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Transcriptions of Inverness Kirk Session Records

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Identifier: MS INV
Scope and Contents

A selection of kirk session minutes from Inverness from 1712-1824, transcribed in two volumes.

MS INV 1 (1712-1726)

MS INV 2 (1726-1824)

The transcription is attributed to Alexander Mitchell in 1890 in preparation for the publication of 'Inverness kirk-session records 1661-1800.' Inverness, 1902. MS INV 2 has a leaf from a publication in Gaelic laid in between pages 866-867.

Dates: 1712-1821; 1890
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Travel diary of Bishop Stephen Neill (1900-1984)

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Identifier: MS BOX 20.4
Scope and Contents

See External Documents (below) for details.

Dates: 1950
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Travel ephemera from a journey on Canadian Pacific Steamships - Empress of Britain - 1961

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Identifier: Coll-1403
Scope and Contents Travel ephemera relating to the journey made by Verna Isaac includes: 1 x Canadian Pacific passenger list relevant to the sailing from Liverpool, Tuesday 22 August 1961 1 x Canadian Pacific westbound ocean ticket in favour of Miss Verna Isaac, on 'Empress of Britain', Liverpool to Montreal, 22 August 1961 1 x ticket document pouch (without tickets) - Trans-Canada Air...
Dates: 1960-1961
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Treatise by William Glen (1778-1849), missionary to Astrakhan

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Identifier: MS GLE1
Scope and Contents Treatise on Tartar-Turkish grammar. 81 numbered pages with handwritten text, but not all pages are in use. Additional unnumbered pages of writing at the end of the volume, in an unidentified script.Many newspaper cuttings on church questions (1865-1871) have been pasted in through out the book, sometimes obscuring the text.Front board bears several names and inscriptions. Some of these are in the same hand as the text, and others are later. Unclear whether these are...
Dates: c.1830; 1865-1871
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Treatise of the Materia Medica

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Identifier: Coll-1127
Scope and Contents The bound manuscript volume begins: ' A treatise of the Materia Medica in which the Virtues of all the Simples of the three Kingdoms are truly described and they have been fully demonstrated by the accurate Observations of many truly celebrated Authors and particularly of the learned Dr. Charles Alston Professor of the Materia Medica and Botany in the University of Edinburgh and Reg. Prof. Botan'. The text in the manuscript volume is organised into the following...
Dates: 1745-1747
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Treatises by Dr. John Pordage

 Fonds — Volume: Dc.4.1
Identifier: Coll-2127
Scope and Contents

Treatises on Pordage's religious/mystical visions. It is not known whether this is in Pordage's or another's hand.

Dates: Before 1680
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Tributes to William Muir MacKean (1848-1913), Provost of Paisley

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Identifier: MS MCK 1
Scope and Contents

Binder containing obituary notes and tributes to William Muir MacKean (1848-1913). Clippings are mostly from "Paisley Daily Express" and "Paisley and Renfrewshire Gazette", as well as an Order of Service from Paisley Abbey, 9 June 1913.

Dates: 1913
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Ts copy of a speech by Dr Shelton H Short III on Patrick Henry and Dr William Robertson

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Identifier: Coll-1576
Scope and Contents A copy of typescript, 'On the British ancestral background of Patrick Henry - and a Scottish orator, his cousin, Dr. William Robertson, Principal of Edinburgh University', being a speech delivered by Dr. Shelton H. Short III, at the Parents and Friends Lounge, Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia, USA, on 20 February 1974. The collection also contains a clipping from the Virginia title, Herald Progress, Thursday 11 April 1974, entitled 'Henry's heritage...
Dates: 1974
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Ts letter with ms addition to Donald Weeks from Alan Anderson 2 September 1983

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Identifier: Coll-1579
Scope and Contents The typescript letter, with ms additions, is from Alan Anderson to Donald Weeks about O'Sullivan connections, with 137 Warrender Park Road letter-heading, and dated 2 September 1983. The letter provides details of where copyright copies of the 'little book' are to be sent and on how the British National Bibliography organises itself. It then discusses how 'there are/were a fair number of O'Sullivans in New York, and I'm afraid we have reached an impasse over that fifth brother,...
Dates: 1983
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Ts translation by W. H. Auden (1907-1973) of 'The Knights of the Round Table', a play by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

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Identifier: Coll-1670
Scope and Contents

Ts, 114pp, quarto. A final leaf of blue paper carries the printed mark of 'Mrs Marshall's', 28 Southampton Street, WC.2 (Play typists since 1884) and is stamped by the firm at 23 April 1957 [or 1951]. An embossed print bearing the same information is on the first page.

Dates: 1951-1957
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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