Scope and Contents The statutes (folio 5) are preceded by a list of their articles (folio 1). There are lacunae in the text following folios 14 and 16. Written in littera bastarda. Ruling in red ink. Folios 4 and 25 blank but ruled. Initials in gold on red and blue grounds. On folio 5 is a large miniature of the French king, crowned and wearing the collar of the Order, seated on a throne. There are no figures of other members of the Order. The arms of France, surrounded by the collar of the Order,...

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At the beginning 30 folios have been left blank and the last drawings, on folio 47, have not been completed. From the watermark and the hand, the manuscript may be dated to the late 16th century; it is possibly an English production as many Scottish family names have been misspelt in a non-Scottish manner.

Scope and Contents The volume contains:(i) 72 numbered leaves from a disbound 16th-century armorial of the Scottish nobility, measuring ca. 27 x 20 cm. Containing the arms of the Scottish kings (nos 1-18) and coats of arms of the Scottish nobility (19-74). The entry for Mary, Queen of Scots (17) is dated 1570; that for Darnley, Earl of Lennox (23) is dated 1581. Underneath the Lindsay of Crawford arms (26) a sheet is tipped in containing three wax signets with impressions of the Earl of...

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Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.

Scope and Contents The manuscript is listed with eleven others in 'Etude biographique, littéraire et bibliographique sur Olivier de la Marche' by Henri Stein. It is also included in La Marche, Olivier de. 'Le Chevalier Deliberé (The Resolute Knight) ed. by Carleton W. Carroll, 1999. There are ten miniatures, each in a pillared frame. The subjects are the author writing his work (folio 1), the knight setting out on his quest (folio 3), the knight approaching the hermit (folio 5 verso), the hermit...

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There are additions up to 1822 by the copyists David Deuchar, and his son Alexander, the seal-engravers.

The volumes are interleaved with pages engraved with blank shields, some of which have been completed in watercolours or in trick to illustrate the text.

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Each history is preceded by an engraving of a figure with the arms of the family.

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The contents are as follows: Copies, 1796, of charters and other papers, 1st half of 16th century-1740, written for and partly by William Rose, the genealogist, in Montcoffer (Adv.MS.15.1.9);

Arms of the English and Scottish nobility, [circa 1612]. A collection, previously owned by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, of painted arms with genealogical notes on their holders, made by an Englishman (Adv.MS.15.1.10).

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Genealogy, late 17th century-1st half of 18th century, of the surname of Douglas by Robert Mylne (Adv.MS.15.2.22);Genealogical account, late 17th century-1st half of 18th century, of the Scots peers by Robert Mylne (Adv.MS.15.2.23);Genealogical account, late 17th century-1st half of 18th century, of the Dukes of Scotland by Robert Mylne (Adv.MS.15.2.24);Genealogical material, late 17th century-mid 18th century, collected by...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: ‘Collection of illuminate arms’, 1794, by Etherington Martyn, in 2 volumes, containing watercolour paintings of Scottish, English and a few foreign arms. (Adv.MS.31.4.1-2); ‘Original institutions of the princely orders of collars’ by Sir William Segar, 1603, or after (Adv.MS.31.4.5);Copies by John Wither, 1623, of English rolls of arms, mostly from ‘an auntient booke of Armes which Mr Glover Somerset the Harald had of Mr Joseph Holland in...

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At the end, on two sheets bound into the volume (folios 182-183), are sketches of coats of arms in trick, including, among others, those of the Heptarchy and of the three English Kings of Arms, Garter, Clarenceux, and Norroy. With the sketches are notes about the disposition of the shields on a building which may have been the old College of Arms.

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Included are letters to John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, various members of the Townshend family, George Livingston, 3rd Earl of Linlithgow, and Sir Michael Stanhope, son of Sir Michael Stanhope (died 1552).

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The manuscript is written in an engraved frame dated 1757, and includes a painting of the Hepperger coat of arms. Inserted at the beginning is a paper read to the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1842, and other material concerning the document.

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The Genealogia, every page of which is within a coloured border, gives coats of arms, emblazoned; there is an index to it (folio 1). Following the Genealogia come the Catalogus (folio 29); short drafts for parts of the Genealogia (folio 31); a broadsheet, ‘The Succession of the Kings of England’ (London, 1687) (folio 34); and a genealogy showing the royal connections of various English families from early times (folio 37).

Content Description An armorial of the Scottish peers, containing coats of arms of the Scottish nobility, possibly created in England for the benefit of Englishmen who had received Scottish titles. The 14 coats of arms, beginning with the Scottish royal arms, are painted in watercolour on engraved templates showing the outlines of shield and name label, and varying styles of helmet, mantle and other marks of rank. A few blank and unfinished templates illustrate the process. The armorial records the...

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This armorial is closely related to MS.10338; the text in both manuscripts is the same, but the names of some of the Scottish queens are omitted in MS.19610 (folios 2-3) and the reference to James VI as king of England (folio 4 verso) is added in the margin. The coats of arms were originally in trick and have been painted.

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The label gives the final date as 1729, but a charter of 1730 is mentioned. The author left his work uncompleted.

Scope and Contents There is an index on folio 1; the songs begin on folio 5.The Scottish songs appear to come mainly from Allan Ramsay's ‘Tea table miscellany’ and David Herd's ‘Ancient and modern Scottish songs’ (1776), though some of the songs may have been picked up by ear, as they include a very debased version of Henry Carey's 'Sally in our alley' (folio 17 verso) and "My heart's in the Highlands" in an apparently unknown version different from that of Burns (folio 81 verso)....