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    Papers and artwork of Yolanda Sonnabend relating to her collaboration with C.H. Waddington
    Manuscript titled 'Sources for the Man Made Future' by C.H. Waddington
    c.1970
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-1461/2/4
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:379 leaves 29.4cm x 20.5cm x 5.5cm 1 volume
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  • 2
    Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie
    Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from LL Belinfante
    24 February 1898
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-74/11/8/36
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 letter
    Language:English
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  • 3
    Oriental Manuscript Collection
    14th century-19th century
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-102
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:circa 100 bundles palm leaves, 2 large long rolls, 1 box Oxyrynchus papyri, 4 boxes or box files of copper plates, 7 boxes or box files, miscellaneous folders, circa 720 volumes and some in protective cases, (32 linear metres)
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  • 4
    Papers of Geoffrey Beale, founder of malaria genetics and Royal Society professor
    Photocopy of handwritten draft manuscript titled 'Genetics and Society'
    c.1973
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-1255/11/5
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 folder
    Language:English
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  • 5
    Papers of Joseph Black and family
    Note from Alexander Monro to Joseph Black and extracts of Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell's letters
    04 June 1782
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-16/I/122-123
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 note
    Language:English
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  • 6
    The Qur'an
    early 19th century
    Ref:GB 227 ms18(O)
    Location:University of St Andrews Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Unknown.
    Extent:1 volume, 324ff. Paper: 18.5' x 10.5'
    Language:Arabic Persian
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  • 7
    Copy of Johann Sebastian Bach, Twenty Four Preludes and Fugues, c.1800
    c.1800
    Ref:GB 227 msM24.B2
    Location:University of St Andrews Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Bach Johann Sebastian.
    Extent:1 volume, 135pp (and 9 letters)
    Language:German English
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  • 8
    Oriental Manuscripts Collection
    10th-19th centuries
    Ref:GB 237 Or Ms
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Name of creator:
    Baillie John B fl 1876 (donor of the Oriental Manuscripts Collection),Baillie John of Leys 1772-1833 (Professor of Arabic and Persian Fort William College).
    Extent:30 linear metres (approx)
    Language:Multiple languages
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  • 9
    Proofs of the descriptive catalogue of Western Mediaeval Manuscripts by Catherine R. Borland
    1914-1915
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-1453
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Name of creator:
    Borland Catherine Robina d 1946 (manuscript historian).
    Extent:1 folder
    Language:English
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  • 10
    The Qur'an
    before 1883
    Ref:GB 227 ms10(O)
    Location:University of St Andrews Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Unknown.
    Extent:1 volume, 308ff. Paper: 12' x 7.5'
    Language:Arabic
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  • 11
    Palm Leaf Collection: Tamil Manuscripts
    18th-19th century
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-1717
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:5 items
    Language:Tamil
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  • 12
    The Tovey Collection
    Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from R. M. Young
    26 May 1953
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-411/1/1/L2656
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:[1]p. 18 x 12cm 1 Letter
    Language:English
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  • 13
    The Tovey Collection
    Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from George Stewart McManus
    03 March 1952
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-411/1/1/L2290
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:[1]p. 28 x 22cm 1 Letter
    Language:English
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  • 14
    Palm-leaf manuscript collection of Nigel Seeley
    mid 18th-late 19th century
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-1970
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Name of creator:
    Seeley Nigel 1942-2004 (Forensic scientist and Head of Conservation at the National Trust).
    Extent:13 manuscripts
    Language:Pali
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  • 15
    Al-Kashf wa'l-Bayan fi Taqrir al'Iyan
    17-18th century
    Ref:GB 227 ms13(O)
    Location:University of St Andrews Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Unknown.
    Extent:1 volume, 16ff. Paper: 8.5' x 6'
    Language:Arabic
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  • 16
    Papyrii collection of the University of St Andrews
    22AD-299AD
    Ref:GB 227 Papyrus 1-11 (Pap PA3304.S2)
    Location:University of St Andrews Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    University of St Andrews.
    Extent:11 items. On papyrus, fragile, stored between glass
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  • 17
    The Qu'ran
    no date
    Ref:GB 227 msBP100.K8
    Location:University of St Andrews Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Unknown.
    Extent:Native binding. 1 volume, 393pp. Bound volume: 10.25' x 6.75'
    Language:Arabic
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  • 18
    Copy oriental manuscripts held in the Library of the University of St Andrews
    1967 - [ongoing]
    Ref:GB 227 ms (O) 1-13
    Location:University of St Andrews Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Library of the University of St Andrews.
    Extent:1 metre
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  • 19
    The Qu'ran
    1441
    Ref:GB 227 ms19(O)
    Location:University of St Andrews Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Muhammad Mu'min Abdallah al-Murwand.
    Extent:1 volume, 318ff. Paper: 13.5' x 9'
    Language:Arabic
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  • 20
    The Qur'an
    1773
    Ref:GB 227 ms9(O)
    Location:University of St Andrews Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Unknown.
    Extent:1 volume, 296ff Paper: 7' x 4.5'
    Language:Arabic
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