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Genealogical and other material collected by William Camden, the antiquary.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.36
Scope and Contents
The title of the first item, `The nobilitie of Scotland ... 1606`, and some of the addenda to the genealogical tables are probably in Camden`s hand.The contents include:Genealogical trees of the royal and noble houses of Scotland, with some coats of arms drawn in trick, and additions to 1620 (folios 3, 34, 47).`The generall state of ye Scottish Commonwealth with ye causes of theire often mutinies and ther discords` (folio 38).`A Booke of...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Genealogies, notes, formal documents and other papers of and concerning the Elphinstone family of Lopness.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.8924/1-45
Dates:
1511-1951, undated.
Glenmasan manuscript (Ulster cycle).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.3
Scope and Contents
It may be said in summary that the manuscript appears to be a product of a school conducted by An Giolla Riabhach Ó Cléirigh and Dubhthach Ó Duibhgeannáin, and that it circulated for a hundred years and more in Cowall. The Reverend William Campbell’s formalised note at page ii, giving the place Glenmasan and the date 1268, has provided the name by which it is generally known. In view of the difficulty Campbell experienced in the 1760s or 1770s in writing the date at page 29, one is entitled...
Dates:
ca. 1500.
`Histoire de Frere Roger et de sa compagnie, tirée de l`ancienne chronique de l`illustre conquerant Dom Jaques I roi d`Aragon, écrite par Raimond Muntaner, et traduite au pié de la lettre par I.M. A Neufchatel en Suisse. MDCCLV`. A translation of part of the 14th-century Catalan chronicle of Ramon Muntaner.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.10
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists of chapters 194-243 of the chronicle, which recount the life of the Italian mercenary soldier, Roger de Flor, and his campaign in Asia Minor.The manuscript appears to have been intended for publication, and has numerous marginal notes. In a preface to the reader (folio iii), the translator states that his patron was `Milord Keith`, probably the Earl Marischal who became Governor of Neufchâtel in 1752. Keith`s name has been inserted over another name,...
Dates:
14th century.
‘History of the Kirk of Scotland after the Reformation’, covering the period from the Parliament of August 1560, to that of June 1633, in a seventeenth-century hand.
Item
Identifier: MS.3926
Scope and Contents
A note in an eighteenth-century hand (folio 1) suggests this is a manuscript copy of David Calderwood, ‘The true history of the Church of Scotland’, 1678; but, although there are striking textual similarities at various places, the text is by no means the same, and begins and ends at later dates. As many of the documents quoted in full by Calderwood are omitted, this may be an abridgement and continuation of Calderwood's work.
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Incomplete copy of a descriptive and historical account of the public records of Scotland, followed (folio 14 verso) by observations, possibly unfinished, on the account.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.15
Scope and Contents
Further versions of the account, both datable to 1760, each complementing the other, are at Adv.MS.16.2.14 and Adv.MS.33.5.6, which former is ascribed by a later owner, James Maidment, to William Tytler. In comparison with Adv.MS.33.5.6, which appears to be William Tytler`s original report, this copy lacks words and sentences at folio 6 verso, and a paragraph at each of folio 1 verso and folio 13 verso and breaks off at folio 14, where there is the beginning of a paragraph not present in...
Dates:
1760, or after.
Incomplete copy of an apparently rejected version, entitled `The King, and Parliament`, of Chapter II of Volume II of ‘Caledonia’ by George Chalmers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.2.10
Scope and Contents
The text is printed on paper watermarked 1807, and contains many additions and corrections in the margins and on slips of paper pasted in, in his hand and in the hand of his nephew James Chalmers. The chapter as originally printed apparently consisted of a total of 64 pages in 8 gatherings, containing not more than 8 pages of introductory matter (gathering A, pages i-?viii) and not more than 56 pages of text, with footnotes (gatherings B to H, pages 1-?56); this copy lacks gatherings A, G...
Dates:
?1807-?1819.
‘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.
Manuscript and typescript working papers of Prof Archibald A M Duncan for his books: "Scotland: the Making of the Kingdom" (1975), the third edition of W C Dickinson, "Scotland from the Earliest Times to 1603" (1977) and "The Acts of Robert I, King of Scots, 1306-1329" (1986).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10576
Dates:
circa 1970-1986.
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 entitled "Collections towards a history of tolbooths, bridewells and prisons in Edinburgh", compiled by John A Fairley.
File
Identifier: Acc.12721
Scope and Contents
Includes related printed papers, and historical notes by Fairley on this and other topics of Edinburgh history and biography.
Dates:
circa 1900.
Manuscript in the author`s hand (according to a pencil note by Cosmo Innes at folio i) of ‘The History of the Province of Moray’, by Lachlan Shaw, Minister of Elgin.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.3
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is not dated, but from internal evidence it would appear to have been written in or about 1757 (folio 251, ordination of Harry Gordon in 1757; folio 235, death of Robert Milne in 1758 not recorded).
