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 370 Collections and/or Records:
Copy, late 17th-century, of the chronicle of the Civil War in Scotland compiled by Henry Guthrie, Bishop of Dunkeld, 1644-1676.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.9
Scope and Contents
The text of this manuscript (but not the division into paragraphs) is the same as that common to the other copies in this Library, agreeing with them against the printed book in some small omissions and additions, and numerous variants in vocabulary, spelling and word-order. Some of the words of the title, and the opening words or phrases of many of the paragraphs have been written in red, and most of the pages have been ruled in green.On page 190 is an unidentified memorandum in...
Dates:
1644-1676.
Copy, made apparently in 1729, of ‘the most material passages’ of ‘Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum’ by Thomas Dempster (Bononiae, 1627).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.22
Scope and Contents
Almost all the entries in the printed book have been summarized in the manuscript, which also contains details not recorded in the printed book; many of the entries are partly in English. A later and more detailed entry on Robert Bodie has been written (in English) in the same hand on a small sheet of paper (folio 32) tipped into the volume. The frequent unintentional omissions made in the copying of the manu¬script have been supplied in the same hand in the margins. The dates 2...
Dates:
1627.
Copy of Alexander MacKain, "Badenoch: It`s History, Clans and Place Names", with corrections and annotations by the author.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9611
Dates:
circa 1910.
Copy of Charles Horne, "The Kingdom of Forgue", with associated photograph and medallion.
File
Identifier: Acc.6422
Dates:
1905.
Copy of G A B Dowar and J H Boraston, "Sir Douglas Haig`s Command".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7131
Scope and Contents
Containing letter of Dewar, and letter and presentation note of Boraston, and press cuttings.
Dates:
1922.
Copy of G A Furse, "Military Expeditions beyond the Seas", with signature and numerous markings by Douglas Haig.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7132
Dates:
1897.
Copy of G P Lacasselle, "Le 1er Corps d`Armée pendant la Guerre 1914-1918" (Paris, 1922), with presentation note and two letters of the author to Earl Haig.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7136
Dates:
1922.
Copy of "Itinerarium Septentrionale" (1726) by Alexander Gordon, with notes by Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, 2nd bart.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12965
Dates:
1726.
Copy of J H Boraston and Cyril Bax, "The Eighth Division in the War 1914-1918" (London, 1926), with letter and presentation note, 1926, of Boraston.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7129
Dates:
1926.
Copy of "Precognition anent the Riot committed by soldiers in Aberdeen".
Item
Identifier: Acc.12891
Dates:
1746.
Copy of Robert Law, "Memorials" (Edinburgh, 1818), with annotations by editor Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9331
Scope and Contents
Includes letters of James Ballantyne to Sharpe concerning the printing of "Memorials".
Dates:
1818.
Copy of the first part of a history of the houses of the Lords and Earls of Douglas (the Black Douglases) and of the Earls of Angus (the Red Douglases) by David Hume of Godscroft.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.21
Scope and Contents
This copy, which is entitled ‘THE ORIGINE And Descent of the most noble and jllustre familie, and name of Douglas: (etc.)`, is a fair copy made in another hand from a manuscript of the author`s, and deals only with the Black Douglases. From internal evidence, Hume`s manuscript was written before the death of James VI in 1625: this copy was made after 1621. It is written in an anglicized and inconsistent Scots, but the text has been heavily edited, with numerous alterations...
Dates:
Before 1625.
Copy of William Allan, "History of the Campaign of Gen T J (Stonewall) Jackson", inscribed and marked by Douglas Haig.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7135
Scope and Contents
Containing maps and sketches, undated.
Dates:
1888 and undated.
Copy of William Maitland, "History of Edinburgh" (Edinburgh, 1753), with additional papers bound in to the book.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9932
Scope and Contents
Additional papers include:
printed proposals for the work
printed and manuscript papers concerning alterations to the text
papers concerning defamation of James Coutts and Mrs Little of Liberton.
Dates:
1753 and undated.
Copy of William Roughead, "Trial of Oscar Slater" (3rd edition, Edinburgh, 1929), with four letters of Oscar Slater, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Viscount Buckmaster.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5273
Dates:
1928-1930.
Copy of Winston S Churchill, "The World Crisis" (1916-1918), with three letters and presentation note, 1926-1927, of the author.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7130
Dates:
1916-1927.
Copy used for the publication in book form of ‘Life of Mansie Wauch’ by David Macbeth Moir, with other writings.
Item
Identifier: MS.3054
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Printed pages of “Blackwood's Magazine”, containing the articles corresponding to the 1828 edition, chapters iii-v, viii-x, xii, xvi-xxiii (folios 119-157);(ii) Manuscript of all the matter in the 1828 edition not contained in (i) above, except 'The Curate of Suverdsio' in chapter xi (folios 1-32, 41-55, 75-80, 83-84);(iii) Manuscript of 'The June Jaunt', “Blackwood's Magazine”, December 1828; this forms chapter xxii of the...
Dates:
[1822, or after-1839, or before.]
Copy 'Written be Me Richard Moir schoolemaister at Campsie 1636' of 'The Historie and chronicles of Scotland', John Bellenden's translation of Hector Boece's ‘Scotorum historiae’ in seventeen books.
Item
Identifier: MS.21244
Scope and Contents
It appears to have been copied, with substantial differences in places, from the first edition which was printed at Edinburgh about 1536. The chronicle is continued, as Books xviii-xxii (folio 321), by the 'Historie and chronicles of Scotland' by Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie to the year 1566. This is followed (folio 447), as Book xxiii, by another continuation, in considerably less detail, as far as the year 1604 and (folio 463) 'Some late accidentes', a list of events from 1612 to 1637.
Dates:
1536-?1637.
Corrected copies and manuscripts of works by Moray McLaren.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.5420/1-5
Dates:
1962-1970.
Corrected manuscript of Hume Nisbet, "For Liberty: the Chronicles of a Jacobin".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8790
Dates:
1898.
Corrected proofs of "Working Lives", edited by Ian MacDougall.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12099
Dates:
1996-1997.
Corrected typescript of Archibald Kennedy, "The Rulers of Strathspey".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7955
Dates:
1911.
Corrected typescript of George Bruce, "Festival in the North".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6517
Dates:
1975.
Corrected typescripts and proofs of George Bruce, "William Soutar (1898-1943)" (1978), and ""To Foster and Enrich". The First Fifty Years of the Saltire Society" (1986).
File
Identifier: Acc.9579
Dates:
circa 1978-1986.
Corrected typescripts of Forbes Macgregor, "The Heart of Auld Auster: a View from the Manse of 1703", and , "More Scots Proverbs: a Proverbial Picture of Old Scotland".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7751
Dates:
circa 1980.