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Manuscript biography of Robert Burns by Gabriel Setoun, pseudonym of Thomas Nicoll Hepburn
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Identifier: Coll-1922
Scope and Contents
Manuscript bibliography of Robert Burns by the Scottish poet and author Thomas Nicoll Hepburn, under the pseudonym Gabriel Setoun. Inscription on fly-leaf: "To my friend Dr Cattanach with all good and kind wishes. Gabriel Setoun. 23rd Jan. 1901." 232 x 172 mm, 264 pp.
Dates:
1901
Manuscript book entitled 'Catalogue of double stars, clusters and nebulae'
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Identifier: Coll-1926
Scope and Contents
Manuscript volume entitled 'Catalogue of double stars, clusters and nebulae' by an unknown author. A substantial part appears to have been copied from William Henry Smyth's work Cycle of Celestial Objects. The volume contains:- Descriptions of the positions of stars, constellations, and celestial bodies (Auqarius, Andromeda, Antinous, Auroga etc.) during various nights in 1868 and 1869, not in chronological order (pp. 1-34).- An...
Dates:
1868-1869
Manuscript by Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) of 'Marie Stuart reine d'Ecosse', c. 1859
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Identifier: Coll-1667
Scope and Contents
This ms of Marie Stuart reine d'Ecosse is signed at the end: 'Al. de Lamartine'. Main text is in a neat secretarial hand, France c. 1859, with substantive authorial additions and revisions.
Quarto, contemporary half morocco, marbled boards.
Dates:
1859
Manuscript commonplace book compiled by M Massey, York Place
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Identifier: Coll-1546
Scope and Contents
The commonplace book may have been the work of M. Massy, York Place, Edinburgh - the name inscribed in first page. The written material contains original and transcribed matter. It is bound in original decorative brown morocco with all page edges gilt. There are gilt inner dentelles with repeated flower and urn design. Gilt spine and cover designs. There are clipped illustrations showing: the Gile Callum broadsword dance; Scottish Games, Tossing the caber; Clan Cameron; Clan...
Dates:
1860-1870
Manuscript embroidery or needle-work pattern book, presented to Leonora Vigoleno
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Identifier: Coll-1431
Scope and Contents
The volume is hand-coloured. The drawings are sketched in ink outline with colour wash. The designs show borders, mostly floral but also including abstract and classical repeat patterns, together with some corner patterns and individual motifs. Quarto. Title page within floral border and with finely drawn crane motif, stitched into 18th century past-paper boards. Vaghi lavori delle donne presenta/ti alla virtuosa e nobile / Leonora Vigoleno / la qual opera dissegnata...
Dates:
1790-1800
Manuscript entitled "An Enquiry into the Elements of General Therapeutics, with Special Illustrations, to which is prefixed an Essay on the Nature Value and Utility of Theory" by Robert Abraham
Collection — Box: CLX-A-1592
Identifier: Coll-1981
Content Description
This is a manuscript on medicine and drugs written by Robert Abraham in 1825 in Carlisle and London.This manuscript comprises three sections, each including an index:
Part First. "An Essay on the Nature, Value, and Utility of Theory", starting a few pages before p. 1;
Part Second. "An Enquiry &c.' into the nature of narcotics, hypnotics, sleep, coma, mania, &...
Dates:
c 1825
Manuscript entitled "Recueil de Chansons Choisies en Vaudeville"
Item — Box: CLX-A-1605
Identifier: Coll-2117
Content Description
Manuscript volume entitled "Recueil de Chansons Choisies en Vaudeville Pour servir a l'histoire Anecdote depuis [blank] jusqu'a present" ("Collection of Selected Vaudeville Songs, to Serve History Anecdote [sic] from [blank] until today") containing 101 French vaudeville songs with 58 scores, dated and annotated with notes explaining the figures and events referred to in the songs. At the end, there is also an index of people named in the songs, "Tables despersonnnes denommées et Matiere...
Dates:
1690-1700
Manuscript music book containing a collection of Highland bagpipe music [...] Alexander Wallace
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Identifier: Coll-1428
Scope and Contents
The item is a bound manuscript book, with cloth-covered boards. The volume contains the former front cover with the bookseller's details: The Cowdenbeath Manuscript Music Book, Williamson, Music seller, Cowdenbeath. The cloth board, inside front cover, has a handwritten title-page: 'A collection of / highland bagpipe music, / containing strathspeys / marches quicksteps / laments hornpipes / highland schottisches, jigs / reels polkas waltzes and country dances / Arranged and Written by /...
Dates:
1880-1910
Manuscript music book containing music for 43 Scottish, German and French dances
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Identifier: Coll-1425
Scope and Contents
The first leaf of the oblong 8vo item of [60]pp. is headed 'Scottish Quadrilles'. It includes German and French examples as well as a couple of waltzes and a mazurka. Many of the tunes are initialled and are dated from October 1850 to April 1857, some with the location Wemyss. The volume was produced by M'Dowall, Greig and Wahler, lithographic and letterpress printers, Edinburgh. It has a coloured scrollwork cover.
Dates:
1850-1857
Manuscript music book containing music for 182 Strathspeys and Reels
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Identifier: Coll-1426
Scope and Contents
This volume containing the music for 182 strathspeys and reels also includes the identities of the composers. Oblong 8vo, 106 pp, paper watermarked 1830. There is a partial index. It contains signatures of William Sutherland and John Roy Stuart to the rear and others have been erased from the front. Tunes include:
Lady Montgomerie, composed by the Earl of Eglinton
Shela O Neal composed...
Dates:
1830