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Carbon typescript account of "The Central African Mission in 1902" by Harold E Wareham.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12459
Dates:
circa 1930-1939.
'Causa di stravaganze, o vero compendio historico delli rumori e sollenazioni de’ popoli successi nella citta e regno di Napoli, 1647-1655’, by Dr Aniello della Porta.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.4.7-22.4.8
Scope and Contents
‘Causa di stravaganze, o vero compendio historico delli rumori e sollenazioni de’ popoli successi nella citta e regno di Napoli, da 7 di Gennaro 1647 sino a Gugiro 1655. Opera del Dr Aniello della Porta divisa in quat. Two parte’.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.195) includes the reference: (Ba.4.11-14).
Dates:
1647-1655.
`Certane records touching the state of the Church of Scotland, since the reformation of religion therein, till the parliament holden at Perth, 1606`, a 17th century copy in a neat italic hand of John Forbes, minister of Alford`s church history, which concentrates on the years 1605-1606.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.5
Scope and Contents
The manuscript bears the inscription of one John Gibson `Dec. 22nd 1704`, but he was not the copyist.
Dates:
17th century.
Chronicles and historical works, written in England.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Table of the sons and grandchildren of St. Louis (folio 1)(ii) `Scala mundi`: historical and genealogical tables from the Creation (folio 1 verso). A similar manuscript of this text is in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS. 645. The chronology goes up to 1519, but apart from a few additions in later hands, the last entry is the accession of Albert the Great in 1438. The tables include lunar and solar years, the dates of...
Dates:
15th century.
Circa 20 manuscripts concerning Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3761
Scope and Contents
Inserted in William Maitland, "History of Edinburgh" (1753).
Dates:
1562-1781.
Clan histories of the Grants, Macraes, and Chisholms.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3568-3570
Dates:
[Before 1705]-1869.
“Collection Générale de ce qui s’est passé tant de la procédure de Mʳ Le Duc d’aiguillon, que de tout ce qui a donné lieu à l’exil des membres du Parlement, a commencer du 4 Avril 1770 Jusqu’au 24 Janvier 1771. Ensuite les protestations des Princes du Sang et les Representationes des autres cours de Paris &[ce]”.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.4.1-4
Scope and Contents
The manuscript details the proceedings concerning the differences between the Crown and the Parliament of Paris and the abolition of that High Court.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Trajanus.6.1-4.
Dates:
1770-1771.
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.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.6
Scope and Contents
The earliest section (folio 14) includes a number of mythological coats (for example, those of Cupid and the Nine Worthies) and some of members of the nobility and gentry from 1573 onwards. Many of the later additions are dated between 1630 and 1641. There are a few pedigrees and three indices to the compilation (folios i verso, 82 verso, and 86 verso). There is also a list of arms painters authorised in England (folio 88 verso), with a note `all theas in my life time kepte open shope and...
Dates:
Late 16th century-1664.
Collection of genealogical material on various Scottish families and items of historical interest copied by Robert Mylne, the antiquary, in the late 17th or early 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘The Portrait of True Loyalty exposed in the Family of Gordon, without interruption to this present year 1691. With a Relationof the Castle of Edr. in the year 1689’ (folio 1), which is attributed to David Burnet, a Catholic Priest. The original manuscript, which was in Blairs College, Aberdeen (‘The House of Gordon’, page xxxvi), is at the Scottish Catholic Archives, Columba House, Edinburgh, where it has the...
Dates:
1554-1720.
Collection of manuscript material transferred from printed theses collection, 1637-late 19th century, chiefly consisting of German academic papers, but including a small cache of Scottish legal papers, 19th century.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3591
Scope and Contents
With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.
Dates:
14th century-19th century.
Collection of oral history interviews with individuals who worked at the Tullis Russell Paper.
Collection
Identifier: UNLS032
Dates:
1990-1999.
Collection of oral history recordings from the "Salt of the Earth: A Scottish Peoples’ History Project", co-ordinated by the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA)
Collection
Identifier: UNLS006
Scope and Contents
A collection of oral history interviews conducted over a period of three years from 1998–2001, with funding provided by the National Lottery Charities Board. The project collected oral histories through tutor led adult education initiatives and constructed a picture of life in 20th century Scotland from the perspectives of ordinary people. Over 450 people were involved in the project across 43 geographical locations, generating the oral history archive and also a book, four videos and a...
