Showing Browse Resources: 201 - 225 of 334
John Sawers` Armorial, containing the arms of the Scottish nobility, mostly painted on engraved outlines.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.4
Scope and Contents
The later entries are unfinished and some are merely pencil sketches. The manuscript was shown in the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1891 (see ‘Memorial Catalogue’, number 60).The armorial is preceded by a printed form of charge concerning the right to bear arms, 1675 (folio ii verso) and a list of Scottish peers (folio iv). It is followed by an index and, on inverted pages 1-47, by a copy of a list of Scottish families and their arms by Thomas Craufurd,...
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Late 17th or early 18th-century copy of the manuscript of `Ane Account of The Ancient and present state of Orkney written about the Year of God, 1684`, by James Wallace, minister of Kirkwall.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.8
Dates:
Circa 1684.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.14
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:List, 1606, of Scottish nobility (folio 1);Process of apprising of the Bishop of Orkney against Sinclair, 1572 (folio 3);Process of apprising of Sir Thomas Hamilton against Sir Blaise Belmer, 1607 (folio 13 verso);Reduction of a decreet of perambulation obtained by Lord Hay of Yester against the James Heriot of Trabroun, 1572 (folio 21 verso);Registered submission and decreet arbitral, 1614, between...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Letters chiefly of, to, and about James Grahame, the author of ‘The Sabbath’.
File
Identifier: MS.3519
Scope and Contents
Among the correspondents are Joanna Baillie, Thomas Campbell, Cockburn, Jeffrey, Dugald Stewart, and William Wilberforce. An autograph manuscript of 'The Siege of Copenhagen' (folio 75) differs in several places from the printed text; there is also an autograph manuscript of Thomas Campbell's "The Soldier's Dream" (folio 10), and a copy of Charles Wolfe's 'The Burial of Sir John Moore' (folio 82).
Dates:
1792-1862, undated.
List, arranged geographically, of the ministers, exhorters, and readers in Scotland, with their stipends, in 1568-1572, written by Robert Keith, Bishop of Fife.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.4
Scope and Contents
Prefixed is a copy of Adv.MS.17.1.4, folio 2 (which belonged to Keith).
Originally part (Inv. XIV) of the Rose Collection, Adv.MSS.49.7.1-49.7.20.
Dates:
Late 16th century.
Lists of manuscripts belonging to Sir Robert Sibbald and others.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.16
Scope and Contents
The two parts of the volume were probably bound together in the 1830s.The contents are as follows:(i) Lists, covering history, geography and natural history, of Sibbald`s own works together with manuscripts in Scotland, England and France. Some of the descriptions are very detailed. (Folio 1.)(ii) Two copies of a report by Sibbald on the manuscripts (except those on medicine) of Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, 1698. This was commissioned from him by Lord...
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Literary and other papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26163-26188
Dates:
1947-1975, undated.
Literary papers and correspondence of Nigel Tranter.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10967
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, scripts of and notes for addresses and talks, and circa 440 letters and copies of letters.
Dates:
1948-1991 and undated.
Literary papers and speeches of Joseph Grimond, Baron Grimond.
Series
Identifier: Dep.363
Dates:
Circa 1950-1983.
Manuscript, 18th century, containing lists of peers and barons taken from the Rolls of Parliament and lists and copies of charters taken from the records of the Great Seal (both sources being then unpublished).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.14
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) List of peers mentioned in the Rolls of Parliament, 1424-1707 (folio 1).(ii) List of charters, etc., granting peerages, down to 1707 (folio 10).(iii) Index to sections (i) and (ii) (folio 23).(iv) Observations on section (i) (folio 36).(v) Observations on section (ii), generally quoting part of the deed (folio 59).(vi) Copy of declarations of Parliament on the succession...
Dates:
1371, 1373, 1615-1707, 18th century.
Manuscript and typescript drafts and fair copies of single poems and small collections of poems by various poets.
File
Identifier: MS.26800
Dates:
[Circa 1948]-1973, undated.
Manuscript concerning crown patrimony and south-west Scotland, written by two hands, the first, of the first half of the 18th century, being responsible for section (i), the second, circa 1760, for the remainder.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) `An Accompt of His Majestys Proper Rent...`, by Sir William Purves. This is a copy of MS.201. See the catalogue record for Adv.MS.31.1.16. (Folio 1.)(ii) `State of the Stipends, Glebes, Grass andc. of the parishes within the presbitrys following [Dumfries, Penpont, Lochmaben, Annan]. Made out by Mr Andrew Chalmer from the Attested Copies of the Reports of the particular Ministers 10 Decr. 1750.` (Folio 47 verso.)...
