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Manuscript copies of texts by Archibald Pitcairne (1652-1713), physician and poet

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Identifier: MS PIT
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Dates: c.1691-c.1692
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Manuscript copy of ‘A true narratioune of the declyneing aige of the Kirk of Scotland…’ by James Melville (1556-1614)

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Identifier: MS MEL 3
Scope and Contents Title page (pencil, 1842) reads:'A True Narration of the Declyneing aige of the Kirk of Scotland, from 1596 to 1610, being a continuation of Mr James Melvill's Diary'Incomplete manuscript copy, written in secretary hand by several different scribes.142 unnumbered pages.Front flyleaf inscription reads:'Presented to the Library in connection with the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland by J. M. Steven. George Heriot's Hospital,...
Dates: 1594-1610
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Manuscript copy of August Neander’s Die christliche Sittenlehre transcribed by John Hutchison

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Identifier: MS NEA
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Manuscript copy of Johann August Wilhelm Neader's Die christliche Sittenlehre. Inscription on flyleaf says, 'John Hutchinson, Berlin, April 19th /39' and Hutchinson's book label is on the front endpaper.

Dates: [1859]
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Manuscript copy of ‘History of the Church of Scotland’ by David Calderwood

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Identifier: MS CALD
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Manuscript copy of ‘History of the Church of Scotland’ by David Calderwood. Copied for Robert Wodrow in 1728 from manuscript held in Glasgow University Library.

Dates: 1728
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Manuscript copy of "Leaves from the buik of the West Kirke" by George Lorimer

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Identifier: Coll-2925
Scope and Contents This is a manuscript copy of "Leaves from the buik of the West Kirke" by George Lorimer, a historical work originally published in 1885, focusing on the 17th-century records of St Cuthbert’s Church in Edinburgh. This manuscript derives from the printed text, along the way culling, rearranging and mounting documents, most of which were published in Lorimer's study of the old West Kirke church of St Cuthbert's in Edinburgh.The present volume adds two original documents including...
Dates: 1885; One document dated 1694
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Manuscript copy of ‘Livre des Anglais’

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Identifier: MS GEN 2
Scope and Contents Copie du Livre des Anglais [sic]. Manuscript Déposé aux Archives de Genève. [copy of the 'book of the English'. Manuscript deposited with the Archives of Geneva]. Covers the years 1555-1560 when John Knox was a member of the English church in Geneva, listing members of the congregation, ministers, child baptisms, marriages and funerals.Manuscript copy of the original, made 14 - 19 May 1856 and certified by Ad. C. Grivel, Archivist. The copy was comissioned by a Mr. Lawrence of...
Dates: 1856; Other: 1555-1560
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Manuscript copy of "Mock Poem or Whiggs Supplication. Part II" by Samuel Colvil

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.5.8
Identifier: Coll-2191
Scope and Contents

This is a volume containing a manuscript copy of Samuel Colvil's "Mock poem: or, Whiggs supplication", part 2. In this work, Colvil satirises the Presbyterians.

Dates: 1694?
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Manuscript copy of Sepher Bechinath Olam by Jedaja ha-Penini, called Bedarshi [Bedersi] with commentaries

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Identifier: MS 5002
Scope and Contents Bound manuscript copy of Sefer Behinat ha-'olam by Jedaiah ben Abraham, called Bedershi or Bedersi, written in Krakow, Poland, in 1782. The English title is the Book of the Examination of the World. Notes affixed to the cover by Rev Prof Oliver Shaw Rankin, Chair of Old Testament Language, Literature and Theology at Edinburgh University give background information on 'Bedarshi' and note that a copy of a poem, entitled 'Bakkashath ham-Memim' ['Request of the Mems] is included in the book with...
Dates: 1782; Modified: c.1940
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Manuscript copy of "The History of the Church of Scotland" by Archbishop John Spottiswoode

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.2.11
Identifier: Coll-2146
Scope and Contents

Manuscript volume entitled "The History of the Church of Scotland" by Archbishop John Spottiswoode. 17th century.

Dates: c 1639
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Manuscript copy of 'The Psalms of David in metre for four voices' by Richard Allison

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Identifier: MS ALL
Scope and Contents

Copy of 'The Psalms of David in metre for four voices. With ten short Tunes in the end, To which for the most part all the Psalms may be usually sung, for the use of such as are of mean skill, and whose leisure least serveth to practize. By Richard Allison Gent. Practitioner in the Art of Musick. Transcribed from a Book. Printed at London. By William Barley, the Assign of Thomas Morley. 1599' Footnote states transcription is by Thomas Barron.

Dates: 1599; c. 1750
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

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