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Copy made in or about 1690 by James Clapperton, Dalkeith, of the chronicles of the Civil War in Scotland compiled by Henry Guthrie, Bishop of Dunkeld.
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
Correspondence and papers of the artist William Skeoch Cumming (1864-1929) and of his wife Isabella ('Belle') Sutton.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning Gaelic manuscripts.
Donald Smith’s Irish miscellany.
Eight letters and postcards of Agnes Miller Parker to Ernest Rasdall.
With a manuscript list of books illustrated by Miller Parker.
Essay, notes, and extracts from other works, on teinds and other ecclesiastical matters.
Extracts and copies of historical works, collected by Sir James Balfour, 17th century.
Extracts, early 19th century, made from a copy of the Lyon Register belonging to Andrew Plummer of Middle Steed and Sunderland Hall.
There are additions up to 1822 by the copyists David Deuchar, and his son Alexander, the seal-engravers.
The volumes are interleaved with pages engraved with blank shields, some of which have been completed in watercolours or in trick to illustrate the text.
Fair copy of `Diplomatum veterum collectio`, being Richard Augustine Hay`s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh.
The copy was probably begun in 1696 (the date quoted on the title page) and not completed until 1701 or later (34.1.10(iii), folio 294 verso), made apparently by a copyist from the transcripts made by Hay when he was in Scotland between 1686 and 1689.
Final, or fair copies of musical compositions, 1958-1967, by Martin Dalby, many in his autograph, arranged in chronological order.
The compositions are preceded (MS.22142, folio ii) by a typescript list of Martin Dalby's compositions to 1968 with additions in ink to 1969.
Most of the compositions are vocal, being settings of poems or scriptural texts, with or without keyboard accompaniment.
`Foundation of the Universitie of Cambridge with a Catologue of the principall founders and speciall Benefactors of the Colledges publike Schooles and Librarie now extant in ye same. And the names of all the present Mrs and Fellowes ... together with the number of Magistrats Gouernours and Officers ... Collected Julie the 10th 1622`, compiled by John Scott, a notary public, who dedicated it to Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel.
The manuscript includes the painted arms of each college and its founder, and of some of the university officials.
Four or five medical manuscripts of the 14th century, with additions of the 14th and 15th centuries.
The volume has been heavily trimmed, leading to the partial loss of some headings and marginal notes.
Heraldic collection of Sir David Lindsay.
Historical papers formerly belonging to the antiquary Robert Mylne.
‘History of the baronetage of Scotland and Nova Scotia’ by Robert Riddell, advocate (born 1797-died 1862).
History of the see of Durham and its bishops from Aidan to Cuthbert Tunstall (died 1559), `summarily comprisinge such memorable acts and works of Charitie...with sundrie other things worthy of remembraunce, collected out of the auncient and late records of the Cathedrall Church of Durham, and for the most parte translated forth of Latten into English: the first day of August Anno Domini 1603`.
The title `Origo Episcopatus Dunelmensis` bears the date 1616, but the text is followed (folio 25 verso) by lists of bishops up to Richard Neile (1617-1628), deans from 1543 to 1620, and mayors from 1603 to 1627.
Hutton transcripts. A collection of transcripts of the cartularies of Aberdeen Cathedral (Adv.MS.20.3.1) and Newbattle Abbey (Adv.MS.20.3.3) and of charters and other formal documents, many of which are extracts from other cartularies, of and concerning several of the medieval dioceses and religious houses of Scotland.
Most of these transcripts and extracts, which were made between circa 1794 and circa 1824, are in the hand of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton: most of the rest are in the same hand as Adv.MS.9A.1.4. Many of the transcripts were made from originals and copies in possession of William Maule of Panmure, who was created Baron Panmure in 1831: many of the rest were copied from documents in possession of Thomas Thomson and at the Scottish Record Office, General Register House.
'Imago mundi' by Honorius of Autun, 'Speculum regum' by Godfrey of Viterbo, and an anonymous poem 'De laude civitatis Laudae'. A manuscript written in Italy in the late 13th or early 14th century.
Interleaved copy of Sir Arthur Mitchell, "List of Travels, Tours, etc, Relating to Scotland" (from "Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland", XXXV, 1902), with manuscript and typed notes of James McKinlay.
Italian manuscript of Books 1-5 of 'De consolatione philosophiae' by Boethius.
John Sawers` Armorial, containing the arms of the Scottish nobility, mostly painted on engraved outlines.
Journal of Margaret Ramsay, describing her family life in Edinburgh, and as a school-teacher at Fochabers and Whithorn. The contents are largely personal, but mention is made of some current events.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Letter-book containing official copies, in several hands, of correspondence and state papers during the Regency of the Earl of Lennox.
The manuscript covers the period from the murder of the Regent Moray in January 1570 until shortly before Regent Lennox`s death early in September 1571.