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Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates:
?1825-1856.
Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.15
Scope and Contents
Each volume has a contents list (folios 1, 77) and the second volume has its own foliation added in an apparently later hand.The first volume (folios 1-74) consists of copies (in the same hand), made apparently in or about 1585, of the following:(i) ‘Discorso del Priore d`Inghilterra a Papa Pio V circa la Riduttione di quel Regno’ (folio 2), being an account by Sir Richard Shelley, Grand Prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, written apparently early in 1570,...
Dates:
1537-1606.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates:
1177, 15th century-1924.
Miscellaneous bibliographical and other works in several hands of the 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.12
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `A Catologue [sic] of Bookes to be sold by auctione at the D[?] of M[?] Lodgeings in St James`s`. A list of apocryphal titles, probably drawn up as part of a satire on Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copy of ‘Asserti Scotiae cives sui’ by Thomas Dempster. The leaves containing pages 8-9 and 50-52 of the printed text are missing. (Folio 3.)(iii) List of books printed before 1500, copied from a...
Dates:
?17th century-18th century.