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This section contains a collection of Letters from various Burghs, with the Laws of King David, King William, and King Alexander grouped together. The Letters and Laws are in Scots, and end incompletely; the colophon (in Latin) has been inserted after 2 blank pages.The Letters start on f. 240r. This is a miscellaneous collection of Letters from various Burghs, including Lanarke, Aberdeen, and Newcastle. These texts concern the customs of these...
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This appears to be a draft article on the poetry from the island of St Kilda (Hiort in Gaelic). St Kilda was still inhabited at the time that this article was written, which will make the perspectives offered in the text very interesting. The island was evacuated in 1930. Mackinnon also comments on some of the spellings and pronunciations of St Kildan Gaelic, which will make this text interesting to linguists, as well as ethnologists.The following...
A grammar of the Gaelic language, as it was understood in the 18th century. Interestingly, the English word 'Gaelic' is written as Galic. Author and date unknown.
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This exquisite manuscript of watercolour paintings gives a fascinating glimpse into the 17th century. Little is known of van Meer other than that he was a lieutenant in Hamburg who died on 13th October 1653. He clearly spent some time in London early in the century, as this album has numerous contemporary images of people and scenes in the capital city. The album amicorum (book of friends) is a kind of autograph book collected by early modern students or scholars from Germany or the Low...
The items individually catalogued under the Album are all contained within it. The order in which they are recorded is the order in which they appear in the album.
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Majority of material found within late 19th century-20th century
A group of alchemic recipes in Latin and Italian. They begin on f. 172 with the words Recepta optima ad lavorar et coraglio cioe ad farlo tenero et informare come vorrai (rubricated); they ends on f. 175r with the words et liga cum tertia parte argenti cupellati.
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The papers consist of letters, notes, newspaper clippings, photographs, concert programmes and music scores mainly relating to Joseph Joachim. Most of the records date from the later part of his life and after his death. Other members of his family are mentioned too, in particular his wife Amalie Joachim and his nephew Harold Henry Joachim, as well as his grand-nieces Jelly d'Arányi and Adila Fachiri.The collection contains descriptions of Joseph Joachim’s character by his...
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Majority of material found within 1956-1957
