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Manuscript in the author`s hand (according to a pencil note by Cosmo Innes at folio i) of ‘The History of the Province of Moray’, by Lachlan Shaw, Minister of Elgin.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.3

Scope and Contents

The manuscript is not dated, but from internal evidence it would appear to have been written in or about 1757 (folio 251, ordination of Harry Gordon in 1757; folio 235, death of Robert Milne in 1758 not recorded).

Dates

  • Creation: Circa 1757.

Extent

0.00 Linear metres (iv + 149 + a few blank folios. Quarto.)

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.

Bibliography

A fuller and textually different, but similarly arranged, version of this was published at Edinburgh in 1775 (two years before Shaw`s death). A new edition with continuations by John Grant was published at Elgin in 1827; an edition in three volumes by J F S Gordon was published at Glasgow in 1882.
Title
National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
Author
National Library of Scotland
Date
13 07 2015
Description rules
Finding Aid Prepared Using Local Descriptive Rules
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository

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