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Microfilm of transcript of correspondence, memorials, and other documents regarding the Irish Bible printed at the expense of the Honourable Robert Boyle, its distribution in the Scottish Highlands, and the creation there of libraries and schools, with reference to the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.289
Dates:
1678-1708.
‘Minutes of Parliament, Council, and Exchequer, collected by Earl Hadington’, the title in the hand of Sir James Balfour prefacing a volume of copies made for the 1st Earl of Haddington of minutes of Parliament, 1400-1622, of the Privy Council, 1546-1635, and of Exchequer, 1583-1629.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.2 (I)-(II)
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Short minutes of the proceedings of Parliament, 1400-1622 (folio 1);
(ii) “Notes furth the books of Secret Council” and “Catalogues of the acts of Secret Council” and “Missive letters in the book of Secret Council” and “Council missives to & from His Majestie”, 1546-1635 (folio 111);
(iii) ‘Minute of the Register of the Chekkers beginnand 16 July 1583 to 17 July 1629’ (folio 527).These notes have originally been written on separate quires...
Dates:
1400-1635.
Minutes of the Glasgow Committee of the London Missionary Society.
File
Identifier: Acc.12590
Scope and Contents
Inlcudes modern transcript.
Dates:
1796-1833.
Miscellaneous collection of letters and other papers of Sir Walter Scott and his contemporaries.
Series
Identifier: MS.786
Dates:
1791-1850, undated.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, including that of William Forbes Skene.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.15
Dates:
19th century.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, relating principally to William Forbes Skene’s work in preparing his ‘Chronicles of the Picts and Scots’ and ‘Celtic Scotland’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.16
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Miscellaneous letters and papers chiefly of the seventeenth century and chiefly relating to affairs in Scotland.
File
Identifier: MS.3368
Scope and Contents
There are some transcripts, notes, and a table of contents in a modern hand.
Dates:
1545-1745.
Miscellaneous papers, chiefly concerning Scotland.
File
Identifier: MS.19991
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Part of a volume of annuals of Scotland covering in some detail the years 1602-1624, and more superficially, 1628-1633 (folio 1);
(ii) Transcripts of Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, 1618, 1621, 1644, 1648 (folio 22);
(iii) Royal precept appointing David Muirhead of Drumpark tutor to John son of David Muirhead merchant burgess of Dumfries, 1670 (folio 40);
(iv) Minutes of meetings of the heritors of Berwickshire concerning roads within the county,...
Dates:
1618-1771.
`Miscellany collections out of the Registers of the justiciary parliament and containing historical and genealogical Collections`, a transcript, late 17th century, partly in the hand of Robert Mylne, of the historical part of Sir Lewis Stewart`s collections, compiled early in the 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.11
Scope and Contents
Compared with Stewart`s own manuscript (Adv.MS.22.1.14), this transcript has several additional texts (which also mostly appear in the other transcript, Adv.MS.34.3.12); as only a few of these can ever have been in Adv.MS.22.1.14, it is likely that this transcript was not made from it, but from a lost expanded version; and if the Lues Stewart mentioned on folio 145 as a borrower of books is Sir Lewis, the expansion may not have been by him.The correspondence between the two...
Dates:
1134-[circa 1627].
Miscellany of antiquarian papers compiled by Richard Augustine Hay in 1725-1726 and probably over a somewhat longer period, consisting for the most part of transcripts of royal, episcopal, baronial and other charters and other formal documents from the 12th to the 17th centuries, together with some extracts from medieval cartularies, and a few notes on contemporary published works.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.35.4.16-35.4.17
Scope and Contents
The papers are in some confusion and many others dispersed. Some (Adv.MS.25.9.10) were acquired by the Advocates` Library in 1881 as part of the Riddell Papers; and others (Acc.5022 and Acc.5694) were acquired by the National Library of Scotland in 1970 and 1972.
The purposes for which the papers were originally compiled and the circumstances of their dispersal are alike unknown.
Dates:
12th century-17th century.
Modern transcript of the Register of the Consultations of the Ministers of Edinburgh and some other brethren of the ministry.
Series
Identifier: MSS.636-637
Dates:
1652-1661.
Nether Lorn, or Campbell, Canntaireachd; with a transcript of Angus Mackay's 'Specimens of Canntaireachd', and a note by Archibald Campbell, Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3714-3716
Dates:
1797-1950.
