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‘Lord Ochiltree’s collections’ of genealogical notes on the Scottish nobility.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.18
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (a.7.24).
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
MacDougall genealogy in Gaelic, with 19th century transcript.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.9
Scope and Contents
Bottom half of folio sheet written circa 1625-1650 by Eoghan Mac Pháill, judging from the similarity of the hand to that of Adv.MS.72.1.34, page 41. The contents are as follows: (a) Conclusion of a tract dealing here with prognosis. Beginning (acephalous) ‘isin leis maille stranguria ⁊ re droch comarta eile’. (b) ‘Se(n)chus Cloinne Dubhuill’. Pedigree of Alasdair Mór, chief of MacDougall 1625-circa 1650. (c) Line (partly in Roman script)...
Dates:
[Circa 1625-circa 1650.]
Manuscript compiled or copied by John Sutherland, "Lineage of Sutherland - Lord Duffus".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7412
Dates:
1827.
Manuscript containing genealogies in Gaelic.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.6
Scope and Contents
First layer (folios 1-6).The first layer contains Uí Néill pedigrees, versions corresponding to many of which may be found in the Book of Ballymote, folios 69-86. See also O’Brien, ‘Corpus genealogiarum Hiberniae’, pages 160-180. The first layer of the manuscript is written in the following hands:1. Text. Chief hand of Adv.MS.72.1.28. Capitals here coloured red.2. Folios 1 verso (‘bro’), 4 verso (‘a’). Large. Cf. Adv.MS.72.1.10, folio 6...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Manuscript containing Irish grammar written by Aodh Ó Dálaigh (Hugo Daly) for Paris Anderson, a student of Trinity College, Dublin.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.5.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is titled (folio 1 recto) ‘£3.0.0. Irish Grammar. 1734. Written by one Daly a Conaught Man for Paris Anderson, A.M.T.C.D. 1734’. The contents (text) are as follows.(i) ‘Aoibhin sin Eire ard’, 5 quatrains. (Folio 2 recto.)(ii) Version of Hugh MacCurtin’s ‘Irish Grammar’, chapters 1-7, beginning “Ablitir na tengan Gaoidhilge ann so sios ar ndiaidh go fóirleathan air gach modh, & gach foirim dar gnáth leis na Gaodhaluibh a scrobhadh. Agas...
Dates:
1734-1735.
Manuscript copy of the English ‘History of the Macdonalds’, ascribed by Donald Gregory to a Hugh Macdonald.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.12
Scope and Contents
The copy (watermarked 1829) is ascribed by Donald Gregory in 1836 (‘History of the western Highlands and Isles of Scotland’, page 10) to a Hugh Macdonald. Hand anonymous, probably that of a clerk. Gregory’s ascription to Hugh Macdonald may result from a misreading of Sir William MacLeod Bannatyne’s preface, in which ‘Austin’ (Hugh) in fact occurs twice although the words ‘Austin being himself’ resemble ‘written by himself’. Gregory had the history copied (watermarked 1827); the only...
Dates:
[1829, or after.]
Manuscript copy, written in a hand of the early seventeenth century, of ‘The historicall genealogie of the house of Seton’ by Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.4
Dates:
1545.
Manuscript history of the family of Maitland of Eccles, down to 1740.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6049
Dates:
circa 1740-circa 1770.
Manuscript in Gaelic containing short religious, historical and mythological texts.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.5
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text and notes, folios 1 verso-10 verso. A hand of a type more characteristic of medical manuscripts, cf. Adv.MS.72.1.12. Distinctive uncial 'r' and v-shaped 'u'. No decoration save some red on capitals, folios 5-10. From various additions in a similar hand, especially that at folio 6 verso, column b, line 41, it appears as if the scribe returned to annotate his work at a later point in time. Possibly in fact more than one hand:...
Dates:
?15th century.
Manuscript of `A Genealogical Description of the Mathesons an Ancient Clan in Scotland and other Countries`, known as `The Iomaire manuscript`, by Roderick Matheson.
Item
Identifier: Dep.347
Dates:
1824.
Manuscript of Geoffrey Keating’s ‘History of Ireland’ written by the scribe Sémus Ó Gribín.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.11
Scope and Contents
The scribe of the manuscript is Sémus Ó Gribín, who also wrote Royal Irish Academy 24 L 17, Geoffrey Keating’s ‘Eochair-Sgiath an Aifrinn’. He completed the manuscript in March 1696 for Patrick Logan, schoolmaster at Lurgan. Bound in (folios vi-vii) is a letter dated Lurgan, 17th August 1696, from Logan to an unnamed friend, consigning the manuscript to him for scholarly perusal and ultimate delivery to the Advocates Library. It thus became the first of the Advocates’ Gaelic manuscripts....
