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Three documents concerning electioneering in Scotland in the 1830s.
File
Identifier: Acc.6204
Dates:
circa 1830-circa 1839.
Three letters, 1712, of William Nicolson to Archibald Campbell.
File
Identifier: Acc.5915
Scope and Contents
With notes and fragments mainly of Alexander Jolly.
Dates:
1712 and undated.
Three letters, 1760, of John Dundas.
File
Identifier: Acc.6264
Scope and Contents
Concerning the Casket Letters.
With:
1. plan, 18th century, of the Jacobite line at Culloden
2. bible, 1658, with manuscript genealogical information, 1694-1707, about the family of George Wilsone of Sands.
Dates:
1658-circa 1799.
Three letters or Sir James Clark, physician to Queen Victoria, to Dr Leonhard Schmitz, Rector of the Royal High School, Edinburgh, concerning the education of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (afterwards King Edward VIl), with an explanatory note by the donors.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.5.12
Dates:
1859.
Three manuscripts in which are recorded notes on the Officers of state of Scotland, 1097-1641.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.17-19
Dates:
[?First quarter of 19th century.]
Three manuscripts relating to Field-Marshal George Wade, bound in one volume, apparently that formerly in the Junior United Service Club.
File
Identifier: MS.3076
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Poem by a Scottish author, describing the roads, bridges, etc., built by Wade in the Highlands and referring to the manners and resources of the country, 1737. It is followed by notes on allusions and meanings of words, and preceded by a preface in which the author discusses the difficulty which a Scottish writer finds in composing English poetry. It is quoted by J B Salmond, ‘Wade in Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1938), page 204. (Folio 1.)...
Dates:
1737-1744.
Three photographs of notes of William Drummond, 1st Viscount of Strathallan.
File
Identifier: Acc.3720
Dates:
1668-1670, and undated.
Three series of notes of Captain Edward Henry Columbine, Royal Navy, devoted to Orkney and Shetland, Bergen, Norway and to the mackerel fishery of North Yarmouth.
File
Identifier: Acc.11611
Dates:
1793-1794.
Topographical and other works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.22
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Scotia illustrata sive Theatrum Urbium, Arcium, Monasteriorum et aedium quarundam illustrium in Scotia`, circa 1692. The Latin text by Sibbald intended for John Slezer`s ‘Theatrum Scotiae’. It is very different from the published text which Slezer had had translated without Sibbald`s authority. The preface is in Slezer`s hand, and each entry is signed by both Sibbald and Slezer. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copy of William Harvey`s...
Dates:
Circa 1692-1709, and undated.
‘Topographical Notices of Scotland` collected by Sir Robert Sibbald.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.8
Scope and Contents
The first part of the volume contains topographical and historical notes in the hand of Sir Robert Gordon of Straloch, circa 1640-1650 (folios 1-67, 78-91, 116-162) which were given to Sibbald by Straloch`s son, James, Parson of Rothiemay about 1685.
The remainder of the volume is made up of topographical accounts, circa 1680-1700, sent to Sibbald by a variety of people.
Dates:
Circa 1640-1700.
'Tracts relative to the history and antiquities of Scotland' (Edinburgh, 1800), by David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Item
Identifier: F.R.33
Scope and Contents
Contains catalogues of Lords of Session, with manuscript additions and of Faculty, 1532-1688.
Dates:
1800.
Transcript, 17th century, in the hand of Sir James Balfour, of ‘History of the Picts’ by Henry Maule of Melgum.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.2
Scope and Contents
At the beginning is a note by J. Ruddiman concerning the doubt of the authorship of the book.
Dates:
1764.
Transcript, 18th century, of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’, and other material.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.6
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:Transcript of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’: a copy of Adv.MS.33.3.25 (page 1);‘Addenda ex exemplari Anglico impresso’ (page 41);The ‘Relationes Arnaldi Blair’ copied from Adv.MS.35.6.10 (page 44);‘Addenda alia e chronico Melrosensi impresso’ (page 51);Copies of letters, 1563, of Queen Mary to the Council of Trent in Latin, and to the Cardinal of Lorrain and the Pope in Italian (page 65);...
Dates:
12th century-1683.
Transcript, 1929, of the dedication of ‘Oenone and Paris’, from the unique copy in the possession of Dr Abraham Rosenbach, by J Denham Parsons, with notes.
Item
Identifier: MS.347
Dates:
1594.
Transcript, eighteenth century, of documents illustrating the claim of the English Crown to the overlordship of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: MS.746
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is entitled ‘Instrumentorum quorundam authenticorum exemplaria aliquot ex ipsis archetipis in archivis quod Thesauriariam vocant repositis, transcipta et collecta jussu et mandato ... Edwardi ... Ducis Somerseti ... ex quibus planum fit a tempore Bruti ad nostram pene usque etatem Reges Scocie in fide fuisse Regum Anglie, Regnumque Scocie Reges Anglie tanquam superiores dicti Regni dominos per sacramentum fidelitatis agnouisse. An. MDXLIX collegit Joannes Masonius’.
