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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 4101-4478 Name Ridpath, George, Whig journalist Level [40] File

1. Add MS 4133

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FORBES PAPERS. Vol. II (ff. 42). Miscellaneous papers, among them being: (a) Letter of English nobles to Pope Boniface VIII in defence of Edward I's right to the Crown of Scotland; London, 12 Feb. 1300/1. Engraved. f. 1;- (b) Chronological 'Index Litterarum Regum Scotiæ; 1534-1542. ff. 3-7;- (c)...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1301-1603]
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 4135

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FORBES PAPERS. Vol. IV (ff. 462). (1) The transcripts, continued, 7 Oct. 1559-31 July 1563, extending to the end of vol. ii (followed by some others which were not printed). ff. 1-346. (2) Transcripts, in shorthand according to the system of George Ridpath, 1687, of state letters from the Pa...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1559-1687
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 4215 A

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FORBES PAPERS. Vol. XVI (ff. 126). 'The History of Scotland, written in Latin by ... George Buchanan, Now Done unto English'; 18th cent. The passages translated are Books IV. ch. i-xxv, ff. 2-5 1;-VIII, i-xii, ff. 52-76;-XII, i-xvi, ff. 82-115. An inserted passage (ff. 116, 117) in another hand ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 4215 B

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FORBES PAPERS. Vol. XVII (ff. 55). Scottish historical collections; 18th cent. (1) "Re Constitution of Scotland with respect to the Regal Power', being a translation of the beginning of G. Buchanan's 'De Jure Regni apud Scotos'. ff. 1-4. (2) 'Refutatio libri Buchanani De jure Regni apud Scot...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 4249

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS; 18th cent. Four articles, artt. 3 & 4 being bound separately. Artt.1 and 2. Forbes papers: notes by Patrick Forbes, Scottish historian; 18th cent. For other Forbes papers see Add. MSS. 4126, 4133-4146, 4215A, B, 4248, 35833. (1) List of selected articles from var...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 4257

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Literary collections of Thomas Birch; 18th cent. The contents are as follows;- (1) Review, partly in Birch's autograph, of Dr. Conyers Middleton's History of the Life of M. T. Cicero; 1741. ff. 1-28. (2) 'Variae Lectiones in Caesaribus Juliani Imperatoris septem codicibus manuscriptis ... cum...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 4403

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. VII (ff. 169). Included are:- (1) Logarithmo-Technia, by Nicolaus Mercator, 1668, to which is joined Exercitatio Geometrica de Maximis et Minimis by Michele Angelo Ricci, 1668. Printed, with a few MS. additions and notes by Pell. ff. 1-40. (2) Treatises in shorthand (Ridpat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item