Histories.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Chronological records of events, as of the life or development of a people, country, or institution.
Found in 777 Collections and/or Records:
14th-century manuscript of the `Historia Anglorum` of Henry of Huntingdon.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.2
Scope and Contents
It contains prologue (folio 1) and books 1-10 (folios 2, 17, 29 verso, 46 verso , 60 verso, 75, 91, 106, 128 verso, 142); the end of book 9 is missing (from page xxvi, paragraph 19, 1.6 in T Arnold’s edition, who prints only extracts of this book), and of book 10 only a single leaf remains (page 276, paragraph 20, 1.10-page 279, paragraph 3 in Arnold).The text is written by one hand as far as folio 131; the remainder is by another contemporary, smaller hand, who uses a different...
Dates:
14th century.
14th-century manuscript of the 'Historia Anglorum' of Henry of Huntingdon.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.4
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains prologue (folio 1) and books 1-7 (folios 2, 12 verso, 23 verso, 38 verso, 50 verso, 64, 76 verso), ending in the year 1138, the first 11 paragraphs of the later book 8 being included in book 7 (cf. Arnold, pages xii, xxxix note 3). Book-numbers are added at the tops of folios 315 and 24 only.There are initials throughout; that of the prologue is zoomorphic, and that of book 1 more elaborate than the rest. On folios 1-20 they are in red and/or green, with a...
Dates:
14th century.
17th-century extracts and transcripts, in the hand of Sir James Balfour, of chartularies and other historical works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.9
Scope and Contents
17th-century manuscript written and compiled by Sir James Balfour containing the following works:1. Copy by Sir James Balfour of George Marjorybanks, 'Annals of Scotland, 1514-94'. Folios 6r-23r.A history of Scotland in the form of annals written in Scots, originally written in the late 16th century by George Marjoribanks, burgess of Edinburgh. The location of the original manuscript from which Balfour made his copy is unknown. The work is separated into...
Dates:
17th century.
‘1467 MS’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists of two sections, folios 1-9 ('1467 MS'), written in and about that date (folio 7 recto) by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail (folios 3 recto, 5 recto, 7 recto, 8 recto), who was presumably a MacMhuirich; and folios 10-25 (Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’), written circa 1425 by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín (date and hand established by Tomás Ó Concheanainn, “The scribe of John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’”, pages 99-101.The manuscript begins with Cormac’s Instructions...
Dates:
[Circa 1425, circa 1467.]
`A Defence or Vindication of the Scottish History and of the Scottish Historians wherein the ancient race of the Scottish Kings ther ancient possession in this island of Great Britain and the antiquity and dignity of the Scottish Church are asserted and the objections of the Bishop of St Asaph are answered`, a condensed version of an apparently unpublished treatise by Sir Robert Sibbald.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.4
Scope and Contents
William Lloyd, Bishop of St Asaph had published ‘An Historical Account of Church Government as it was in Great Britain and Ireland. When they first received the Christian religion’; as a result a controversy arose among Scottish historians concerning the origins of the Scots.
In his discourse Sibbald sets out to prove, with quotations from Roman, Greek and Scottish historians, the antiquity of the Scots.
Dates:
?1685.
`A Defence or Vindication of the Scottish History and of the Scottish Historians wherein the ancient race of the Scottish Kings ther ancient possession in this island of Great Britain and the antiquity and dignity of the Scottish Church are asserted and the objections of the Bishop of St Asaph are answered`, an apparently unpublished treatise by Sir Robert Sibbald.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.3
Scope and Contents
William Lloyd, Bishop of St Asaph had published ‘An Historical Account of Church Government as it was in Great Britain and Ireland. When they first received the Christian religion’; as a result a controversy arose among Scottish historians concerning the origins of the Scots.
In his discourse Sibbald sets out to prove, with quotations from Roman, Greek and Scottish historians, the antiquity of the Scots.
Dates:
?1685.
"A Geological Record of Skye" compiled by Donald Gillies.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9517
Dates:
circa 1920-1970.
Abbreviated version of the ‘Scotichronicon’ by Walter Bower.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.1.7
Scope and Contents
The exemplar for the manuscript was being compiled no later than 1444 under the direction of Bower himself. Richard Augustine Hay, writing in the early 18th century, at the beginning of the manuscript, states that it was written 1453-1454 by a canon of Inchcolm called Peter, and presented to Couper Abbey by William Earl of Orkney and Caithness in 1445 (probably a mistake for 1455), but he cites no evidence for this (see ‘Scotichronicon by Walter Bower in Latin and English’, ix, chapter 12,...
Dates:
Circa 1450 x 1480.
Abridgement by Patrick Russell, prior of the Charterhouse of Perth, of a work by Walter Bower known as the 'Book of Cupar Angus'.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.7
Scope and Contents
Manuscript compiled in Scotland by Patrick Russell, a prior of the Charterhouse of Perth. The manuscript is an abridged copy of the 'Book of Cupar Angus', which is itself an abbreviation of the 'Scotichronicon'.The manuscript is written in a single column, probably all by the same hand, which is becomes harder to read towards the end of the volume. The work is not complete, as two or more folios are missing between 246v and 247r.Watt suggests that the lost examplar...
