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Microfilm of assorted 13th-17th century manuscripts.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.465
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Fair copy, 1686-1689, 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, volume 1. (Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)); Register of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, written, circa 1537, by John Lambert, prebendary of the Chapel, containing copies of papal bulls and other documents, 1501-1537...
Dates: 13th century-1689.

Microfilm of extracts, late 17th century, from the Books of Sederunt of the Court of Session, 1532-1689.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1078
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Extracts, late 17th century, from the Books of Sederunt of the Court of Session, 1532-1659 (Adv.MS.25.2.5(i));

Extracts, late 17th century, from the Books of Sederunt of the Court of Session, 1661-1689 (Adv.MS.25.2.5(ii)).

Dates: 1532-1689.

Microfilm of manuscripts, chiefly notes and poems, of George Sibbald of Rankeillour, or in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.358
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: ‘Extracta de Cronicis Scotiæ Quæ ad Historiam civilem pertinent’, late 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century, in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald (Adv.MS.15.2.1);"Observationes collectæ ex Libro cui titulus est ‘extract ex Chronicis Scotiæ'. Hic notantur ea quæ Historiano Ecclesiasticam pertinent”, late 17th century, being notes of Sir Robert Sibbald chiefly on ecclesiastical history, from various sources. (Adv.MS.15.2.2);'Canon sive...
Dates: 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century.

Microfilm of notes, [1839, or after-circa 1855], compiled by William B D D Turnbull; and, papers, 1558-1620, concerning Mary Queen of Scots, collected by James Anderson.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.316
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Notes, [1839, or after], of proceedings in the elections, 1790-1837, of representative peers for Scotland, compiled by William B D D Turnbull (Adv.MS.6.1.16);Biographical and genealogical notes, [circa 1855], mostly extracts or cuttings from books and newspapers, compiled by William B D D Turnbull (Adv.MS.6.1.18);Copies, 1727 or before, in various hands, of papers, 1558-1620, concerning Mary Queen of Scots and her reign, apparently...
Dates: 1558-[circa 1855].

Microfilm of "Records of the Literary Society of Glasgow, 1764-79. Transcribed from the Society's Minutes, 1830", by William James Duncan.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.232
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Laws of the Society. (Folio 1.) (ii) List of meetings for each session, with the name of the speaker and the title of his 'discourse', November 1764–January 1771 (folio 3 verso). Occasionally the elections of new members or the names of absentees are recorded. 'There is a gap in the Records for the next 5 years, and the only information we have of their Transactions during the years 1771 and 1773 is from a loose jotting, of which the following is a copy'...
Dates: 1764-1779.