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Manuscript containing material chiefly concerning Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.28
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written in a uniform hand in or about the year 1610.For a transcript of this manuscript see MS.2718.The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.4.35.The contents are as follows:
(i) Chronicle of the Kings of Scotland, consisting partly of a translation from the historical works of David Chalmers of Ormond and George Buchanan. Printed by the Maitland Club as ‘A Chronicle of the Kings of...
Dates:
[?1610.]
Manuscript drafts of poems and limericks probably by Thomas Cowan, bookseller, Haddington.
File
Identifier: Acc.13882
Scope and Contents
Many of the verses are in Scots. Some of the poems were published in local newspapers.
Dates:
circa 1887-1889.
Manuscript, late 15th or early 16th century, of the 'Oryginale cronykil of Scotland' of Andrew of Wyntoun.
Item
Identifier: MS.651
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was chiefly written in the 1530s. It contains an incomplete version of Andrew Wyntoun's 'Oryginale cronykil of Scotland', or 'Original Chronicle'. In Amours' edition of Wyntoun's work, this manuscript is referred to as the 'Auchinleck Manuscript'.
Dates:
Late 15th century-1st half of 16th century.
Manuscript of 'Ane Abbregement of Roland Furious translait out of Ariost togither with sum rapsodies of the author's youthfull braine. And last, ane schersing out of trew felicitie composit in Scotis meitir’ by John Stewart of Baldynneis, written in his own hand.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.6
Scope and Contents
The text is enclosed in red double straight lines: proper names and titles are also in red ink.
Dates:
Circa 1586.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, baron court laws, burgh and guild laws, and some other legal texts, some in Scots, written by George Cuyk (later clerk of the Privy Seal) in 1528.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.11
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is incomplete at the end.The contents are as follows:(i) `The baroun Lawis. Modus tenendi curias` in 61 chapters (modern numbering), in Scots (folio 2). The explicit is followed by four lines, beginning `Haec faciunt causas festis tractare diebus` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xvi).(ii) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 4 parts of 212 continuously numbered chapters (36, 74, 34, and 68 in each part) with table at the beginning (folio...
Dates:
14th century-early 17th century.
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.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, baron court laws, burgh and guild laws, and some other legal texts, all in Scots, written by one A de D probably in the 1470s.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.7
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is imperfect at the end; and sections (i) and (ii), which belong after section (xvii), have been misbound.The contents are as follows:(i) `Statuta regis Jacobi secundi` (folio 1). The beginning is lost; see section (xvii). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, ii, pages 31-52.(ii) `Ye statutis of ye law of march mayd be erll villȝham of Douglas`, 1448 (folio 3). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page 350.folio 5 verso...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh and guild laws, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, a few in Scots, mostly written by John Bannatyne in 1520, with some later additions.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Regiam Maiestatem` in four books of 209 continuously numbered chapters (34, 72, 34, and 69 in each book), with table at the beginning (folio 2). This is preceded (folio 1 verso) by a couplet beginning `Me legat antiquas qui vult proferre loquelas` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xxvi) and 11 verses beginning `Hoc trahit ad lumen antiqua statuta volumen` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xv). ‘Acts of...
Dates:
14th century-16th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh and guild laws, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots, mostly written by James Monynet in 1488, with some later additions.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.6
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Table of sections (iii) and (v)-(vii) (folio vi).(ii) ‘Brevis ordo judiciarius,` maxims and procedures in 12 chapters, in a later hand (folio x verso).(iii) `Regiam Maiestatem,` in four books of respectively 35, 74, 35, and 68 chapters (folio 1). In addition to this numbering (in red) there is a continuous numbering of the chapters to ccxi. Prefixed are 11 lines beginning `Hoc trahit ad lumen antiqua...
Dates:
1248-15th century.
Manuscript, written in 1488, of the 'Wallace' of Blind Hary.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.2(ii)
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Scotland, containing the narrative poem 'The Wallace' of Blind Hary, or Henry the minstrel, probably originally composed between 1474 and 1479. This manuscript is written in Scots and is the only extant contemporary manuscript of the Wallace. The colophon on folio 124v states that the work was transcribed in 1488 by John Ramsay, a prior of the Charterhouse of Perth. The work is in a single column and is divided into 11 books, with spaces left at the...
Dates:
1488.
Manuscript, written in 1489, of 'The Brus' of John Barbour.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.2(i)
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Scotland containing the narrative poem The Bruce, or The Brus, of John Barbour. The colophon on folio 70r states that the work was transcribed in 1489 by John Ramsay, a prior of the Charterhouse of Perth, at the request of Symon Lochmalony, vicar of Auchtermoonzie in Fife.The work is written in Older Scots and is in double columns, with around 47 lines per column. The poem is divided into paragraphs and sections of varying lengths. A new paragraph is...
Dates:
1489.
