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15th-century manuscript written in the Low Countries, containing various works attributed to, or written by, St Bernard.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Extracts from the `Vita beatissimi Malachie`, caps. 1-25. See ‘Patrologia Latina’ 182, 1073-1104 (folio 1 verso).(ii) Notes on vipers with reference to Aristotle (folio 8 verso).(iii) `De conversione ad clericos`, cap. 3. ‘Patrologia Latina’ 182, 856-857 (folio 9).(iv) `Bernardus de servitute vitiorum et incertitudine mortis` (folio 10).(v) Anonymous commentaries on the Song of...
Dates:
15th century.
Book of the Incorporation of Coopers of South Leith.
Item
Identifier: MS.3411
Scope and Contents
According to a note on folio 2, the book was purchased by the Incorporation of Coopers of South Leith in 1669, and it contains records of transactions from the Acts and Statutes, 1525 to 1754. These records, which are not continuous, are chiefly of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. They include: a note of entry-fees to be paid by freemen and their sons, with the Oath of Admission (folio 22 verso); minutes of the admission of freemen from 1601 to 1754, with their marks...
Dates:
1525-1754.
`Cartae de Cella de Coldingham, in ecclesia Dunelmensi Conservatae’. An inventory of Coldingham Priory compiled by John Smith, prebendary of Durham.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.13
Scope and Contents
Two leaves of additions have been inserted (pages 89-92) and there is a list of contents (page 93).
Dates:
1702-1703.
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.
Collection of quarto volumes of transcripts by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1st quarter of 19th century, of several of the surviving cartularies and other registers, and of some collections of charters and other deeds, of the medieval dioceses, churches and religious houses of Scotland, 1164-1639.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.9A.1.1-9A.1.20
Scope and Contents
Many of the transcripts are undated: apart from those in Adv.MS.9A.1.17, which were made in 1800, few appear from the watermarks in the leaves to have been made before 1813. From the watermarks of the endpapers the volumes appear to have been bound about 1818 or later.Several of the transcripts were made from original manuscripts or eighteenth-century copies then in possession of the Honourable William Maule of Panmure, who was created Baron Panmure in 1831: others were made from...
Dates:
1164-1639.
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.
Contents leaf and pages 25-360 of the 3rd or 4th edition of “The queen's wake” by James Hogg (Edinburgh, 1814 or 1815); with autograph corrections and additions by the poet which were incorporated into the 5th edition of 1819.
Item
Identifier: MS.20440
Dates:
1814-1815.
Copies, 1727 or before, in various hands, of papers concerning Mary Queen of Scots and her reign, apparently collected by James Anderson.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.19
Scope and Contents
Although not published in the work, James Anderson appears to have collected the material comprising this manuscript for his ‘Collections Relating to the History of Mary Queen of Scotland’ (Edinburgh and London, 1727-1728). A draft of articles of co-partnery between Anderson, his son-in-law John Leitch, and his son Patrick, to publish the Collections is at folio 21. Among the papers copied are:the marriage articles of Mary and François II, 1558 (folio 13 verso);...
Dates:
1558-1620.
Copies, early 17th century, in French, of treaties drawn up between France and her various allies, 1552-1615.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.4
Scope and Contents
Also included is a copy of a memoir of Henri IV by Pierre Jeannin, in a different hand from the rest of the volume (folio 1), a number of instructions to ambassadors, commissions, and other related material, and a table of contents (folio 264).
Dates:
1552-1615.
Copies, early 17th century, in French, of treaties drawn up between France and her various allies, 1606-1613.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.9
Scope and Contents
Also included are a number of instructions to ambassadors, commissions, and other related material.
There is a table of contents (folio 1).
Dates:
1606-1613.
Copies, in an eighteenth-century hand, of Jacobite tracts, in a book containing Thomas Ruddiman's bookplate and a list of contents in his autograph.
File
Identifier: MS.2258
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'A Letter to the Author of a Sermon entituled, "A Sermon preach'd at the Funerall of Her Late Majesty Queen Mary . . ." By Dr. Cane [Ken], late Bp. of Bath and Wells', 29 March 1695 (published, London, 1695). (Folio 1.)(ii) 'A Letter from Mr. Lesly [Charles Leslie] to a Member of Parliament in London', Bar-le-Duc, 23 April 1714 (published, [publisher not identified], 1714). (Folio 7.)(iii) Proclamation of Prince James Edward...
Dates:
1648-[circa 1719].
Copies of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions in parish churchyards in Lanarkshire, compiled, with introductions, photographs, lists of contents, and indexes, by John Smith, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2238-2244
Scope and Contents
John Smith is the author of "Monumental inscriptions in St. Cuthbert's Churchyard, Edinburgh", edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, in 'Scottish Record Society' series (Edinburgh, 1915, 1919).
Dates:
1915-1919.
Copy, late 15th or early 16th century, of material, early 14th century-1364, concerning the Parlement de Paris.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.15
Scope and Contents
(i) List of contents (folio 1).(ii) Guillaume du Breuil, `Stylus curie Parlamenti` (folio 5). This manuscript was known to Félix Aubert who edited the ‘Stilus curie Parlamenti’ (Paris, 1909). It belongs to Aubert`s second family of manuscripts; chapter 25 follows chapter 21, and chapter 37 item 39 is omitted. There are many inaccuracies and the scribe made a number of additions in the margin.(iii) `Sequuntur ordinationes adiunctiones et statuta parlamenti` (folio...
