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Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Transcribed collections of numbers, names, or other text indicating tallies of concepts collocated for any particular purpose.
Found in 428 Collections and/or Records:
Genealogical material collected by George Crawfurd.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.9
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.
Hand-list of Northern manuscripts in the Faculty of Advocates Library, based on the Latin catalogue made by Mr T G Repp, 1830, compiled by J M G Barclay.
Item
Identifier: F.R.209a
Dates:
1907.
Heraldic collection of Sir David Lindsay.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.20
Scope and Contents
Material copied in the late 16th and early 17th centuries apparently for Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Lord Lyon King of Arms from 1591 to 1620. It is closely related to John Scrymgeour`s manuscript (Adv.MS.31.5.2) in that some of its contents are apparently taken from Adam Loutfut`s manuscript (British [Museum] Library Harleian MS.6149), and the same order of arrangement is followed as by Scrymgeour; but there is also some additional material. Loutfut`s manuscript is described in ‘The...
Dates:
Late 16th century-early 17th century.
Heraldic collections of David and Alexander Deuchar.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.7044
Dates:
circa 1820-circa 1840.
Historical papers formerly belonging to the antiquary Robert Mylne.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.1
Scope and Contents
The papers mostly concern events in Scotland from 1637 to 1652, and include copies of acts, proclamations, petitions, etc. The subjects include the service book, the National Covenant, teinds, and the College of Justice. There is also a copy of ‘Irene’ by William Drummond of Hawthornden (folio 213). A list has been inserted of those items which have been published.There are a few notes by Mylne, identifying some of the papers. His instructions for binding the collection and his...
Dates:
Late 16th century-17th century.
‘Historie of the estate of the Kirk of Scotland’ by John Row, Minister of Carnock; and papers on ecclesiastical affairs.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.14
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) A copy of ‘Historie of the estate of the Kirk of Scotland’ by John Row, with an addition after 1637 (beginning at page 284). At the end, in what appears to be a transcript of Mr Row’s own memorandum, it is noted that the text was copied at Aberdeen, October 2 1650;
(ii) Miscellaneous papers concerning church affairs, duplicating some of those found in Adv.MS.34.5.13;
(iii) ‘A supplement of the historie of the Kirk of Scotland…: or ane handful of goates haire...
Dates:
17th century.
‘History of the baronetage of Scotland and Nova Scotia’ by Robert Riddell, advocate (born 1797-died 1862).
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.2.1-Adv.MS.23.2.9
Dates:
Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
History of the see of Durham and its bishops from Aidan to Cuthbert Tunstall (died 1559), `summarily comprisinge such memorable acts and works of Charitie...with sundrie other things worthy of remembraunce, collected out of the auncient and late records of the Cathedrall Church of Durham, and for the most parte translated forth of Latten into English: the first day of August Anno Domini 1603`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.2
Scope and Contents
The title `Origo Episcopatus Dunelmensis` bears the date 1616, but the text is followed (folio 25 verso) by lists of bishops up to Richard Neile (1617-1628), deans from 1543 to 1620, and mayors from 1603 to 1627.
Dates:
Early 17th century.
'Imago mundi' by Honorius of Autun, 'Speculum regum' by Godfrey of Viterbo, and an anonymous poem 'De laude civitatis Laudae'. A manuscript written in Italy in the late 13th or early 14th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The `Imago mundi` of Honorius (folio 1), here entitled `Mappa mundi`, and attributed in both the title and the colophon to Isidore of Seville.(ii) `Speculum regum` by Godfrey of Viterbo (folio 23 verso). It contains the preface, list of chapters, and list of popes, but not the poem itself.(iii) ‘De laude civitatis Laudae’ (folio 38). An anonymous poem. Written in an Italian littera textualis...
Dates:
Late 13th century-early 14th century.
Instructions for making fireworks, probably intended as part of a scientific work.
File
Identifier: MS.9240
Scope and Contents
The text refers to figures which are not included. The manuscript also contains household and pharmaceutical recipes (folio 52), and a list of books and equipment of an army officer (folios 1 inverted).
Dates:
19th century.
Interleaved copy of Sir Arthur Mitchell, "List of Travels, Tours, etc, Relating to Scotland" (from "Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland", XXXV, 1902), with manuscript and typed notes of James McKinlay.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5620
Dates:
1902.
'Inventar of Buikis pertaining to Walter Dalgleische this 3 November 1652', a list of some 160 books, chiefly religious and literary, written on the front flyleaves of ‘Recreations with the muses’ by William Alexander, Earl of Stirling (London, 1637).
Item
Identifier: MS.9484
Scope and Contents
Walter Dalgleish was probably factor to the Earl of Dunfermline. His ex-libris, dated 1656, appears on the first flyleaf.
