Microfilms.
Found in 2421 Collections and/or Records:
Microfilm of genealogical material on the Scottish and English nobility.
The contents are as follows:
Genealogies, 1st half of 17th century, of the nobility of Scotland in the handwriting of Sir James Balfour (Adv.MS.33.2.41);
Manuscript material, [circa 1802-1803], for a proposed publication on the English Peerage by Robert Beatson, Doctor of Laws, compiler and miscellaneous writer (1742-1818) (Adv.MS.33.5.9).
Microfilm of general correspondence of Edward Ellice (died 1863) and his son Edward Ellice (died 1880), chiefly concerning political and public affairs, including a number of copies or drafts of replies of the Ellices.
The contents are as follows:
General correspondence. Be-Bou (MS.15004);
General correspondence. Bou (MS.15005).
Microfilm of general correspondence of Edward Ellice (died 1863) and his son Edward Ellice (died 1880), chiefly concerning political and public affairs, with correspondents, Russell, G-Russell, John, 6th Duke.
The correspondence has not been dated in detail. The dates indicated are based on the dates of the lives of Edward Ellice and his son.
Microfilm of general correspondence of George Francis Stewart Elliot.
Microfilm of general correspondence of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, relating chiefly to politics and patronage.
The contents are as follows: General correspondence, 1755-1758 (MS.11014); General correspondence, 1759-1761 (MS.11015); General correspondence, 1762-1763 (MS.11016); General correspondence, 1764-1766 (MS.11017); General correspondence, 1766-1767 (MS.11018); General correspondence, 1771-1774 (MS.11019).
Microfilm of general correspondence relating to Jamaica, and miscellaneous accounts and legal papers relating to Ardoch Penn., 1775-1834.
Microfilm of general ledger of the Darien Company., 1696-1707.
Microfilm of general letter book of Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane.
Microfilm of general minute books of the Royal Society of Edinburgh., 1843-1926.
The contents are as follows:
Minute book, December 1843-June 1870 (Acc.10000/6);
Minute book, December 1870-December 1889 (Acc.10000/7);
Minute book, December 1889-December 1909 (Acc.10000/8);
Minute book, January 1910-July 1926 (Acc.10000/9).
Microfilm of ‘Geographical Collections’, volume 1, of Walter Macfarlane, 1748-1749; and, copy of David Hume's original manuscript account, 1763-1766, of the quarrel between himself and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
The contents are as follows:
‘Geographical Collections relating to Scotland containing particular Description of Shires, Parishes, Burroughs etc in that Kingdom’, of Walter Macfarlane, 1748-1749, volume 1 (Adv.MS.35.3.12(i));
Copy of David Hume's original manuscript account, 1763-1766, of the quarrel between himself and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with additions and corrections in Hume's own hand (MS.5722).
Microfilm of geographical work of John Pinkerton and correspondence of the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, and of Andrew Stuart.
Microfilm of Glenriddell Manuscripts: copies of poems, letters, etc., of Robert Burns, compiled by the poet, 1791-1793, for presentation to Robert Riddell of Glenriddell.
The contents are as follows:
Poems, 4th quarter of 18th century, of Robert Burns, including "Tam o’ Shanter" and "Holy Willie’s Prayer", with a copy of a letter, 1787, to Dr Moore, and a dedicatory letter, 1791 (MS.86);
Letters, 4th quarter of 18th century, of Robert Burns (MS.87).
Microfilm of glossed copy of ‘Tabula super bibliam’ by Johannes Vasco, 1393; and, copies, 1623, by John Wither of English rolls of arms, 13th-15th century.
The contents are as follows:
‘Tabula super bibliam’. A glossed copy, early 15th century, of a summary of the Bible in Latin verse by Johannes Vasco, Order of Friars Minor, with the explanatory verses which give the date of composition as 1393 (Adv.MS.18.4.2);
Copies, 1623, by John Wither of English rolls of arms, 13th-15 century, mostly from ‘An auntient booke of Armes which Mr Glover Somerset the Harald had of Mr Joseph Holland in Cullers’ (Adv.MS.31.7.10).
Microfilm of glossed manuscript of German provenance, written in or about 1508, of the first part (Epp. 1-88) of Seneca's 'Epistulae Morales'.
Microfilm of grangerized copy of 'Reliques of Robert Burns' by R H Cromek, 4th edition, (London, 1817), with correspondence of Cadell and Davies, James Currie, John McCreery, Gilbert Burns, R H Cromek, William Roscoe, and others., [1805-1819.]
Microfilm of Great Charter of King Malcolm IV in favour of Kelso Abbey.
Microfilm of heraldic and genealogical material.
Microfilm of heraldic material.
Microfilm of historical account of Gujarat sent by Alexander Walker to Jonathan Duncan and intended to form the first part of ‘The British transactions in Gujarat’., [Circa 1804.]
Microfilm of 'Historical Account of the Comyns, Earls of Buchan’ by James Mitchell.
Microfilm of historical and genealogical material.
Microfilm of historical works, 1644-2nd half of 17th century, of W Lindsay; and, records, 1657-1661, of the Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale.
The contents are as follows:
Historical works, 1644-2nd half of 17th century, of W Lindsay (Adv.MS.16.1.3);
Records, 1657-1661, of the Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale (Adv.MS.16.1.4).
Microfilm of ‘Historie of the estate of the Kirk of Scotland from 1558 to 1637 in August’ by Mr John Row, 1650; and, 'Girvane sesione booke', late 17th century.
The contents are as follows:
‘Historie of the estate of the Kirk of Scotland from 1558 to 1637 in August’ by Mr John Row; and related material, 1650 (Adv.MS.16.1.6);
Manuscript inscribed 'Girvane sesione booke', late 17th century (Adv.MS.16.1.8).