| Description Of Item | Papers include:
Folder 1 - correspondence with Professor Michael Lynch; draft of an article on Sir George Erskine of Innertiel and the collection of alchemical manuscripts he deposited with the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; photocopies of original manuscripts with figure numbers; letter from Dr Rosalind Marshall; comparison between the Erskine volumes; letter from the Earl of Mar and Kellie with genealogical information; biographical information on George Ripley and Laurence Booth; letter from Federico Cavallaro on Arbatel; translation of the Italian poem in Erskine Volume 1 [ERG/1/1]
Folder 2 - originally in a folder titled 'Erskine Correspondence'. Includes correspondence with Sir Malcolm Innes, Lord Lyon King of Arms; Dr Guido Martens, Ghent University; Marie-Luise Meyer, Herzog August Bibliotek; Osborne family, Invertiel Farm; Dr Michela Pereira on the alchemical poems in the Erskine volumes with her amendments to the translation; Dr Keith Schuchard, Atlanta; Margaret Stewart; Professor Linda Voigts, University of Kansas-Missouri concerning her database of scientific and medical writings in Old and Middle English; Udo Wercker on Dr Politius and Rosicrucian references
Folder 3 - photocopies of original manuscripts and pages from the Erskine volumes; letter from the Faculty of Divinity, University of Edinburgh on Hebrew words in the Erskine volumes; possibly source of an illustration in the fourth Erskine volume; article 'Fama Fraternitatis or a Discovery of the Fraternity of the Most Noble Order of the Rosy Cross; article 'The Manuscript Sources of the English Translations of the Rosicrucian Manifestos' by Adam McLean with his notes on the Erskine volumes and letters to him from McCallum
Folder 4 - map and photographs of Invertiel; draft of McCallum's article 'Sir George Erskine (Areskine) of Innertiel (?c1570-1646) and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Part III: The Alchemical Manuscripts' pages 1-76 with photographs of the Erskine volumes and Appendix IV - other contemporary alchemical collections; and photographs of the Ripley scroll. |