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2 copies of Laing's article for the Encyclopaedia Britannica on George Chalmers / David Laing., 1842

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Identifier: La.IV.6 fols 82-83

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

After the death of David Laing, his private library was sold in an auction occupying thirty-one days. His collection of charters and other papers is of national importance and the most distinguished of its kind in any Scottish university. It is an essential source for the 18th century, and a much used one for all periods of Scottish history from the earliest times. The Laing Collection falls into five sections, designated as La.I., La.II., La.III., La.IV., and La.V.

Dates: 1842

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Album of Arms, British and Foreign, with coloured plates, processions, battles, etc., chiefly in Dutch, also known as Michael Van Meer's Album Amicorum, 1614-1617

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Identifier: La.III.283

Scope and Contents 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...

Dates: 1614-1617

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

E.Or Ms 644: Psalter, undated (c. 17th–18th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: E.Or Ms 644

Scope and Contents Ethiopic Psalter (CAe 2701), including, as usual in post-15th (?)-century times, (1) the Book of Psalms, (2) the Canticles of the Prophets, (3) the Song of Songs, (4) the Wǝddāse Māryām (‘Praise of Mary’, a Marian prayer divided into seven parts, one for each day of the week), (5) the ʾAnqaṣa bǝrhān (‘Gate of Light’, another Marian prayer).In column b. on the second-to-last folio, there is an ownership note, in which the name of the owner has been erased. On the third-to-last...

Dates: undated (c. 17th–18th cent. C.E.)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

E.Or Ms 656: Maṣḥafa qǝddāse (Missal), undated (c. 19th–20th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: E.Or Ms 656

Scope and Contents

This is an Ethiopic Missal, a liturgical book that contains the instructions and texts necessary for the celebration of Mass throughout the year. It contains numerous anaphoras.

Dates: undated (c. 19th–20th cent. C.E.)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

E.Or Ms 673: Ethiopic Scroll, undated (c. 19th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: E.Or Ms 673

Scope and Contents

This is a protective scroll. It begins with an illumination in yellow, blue, brown and black, featuring three figures and a type of ornate cross. There are five sections of text down the length of the scroll, each separated by an illumination. There are six illuminations in total. They feature human images, crosses and patterns. Specialist research is needed.

Dates: undated (c. 19th cent. C.E.)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

[Facsimile of sonnet 'Damon to Alexis' in Drummond's hand, with accompanying letter dated 26 May 1622], 1857

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Identifier: Coll-10/2/100

Scope and Contents

[Facsimile of sonnet 'Damon to Alexis' in Drummond's hand, with accompanying letter dated 26 May 1622]. Lithograph. 1857. Drummond, William, 1585-1649, Author; Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Publisher; Laing, David, 1793-1878, Editor.

Published in: Archaeologia Scotica, vol. 4 (1857).

Note: Numbered: 'Vol IV, Plate VIII'. Accompanies Laing's article 'A Brief Account of the Hawthornden Manuscripts …'.

Dates: 1857

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Fragment of the Old Norwegian General Law of King Magnus IV, 1300-1320

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Identifier: MS 211/XXXIV

Scope and Contents This is a leaf from an Old Norwegian codex of the General Law of King Magnus IV. It does not seem to belong to any of the other extant legal fragments/codices that survive in Scandinavian archives. The left margin of the leaf is significantly cut away, but the quality of it is still apparent. The vellum is good, and the hand is excellent. The leaf can be traced to Bergen, because of distinct use of vowels that is also found in charters from Bergen. ...

Dates: 1300-1320

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

La.III.75: Esther Inglis, "A Treatise of Preparation to the Holy Supper and of our only Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ", 1608 (dated)

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Identifier: La.III.75

Scope and Contents The manuscript contains a prose religious treatise, copied by Esther Inglis as a gift for Sir David Murray of Gorthy (1567-1629), her friend and companion to the Prince Henry. Sir David Murray was the recipient of three of Inglis’ manuscripts, with this being the first; the others are a Book of Psalms prepared in 1612 (now Wormsley Library, Oxfordshire, BM 1851), and a miniature illuminated manuscript of the Quatrains of Guy du Faur (now British Library, MS...

Dates: 1608 (dated)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

La.III.439: Esther Inglis, "Les Quatrains du Sieur de Pybrac", 1607 (dated)

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Identifier: La.III.439

Scope and Contents This manuscript contains the popular religious and moral Quatrains written by Guy du Faur, Seigneur de Pybrac. This calligraphic copy of the Quatrains was produced by Esther Inglis as a gift for the New Year ("pour ses estrennes"), offered to Robert Cecil (1563-1612), 1st Earl of Salisbury. It is one of Esther Inglis’ floral, illuminated manuscripts, which she produces between 1600 and 1608. Within her corpus of...

Dates: 1607 (dated)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

La.III.440: Esther Inglis, "Livret traittant de la grandeur de Dieu et de la cognoissance qu’on peut avoir de luy par ses oeuvres", 1592

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Identifier: La.III.440

Scope and Contents This manuscript is a decorative copy of Pierre Du Val’s De la grandeur de Dieu et de la cognoissance qu’on peut avoir de luy par ses oeuvres, first published at Paris in 1553. Written by Esther Inglis in 1592, when she was around 22 years old, it forms part of a group of manuscripts produced between 1586 and 1592 which show her early experiments calligraphy and print imitation. The other manuscripts in this group are now British Library, MS Sloane 987 (...

Dates: 1592

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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2 copies of Laing's article for the Encyclopaedia Britannica on George Chalmers / David Laing., 1842

Album of Arms, British and Foreign, with coloured plates, processions, battles, etc., chiefly in Dutch, also known as Michael Van Meer's Album Amicorum, 1614-1617

E.Or Ms 644: Psalter, undated (c. 17th–18th cent. C.E.)

E.Or Ms 656: Maṣḥafa qǝddāse (Missal), undated (c. 19th–20th cent. C.E.)

E.Or Ms 673: Ethiopic Scroll, undated (c. 19th cent. C.E.)

[Facsimile of sonnet 'Damon to Alexis' in Drummond's hand, with accompanying letter dated 26 May 1622], 1857

Fragment of the Old Norwegian General Law of King Magnus IV, 1300-1320

La.III.75: Esther Inglis, "A Treatise of Preparation to the Holy Supper and of our only Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ", 1608 (dated)

La.III.439: Esther Inglis, "Les Quatrains du Sieur de Pybrac", 1607 (dated)

La.III.440: Esther Inglis, "Livret traittant de la grandeur de Dieu et de la cognoissance qu’on peut avoir de luy par ses oeuvres", 1592

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