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‘Breviary of the Decisions of the Lords of Session ... and of the Acts of Sederunt, from June, 1661, to July, 1681, observed by Sir James Dalrymple of Stair.’
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.1
Scope and Contents
The Acts of Sederunt, 1661-1681, as in the printed ‘Decisions of the Lords of council and session’, are followed by a summary of Decisions arranged alphabetically according to subject. The text is apparently copied from an incomplete manuscript.At the end, inverted, is a copy of ‘Instructions and rules ... to the Commissaries, clerks, procurators fiscalls, and other members of the court of the whole ecclesiasticall jurisdiction,’ forwarded under cover of a Royal letter dated...
Dates:
1661-1681.
Cistercian rules, copied by Alexander Scot, monk of the Cistercian Abbey of Newbattle.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.1
Scope and Contents
(i) 'Liber antiquarum definitionum', i-iv, omitting ii.1-2 ('Nomasticon Cisterciense', pages 367-400). Section i is the 'Carta caritatis', the original rule of the order (folio 1).(ii) 'Constitutio Benedicti Papae XII' ('Nomasticon Cisterciense', pages 473-495; different numbering of chapters), with an index prefixed (folio 19).(iii) 'Liber antiquarum definitionum', ii.1-2, iii-xiii, omitting iii.2 and xii.1 ('Nomasticon Cisterciense', pages 376-378, 395-457) (folio...
Dates:
1523.
"Collection of rules for Navigation selected principally for the pupils attending Mr Crawford's school in Leith. 1817."
Item
Identifier: MS.9354
Scope and Contents
A copy of J G Crawford's rules, probably by Captain Henry Harper, who served his apprenticeship from 1832 to 1837. It is followed (folio 46 verso) by miscellaneous rules, mathematical calculations, and notes chiefly concerned with the measuring of cargoes for revenue purposes. There are also brief notes on Harper's career (folio 50) and on that of an official in the customs, 1848-1850 (folio 71).
Dates:
1817.
Copies, 18th century, of the Standing Orders of the House of Lords.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.28.7.1-28.7.2
Dates:
1641, 1721, and before.
Copy, 18th century, of the Standing Orders of the House of Lords, 1763, and before.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.5
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains numbers 1-127 of the Orders. The latest Orders are dated 1763.
Dates:
1763, and before.
Copy, possibly the holograph, of the report by Thomas Tucker on the customs and excise of Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.6.5
Scope and Contents
Tucker had been sent to Scotland in the autumn of 1655 to set up the customs and to re-establish the excise, and his report, dated 20 November 1656, was written after his return to London. The report is followed by an unmarked copy of ‘Rules, Orders and Instructions, Made and Published by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise in Scotland ...’ (Edinburgh, 1656) (folio 54), and by `The forme of the Cash or Day Booke to be kept by the severall Collectors of Customs and Excise in...
Dates:
1655-1656.
Correspondence and papers of the Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.142- is now Acc.4850.
Dates:
1963-1969.
Instructions for the overseers upon the Military Roads in North Britain.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14117
Dates:
1787.
Letter of Thomas Lees to the Sabbath School Teachers of Musselburgh, with a manuscript copy of the 1851 rules and regulations for the 'golf cadies and club carriers' on Musselburgh Links. 1853.
File
Identifier: Acc.14366
Scope and Contents
The letter here is written by Thomas Lees in his capacity as Town Clerk for Musselburgh. He is writing in response to a complaint of the Sabbath School Teachers relating to caddies on Musselburgh Links. The exact nature of the complaint is not known. Although the letter included a copy of the rules and regulations for caddies, the letter acknowledges that they have been unable to enforce many of them.The 1851 rules for caddies and club carriers include obtaining a licence from...
Dates:
1853.
Manuscript concerning the offices of a herald.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.22
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Description of the offices of Constable, Admiral, Marshal, etc. (folio 1).(ii) ‘A nobile trety belangand the making of heraldis and ye properteis to yis office` (folio 3). It includes (folio 22) a set of rules for tournaments attributed to Philip of France.(iii) Statutes of the law of arms attributed to Louis III of France (folio 34 verso). This is followed by material on the coronation of emperors and...
Dates:
1st half of 16th century.
Manuscript material from the 5th Earl of Rosebery's library at the Durdans, Epsom.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10217-10241
Dates:
1657-1919.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, statutes, burgh laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, mostly in Scots, written in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century. Sections (xxv)-(xxvii) are a slightly later addition.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.15
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 4 books of 191 continuously numbered chapters (34, 74, 26, and 57 in each book respectively) with table at the beginning (folio 1). The end of chapter 6 to the beginning of chapter 14 is lost. ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 233-277.(ii) `Quoniam attachiamenta` in 61 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 60 verso). Chapters 11-24 are lost. ‘Acts of the Parliament of...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Masonic rituals from St Andrews Lodge, Number 126, Kilmarnock.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8794
Dates:
circa 1850.
Microfilm of manuscript concerning the offices of a herald.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.791
Dates:
1st half of 16th century.
Minute book of the Rhyme and Reason Club of Edinburgh, containing a list of members and the rules of the Club.
Item
Identifier: MS.1093
Dates:
1888-1895.
Minute books, 1849-1901, of the Grand Lodge of Free Gardeners Scotland.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10138
Scope and Contents
With copy, 1948, of the revised constitution of the South African Provincial Lodge of the Order
Dates:
1849-1901 and 1948.
Minute books and other papers of the Fife, Clackmannan, and Kinross, Edinburgh Association
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9911
Dates:
1871-1973.
Minute books and papers of the Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: Dep.375
Dates:
1773 to 20th century.
Minutes of the Select Society of Edinburgh, 1754-1762, together with the Rules and Orders and lists of members of the society, and a section at the back of the volume on `Questions to be debated in the Select Society` and several notes of apology for absence at meetings from various members, 1763.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.1
Dates:
1754-1763.
Minutes of various Edinburgh branches of the National Union of Railwaymen and earlier railway unions.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.188
Dates:
1902-1953.
Notebook of Robert Jackson, a schoolboy, consisting chiefly of geometrical rules, exercises, and diagrams; followed by some more general mathematical notes, and some punitive 'lines'.
Item
Identifier: MS.9156
Dates:
1788.
'Notes as to Library Arrangements' containing Faculty of Advocates Library rules and guides.
File
Identifier: F.R.336z
Scope and Contents
The guides contain rules, hours, and holidays. Borrowing of books, delivery of books, rooms, law library, books on open shelves, catalogues, new books, periodicals, parliamentary papers, and official publications, maps, subject catalogues and bibliographies, artificial light, objects exhibited, admission of strangers.
Dates:
1 January 1909.
Notes of the lectures of Sir James Young Simpson, titled, "Midwifery by Dr. Simpson, Edinburgh, Nov. '52", taken, partly in shorthand, by Frederick Cock.
File
Identifier: MS.3542
Scope and Contents
Pages 120-134 deal with Chloroform, its history, discovery, effects, and the rules for its use. On pages 240-241 there are drawings of apparatus for the use of chloroform.
Dates:
1852.
Papers concerning Scottish football.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9979
Scope and Contents
Includes:
"Scottish Football Annual, 1875-6"
"Constitution and Rules of the Scottish Football Association" (1873), with manuscript notes
five notebooks, 1867-1903, of Sir George Graham, on Scottish football
21 postcards, 1904-1912, of Scottish football teams and players
typescripts and newspaper cuttings, 1931-1933 and undated, on Scottish football
Dates:
1867-1933 and undated.