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Plans of St. Stephen's Church, Edinburgh New Town No. 76

Plans of St. Stephen's Church, Edinburgh New Town No. 77

Create by William Henry Playfair 1831

Copyright The University of Edinburgh

Text to go with Hill and Adamson photo in Wiki page GALLERY at bottom

Cockburn (1779-1854) was Solicitor General for Scotland and Lord Rector of Glasgow University. He was involved with Hill in establishing the Royal Scottish Academy. Bonaly Tower was in Colinton, about 20 miles southeast of Edinburgh Stevenson: Group at Bonaly Towers. DO Hill, John Henning, unknown man, woman, and boy in doorway, perhaps Miss Horner, Mrs Cockburn, Miss Cockburn and perhaps Lady Lyell, Mrs Cleghorn and unknown woman on the stairs and Lord Cockburn. 23 calotypes, 1 later waxed calotype. Print size 4. Negative in Glasgow University Library. Green Folder.

'Address to Edinburgh' in Burns’ hand. Part of the Laing Collection, University of Edinburgh
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Burns wrote this English Augustan verse poem in 1786. A copy was sent to William Chalmers in December of that same year. This manuscript copy was sent in 1787 to Lady Henrietta Don (nee Cunningham), sister to James Cunningham, Earl of Glencairn, an important patron for Burns. The manuscript was sent as a part of a larger parcel of epistolary performances and is now part of the Laing Collection at the University of Edinburgh. The poem was published in April 1787.

Other Burns’ items of interest digitised in the Laing collection include an impression of Burns’ personal seal.

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One of the new poems was the 'Address to Edinburgh' seen here as the manuscript

'Address to Edinburgh' in Burns’ hand. Part of the Laing Collection, University of Edinburgh

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Burns wrote this English Augustan verse poem in 1786. A copy was sent to William Chalmers in December of that same year. This manuscript copy was sent in 1787 to Lady Henrietta Don (nee Cunningham), sister to James Cunningham, Earl of Glencairn, an important patron for Burns. The manuscript was sent as a part of a larger parcel of epistolary performances and is now part of the Laing Collection at the University of Edinburgh. The poem was published in April 1787.

Other Burns’ items of interest digitised in the Laing collection include an impression of Burns’ personal seal.

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A Mahabharata illustrated manuscript scroll, 1795 C.E. is in University of Edinburgh, Scotland, archive collection.

This one linear metre scroll, language: Sanskrit; dated: 1795 C.E.; consists of burnished paper laid on cotton or silk; scroll mounted on rollers in a 19th century British glass-topped oak wood box and wound with a key; minute, neat Nāgarī script; 78 miniatures in lobed- and quatrefoil-shaped cartouches. It belonged to Baillie, John, of Leys, 1772-1833 (Member of Parliament, and East India Company Official) and bequeathed to Edinburgh University Library in 1876 by his grandson John B. Baillie. Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository.

= Llanbeblig Book of Hours = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to searchThe 16th century gold tooled covers of the Llanbeblig Hours.

The Llanbeblig Book of Hours is an illuminated manuscript in the National Library of Wales (NLW MS 17520A) that dates from the close of the fourteenth century. Entries in the Calendar link the Llanbeblig Hours to Wales and more specifically the dedication of the church of Saint Peblig, which is marked June 6th, connects it with Caernarfon.

A rare Lily Crucifixion motif is one of the seven illuminated miniatures in this Book of Hours. The Lily Crucifixion miniature is discussed in the context of other examples of the motif in devotional iconography in an NLW journal article by Eddie Duggan. Even though neither the miniatures nor the decorated borders and initial letters are of any great artistic merit, this manuscript is of interest as it is one of the few examples of an illuminated manuscript that is linked to Wales.

= The Barker Panorama of Edinburgh from Calton Hill = The Barker Panaroma of Edinburgh from Calton Hill is considered to be the earliest panorama view and held within University of Edinburgh created by the Irish Artist Robert Barker, 1789-1790.

Barker invented the word 'panorama ' when creating this six piece set of engravings that show a 360 degree view of the city of Edinburgh from a standing position on Calton Hill.

Bits of text Helen might use going forward....

concept   This is          ere are four engravings stored in total, the original would have had six.

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