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Extracts, 17th century, from the Books of Adjournal of the High Court of Justiciary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.6.16
Dates:
1576-1655.
Extracts, 17th century, from the Books of Sederunt of the Court of Session, 1626-1665.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.5
Dates:
1626-1665.
Extracts, 18th century, from the Books of Adjournal of the High Court of Justiciary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.6.17
Dates:
18th century.
Extracts, 18th century, from the Books of Adjournal of the High Court of Justiciary, 1536-1728.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.23
Dates:
1536-1728.
Extracts, 18th century, of criminal decisions, 1661-1674, from the Books of Adjournal of the High Court of Justiciary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.24.5.5-24.5.6
Dates:
1661-1674.
Extracts, 18th century, of criminal decisions, 1716-1740, from the Books of Adjournal of the High Court of Justiciary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.10.1.7
Dates:
6 February-1716-10 March 1740.
Extracts, 1556, from chartularies of the Archbishopric of Glasgow which were deposited in the Scots College in Paris; followed by a short history, in Scots, of the Hamilton family entitled 'Frier Mark Hamiltonis historie'
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.5
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of transcripts of the chartularies and original charters of the Archbishopric of Glasgow which were deposited in the Scots College in Paris. The material in the manuscript covers the 12th to the 16th centuries.The work is written in one hand and contains frequent additions, erasures, and corrections. The additions to the work, both in the margins and interlineal, are partly in Latin and partly in Scots.As well as charters, the volume contains extracts of...
Dates:
1556
Extracts by William Bell Scott from the correspondence, journals, and memorandums of David Scott.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7270
Dates:
1832-1834.
Extracts, early 18th century, from the Books of Sederunt of the Court of Session, 1697-1700.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.6.2(i)-(iii)
Dates:
1697-1700.
Extracts, late 17th century, from the Books of Sederunt of the Court of Session, 1532-1689.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.2.5(i)-(ii)
Dates:
1532-1689.
Extracts, late 17th century, of acts of Sederunt, 1552-1677, of the Lords of Council of the Court of Session.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.7.2-25.7.3
Dates:
1552-1677.
Extracts of a lecture on "The Christie Family in Norway" given to the Montrose Society by Dr Gunnar Christie Wasberg.
File
Identifier: Acc.9196
Dates:
1986.
Five French workers' record books.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.5693
Scope and Contents
Five French Workers’ record books of various communes in the département of the
Loire, arrondissement of St. Êtienne, 1837, 1856, 1867, 1876, with entries up to 1894.
The books contain printed extracts of the law relating to employees, and manuscript
details of individual workers.Employers recorded the arrival and departure of each employee in his or her livret, and
the employee had to carry and show the book to confirm his release from his previous
employment; changes were...
Dates:
1837-1876
Formal documents from the papers of the Hon Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot, politican.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15393-15396
Dates:
1884-1888.
Fragment of an extract of a charter concerning the subjects in Kincardineshire previously belonging to the Carmelite Friars of Inverbervie
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.236
Dates:
18th century.
Gaelic-English Dictionary in the hand of Sir James Foulis (1714-1791), 5th Baronet of Colinton.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.16
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Gaelic-English Dictionary (complete) A – Uthar. (Page 1 recto.)(ii) (Left blank by Sir John Foulis). Donald Smith’s hand. ‘Dubhach sinn a Bheinn Ghualann’, 10 quatrains. Entitled “Duan Bheann Ghualann – A Leabhar Bolg tSholaraidh le Brian Ua Réighli ann Cillmhaighnain”. Concludes “This beautiful address opens a Poem on the Subject of an Expedn. from Bein Ghualan to Scotland by the Féini, & is in name of Ossian — but the rest of the...
Dates:
Mid 18th century-late 18th century.
Genealogical papers on the different branches of the Bruce family collected by Major William Bruce Armstrong for his work ‘The Bruces of Airth and their cadets’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15982-15988
Scope and Contents
Most of the material is printed, with annotations by William Brue Armstrong.
Dates:
Mid 19th century-[before 1892.]
Kilberry book of piobaireachd: papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22098-22117
Scope and Contents
Archibald Campbell, who entered the Indian Civil Service and retired as Judge of the High Court of Lahore, was the youngest son of John Campbell of Kilberry, and Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society. The material is arranged tune by tune, approximately in the order of appearance in ‘Ceol mor’ by C S Thomason, and consists of copies of the text of each piobaireachd from all authoritative sources, both printed (including some proof sheets) and manuscript....
Dates:
1892-1963, undated.
Letters and papers of, and concerning, Sir Patrick Geddes and Dr Arthur Geddes.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21204-21205
Dates:
1913-1977, undated.
'List of books and pamphlets relating to Orkney and Shetland' by James W Cursiter (Kirkwall, 1894), interleaved, with manuscript and printed addenda by James Shand.
File
Identifier: MS.9159
Scope and Contents
The very extensive notes include extracts from printed catalogues, and inserted at the end of the volume (folio 40) is a letter from James Cursiter to James Shand, 1921, acknowledging receipt of bibliographical notes by [Gilbert] Goudie.
Dates:
1894-early 20th century.
Manuscript containing a 15th-century list of benefactors, prayers, obituaries, and rental of the Hospital of St Anthony, Leith; with a 16th-century extract from a rental of Newhaven.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.5
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in Scotland containing Church offices; a calendar; obituaries of benefactors; a rental of the hospital of St Anthony, Leith; and a rental of Newhaven.The manuscript appears to be the work of two separate hands executed at different times. The earlier part of the work is of the 15th century. From folio 19r onwards the hand can be attributed to the mid-16th century.The contents are as follows:Flyleaves with shelfmark inscriptions. Folios...
Dates:
15th century-1st half of 16th century.
Manuscript extract of Ivor Brown, "Summer in Scotland".
Item
Identifier: Acc.4587
Dates:
circa 1968.
Manuscript music-book, containing ballads, dances, and pianoforte pieces, hymns, and vocal exercises and scales.
File
Identifier: MS.3282
Scope and Contents
The music-book is made up of pages watermarked 1794.
The volume contains ballads, dances, and pianoforte pieces from Scotland and various European countries (passim), hymns (folios 22 verso-31), and vocal exercises and scales (folios 22, 32 verso-33 verso, 70-71 verso). Among the more extended pieces are extracts for pianoforte from Méhul's 'Jeune Henri' of 1797 (folio 67 verso), and from an opera 'Paul and Virginia', possibly that produced in London in 1800; and 'Favourite dances at...
Dates:
?1794-1813.
Manuscript of the first part of 'The howdie', an unfinished story by John Galt.
File
Identifier: MS.5207
Scope and Contents
With the manuscript are the pages of "Tait's Edinburgh Magazine" containing the first part of the story, a typescript of the second part, and a memorandum on the history of the manuscript by Sir Robert Simpson, the latter reprinted and supplemented by William Roughead in his edition.
Dates:
[Circa 1831.]
Manuscripts collected by William Lee Ferguson, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5170-5177
Dates:
1537-1934.