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Copy, late 17th century, of `A Discourse concerning the three Unions of Scotland and England`, written circa 1670 and apparently unpublished.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.13
Dates:
Circa 1670.
Copy, late 17th century, of a treatise on sea laws by Alexander King, Judge Admiral of Scotland, circa 1590, entitled `Tractatus Legum et Consuetudinum Navalium quae apud omnes fere Gentes in usu habentur; Omnia Nautica et quaecumque ex causis marinis in judicium veniunt succincte definiens in certos Titulos ... methodice distinctos. Authore Alexandro Regio`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.4.7
Scope and Contents
The last Titulus (`De Piratis`) is in Scots, as is the appendix on `The forme and Maner of holding of Courts of Admiralitie and processe led befoir Them` which follows.
Dates:
Circa 1590.
Copy, late 17th century, of `De jure prelationis Nobilium scotie or A Memoriall of the evidents and writs produced ... before the Comissioners ... anent the precedency and prioritie of dignitie [1606]`, incorporating additional information up to 1667.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.6
Scope and Contents
The text is followed by a list of titles of the nobility and other related material (folio 34 verso), and verses and notes on the history of Aberdeen (folio 45). An 18th-century hand has added a list of dates of the patents of Scottish nobles (folio 52).
Dates:
1606-1667.
Copy, late 17th century, of part I of Samuel Colvil`s ‘Mock poem, or Whiggs supplication’ (London, 1681).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.9
Scope and Contents
There were several editions of the poem, of which the preface to the first was signed S.C. In this manuscript, a later hand has added the full name to the initials. The manuscript shows a number of variations from the printed text, including some omissions and additions.
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Copy, late 17th-century, of the chronicle of the Civil War in Scotland compiled by Henry Guthrie, Bishop of Dunkeld, 1644-1676.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.9
Scope and Contents
The text of this manuscript (but not the division into paragraphs) is the same as that common to the other copies in this Library, agreeing with them against the printed book in some small omissions and additions, and numerous variants in vocabulary, spelling and word-order. Some of the words of the title, and the opening words or phrases of many of the paragraphs have been written in red, and most of the pages have been ruled in green.On page 190 is an unidentified memorandum in...
Dates:
1644-1676.
Copy, late 17th century to 18th century, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, ‘Minor Practicks’ by Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.3A
Scope and Contents
A collection of decisions and law notes.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (a.3.20).
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Copy, late 17th or early 18th century, of the memoirs of James Fraser of Brea, minister of Culross.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.11
Scope and Contents
This copy begins with the author`s preface, omitting the letter of dedication to Thomas Ross, and breaks off at the end of chapter 8. It contains a small amount of biographical material which does not appear in the published version.
The name William Lindsay, Letham, Dunnichen, appears on folio 1.
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Copy, late 18th century, of a Solemn League and Covenant, 1666, apparently signed at Rullion Green.
Item
Identifier: Ch.2519
Dates:
1666.
Copy, late 18th century, of `Nockrar óreglulegar reglur` by Eggert Ólafsson, and `Grammatica Islandica` by Jón Magnússon, 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.7.18
Dates:
18th century.
Copy, late seventeenth century-eighteenth century, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, ‘Major Practicks’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.10
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Copy, late seventeenth century, of Sir Thomas Nicolson of Carnock, ‘Practicks’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.3
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Copy letter, 1986, of Margaret Tait, together with copies of letters, 1863 and 1897, of her grand-uncle, William Archer Porter, and her father, John Guthrie Tait.
File
Identifier: Acc.10621
Scope and Contents
Letters concern Indian matters.
Dates:
1863-1897.
Copy letter of Robert F Fairlie to Mountstuart E Grant Duff, Under Secretary of State for India.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10255
Dates:
1870.
Copy, made apparently in 1729, of ‘the most material passages’ of ‘Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum’ by Thomas Dempster (Bononiae, 1627).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.22
Scope and Contents
Almost all the entries in the printed book have been summarized in the manuscript, which also contains details not recorded in the printed book; many of the entries are partly in English. A later and more detailed entry on Robert Bodie has been written (in English) in the same hand on a small sheet of paper (folio 32) tipped into the volume. The frequent unintentional omissions made in the copying of the manu¬script have been supplied in the same hand in the margins. The dates 2...
