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Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Chronicles and historical works, written in England.
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.
Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
'Copy of original letters &c. &c. by Queen Mary, King James VI, &c. &c. to the Lairds of Barnbarroch &c. from 1559 to 1618', 1794.
The copies of letters are preceded by an engraved table of the branches of the family of Vaux, Vaus, or Vans, 1815, pasted inside the front cover, and a list of members of the Barnbarroch family who have held public office (folio ii), and followed by a manuscript pedigree of that family to 1809 (folio 89).
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.
Donald Smith’s Irish miscellany.
Fair copy of `Diplomatum veterum collectio`, being Richard Augustine Hay`s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh.
The copy was probably begun in 1696 (the date quoted on the title page) and not completed until 1701 or later (34.1.10(iii), folio 294 verso), made apparently by a copyist from the transcripts made by Hay when he was in Scotland between 1686 and 1689.
Genealogical and legal papers.
Genealogical chart of and list of references to the family of Macfarlane of Gartartan.
‘Genealogical collections’, containing notes on Scottish genealogies, with lists of Officers of State, Knights, Baronets, etc., in the handwriting of Alexander Nisbet.
Genealogical material collected by George Crawfurd.
Jacobite Papers.
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.
Jacobite relics comprising an engraved rose, a list of martyrs, a fragmentary family tree, and a supposed section of the plaid of Charles Edward Stuart.
List of charters from the 'Registrum Magni Sigilli’ (Register of the Great Seal), and other notes by Walter Macfarlane.
Microfilm of genealogical and heraldic material.
Microfilm of three Gaelic manuscripts.
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, 17th-18th century, of bardic fragments, containing a strong element of MacMhuirich poetry (Adv.MS.72.2.2);
Donald Smith’s Irish miscellany, [circa 1798] (Adv.MS.72.3.2);
Part of a Gaelic grammatical treatise, 17th century, (written in the traditional character) giving the paradigms of a number of nouns and verbs.(MS.1745).
Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.
Miscellaneous notes, letters and other items.
Papers, chiefly relating to lands and families of Morayshire, Banffshire, and Aberdeenshire, collected by William Rose, in Montcoffer, the genealogist.
Many of the papers bear notes by Rose.
Papers of the estate of Eaglescarnie, East Lothian.
Register of the nobility of England from 1066 to circa 1600, with genealogical tables.
‘A noble and memorable register of all estates of nobilite created or restored sithence the conquest, etc., and of such nobles as were when the land was conquered by the Normanes’ with pedigrees and heraldic blazons. It endeth about the fortieth yeare of Queen Elizabeth’.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (W.2.17).
Regula of the Knights Templar, and works concerning ceremonial orders, heraldry and tournaments.
Research papers concerning Clan Gregor, including extracts and copies of historical and genealogical papers; with some papers relating to the history and administration of the Clan Gregor Society.
The arrangement and description of the papers from the Clan Gregor Centre was undertaken by Sheila McGregor on behalf of the Centre. The described papers represent the activities of a small number of people who collected and compiled them over many years, combining traditional knowledge with research to both preserve and extend information about the clan.