Histories.
Found in 777 Collections and/or Records:
‘Tales of my grandfather’, volume I, second series (Edinburgh, 1829) by Sir Walter Scott., 1829.
‘Tales of my grandfather’, volume I, third series (Edinburgh, 1830) by Sir Walter Scott., 1830.
‘Tales of my grandfather’, volume II, fifth edition (Edinburgh, 1828) by Sir Walter Scott., 1828.
‘Tales of my grandfather’, volume II, third series (Edinburgh, 1830) by Sir Walter Scott., 1830.
‘Tales of my grandfather’, volume III, fifth edition (Edinburgh, 1828) by Sir Walter Scott., 1828.
‘Tales of my grandfather’, volume III, second series (Edinburgh, 1829) by Sir Walter Scott., 1829.
‘Tales of my grandfather’, volume III, third series (Edinburgh, 1830) by Sir Walter Scott., 1830.
Testimonials and other notices, 1837, concerning the election of David Laing as Librarian of the Signet Library.
With two annontated copies (one a proof), 1890, of "History of the Society of Writers to... [the] Signet".
"The Course of Hannibal over the Alps Ascertained" (London, 1794) by John Whitaker and annotated by Alexander Fraser Tytler.
Includes manuscript [laid in] of "Hannibals [sic] Passage thro` the Alps, According to, Gen[era]l Melville", watermarked 1801-1802 and endorsed by A F Tytler. Not in the hand of General Robert Melville.
`The evill troubles of the Lewes and how the Mackleoid of the Lewes was with his whol trybe destroyed and put from the possesion of the Lewes`, an account of the last anarchic years of the family of Macleod of Lewis, the abortive attempts of a company of adventurers from Fife to colonise the island, and the eventual conquest of the island by Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Lord of Kintail, circa 1540-1626.
The manuscript, probably a contemporary account written circa 1630, is almost identical with the narrative of Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun in his ‘Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland’, pages 267-276, which was written originally circa 1630.
Several lines at the foot of some folios are illegible and a short part of the text is missing between folios 16 and 17. The miscellaneous notes dated 1670 (folio 3) are in a later hand.
"The Forres Affair: the Rector and the School Board".
A study of an educational dispute in Forres, 1888, and the career of David M J James.
`The Historie of Scotland from the year 1660` by Sir George Mackenzie. The only known manuscript, in the hand of a transcriber but with corrections in the hand of Sir George Mackenzie himself.
‘The Ogilvies of Boyne’ by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (Aberdeen, 1933), containing inserts; with further letters and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.
‘The secret history of the revolution in a missive from the Earl of Balcarras to King James the Seventh… att Paris’, 1688-1690.
On page 117 there is an ‘Elogie upon the Viscount of Dundee by Doctor Pitcairn’ in Latin with an English translation.
Third incomplete draft of a history of the lower Niger in the nineteenth century., [?1935-?1939.]
The manuscript consists of loose sheets removed from the booklets of the second draft, and some printed matter.
Three copies of a 'Natural History of the Parish of Salton'., 1756-1758.
Topographical and other works.
Traditional tales and legends of Lanarkshire.
Comprising:
1. "Scottish Legends of the Days of Wallace and Bruce"
2. "A Tale of Flodden Field; Arming of the Craftsmen of Lanark, 1513"
3. "Traditionary Tales and Legends of Lanark".
Transcript, 17th century, in the hand of Sir James Balfour, of ‘History of the Picts’ by Henry Maule of Melgum.
At the beginning is a note by J. Ruddiman concerning the doubt of the authorship of the book.
Transcript, late 17th-18th century, of ‘History of Scotland during the reigns of the five Jameses’ by William Drummond of Hawthornden.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.V.5.36.
Transcript, late 17th-mid 19th century, of ‘History of the Church of Scotland’ by David Calderwood, 1st half of 17th century, from the commencement of the reign of James V to the death of James VI.
Volumes 4-10 are a transcript by the Reverend Mr James Inglis from the manuscript of David Calderwood, at that time the property of the Church of Scotland. The remainder are in a uniform hand of the end of the 17th or beginning of the following century.
This work is not only valuable as a history, but, as containing a great number of important state papers, which are not to be found elsewhere.
Transcript, late 18th century, made for George Chalmers, of Thomas Innes`s ‘Civil and Ecclesiastical History of Scotland, from A.D 80 – A.D. 818’; volume 1: books 1 and 2 covering the period A.D. 80-597., 2nd quarter of 18th century.
Transcript, late 18th century, made for George Chalmers, of Thomas Innes`s ‘Civil and Ecclesiastical History of Scotland, from A.D 80 – A.D. 818’; volume 2: the `Chronological Memoirs`, from A.D. 636-818., 2nd quarter of 18th century.
There is a pencil note on the flyleaf of the volume stating that “this appears to have been the first draught of the second volume of his `Ecclesiastical and Civil History of Scotland` which he did not live to perfect for the press".
Transcript of ‘History of the Church of Scotland’ by David Calderwood: volume I: 1514-1558., 1st half of 17th century.
Volumes 4-10 are a transcript by the Reverend Mr James Inglis from the manuscript of David Calderwood, at that time the property of the Church of Scotland. The remainder are in a uniform hand of the end of the 17th or beginning of the following century.
This work is not only valuable as a history, but, as containing a great number of important state papers, which are not to be found elsewhere.
Transcript of ‘History of the Church of Scotland’ by David Calderwood: volume II: 1559-1565., 1st half of 17th century.
Volumes 4-10 are a transcript by the Reverend Mr James Inglis from the manuscript of David Calderwood, at that time the property of the Church of Scotland. The remainder are in a uniform hand of the end of the 17th or beginning of the following century.
This work is not only valuable as a history, but, as containing a great number of important state papers, which are not to be found elsewhere.