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Manuscript of "Historical Syntax of Classical Greek" by Prof. A. Berriedale Keith
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-2250
Scope and Contents
Manuscript in 13 volumes entitled "Historical Syntax of Classical Greek" by Prof. Arthur Berriedale Keith, c 1914-1944.
Dk.1.5: "Historical Syntax of Classical Greek by Prof. A. Berriedale Keith. Contents."
Dk.1.6: "Historical Syntax of Classical Greek by Prof. A. Berriedale Keith. Sections 1-179."
Dk.1.7: "Historical Syntax of Classical Greek by Prof. A. Berriedale Keith. Sections 180-258."
Dk.1.8: "Historical...
Dates:
c 1914-1944
Manuscript on Chinese botany entitled "Synonymie d'histoire naturelle Chinoise" by Joseph-Marie Callery
Item — Box: CLX-A-1593
Identifier: Coll-1999
Content Description
This is a manuscript on Chinese botany entitled "Synonymie d'histoire naturelle Chinoise", produced by Joseph-Marie Callery in the 1840s and never published. In this manuscript Callery discusses numerous genera, species and varieties of native plants found in Macau and Canton, many of which were unknown in Europe at the time. After giving their Latin and Chinese names, he describes their physical characteristics, habitat, their industrial, medicinal and culinary uses, details his own...
Dates:
1840s
Manuscript poem, 'Winter', by John Peddie
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1819
Content Description
Ms poem, 'Winter', by John Peddie, 3pp watermarked pages. The poem begins, 'Now crabbit Winter comes again...'.
Dates:
1750-1850
Manuscript poems by Josiah Conder
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1308
Scope and Contents
This is a substantial manuscript book of poems all written by Josiah Conder - quarto, 4-page index followed by 192-pages of poetry, and containing 79 poems. Most of the poems are dated and a few towards the end of the volume are signed. The poems were all written by Conder when he was aged between fifteen and nineteen, and 25 of them may have been published in various places including Conder's first book, The associate minstrels (1810). Perhaps five of...
Dates:
1805-1812
Manuscript recording the lectures of George Fordyce on inflammatory diseases
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1307
Scope and Contents
The manuscript volume - ink on paper - is titled on the spine Fordyce on inflammations. It may have been copied in 1807, which is after Fordyce's death in 1802. The content includes much on venereal disease and other headings include 'hooping cough', 'angina', inflammation of the lungs', 'inflammation of the intestines', 'inflammation of the substances of the liver', 'inflammation of the womb', 'on the causes of cold', 'on catarrh', 'sore throat attended...
Dates:
1807
Manuscript relating to Scotland's church history: 'A perfect Invantar of all the pious donations given to the kirks & hospitals since the day of King James the first of Scotland to the reign of King James the Sixth'
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-787
Identifier: Coll-1140
Scope and Contents
The inventory includes mention of John Kennedy of Blairquhan and his chapel at St. Ninian's (1508). There is also the will of the jeweller and philanthropist, George Heriot (1563-1624), who left funds to Edinburgh's ministers to found the hospital which bore his name (now a school). In addition there are letters from Lord Salisbury, Fentoun (Alexander Erskine, Viscount Fentoun), and others, and including Scottish government letters of condolence on the death of Henry, Prince of Wales,...
Dates:
1670
Manuscript scrapbook volume of E. M. G. Colquhoun containing anecdotes, stories, poems, music and pen and ink illustrations
Item — Box: CLX-A-1564, Folder: Coll-1805 / SC-Acc-2017-0037
Identifier: Coll-1805
Content Description
This ms scrapbook volume of E. M. G. Colquhoun is dated, Edinburgh, 17 September 1838, at the top of a preface. The volume is in two parts; the whole item containing anecdotes, stories, poems, music and pen and ink illustrations of monuments, seals, antiques, animals, and characters.From the beginning of the scrapbook, written by Colquhoun on the 17th of September 1838: "It had always been my chief wish, from my childhood upwards, that I might have a scrap-book of my own, to be...
Dates:
17 September 1838
Manuscript sermons, 1787-1792, of Robert McCulloch
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1658
Scope and Contents
The manuscript volume is written in ink on paper, in a single, neat and regular hand. There are circa 300pp. Red lettering piece on spine ('MS XVIII'). The volume is accompanied by a modern transcript of McCulloch's sermon itinerary.
Dates:
1787-1792
Manuscript volume. A birthday gift, Mary Catherine Tracy, c. 1864
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1482
Scope and Contents
A manuscript volume written in black ink, with illuminated headings and initials. The volume of 131pp had been illustrated and sketched, according to the seller's notes, by Agnes L. Tracy and Isabel M. W. Tracy. It is bound in green cloth, and the front cover bears the initials MCT in gilt. There are seven illustrations and these are signed with the initials 'A.L.T'. and one is numbered '64', which may be the date 1864. The volume opens with a 'Dedication' beginning: These to our Mary ,...
Dates:
1863-1865
Manuscript volume containing notes of lectures by Hugh Blair
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-389
Identifier: Coll-2064
Content Description
This is a manuscript volume containing notes of lectures by Hugh Blair, Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the University of Edinburgh, taken down by an unknown student. It is dated 1770, and comprises 39 complete lectures.Hugh Blair published his lectures in 1783, but very few manuscripts of his teachings survive nowadays. He did not want any "bastardised" versions to survive, as he called them in his publications, and insisted in his will that all his personal papers...
Dates:
1770