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Armorial coats-of-arms of the Scottish gentry, drawn first in pencil, then inked over, a very few being partially coloured.
At the beginning 30 folios have been left blank and the last drawings, on folio 47, have not been completed. From the watermark and the hand, the manuscript may be dated to the late 16th century; it is possibly an English production as many Scottish family names have been misspelt in a non-Scottish manner.
Correspondence and papers of Louisa Kathleen Haldane concerning her parents, Coutts and Harriet A Trotter of Dreghorn, and their ancestors.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
'Geschlecht Buch dess Heiligen Reichs Stat Nürnberg Darinen alle alte und neue Adeliche Geschlecht daraus der Rath von 300 Jaren hero erwöhlth wordn Hierin zusamgebracht Anno 1610’, being histories, in different hands, of Nürnberg families.
Each history is preceded by an engraving of a figure with the arms of the family.
Microfilm of copies, 1796, of William Rose, the genealogist, of charters and other papers, 1st half of 16th century-1740; and, arms of the English and Scottish nobility, [circa 1612].
The contents are as follows:
Copies, 1796, of charters and other papers, 1st half of 16th century-1740, written for and partly by William Rose, the genealogist, in Montcoffer (Adv.MS.15.1.9);
Arms of the English and Scottish nobility, [circa 1612]. A collection, previously owned by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, of painted arms with genealogical notes on their holders, made by an Englishman (Adv.MS.15.1.10).
Microfilm of genealogical and heraldic material, chiefly by Robert Mylne.
Microfilm of heraldic material.
Microfilm of miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Microfilm of testimonial for Sir James Balfour of Denmilne by the English College of Arms, followed by the signatures and mottoes of the various heralds and pursuivants below paintings of their own arms.
Minutes of the sederunts and proceedings of the Commission of the Star Chamber.
Miscellaneous notes concerning English heraldry, dealing chiefly with the ceremonial, with some on historical matters.
At the end, on two sheets bound into the volume (folios 182-183), are sketches of coats of arms in trick, including, among others, those of the Heptarchy and of the three English Kings of Arms, Garter, Clarenceux, and Norroy. With the sketches are notes about the disposition of the shields on a building which may have been the old College of Arms.
Miscellaneous papers, chiefly of the seventeenth century, relating to private, domestic, and public matters.
Included are letters to John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, various members of the Townshend family, George Livingston, 3rd Earl of Linlithgow, and Sir Michael Stanhope, son of Sir Michael Stanhope (died 1552).
Notes on the succession of legendary and early kings of England, from Brutus to Harold.
Patent of nobility by the Empress Maria Theresa, in favour of Johann Baptist and Karl Joseph Hepperger, merchants in Botzen.
The manuscript is written in an engraved frame dated 1757, and includes a painting of the Hepperger coat of arms. Inserted at the beginning is a paper read to the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1842, and other material concerning the document.
"Precis des Memoires sur le Service Journalier de l'Infanterie, 1718", by the author of the ‘Mèmoires' himself, Henri François, Comte de Bombelles; with a prefatory letter to the Duc de Chartres.
'Regum Principumque Christiani Orbis Terrarum fere Omnium Genealogia. Item, Archiepiscoporum et Episcoporum aliquot Catalogus. Wilhelmus Smith, Anglus, fecit et possidet. Anno 1587.' The compiler was, presumably, William Smith, Rouge-Dragon Pursuivant.
The Genealogia, every page of which is within a coloured border, gives coats of arms, emblazoned; there is an index to it (folio 1). Following the Genealogia come the Catalogus (folio 29); short drafts for parts of the Genealogia (folio 31); a broadsheet, ‘The Succession of the Kings of England’ (London, 1687) (folio 34); and a genealogy showing the royal connections of various English families from early times (folio 37).
Scottish armorial, probably produced in England in the late 16th century.
This armorial is closely related to MS.10338; the text in both manuscripts is the same, but the names of some of the Scottish queens are omitted in MS.19610 (folios 2-3) and the reference to James VI as king of England (folio 4 verso) is added in the margin. The coats of arms were originally in trick and have been painted.
‘Short Account of the Familie of Birnie of that Ilk ... as also of The Hamiltons of Broomhill . . . conforme to The papers, and other wrytts . . . now in the Charter Chest at Broomhill ; with ane full account of the papers themselves . . . from anno 1473 ... By me Jo: Birnie.'
The label gives the final date as 1729, but a charter of 1730 is mentioned. The author left his work uncompleted.
Songbook containing the words of 150 popular Scottish, Irish, French and Dutch ballads.
'The Arms of Noblemen, Knights, and others who have been Recorded in the Books of the Lyon Office at Edinburgh. [Compiled, over a period of years at the end of the seventeenth century, by] Henry Frazer, Ross Herauld & Painter'.
Henry Frazer’s signature is on page 710.
There are additions throughout in various hands including that of David Deuchar, Seal Engraver, Edinburgh, who also compiled the indexes (cf. Adv.MSS.35.6.15-35.6.16). There are thirteen coats crudely emblazoned and a sketch of the seal of office of the Lyon King of Arms.