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‘Short History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland, England Ireland and of The Wars carried on By King Charles the first in these Three Kingdoms during his Reign’.
“Sibbald’s historical collections”, in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
The contents are as follows: (i) Memoirs for writing of the History of Scotland from the Records now extant; (ii) An account of Scotch Records carried into England; (iii) An account of source Manuscript Scotch Histories kept in France, Italy and Germany; (iv) Upon the ancient League between France and Scotland; (v) The History of Scotland during the reign of James I of Scotland.
Sound recordings from the Linda MacKenney Audio Collection, Scottish Theatre Archive, of interviews by MacKenney with people prominent in Scottish theatre during the 1930s and 1940s.
A collection of interviews recorded by Linda MacKenney mostly in Scotland, but also the wider United Kingdom, between 1982 and 1985.
The collection focuses on people connected with Scottish theatre during the 1930s and 1940s. It also focuses on the creation and disbandment of important amateur theatre groups in Glasgow around the time of the Second World War, and the political climate of Scotland at that time.
Sound recordings of interviews conducted by J Roy Hay and John MacLauchlan with individuals who were involved in the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) 'work-in' between 1971-1972.
Sound recordings of interviews conducted by Professor Robert Silver with students from across the Soviet Union concerning their experiences of higher education.
Sound recordings of the BBC Scotland radio series, 'Almost forgotten'.
'Succinct account of the family of Calder 1773', being a history of the family of the Thanes of Calder or Cawdor and later of the Campbells of Cawdor down to the death in 1773 of Alexander, third son of John Campbell, 10th of Cawdor.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Testimonials and other notices, 1837, concerning the election of David Laing as Librarian of the Signet Library.
With two annontated copies (one a proof), 1890, of "History of the Society of Writers to... [the] Signet".
The Chronicle of Fortingall, a 16th-century manuscript written in Highland Perthshire, Scotland.
"The Course of Hannibal over the Alps Ascertained" (London, 1794) by John Whitaker and annotated by Alexander Fraser Tytler.
Includes manuscript [laid in] of "Hannibals [sic] Passage thro` the Alps, According to, Gen[era]l Melville", watermarked 1801-1802 and endorsed by A F Tytler. Not in the hand of General Robert Melville.
`The evill troubles of the Lewes and how the Mackleoid of the Lewes was with his whol trybe destroyed and put from the possesion of the Lewes`, an account of the last anarchic years of the family of Macleod of Lewis, the abortive attempts of a company of adventurers from Fife to colonise the island, and the eventual conquest of the island by Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Lord of Kintail, circa 1540-1626.
The manuscript, probably a contemporary account written circa 1630, is almost identical with the narrative of Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun in his ‘Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland’, pages 267-276, which was written originally circa 1630.
Several lines at the foot of some folios are illegible and a short part of the text is missing between folios 16 and 17. The miscellaneous notes dated 1670 (folio 3) are in a later hand.
"The Forres Affair: the Rector and the School Board".
A study of an educational dispute in Forres, 1888, and the career of David M J James.
`The Historie of Scotland from the year 1660` by Sir George Mackenzie. The only known manuscript, in the hand of a transcriber but with corrections in the hand of Sir George Mackenzie himself.
‘The Ogilvies of Boyne’ by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (Aberdeen, 1933), containing inserts; with further letters and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.
Topographical and other works.
Traditional tales and legends of Lanarkshire.
Comprising:
1. "Scottish Legends of the Days of Wallace and Bruce"
2. "A Tale of Flodden Field; Arming of the Craftsmen of Lanark, 1513"
3. "Traditionary Tales and Legends of Lanark".
Transcript, 17th century, in the hand of Sir James Balfour, of ‘History of the Picts’ by Henry Maule of Melgum.
At the beginning is a note by J. Ruddiman concerning the doubt of the authorship of the book.
Transcript, late 17th-18th century, of ‘History of Scotland during the reigns of the five Jameses’ by William Drummond of Hawthornden.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.V.5.36.
Transcript, late 17th-mid 19th century, of ‘History of the Church of Scotland’ by David Calderwood, 1st half of 17th century, from the commencement of the reign of James V to the death of James VI.
Volumes 4-10 are a transcript by the Reverend Mr James Inglis from the manuscript of David Calderwood, at that time the property of the Church of Scotland. The remainder are in a uniform hand of the end of the 17th or beginning of the following century.
This work is not only valuable as a history, but, as containing a great number of important state papers, which are not to be found elsewhere.
Transcript of ‘Memorialls of the Trubles in Scotland, 1624 to 1645’, by the historian, John Spalding.
The work, which was left incomplete, is a record of the current events of the time, beginning with the feud between Clanchattan and the Earl of Moray and terminating with the exploits, in 1645, of General William Baillie against Montrose.
Transcripts, 18th century, of eight letters, 1590-1600 and undated, of King James I to Sir Robert Mure, of Caldwell.
With a document, "The Bride of Lammermuir", containing a narrative of the original marriage of Janet Dalrymple on which Sir Walter Scott based his tale.
Transcripts, 1774-?1788, of ecclesiastical records of Perth, 1560-1668, made by the Reverend James Scott, minister of the East Church, Perth, and a copy in his possession, 1784, of the ‘History of the united Parishes of Monivaird and Strowan’ compiled, circa 1774, by James Porteous of Dalvich, Minister of Monzievaird and Strowan.
This is part ii of Scott`s transcripts and translations.
Transcripts, late 18th century (the paper of Adv.MS.22.2.5 being watermarked 1798), made for George Chalmers, the antiquary, of Thomas Innes`s ‘Civil and Ecclesiastical History of Scotland, from A.D 80 – A.D. 818’.
The hand appears to be that of George Chalmers’s nephew, James Chalmers.