'Meroure of Wyssdome' by John Ireland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.8
Scope and Contents
The work was written in 1490 for the instruction of James IV, but this may not be the copy intended for presentation to the king. Written in one hand throughout. The text (folio 8) is preceded by a list of contents (folio 1). The colophon (folio 358 verso) is dated 1490 but this may be the date of composition rather than of writing. R J Lyall dated the manuscript on the basis of the watermarks as circa 1492x in `Fifteenth-century Scottish manuscripts: a revised checklist`....
Dates:
?1490.
Microfilm of Bannatyne Manuscript, a collection of some 400 poems, mostly Scottish, compiled and written by George Bannatyne
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.6-7
Dates:
1568.
Microfilm of Bannatyne manuscript: a collection of some 400 poems, mostly Scottish, compiled and written by George Bannatyne.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.437
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Draft manuscript (Adv.MS.1.1.6 (1 of 2));
Main manuscript (Adv.MS.1.1.6 (2 of 2)).
Dates:
1568.
Microfilm of Bannatyne Manuscript: a collection of some 400 poems, mostly Scottish, compiled and written by George Bannatyne.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.800
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Bannatyne manuscripts, the draft manuscript (Adv.MS.1.1.6 (i));
Bannatyne Manuscript, the main manuscript (Adv.MS.1.1.6 (ii)).
Dates:
1568.
Microfilm of manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, baron court laws, burgh and guild laws, in Scots, written by one A de D probably in the 1470s.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1109
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Microfilm of 'Roit or Quheill of Tyme', a chronicle of the Kings of Scotland, with a history of the world, from the Creation to the marriage of James V of Scotland in 1537, by Adam Abell.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.702
Dates:
16th century.
Obligement by James of Blare, burgess of Dundee, to Alexander of Fentoun, of Ogil, for a part of his lands of Balkery.
Item
Identifier: Ch.864
Scope and Contents
Seal gone.
Dates:
1462.
Papers of John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, concerning lead and copper mining in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.24
Scope and Contents
Lord Menmuir was appointed Master of the Metals and Minerals for life in 1592.The papers are part of the Balcarres collection. They were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that they belonged to the collection.The contents are as follows:(i) Observations of Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston on the Act of Parliament concerning metals, 1592. ‘Early records relating to mining in Scotland’, 73. Cf. Adv.MS.29.2.9, folio 17. (Folio 1.)(ii)...
Dates:
1567-1596, and undated.
Papers of T J Douglas MacDonald (Fionn MacColla), including literary and autobiographical notebooks.
Series
Identifier: Dep.265
Dates:
Circa 1957-1975.
'Poems and songs cheifly (sic) in the Scottish dialect by Charles Lockhart Ramsay [subsequently of Fala], Edinburgh 1816', to which '-1835' has been added in pencil.
Item
Identifier: MS.9046
Scope and Contents
The volume contains ballads headed by dedications to various ladies, letters in verse addressed to various friends, and poems concerning or inspired by political events of the time.
Dates:
1816-1835.
Poems in Scots of the Reverend James Melville, minister of Kilrenny, mostly on religious themes
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.7
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Sonnets and short poems, some relating to Andrew Melville, written in 1610 and 1611 (folio 1). (ii) Copy of Hugh Broughton`s pamphlet `A Petition to the Lords to examine the religion and cariage of R. Ban[croft] Archbishop. Anno.1608` (folio 12).(iii) `A Preservative from Apostasie or the Song of Moses ... translated out of Hebrew and put in metre first shortly neere the text and than more at large...
Dates:
1606-1611.
Poems of George Algernon Fothergill inspired by Robert Burns.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14570
Scope and Contents
The poems covers observations on Burns Nights, as well as on whisky and haggis.
Fothergill noted that he resided at the Craigiehall Estate, just outside Edinburgh, when he wrote all but three of the poems. This view appears repeatedly throughout the volume.
Dates:
1911-1927.
Register of the bishopric of Dunblane, entitled 'Registrum capituli Dunblanensis', 1663-1688.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.8
Scope and Contents
The volume contains records of the bishopric from 15 January 1663 to 14 August 1688.
Paginated [1]-235 by a contemporary hand, with page 225 repeated in pagination. Written by several different hands, with a noticeable change of hands on page 174. According to a note by the donor on folio iii verso, the main scribe of the volume was John Graham, commissary clerk and clerk of the Chapter of Dunblane.
Dates:
1663-1688.
'Rentall of my Lord Semple his whole estait both of stok and teynd as the lands now presentlie payeis as follows', 1644.
Item
Identifier: MS.3934
Scope and Contents
The statement, which may have been drawn up on the succession of Francis, 6th Lord Sempill, to his father Hugh, gives the rentals of the Barony of Glassford in Lanarkshire and lands in Renfrewshire and Ayrshire, with the names of the tenants.
On folio 8 verso is an authority given by the Earl of Winton and other friends of the house to William ?Houie to uplift the rents, 7 March, 1645.
Dates:
1644-1645.