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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.
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.
Customs book, to which has been added historical material relating to contemporary affairs in Scotland.
Item
Identifier: MS.2263
Scope and Contents
The customs book comprises:(i) Accounts of the Salt Custom on the North and South of the Firth of Forth, 1618-1630 (folio 1);(ii) 'Ane Memorandum of all the declarations, petitions, protestations ... informations to the shires with the names of ther Commissioners and Collonelis from 1637 to 1648', followed by a table of contents (folio 49);(iii) History of events, 1635-1662; at folio 93 has been inserted an account of 'The Generall Assemlie Holdin in...
Dates:
17th century.
Descriptive and historical account of the public records of Scotland, preceded by a contents list (folio i), written apparently in 1760 (folio 37) by William Tytler.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.6
Dates:
1760.
Extracts, 1839, from the lute book, 1627-1629, of Robert Gordon of Straloch, transcribed in tablature by George Farquhar Graham.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.18
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists of 30 pieces for lute, some dances, some song tunes, mostly Scottish, but including William Basse`s
`Hunter`s Career` (folios 18 verso-19). It includes an introduction giving a history of the original manuscript, some explanation of lute
tablature, and a list of the original contents.
Robert Gordon`s original manuscript is now lost.
Dates:
1839.
Genealogical and historical material in the hand of Sir James Balfour.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.21
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Notes on the Scottish nobility and on Scottish history, based on ‘Scotorum historiae’ (folio 1).(ii) Dates of Scottish Parliaments, 1424-1457, with brief notes on Parliaments held up to 1625 (folio 26 verso).(iii) Genealogy of the Stuarts from Banquo to Charles I (folio 28).(iv) Notes of the statutes of Kenneth I and II (folio 31).(v) Genealogy of the Earls of Caithness to 1625...
Dates:
1625.
Leyden Lyra-Viol Book: a `Copy of the Tunes in Tablature in Doctor John Leyden`s Manuscript Lyra-Viol Book`, transcribed by George Farquhar Graham.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.19
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes some details of the history of the original manuscript and a list of its contents. Most of the tunes are Scottish, but composers include Henry Purcell, John Banister, James Hart, William Lawes, and Henry Aldrich.
Dates:
1st half of 19th century.
Manuscript of `La tierche partie de la noble et puissante Maison de Bourgongne` by Robert Macquéreau.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.5
Scope and Contents
Macquéreau, or Macquériau, a historian from Valenciennes, wrote a `Traicté et recueil de la maison de Bourgogne` covering the period 1500-1529 which was published in two parts under the title ‘Histoire générale de l`Europe’. The manuscript covers the period 1464-1506. Macquéreau’s manuscript for 1500-1527 is now in Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale n.a. fr. 10433.The manuscript is in two parts, each of which is preceded by a list of contents (folios ii verso, 95). Chapter headings...
Dates:
1st half of 16th century.
Topographical and other works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.22
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Scotia illustrata sive Theatrum Urbium, Arcium, Monasteriorum et aedium quarundam illustrium in Scotia`, circa 1692. The Latin text by Sibbald intended for John Slezer`s ‘Theatrum Scotiae’. It is very different from the published text which Slezer had had translated without Sibbald`s authority. The preface is in Slezer`s hand, and each entry is signed by both Sibbald and Slezer. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copy of William Harvey`s...
Dates:
Circa 1692-1709, and undated.
Work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical (Adv.MS.34.1.8) and secular (Adv.MSS.34.1.9(i)-34.1.9(ii)) antiquities of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.1.8-34.1.9
Scope and Contents
The work is in the same hand as, and was begun probably as the consequence to, Hay’s ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio` (Adv.MS.34.1.10) in 1700 (the date quoted on each title page) and completed in 1707 or later (Adv.MS.34.1.9(ii), folio 62).
Dates:
1700-1707, or after.