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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:

‘History of the Kirk of Scotland after the Reformation’, covering the period from the Parliament of August 1560, to that of June 1633, in a seventeenth-century hand.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3926
Scope and Contents

A note in an eighteenth-century hand (folio 1) suggests this is a manuscript copy of David Calderwood, ‘The true history of the Church of Scotland’, 1678; but, although there are striking textual similarities at various places, the text is by no means the same, and begins and ends at later dates. As many of the documents quoted in full by Calderwood are omitted, this may be an abridgement and continuation of Calderwood's work.

Dates: 17th century-18th century.

`History of the most noble and illustrious family of the Frasers, particularly of the illustrious family of Lovat Chief and head of that numerous Clan`.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.13
Scope and Contents

The manuscript was intended for publication in London, 1749. No author is given.

At the back of the volume are transcripts of `Original papers relating to the foregoing Memoirs` I-XIII, with a brief account of the family of Fraser of Fruid.

Dates: 1749, or before.

'History of the Sicca, or State Seals, etc., etc., etc., in India', compiled circa 1822., [Circa 1822.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.18891
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 1822.]

`History of the Subscriptions for the Erecting of the Monument to the Memory of Sir Walter Scott at Edinburgh compiled from the Minute Books and Vouchers of the original and Auxiliary Committees by John Castle, secretary to the Joint Committee. 1852`.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.15
Scope and Contents

At the beginning of the volume is inserted a letter of James Ballantine, glass painter and song writer to the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1865, giving an extract of John Castle`s will 1864, bequeathing the manuscript to the Advocates` Library. At the back of the volume are recorded financial statements concerning the monument. The rest of the volume is comprised of copies of reports, minutes of meetings and correspondence, 1832-1853.

Dates: 1832-1853.

'Imago mundi' by Honorius of Autun, 'Speculum regum' by Godfrey of Viterbo, and an anonymous poem 'De laude civitatis Laudae'. A manuscript written in Italy in the late 13th or early 14th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.10
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The `Imago mundi` of Honorius (folio 1), here entitled `Mappa mundi`, and attributed in both the title and the colophon to Isidore of Seville.(ii) `Speculum regum` by Godfrey of Viterbo (folio 23 verso). It contains the preface, list of chapters, and list of popes, but not the poem itself.(iii) ‘De laude civitatis Laudae’ (folio 38). An anonymous poem. Written in an Italian littera textualis...
Dates: Late 13th century-early 14th century.

Imperfect copy in a 17th-century hand of John Bellenden`s translation of the ‘Scotorum Historiae’ of Hector Boece.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.15
Scope and Contents This copy lacks folios 2, 3 and 163 (the last), which are supplied in a hand apparently of the 2nd quarter of the 18th century. It appears to have been copied from an earlier manuscript, rather than from the edition which was printed about 1536 in Edinburgh, from which it diverges in a number of places. It is not known who made this copy nor who owned it: what may be `Rob: Innes` has been written in a 17th-century hand at folios 1 and 14 but has been subsequently deleted. The upper corner of...
Dates: Early 16th century.

Incomplete copy of a descriptive and historical account of the public records of Scotland, followed (folio 14 verso) by observations, possibly unfinished, on the account.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.15
Scope and Contents Further versions of the account, both datable to 1760, each complementing the other, are at Adv.MS.16.2.14 and Adv.MS.33.5.6, which former is ascribed by a later owner, James Maidment, to William Tytler. In comparison with Adv.MS.33.5.6, which appears to be William Tytler`s original report, this copy lacks words and sentences at folio 6 verso, and a paragraph at each of folio 1 verso and folio 13 verso and breaks off at folio 14, where there is the beginning of a paragraph not present in...
Dates: 1760, or after.

Incomplete copy of an apparently rejected version, entitled `The King, and Parliament`, of Chapter II of Volume II of ‘Caledonia’ by George Chalmers.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.20.2.10
Scope and Contents The text is printed on paper watermarked 1807, and contains many additions and corrections in the margins and on slips of paper pasted in, in his hand and in the hand of his nephew James Chalmers. The chapter as originally printed apparently consisted of a total of 64 pages in 8 gatherings, containing not more than 8 pages of introductory matter (gathering A, pages i-?viii) and not more than 56 pages of text, with footnotes (gatherings B to H, pages 1-?56); this copy lacks gatherings A, G...
Dates: ?1807-?1819.

Incomplete manuscript, "History of the United Netherlands from the death of William the Silent to the synod of Dort", volume 1, by John Lothrop Motley., ?1860, or before.

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Identifier: MS.42494
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...
Dates: ?1860, or before.

Incomplete manuscript, "The Book of the Church", by Robert Southey., 1824, or before.

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Identifier: MS.42557
Scope and Contents The manuscript is of the preface and of chapters I-IV, not all complete, of Southey`s work. It represents, therefore, only a small part of the published two volume work. The manuscript is arranged as follows : (i) [preface] : "The Book of the Church";(ii) "Chapter 1. Religion of the Ancient Britons";(iii) "Chapter 2. Religion and philosophy of the Romans. First introduction of Christianity. Persecution. First establishment of Christianity. ...
Dates: 1824, or before.

Indexes and transcripts by Robert Mylne, the antiquary.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.9
Scope and Contents Mylne`s pagination and the size of paper show that the volume is composed of seven separate parts: section (i), section (ii), section (iii), sections (iv) and (v), section (vi), sections (vii)-(xiii), section (xiv). None are exactly dated, but (v) must be later than 1705, (xiv) later than 1700; and probably all were compiled in the early 18th century.The contents are as follows:(i) `Ane Alphabeticall Index [A-C only] To the Book of Collections of Notes of Charters...
Dates: Early 18th century.

‘Innes of Drumgask, Balnacraig, and Ballogie’, Aberdeenshire, 'a family history', by the Reverend John Stirton., 1942.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3068-3069
Scope and Contents

A typewritten work, dealing in particular with Lewis Innes, Principal of the Scots College in Paris, and his brother Thomas, the historian, and containing accounts of the Scots College, of Jacobite activities in France, and of the founding of the Roman Catholic Seminary at Scalan, Banffshire. Copies of correspondence from the Stuart Papers at Windsor are included.

Dates: 1942.

‘Innes of Drumgask, Balnacraig, and Ballogie’, Aberdeenshire, 'a family history', by the Reverend John Stirton., 1942.

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Identifier: MS.3068
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

A typewritten work, dealing in particular with Lewis Innes, Principal of the Scots College in Paris, and his brother Thomas, the historian, and containing accounts of the Scots College, of Jacobite activities in France, and of the founding of the Roman Catholic Seminary at Scalan, Banffshire. Copies of correspondence from the Stuart Papers at Windsor are included.

Dates: 1942.

‘Innes of Drumgask, Balnacraig, and Ballogie’, Aberdeenshire, 'a family history', by the Reverend John Stirton., 1942.

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Identifier: MS.3069
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

A typewritten work, dealing in particular with Lewis Innes, Principal of the Scots College in Paris, and his brother Thomas, the historian, and containing accounts of the Scots College, of Jacobite activities in France, and of the founding of the Roman Catholic Seminary at Scalan, Banffshire. Copies of correspondence from the Stuart Papers at Windsor are included.

Dates: 1942.

John Riddell`s interleaved copy of his ‘Tracts, Legal and Historical’ (Edinburgh, 1835), containing some notes and additions in his hand., 1835.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.39
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Printed books owned by John Riddell, consisting of standard works of Scottish genealogical reference, volumes of printed session papers, collections of papers in peerage and other claims, and copies of some of Riddell`s published works.

Dates: 1835.