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Engraving entitled "Pandean Minstrels, in Performance at Vaux-Hall", 1 December 1806

 Item — Box: CLX-D-33
Identifier: Coll-1848/26-0004
Scope and Contents

This is an engraving entitled "Pandean Minstrels, in Performance at Vaux-Hall" by E. Burnley, taken from a copy of Rees' Cyclopedia, vol. 3 plate 6. Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1806. In addition to their personal instrument, all five performers are playing Pandean pipes (or "panpipes"), respectively labelled: "Primo", "Second[o]", "Basso", "Tenore", and "Contra Basso".

Dates: Publication: 1 December 1806
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Satirical illustration, 'The balance of public favor', showing Sir Walter Scott

 Fonds — Box: CLX-D-33
Identifier: Coll-1770
Scope and Contents

Coloured lithograph by John Doyle, some marginal browning. 394 x 267 mm. Unsigned.

Dates: 1827
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Holograph ms in ink of the poem 'Cities' by Alan Bold, over a watercolour washed sky with a blackened sun and chimneyscape

 Fonds — Box: CLX-D-33
Identifier: Coll-1771
Content Description

This holograph ms in ink of the Alan Bold poem 'Cities' is over a watercolour washed sky with a blackened sun and chimneyscape. It is signed 'Alan Bold 72'. It begins...:

Cities stink.

Sunshine shames them.

A vast pink

Sky above stone and grime.

Dates: 1972
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Bound collection of Regency ms designs of borders friezes and dresses - the pattern book of Charlotte Elizabeth Inglis

 Fonds — Box: CLX-D-33
Identifier: Coll-1787
Content Description This is a volume labelled "Patern Book". Charlotte Elizabeth's designs occupy the full folio page and are drawn in ink. She got her collection from a number of aristocratic ladies, and she has noted some of their names, occasionally identifying and dating the design. Among the ladies noted are: Lady Montague, Lady Haddington, Lady Hope, Lady Queensberry, Miss Graham, Elizabeth Moore of Shenstone House, and Liss Lee of Spott House, East Lothian.Leading the collection in number of...
Dates: 1806-1817
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Copy of a letter from Benjamin Franklin to Dr B Rush and Dr J Potts, made by D. Lewis

 Fonds — Box: CLX-D-33
Identifier: Coll-1466
Scope and Contents The copy of the letter is dated 1 April 1882 below the statement that it 'is an exact copy of the copy of the original letter as made by D. Lewis', 1 December 1859. The original letter was written in London 20 December 1766 by Dr. Benjamin Franklin and was addressed to Dr. Benjamin Rush and Dr. Jonathan Potts. It refers to letters of introduction to several of Franklin's friends in Edinburgh. At the same time he states that 'you will be your own best friends if you apply...
Dates: 1766-1882
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Burmese illuminated manuscript

 Fonds — Box: CLX-D-33
Identifier: Coll-1768
Scope and Contents The manuscript is an early or mid 19th century painted Burmese "parabaik", telling the story of Singapatta ("Sangthong" in the better known Thai version), a story from the Buddhist Pannasa Jataka-Suvarnasankha Jataka. The story was so popular that it was later adapted and spread in the forms of "jataka" in the monastic tradition and in the form of tale/performance in the secular tradition. This copy seems to derive from the secular tradition.The manuscript is showing hunting...
Dates: not known
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections