuries, together with some extracts from medieval cartularies, and a few notes on contemporary published works.
The papers are in some confusion and many others dispersed. Some (Adv.MS.25.9.10) were acquired by the Advocates` Library in 1881 as part of the Riddell Papers; and others (Acc.5022 and Acc.5694) were acquired by the National Library of Scotland in 1970 and 1972.
The purposes for which the papers were originally compiled and the circumstances of their dispersal are alike unknown.
Miscellany of antiquarian papers compiled by Richard Augustine Hay, volume 1., 12th century-17th century.
Miscellany of antiquarian papers compiled by Richard Augustine Hay, volume 2., 12th century-17th century.
Bound in at the front of the volume (folios 1-49) are some extracts from cartularies made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane.
Miscellany of papers concerning infanticide., 1805-1824.
Miscellany of papers concerning infanticide., 1819-1824.
Miscellany of papers concerning infanticide., 1817-1826.
`M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. VII`, consisting of unpublished notes compiled by John Francis Campbell in connexion with the ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’ project., 1859-1861.
Music and papers on music, chiefly undated, of F G Scott., [1913-1951.]
Music book of Elizabeth D Borthwick containing Scottish songs and extracts from various operas., 1845.
A few rough sketches and doodles appear throughout the volume.