Histories.
Found in 777 Collections and/or Records:
Circa 20 manuscripts concerning Edinburgh.
Inserted in William Maitland, "History of Edinburgh" (1753).
Clan histories of the Grants, Macraes, and Chisholms.
“Collection Générale de ce qui s’est passé tant de la procédure de Mʳ Le Duc d’aiguillon, que de tout ce qui a donné lieu à l’exil des membres du Parlement…”., 1770-1771.
The manuscript details the proceedings concerning the differences between the Crown and the Parliament of Paris and the abolition of that High Court.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Trajanus.6.1-4.
“Collection Générale de ce qui s’est passé tant de la procédure de Mʳ Le Duc d’aiguillon, que de tout ce qui a donné lieu à l’exil des membres du Parlement, a commencer du 4 Avril 1770 Jusqu’au 24 Janvier 1771. Ensuite les protestations des Princes du Sang et les Representationes des autres cours de Paris &[ce]”.
The manuscript details the proceedings concerning the differences between the Crown and the Parliament of Paris and the abolition of that High Court.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Trajanus.6.1-4.
Collection of genealogical material on various Scottish families and items of historical interest copied by Robert Mylne, the antiquary, in the late 17th or early 18th century.
Collection of manuscript material transferred from printed theses collection, 1637-late 19th century, chiefly consisting of German academic papers, but including a small cache of Scottish legal papers, 19th century.
With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.
Collection of papers put together in the mid-nineteenth century by J.B., 1747-early 19th century, undated.
`Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi` by Peter of Poitiers, Chancellor of Paris., 13th century.
Composite volume consisting of two unrelated and formerly separate collections of transcripts made probably at the same time as each other by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton.
Composite volume of 15th-century manuscripts of miscellaneous works by four hands bound together, with an incunable, in the 16th-century or earlier.
"Comunn na Clàrsaich (The Clarsach Society) : A Summary of the Archives", by Janet Watt.
Includes photographs and slides.
'Concise history of the Stuarts from the earliest period to the present time compiled from authentic records and well-attested documents by Samuel Stuart ... London 1805.'
The contents include a genealogy of the author's family, the Stuarts of Barscube (folios 4 and 24 verso), notes on the origins of the various branches of Stuarts (folio 8), and watercolour drawings of their arms (folio 26).
Contemporary copy of a narrative of the capture of Stirling Castle by the Ruthven Lords, including their proclamation., 1585.
Contemporary copy of `Discoverie and Historie of the gold mynes in Scotland` by Stephen Atkinson.
`Continuation of Hector Boeth his Historie, since the death of King James the first, until the year 1642`, an unpublished history of Scotland in 3 volumes by Patrick Anderson, physician to Charles I, probably written around 1642.
`Continuation of Hector Boeth his Historie, since the death of King James the first, until the year 1642` by Patrick Anderson, volume 1: containing the life and times of James II, 1437 to the death of James V in 1542., 1642, or after.
`Continuation of Hector Boeth his Historie, since the death of King James the first, until the year 1642` by Patrick Anderson, volume 2: dealing with the period 1543-1560, principally with the regency of Mary of Guise., 1642, or after.
`Continuation of Hector Boeth his Historie, since the death of King James the first, until the year 1642` by Patrick Anderson, volume 3: concerning the reigns of Mary Queen of Scots and James VI of Scotland and concluding in the year 1598., 1642, or after.
'Cooper,' a typescript carbon of an account of the craft and its history by Arthur B Salvini., 1948.
Copies of charters chiefly to ecclesiastical foundations at Perth, and notes, undated, on the history of the Burgh compiled by Dr Patrick Nisbet for Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., Late 18th century.
Copies of charters chiefly to ecclesiastical foundations at Perth, and notes, undated, on the history of the Burgh compiled by Dr Patrick Nisbet for Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., Late 18th century.
Copies of charters chiefly to ecclesiastical foundations at Perth, and notes, undated, on the history of the Burgh compiled by Dr Patrick Nisbet for Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 1209-1214, late 18th century.
Includes a list of events in Perth, 1209-1214, and a table of tides there in 1210.
Copies of research materials for the history of the Parish of Beith in Ayrshire.
Copy, 17th century, of ‘The History and Life of James the Sixt’, attributed to John Colville, Scottish divine and politician, written in the late 16th century and covering the period from 1566 to 1582.
Copy, 18th century, of an account, descriptive and historical, of the Chanonry of Old Aberdeen and connected institutions, by Thomas (rectius William) Drem, Bailie of Aberdeen, written 1725.
Originally part (Inv. XII) of the Rose Collection, Adv.MSS.49.7.1-49.7.20; William Rose has added some marginal notes.