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Alphabetical index to obituary notices in ‘Gentleman`s Magazine’, 1791-1855, written in a notebook, the paper of which is watermarked 1855.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
"Autograph Letters of Sir Walter Scott"
Contains letters mainly to Charles Erskine and James Curle, with associated documents, all as described in printed index bound in.
`Collection of armorial bearings, inscriptions, etc.` made by Alexander Deuchar.
Collection of English arms in trick, probably compiled as a working notebook by herald painters in London, one of whom appears to have worked with Sir Henry Saint George, Garter King of Arms.
`Collection of illuminate arms` by Etherington Martyn, in 2 volumes, containing watercolour paintings of Scottish, English and a few foreign arms.
In an introductory note (volume 1, folio iv.), Martyn states that many of the arms were unpublished, and taken from seals, drawings, paintings and manuscript blazons; also from a manuscript collection of heraldry `purchased at Mr Cummyngs sale by a Mr Rose`. This probably refers to James Cummyng, herald painter and Lyon Clerk Depute (died 1793). Martyn sometimes gives the source for a particular coat of arms, and occasionally criticises the heraldry.
Copies, 1725-1726, of Great Seal charters of the 14th and early 15th centuries, made by John Corss, Keeper of the Records.
Each volume has an elaborate title-page and an index of personal names.
Copies by John Wither, 1623, of English rolls of arms, mostly from `an auntient booke of Armes which Mr Glover Somerset the Harald had of Mr Joseph Holland in Cullers`.
Copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas and other documents, mostly conferring titles.
Copy, 1713-1714, of the inventory, 1615-1630, of the Trésor des Chartes, the muniments of the Crown of France.
Copy of part of the acts and proceedings of the Glasgow Assembly, including a summary of the proceedings up to the 7th of December, the acts deposing the bishops, and an index of the Assembly`s acts, apparently extracted by Archibald Johnston, clerk to the Assembly.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’ made in 1673 for John Smith of Brousterland, apparently from a text written in or about 1662.
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the text is rather shorter, many of the decisions quoted are earlier, and the titles are divided into fewer paragraphs. It is followed by an index of subjects discussed (page 409), and a contents list of each Title (page 413), both written apparently in different hands, neither being that of the text. The volume lacks apparently one leaf at the end.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in an unidentified hand apparently in or about 1666.
Copy of the appendix to John MacGregor "The Rob Roy on the Jordan, Red Sea, and Gennesareth".
Correspondence and genealogical papers concerning the Forrester family.
Correspondence and papers of Sir George Taylor, botanist, including diaries and photographs relating to botanical expeditions to Africa and the Himalayas.
Correspondence, diaries, speeches, library and music inventories, and electronic database of Sir Lewis Robertson.
Correspondence of Professor Alastair David Shaw Fowler.
This accession is one of several in the National Library of Scotland covering mainly incoming correspondence, but also containing copies of some outgoing letters and other literary material.
Acc.12377/49 is an A-Z person index to the collection, and gives biographical details of many of the figures involved.
Duplicated typescript material consisting of genealogical studies of branches of the Forrester family.
Ernest Pearson, "Polyglot Comparative Vocabularies", with index.
‘Extracta ex variis chronicis Scotiae’, a transcript made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane, 1738, taken from the original manuscript, Adv.MS.35.6.13, a collection of extracts of chronicles, late 15th century-early 16th century, mostly taken from Fordun and Boece with extensive annotations in the hand of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin.
Later additions in the original are here collected at the end (pages 249). The folio numbers of the original are given in the margin, and the index which is placed at the beginning in the original, is here transferred to the end (page 263).
‘Extracta ex variis chronicis Scotiae’, an incomplete transcript, early 18th century, taken from the original manuscript, Adv.MS.35.6.13, a collection of extracts of chronicles, late 15th century-early 16th century, mostly taken from Fordun and Boece with extensive annotations in the hand of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin.
A number of items in the Wodrow collection are in the same hand, and the copyist appears to have worked fairly frequently for Robert Wodrow. Later additions in the original are here collected at the end (page 159) and partially in a different hand, but the copyist breaks off in mid-entry at folio 296 verso of the original. The folio numbers of the original are given in the margin, and the index, which is placed at the beginning in the original, is omitted.
Genealogies of Scottish families, copied by Robert Mylne.
Geographical dictionary of Great Britain, written by James Balfour, with an index largely in the hand of Lord Fountainhall.
Includes a note of George Paton.