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‘Extracta ex variis chronicis Scotiae’, a transcript made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane, 1738, taken from the original manuscript, Adv.MS.35.6.13, a collection of extracts of chronicles, late 15th century-early 16th century, mostly taken from Fordun and Boece with extensive annotations in the hand of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.10
Scope and Contents
Later additions in the original are here collected at the end (pages 249). The folio numbers of the original are given in the margin, and the index which is placed at the beginning in the original, is here transferred to the end (page 263).
Dates:
Late 15th century-early 16th century.
‘Extracta ex variis chronicis Scotiae’, an incomplete transcript, early 18th century, taken from the original manuscript, Adv.MS.35.6.13, a collection of extracts of chronicles, late 15th century-early 16th century, mostly taken from Fordun and Boece with extensive annotations in the hand of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.4.5
Scope and Contents
A number of items in the Wodrow collection are in the same hand, and the copyist appears to have worked fairly frequently for Robert Wodrow. Later additions in the original are here collected at the end (page 159) and partially in a different hand, but the copyist breaks off in mid-entry at folio 296 verso of the original. The folio numbers of the original are given in the margin, and the index, which is placed at the beginning in the original, is omitted.
Dates:
Late 15th century-early 16th century.
Extracts, 1556, from chartularies of the Archbishopric of Glasgow which were deposited in the Scots College in Paris; followed by a short history, in Scots, of the Hamilton family entitled 'Frier Mark Hamiltonis historie'
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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.5
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of transcripts of the chartularies and original charters of the Archbishopric of Glasgow which were deposited in the Scots College in Paris. The material in the manuscript covers the 12th to the 16th centuries.The work is written in one hand and contains frequent additions, erasures, and corrections. The additions to the work, both in the margins and interlineal, are partly in Latin and partly in Scots.As well as charters, the volume contains extracts of...
Dates:
1556
Notes concerning, and transcripts of, chronicles and other material from various Welsh manuscripts made by William Forbes Skene.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.21
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Transcript, 17th century, of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’, and other material.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.10
Scope and Contents
At the end of the Chronicon is this notice: ‘Hac est vera copia antiquæ chronicæ monasterii de Melros in Scotia inchoatæ per Abbatem de Dundranan ab anno 735 continuata per varios ad annum 1270. Autographum extat in bibliotheca domini Roberti Cotton militis apud Vestmonasterium.’At page 42 commences ‘Relationes quodam Arnaldi Blair monachi de Dunfermelein et capellani D Wilhelmi Wallace militis 1327’, written in the same hand with/as the preceding chronicle but without any notice...
Dates:
Late 13th century, 1327.
Transcript, 18th century, of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’, and other material.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.6
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:Transcript of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’: a copy of Adv.MS.33.3.25 (page 1);‘Addenda ex exemplari Anglico impresso’ (page 41);The ‘Relationes Arnaldi Blair’ copied from Adv.MS.35.6.10 (page 44);‘Addenda alia e chronico Melrosensi impresso’ (page 51);Copies of letters, 1563, of Queen Mary to the Council of Trent in Latin, and to the Cardinal of Lorrain and the Pope in Italian (page 65);...
Dates:
12th century-1683.