Dates:
1637, 1952
‘Inventory of charters’, 1456-1552, in the ‘Registrum Magni Sigilli’, in the hand of Sir John Scott of Scotstarvit.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.4
Scope and Contents
At the end is a list of charters, 1587-1630, ‘The taxed lands’.
Dates:
1456-1552, 1587-1630.
Italian manuscript of Books 1-5 of 'De consolatione philosophiae' by Boethius.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.14
Scope and Contents
The text ends on folio 105 verso; on folios 106-107 recto in the same hand is a note 'Ad sciendum de vita et morte Boetii Notandum ...'; folios 107 verso and 108 are blank.The text is written in a round Italian gothic hand. There are initials in red and blue, infilled and framed with red and green, at the beginning of each book (folios 1, 15 verso, 35, 63 verso, 87 verso). There are plain initials (some shaded) at the beginning of each section, alternately red and blue; within...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Jacobite Papers.
File
Identifier: Acc.3412
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.
Dates:
1645-1891.
Jacobite relics comprising an engraved rose, a list of martyrs, a fragmentary family tree, and a supposed section of the plaid of Charles Edward Stuart.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14399
Dates:
1836.
John Sawers` Armorial, containing the arms of the Scottish nobility, mostly painted on engraved outlines.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.4
Scope and Contents
The later entries are unfinished and some are merely pencil sketches. The manuscript was shown in the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1891 (see ‘Memorial Catalogue’, number 60).The armorial is preceded by a printed form of charge concerning the right to bear arms, 1675 (folio ii verso) and a list of Scottish peers (folio iv). It is followed by an index and, on inverted pages 1-47, by a copy of a list of Scottish families and their arms by Thomas Craufurd,...
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Journal, 1729, of George Skene, containing ‘An Account of a Journey to London, with the particular rout by Thomas Burnett of Kirkhill, George Skene of that ilk, and David Skene his brother german'.
Item
Identifier: MS.3806
Scope and Contents
In addition to George Skene's journal there are notes of expenditure on the journey and of the mileage of part of the route (folio 1 verso); part of an anti-Hanoverian parody of the ‘Te Deum’, ?1742 (folio 34); and part of a diary, probably of Joseph Mackie, 1837 (folio 35).At the end of the volume, inverted, are detailed accounts of expenditure on the journey of 1729 (folio 1 inverted) and recipes, medical and other (folio 3 inverted), including directions for the treatment of...
Dates:
1729-19th century.
Journal of Margaret Ramsay, describing her family life in Edinburgh, and as a school-teacher at Fochabers and Whithorn. The contents are largely personal, but mention is made of some current events.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.6.6-22.6.10
Scope and Contents
The journal is partly in shorthand, but there is a summary at the end of each year except 1834 and 1840. The writer also made a yearly list of the births, marriages and deaths of her friends, and of the sermons she had heard.A copy of an article on the journal by Sir James Balfour Paul in ‘Chambers`s Journal’, 7th series, xi (1921), pages 221-224, together with his letter presenting the volumes to the Advocates` Library, is inserted in Adv.MS.22.6.6. (folios i-iii). A...
Dates:
1825-1840.
Journals and papers of David Stephen, composer and organist.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14377
Content Description
The collection contains journals and some other papers of David Stephen (1869-1946), organist and composer in Dundee, Arbroath and St Andrews, and from 1903 music director of the Carnegie Trust, Dunfermline.
Dates:
1902-1946.
Large documents relating to the Free Church Missions.
Series
Identifier: Ch.16839-16850
Dates:
1864-1898.
Lecture of W Hiller, "The History of Polish Emigration in Great Britain".
File
Identifier: Acc.8559
Scope and Contents
With list of books on the subject.
Dates:
1941.
Ledger containing ‘Accounts of the monies expended & the work executed on the Barony of Strathbrock’, now Uphall, belonging to the Earl of Buchan.
Item
Identifier: MS.343
Scope and Contents
The accounts were begun ‘by John Millar, Precentor of Uphall and School Master of the Parish, and continued by Ebenezer Faichney, Overseer to the Earl of Buchan'. They relate mainly to the estate of Kirkhill; but they include also some household and personal expenses of the Earl, who passed and signed the accounts, a summary of the enclosures on the estate of Kirkhill, 1780 (folio 26), and a list of the Statute work of the barony (folio 103).
Dates:
1768-1772, 1781-1788.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.14
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:List, 1606, of Scottish nobility (folio 1);Process of apprising of the Bishop of Orkney against Sinclair, 1572 (folio 3);Process of apprising of Sir Thomas Hamilton against Sir Blaise Belmer, 1607 (folio 13 verso);Reduction of a decreet of perambulation obtained by Lord Hay of Yester against the James Heriot of Trabroun, 1572 (folio 21 verso);Registered submission and decreet arbitral, 1614, between...
Dates:
Early 17th century.