Charters
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 629 Collections and/or Records:
Volume formerly containing charters collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne., 1627 or after-18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.18 (1 of 2)
Scope and Contents
Copies of charters have been added: 4 in a seventeenth-century hand (folios 75-76), 4 by Thomas Ruddiman, 1705-1710 (folios 77-78), and 1 (incomplete) in an eighteenth-century hand (folio 78 verso).
Dates:
1627 or after-18th century.
Volume inscribed at folio i `A Collection of several Royal [and other] Charters, chiefly relating to Families in the West Country, copied from the Publick Archives from the time of Rob. Bruce to anno 1537`, made by an unidentified compiler some time during the first half of the 18th century., 14th century-1537.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.9.11
Scope and Contents
The volume bears notes and frequent underlinings in John Riddell’s hand. Some of the leaves (folios 58-60) are damaged, the top corners having been burned.
Dates:
14th century-1537.
Volume of John Riddell commenced between 1811 and 1814 and completed in 1819, containing extracts and copies of documents, and notes., 1727, ?1811-1819.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.2
Scope and Contents
The volume contains: (i) a copy of a transcript made in 1727 of the documents in the charter chest of the family of Hay of Erroll (folio 2), some of which were printed in ‘The miscellany of the Spalding Club’, volume ii, page 303 and what follows; (ii) extracts and transcripts of documents, and notes relating to other Scottish peerages (folio 45 verso), including a list of the Baronets of Scotland (folio 166 verso). A bifolium (folios 107-108) is stitched to folio 109. An incorrect...
Dates:
1727, ?1811-1819.
Volume of John Riddell entitled `Genealogical Collections`, commenced in 1807 and completed in 1811, containing transcripts and extracts of charters dating from the 13th to the 15th century relating to various Scottish families., 13th century-15th century, 1861.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.1
Scope and Contents
A discontinued contents list is at folio 2. A letter, 1861, of Robert Riddell formerly pinned to folio 6 has been tipped in inside the back cover (folio i). An incorrect pagination has been ignored.
Dates:
13th century-15th century, 1861.