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Papers relating to the history of the Faculty of Advocates and the Library.
These were among the papers of John Spittiswoode, Advocate (born 1667, died 1728, Keeper of the Advocates Library 1702-1728) in the library at Spottiswoode, Berwickshire.
Papers relating to the publication of works of Michael Strachan.
Includes correspondence, manuscript drafts, copies and transcripts of 17th-century documents relating to the following works of Michael Strachan: 'The life and adventures of Thomas Coryate' (Oxford University Press, 1962); 'The East India Company journals of Captain William Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 1615-1617' (University of Minnesota Press, 1971); 'Sir Thomas Roe (1581-1644): a life' (Salisbury, 1989).
Part of the manuscript of David Stewart, "Sketches of the Highlanders of Scotland".
Part of the manuscript of `Sketches of the Highlanders of Scotland` by Major-General David Stewart.
Photocopies of corrected manuscripts and proofs of fragments, undated, of Thomas Carlyle, "History of Friedrich II of Prussia".
With a letter, 1839, of Carlyle to James Aitken, and a letter, 1920, of Margaret Carlyle Aitken to Mary Walker.
Photocopy of Edward Gordon of Cairnfield`s manuscript "History of the House of Gordon".
`Proofs of the Subjection of Scotland to the Crowne of England`: a list of events down to 1422.
The manuscript is probably an early 16th-century copy of an older English document.
‘‘Rerum Scoticarum historia’ by George Buchanan (Elzevir, 1668), interleaved and annotated in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
Rolls containing theological, heraldic and historical material.
Short annal by Sir James Balfour of the reigns and lives of James I and James II of Scotland, dedicated to the Lords of State and Parliament.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.7.36.
"The Course of Hannibal over the Alps Ascertained" (London, 1794) by John Whitaker and annotated by Alexander Fraser Tytler.
Includes manuscript [laid in] of "Hannibals [sic] Passage thro` the Alps, According to, Gen[era]l Melville", watermarked 1801-1802 and endorsed by A F Tytler. Not in the hand of General Robert Melville.
`The evill troubles of the Lewes and how the Mackleoid of the Lewes was with his whol trybe destroyed and put from the possesion of the Lewes`, an account of the last anarchic years of the family of Macleod of Lewis, the abortive attempts of a company of adventurers from Fife to colonise the island, and the eventual conquest of the island by Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Lord of Kintail, circa 1540-1626.
The manuscript, probably a contemporary account written circa 1630, is almost identical with the narrative of Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun in his ‘Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland’, pages 267-276, which was written originally circa 1630.
Several lines at the foot of some folios are illegible and a short part of the text is missing between folios 16 and 17. The miscellaneous notes dated 1670 (folio 3) are in a later hand.
`The Historie of Scotland from the year 1660` by Sir George Mackenzie. The only known manuscript, in the hand of a transcriber but with corrections in the hand of Sir George Mackenzie himself.
Topographical and other works.
Two copies, early 17th century, of ‘Historie and Chronicles of Scotland’ by Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie, written circa 1565.
Typescript copy of an unpublished history of Broughton Secondary School, Edinburgh, by John G Sinclair.
‘View of the diocese of Aberdeen’, a volume of historical narrative written by Alexander Keith, episcopal minister at Cruden.
It includes descriptions of the civil parishes, biographies of bishops of the diocese, accounts of the old religious houses, collegiate churches and deaneries and of King`s College and University, parochial histories arranged by presbyteries and transcripts and extracts of documents relating to the history of the see.
Volume containing an account of Leven`s Regiment (which later became the 25th Foot) from 1688, when it was raised by David Leslie, 3rd Earl of Leven, to 1826.
Volume containing four items transcribed by Robert Mylne, the Antiquary, between the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Volume of anonymous historical dissertations.
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.
Volume of historical and literary works, 13th century, written in England in the early 14th century.
Sections iv-vii are in the same hand. Folios 33 verso-34 verso are blank. There are a few pen drawings of faces in the margins.
Fragments of a 13th-century contents list from a collection of sermons have been used as binding strips; other fragments from the same source are in Adv.MS.18.2.4 and 18.4.5.
Wardlaw manuscript: 'Polichronicon, seu Policratica Temporum. Many histories in one, or nearer, the true genealogy of the Frasers', by James Fraser of Phopachy, Minister of Wardlaw (Kirkhill), begun in 1666 and continued at least until 1699.
A letter, 1870, of Francis Harvey, the London bookseller, to Sir William Fraser, Baronet, offering the manuscript for sale, has been pasted in at the end.
Work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical (Adv.MS.34.1.8) and secular (Adv.MSS.34.1.9(i)-34.1.9(ii)) antiquities of Scotland.
The work is in the same hand as, and was begun probably as the consequence to, Hay’s ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio` (Adv.MS.34.1.10) in 1700 (the date quoted on each title page) and completed in 1707 or later (Adv.MS.34.1.9(ii), folio 62).