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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:

Circa 20 manuscripts concerning Edinburgh.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.3761
Scope and Contents

Inserted in William Maitland, "History of Edinburgh" (1753).

Dates: 1562-1781.

“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]”.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.4.1-4
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1770-1771.

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.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.10
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘The Portrait of True Loyalty exposed in the Family of Gordon, without interruption to this present year 1691. With a Relationof the Castle of Edr. in the year 1689’ (folio 1), which is attributed to David Burnet, a Catholic Priest. The original manuscript, which was in Blairs College, Aberdeen (‘The House of Gordon’, page xxxvi), is at the Scottish Catholic Archives, Columba House, Edinburgh, where it has the...
Dates: 1554-1720.

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.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.3591
Scope and Contents

With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.

Dates: 14th century-19th century.

Collection of papers put together in the mid-nineteenth century by J.B., 1747-early 19th century, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.20767, folios 118-216
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (a) Letters to Robert Chalmers, solicitor, Edinburgh, from his niece Katherine Forbes Crauford, 1768; from the portrait painter Anne Forbes and her mother and sister, 1772-1773, concerning her work in London and including a list of portraits by her; from the Countess of Dumfries, 1788, and from David Rae (later Lord Eskgrove), undated, concerning admission to the Select Society (folio 118); (b) Epigram, 1747, on, and letter and poems, 1770-1777, undated, of, Mrs...
Dates: 1747-early 19th century, undated.

`Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi` by Peter of Poitiers, Chancellor of Paris., 13th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(i)
Scope and Contents This manuscript was not known to Philip S Moore (‘The Works of Peter of Poitiers’, pages 97-117). It is imperfect, beginning with Manasses and Alexander of Macedon, and ending with Saints Paul and Barnabas. The second section of the roll contains part of Richard of Wedinghausen’s treatise on the canon of the Mass (‘Patrologia latina’ 177, column 455 and what follows, where it is attributed to John of Cornwall). The manuscript attributes it to Innocent III. The text breaks off in...
Dates: 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.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.17
Scope and Contents The first collection (folios 1-44) consists of extracts, together with footnotes and other editorial additions, copied from ‘Anglia Sacra’: `Chronicon cœnobii Sanctæ Crucis Edinburgensis’ (page 152), `Gaufridi sacristæ de Coldingham Historia de statu Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis’ (page 178) and `Genealogia Roberti Stewarde’ (page 686).The second collection (folios 45-96) consists of transcripts, made in 1801 and 1802, of a number of 16th-century documents in the possession of Walter...
Dates: 16th century, 1691.

Composite volume of 15th-century manuscripts of miscellaneous works by four hands bound together, with an incunable, in the 16th-century or earlier.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.8
Scope and Contents The collection has been in one volume since the 16th century at least. The contents are as follows:[(i) A printed book: Johannes de Hildesheim, ‘Liber de gestis ac translatione trium regum’, etc., ([Cologne], 1478) = National Library of Scotland Inc.43 (B.M.Cat. IB 4236) (folio 1)]. Folio 56 blank.(ii) Baebius Italicus (?), `Ilias latina` (‘Poetae latini minores’ ii.3; this manuscript is not included in the list given by P Vollmer in ‘Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen...
Dates: 15th century.

"Comunn na Clàrsaich (The Clarsach Society) : A Summary of the Archives", by Janet Watt.

 ...
Identifier: Acc.11940
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs and slides.

Dates: 1989.

'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.'

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Identifier: MS.14270
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1805.

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.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.25373-25374
Scope and Contents From the Series: Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet of Hailes, (1726-1792), was the son of Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes, and Lady Christian Dalrymple, daughter of the 6th Earl of Haddington. Sir David was educated at Eton and entered the Inner Temple in 1742. From 1747-1748 he studied Civil Law at Utrecht, and in 1748 was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates. He was raised to the Bench as Lord Hailes in 1766 and appointed a Lord of Justiciary in 1776. In addition to his legal activities, Lord...
Dates: 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.

 File
Identifier: MS.25373
Scope and Contents From the Series: Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet of Hailes, (1726-1792), was the son of Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes, and Lady Christian Dalrymple, daughter of the 6th Earl of Haddington. Sir David was educated at Eton and entered the Inner Temple in 1742. From 1747-1748 he studied Civil Law at Utrecht, and in 1748 was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates. He was raised to the Bench as Lord Hailes in 1766 and appointed a Lord of Justiciary in 1776. In addition to his legal activities, Lord...
Dates: Late 18th century.

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.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.23
Scope and Contents

Originally part (Inv. XII) of the Rose Collection, Adv.MSS.49.7.1-49.7.20; William Rose has added some marginal notes.

Dates: 1725.