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`Genealogical Collections, concerning the Sir-name of BAIRD, and the FAMILY`S of AUCHMEDDEN, NEWBYTH, and SAUGHTONHALL in particular. With copy`s of old Letters and Paper`s worth preserving, and account of several Transactions in this Country, during the Two last Centurys. Vol. 1`, by William Baird of Auchmedden.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.12
Scope and Contents
There is a list of contents at page 189.
The volume was originally part (Inv. VIII) of the Rose Collection, Adv.MSS.49.7.1-49.7.20.
Dates:
1770.
Genealogical manuscript titled ‘An Leabhar Muimhneach’ written by Diarmuid Ó Conchubhair.
Item
Identifier: MS.14874
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written in 1709 by Diarmuid Ó Conchubhair (Dermod Connor) for Muiris Ó Sobháin (Maurice Sovane or Savage) in the latter’s house at Ballineedora, parish Ballymacelligot, barony of Trughanacmy, County Kerry. In his preface the scribe craves indulgence for any faults in his work on the grounds that this is his first book, and that he had been pressed into the service of Queen Anne. The names of his patron and of another Sovane, Hugh, have been carefully mutilated wherever...
Dates:
1709.
Genealogical material collected by Sir Robert Douglas, 6th Baronet, of Glenbervie, for his projected ‘Baronage of Scotland’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.21
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes a number of notes by the antiquary James Cummyng. Douglas died in 1770, but the ‘Baronage of Scotland’ was not published until 1798.
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Genealogical material collected by Sir Robert Douglas, 6th Baronet of Glenbervie, some of which was used in his ‘Peerage of Scotland’ and ‘Baronage of Scotland’.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.1.6-20.1.11
Dates:
2nd half of 18th century.
Genealogical papers on the different branches of the Bruce family collected by Major William Bruce Armstrong for his work ‘The Bruces of Airth and their cadets’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15982-15988
Scope and Contents
Most of the material is printed, with annotations by William Brue Armstrong.
Dates:
Mid 19th century-[before 1892.]
Genealogical tree of the Bell family.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.7.2
Scope and Contents
The last entries show the children of the advocate, George Joseph Bell.
Dates:
19th century.
Genealogies of European royalty and nobility.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.24
Scope and Contents
The genealogies appear to have been compiled, partly from printed material, between 1582 and 1587, but have additional material, some of which is in German, up to 1613.
There is a list of contents on folio 111.
Dates:
Late 16th century.
Genealogies of Scottish families.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.14
Scope and Contents
(i) The compilation by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (see Adv.MS.34.3.19). This copy (folio 1) appears to have been made between 1679 and 1684, during which period the Earl of Linlithgow was colonel of the Guards (folio 40). A leaf containing notes by David Sibbald of Kair on the Sibbald families of Balgonie and Kair has been inserted (folio 65), and notes by Sir Robert Sibbald on the family of Boyd have also been added (folio 67 verso).(ii) Copy of part of William Drummond,...
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Genealogies of Scottish families, copied by Robert Mylne.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.8
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The compilation by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (see Adv.MS.34.3.19) copied from a manuscript of 1685 or later, with some additional material taken from ‘The Great historical geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary’ (page 1).(ii) Genealogical material taken partly from Camden, Dugdale and other historians (page 395).(iii) Verses on the death of William, 6th Earl of Douglas (page 480)....
Dates:
1685, or later.
‘Genology of Cunninghame Es. of Glencairne, with the whole cadets of the said familie'.
File
Identifier: MS.3033
Scope and Contents
Pages 9-57 of a seventeenth-century manuscript.
The following branches of the family are represented: Cunningham, Cuninghame, etc., of Belton (folio 11), Barns (folio 11 verso), Glengarnock (folio 12), Drumquhassie (folio 14), Caprington (folio 15), Aiket (folio 17), Cunninghamehead (folio 17), Auchenharvie (folio 19 verso), Craigends (folio 20), Robertland (folio 22), Corsehill (folio 23), Bar (folio 23 verso), and Wattiestoun (folio 24 verso).
Dates:
17th century.
‘Grant manuscript.’
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.2 (1)-(2)
Scope and Contents
The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. III. History” (F.R.186).
Dates:
1494-1593, 17th century.
Lecture notes, 1725, of James A Maxwell, taken at the Catholic College at Douai; with a manuscript genealogy, 19th century, of the Maxwell family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.3872/1-4
Dates:
1725, 19th century.
Letters and papers, 1777-1778, 1795-1804, and undated, sent to the publishers of Sir Robert Douglas`s ‘The Baronage of Scotland’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.6
Scope and Contents
The papers, which accompany the letters, consist of genealogical accounts of several of the landed families of Scotland, and are arranged in alphabetical order. Most of the letters that are addressed to individuals are to James Watson, who is described as `circulating library, stationer and bookseller` in the Edinburgh directories of the time. The genealogies of the families of Johnstone of Gallabank (folio 62) and of Leslie of Findrassie (folio 70) and the pedigree...
