Copies. Derivative objects.
Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:
Copy, February 1622, of precept of sasine, 28 February 1621, to Anne, Elizabeth and Helen Rae, daughters of deceased Adam Rae of Pitsindie, of Finevin., 28 February 1621.
Copy, in a 17th-century hand, of several prose tracts of the poet William Drummond of Hawthornden, written at the time of the Civil War.
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 in a contemporary hand of the score of ‘Il Trovatore’ by Verdi.
‘Il Trovatore’ by Verdi was first performed in 1853.
Copy, in a mid-18th century hand, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, ‘Minor Practicks’.
Copy, in a twentieth-century hand, of ‘Pièces en trio pour les flutes, violon et dessus de viole’ by Marin Marais: bass part., 1692.
At the beginning is a photograph of the title page (folio i) and copies of the preliminaries (folios ii verso-iv).
Copy, in Alexander Macdonald's hand, of rough notes made by Sir Walter Scott of his testamentary disposition., 1831.
Copy in an apparently twentieth-century hand of the piano score of ‘Don Quichotte’, a ballet by Petipa to music by Minkus, which was first performed in 1869.
The markings and deletions in pencil and crayon are presumably in the hand of Th. Wassileff, whose name is stamped on the flyleaf and elsewhere in the score.
Copy, in an early 18th-century hand, of `The secret and true history of the Church of Scotland from the Reformation to the Restauration (sic; in fact, to the year 1678) by Mr [James] Kirkton. Anno 1690` (folio 1).
Copy in an eighteenth-century hand of an autobiography, undated, of the Reverend Gabriel Semple, Minister of Jedburgh., [Before 1707.]
Inside the front cover is the following note in the Very Reverend John Lee's hand: 'The original by the author is written in a pocket-book, in some haste, and a little incorrectly in some places, but it is here as in the original'.
Copy, in an eighteenth-century hand, of ‘Pièces en trio pour les flutes, violon et dessus de viole’ by Marin Marais: first treble part., 1692.
Copy, in an eighteenth-century hand, of ‘Pièces en trio pour les flutes, violon et dessus de viole’ by Marin Marais: second treble part., 1692.
Copy in an unidentified formal hand, apparently datable to the 2nd quarter of the 18th century, of `The Pourtrait of True Loyalty Exposed in the Family of Gordon without interruption to this present year 1691 With A Relation of the Siege of the Castle of Edinburghe in the year 1689’ [apparently corrected from 1699].
Copy in an unidentified hand of ‘Memorial offered to the Honourable Commissioners of Excise concerning the Mensuration of Tuns or Backs that have some irregularity in the Figure and Situation of the Bottom ... To which is added a Method of correcting the common Tables, and some new Theorems` by Colin Maclaurin.
There is a pen drawing of a ship on folio vi. This is a work of applied mathematics written in order to enable customs officers to gauge the contents of molasses barrels used in the port of Glasgow.
Copy in the hand of Andrew Chalmer, writer in Edinburgh, of a volume of estate accounts concerning the family of Murray of Melgund., 1681-1707.
The estate accounts relate to intromissions in the running of Melgund by Janet Rocheard, wife of Alexander Murray of Priestfield and Melgund (died 1681), and then of Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet of Hailes, on behalf of her son Sir Alexander Murray, 1st Baronet of Melgund, from his birth in 1681 until his marriage in 1707.
Copy, in the hand of John Dillon, of the report submitted by Thomas Thomson to the Commissioners of the Public Records of Scotland, on ‘Parliamentary Records of Scotland’ by William Robertson to which it is attached.
William Robertson's work was printed but not published. The report describes it as a literal transcription of the relevant papers in the Register House and points out the defects of this method of scholarship. The work was superseded by the critical edition subsequently compiled by Cosmo Innes and Thomas Thomson himself.
Copy in typescript carbon of Alexander Burgess, "Blood the Fuel of History", with author`s corrections.
Copy, late 15th or early 16th century, of material, early 14th century-1364, concerning the Parlement de Paris.
Copy, late 17th century and 18th century, of Sir Robert Spottiswoode’s of Dunyfrace, president of the college of justice, his ‘Practiques’., 1st half of 17th century.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (A.4.23).
Copy, late 17th century and 18th century, of Sir Robert Spottiswoode’s ‘Practicks’., 1st half of 17th century.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (A.1.33).
Copy, late 17th century and 18th century, of Sir Robert Spottiswoode’s ‘Practicks’., 1st half of 17th century.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.1.20).
Copy, late 17th century and 18th century, of Sir Robert Spottiswoode’s ‘Practicks’., 1st half of 17th century.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.4.10).
Copy, late 17th century and 18th century, of Sir Robert Spottiswoode’s ‘Practicks’., 1st half of 17th century.
‘There are subjoined copies of diuers papers relating to the surrenders of teinds, the constitution & proceedings of the Lord commissioners thereon, in the time of K. Cha[s] I’
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (M.6.18).