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Manuscript recording the lectures of George Fordyce on inflammatory diseases
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1307
Scope and Contents
The manuscript volume - ink on paper - is titled on the spine Fordyce on inflammations. It may have been copied in 1807, which is after Fordyce's death in 1802. The content includes much on venereal disease and other headings include 'hooping cough', 'angina', inflammation of the lungs', 'inflammation of the intestines', 'inflammation of the substances of the liver', 'inflammation of the womb', 'on the causes of cold', 'on catarrh', 'sore throat attended...
Dates:
1807
Manuscript relating to Scotland's church history: 'A perfect Invantar of all the pious donations given to the kirks & hospitals since the day of King James the first of Scotland to the reign of King James the Sixth'
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-787
Identifier: Coll-1140
Scope and Contents
The inventory includes mention of John Kennedy of Blairquhan and his chapel at St. Ninian's (1508). There is also the will of the jeweller and philanthropist, George Heriot (1563-1624), who left funds to Edinburgh's ministers to found the hospital which bore his name (now a school). In addition there are letters from Lord Salisbury, Fentoun (Alexander Erskine, Viscount Fentoun), and others, and including Scottish government letters of condolence on the death of Henry, Prince of Wales,...
Dates:
1670
Manuscript scrapbook volume of E. M. G. Colquhoun containing anecdotes, stories, poems, music and pen and ink illustrations
Item — Box: CLX-A-1564, Folder: Coll-1805 / SC-Acc-2017-0037
Identifier: Coll-1805
Content Description
This ms scrapbook volume of E. M. G. Colquhoun is dated, Edinburgh, 17 September 1838, at the top of a preface. The volume is in two parts; the whole item containing anecdotes, stories, poems, music and pen and ink illustrations of monuments, seals, antiques, animals, and characters.From the beginning of the scrapbook, written by Colquhoun on the 17th of September 1838: "It had always been my chief wish, from my childhood upwards, that I might have a scrap-book of my own, to be...
Dates:
17 September 1838
Manuscript sermons, 1787-1792, of Robert McCulloch
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1658
Scope and Contents
The manuscript volume is written in ink on paper, in a single, neat and regular hand. There are circa 300pp. Red lettering piece on spine ('MS XVIII'). The volume is accompanied by a modern transcript of McCulloch's sermon itinerary.
Dates:
1787-1792
Manuscript sermons of Archibald Bruce
Fonds
Identifier: MS BRU 1
Scope and Contents
Sermon and lecture notes of Archibald Bruce. 1775-89.The first section of the volume is made up of 40 sermons, at various stages of drafting and development. The second section is lectures on biblical verses.The volume has been rebound by the workshop of William Kidd, stationer and bookseller of Dundee in the late 19th and early 20th century. Many blank pages have been inserted after the original 206 manuscript pages. The binding is half brown leather with gold...
Dates:
1775-1789
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Manuscript shorthand Wesleyan hymnbook
Collection
Identifier: MS 5019
Scope and Contents
Manuscript shorthand Wesleyan hymnbook containing 1008 hymns. Annotation at end of volume dated 13 September 1878 'Harry broke his leg to.'
Dates:
1877-1878
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Manuscript speeches and sermons
Fonds
Identifier: MS COV
Scope and Contents
Manuscript volume containing 26 sermons, speeches, and texts. Contents include the dying words of Viscount Kenmure, Sir Archibald Johnston or Wariston, Marquis of Argyll, and James Wod, Principal of St Andrews University. Contains a table of contents for pages 1-166.Also included are notes on sermons given in North Leith Church and South Leith Church by various ministers between 29 February - 21 November 1708. Notes written in different hands. Bound in tooled leather...
Dates:
c.1708
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Manuscript subject index and list of books from which the subjects are derived entitled 'Ane alphabeticall list of the books with their authors...'
Collection
Identifier: MS 5024
Scope and Contents
Volume containing an alphabetical index of subjects with references to a set list of works from which they are derived. The index is prefixed by 'Ane Alphabeticall list of the books with their authors, out of which the following index is draun with their severall contractions.' The list contains mainly 17th century printed works.
Dates:
c.1705
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Manuscript volume. A birthday gift, Mary Catherine Tracy, c. 1864
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1482
Scope and Contents
A manuscript volume written in black ink, with illuminated headings and initials. The volume of 131pp had been illustrated and sketched, according to the seller's notes, by Agnes L. Tracy and Isabel M. W. Tracy. It is bound in green cloth, and the front cover bears the initials MCT in gilt. There are seven illustrations and these are signed with the initials 'A.L.T'. and one is numbered '64', which may be the date 1864. The volume opens with a 'Dedication' beginning: These to our Mary ,...
Dates:
1863-1865
Manuscript volume containing notes of lectures by Hugh Blair
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-389
Identifier: Coll-2064
Content Description
This is a manuscript volume containing notes of lectures by Hugh Blair, Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the University of Edinburgh, taken down by an unknown student. It is dated 1770, and comprises 39 complete lectures.Hugh Blair published his lectures in 1783, but very few manuscripts of his teachings survive nowadays. He did not want any "bastardised" versions to survive, as he called them in his publications, and insisted in his will that all his personal papers...
Dates:
1770