Description
COLLECTION OF 16th - 18th century MSS.
An album containing some 35 mansucripts or fragments from the the 16th to the 18th century, which are mostly receipts or formal documents. Included are letters from the Italian polymath and patron of the enlightenment Francesco Algarotti which are likely to be copied from published works. There are a number of items of Scottish interest, including an ALs. from James Skene, the author of the Regiam Maiestatem. There is a letter dated 1649(?) the author of which we have not been able to decipher, commentating on national events of the period.