Dates:
1627.
Copy, made apparently in or about 1704 by Thomas Ruddiman, Keeper of the Advocates` Library, of (i) a letter written by James V in 1528 to the authorities of the town of Ratisbon (now Regensburg) in favour of the Scots monks there (folio i); and (ii) the preface, entitled `Praefatio, sive Velitatio in Irlandos`, of the `Germania Christiana` of Robert (in religion, Boniface) Strachan, Benedictine monk at Ratisbon (folio 1, where his name is wrongly recorded as Bonaventure).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.6
Dates:
1528, 17th century.
Copy made by Alexander MacLaurin of the unpublished portion of Alexander Robertson’s Gaelic-English dictionary (Adv.MSS.73.3.16-73.3.21).
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.19-72.2.21
Dates:
1806-1807.
Copy, made by Andrew Cook, of ‘Germania Christiana’ by Robert (in religion, Boniface) Strachan, Benedictine monk at Ratisbon.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.20
Scope and Contents
This copy was made by Andrew Cook, a fellow monk, in or before 1684, when, according to the inscription at folio 1, it was sent as a present by the Abbot, Placid Fleming, to Christopher Irvine, physician and philologist. The work was intended by Strachan as volume 1 of a work in two volumes (see Adv.MS.17.1.9, folio 225, his letter to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet, in 1641), but no more was ever written, nor was this part published.The pagination of this manuscript, which is...
Dates:
1684, or before.
Copy made by Thomas (Dom Placid) Fleming, Abbot of Ratisbon, of papers in the dispute between the Irish and the Scottish benedictines over the rightful ownership of the former Irish monasteries in Germany, and particularly that of St. James, Ratisbon.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.7.1
Scope and Contents
The papers copied are:(i) the supplication for the return of the monasteries made on behalf of the Irish benedictines by Dom Columbanus Duffy, Prior of St. John`s, Waterford, with a list of questions for the Scottish benedictines to reply to (folio 2); (ii) excerpts from documentary and printed sources referred to in the supplication (folio 7); (iii) Fleming`s notes, with additional observations, on all the foregoing (folio 26); (iv) his reply...
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Copy, made in 1702, of letters and memoirs of Major-General Hugh Mackay of Scoury (?1640-1692), concerning the campaigns in Scotland in 1689-1690, and in Ireland in 1691.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.1
Dates:
1689, and after.
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.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.23
Scope and Contents
The text of this manuscript is the same as that common to the other copies in this Library, agreeing with them against the printed book in some small omissions and additions, and numerous variants in vocabulary, spelling and word order. In addition to the text, the manuscript contains: summaries (in red) in the margins of most of the pages; at page i, a table of contents (as far as page 105 only); at page 161, a list of Royalist supporters executed in England during the Commonwealth period;...
Dates:
Circa 1690.
Copy, made in the second half of the sixteenth century, of the Hamilton Armorial.
File
Identifier: MS.10337
Scope and Contents
The outline of the shields and mantling have been painted over traced copies, and rather crude crests and supporters added. Following the armorial bearings are remarks (folio 87 verso) on surnames and forfeited arms (cf. Adv.MS.31.4.3, folios 110 and 53). These are followed (folio 89) by notes on Scottish noble families and the contemporary holders of the titles. They may be English in origin and were added after 1588 since they mention the marriage of the Earl of Huntly. There is a note...
Dates:
[?1561-?1564.]
Copy, mid-17th century-18th century, of Sir George Auchinleck, Lord Balmanno, ‘Practicks’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.9
Scope and Contents
Imperfect at the end.
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Copy of a letter of Mrs Anne Grant of Laggan, inserted in volume i of the first edition of her ‘Letters from the mountains’.
Item
Identifier: MS.5842
Scope and Contents
The letter, a reply to some well-wishers seeking to help Mrs Anne Grant, describes the financial difficulties which led her to print the 'Letters from the mountains'.
According to a note on the flyleaf of the volume, the copy was made by Harriet, 2nd wife of the 6th Marquess of Lothian.
Dates:
1806.
Copy of a letter of Robert B Armstrong to Sir Walter Elliot of Wolfelee.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8993
Scope and Contents
Concerning Sir William Fraser.
Dates:
1880.