Dates:
1460 - 1488
'Abridgement of the History of the Orkneys, or Islands of Orkney, from Tharmodus Torfaeus, Historiographer to the King of Denmark', by the Reverend Alexander Pope, Minister of Reay., [Circa 1780.]
Item
Identifier: MS.2096
Scope and Contents
This is an incomplete version of the Abridgement; another version, Alexander Pope's manuscript of which is preserved in Caithness County Library, was published at Wick in 1866. This abridgement corresponds to pages 1-157 of the 1866 edition; the translation is similar but not the same, the notes are quite different, and there is no Introduction. The handwriting is Pope's, except on pages 11-12, where it is the same as that on pages 113-117 of the Caithness County Library manuscript....
Dates:
[Circa 1780.]
'Abridgement of the Scottish History', a list of the succession of the Kings of Scotland from Fergus I to James VI by Sir James Balfour, in his hand.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.29
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.7.14.
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Abstracts and documents concerning Scottish merchant shipping in the 18th and 19th centuries, compiled and collected by Harry St Clair MacVine Taylor.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9997
Dates:
1989-1990.
Account, 1834, of missionary voyage to Canada by representatives of the Catholic Apostolic Church.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8813
Scope and Contents
With prayers.
Dates:
1834-1871.
Account of Corstorphine Parish, with its buildings and the local families, with extracts from registers, etc., collected by John Philp Wood., [1795, or after.]
File
Identifier: MS.1872
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Leaves found loose in the volumes have been placed in MS.1878, with some other loose papers, and references have been made to and from the volumes in which they were found.
Dates:
[1795, or after.]
Account of Corstorphine Parish, with its buildings and the local families, with extracts from registers, etc., collected by John Philp Wood., [1795, or after.]
File
Identifier: MS.1873
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Leaves found loose in the volumes have been placed in MS.1878, with some other loose papers, and references have been made to and from the volumes in which they were found.
Dates:
[1795, or after.]
Account of Dalmeny Parish, with its buildings and the local families, with extracts from registers, etc., collected by John Philp Wood., 1st quarter of 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.1874
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Leaves found loose in the volumes have been placed in MS.1878, with some other loose papers, and references have been made to and from the volumes in which they were found.
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Account of Kirkliston Parish, with its buildings and the local families, with extracts from registers, etc., collected by John Philp Wood., 1st quarter of 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.1875
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Leaves found loose in the volumes have been placed in MS.1878, with some other loose papers, and references have been made to and from the volumes in which they were found.
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
'Account of the British transactions in Guzerat and at the Court of His Highness the Guicawar Raja with historical notices of that family and of the Mahrattas', compiled in this form circa 1824., [Circa 1824.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13836-13837
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates:
[Circa 1824.]
'Account of the British transactions in Guzerat and at the Court of His Highness the Guicawar Raja with historical notices of that family and of the Mahrattas', volume I., [Circa 1824.]
Item
Identifier: MS.13836
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates:
[Circa 1824.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
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Papers of and collected by Alexander Walker for proposed publications.
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'Account of the British transactions in Guzerat and at the Court of His Highness the Guicawar Raja with historical notices of that family and of the Mahrattas', compiled in this form circa 1824.
'Account of the British transactions in Guzerat and at the Court of His Highness the Guicawar Raja with historical notices of that family and of the Mahrattas', volume II., [Circa 1824.]
Item
Identifier: MS.13837
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates:
[Circa 1824.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
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Papers of and collected by Alexander Walker for proposed publications.
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'Account of the British transactions in Guzerat and at the Court of His Highness the Guicawar Raja with historical notices of that family and of the Mahrattas', compiled in this form circa 1824.
Account of the mutiny on HMS Bounty and the subsequent history of Pitcairn Island, written by John Buffett., Circa 1845.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.7.13
Scope and Contents
Buffett settled on the island in 1823, acting for a time as schoolmaster, and beginning the compilation of the Island Registers.
Dates:
Circa 1845.
Account of time as a nurse at the King George V Seamen`s Memorial Hospital, Malta, of Miss J G M Allan.
File
Identifier: Acc.11950
Scope and Contents
Includes a letter, press cuttings and a newsletter.
Dates:
1938-1942.
'Additions and corrections' to a work of the writer's own, which appears to have been entitled 'The History of the Rebellion in the years 1745 and 1746'.
Item
Identifier: MS.3865
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was probably written in or shortly after 1755, a date which occurs on page 31.The original work has not been traced; it may or may not have been printed. It was divided into at least twelve sections, and should be identifiable from many references to its pages in the present manuscript, for example: page 86, Lovat's escape from Inverness; pages 15, 153, the meeting of Jacobite leaders at Muirlaggan in May, 1746; pages 165, 246, Murray of Broughton's capture and...
Dates:
[1755, or after.]
"An Exact and Circumstantial History of the Battle of Flodden" (1774), with annotations by the Reverend D Watson (possibly David Watson, Minister of St Clement`s, Glagow.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9360
Dates:
1774.
Anna Jean Mill, "Mediaeval Plays in Scotland" (St Andrews University Publications, number XXIV), with author`s additions and corrections.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6024
Dates:
1927.