Abbotsford Advisory Committee
The Faculty's Abbotsford Advisory Committee has driven the following initiatives aimed
at improving access to Scott's library:
- A stock check of library holdings in 1998, the first for many years
- The publication of Reliquiae Trotcosienses,
one of the two major
unpublished Scott manuscripts in the library at Abbotsford, by (now) Professor Gerard
Carruthers (University of Glasgow) and Dr Alison Lumsden (University of Aberdeen),
members of the advisory committee. Published by Edinburgh University Press in 2004,
this is Scott's humorous, semi-fictional guide to the building of his library
- The transcription of Sylva Abbotsfordiensis, Scott's
11,000-word notebook detailing his planting of the Abbotsford estate, by Carruthers
and Lumsden
- The publication of Robert Burns The Fornicators Court, introduced by Gerard
Carruthers and Pauline Gray of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies at the University
of Glasgow, in 2009
- An analysis of Scott's holdings of chapbooks, broadsides and popular tracts by a
team from Glasgow and Aberdeen universities which revealed around 6000 works ranging
from songs, witch trials and confessions as well as political and religious squibs;
a huge amount of popular material comprising a fascinating range of historical social
commentary
- With funding from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, the
digital imaging of Scott's annotations to his books, by Dr Megan Coyer of the
University of Glasgow. These annotations will soon be linked to the online catalogue
records for the books so will be available to the public via the catalogue of the
Advocates Library on the Faculty of Advocates website
- And finally, and most importantly, the priority has been to provide an online
catalogue for the Abbotsford library. This has been funded largely by the Faculty
of Advocates with significant assistance from the Carnegie Trust. Lindsay Levy
has been employed to catalogue the Abbotsford books to the highest international
standards for rare books. The project is nearing completion, due in spring/summer
2013.
Find out more about the contents of the Abbotsford library here
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