Manuscripts.
Found in 6567 Collections and/or Records:
Folder of John Francis Campbell containing the sun-dial experiments for June 1874 described in Adv.MS.50.6.12a., 1855-1856, 1874, 1881.
Folio volume reporting `The proceidings of the Generall assemblie at Glasgow November 21. 1638`, in the hand of Sir James Balfour of Denmilne.
Transactions of all 27 sessions of the Assembly from 21 November to 20 December are recorded in greater detail than the summary in Balfour`s ‘Annales of Scotland` (cf. his ‘Historical Works’, volume 2, pages 301-316), but less fully than in Robert Wodrow`s report of the proceedings printed in ‘Records of the Kirk of Scotland’, volume 1, pages 128-193.
`Fondament van de Geometry`, a practical treatise with propositions and proofs from Euclid.
The text is followed (folio 43) by remarks on surveying. The inverted folios contain mathematical and geometrical problems.
The front cover has the letters A O and the date 1705.
'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.
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).
Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
'Formarten and part of Marr and Buquhan [sic] / observed R.G.', [?1636-?1652.]
"Forty Years Ago" a manuscript memoir by Alexander Simpson.
Describes life in Johnshaven and Benholm, Kincardineshire.
`Foundation of the Universitie of Cambridge with a Catologue of the principall founders and speciall Benefactors of the Colledges publike Schooles and Librarie now extant in ye same. And the names of all the present Mrs and Fellowes ... together with the number of Magistrats Gouernours and Officers ... Collected Julie the 10th 1622`, compiled by John Scott, a notary public, who dedicated it to Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel.
The manuscript includes the painted arms of each college and its founder, and of some of the university officials.
Four manuscript accounts of the Gospels written in Tamil on palm leaves.
Four manuscript music books, collected by William Arnot Watterston.
Books contain four part arrangements for violin, cello and flute of 230 airs, songs, reels and strathspeys.
Four or five medical manuscripts of the 14th century, with additions of the 14th and 15th centuries.
The volume has been heavily trimmed, leading to the partial loss of some headings and marginal notes.
Four Scottish genealogical manuscripts.
Including, "The Genealogie of the Famalie of Ruthven" and "A Breviat of the Genealogie of ... the Leslies Earles of Rothes".
Four series, each containing six Linmill stories by Robert McLellan, broadcast on BBC radio., 1960-1965.
Fourteen hand-coloured manuscript and printed maps and 3 diagrams of Caldor Wood, Scotland, by William Edward Scott Mutch.
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.
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.
Fragment of a manuscript of the Gospels in the Syriac Peshitta version.
Only eight leaves are present, containing St John xvi, 23-xxi, 23; but damage to the top, bottom, and outer edges of the leaves has reduced considerably the amount of legible text. The manuscript has only a small number of minor variants from the standard text.
The script is a bold, clear Nestorian estrangela, well supplied with vowels and other reading signs, including the linear occultans. It was probably written in the early thirteenth century.
Fragment of a manuscript, written by two hands of the early 17th century, of David Moysie's 'Memoir of the Affairs of Scotland', covering December 1586-March 1589., Early 17th century.
The text is much closer to that of Adv.MS.31.7.5 than to that of the edition by James Dennistoun, Bannatyne Club, 1830.
Fragment of a work on the remuneration of the clergy., 14th century.
The fragment contains the upper part of the outer columns of the leaf. The recto has the folio number CCCXX, but the number has been cut off and may originally have been longer. The fragment was used in a binding and bears the signature of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1655-1716).
Fragment of an account of, and a narrative of transactions concerning Kutch., [Circa 1804], 1818.
The papers consist of:
(i) Fragment of an account of Kutch, made in this translated version circa 1804, but probably related to an earlier history in Persian; see MS.13930 (folio 1);
(ii) ’Narrative of transactions with the state of Cutch from 1802 to 1816’ compiled by Benjamin Jones in 1818 (folio 45).
Fragment of the History of the Kings of Scotland, in the handwriting of Robert Mylne, writer in Edinburgh and antiquary., 17th century-early 18th century.
The fragment, being only pages 128-143, covers the Kings from Malcolm III to David I.
Fragment of the manuscript of the novel ‘Fairer than a fairy’ by James Grant, apparently part of chapters lvii and lviii., [1874, or before.]
Fragment, undated, of a manuscript of James Grant for a story which is apparently set in Russia., [Before 1888.]
Fragmentary account book of Patrick Oliphant of Williamston., 1676-1688.
Fragmentary full score of ‘Tita’, the first opera by Ladislao Zavertal, composer and conductor.
The opera was produced at Treviso in 1870, and later rewritten and published as ‘Adriana’ (Lago di Como, 1930). The score, in the handwriting of Ladislao Zavertal’s father, Vaclav Hugo Zavertal, then Director of the Istituto Musicale of Treviso, appears to have been undergoing revision, and many pages have been discarded and replaced by others.