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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
Manuscript volume entitled "Operations of Surgery", Alexander Monro Secundus
Fonds — Volume: Dk.5.7
Identifier: Coll-2190
Scope and Contents
Monro, Alexander Secundus. Operations of surgery. February 15, 1753.
Dates:
1753
Manuscript volumes of lectures entitled "Prelectiones theologicae" by William and Robert Hamilton
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2906
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of five volumes of notes in Latin from the lectures of William Hamilton, Professor of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh in 1709-1732, and of his son, Robert Hamilton, Professor of Divinity at the same University in 1754-1779. Vols. I, III, IV, and V are from the lectures of Robert Hamilton, and Vol. II from the lectures of William Hamilton.
Dates:
1709-1779
Manuscript volumes of Rev. William McCulloch
Fonds
Identifier: MS MCC 6
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of three manuscript volumes of notes and sermons by Rev. William McCulloch, Minister of Cambuslang, dated 1732-34 and 1742.The 1732-34 volume (MS MCC 6.1) is labelled "Rev McCulloch / Sermons Notes / 1732" on the spine, and starts with an index entitled "In this volume are 24 Sermons preached mostly at Sacrament - occasions; the Texts, Time, and Place as follows; where note, they were all preached in the year 1732...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1732-1742
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Manuscripts and printed matter from the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Library (1843-1902)
Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 32.6
Scope and Contents
See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates:
1843-1902
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Manuscripts by Henry Guthry (1600-1676), Bishop of Dunkeld
Fonds
Identifier: MS GUT 2
Scope and Contents
Three notebooks relating to Henry Guthry, Bishop of Dunkeld (1600-1676)1. Observations upon the ryse [and] progress of the late rebellion against King Charles the first in so far as it was caryed on by a malecontented faction in Scotland under the pretext of the reformation. Quarto volume, 172 pages, in a loose secretary hand. 19th century binding, titled 'Bishop Guthrie's Historie, 1636-1649' on the spine. Signature of John Jaffray, Edin[burgh] 1849 on the front flyleaf....
Dates:
17th century
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
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Manuscripts from the William Drummond of Hawthornden Collection
Collection
Identifier: De
Scope and Contents
This collection is some of the manuscripts that William Drummond of Hawthornden collected and is the proportion donated to the University of Edinburgh.
Dates:
1482 to early 17th century
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Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia
Collection
Identifier: Or Ms
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of over 700 manuscripts pertaining to the Islamicate world and South Asia, dating from the 10th to 19th centuries C.E. (the majority being post-1500). Chiefly bound paper codices, it includes sacred texts of importance to the Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh faiths, Qur’anic commentaries, Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and the Shi’i Imams, works treating Islamic law, world history, the history of India, medicine,...
Dates:
10th-19th centuries C.E. (bulk: post-1500 C.E.)