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The Treasures Gallery at the National Library of Scotland is a showcase of Scotland's collective memory.

Here is a selection of items from the exhibition, past and present:

Rob Roy manuscript

'Poems' by Robert Burns

Detail of a programme with English and Gaelic text

Mòd programme, 1893

Scotia Regnum

Programme cover

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The 'green diary'

Scottish labour movement

First issue of 'The Scotsman'

Ae fond kiss

Mirror of the Life of Christ

A detail of the Darien scheme proposal manuscript

The Darien scheme

Pont map

Map of Stirlingshire

Part of a manuscript

Aberdeen Breviary

Scotland's first printed books

Calvin's Catechism in Gaelic

Wheel bookbinding

Materia Medica

Men standing on the side of a bridge

Building the Forth Bridge

Film projector

Kodascope cine projector

Detail of handwritten letter

Robert Burns letter in Scots

Gutenberg Bible

Isobel Wylie Hutchison

Wax cylinder recording

Wax cylinder recordings

The Lyon in Mourning

'Bantam' by Jackie Kay (e-book)

Darwin's letter

The Maid of Isla

Iona Psalter

Plan of the Battle of Culloden

Scottish Devolution Referendum

Harry Potter in translation

Early Scottish colour film