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:
Manuscript of "Cours de I'Histoire Général" by Claude François Henry.
Item
Identifier: MS.17999
Scope and Contents
A work intended as a universal history from the earliest times to the French Revolution, but which, from the 11th century onwards, is confined to the history of France. The text begins (folio 28) with a description of the work and material on the planetary system and world geography. It is preceded by geographical and chronological tables (folio 2). The work was compiled while Henry (1773-1820), a French army officer, was a prisoner of war near Jedburgh.
Dates:
[Circa 1815.]
Manuscript of Foras Feasa Ar Éirinn (continued), a history of Ireland, by Geoffrey Keating, (Seathrún Céitinn).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is a continuation of Adv.MS.72.1.43, folio 18. The original codex appears to have disintegrated at an early stage, being recorded as coverless from its first appearance in 1803. Its later history can be traced as 4 sections:A. Adv.MS.72.1.43.B. Adv.MS.72.2.1, folios 1-8 (in origin a single sheet, cf. Donald Mackinnon).C. Adv.MS.72.2.1, folios 9-18 (distinguished from B notably by hole in middle of pages 9 and what follows).D....
Dates:
1647, or after.
Manuscript of “Gaël Albanich” by William Forbes Skene (1809-1892), containing a history of the Highland clans.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14896-14897
Scope and Contents
The manuscript, dated 1st March 1834, was the winning entry in a competition of the Highland Society of London for the best essay on the history of the Highland Clans. It is illustrated in pen and ink and in watercolours.
Dates:
1834.
Manuscript of ‘Historia Romana’ by Paulus Diaconus and ‘Index commentariorum G. Julii Caesaris’ by Raimundus Marlianus, probably written by Robert Braidfut.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.10
Scope and Contents
(i) ‘Historia Romana’ by Paulus Diaconus. The title in the manuscript is ‘Incipit Eutropius historiographus et post eum Paulus diaconus de historiis Italie provincie et romanorum’, but the whole text is the recension of Eutropius by Paulus. There are 18 books, the normal book xii being divided at chaper 8, and book xvii being included (cf. Crivellucci in ‘Bulletino dell’ Istituto storico italiano’, xl, page xlviii and what follows). The text is of the second class (cf....
Dates:
1481.
Manuscript of John Howell, in the form of 13 letters.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5779
Scope and Contents
Describing Edinburgh life and topography at the end of the 18th century.
Dates:
1854.
Manuscript of `La tierche partie de la noble et puissante Maison de Bourgongne` by Robert Macquéreau.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.5
Scope and Contents
Macquéreau, or Macquériau, a historian from Valenciennes, wrote a `Traicté et recueil de la maison de Bourgogne` covering the period 1500-1529 which was published in two parts under the title ‘Histoire générale de l`Europe’. The manuscript covers the period 1464-1506. Macquéreau’s manuscript for 1500-1527 is now in Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale n.a. fr. 10433.The manuscript is in two parts, each of which is preceded by a list of contents (folios ii verso, 95). Chapter headings...
Dates:
1st half of 16th century.
Manuscript of Robert Chambers, "History of the Rebellion in Scotland in 1745".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8164
Dates:
1826-1827.
Manuscript of 'Secretum secretorum' by Pseudo-Aristotle, 'De excidio Troiae' by Dares Phrygius, and 'Historia regum Britannie' by Geoffrey of Monmouth; written by a 13th- or 14th-century hand of uncertain origin.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Pseudo-Aristotle, 'Secretum secretorum' (edited by R. Steele, in 'Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi', fascicule V, pages 25-172). This manuscript contains the letter of Philip, a list of chapters, and the text in seven books (the headings for i, iv, and vi are omitted). It is of the common class, omitting all the test passages of Gilson and Steele (cf. 'Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi', pages xxv-xxvi); further omissions are...
Dates:
13th century-14th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Historia Ecclesiastica’ by Bede, probably from Exeter Cathedral.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the prologue (folio 1) and five books (folios 2, 23, 39 verso , 60, 79), each with a list of chapters at the beginning. The text is of the c-type and of the D branch of that (see ‘Opera Historica’, volume 1, pages xciii-xcv, civ-cix, and ‘Ecclesiastical History of the English People’, page 1).A few headings are in red. Initials for the preface and books are in red and blue with red tracery, those for chapters are alternately blue and red with tracery of...
Dates:
14th century.
Manuscript of 'The history and chronicles of Scotland', John Bellenden's translation of Hector Boece's ‘Scotorum historiae’.
Item
Identifier: MS.5288
Scope and Contents
Most of the manuscript is, with slight alterations, similar to the first printed edition of John Bellenden's translation (circa 1536), but in places it differs substantially from that and from other texts; it contains only chapters 2 and 3 of 'The cosmographie and discription of Albion' which precedes the main work, but is otherwise complete.Bellenden's chronicle is continued at folio 313 without a break by Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie's 'Historie and chronicles of Scotland' to...
Dates:
17th century.
Manuscript of 'The history of England' of Sir James Mackintosh.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.6633/1-2
Dates:
1830.
