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Extracts and copies of historical works, collected by Sir James Balfour, 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.7
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Epitome Codicis Sconensis ... ex libro M.S. Magni Mackculloche` (folio 1). Material in Latin and English, taken from the `Scotichronicon` for 1057 to 1436, with a supplement (folio 34) for 1199-1263. This was the basis of the early part of Balfour`s ‘Annales of Scotland’. ‘The Scottish historical library’, pages 92-93, refers to this manuscript.(ii) Extracts from ‘Scotorum historiae’ by Hector Boece (folio 39)....
Dates:
1440-1642.
Papers from the collection of Thomas Ruddiman.
File
Identifier: MS.2918
Scope and Contents
Numbers (i), (iv)-(vi) are in Thomas Ruddiman's hand, and some of the others are doubtless copied from his drafting.(i) Epitaph on Sir George Ogilvie, 1st Baronet of Barras.(ii) 'Presbyter Reformatus ad Reginam', Latin Second Asclepiadeans, signed 'Nabothus Chamaeleon' and inscribed by the author to Sir George Lockhart of Carnwath.(iii) Printed address of the corporation and people of Kirkwall to Alexander Geddes, a bailie of that town, to accompany a...
Dates:
18th century.