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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 959 Collections and/or Records:

Copy, circa 1702, with additions to 1703, of `Collections of the most remarkable accounts that relate to the families of Scotland drawn from ther own charters and other authentick writts ... with ane account of ther armes’, probably made in 1672, attributed to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.10
Scope and Contents

The original compilation was probably made in 1672 (see Adv.MSS.32.6.1, folio 154 and 34.3.14, folio 42) and is attributed to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh. However, an 18th-century footnote added to the title page of Adv.MS.34.3.19 states that the collection was originally compiled by Sir Patrick Lyon of Carse, and that his manuscript was copied by Mackenzie and others who made their own additions to it.

Dates: ?1672.

Copy, dated 1741, by Roderick Chalmers, Ross Herald, of `The descent and pedegree of the most noble and auntient house of the Lords of Sincleer` drawn up by Henry, Lord Sinclair in 1590.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.15.2.31
Scope and Contents According to a statement by Chalmers (folio iv), the original manuscript was in the hands of James Pont in 1593. From him it passed to Joseph Stacey, Ross Herald, Henry Fraser, Ross Herald, and finally to Chalmers, who made this copy before restoring it to the Sinclair family. The original is now in the Lyon Office.Chalmers has continued the pedigree from 1590 to 1741. The arms are painted, with brief notes on their owners. Fuller notes and corrections have been added in a...
Dates: 1590-1741.

Copy, dated 1800, of ‘The Historie and Life of King James the Sext’, attributed to John Colville.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.17
Scope and Contents

An inscription by Malcolm Laing appears on folio 181, dated 15 July, 1800.

Dates: 17th century.

Copy, dated June 16 1727 (page 178), of the autobiography of William Veitch, minister of Dumfries, which was written (in the third person) apparently in 1714 (page 171).

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.25
Scope and Contents

The text ends at page 171: the following pages contain passages intended for previous insertion.

Dates: 1714.

Copy, early 18th century, of `A Discourse concerning the three Unions betwixt Scotland and England’, an apparently unpublished work, written circa 1670.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.7
Scope and Contents

The affairs which are discussed include James VI’s succession to the English throne, the proposals for a more entire union of Scotland and England made early in James`s reign and the proposals for a legislative union made in 1669-1670 by Charles II.

Dates: Circa 1670.

Copy, early 19th century, of the Standing Orders of the House of Lords.

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Identifier: MS.9353
Scope and Contents

The volume contains numbers 1-170 of the Orders, followed by an index (folio 113). There are a number of deletions, and the text does not include the emendations of 1813 (cf. ‘Standing Orders of the House of Lords except as to local and personal bills’). The latest Orders are dated 1803.

Dates: 1660-1803.

Copy, eighteenth century, of ‘Arcanum hermeticae philosophiae opus’.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.17
Scope and Contents

‘Arcanum hermeticae philosophiae opus in quo occulta Naturae et Artis circa Lapidis philosophorum materiam et operandi modum canonicé et ordinatè fiunt manifesta. muarto editio emendata et aucta 1647’.

Dates: 1647.

Copy, eighteenth century, of 'The Genealogie off the Mackenzies preceeding the year 1661. Written in the year 1669. By a Person of Quality’.

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Identifier: MS.657
Scope and Contents

This copy of the well-known genealogy in 1732 belonged to a John Matheson (folio i) and had probably been written by him about the same time. Although many leaves have been cut out at the end, the copy is almost complete. It includes a poem entitled ‘Arbuthnet on Sr. George Mackenzie off Rosehaugh’, beginning:

“Well then since the Relentless doom is spoke And there is no mortall power can ward the Stroak Scotland must ruin, it’s the Almighties will” (folios 73-74).

Dates: 1669.

Copy, eighteenth century, of 'The secret commonwealth' by Robert Kirk.

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Identifier: MS.5022
Scope and Contents

This copy of ‘The secret Commonwealth’ was at one time part of a larger volume (as was shown by remains of the binding).

Dates: 1691.

