‘Scottish Historical documents’, being transcripts and notes, in manuscript and typescript, by and for Sir Archibald C Lawrie in preparation for continuations (never published) to his ‘Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D.1153’.
Scope and Contents
The arrangement is as follows:
Volumes I-VII: Royal charters and others of the same period; these have been used by the editors of the ‘Regesta Regum Scottorum’, volumes 1-3.
Volumes VIII-XIII: Religious houses; there is no discernible order.
Volume XIV: Bishoprics; alphabetical.
Volume XV: Burghs and miscellanies.
Each volume has an identical printed title page, on whose verso is given biographical information on Lawrie.
The contents given for volumes XII-XIII are incomplete. A variety of papers has been used. Some leaves are numbered (often deleted). There appears to have been an older, radically different arrangement. Individual documents have not been indexed.
Dates
- Creation: 1153-1249, ?1905, or after.
Extent
0.00 Linear metres (15 volumes. Folio and under.)
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
The volumes were presented to the Advocates’ Library in 1922 by Miss Lawrie, Dungoyne. Former pressmarks: 37.1.1-37.1.10, 37.2.12-37.2.16.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.
Bibliography
‘Regesta Regum Scottorum’ (Edinburgh, 1960-).
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland
- Date
- 12 08 2015
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Prepared Using Local Descriptive Rules
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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