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Early 17th-century manuscript of copies of various historical and legal papers made for Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington, with material covering the years 1400-1626.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.16
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Scotland in the early 17th century, before 1637, for Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington. The volume consists of copies and extracts of various historical and legal works.The full contents are listed below, primarily taken from Dolezalek's census and the 'Historical Catalogue' record. Any gaps in the foliation refer to blank sheets or sheets used for titles and headings.Extracts of the rental book of the Abbey of Dunfermline. This is printed...
Dates:
Early 17th century, before 1637.
Extracts, 1556, from chartularies of the Archbishopric of Glasgow which were deposited in the Scots College in Paris; followed by a short history, in Scots, of the Hamilton family entitled 'Frier Mark Hamiltonis historie'
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.5
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of transcripts of the chartularies and original charters of the Archbishopric of Glasgow which were deposited in the Scots College in Paris. The material in the manuscript covers the 12th to the 16th centuries.The work is written in one hand and contains frequent additions, erasures, and corrections. The additions to the work, both in the margins and interlineal, are partly in Latin and partly in Scots.As well as charters, the volume contains extracts of...
Dates:
1556
Facsimiles of manuscripts made for students in Falconer Madan's classes in mediaeval palaeography at Oxford, with notes and a few transcripts by Percy Stafford Allen.
File
Identifier: MS.9739
Scope and Contents
There is an inscription by Percy Allen dated 1894 (folio i) and he is known to have attended the classes that year. Photostats of letters of Robert Turberville and Pope Leo X to Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester, 1517, undated, are inserted (folio 38).
Dates:
1517, 1894, undated.
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.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)-(iii)
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1686-1689.
Fragments of at least 7 and perhaps 8 manuscripts on medicine and astrology, some, if not all, English.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.11A-H; (former binding)
Scope and Contents
A and E may be in the same hand and from the same manuscript.
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
`History of the most noble and illustrious family of the Frasers, particularly of the illustrious family of Lovat Chief and head of that numerous Clan`.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.13
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was intended for publication in London, 1749. No author is given.
At the back of the volume are transcripts of `Original papers relating to the foregoing Memoirs` I-XIII, with a brief account of the family of Fraser of Fruid.
Dates:
1749, or before.
Holograph manuscript of Ewen Maclachlan or McLachlan, the Celtic scholar, containing Irish literature.
File
Identifier: MS.3281
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) 'Essay on the Antiquity of Irish Literature', followed by an account of the Irish alphabet and contractions, 1814 (folio 1);(ii) Transcripts of the five stories in Gaelic MS.XXXVIII in the National Library (‘A descriptive catalogue of Gaelic manuscripts in the Advocates' Library’, page 146): 'Oigheadh Gcoinchuloind', "Ar-amach Mhic Con'an aghaidh Airt mhic-Cuinn, Righ Eirionn", 'Oigheadh ChloinneLir', 'Ar-amach Mhic Colgain an aghaidh...
Dates:
1813-1814.
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.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.3.1-20.3.9
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
12th century-1661.
Indexes and transcripts by Robert Mylne, the antiquary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.9
Scope and Contents
Mylne`s pagination and the size of paper show that the volume is composed of seven separate parts: section (i), section (ii), section (iii), sections (iv) and (v), section (vi), sections (vii)-(xiii), section (xiv). None are exactly dated, but (v) must be later than 1705, (xiv) later than 1700; and probably all were compiled in the early 18th century.The contents are as follows:(i) `Ane Alphabeticall Index [A-C only] To the Book of Collections of Notes of Charters...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
‘Inscriptiones quae A.D. 1746 extant in Collegio Graecorum de urbe Roma.` Transcripts, followed (folio 10) by a brief bibliographical note about the College.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.12
Dates:
1746.
‘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.
Lawrence Crawford, "A Brief Recollection of Passages in My Lord of Manchester`s Army", circa 1643, with annotated transcript, circa 1840-circa 1845, of Thomas Carlyle.
File
Identifier: Acc.5002
Dates:
circa 1643, circa 1840-circa 1845.
Letter from the General Council of Basle to the bishops and other councillors of James II of Scotland and related material.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.15.1.26-15.1.26C
Dates:
1442, 1922.
Letters, and typed transcripts of letters, of Mountstuart Elphinstone, mostly to William Erskine, the historian of India.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.28.5.15-28.5.16
Scope and Contents
The letters concern Indian, Turki and Persian literature, philology and geography, with special reference to Erskine`s translation of Bābar`s Memoirs, and Elphinstone`s ‘Account of the Kingdom of Cabul’. There are very few references to current events, but a small number of letters to Elphinstone are included (Adv.MS.28.5.15, folio 183) which concern the administration of justice in India.
Dates:
1811-1834.
Manuscript and typescript copies of poems of Gerald Wooley Watson.
File
Identifier: Acc.10579
Scope and Contents
With notes by the author.
Dates:
1953-1965 and undated.
Manuscript containing poems of William MacMurchy.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.2
Dates:
1748, 1806, undated.
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 Ewen MacLachlan’s ‘Celtic Analysis’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.4
Scope and Contents
A description by Ewen MacLachlan of fourteen manuscripts sent to him by the Highland Society of Scotland for examination. It was remitted to him by the Society in eight instalments between 26 May 1812 and 3 July 1813, and was intended for use in the compilation of the Society’s Dictionary. Pages 1-152 were therefore forwarded by the society to the Reverend Dr John MacLeod (MacLachlan’s co-adjutor on the Dictionary) on 3 June 1813. On this occasion the five instalments making up pages 1-120...
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Manuscript of 'The Gododdin' by William Owen Pughe, with facing English translation, and other papers.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.18
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written during 1784-1785 (see pages iii, 198) by William Owen Pughe (1759-1835), co-editor of ‘The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales’. For further transcripts of the work in his hand see the following National Library of Wales manuscripts: 13240 B; 21281 E, page 231, column a; Erfyl Fychan papers.The contents are as follows.(i) Line from an ‘awdl’ ascribed to Casnodyn: ‘Cyn glas ved cyn glassu vyggran’. ‘The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales’, volume 1,...
Dates:
1784-1785.
Manuscript shorthand transcription of Isaac Watts, "Horae Lyricae".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7081
Dates:
1818.
Manuscript works of Robert Purves Hardie concerning early British naval history, with transcripts, notes and maps.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5293-5307
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Manuscripts and transcripts, in an unidentified hand, of 13 Scots Border songs.
File
Identifier: Acc.4718
Dates:
early 20th century.
Manuscripts and typescripts of, and notes for, historical and literary works, speeches, and broadcasts, together with correspondence, of Agnes Mure Mackenzie, Commander of the British Empire, Master of Arts, Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Laws (1891-1955).
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.9172-9225
Dates:
1896-1959, undated.
Manuscripts and typescripts of eight poems by Trevor Morrison.
File
Identifier: Acc.11735
Dates:
1999.
Manuscripts collected by Walter Biggar Blaikie, Doctor of Laws, editor of volumes concerning Jacobitism in the publications of the Scottish History Society, etc.
Series
Identifier: MSS.278-318
Dates:
18th century-19th century.