Histories.
Found in 370 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and other papers concerning the Buchanites, collected by Joseph Train.
Correspondence and papers of Charles Augustus Muir.
Concerning Muir`s literary work and to his history of the Royal Scots, "The First of Foot" (1961).
Customs book, to which has been added historical material relating to contemporary affairs in Scotland.
David Hay Fleming, "The Bread Assize in St Andrews", with author`s annotations.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘An Enquiry into the History of Scotland ...’ by John Pinkerton, 2 volumes (London, 1789), containing his signature on the verso of the title page of each volume, numerous marginalia throughout (some quite lengthy) and a number of sheets and scraps of paper tipped in (most are in the second volume) on which are further notes and other writings.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘History of Scotland from the accession of the House of Stuart to that of Mary’, 2 volumes, (London, 1797) by John Pinkerton.
Macpherson’s signature is on the verso of the title page of each volume, and a number of usually brief marginalia are scattered throughout volume i, and a few more in volume ii, mostly at the beginning. A few undated notes on scraps of paper are tipped in.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘The History and Antiquities of Scotland’ by William Maitland, 2 volumes (London, 1757), containing many marginal notes and comments on the text.
Descriptive and historical account of the public records of Scotland apparently written by William Tytler.
Descriptive and historical account of the public records of Scotland, preceded by a contents list (folio i), written apparently in 1760 (folio 37) by William Tytler.
Diaries, logs, official correspondence and other papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles A C Gordon, MC, RA, mostly relating to the 11th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
The papers mostly concern Gordon`s command of the 11th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery and include Battery log books, copies of Battery correspondence, a history of the Battery, photograph album, training materials, notes and engagement diaries.
Digest of service in South Africa, 1899-1902 by 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders.
A copy in typescript carbon presented, December 1903, by Colonel Forbes Macbean and Captain W E Gordon to Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Greenhill-Gardyne.
`Discourse on Church Government` written by Sir Robert Sibbald, an apparently unpublished historical account of the church in Scotland from 1560 to 1630.
Documents concerning the controversy over the Usages in the Episcopal Church of Scotland during the first half of the 18th century.
Drafts for an unpublished history of the Independent Labour Party and the Labour movement in Bo`ness, West Lothian from 1903-1932, by James Livingstone.
Includes research notes from original sources.
Early 12th-century manuscript of the church history of Hegesippus
Early 16th-century manuscript, 'Extracta ex variis cronicis Scotiae'.
Early 16th-century manuscript of 'The oryginale cronykil of Scotland' by Andrew Wyntoun, with part of the anonymous 'Brevis Cronica' appended.
Editorial correspondence and papers of Ian Cunningham concerning "The Nation Survey`d: the Maps of Timothy Pont" (East Linton, 2001).
Extracts, 1556, from chartularies of the Archbishopric of Glasgow which were deposited in the Scots College in Paris; followed by a short history, in Scots, of the Hamilton family entitled 'Frier Mark Hamiltonis historie'
Extracts, 1839, from the lute book, 1627-1629, of Robert Gordon of Straloch, transcribed in tablature by George Farquhar Graham.
The manuscript consists of 30 pieces for lute, some dances, some song tunes, mostly Scottish, but including William Basse`s
`Hunter`s Career` (folios 18 verso-19). It includes an introduction giving a history of the original manuscript, some explanation of lute
tablature, and a list of the original contents.
Robert Gordon`s original manuscript is now lost.
Extracts and copies of historical works, collected by Sir James Balfour, 17th century.
Fair copy of `Diplomatum veterum collectio`, being Richard Augustine Hay`s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh.
The copy was probably begun in 1696 (the date quoted on the title page) and not completed until 1701 or later (34.1.10(iii), folio 294 verso), made apparently by a copyist from the transcripts made by Hay when he was in Scotland between 1686 and 1689.
Fair transcript, 18th century, of the first ten books of ‘Rerum Britannicarum historia auctore Roberto Johnstono‘.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.V.2.1.