Dates:
First half of 18th century-circa 1760.
Manuscript containing copies of Bernard de Gordon’s ‘Lilium medicinae’ and other texts.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.11
Scope and Contents
The main text, the ‘Lilium medicinae’, was written about October 1621 (folio 102 verso) at Duart (34 verso, 39 recto) for ‘Eoin’ (39 verso), presumably by John Beaton of the Pennycross family (1594-1657), father of the Reverend John. Also in this manuscript is the only extant piece of sustained medical writing in the Reverend John’s hand.The manuscript is written in five different hands:1. Chief text-hand. Appears to identify itself so ‘Ed: Bar’ (folio 2 recto),...
Dates:
1621.
Manuscript containing: (i) copies of correspondence, with related papers, between the `Catholic Remainder of the British Church` (the non-juring Bishops) and the Orthodox Church, concerning a scheme for union between these bodies, 1716-1725; (ii) copies of letters of Thomas Brett to Archibald Campbell, Bishop of Aberdeen, 1722-1725.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.17
Scope and Contents
(i) The negotiations between the non-juring Bishops and the Orthodox Church were initiated during the stay in London of Archbishop Arsenius of Thebais, and conducted largely through the Russian Court; they end on the death of Peter the Great. See ‘A History of the Non-Jurors’, pages 309-361, and ‘The Orthodox Church of the East in the Eighteenth Century’.The original letters and papers from the Orthodox side in these negotiations (with English or Latin translations when these are...
Dates:
1716-1725.
Manuscript copies of Anglo-Saxon and Norman Laws titled, ‘Leges antiquæ Anglorum’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.4.8
Dates:
Late 15th century-early 16th century, 1896.
Manuscript copies of Robert MacFarlane, "A Dissertation on the Authenticity of Ossian`s Poems".
File
Identifier: Acc.10435
Dates:
circa 1800.
Manuscript copy, 1722, of Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, ‘Institutions of the law of Scotland’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.6.11
Dates:
1684.
Manuscript copy of ‘A collection of melodies for the psalms of David according to the version of Christopher Smart’, bound with and following ‘A translation of the psalms of David’, also by Christopher Smart.
File
Identifier: MS.20000 [Cwn.725(2)]
Scope and Contents
The manuscript copy is written on paper watermarked 1837.
Dates:
[1837, or after.]
Manuscript copy of Jacobus Voorda,‘Tractatus de statutis’, in a neat foreign hand.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.5.8
Dates:
2nd half of the 18th century.
Manuscript copy of R C Roffe, "A Catechism of Short-Hand" (London 1834).
Item
Identifier: Acc.8891
Dates:
circa 1843.
Manuscript copy of Sir Anthony Weldon's printed tract, 'A Catt may Look upon a King, 1652', probably of the early eighteenth century but not containing the continuation published in 1714.
Item
Identifier: MS.3811
Dates:
1652.
Manuscript copy of “The Dean of Lismore’s book: a selection of ancient Gaelic poetry from a manuscript collection made by Sir James M’Gregor, Dean of Lismore, in the beginning of the sixteenth century, edited with a translation and notes by the Rev Thomas M’Lauchlan, and an introduction and additional notes by W F Skene, Esq”, written by Donald C MacPherson.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.7
Dates:
[1862, or after.]
Manuscript copy, probably late 17th century, of the well-known pamphlet 'The papers which passed at Newcastle betwixt his Sacred Majesty and Mr Al. Henderson concerning the change of church government, A.D. 1646', describing the conference between Charles I and Henderson.
Item
Identifier: MS.8484
Dates:
1649.
Manuscript material from the 5th Earl of Rosebery's library at the Durdans, Epsom.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10217-10241
Dates:
1657-1919.
Manuscript of 3 legal works, written in a late 17th-century hand.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.12
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows: (i) `Extract of the practiques of the Commissioners for valuatione of teinds and plantation of Kirks`, 1629-1643. Those from 1631 to 1643 are also in Adv.MSS.31.2.11, page 126, and 33.2.40, last item. (Page 1.)(ii) `Admiralitie. The fforme and manner of holding of courts of Admiraltie and proces led before them`. This text appears elsewhere (Adv.MS.28.4.7; and, in an abbreviated form, MS.1948) as an appendix to...
Dates:
17th century.