Histories.
Found in 370 Collections and/or Records:
Letter, 1634, to William Drummond of Hawthornden, and draft, undated, of part of Drummond`s `History`.
Leyden Lyra-Viol Book: a `Copy of the Tunes in Tablature in Doctor John Leyden`s Manuscript Lyra-Viol Book`, transcribed by George Farquhar Graham.
The manuscript includes some details of the history of the original manuscript and a list of its contents. Most of the tunes are Scottish, but composers include Henry Purcell, John Banister, James Hart, William Lawes, and Henry Aldrich.
Literary and personal papers of Marion Lochhead.
Manuscript and printed versions of "Moidart, or Among the Clan Ranalds", (Oban, 1889) by the Rev Fr Charles MacDonald.
Includes letters, 1914, concerning a new edition of the book.
Manuscript and typescript working papers of Prof Archibald A M Duncan for his books: "Scotland: the Making of the Kingdom" (1975), the third edition of W C Dickinson, "Scotland from the Earliest Times to 1603" (1977) and "The Acts of Robert I, King of Scots, 1306-1329" (1986).
Manuscript, by John Gibson junior, a canon of Glasgow, of an abridged copy of the 'Black Book of Paisley', a version of the 'Scotichronicon' of Walter Bower.
Manuscript, circa 1600, of Robert Lindesay, "History and Chronicles of Scotland".
With a list of the Bishops of Moray to 1638, and a letter, 1847, of Cosmo Innes to William Brodie, concerning the manuscript.
Manuscript containing historical miscellany in Gaelic, written by Niall MacMhuirich.
Manuscript containing material chiefly concerning Scotland.
Manuscript copy, early 18th century, of the `Memoirs Concerning the Affairs of Scotland. From Queen Ann`s Accession to the Throne to the Commencement of the Union of the two Kingdoms of Scotland and England in May 1707. With an Account of the Origin and Progress of the designed Invasion from France in March 1708. And some Short Reflections on the Ancient State of Scotland`, 1714, by George Lockhart of Carnwath.
George Lockhart`s ‘Memoirs’ were published in 1714, and went through three editions in that year. The 2nd and 3rd editions contained the `Appendix`, which is included in this manuscript. The Introduction (pages xi-xxx) is omitted.
A note in George Chalmers` handwriting is recorded on folio 1: `N.B. The names are all written plainly in this fine and accurate MS. and no blanks.`
Manuscript copy of the English ‘History of the Macdonalds’, ascribed by Donald Gregory to a Hugh Macdonald.
Manuscript entitled "Collections towards a history of tolbooths, bridewells and prisons in Edinburgh", compiled by John A Fairley.
Includes related printed papers, and historical notes by Fairley on this and other topics of Edinburgh history and biography.
Manuscript history of the British Empire by an unknown author.
Manuscript possibly used as printer`s copy.
Manuscript, in a late sixteenth-century hand, containing the whole of the 'Description of Scotland' and part of the 'Historie of Scotlande', corresponding to pages 1-82 of that portion of 'The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande and Irelande' by Raphael Holinshed.
The remainder of the manuscript has been cut away.
Manuscript in Gaelic containing historical and mythological texts.
Manuscript in Gaelic containing short religious, historical and mythological texts.
Manuscript in the author`s hand (according to a pencil note by Cosmo Innes at folio i) of ‘The History of the Province of Moray’, by Lachlan Shaw, Minister of Elgin.
The manuscript is not dated, but from internal evidence it would appear to have been written in or about 1757 (folio 251, ordination of Harry Gordon in 1757; folio 235, death of Robert Milne in 1758 not recorded).
Manuscript of a history of Scotland to the union of the Crowns, written by Thomas Lucas, surgeon in Stirling.
The volumes have been compiled from the standard histories of the period, and reflect current historical method and style.
Manuscript of `An Isle in the Hebrides`, an account of the history and customs of Scalpay by Donald R Morrison.
Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
Manuscript of `Ane abbreuiat off these things Incident w[?] in y[?] Realme of Scotland, y[?] tyme of his Ma[????] Minoritie, and gouernement necessar to be remembred` by David Moysie.
Manuscript of `Ane Account off the Ancient and Present state of Orkney` by James Wallace, minister of Kirkwall.
The manuscript can be dated between 1681 and 1686 from Wallace`s mention of the Stewards of Orkney (folio 53). From the inscription on folio 1, this was the manuscript of the `Account` sent to Sir Robert Sibbald (see ‘Description of the Isles of Orkney’, pages xvii-xviii).