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Copies. Derivative objects.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

Copy of ‘Table Talk: The Discourse of John Selden Esq., or his sense of various matters of weight and high consequence, Relating especially to Religion and State.’

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.13
Scope and Contents

The first edition of this work appeared in 1689, 35 years after Selden`s death and 9 years after the death of Richard Milward who had collected the material for the work and arranged it for publication. Milward was Rector of Great Braxted in Essex from 1643 and had also acted as Secretary to Selden for twenty years.

Dates: 17th century.

Copy of the contract by Sir William Alexander for the first settlement of Nova Scotia.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11716
Scope and Contents

Includes copy of a letter signed by James VI and I granting Alexander funds for the colony.

Dates: 1622.

Copy of the decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1681-1688, collected, late 17th century, by Sir Patrick Home of Renton.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.24.3.6-24.3.6a
Scope and Contents

This is an older copy of Adv.MS.24.3.4 containing volumes I and II.

Dates: Late 17th century.

Copy of the diary of the early part of the Crimean War compiled by Major Alexander Irving, Royal Artillery (later Major-General), in an unidentified late nineteenth or early twentieth- century hand (presumably that of a descendant).

 Item
Identifier: MS.15391
Scope and Contents It is not clear whether the original diary remained unfinished or whether there were other, untranscribed volumes, but this copy covers only the period from 8 August (folio 1 verso), when Alexander Irving embarked at Woolwich, until 3 December 1854 (folio 122). Also copied at appropriate points in the narrative are private letters written chiefly to his wife Mary and to a friend John Scott Moncrieff. The copyist has begun at folios 1 verso-2 and proceeds one opening at a time, presumably in...
Dates: 1854.

Copy of the first part of a history of the houses of the Lords and Earls of Douglas (the Black Douglases) and of the Earls of Angus (the Red Douglases) by David Hume of Godscroft.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.21
Scope and Contents This copy, which is entitled ‘THE ORIGINE And Descent of the most noble and jllustre familie, and name of Douglas: (etc.)`, is a fair copy made in another hand from a manuscript of the author`s, and deals only with the Black Douglases. From internal evidence, Hume`s manuscript was written before the death of James VI in 1625: this copy was made after 1621. It is written in an anglicized and inconsistent Scots, but the text has been heavily edited, with numerous alterations...
Dates: Before 1625.