Histories.
Found in 777 Collections and/or Records:
John Riddell`s lightly marked copy of ‘History of the Partition of the Lennox’ by Mark Napier (Edinburgh, 1835)., 1835.
Printed books owned by John Riddell, consisting of standard works of Scottish genealogical reference, volumes of printed session papers, collections of papers in peerage and other claims, and copies of some of Riddell`s published works.
“Johnston’s history of Scotland”, a translation of Buchanan’s History, volume I., Early 17th century.
“Johnston’s history of Scotland”, a translation of Buchanan’s History, volume II., Early 17th century.
“Johnston’s history of Scotland”, a translation of Buchanan’s History with additions to 1633.
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of papers on ecclesiastical history, originally marked ‘A’., 17th century-18th century.
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of papers on ecclesiastical history, originally marked ‘B’., 17th century-18th century.
The volume consists of “The second pairt of the Historie of the kirk and Nation of Scotland and of England & Ireland, (as their case becums lyk ours) fra the death of King James till the death of his sonne King Charles” in sixteen books interspersed with many printed papers.
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of papers on ecclesiastical history, originally marked ‘C’., 17th century-18th century.
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of papers on ecclesiastical history, originally marked ‘D’., 17th century-18th century.
The contents are as follows: (i) An abridgement of the General Council; (ii) A brief account of the Holy Land with a short description of the government of the Jews etc.; (iii) Notes on Scotch Bishops after the Reformation, down to about 1700; (iv) ‘Excerpta quædam de magus registro prioratus St. Andreæ’, referring to the register by its folios, a copy from Sir R Sibbald’s excerpts by “Iain Semple”; (v) A brief account of the heresies in the primitive church, etc.
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of very miscellaneous papers on ecclesiastical history.
According to the folio catalogue (F.R.186) the volumes were originally marked ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’.
The description of the manuscripts in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.5.7.7-10.
Late 15th-century manuscript of 'The oryginale cronykil of Scotland', or 'Original Chronicle', of Andrew Wyntoun.
Late 17th or early 18th-century copy of the manuscript of `Ane Account of The Ancient and present state of Orkney written about the Year of God, 1684`, by James Wallace, minister of Kirkwall.
Legal papers of William Wilson and Son., 1782-1879.
The papers include the following:
Papers concerning the dispute in 1787 over the right of the country weavers to buy yarn at the Stirling market (folio 1);
Miscellaneous petitions, 1779-1836 (folio 62);
Miscellaneous accounts and receipts, 1783-1878 (folio 88);
A typescript history of the firm, 20th century (folio 110).
Letter, 1634, to William Drummond of Hawthornden, and draft, undated, of part of Drummond`s `History`.
Letter of John Gibson Lockhart to Mrs Thomas Hughes, containing a fragment of Sir Walter Scott’s, ‘Tales of a Grandfather’., 1837.
Letters and papers of Charles Grant, Vicomte de Vaux, chiefly of a personal nature., 1676-1824, undated.
The letters and papers include copies of Charles Grant's correspondence, 1780-1785, with an unidentified lady (Adelaide de R-, who later became a countess) with whom he had an affair; part of his diary kept while travelling in Normandy and Brittany in 1780 (folio 26); a long letter, recounting his family history and memoirs, 1785 (folio 165); and miscellaneous letters concerning his career.
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.
Lithographic copy of MS.5060: History of the families of Reddie of Redhouse and Pratis, 1826, and Kinloch of Dysart, 1823, compiled by Andrew Thomson., 1823, 1826.
Some pencilled notes found in the original are omitted.
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 German theological/church historical work., ?17th century.
With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.