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Manuscript and typescript material from collection around George Sims and the Tragara Press

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1452
Identifier: Coll-1613
Scope and Contents The ms and ts collection, and printed ephemera, is composed of correspondence, cards and book-labels, some of which are items which had been placed inside volumes within the George Sims and the Tragara Press monograph collection (Folders 1-6), and a few gifted separately by the same seller (Folder 7). The items are: Folder 1 - Cards, with poems: All that has follied with the sun is done,...
Dates: 1938-2000
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Manuscript by George Clark (-1922)

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Identifier: MS CLA 1
Scope and Contents

Bound manuscript titled, 'Some Reminiscences of the Cunningsburgh people by George Clark, Minister of the United Free Church of Cunningsburgh, Shetland.'

Front end papers contain several provenance notes. There are letters with the volume to Rev. John Campbell from J. Halerow and Edward Burnside about the donation of the book to General Assembly Library. Volume and letters housed in a custom-made case.

Dates: 1909-1910
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Manuscript by James Fraser (1695-1796), minister of Alness

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Identifier: MS FRA 2
Scope and Contents Original manuscript of James Fraser's "The Scripture doctrine of santification. Being a critical explication and paraphrase of the sixth [and] seventh chapters of the epistle to the Romans, and the four first verses of the eighth chapter."Quarto notebook with 384 numbered pages. Manuscript is dated 25 July 1769, and a note regarding its donation by Rev. Robert Mackintosh on 13 July 1926 is loosely inserted at the front fly leaf. Front fly also bears an inscription to Rev. Charles...
Dates: 1769
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Manuscript by John Baptist Vincent Canes (1609-1672)

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Identifier: MS CAN
Scope and Contents

Manuscript copy of 'A compleat Exposition of the Creed In forty seven brief Cathechise Sermons. Made by F.J.V. Canes the Author of Fiat Lux.'Includes provenance inscription pp. [3] recto. Has Table of Contents pp. [4]-[5] and errata pp. [487] recto.

Dates: 17th century
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Manuscript by John Forbes (c.1568-1634), minister of Alford

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Identifier: MS FOR 1
Scope and Contents Manuscript copy of an earlier work by John Forbes, Minister of Alford, c.1568–1634. Created c. 1726."The Reformation of Religion in Scotland, Containing Beginning Progress [and] Establishing of the Truth, both in Doctrine [and] Discipline, writtin the same.Written be that faithful Servant and Witnes of Christ. Mr John Fforbes. Ex authoris Autographo"Contains several notes and inserts regarding provenance, including a contents list that is purportedly...
Dates: c. 1726
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Manuscript by Robert Henderson entitled ‘Tachy graphy; or Short-writing...’

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Identifier: MS HEN 1
Scope and Contents Seventeenth century manuscript notebook with faux-title page:"Tachy graphy, or Shortwriting. Being most Easie, Exact, Speedie, and Lineal. To which is Added Symbolical Characters, and Choice Sentences. Newly Corrected, and Enlarged by Robert Henderson, Philomath."The main text is made up of both prose and tables of symbols, in a 17th-century hand. 34 unnumbered leaves are devoted to this work, finishing with a short excerpt of the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, and the Ten...
Dates: 17th century; 1730; 1812
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Dunfermline College of Physical Education 4
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Gregory, James, 1638-1675 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh) 4
Hope, Thomas Charles, 1766-1844 (Professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 4
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Laing, David, 1793-1878 (antiquarian, bookseller, and librarian of the Signet Library) 4
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Dott, Norman McOmish, 1897-1973 (Neurosurgeon) 3
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Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 3
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Grant, John, fl 1955 (Bookseller) 3
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Henderson, Hamish Scott, 1919-2002 (folklorist, poet, songwriter, soldier, intellectual) 3
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Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 3
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Kendall, Sheena Lilian Grant, 1883-1974 (composer) 3
Knox, John, c 1513-1572 (Scottish preacher) 3
Laws, Robert, 1851-1934 (Scottish missionary) 3
Leighton, Kenneth, 1929-1988 (Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh) 3
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Love , John, Rev Dr, 1757-1825 (Church of Scotland minister ) 3
Muir, Edwin, 1887-1959 (poet, novelist and translator) 3
Muir, Willa, 1890-1970 (novelist, essayist and translator) 3
Nyerere, Julius Kambarage, 1922-1999 (President of Tanzania) 3
Pillans, James (Regent, University of Edinburgh) 3
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Stevens, William Victor, 1900-1987 (President of the University of Edinburgh Graduates' Association) 3
Stewart, Sir Thomas Grainger, 1837-1900 (Physician, President of the BMA) 3
Syme, James, 1799-1870 (Scottish pioneering surgeon; Professor of clinical surgery at the University of Edinburgh) 3
Torrance, Thomas Forsyth, 1913-2007 (theologian, and Professor of Christian Dogmatics at New College, Edinburgh) 3
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