Notebook containing transcripts of specifications and articles by various authors relating to a wide variety of small engineering undertakings, owned and chiefly compiled by R Blackadder.
Item
Identifier: MS.19981
Scope and Contents
R Blackadder worked in Dundee, and appears to have been a member of the family of mapmakers and civil engineers from Berwickshire. He was part estate management consultant and part engineer. His interests ranged from manure and drainage, to the construction of damheads, ice houses, bridges, and railway curves. He also made notes on landlord tenant relations, on crop rotation, and on the organisation of various large estates. His work was primarily in Angus, but he spent some time in...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Notebook of Richard Augustine Hay apparently originally intended for notes (folio 1), meditations and extracts (folios 1-10 inverted) of a religious character, but used almost entirely for transcripts of documents relating to the family of Sinclair of Rosslyn (folios 3-83).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.2
Scope and Contents
Following the transcripts are a list of books ‘of help for Composing our history’ (folio 84) and transcripts of two charters apparently unrelated to Rosslyn or the Sinclairs. The notes and transcripts are all undated but were doubtless made before the writing of Adv.MSS.34.1.8-34.1.9 was begun in 1700. Most perhaps were made by Hay when he was in Scotland between 1686 and 1690; Slezer`s ‘Theatrum Scotiæ’ (first published 1693) is mentioned at folio 86. The watermark of the leaves...
Dates:
4th quarter of 17th century.
'Notes and Memorandums calculated to refresh the mind of the Writer and to excite Reflection. Partly transcribed from a previous book of Notandums' by Alexander Kincaid Mackenzie.
Item
Identifier: MS.10992
Scope and Contents
Alexander Mackenzie was a merchant who became Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1817. Much of the material is autobiographical and covers the author's life up to 1829. It includes family matters (especially the military career in India of his eldest son, James), finance, and politics with special reference to their effect on trade and the economy. There are also remarks on events in Edinburgh, particularly during Mackenzie's provostship, such as royal visits, the introduction of gas lighting, and...
Dates:
[1829, or after.]
Notes and transcripts concerning the Knights Templar and Knights of St John in Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8090
Scope and Contents
With bookplate of James Maidment.
Dates:
early 19th century.
Notes concerning, and transcripts of, chronicles and other material from various Welsh manuscripts made by William Forbes Skene.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.21
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Notes of Dr Alexander Mitchell for a biography of John Gibson Lockhart, taken chiefly from manuscript material in the National Library of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5210-5265
Scope and Contents
The notes fill fifty-four notebooks (MSS.5210-5263).
MSS.5264-5265 contain miscellaneous correspondence and papers concerning John Gibson Lockhart.
Dates:
1st half of 20th century.
Notes, transcripts and extracts compiled by and for Lieutenant-General George Henry Hutton relating to Aberdeen and its ecclesiastical antiquities.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.22
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows: (i) Extracts in Hutton`s hand from the index to the Records of the City of Aberdeen by William Kennedy, advocate,Aberdeen, 1814. The entries, which are alphabetically arranged by subject, range in date between 1401 and 1799. (Folio 1.)(ii) Translations in another, unidentified hand of formal documents relating to the Dominicans of Aberdeen ranging in date between 1392 and 1585. According to a note in Hutton`s...
Dates:
Late 12th century-1799.
Official transcript, February 1300/1301, of a charter, 16 May 1294, of John, King of Scots, confirming an earlier charter by Alexander III in favour of Marguerite, daughter of Guy, Count of Flanders, and wife of Alexander, Prince of Scotland, his son, granting to her a dowry from the revenue of the town of Berwick.
Item
Identifier: Ch.4763
Dates:
16 May 1294.
Papers and correspondence of Dudley Sommer concerning his biography of Lord Haldane.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.348- is now MSS.20661-20667.
Dates:
1952-1964.
Papers, consisting of historical and genealogical notes and extracts, transcripts of formal and legal documents of earlier periods (as well as a number of original documents and papers), and a few unrelated letters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.9
Scope and Contents
The papers, written in many different 18th-century hands, are very mixed and are quite brief. The largest groups are:(i) part (pages 17-32) of a collection of transcripts, in the hand of one of Walter Macfarlane`s assistants, of documents relating to members of the family of Stirling of Keir (folios 23-30); (ii) part of a collection of transcripts, in the hand of another of Macfarlane`s assistants, of royal and other letters to members of the family of Mure of...
Dates:
?17th century-18th century.