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‘Royall genealogie of the Antient High Borne, and most famous Kings of Scotland, which was formerly called Albion, their descendance and Successione’, written by Frederick Van Bossen, a Dane, and dedicated to the Officers of the State and others.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.5
Scope and Contents
Volume titled ‘Van Bossen’s genealogie’. The pedigree commences with Gathelus, and comes down to the birth of James, son to King James II, giving some of the chief cadent families of Stewart at the end.
Dates:
12 June 1688.
Scottish chartularies and other works transcribed for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist in 1742 and 1746.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.13
Scope and Contents
The sources are mainly the original manuscripts then in the Advocates` Library. Only those documents not known from other sources are indexed in detail. The contents are as follows:(i) `Registra Coenobiorum de Melrose et Balmerino Impensis Walteri McFarlan de eodem Transcripta Anno MDCCXLII`, copied from Adv.MSS.34.4.11, late 13th century (folio 1), and 34.5.3, 14th century (folio 67), with extracts from Richard Augustine Hay on Melrose, 1700-1707, or after (folio 54; from...
Dates:
Late 13th century-1707, or after.
“Sibbald’s historical collections”, in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.23
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) Memoirs for writing of the History of Scotland from the Records now extant; (ii) An account of Scotch Records carried into England; (iii) An account of source Manuscript Scotch Histories kept in France, Italy and Germany; (iv) Upon the ancient League between France and Scotland; (v) The History of Scotland during the reign of James I of Scotland.
Dates:
Late 17th century-[1722, or before.]
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.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.
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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.
Translation into Latin by Alexander Ross of ‘The genealogie and pedigree of the most ancient and noble family of the Earles of Sutherland’ by Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, with a few corrections by James Balfour.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.18
Dates:
1631.
Typescript and revised typescript of, and readers` reports on, "The Kingship of the Scots: 842-1292" (2002), by A A M Duncan.
File
Identifier: Acc.12179
Dates:
2002.
Typescript copy of the Inventory of Writs and Title-Deeds relating to the lands of Mount, Cupar, Fife, with genealogical and other notes and four pedigrees by Douglas Hamer, University of Sheffield, based on the original documents.
File
Identifier: MS.1678
Dates:
1714-1745.
Typescript drafts, both much corrected and added to, with parts of a third, of a history of the lower Niger in the nineteenth century; a brief account of the administrations is followed by a detailed postal history.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20327-20332
Scope and Contents
The authors appear from internal evidence to be William W Forsyth and H G Porter, the date of composition the late 1930s.
Dates:
[?1935-?1939.]
Typescripts of "A Historical Review of Scottish Literature" by Tom Scott.
File
Identifier: Acc.12196
Dates:
circa 1965-1975.
Volume of genealogies and poems in the hand of Robert Mylne, engraver, son of the writer and antiquary of the same name (see folio 82), with a few additions by his father.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.24
Scope and Contents
The following dates of writing are given: 15 September 1712 (folio 2), 10 April 1713 (folio 76), 13 November 1712 (folio 80).The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `The Pourtrait of True Loyalty exposed in the Family of Gordon, without interruption to this present year of God, 1691. With a copious relation of the siege of the Castle of Edinburgh in the year 1689. By W.S. An. 1691.` The original manuscript of this work, which was in Blairs College, Aberdeen...
Dates:
1338, circa 1670-1732.