Dates:
Late 15th or early 16th century.
Copy made in or about 1690 by James Clapperton, Dalkeith, of the chronicles of the Civil War in Scotland compiled by Henry Guthrie, Bishop of Dunkeld.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.23
Scope and Contents
The text of this manuscript is the same as that common to the other copies in this Library, agreeing with them against the printed book in some small omissions and additions, and numerous variants in vocabulary, spelling and word order. In addition to the text, the manuscript contains: summaries (in red) in the margins of most of the pages; at page i, a table of contents (as far as page 105 only); at page 161, a list of Royalist supporters executed in England during the Commonwealth period;...
Dates:
Circa 1690.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’ made in 1677 from a text written probably in or shortly after 1666.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.3
Scope and Contents
Although the general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order), the text is considerably shorter, for most of the Titles have fewer chapters (some have only half as many), and fewer references to case-decisions.At folio iv is an inscription (repeated at folio v verso) stating that the copying of the book was completed on 19 October 1677; it is presumably in the hand of James Hay, whose note of...
Dates:
1666 or after.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written apparently in or about 1666.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.12
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the text in general appears to be rather shorter and is illustrated by references to earlier case-decisions, and the titles are divided into fewer paragraphs. The text is preceded (folio ii verso) by an index (more correctly by a list of Titles and their contents), in the same hand, which has also been responsible for the pagination, and is followed...
Dates:
Circa 1666.
Copy of the statutes of the Order of the Garter in English, written probably in 1558, containing the statutes of Henry VIII, and of Mary and Philip, and a further statute, dated 12th of January in the first year of Elizabeth, added in another hand.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.18
Scope and Contents
The title, and the statutes of Henry VIII, are introduced by small gold initials within blue and brown parti-coloured squares. Many of the statutes of Henry VIII, and most of those of Mary and Philip have a title or a summary in red in the margin, written in the same hand as the text; several have marginal annotations in another hand of the late 16th or early 17th century. All the statutes, except that of Elizabeth, have been numbered, and at folios i-ii is a list of contents, written in a...
Dates:
1558.
Correspondence of Alexander Christie, Provost of Montrose, and other material relating to the affairs of the town, with discussions of Christie's religious and political views, copied by Christie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3701-3703
Scope and Contents
The correspondents are mainly notables of Angus, divines, political thinkers, and merchants, and include Alexander Christie's brother William, the Unitarian writer, his son Thomas, the political writer, Sir David Carnegie, Baronet, George Dempster of Dunnichen, David Scott of Dunninald, the Reverend William Dalrymple (subject of "The Kirk's Alarm"), T F Palmer, the reformer, Robertson, the historian, and Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet.
Dates:
1781, 1789-1793.
Culinary and medical recipes.
File
Identifier: MS.15912
Scope and Contents
The recipes, which are both culinary and medical, are in several hands, and there are lists of the contents at the beginning and end of the volume. The initials M I M are stamped on the covers and written inside the front cover.
Dates:
17th century-18th 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.
Eighteenth-century copy of selected General Orders by Field-Marshal George Wade, 1744, and the Duke of Cumberland, 1745-1748.
File
Identifier: MS.7191
Scope and Contents
The Duke of Cumberland's orders are arranged chronologically under various subject headings, of which the most important are: 'General and Staff Officers', 'Forrage and Forragers', 'Camp Duty and Regulations', 'March of the Army', 'Detachment Guards', 'Picquets', 'Signals at a Review', 'Exercise and Firing', and 'Regulation of Colours'.
Dates:
1744-1748.
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.
Extracts by Lieutenant-General George Henry Hutton from a manuscript compiled mainly by John Smyth, a monk at Kinloss Abbey (folio 1), followed by a copy by Hutton of the description (in fact a list of contents) of the original (Harl.MS.2363) from ‘A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum’, volume II (folio 28).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.6
Scope and Contents
Smyth`s manuscript appears to have been compiled from 1532 until his death in 1557 (several of the entries are undated): Hutton made his extracts about 1809, the date of the watermark of the leaves, and had them bound about 1824, the date of the watermark in the (blank) endpapers, Smyth`s manuscript appears to have consisted of fifteen items: Hutton appears to have copied the first seven and to have made extracts, some quite brief, from some of the remainder.
Dates:
1532-1557.
Five documents, bound in a volume, detailing the losses suffered on various parts of the Earl of Wigtown`s estates during the Civil War, 1643-1652.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.16
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(1) Statement by the Kirk Session of Denny, 1646, concerning the baronies of Temple Denny and Herbertshire, with the lands of Catscleuch, of losses in 1645 (£7,446);(2), (3) Two copies of statement by the Kirk Session of Lenzie, 1651, of losses since the Battle of Dunbar (£35,050-13-4);(4) Statement by the Commissioners for Lenzie, 1652, of losses since 10 October, 1650 (£2,510 sterling);(5) General statement of the...
Dates:
1646-1652.