Copies. Derivative objects.
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3635 Collections and/or Records:
Copies by Sir James Balfour of chiefly rentals of Church and Crown lands in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.16
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: a.1.22.Some of the items in this manuscript may have been copied from Adv.MS.34.2.17: Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rent.The contents are as follows:
1. Rentals of benefices, 1561;
2. Kings Rents & Casualties, 1628;
3. The contributions to the Lords of Session;
4. Compt of taxation of £100,000, 1593;
5. The rent paid to the king out of the...
Dates:
16th century-1628.
Copies by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne of papers concerning the proposed marriage between Charles, Prince of Wales, and the Infanta Maria of Spain.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.7
Dates:
1622-1623.
Copies by Sir James Balfour of royal letters and other documents in the Denmilne Papers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.11
Scope and Contents
A list giving the references of the original manuscripts has been inserted.
Dates:
1586-1626.
Copies by Sir James Balfour of some of his own letters and two addressed to him.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.26
Scope and Contents
The letters are not in chronological sequence. Most of them express his friendship for his correspondent, but in one he comments on the reception of the new Service Book at St Giles in 1637 (folio 9 verso), and in another to Lord Elcho he advises on reading matter (folio 12 verso).
Dates:
1628-1643, and undated.
Copies, chiefly from printed books, of documents concerning Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.19
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Copies, chiefly typescript, of thirteen letters of David Livingstone, 1841-1872, and of three letters of Mary Moffat, 1863., 1841-1872.
File
Identifier: MS.10710
Dates:
1841-1872.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters, manuscripts, maps, and other papers of and concerning David Livingstone, being the material formerly stored in the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, and photocopies of material permanently exhibited there.
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Letters of and concerning David Livingstone.
Copies, chiefly typewritten, of letters of Sir Walter Scott, collected by Sir Herbert Grierson when he was preparing the centenary edition of Scott’s letters but rejected from printing.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1750-1753
Scope and Contents
The copies of those letters in the National Library which are to be found in MS.863 have not been preserved. A list of the numbers of the letters in MS.863 is bound in at the beginning of MS.1750.
Dates:
1800-1832, undated.
Copies, circa 1680, of (i) ‘Description of the Western Isles of Scotland’ by Sir Donald Monro, `High Dean of the Isles`, originally written in 1549 (page 1); (ii) `The Description of the Iles of Scotland` by an unknown author written probably around 1577-1582 (page 22).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.6
Dates:
1549, 1577-1582.
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, early 18th century, of autobiographies and other works of covenanters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.19
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is apparently in the hand of John Elphinston: see Adv.MS.32.3.9, folio 78 verso. Several items in Adv.MS.32.3.9 are also in this hand.The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Autobiography of John Livingstone, minister of Ancrum. It has been published from the version in Wod.Qu.XVIII in ‘Select Biographies’, i, pages 129-197. This manuscript has a few variants from the published version. (Folio 1.)(ii) `An Account of what past when...
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century-early 18th century.
Copies, early 18th century, of letters and memoirs of covenanters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.4
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Letters, 1675-1677, of the preacher John Welwood. They are mostly addressed to Elizabeth Collace and her sister Katharine Ross, but there are also a few to the covenanter Richard Cameron. The letters, which are not in strict chronological order, are chiefly religious in nature, but there are occasional mentions of the persecutions in Fife, the Merse and Teviotdale. (Folio 1.)(ii) Memoirs of Katharine Ross. The...
Dates:
1675-early 18th century.
Copies, early eighteenth century, of notarial instruments upon a process before the Bishops of Durham and Aberdeen, Pope’s delegates, concerning the Priory of Coldinghame, between the Priors of Durham and Coldinghame and Patrick and John Home.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.4.13
Dates:
1465-1468.
Copies, facsimiles and reproductions of various correspondence of Lord Byron., 1931-1951, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.43543
Scope and Contents
There are here copies and transcriptions of original letters and manuscripts of Lord Byron as well as catalogue entries with images for letters of Lord Byron for sale. The copies are all undated unless otherwise stated and have been arranged chronologically by date of the original letters, followed by the transcriptions organised in the same way. The catalogue entries are then placed at the end of the sequence with a letter to John Murray.Facsimile copies of:Letter...
Dates:
1931-1951, undated.
Copies, in an early nineteenth century hand, of various letters, prose writings and speeches of Alexander Carlyle., Early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.23929
Scope and Contents
The copies, in a volume ruled as a cashbook, appear to have been made with a view of their being printed; but it is not clear if this was ever carried out.
Dates:
Early 19th century.
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, in chronological order, of the opinions given by John Inglis (later Lord Glencorse, Lord President of the Court of Session), some conjointly with other advocates.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.4.13-81.4.18
Scope and Contents
The volumes are numbered V to X; it seems likely that the missing I to IV covered all of Inglis’s earlier career as an advocate, from 1835. The series ends with his elevation to the bench as Lord Justice Clerk in July 1858.
Dates:
1846-1858.
Copies, in two different hands of the 17th century, of the statutes of the Royal College of Physicians of London. The statutes of 1647 (folio 1) are followed (folio 39) by an earlier set of statutes (not those of 1355) which have been emended to conform to those of 1647.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.14
Scope and Contents
The title and the initials P D occur on folio i.
Dates:
1647, and before.
Copies, in various hands, of poetry and prose (mostly anonymous) in English, Latin, French, and Italian., [Early 19th century.]
File
Identifier: MS.2720
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many of the manuscripts contain notes, indexes, etc., by George Neilson.
Dates:
[Early 19th century.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts collected by George Neilson, Glasgow, author of ‘Trial by combat’ (Glasgow, 1890) and joint-editor of the ‘Acta Dominorum Concilii, 1496-1501’ (Edinburgh, 1918).
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Commonplace-books, etc., of Richard Lovell Edgeworth of Edgeworthstown and his family, with some notes in pencil ascribing names, dates, etc., to poems.
Copies, late 16th century, of papers, 1584-1587, concerning the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots and her English supporters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.9
Dates:
1584-1587.
Copies, late 17th century and 18th century, of Sir Robert Spottiswoode, Lord Newabbey, ‘Practicks’.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.24.6.4-24.6.8
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Copies, late 17th century, of letters, 1637-1638, of Robert Baillie, principal of Glasgow University, and of papers, 1638, concerning the Glasgow Assembly.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.12
Dates:
1637-1638.
Copies, late 17th or early 18th century, of official papers, 1550-1632, concerning Scottish fisheries.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.16
Scope and Contents
The papers mostly concern the dispute with the United Provinces over the rights of the Dutch to fish in Scottish waters, 1618-1619, and the proposed joint English and Scottish association for the fisheries, 1630-1632. There are a few unrelated items, mostly concerning the coinage.
The signature `John Dalrymple` appears on folio 46.
Dates:
1550-1632.
Copies, late 18th-century, of poems, 1769-1774, and undated, of Henry Erskine, with a few corrections by the author.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.21
Scope and Contents
There is a list of contents on folio 1.
Dates:
1769-1774.
Copies, late seventeenth century, of anti-religious tracts, ‘Cymbalum mundi ceu symbolum sapientiae’ and 'De tribus impostoribus’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.5
Scope and Contents
1. ‘Symbolum sapientiæ, hoc est doctrina solida de Religione et vulgo sic dicta S. scriptura, superstioni Paganæ, Iudaicæ, Christianæ et Muhammedanæ opposita ex M.S. autoris Itali ... Eleutheropolis Anno 1678';
2. ‘De tribus impostoribus’, juxta exemplar impressum 1598.
Dates:
1598, 1678.