Copy, in a 17th-century hand, of several prose tracts of the poet William Drummond of Hawthornden, written at the time of the Civil War.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.9
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Irene. A. remonstrance for concord, amitie and love amongst his majesties subjects written after his declaration published at Edinburgh 22 of September 1638` (folio 1).(ii) `The Load-Starr on directorie to the new world and transeformations`, undated (folio 23).(iii) `The Magicall Mirror or the Declaration upon the arising of the N[oblemen], B[arons], G[entlemen] and B[urgesses] in Armes,1...
Dates: 1638-1642.

Copy in a contemporary hand, apparently that of one of his secretaries, of `A Discourse, conteyninge A perfect Accompt given to the moste vertuous and excellent Princesse Marie Queene of Scotts and her Nobility, by John Leslie B. of Rosse, Ambassador for her highnes toward the Queene of England Of his whole charge and proceedings duringe the time of his Ambassadge from his entres in England in September 1568 to the xvj[??] day of March 1571’.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.4.1
Scope and Contents The discourse begins at folio 8 being preceded by the Epistle and preface (folio 1 verso). Leslie`s account was used by William Camden in his ‘Annales ... regnate Elizabetha ... ad annum 1589’, there being several copies in manuscript, but it remained unpublished until it was printed with an introduction by James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, in his ‘Collections Relating to the History of Mary Queen of Scotland’, volume iii. Anderson used this copy as his text: another copy, British...
Dates: ?1571.

Copy in a contemporary hand of the score of ‘Il Trovatore’ by Verdi.

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Identifier: MS.21856
Scope and Contents

‘Il Trovatore’ by Verdi was first performed in 1853.

Dates: 1853.

Copy in an apparently twentieth-century hand of the piano score of ‘Don Quichotte’, a ballet by Petipa to music by Minkus, which was first performed in 1869.

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Identifier: MS.21860
Scope and Contents

The markings and deletions in pencil and crayon are presumably in the hand of Th. Wassileff, whose name is stamped on the flyleaf and elsewhere in the score.

Dates: [?1869.]

Copy in an unidentified formal hand, apparently datable to the 2nd quarter of the 18th century, of `The Pourtrait of True Loyalty Exposed in the Family of Gordon without interruption to this present year 1691 With A Relation of the Siege of the Castle of Edinburghe in the year 1689’ [apparently corrected from 1699].

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.11
Scope and Contents The original manuscript of this work, which was in Blairs College, Aberdeen (see ‘The House of Gordon’, page xxxvi), is at the Scottish Catholic Archives, Columba House, Edinburgh, where it has the pressmark MM 2/2. The work is ascribed to David Burnet, a Scottish Catholic priest working mainly in the Enzie, who died in 1696. The work was used by William Gordon for his ‘History of the Family of Gordon’. ‘The Siege of Edinburgh Castle’ (in this manuscript, beginning page 497) was...
Dates: 1691.

Copy in an unidentified hand of ‘Memorial offered to the Honourable Commissioners of Excise concerning the Mensuration of Tuns or Backs that have some irregularity in the Figure and Situation of the Bottom ... To which is added a Method of correcting the common Tables, and some new Theorems` by Colin Maclaurin.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.13
Scope and Contents

There is a pen drawing of a ship on folio vi. This is a work of applied mathematics written in order to enable customs officers to gauge the contents of molasses barrels used in the port of Glasgow.

Dates: 1735.

Copy, in the hand of John Dillon, of the report submitted by Thomas Thomson to the Commissioners of the Public Records of Scotland, on ‘Parliamentary Records of Scotland’ by William Robertson to which it is attached.

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Identifier: MS.8492
Scope and Contents

William Robertson's work was printed but not published. The report describes it as a literal transcription of the relevant papers in the Register House and points out the defects of this method of scholarship. The work was superseded by the critical edition subsequently compiled by Cosmo Innes and Thomas Thomson himself.

Dates: 1804.

Copy, late 15th or early 16th century, of material, early 14th century-1364, concerning the Parlement de Paris.

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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.