Histories.
Found in 370 Collections and/or Records:
Chronicles and historical works, written in England.
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, 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.
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 `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`Continuation of Hector Boeth his Historie, since the death of King James the first, until the year 1642`, an unpublished history of Scotland in 3 volumes by Patrick Anderson, physician to Charles I, probably written around 1642.
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.
Copy, 18th century, of ‘Historia diplomatica’ by Petrus a Thymo (van der Heyden).
Copy, 18th century, written on paper watermarked 1742 or 1749, of an extract from `An Abridgment of the Scotishe historie`, written by John Maxwell, 4th Lord Herries of Terregles and dated 1656.
Copy, 1613, of Joannes Ferrerius ‘Historiæ Compendium de origine et incremento Gordoniæ familiæ….’ by Constable D’Aubigny, for the use of Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun.
There are a few leaves prefixed, containing the later history of the family, to the Battle of Glenlivet, written in English, in a hand of the seventeenth century, (by Straloch says Sibbald).
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (Jac.V.5.9).
Copy by Matthew Craufurd, Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Edinburgh, of ‘History of the University of Edinburgh from 1580 to 1646’ by Thomas Craufurd.
A colophon dated 20 January 1725, states that Matthew Craufurd made this copy from the original, which then belonged to Laurence Dundas, Professor of Humanity.
The text is preceded by brief notes on purchases by and gifts to the University, 1582-1642.
Copy, circa 1702, with additions to 1703, of `Collections of the most remarkable accounts that relate to the families of Scotland drawn from ther own charters and other authentick writts ... with ane account of ther armes’, probably made in 1672, attributed to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh.
The original compilation was probably made in 1672 (see Adv.MSS.32.6.1, folio 154 and 34.3.14, folio 42) and is attributed to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh. However, an 18th-century footnote added to the title page of Adv.MS.34.3.19 states that the collection was originally compiled by Sir Patrick Lyon of Carse, and that his manuscript was copied by Mackenzie and others who made their own additions to it.
Copy, dated 1800, of ‘The Historie and Life of King James the Sext’, attributed to John Colville.
An inscription by Malcolm Laing appears on folio 181, dated 15 July, 1800.