Dates:
1998-2001
Commonplace book of James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.3
Scope and Contents
Composite manuscript produced in Scotland and compiled in the late 15th century, probably circa 1500, by James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane and secretary to William Scheves, Archbishop of St Andrews. The manuscript is a commonplace book and consists of a variety of religious, historical, legal, and literary material. There are several hands evident throughout the manuscript. Anderson states that folios 1r-24v are written by very similar hands, and could...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Composite volume consisting of two unrelated and formerly separate collections of transcripts made probably at the same time as each other by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.17
Scope and Contents
The first collection (folios 1-44) consists of extracts, together with footnotes and other editorial additions, copied from ‘Anglia Sacra’: `Chronicon cœnobii Sanctæ Crucis Edinburgensis’ (page 152), `Gaufridi sacristæ de Coldingham Historia de statu Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis’ (page 178) and `Genealogia Roberti Stewarde’ (page 686).The second collection (folios 45-96) consists of transcripts, made in 1801 and 1802, of a number of 16th-century documents in the possession of Walter...
Dates:
16th century, 1691.
Composite volume of 15th-century manuscripts of miscellaneous works by four hands bound together, with an incunable, in the 16th-century or earlier.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.8
Scope and Contents
The collection has been in one volume since the 16th century at least. The contents are as follows:[(i) A printed book: Johannes de Hildesheim, ‘Liber de gestis ac translatione trium regum’, etc., ([Cologne], 1478) = National Library of Scotland Inc.43 (B.M.Cat. IB 4236) (folio 1)]. Folio 56 blank.(ii) Baebius Italicus (?), `Ilias latina` (‘Poetae latini minores’ ii.3; this manuscript is not included in the list given by P Vollmer in ‘Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen...
Dates:
15th century.
"Comunn na Clàrsaich (The Clarsach Society) : A Summary of the Archives", by Janet Watt.
...
Identifier: Acc.11940
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs and slides.
Dates:
1989.
'Concise history of the Stuarts from the earliest period to the present time compiled from authentic records and well-attested documents by Samuel Stuart ... London 1805.'
Item
Identifier: MS.14270
Scope and Contents
The contents include a genealogy of the author's family, the Stuarts of Barscube (folios 4 and 24 verso), notes on the origins of the various branches of Stuarts (folio 8), and watercolour drawings of their arms (folio 26).
Dates:
1805.
Contemporary copy of `Discoverie and Historie of the gold mynes in Scotland` by Stephen Atkinson.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.6
Dates:
1619.
`Continuation of Hector Boeth his Historie, since the death of King James the first, until the year 1642`, an unpublished history of Scotland in 3 volumes by Patrick Anderson, physician to Charles I, probably written around 1642.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.3(i)-(iii)
Dates:
1642, or after.
Copies of research materials for the history of the Parish of Beith in Ayrshire.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9894
Dates:
18th century to 19th century.
Copy, 17th century, of ‘The History and Life of James the Sixt’, attributed to John Colville, Scottish divine and politician, written in the late 16th century and covering the period from 1566 to 1582.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.10
Dates:
Late 16th-century.
Copy, 18th century, of an account, descriptive and historical, of the Chanonry of Old Aberdeen and connected institutions, by Thomas (rectius William) Drem, Bailie of Aberdeen, written 1725.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.23
Scope and Contents
Originally part (Inv. XII) of the Rose Collection, Adv.MSS.49.7.1-49.7.20; William Rose has added some marginal notes.
Dates:
1725.
Copy, 18th century, of ‘Historia diplomatica’ by Petrus a Thymo (van der Heyden).
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.2.3 (I)-(IV)
Dates:
15th century.
Copy, 18th century, written on paper watermarked 1742 or 1749, of an extract from `An Abridgment of the Scotishe historie`, written by John Maxwell, 4th Lord Herries of Terregles and dated 1656.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.7
Scope and Contents
The extract covers the period 1541-1571. There is a brief description of the original manuscript on the flyleaf of the present volume. According to Robert Pitcairn in his preface to the published work, the original manuscript was probably destroyed sometime during the French Revolution, having been housed in the Scots College at Douai. The copyist, whose initials appear to be J P (folio 1), may have been Friar John Pepper, Society of Jesus, who was a student at the Scots College, Douai from...
Dates:
1656.
Copy, 1613, of Joannes Ferrerius ‘Historiæ Compendium de origine et incremento Gordoniæ familiæ….’ by Constable D’Aubigny, for the use of Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.5A
Scope and Contents
There are a few leaves prefixed, containing the later history of the family, to the Battle of Glenlivet, written in English, in a hand of the seventeenth century, (by Straloch says Sibbald).
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (Jac.V.5.9).
Dates:
1545, 17th century.