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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

Five letters of Ernest A Taylor to Walter R Cuthbert.

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Identifier: Acc.10790
Scope and Contents

Mostly concerning plays by Cuthbert.

Includes copies of ten letters of Cuthbert to Taylor.

Dates: 1923-1930.

'Fondement et Origine des Tiltres de Noblesse' and 'Le Dyalogue de Noblesse' by Symphorien Champier, originally published in one volume (Paris, 1535), written out by Thomas Hawley, Clarenceux King of Arms, in 1540.

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Identifier: MS.2513
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Initial capitals are in gold, the larger ones on grounds of blue or light red. The arms of John Dudley as Earl of Warwick are emblazoned on the verso of folio iv; on folio viii is the signature of Sir Gilbert Dethick, Garter King of Arms. Bound in are two leaves of notes on the manuscript (folios ii-iii) by John Anstis, Garter King of Arms (probably the Elder - cf. Adv.MS.29.1.2(iv), folio 70).

Dates: [1535, or after.]

Forged letters and manuscripts of Lord Byron; with correspondence and notes relating to the forgeries and to George Gordon Du Luna Byron., 1841-2004, undated.

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Identifier: MS.43542
Scope and Contents The forged letters and manuscripts of Lord Byron, with accompanying notes, have been placed at the start of the sequence. Correspondence relating to the forgeries has then been ordered chronologically, with two copies of transcriptions of the forgeries placed at the end of the sequence.Forged letters and manuscripts and copies of the same of Lord Byron, with accompanying notes and memos of John Murray [V] and Virginia Murray placed after their corresponding letters, undated and...
Dates: 1841-2004, undated.

Four letters, 1935-1936, of or concerning C M Grieve to R D McIntyre, with other papers.

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Identifier: Acc.9902
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Includes:

Edinburgh University student rectorial broadsheet "Students` Front" (1936)

14 letters and other papers, 1942-1945, of or concerning Douglas Young

copy, undated, of "A Ballad for Douglas Young", attributed to Sydney Goodsir Smith.

Dates: 1935-1945.

Fragment of a copy, being pages 19-124 (containing Title I to Title VII of Book 1) of the first edition of ‘An Institute of the Law of Scotland’ by John Erskine, containing numerous additions throughout in an unidentified contemporary hand.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.17
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Many of the additions in the outer margins are merely chapter headings, whilst most of those in the upper and lower margins are notes of legal cases heard after the publication of the book, as far as 1821 (folio 175). The longest additions are written on fragments or entire sheets of paper tipped in throughout. There are also a few later additions written in pencil in another hand.

Dates: 1773-1821.

Fragmentary notes probably connected with Alexander Walker's proposed publications on Malabar., 1798-1805, undated.

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Identifier: MS.13956
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The notes include (folio 19) the copy of a diary of a journey from Calicut through the Wynaad, apparently in continuation of MS.13626: Various drafts of 'Journal from Ceylon to Madras and from thence through the Carnatic and Travancore to Calicut, 1796'.

Dates: 1798-1805, undated.

Fragments of letters, mostly undated, to John Murray, publishers, of Henry Pullen; with miscellaneous letters and papers concerning Pullen and the editorship of “Murray’s Handbooks for Travellers”., ? 1883-? 1903.

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Identifier: MS.40988
Scope and Contents Letters of, to and concerning Henry Pullen. Folios 1-20.Incomplete letters, and dissociated parts of letters, mostly postscripts, of Henry Pullen to John Murray, publishers: folios 1-13.Contemporary copies of two letters, 1896 and 1897, of Hallam Murray to Henry Pullen: folios 14-17.Memorandum, 6 April 1891, of William Clowes and Sons, Limited, to John Murray IV, concerning the printing of Murray’s “Handbook for Travellers in Northern Italy”. The...
Dates: ? 1883-? 1903.

Fragments of three manuscripts of the legal works of Justinian bound together., 13th century-14th century.

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Identifier: MS.7141
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) A copy written in a fourteenth-century English hand of the 'Institutions', as far as Book III, Title 11 (folio 1). The text is accompanied by a full gloss and further annotations in different hands. It contains Lombardic initials in red in both text and gloss, and underlinings in red in the gloss. The leaf following folio 1 (containing Title 2, Section 3 to Title 5, Section 3) and the bifolium following folio 16 (containing Title 11, Section 1 to...
Dates: 13th century-14th century.

Further letters to and concerning James Byres., 1774-1805.

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Identifier: Acc.14324/3
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Letters include that of Lady Powis to James Byres concerning his engravings with Byres’ draft reply, 1805; André François Baron d’Anstrude to (almost certainly) Sir John Anstruther, 2nd Bart of that Ilk, 1774; and a copy of a letter of Sir John Hippisley to Henry, Cardinal York, 1800, from the papers of A P Trotter.

Dates: 1774-1805.

Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton relating to historical matters.

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Identifier: Dep.379
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, papers and copies of research documents assembled by Lord James Douglas-Hamilton for the publication of his books 'Motive for a Mission, the Story Behind Rudolf Hess’s Flight to Britain' (1st edition London 1971, 2nd edition Edinburgh 1979 and paperback edition, 1980); 'Air Battle for Malta: The Diaries of a Fighter Pilot', (Edinburgh 1981); and 'Roof of the World: Man’s First Flight Over Everest', (Edinburgh 1983).

Dates: 1968-1983.

Genealogical collections.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.19
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows: (i) 18th century manuscript of ‘History of the House of Seytoun’ by Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington. Compared with the original text in Adv.MS.31.2.2, folios 183-199, this copy has been subjected to both modernisation and compression. For other copies see Adv.MSS.34.3.16 and 34.7.4. (Folio 1.)(ii) `A Continuation of the Genealogie of the Noble Family of Arbuthnott by Mr. Alexr. Arbuthnott sometime Minister at the Kirk...
Dates: Circa 1680-18th century.