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Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
File
Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents
The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates:
1696-1891, undated.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates:
?1825-1856.
Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1540-1549, 1570-1593, collected, late 17th century, by Alexander Colvill, and John or Henry Sinclair.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.4
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'Sinclair, Maitland, Culroes, decisions MS’, to which Thomas Ruddiman has prefixed a note which informs us that it was a copy from the originals in the library of Sir Alexander Seton of Pitmedden, who has himself explained the collection;(ii) Subjoined to it is ‘a compend of decisions by an uncertain author’;(iii) Transcript of the manuscript inventory of pious donations from James I’s reign to that of James VI....
Dates:
1540-1549, 1570-1593.
Manuscripts and typescripts of, and notes for, historical and literary works, speeches, and broadcasts, together with correspondence, of Agnes Mure Mackenzie, Commander of the British Empire, Master of Arts, Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Laws (1891-1955).
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.9172-9225
Dates:
1896-1959, undated.
Miscellaneous collection of letters and other papers of Sir Walter Scott and his contemporaries.
Series
Identifier: MS.786
Dates:
1791-1850, undated.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Dates:
17th century.
Transcripts, made for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, of four mediaeval manuscripts relating to the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, the originals of which were in the Advocates’ Library.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.2.1-22.2.4
Dates:
?12th century-1st half of 16th century.