Notes and extracts on a wide variety of topics, taken from a large number of printed and manuscript sources relating to the history and topography of Scotland. Most of the leaves appear to have been written by James Chalmers for the benefit of George Chalmers his uncle (in whose hand some of the items are written), and all were no doubt part of the materials collected for ‘Caledonia’.
Scope and Contents
The leaves are bound in no discernible order of date or subject, although there are various groups of related leaves bound together. The items are undated: dated watermarks range from 1796 (folio 22) to 1818 (folio 283); many of the notes on the population statistics of the various counties appear to have been written between the census of 1801 and that of 1811.
Dates
- Creation: ?1796-?1818.
Extent
0.00 Linear metres (237 folios. Quarto and under.)
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
The source and date of the acquisition of this volume by the Advocates’ Library are unknown: on the flyleaf facing folio 1 is what may be a lot number and a price in a 19th-century hand.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.
Bibliography
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland
- Date
- 17 04 2015
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Prepared Using Local Descriptive Rules
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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