Dates:
1549.
Transcript in a contemporary hand, of the ‘Autobiography’ of Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk.
File
Identifier: MS.3732
Scope and Contents
This version of the ‘Autobiography’, the same as that found in MS.3462 (folios 1-371), contains also the opening pages which are missing in that manuscript. Included (as far as folio 34 verso) are numerous excerpts from Thomas Carlyle's 'Recollections', some of which were printed for the first time, perhaps from MS.3463, in the form of footnotes in the 1910 edition of the ‘Autobiography’. Thereafter, apart from minor variations in arrangement and the omission of several paragraphs, the text...
Dates:
1765, 1800, 1819.
Transcript made by Ewen MacLachlan of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.3
Scope and Contents
Manuscript in the hand of Ewen MacLachlan, Aberdeen, entitled ‘An t-Easpaig’ - presumably because it contains the work of the Dean of Lismore, whom MacLachlan calls (page 1) “Easpuig Leasmòr”. This is valuable, as being MacLachlan’s original Book of the Dean of Lismore transcript, subsequently (but not always accurately) copied by himself and others. (See Adv.MS.72.3.6). It does not strictly follow the order of the original, but the order in which MacLachlan found it easiest to read the...
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Transcript made by the Reverend Donald Mackintosh, 1803-1806, of the Red Book of Clanranald, written by Niall MacMhuirich.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.7
Scope and Contents
A transcript of National Museum of Scotland MCR 39, pages 33-311, made by the Reverend Donald Mackintosh during 1803-1806 in his capacity of ‘Keeper of the Records and Translator of the Gaelic Languages’ to the Highland Society of Scotland, perhaps for the use of Sir John MacGregor Murray of Lanrick, who was chief of the Clan MacGregor and a prominent number of the Society. Its pasteboard cover is inscribed ‘Extract of Red Book of Clanranald in the Original Gaelic (See page 97, Padraig Caoch...
Dates:
Mid 17th century-early 18th century.
Transcript made by the Reverend Walter MacLeod of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.12
Scope and Contents
Transcript of the Book of the Dean of Lismore (Adv.MS.72.1.37) made in 1897 by the Reverend Walter MacLeod (1864-1935) of Strathkinnes, Fife. Corresponds page for page and line for line to the original. The circumstances of the transcript are described by Donald Mackinnon in a letter to J T Clark, Keeper of the Advocates’ Library, 13 November 1895 (now pages ii-iii) and in a note at folio i verso. The Reverend Walter MacLeod was chosen to make the transcript due to his skill in...
Dates:
1897.
Transcript of Adv.MS.6.2.18: 'Extracts from the manuscripts of Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall', made by Alexander Campbell, the musical writer, for Sir Walter Scott in 1818, with numerous notes in Scott's handwriting.
Item
Identifier: MS.538
Scope and Contents
A note of Alexander Campbell (folio 351) states that the last proof-sheet of the transcript was printed by October 1820. Six leaves are wanting, the first page of the transcript being page 9 of the printed text (page 5 of Adv.MS. 6.2.18).
Dates:
1818.
Transcript of the diaries of Eric Harald Macbeth Robertson.
File
Identifier: Acc.12121
Scope and Contents
Robertson discribes his artwork and other activities, and artistic life in Edinburgh. Includes indexes to the diaries and biographical notes on persons mentioned in the text.
Dates:
1907-1924.
Transcript titled ‘The Gododdin’ by the Reverend John Williams Ab Ithel (1811-1862).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.19
Dates:
[1852, or after.]
Transcription of An Cath Cathardha.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.72.2.27-72.2.28
Scope and Contents
A transcription in 2 volumes of Royal Irish Academy 130 (24 P28) into Roman hand by Dr Donald Smith, then surgeon with the Black Watch at Enniskillen. Royal Irish Academy 130 24 P 28 was written in 1698 by Pádruic Mac Oghannán. Mac Oghannán’s scribal notes are copied at pages 262 and 697.Cross-references to the text in Adv.MS.72.1.46 are to be found in John Smith Junior’s hand at pages 296, 316, 382, 388, 412, 422. The manuscript is described in detail in 1813 by John Campbell in...
Dates:
1698.
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.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.1.1-31.1.6
Scope and Contents
This is part ii of Scott`s transcripts and translations.
Dates:
1560-1668, circa 1774.
Transcripts and translations, 1776-?1781, of ecclesiastical records of Perth, 1241-1732.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.186-194
Dates:
1241-1732.