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 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

‘Paradise of daynty devises’, compiled by Richard Edwards, 'copied in October 1798 from a MS. copy made by the late Mr Herbert, now in the Collection of Francis Douce Esqr., by John Brand, in Somerset House'. , 1577.

 File
Identifier: MS.2754
Scope and Contents There is one poem, 'Upon the Life and death of the noble Earle of Penbrooke', by W Hunnis (folio 39), which seems not to be in any of the surviving editions. After the copy of William Herbert's manuscript there are copies of other poems of the Paradise: numbers 36, 76, 80, and 118 of H E Rollins's edition (folios 113, 146-148).Interleaved with the volume there is a manuscript copy (folio 115) by Herbert (see folio ii) of Hew Rhodes, ‘Boke of nurture’, printed by Thomas Petyt, now...
Dates: 1577.

Paraphrase in Latin hexameters of Justinian, ‘Institutes’ by William Clerus.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.9
Scope and Contents

'Paraphrasis in libros 4 Institutionum juris civilis, auctore Gulielmo Cleruscoto in Latin hexameters. After which by the same author – de consolatione Christiana Lib.5. written about 1700’.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.195) includes the reference: (A.2.31).

Dates: Late 17th century.

‘Parish rhymes, [by] V.O.B. North Berwick, 1872.' Manuscript and printed poems by Peter Macmorland, Minister of North Berwick, written or pasted in an exercise-book.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1807
Scope and Contents

Also included are newspaper cuttings on various subjects and a copy of the minute passed by the Kirk Session of North Berwick on Peter Macmorland's resignation.

Dates: 1872-1873.

Photocopies of literary correspondence, mainly to William Mathie Parker.

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Identifier: Acc.5892
Scope and Contents A collection of letters mainly to William Mathie Parker.1. William Archer (2), 1917.2. Sir James Matthew Barrie (1), 1916.3. Andrew Cecil Bradley (2), 1912, 1929.4. Edward Clodd (1), 1916.5. Sir Sidney Colvin (2), 1916.6. Joseph Conrad (3), 1919-20.7. Austin Dobson (1), 1913.8. Edward Garnett (1), 1936.9. Sir Edmund Gosse (1), 1915.10. Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1),...
Dates: 1884-1956.