Dates:
1777-1804.
Letters to Robert Beatson concerning his proposed work on the English peerage (see Adv.MS.33.5.9).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.10
Scope and Contents
The letters are mainly from a variety of British peers and several include genealogical accounts of their families.
Dates:
1782, 1801-1804.
Manuscript compiled or copied by John Sutherland, "Lineage of Sutherland - Lord Duffus".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7412
Dates:
1827.
Manuscript containing genealogies in Gaelic.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.6
Scope and Contents
First layer (folios 1-6).The first layer contains Uí Néill pedigrees, versions corresponding to many of which may be found in the Book of Ballymote, folios 69-86. See also O’Brien, ‘Corpus genealogiarum Hiberniae’, pages 160-180. The first layer of the manuscript is written in the following hands:1. Text. Chief hand of Adv.MS.72.1.28. Capitals here coloured red.2. Folios 1 verso (‘bro’), 4 verso (‘a’). Large. Cf. Adv.MS.72.1.10, folio 6...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Manuscript containing Irish grammar written by Aodh Ó Dálaigh (Hugo Daly) for Paris Anderson, a student of Trinity College, Dublin.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.5.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is titled (folio 1 recto) ‘£3.0.0. Irish Grammar. 1734. Written by one Daly a Conaught Man for Paris Anderson, A.M.T.C.D. 1734’. The contents (text) are as follows.(i) ‘Aoibhin sin Eire ard’, 5 quatrains. (Folio 2 recto.)(ii) Version of Hugh MacCurtin’s ‘Irish Grammar’, chapters 1-7, beginning “Ablitir na tengan Gaoidhilge ann so sios ar ndiaidh go fóirleathan air gach modh, & gach foirim dar gnáth leis na Gaodhaluibh a scrobhadh. Agas...
Dates:
1734-1735.
Manuscript copy of the English ‘History of the Macdonalds’, ascribed by Donald Gregory to a Hugh Macdonald.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.12
Scope and Contents
The copy (watermarked 1829) is ascribed by Donald Gregory in 1836 (‘History of the western Highlands and Isles of Scotland’, page 10) to a Hugh Macdonald. Hand anonymous, probably that of a clerk. Gregory’s ascription to Hugh Macdonald may result from a misreading of Sir William MacLeod Bannatyne’s preface, in which ‘Austin’ (Hugh) in fact occurs twice although the words ‘Austin being himself’ resemble ‘written by himself’. Gregory had the history copied (watermarked 1827); the only...
Dates:
[1829, or after.]
Manuscript history of the family of Maitland of Eccles, down to 1740.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6049
Dates:
circa 1740-circa 1770.
Manuscript in Gaelic containing short religious, historical and mythological texts.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.5
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text and notes, folios 1 verso-10 verso. A hand of a type more characteristic of medical manuscripts, cf. Adv.MS.72.1.12. Distinctive uncial 'r' and v-shaped 'u'. No decoration save some red on capitals, folios 5-10. From various additions in a similar hand, especially that at folio 6 verso, column b, line 41, it appears as if the scribe returned to annotate his work at a later point in time. Possibly in fact more than one hand:...
Dates:
?15th century.
Manuscript of `A Genealogical Description of the Mathesons an Ancient Clan in Scotland and other Countries`, known as `The Iomaire manuscript`, by Roderick Matheson.
Item
Identifier: Dep.347
Dates:
1824.
Manuscript of Geoffrey Keating’s ‘History of Ireland’ written by the scribe Sémus Ó Gribín.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.11
Scope and Contents
The scribe of the manuscript is Sémus Ó Gribín, who also wrote Royal Irish Academy 24 L 17, Geoffrey Keating’s ‘Eochair-Sgiath an Aifrinn’. He completed the manuscript in March 1696 for Patrick Logan, schoolmaster at Lurgan. Bound in (folios vi-vii) is a letter dated Lurgan, 17th August 1696, from Logan to an unnamed friend, consigning the manuscript to him for scholarly perusal and ultimate delivery to the Advocates Library. It thus became the first of the Advocates’ Gaelic manuscripts....
Dates:
1696.
Manuscript of ‘Historia abbatum monasterii a Kynlos’ by Joannes Ferrerius.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.5B
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) 'Historia Abbatum Cisterciencis familiæ Monasterii de Kynlos, cum aliis plerisque vetustis monumentis, Joanne Ferrerio Petemontano Authore’ etc. 1537 (folio 1);
(ii) Gestorum et totius vite Reverendi in Christo patris domini Thome Chrystalli Abbatis a Kynlos Compendium, a J Ferrerio Conscriptum, 1535 (folio 49).
Dates:
1537.