Manuscript of the late 11th and early 12th century containing: the 'Paradisus' of Heraclides; the 'Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae sub Geiserico et Hunrico regibus Wandalorum' of Victor Vitensis; 'De corpore et sanguine Domini' of Paschasius Radbertus (attributed to Rabanus Maurus); 'De corpore Domini contra Berengarium' of Guitmund; and two sermons of St Augustine of Hippo.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.3
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of the late 11th and early 12th century, written in England and containing various theological works. The manuscript has been dated to the early 12th century by Borland, Ker, Schenkl, Paul, and Römer. In private correspondence with the National Library of Scotland Michael Gullick has stated that folios 1-122 were written at Durham, probably in the 1090s, but definitely before 1096. He further suggests that folios 123-149 were added to the manuscript sometime in the late 11th or...
Dates:
Late 11th century - early 12th century.
Manuscript of `Women of the Highlands` by Katharine Stewart.
...
Identifier: Acc.13213
Dates:
? 2005.
Manuscript, written in England in the late 11th century, containing the satires of Persius, the fables of Avianus, and miscellaneous poetry and other works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.12
Scope and Contents
Most of the leaves are palimpsest, but the underwriting is illegible; it may be from the same manuscripts as that in Adv.MS.18.7.8 (pricking from the original manuscript survives on folios 3+6, 9, 16+23, 17+22, 26+29, 34+35, in one or both edges of the text-frame; the width of the ruled area was 172 millimetres in folios 3+6, 17+22, 26+29, 192 millimetres in folio 9.). See 'Notice et extraits d'un manuscrit d' Edinbourg', 33 and what follows.The contents of the manuscript are as...
Dates:
Late 11th century.
Manuscripts and typescripts of notes and articles of Iain F Anderson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5768
Scope and Contents
Concerning Scottish history and topography.
Dates:
circa 1949-circa 1956.
Manuscripts of parts of George Scott-Moncrieff's verse drama ‘Fotheringhay’, and of his history of the Catholic Church in Scotland, ‘The mirror and the cross’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19628-19631
Dates:
1951, 1960.
Manuscripts, typescripts and printed books of Eric Linklater.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5665 Box 1(1)-Box 12(5)
Scope and Contents
Including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of novels, plays, translations, and historical and critical works.
Dates:
Circa 1923-1971, undated.
Material concerning the history of Geneva.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.9
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) “Reponse aux questions de Milord Townsend sur l’histoire et le gouvernement de Geneve par Monsieur Chouet conseiller et secretaire d’etat”; (ii) “Etat présent du gouvernement de Geneve en 1734”; (iii) ‘Remarques dur la ville et la Republique de Geneve; (iv) “Rôle des Sindics de la République de Genéve depuis l’an 1530”, ‘Les noms des anciens comtes de Genéve …’ and ‘Liste de Evêquas de Genéve…’.
Dates:
[Circa 1734.]
Material on Scottish history intended to be read in conjunction with ‘Abridgement or Summarie of the Scots Chronicles’ by John Monipennie.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.25
Scope and Contents
The author, who was writing between 1612 and 1625, made use of the histories by John Major, Boece and Holinshed. The later entries, from the 15th century onwards, become progressively lengthier until the text breaks off in November 1585.The text is followed by an index of the kings of Scotland, and a general index. Both contain page references to the manuscript (indicated by the letter u or by numbers above 72) and to Monipennie`s published text. The author`s own copy of the...
Dates:
1612-1625.
Material on the early history of Scotland by Sir Robert Sibbald.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.26
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Caledonia sive Scotia Antiqua et Recentior`, 1680 (folio 1). According to the preface, Sibbald intended this to be a work in four books, but it breaks off after the beginning of the second. The contents do not correspond with those of `Caledonia` described by Sibbald in ‘An Account of the writers antient and modern’, pages 9-11, which refers to Adv.MS.15.1.2, folios 3-14.(ii) `Corn: Taciti Britannia`, 1687-1688 (folio...
Dates:
1680-1698.
Materials for a preface to a proposed but unrealised edition of the works of George Buchanan by the genealogist James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, and others.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.4
Scope and Contents
The work was intended as a reply to the criticisms of Buchanan by Robert Freebairn in the preface and by Thomas Ruddiman in the life of Buchanan in Ruddiman`s edition of Buchanan`s ‘Opera Omnia’. The edition appears to have been proposed by the Lord Advocate, Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, of Hailes, and a society was formed under Anderson in 1719, but following the deaths shortly afterwards of some of Anderson`s principal collaborators, including Dalrymple, the project lapsed....
Dates:
1719, or after.
‘Memoires for compiling the History of the Royall College of Physitians at Edinburghe’, with an account of the establishment of the Medicine Garden, in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.20
Scope and Contents
The memoirs are taken from the records of the Royal College of Physicians.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: W.5.34.
Dates:
Late 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century.
‘Memoires sur la Reformation de Geneve, tires des Registres publies depuis 1526 jusques à 1536.’
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.2
Dates:
1526-1536.
'Memoirs of the family of Grant. Written in the year 1752', being a history and genealogy of the Grants of Grant and several of their principal cadets.
Item
Identifier: MS.10970
Scope and Contents
The text was compiled in 1752, but has additions up to 1773, and is written on paper watermarked 1811. The manuscript may originally have been compiled by William Grant, Lord Prestongrange, the account of whose life is unusually detailed (folio 48) and whose Hanoverian politics are reflected in the account of some eighteenth-century Grants (for example folio 43).
Dates:
1752-1773.