Manuscripts.
Found in 6567 Collections and/or Records:
"'Darcy' notebook containing a manuscript of William McIlvanney for act III of 'The attic'"; with some manuscript notes loosely inserted., [?1966-?2015].
'Darcy' notebook containing a manuscript of William McIlvanney for 'The attic'; with some manuscript notes loosely inserted., [?1966-?2015].
'Darcy' notebook containing the manuscript of part of a playscript of William McIlvanney., [?1966-?2015].
“Day-book” containing copies of letters, routes, instructions and memoranda by General Sir George Murray and by members of his staff., May-June 1809.
“Day-book” containing copies of letters, routes, instructions and memoranda by General Sir George Murray and by members of his staff., June-September 1809.
“Day-book” containing copies of letters, routes, instructions and memoranda by General Sir George Murray and by members of his staff., September-November 1809.
“Day-book” containing copies of letters, routes, instructions and memoranda by General Sir George Murray and by members of his staff., November 1809-March 1810.
“Day-book” containing copies of letters, routes, instructions and memoranda by General Sir George Murray and by members of his staff., March-June 1810.
“Day-book” containing copies of letters, routes, instructions and memoranda by General Sir George Murray and by members of his staff., June-October 1810.
“Day-book” containing copies of letters, routes, instructions and memoranda by General Sir George Murray and by members of his staff., October 1810-February 1811.
“Day-book” containing copies of letters, routes, instructions and memoranda by General Sir George Murray and by members of his staff., February 1811-March 1812.
“Day-book” containing copies of letters, routes, instructions and memoranda by General Sir George Murray and by members of his staff., April 1812-January 1813.
“Day-book” containing copies of letters, routes, instructions and memoranda by General Sir George Murray and by members of his staff., February-November 1813.
“Day-book” containing copies of letters, routes, instructions and memoranda by General Sir George Murray and by members of his staff., November 1813-July 1814.
'De apparitionibus angelorum, demonum, et animarum defunctorum’ by Franciscus Laveus, canon of Ypres, and ‘De apparitionibus defunctorum’ by Franciscus Almericius, Carmelite friar.
`De Historicis Scotis et Politicis qui vel Scoticae Gentis historiara et politiciam et res gestas vel vitas Scotorum aut aliarum Gentium historias exterorunique res gestas enarrant`, being collections of Sir Robert Sibbald, for a bibliography.
The latest entries in the volume are dated 1700. It includes manuscript material, and there are annotations on the contents and history of some of the entries.
'De modo medendi' by Gerard, incipit 'De modo medendi vel ordine cum corpus sit purgandum'., 13th century.
Initials are in red and green.
At the end in three hands are added recipes and notes, one in French (`La confexion de Noygages`) (14th century, folio 23 verso).
'De Unione Regnorum Britanniae Tractatus’ by Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton., [1692, or before.]
“Dean of Lismore’s book: a selection of ancient Gaelic poetry from a manuscript collection made by Sir James M’Gregor, Dean of Lismore, in the beginning of the sixteenth century, edited with a translation and notes by the Rev Thomas M’Lauchlan, and an introduction and additional notes by W F Skene, Esq” (Edinburgh, 1862), with corrections in the hand of Donald C MacPherson.
Deeds and other papers too cumbrous to be bound in the appropriate volume., ?18th century-?19th century.
Defence of the doctrine and polity of Presbyterianism, in the form of a reply to the anonymous pamphlet by Dr George Hickes, Dean of Worcester, entitled ‘The spirit of Popery speaking out of the mouths of phanatical Protestants’., Late 17th century.
The manuscript, which is written in different seventeenth-century hands, is divided into 17 'sections'.
‘Dello Stato della Regina di Scozia`, written by a Florentine official named Francesco Marcaldi, apparently as propaganda in Mary Queen of Scots’ favour.
`Demonstratio plantarum in horto Regio Parisiensi apud St Victor.’ Notes of lectures given in June and July 1670 by Denis Joncquet, physician and teacher of botany at the Jardin Royal.
The notes consist of a list of plants, giving the alternative names and medicinal uses of each.
A note at the end (folio 67) is signed P M, and is followed by a brief extract from a lecture by Joncquet in 1669. Joncquet`s name is consistently mis-spelled Jouquet.
Depositions of witnesses concerning the lighting of beacons in Roxburghshire, 1804, by which a false alarm of a French invasion reached Jedburgh.
An article from the ‘Jedburgh Gazette’, 7 July 1906, based on this material, is included (folio i).