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Manuscript entitled "An Enquiry into the Elements of General Therapeutics, with Special Illustrations, to which is prefixed an Essay on the Nature Value and Utility of Theory" by Robert Abraham

 Collection — Box: CLX-A-1592
Identifier: Coll-1981
Content Description This is a manuscript on medicine and drugs written by Robert Abraham in 1825 in Carlisle and London.This manuscript comprises three sections, each including an index: Part First. "An Essay on the Nature, Value, and Utility of Theory", starting a few pages before p. 1; Part Second. "An Enquiry &c.' into the nature of narcotics, hypnotics, sleep, coma, mania, &...
Dates: c 1825
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Manuscript entitled "Recueil de Chansons Choisies en Vaudeville"

 Item — Box: CLX-A-1605
Identifier: Coll-2117
Content Description Manuscript volume entitled "Recueil de Chansons Choisies en Vaudeville Pour servir a l'histoire Anecdote depuis [blank] jusqu'a present" ("Collection of Selected Vaudeville Songs, to Serve History Anecdote [sic] from [blank] until today") containing 101 French vaudeville songs with 58 scores, dated and annotated with notes explaining the figures and events referred to in the songs. At the end, there is also an index of people named in the songs, "Tables despersonnnes denommées et Matiere...
Dates: 1690-1700
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Manuscript entitled ‘The estate of the severall controversies between us and the papists brieflie collected’ or ‘Popish Controversy’

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Identifier: MS POP
Scope and Contents

See External Documents (below) for details.

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

Manuscript entitled 'Translations and Paraphrases In Verse of several passages of Sacred Scripture Collected and prepared by A Committee of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, In order to be sung in Churches.'

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Identifier: MS 5013
Scope and Contents

Manuscript entitled 'Translations and Paraphrases In Verse of several passages of Sacred Scripture Collected and prepared by A Committee of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, In order to be sung in Churches. Written for Lord Polkemmet [William Baillie (1736-1816)] by Alex Weir Edinburgh 1799.' Indexed. Book plate ex libris David Murray, Glasgow [1914].

Dates: 1799
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Manuscript ‘History of the Church of Scotland from the earliest dawning of the light of the Gospel’ by Matthew Crawford

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Identifier: MS CRA 1
Scope and Contents Manuscript titled, 'History of the Church of Scotland from the earliest dawning of the light of the Gospel after the Apostles time to the year 1688, by Matthew Crawford, with life of the author.' Included in front of the first volume is a note attributed to David Laing and a note about the purchase of the volumes by the General Assembly in 1737.Two published pamphlets have been bound into the manuscript: The propositions presented to His Majestie at...
Dates: 1726
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Manuscript music book containing a collection of Highland bagpipe music [...] Alexander Wallace

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Identifier: Coll-1428
Scope and Contents The item is a bound manuscript book, with cloth-covered boards. The volume contains the former front cover with the bookseller's details: The Cowdenbeath Manuscript Music Book, Williamson, Music seller, Cowdenbeath. The cloth board, inside front cover, has a handwritten title-page: 'A collection of / highland bagpipe music, / containing strathspeys / marches quicksteps / laments hornpipes / highland schottisches, jigs / reels polkas waltzes and country dances / Arranged and Written by /...
Dates: 1880-1910
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Manuscript music book containing music for 43 Scottish, German and French dances

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Identifier: Coll-1425
Scope and Contents

The first leaf of the oblong 8vo item of [60]pp. is headed 'Scottish Quadrilles'. It includes German and French examples as well as a couple of waltzes and a mazurka. Many of the tunes are initialled and are dated from October 1850 to April 1857, some with the location Wemyss. The volume was produced by M'Dowall, Greig and Wahler, lithographic and letterpress printers, Edinburgh. It has a coloured scrollwork cover.

Dates: 1850-1857
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Manuscript music book containing music for 182 Strathspeys and Reels

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Identifier: Coll-1426
Scope and Contents This volume containing the music for 182 strathspeys and reels also includes the identities of the composers. Oblong 8vo, 106 pp, paper watermarked 1830. There is a partial index. It contains signatures of William Sutherland and John Roy Stuart to the rear and others have been erased from the front. Tunes include: Lady Montgomerie, composed by the Earl of Eglinton Shela O Neal composed...
Dates: 1830
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Manuscript music book containing the music for 74 Scottish airs

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Identifier: Coll-1427
Scope and Contents

This volume containing the music for 74 Scottish airs, includes:


  1. Cauld Kail in Aberdeen
  2. The bush aboon Traquair
  3. Oh! Open the door Lord Gregory
  4. Auld Robin Gray

Oblong 8vo, 24pp. Paper watermarked 1804. Signature of James Aikman, Perth.

Dates: 1804
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Manuscript notebook of Dr Thomas Charles Hope recording medical case histories

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1704
Identifier: Coll-2024
Content Description

Manuscript notebook of Dr Thomas Charles Hope recording medical case histories. The constellation of Dr Hope, Dr Duncan, and Dr Rutherford together with the mention of patients being admitted "into the Infirmary" lead to the ascription of this being notes from the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. The Dr Duncan mentioned several times in the text is presumably Andrew Duncan (1773-1832), who founded the hospital.

Dates: ca 1796
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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