Manuscripts.
Found in 6567 Collections and/or Records:
Volume entitled `Statuti della Mercanzia` (folio 1) containing a copy in a 17th-century hand of the statutes on trade enacted under Francesco de` Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, shortly after his accession in 1574.
The text of the work, which is in three books, is preceded by an engraved title page (folio 1), lists of contents (folio 3) and an index of the most frequently occurring topics (folio 7), and is followed by additional statutes dated 1522-1523, 1526, 1528, 1613, and other material (folio 184).
Volume I of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'., 1830.
Volume II of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'., 1830.
Volume III of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'., 1831.
Volume inscribed at folio i `A Collection of several Royal [and other] Charters, chiefly relating to Families in the West Country, copied from the Publick Archives from the time of Rob. Bruce to anno 1537`, made by an unidentified compiler some time during the first half of the 18th century., 14th century-1537.
The volume bears notes and frequent underlinings in John Riddell’s hand. Some of the leaves (folios 58-60) are damaged, the top corners having been burned.
Volume IV of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'., [1836, or before.]
Volume IX of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'., [1836, or before.]
Volume, labelled ‘Miscellaneous`, containing copies of financial and statistical returns and estimates, regulations and a few letters of Colonel Oakes (later Lieutenant-General Sir Hildebrand Oakes, Baronet) whilst quartermaster-general in Portugal., 1796-1798.
A note on the front cover in General Sir George Murray`s hand states that it was borrowed from Lieutenant-General Sir Lewis Lindenthal.
Volume made up of three pamphlets by James Hog; with manuscript 'Queries of the Synod of Fife to Mr James Hogg [sic] Minister at Carnock w[t] his answers to these queries. Apr. 5th 1722', formerly contained in the pamphlet volume, but now kept separately.
Volume of anonymous historical dissertations.
Volume of copies and extracts apparently made for William Rose, in Montcoffer, the genealogist.
Volume of genealogies and poems in the hand of Robert Mylne, engraver, son of the writer and antiquary of the same name (see folio 82), with a few additions by his father.
Volume of historical and literary works, 13th century, written in England in the early 14th century.
Sections iv-vii are in the same hand. Folios 33 verso-34 verso are blank. There are a few pen drawings of faces in the margins.
Fragments of a 13th-century contents list from a collection of sermons have been used as binding strips; other fragments from the same source are in Adv.MS.18.2.4 and 18.4.5.
Volume of manuscript material for a proposed publication on the English Peerage by Robert Beatson, Doctor of Laws, compiler and miscellaneous writer (1742-1818).
The volume seems to have been written about 1802-1803 and contains detailed genealogical accounts of a number of English peers and their families. The volume was apparently never published.
Volume of nine miscellaneous manuscripts, forming part of the Hugh Sharp Collection., 1679-1933.
Volume of notes taken down by a student at Glasgow University from lectures on the civil law delivered by John Millar of Milheugh, Professor of Civil Law from 1761 to 1801.
The lectures, delivered in two courses between November 1777 and May 1778, appear to be those on the ‘Institutes’ of Justinian given by Millar to students in the first year of their legal studies. The first course, in 73 lectures (folios 1-88), gave an overview of the text, while the second, in 46 lectures, February-May 1777 (folios 89-292), studied the ‘Institutes’ in more detail.
The notes are in longhand, but with a few shorthand additions.
Volume of poems of Alexander Ross., 1753-1754, undated.
The volume contains "A Dream in Imitation of the Cherry and the Slae" (1753), folios 10-24; a set of four pastorals entitled "Religious Dialogues" (1754), folios 25-64; and Scriptural Paraphrases taken from the Old Testament, undated, folios 90-116. In this volume folios 22-24 have been bound after folio 38.
Volume of poems of Alexander Ross., 1761, undated.
The volume includes several Scriptural Paraphrases, "The Book of Job rendered in verse" (1761), folios 30-94 and a prose "Dialogue of the Right of Government among the Scots" (undated), folios 97-191.
Volume of poems of Alexander Ross., 1782, undated.
Volume of practicks.
Volume of prayers in German.
There were originally two volumes containing prayers to be said throughout the liturgical year, but the second volume is missing. This manuscript contains prayers from the Sunday before Advent until Easter. Incipit `Hier hebet sich an Ein Andechtig Buchlein mit etzlichenn gutenn Ubungenn durch das iar` (folio 1). Some prayers to be said at New Year, which should follow folio 114, were omitted and copied later by the scribe (folios 309-322).
Volume of Robert Burns’ poems, in manuscript, undated, by an unknown transcriber.
The text appears to have been copied from the subscribers' edition of ‘Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect’ (Edinburgh, 1787). Between pages 36 and 37 is inserted a newspaper cutting giving an explanation of two lines in the second stanza of 'Death and Doctor Hornbook'.
Volume of `Scotch and Irish Airs Collected and Written by Mr S... For the Violin andc`, copied by William Robertson.
Volume of speeches, tracts and other papers.
Volume of watercolour sketches and photographs with brief geological or meteorological notes made by John Francis Campbell on his journey to India in 1876-1877 in continuation of his world tour., 1876-1877.
Campbell also includes rubbings of ornamental tiles from some of the Indian temples he visited.
At the end of the volume there are a few photographs of Windsor Castle (folios 127-129).