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Register of assignations of stipends, arranged geographically, of ministers in Scotland (folio 5), preceded by a list of prices of victuals assigned to ministers in different parts of the country (folio 1), and followed by a copy of a letter, 1575, of the Regent Morton to Lord Boyd concerning a vacant benefice in Orkney (folio 82 verso).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.4
Dates:
1574-1575.
Register of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, written, circa 1537, by John Lambert, prebendary of the Chapel.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.5
Scope and Contents
The register contains copies of papal bulls and other documents concerning the Chapel, dated from 1501 to 1537. The text is all in Lambert`s hand, except for folios 41-42, and there are large calligraphic initials. Each folio is signed by James Primrose, clerk to the Privy Council; this was probably done in 1621 when the Register and other documents of the Chapel Royal were put into his keeping for transfer to the Bishop of Dunblane (see ‘Register of the Privy Council...
Dates:
1501-1537.
Related material inserted in ‘Our Journall into Scotland, Anno Domini 1629, 5th of November’ by Christopher Lowther (Edinburgh, 1894).
File
Identifier: MS.20755
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Photographs of the original manuscript (folio 1, 2, 5, 6);
(ii) Letters, 1894, 1918, to the publisher, David Douglas, about the edition (folios 3, 7, 10, 18-48);
(iii) A copy with manuscript corrections of pages 73-88 of the ‘Thirteenth report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission’, Appendix, Part VII (London, 1893) (the first publication of Lowther's journal) (folio 11);
(iv) Press cuttings, 1894, containing reviews of the book (folio 50);
(v) A...
Dates:
[1893, or after]-1918.
“Relation de ce qui s’est passé de plus considerable dans les mouvemens de citoyens et bourgeois de Geneve l’anneé 1707 par Michel Covelle Regent de la neuviéme classe.”
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.5
Dates:
1707-1730.
Religious commonplace book, of the Napier family, containing, "A copy of some familiar letters which passed between intimate friends, as they were written from the originall's for the transcriber's private use".
Item
Identifier: MS.3008
Scope and Contents
The items are numbered, and there is a list of contents at the beginning and end.Most of the letters, which cover the period 1721-1781, with a few of 1707, are addressed by Archibald Napier of Bowhopple, Minister of Kilmadock, the transcriber's grandfather (see number 61), and his son, Thomas Napier of Greenhill, watchmaker in Glasgow, to Archibald Napier, apothecary in Edinburgh, and other members of the family. There are also copies of letters of other writers, hymns, sermons,...
Dates:
1707, 1721-1781.
‘Reports of ministers’, contemporary copies of answers of ministers to queries of a committee of the General Assembly concerning the augmentation of ministers’ stipends.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.7
Dates:
1749-1750.
Reproduction, 1924, of the 'Liber Pontificalis', 3rd quarter of 12th century, of Glasgow Cathedral.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.54.1.27
Dates:
3rd quarter of 12th century.
Research papers and indexes relating to organs and organ music in Scotland and elsewhere, compiled by Colonel Godfrey I B Winn.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.361
Dates:
20th century.
Rolls containing theological, heraldic and historical material.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(i)-(vi)
Dates:
13th century-17th century.
Rubricated copy of ‘Compendium sive Breviarium Primi Voluminis Annalium seu Historiarum’ by Johann Tritheim (Moguntiacum, 1515), containing a few insignificant corrections, but no additions to the text.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.1
Scope and Contents
Bound in at the back of the volume are copies, written in an early 16th-century hand of German provenance, of the following:(i) The Bulla Aurea of the Emperor Charles IV promulgated in 1356 (folio 1). The text appears to be almost exactly the same as that published in ‘H.G. Thulemarii de Bulla Aurea, Argentea, Plumbea et Cerea in genere nec non in specie de Aurea Bulla Caroli IV Imp. Tractatio’.(ii) The Concordat of Vienna, concluded between the Emperor Frederick III...
Dates:
1503-1515.
Saint Andrews Priory. 'Registrum Chartarum Prioratus Sancti Andreae Impensis Walteri Macfarlane de Eodem Ex Apographo Transcriptum. MDCCLI', copied by Macfarlane's later copyist from a copy of the chartulary then at Panmure.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.3A
Dates:
1751.
Scribal copy of letter, 1643, of Oliver Cromwell to Lawrence Crawford
File
Identifier: Acc.5003
Scope and Contents
With annotated transcript and notes, circa 1840-circa 1845, of Thomas Carlyle.
Dates:
1643-circa 1845
Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.28.1.2-28.1.7
Dates:
1705-1773.
Seven duplicate plans of government and private properties in Scottish towns.
File
Identifier: Acc.3625
Scope and Contents
Includes the following:Number 1 ABERDEEN - Proposed extension of piers, circa 1868Number 2 AYR - Sketch plan of barracks property and coal works, 1821Numbers 3-8 transferred to Map LibraryNumber 9 EDINBURGH - Mr Brown's property in Argyle Square, 1861Number 10 transferred to Map LibraryNumber 11 EDINBURGH - Properties formerly on site occupied by the Law Courts, with reference to feu duties claimed by the City of...
Dates:
19th century.
Seven letters of John Claudius Loudon to John Milne, Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Acc.10709
Scope and Contents
On subjects connected with architecture, gardening, natural history and publishing in these fields.
Together with copy letter, 1832, of Milne to Loudon, and an annotated prospectus for Loudon`s "Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture" (1832).
Dates:
1829-1832.
Single letters 1906, 1908, of Joseph and Else Joachim, and a photograph (with a reduced copy) of Joseph Joachim, 1903.
File
Identifier: MS.22163
Dates:
1903-1908.
Single letters and papers.
File
Identifier: MS.2521
Scope and Contents
The papers include: letters, 1795, 1810, of Sir Alexander Boswell, containing original humorous verse; copy of a list, 1849, made by Cockburn, giving the authorship of articles in the 'Edinburgh Review'; contemporary copy of a speech, ?1617, delivered by James I and VI in Edinburgh (parts being given in summary); letter, 1807, of Sir James Bland Burges (afterwards Lamb) on Sir Walter Scott's literary profits; letter, 1808, of Sir James Mackintosh dealing with Indian affairs; letter, 1830,...
Dates:
?1617-1849.
Single letters and papers chiefly of the nineteenth century, with a few of the eighteenth century.
File
Identifier: MS.1810
Dates:
1736-1893, 1903, undated.
Single manuscripts and small collections.
Series
Identifier: MS.2617
Dates:
1577-early 20th century.
Single manuscripts and small collections, presented at various times.
File
Identifier: MS.2224
Dates:
1652-1928, undated.
Small collections and single letters presented by various donors.
Series
Identifier: MS.5406
Dates:
1810-1897.
Small collections of correspondence and papers of and to members of the Haldane family.
Series
Identifier: MS.20260 (Part 1)-(Part 2)
Dates:
[Circa 1735]-1948, undated.
Small collections of correspondence, with some papers, chiefly of J B S Haldane.
Series
Identifier: MS.20655
Dates:
1912-1936, undated.