Dates:
Circa 1757.
Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.27
Scope and Contents
It was originally Ferguson`s intention to print Dutch text and English translation of all Dutch documents quoted, but this scheme had to be abandoned for reasons of space, and only the English translations were ultimately printed (Volume I, page xxxiii). Before this change of plan, the Dutch texts had been inserted into the appropriate places of the manuscript of Volume I and part of Volume II; the rest are preserved separately, Adv.MSS.81.3.15-81.3.23.Summaries and extracts of...
Dates:
1698-1901.
Manuscript of the ‘Historia Ecclesiastica’ by Bede, probably from Exeter Cathedral.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the prologue (folio 1) and five books (folios 2, 23, 39 verso , 60, 79), each with a list of chapters at the beginning. The text is of the c-type and of the D branch of that (see ‘Opera Historica’, volume 1, pages xciii-xcv, civ-cix, and ‘Ecclesiastical History of the English People’, page 1).A few headings are in red. Initials for the preface and books are in red and blue with red tracery, those for chapters are alternately blue and red with tracery of...
Dates:
14th century.
Manuscripts and typescripts of notes and articles of Iain F Anderson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5768
Scope and Contents
Concerning Scottish history and topography.
Dates:
circa 1949-circa 1956.
Material on Scottish history intended to be read in conjunction with ‘Abridgement or Summarie of the Scots Chronicles’ by John Monipennie.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.25
Scope and Contents
The author, who was writing between 1612 and 1625, made use of the histories by John Major, Boece and Holinshed. The later entries, from the 15th century onwards, become progressively lengthier until the text breaks off in November 1585.The text is followed by an index of the kings of Scotland, and a general index. Both contain page references to the manuscript (indicated by the letter u or by numbers above 72) and to Monipennie`s published text. The author`s own copy of the...
Dates:
1612-1625.
Material on the early history of Scotland by Sir Robert Sibbald.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.26
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Caledonia sive Scotia Antiqua et Recentior`, 1680 (folio 1). According to the preface, Sibbald intended this to be a work in four books, but it breaks off after the beginning of the second. The contents do not correspond with those of `Caledonia` described by Sibbald in ‘An Account of the writers antient and modern’, pages 9-11, which refers to Adv.MS.15.1.2, folios 3-14.(ii) `Corn: Taciti Britannia`, 1687-1688 (folio...
Dates:
1680-1698.
Microfilm of 11th and 12th century manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.350
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript of the late 11th and early 12th century containing: the 'Paradisus' of Heraclides; the 'Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae temper Wandalorum' of Victor Vitensis; 'De corpore et sanguine Domini' of Paschasius Radbertus (attributed to Rabanus Maurus); 'De corpore Domini contra Berengarium' of Guitmund; and two sermons of St Augustine of Hippo (Adv.MS.18.4.3);Medical manuscript, 1st half of 12th century, written in South France or...
Dates:
Late 11th century-1st half of 12th century.
Microfilm of 14th century copy of the ‘Historia Anglorum’ of Henry of Huntingdon, 12th century; and, late 14th century manuscript of the ‘Chronicle’ of Walter of Guisborough.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.454
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
English manuscript, 14th century, of the ‘Historia Anglorum’ of Henry of Huntingdon, 12th century (Adv.MS.33.5.2);
Manuscript written in England in the late 14th century by several hands of the ‘Chronicle’ of Walter of Guisborough (Adv.MS.33.5.3).
Dates:
12th century, late 14th century.
Microfilm of English manuscript, probably from Exeter Cathedral, of the ‘Historia Ecclesiastica’ by Bede.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2066
Dates:
14th century.
Microfilm of genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.33
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Genealogical notes, [circa 1800], on ancient Scottish families compiled by, and partly in the hand of, George Chalmers. (Adv.MS.16.2.29);Three versions (the third incomplete) of a memorandum, 1826, on the genealogy of the family of Buchanan (Adv.MS.26.2.1);Copy, 18th century, of ‘Ane Account of the Origine and Succession of the Familie of Innes’ by Duncan Forbes of Culloden, 1698; and a treatise on the patronage of schools and churches,...
Dates:
1698-1826.
Microfilm of miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.304
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Microfilm of miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.870
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Microfilm of page proofs of volume I of ‘The history of Scotland’ by Sir Walter Scott, with extensive additions and corrections by Scott.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1151
Dates:
1829.
Microfilm of three Gaelic manuscripts of religious and medical texts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.666
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘1467 MS.’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín, [circa 1425, circa 1467], (Adv.MS.72.1.1);
Manuscript, 16th century-17th century, containing a medical compendium, in Gaelic, asembled by the Mull Beatons (Adv.MS.72.1.2);
‘Materia medica’, 15th century, formerly belonging to the Beaton family of physicians (Adv.MS.72.1.3).
Dates:
15th century-17th century.