Dates:
1696.
Manuscript of ‘Historia abbatum monasterii a Kynlos’ by Joannes Ferrerius.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.5B
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) 'Historia Abbatum Cisterciencis familiæ Monasterii de Kynlos, cum aliis plerisque vetustis monumentis, Joanne Ferrerio Petemontano Authore’ etc. 1537 (folio 1);
(ii) Gestorum et totius vite Reverendi in Christo patris domini Thome Chrystalli Abbatis a Kynlos Compendium, a J Ferrerio Conscriptum, 1535 (folio 49).
Dates:
1537.
Manuscript of James Somerville, "An Abridged Account of the Principal Branches of the Baronial House of Somerville".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7121
Dates:
1919.
‘Manuscript papers’ containing a collection of notes on Scottish genealogies, chiefly in the handwriting of George Crawfurd, and partly intended as material for a supplement or new edition of his ‘Peerage’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.4.15
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.
Manuscripts of two apparently unpublished genealogical works by John Philp Wood.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5271-5272
Dates:
1830.
Material, chiefly genealogical, collected by John Philp Wood.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1872-1878
Scope and Contents
Leaves found loose in the volumes have been placed in MS.1878, with some other loose papers, and references have been made to and from the volumes in which they were found.
Dates:
1776-1829.
Material collected by Captain George Sitwell Campbell Swinton, Lyon King of Arms, supplementary to the work of his father, Archibald Campbell Swinton of Kimmerghame, ‘The Swintons of that Ilk and their Cadets’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.350A-B
Dates:
1814, 1883, 1927-1929.
Material regarding the Setons and other families, compiled by Colonel R S Marshall.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3249-3256
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Material relating to Sir Walter Scott.
File
Identifier: MS.3248
Scope and Contents
The material includes transcripts of letters of Sir Walter Scott not printed in the Centenary Edition; transcripts of letters of his family and other correspondents; and extracts, correspondence, and notes on his ancestry and on various episodes in his life.
Dates:
18th century-2nd quarter of 20th century.
Materials for a Baronetage of Scotland, collected by Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.17
Scope and Contents
Thirty-nine of the baronetcies created by Charles I are covered; for each is given a brief account of the origin of the family, a fuller account of the holders of the baronetcy, and a description of the coat-of-arms. The paper of the manuscript is watermarked 1811. It is probable, therefore, that Samuel Bridges was working on this subject at the same time as, or shortly after, he re-edited Collins` ‘Peerage of England’ (London, 1812). However, he did not publish the work and it...
Dates:
1811, or after.
'Memoirs of the family of Grant. Written in the year 1752', being a history and genealogy of the Grants of Grant and several of their principal cadets.
Item
Identifier: MS.10970
Scope and Contents
The text was compiled in 1752, but has additions up to 1773, and is written on paper watermarked 1811. The manuscript may originally have been compiled by William Grant, Lord Prestongrange, the account of whose life is unusually detailed (folio 48) and whose Hanoverian politics are reflected in the account of some eighteenth-century Grants (for example folio 43).
Dates:
1752-1773.
Microfilm of assorted manuscripts, chiefly genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.32
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Genealogical and legal papers, 1794-1866 (Adv.MS.2.1.13);Miscellaneous letters and documents, 1659-1831 (Adv.MS.2.1.14);Miscellaneous manuscript, 1629-1921 (Adv.MS.2.1.15);Stewart genealogies, papers on various families of Stewart collected by, and with some notes of, George Chalmers, 17th century-18th century (Adv.MS.6.1.12);Materials, 1811, or after, for a Baronetage of Scotland, collected by Sir Samuel Egerton...
Dates:
17th century-1921.
Microfilm of chiefly Scottish genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.18
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Laurus Crawfordiana, a historicall and genealogicall deduction of the several families of the sirname of Crawfurd, as well such are extinct as those which are yet extant, from the time of King David I till the present time’ By George Crawfurd, 1st half of 18th century (Adv.MS.34.3.4);‘Crawford’s MSS Baronage’, a large collection of notices of Scottish families in the order of their surnames, 1st half of 18th century (Adv.MS.34.3.9);List,...
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.