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Copies. Derivative objects.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

Printed matter relating to the expedition to the Zhob Valley., 1891.

 File
Identifier: MS.2555
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

‘General Report of the Medical History of the Kiddarzai-Sheranis Expedition’ by Major-General Stewart A Lithgow, 1891; A copy of 'The Pioneer', Allahabad, dated 10 March 1891;

A portion of 'The Baluchistan Gazette', dated 14 March 1891.

Dates: 1891.

Printed papers relating to the development of the highways and turnpike roads in the County of Angus., 1830-1859.

 File
Identifier: MS.19588
Scope and Contents

Printed material consisting of proposed heads of a bill (folio 1) and the subsequent act (folio 9) relating to the making and maintenance of roads in Angus, 1830-1831; Patrick Chalmers’ annotated copy (and another) of the 'Turnpike Roads (Scotland) Bill, 1836' (folio 20); 'A Bill for the better management of Highways in England', 1859 (folio 26).

Dates: 1830-1859.

Printer`s copy for material in ‘The Letters and Dispatches of John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough’ additional to the letter-books which formed the basis of the text., 1702-1712, 1843-1845.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.46.9.25-46.9.27
Scope and Contents

The material comprises: copies of most of the letters to the Earl of Nottingham and some of those to Robert Harley; copies of bulletins and of letters to Marlborough, printed as footnotes; and most of the editorial comments. The editorial material and instructions to the Printer are in Murray`s hand, the copies in various hands.

Dates: 1702-1712, 1843-1845.

Printer’s copy of the text of Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’, the Gaelic and Latin each divided into three volumes as printed.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.73.4.1-73.4.6.
Scope and Contents The Gaelic text is in the hand of the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross of Lochbroom (1768-1843), then a tutor in Edinburgh. It is his adaptation (into the orthography of the Gaelic Bible) of the manuscripts left by James Macpherson in 1796 as the ‘originals’ of his ‘translations’ of Ossian’s poems. These were written partly by Macpherson, partly by another hand (Adv.MSS.72.3.11, folio 50 verso; 72.3.13, folio 80 recto). They are now lost. Sinclair describes the circumstances of the work in ‘Poems of...
Dates: [Circa 1798.]