`Collections of papers and informations in order to the description of Scotland` by Sir Robert Sibbald.

Item

Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.15

Staff Only

Dates

Creation: Circa 1682.

Extent

0.00 Linear metres (ii + 370 pages. Quarto.)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Custodial History

The manuscript was bought by the Advocates’ Library in April 1723 at the sale of Sir Robert Sibbald’s library.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

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

Related Materials

A transcript, 1749, of Sibbald`s manuscript is at Adv.MS.35.3.12(iii).

Bibliography

The work was published in ‘Macfarlane`s Geographical Collections’ (Edinburgh, 1908), volume iii. At the end of the volume Sibbald gives `Ane Account of the manuscripts, informations, and printed books sent for compyling the Description of Scotland` (folio 349) which is excluded from the Printed collection.