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Box CLX-A-371

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Manuscript entitled "Ane Compend off some practiques before the Lords since his Ma[jes]ties cuming home to Scotland ych was in ano 1660" by James Huttone, c 1686

 Item — Box: CLX-A-371
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0126
Scope and Contents Notebook of 140 unnumbered pages containing an alphabetically arranged and ordered law manual / compendium. It is an easily portable, utilitarian object, and appears to be the work of the scribe James Hutton. It carries the bookplate of Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston, and was presumably used by him as a reference book.This kind of manual was essential for judges and lawyers to keep up with the legal changes that followed the Restoration in 1660: Charles II, in attempting to restore...
Dates: c 1686
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Handwritten copy of Robert Garioch's 'Whilk mainer o' Lives', 20th century

 Item — Box: CLX-A-371
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0096
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Manuscript copy of Robert Garioch's poem "Whilk mainner o' Lives?", probably NOT in Garioch's hand. Garioch was a Scottish poet and translator who wrote mainly in Scots.

Dates: 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Autograph poem signed, by Allan Cunningham, c 1825

 Item — Box: CLX-A-371
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0130
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Autograph poem signed, titled 'Mariners Song', three verses of 8 lines each, starting "A wet sheet and a flowing sea / A wind that follows fast / And fills the white and rustling sail / And bends the gallant mast / And bends the gallant mast my boys / While like the eagle free / Away the good ship flies and leaves / Old England on the sea ... ", addressed on the verso to Miss Henney, 1 side 4to., no place, no date (c. 1825).

Dates: c 1825
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Chinese manuscript notebook, undated - possibly first half of 19th century

 Item — Box: CLX-A-371
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0115
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Small concertina notebook in Chinese, manuscript. Bought in an Oxfam bookshop for 3£. Could be a notebook kept by someone who was fitting out a ship for a voyage, or some similar occupation. The notebook has separate sets of ink and pencil Chinese characters, and so perhaps the book has been used for two separate projects. A few pages have what appear to be pencilled English translations of a few characters and occasional transcriptions in Arabic numerals.

Dates: undated - possibly first half of 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection