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15th-century English manuscript containing three Middle English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the chivalric poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.11
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘Liber maundevyle` (folio 1). The manuscript belongs to sub-group E of the Defective Version on which the earliest editions were based (`English manuscripts of Mandeville`s Travels`, pages 169-171). Several leaves are missing, containing the end of the prologue and beginning of chapter 1 (after folio 1), chapters 6-9 (after folio 10), and the end of chapter 32 onwards.(ii) `Sir Cleges` (folio 71). ‘The Index of Middle...
Dates:
15th century.
Autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.5.1.16-5.1.21
Scope and Contents
The majority of the works are unpublished, and those which are published present considerable divergences. All the plays were written for the stage, and in some cases the names of the actors appear in the list of dramatis personae. Adv.MS.5.1.16, (i) and (ii) seem to be unconnected with the remainder of the collection.
Dates:
Early 19th century.
`Collection of armorial bearings, inscriptions, etc.` made by Alexander Deuchar.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.7.1A-B
Dates:
1812-1841.
Composite volume made up in or about 1819 (the date of the watermark of the binder`s blanks) from five folio notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.13
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Extracts, 1797, in the hand of the chief clerk, Robert Lemon, from the `Rotuli Scotiae` kept in the Tower of London (cf. folio 282). The extracts relate to the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. The manuscripts were published, in two volumes, in 1814 and 1819. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies by Hutton of charters of Newbattle Abbey (folio 32). The source is unidentified: they are in a different order from those of the cartulary...
Dates:
?1789-?1797.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning the family of Anderson of St. Germains and their descendants, being chiefly the correspondence of Warren Hastings Anderson (died 1875), son of David Anderson of St. Germains (1751-1825).
Series
Identifier: MSS.14842-14847
Scope and Contents
Warren Hastings Anderson entered the merchant house of his uncle, Robert Anderson and Company, St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1813, becoming a partner in 1818. From then until the 1850s he spent most of his life in Italy and France engaged in trade, finally retiring to Bowerhouse near Dunbar. Family, personal and legal material predominates in this collection.
Dates:
1792-mid 20th century.
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.2(i)-(xiii)
Scope and Contents
The correspondence consists of letters to Hutton from various correspondents, many of whom were parish ministers to whom he had written asking for information; the papers consist of transcripts of charters and other formal documents, extracts from cartularies and other registers, and descriptions, sketches, plans and elevations of monasteries and other religious buildings. The greater part of the collection is dated between 1788 and 1790, and between 1809 and 1822 (many of the...
Dates:
1785-1823, undated.
John Sawers` Armorial, containing the arms of the Scottish nobility, mostly painted on engraved outlines.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.4
Scope and Contents
The later entries are unfinished and some are merely pencil sketches. The manuscript was shown in the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1891 (see ‘Memorial Catalogue’, number 60).The armorial is preceded by a printed form of charge concerning the right to bear arms, 1675 (folio ii verso) and a list of Scottish peers (folio iv). It is followed by an index and, on inverted pages 1-47, by a copy of a list of Scottish families and their arms by Thomas Craufurd,...
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Logbook of Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth, the geologist, containing accounts of two journeys made by him when he was a youth of eighteen and nineteen.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.5.15
Scope and Contents
The first account describes `A Cruize among the Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland. June 1836` and the second is a `Log of the Barbara of Bedford during her voyage from Bedford to York. July 1835` (folio 43).At the end of each log, there are lists of illustrations which apparently were meant to accompany the text, but the only drawings in the logbook appear in the second account. There is a map of the area between York and Bedford (folio 44) and a sketch of `A Yorkshireman`s...
Dates:
1835-1836.
Material of Sir James Balfour on the Irish nobility.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.27
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `A Catalonge [sic] of The Earlls Viscounts and Barrons of Irland as they ar Ranket in this present Zeir 1628’ (folio 1).(ii) `The armes of The Nobilitie of Irland and of Divers Gentelmen of The Same Countrey`. The date 1627 has been added. A sectionon the nobility is followed by one on the gentry arranged under the first letter of each name. The entries are blazons sometimes accompanied by sketches (folio...
Dates:
1627.
Microfilm of eight ledgers of Alasdair Gray, containing work notes for stories, poems, plays, and his last novel, with draft of letters and many diary entries.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2061-2062
Dates:
1945-2008.
Microfilm of manuscripts of three Middle-English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.238
Dates:
15th century.
Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21193-21198
Dates:
1569-1876, undated.
Papers relating to the military service of Lieutenant Walter R Cuthbert, RFA, in Mesopotamia and India.
File
Identifier: Acc.12808
Scope and Contents
Includes a list of photographs taken in Mesopotamia, papers connected with Cuthbert`s post-war claims for arrears of pay and allowances, a receipt from British Empire Union and copies of sketches by Mrs Cuthbert (Wendy Wood) made during her husband`s RFA training.
Dates:
1918-1919.
'The Arms of Noblemen, Knights, and others who have been Recorded in the Books of the Lyon Office at Edinburgh. [Compiled, over a period of years at the end of the seventeenth century, by] Henry Frazer, Ross Herauld & Painter'.
Item
Identifier: MS.2564
Scope and Contents
Henry Frazer’s signature is on page 710.
There are additions throughout in various hands including that of David Deuchar, Seal Engraver, Edinburgh, who also compiled the indexes (cf. Adv.MSS.35.6.15-35.6.16). There are thirteen coats crudely emblazoned and a sketch of the seal of office of the Lyon King of Arms.
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Two English medical manuscripts of the 12th century (each with later additions), bound together probably in the medieval period; the second at least belonged to a monk of Peterborough.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.16
Scope and Contents
A. (i) 'Macer Floridus, de viribus [so in title, 'virtutibus' in explicit] herbarum' by Odo of Meung(?). There are marginal headings throughout and two glosses on folio 1. A slightly later hand has added English equivalents of the plant-names (and also started to list them on folio 93 verso). A contents-list in a court-hand of the 13th century is on folio 39 verso. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Liber de virtutibus lapidum’, i.e. 'De lapidibus' by Marbod. (Folio 40.)(iii) Medical...
Dates:
12th century.