Fragments.
Found in 371 Collections and/or Records:
21 letters and fragments of and to Scottish clergymen.
Correspondents include Charles Cowan, Alexander Duff, Robert H Lundie, Thomas Guthrie and George S Duncan.
26 manuscript fragments of paper and vellum, recovered from bindings.
32 letters and fragments of letters of or to the Kerr family, Dalry, Ayrshire and their Kerr, Currie, Boyle and Glen relatives in the United States.
Additional related material acquired with MS.16495: Lesmahagow missal, being fragments of the missal and correspondence and notes of Sir Sydney Cockerell concerning it., 13th century-1953, undated.
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
Articles and fragments about Hugh MacDiarmid., Undated.
Articles, notes, and fragments in Thomas Carlyle’s autograph., 1767, 1832-[?1871], undated.
Articles, speeches and essays of David Young Cameron., 1932-1945, undated.
Autobiographical fragment, 1899, and 'Memorandum of events between 1906-1915', April 1916, by Richard Burdon Haldane., 1899, 1916.
Autobiographical reminiscences drafts and fragments of Ruthven Todd., 1963, 1966, undated.
The contents are as follows. (i) Autobiographical reminiscences, written in the form of letters to Anne McGuire, 1963, undated (folio 1); (ii) Autobiographical drafts and fragments, 1966, undated (folio 53).
Book of hours., 15th century.
Book of hours and devotions., 15th century.
Book of hours, possibly according to the Use of Utrecht., 15th century.
Box of notebooks, notes and related papers, possible for the 'Alpine journal'., 1923-1953.
Brief fragment of the journal of John Harden., 1802.
This fragment of a much longer diary describes the first part (from Dublin to Dunmail Raise) of John Harden's journey to Scotland to marry Jessy Allan. It is essentially a series of word-pictures of a succession of landscapes, each perceived with an artist's eye.
Charters and related writs of the Rutherford family of Edgerston.
Children`s rhymes and other scraps of Scottish poetry, possibly collected by Abijah Murray.
`Chronicle of Perth`, 1210-1668, also known as Mercer`s Chronicle and Fleming`s Chronicle, with other documents relating to the burgh of Perth.
The `Chronicle` was compiled probably between 1600 and 1668 by more than one person. Though attributed to John Mercer, town clerk of Perth, only the latter part appears to be his work. From 1660 it is almost entirely a register of burials.
Other items in the volume are a fragment of a legal memorial, circa 1597, concerning the foundation of the King James VI Hospital in Perth (folio 1), and a group of letters concerning Royal Burgh affairs (1614-1628), all copies (folio 20).
'Clubfuit', by Tom Scott, and two fragments of plays., Undated.
Collection of illuminated manuscripts and fragments, chiefly Italian, acquired by the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art from 1868 to 1895.
Collection of manuscript fragments containing classical verse in Gaelic.
Collection of music by Hector Berlioz., Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
Commentary on Justinian's ‘Institutiones’ iv. 18 and fragments of one on ‘Institutiones’ i, written by Lord Milton., Early 18th century-mid 18th century.
Copies and manuscript fragments of "Howard's revenge", by Donald Campbell., [1995].
Copies, apparently by Alexander Ross, of Johannes Ferrerius "Historiae Compendium de Origine et Incremento Gordonias Familiae", 1545, and of his own "Suthirlandiae Comitum Annales", 1625.
Indluding:
1. "Vera Narratio...Victoriae...quod Auinum Amen [Glenlivet]... Anno Dmi 1594", with ownership inscription of Robert Gordon and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
2. incomplete charter, undated, of John, Earl of Sutherland
3. letters, 1605, 1623 and undated
4. two fragments of a writing excercise, undated
5. poems, undated, mostly of Robert Southwell, with a photocopy of typescript on the poems.