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Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Dates:
1548-1641.
Commonplace book, undated, compiled by James Glasford (died 1845).
File
Identifier: MS.8493
Scope and Contents
The contents include: extracts from personal letters, biblical commentaries, poems and translations of poems.
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Correspondence and papers of Louisa Kathleen Haldane concerning her parents, Coutts and Harriet A Trotter of Dreghorn, and their ancestors.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20262-20267
Dates:
1708-1958, undated.
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of very miscellaneous papers on ecclesiastical history.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.5.8-11
Scope and Contents
According to the folio catalogue (F.R.186) the volumes were originally marked ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’.
The description of the manuscripts in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.5.7.7-10.
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Material relating to Thomas Muir, the political reformer.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3824-3829
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Microfilm of collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.458
Dates:
[?1590-?1596], 1671.
Microfilm of manuscripts, chiefly notes and poems, of George Sibbald of Rankeillour, or in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.358
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Extracta de Cronicis Scotiæ Quæ ad Historiam civilem pertinent’, late 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century, in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald (Adv.MS.15.2.1);"Observationes collectæ ex Libro cui titulus est ‘extract ex Chronicis Scotiæ'. Hic notantur ea quæ Historiano Ecclesiasticam pertinent”, late 17th century, being notes of Sir Robert Sibbald chiefly on ecclesiastical history, from various sources. (Adv.MS.15.2.2);'Canon sive...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 18th century.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1312-1328
Dates:
Mid 17th century-1937.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, including that of William Forbes Skene.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.15
Dates:
19th century.
Papers of John Maclean, Clydeside agitator, 1909-1923; with material concerning him, 1924-1966.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.88- is now Acc.4251.
Dates:
1909-1966.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Dates:
17th century.
Topographical and other works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.22
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Scotia illustrata sive Theatrum Urbium, Arcium, Monasteriorum et aedium quarundam illustrium in Scotia`, circa 1692. The Latin text by Sibbald intended for John Slezer`s ‘Theatrum Scotiae’. It is very different from the published text which Slezer had had translated without Sibbald`s authority. The preface is in Slezer`s hand, and each entry is signed by both Sibbald and Slezer. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copy of William Harvey`s...
Dates:
Circa 1692-1709, and undated.
Various manuscripts written or owned by Thomas Ruddiman.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20491-20496
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts are lettered RA-RK (RC missing) and some also have Roman numerals.
Dates:
4th quarter of 17th century-1st half of 18th century.