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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:

Lists of Presbyterian and Episcopalian ministers, the names arranged under the presbyteries in each synod.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.9
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Roll of the names of the Ministers of the Kirk in Scotland who refused to submit to Prelacy and continued stedfast in owning Presbyterian Government after the Re-establishment of Episcopacy 1661. 1662.` The presbyteries of Auchterarder and Lerwick are omitted. In some cases, mention is made of a minister`s death, execution, or banishment, but this information is not always correct. The list must have been compiled after 1694, as...
Dates: After 1694-circa 1712.

Lists of religious houses and parishes in Scotland and tax roll of Scotland for 1633.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.6
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) A list of the monasteries and nunneries in Scotland; (ii) An alphabetical index of all the parishes in Scotland with an account of the shire diocese presbytery commissariot they ly in and who are patrons of the parishes; (iii) The Tax Roll of the Sheriffdoms, Stewardries, Bailliaries, the King’s proper lands, prelacies, small benefices & burrows within this kingdom 1633.The volume is neatly written in a uniform hand throughout and from...
Dates: 1633, [?1684-?1689.]

Lists of Scottish Presbyterian and Episcopalian ministers.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.6
Scope and Contents The names are arranged under the presbyteries in each synod. The contents are as follows:(i) ‘Roll of the names of the Ministers of the kirks of Scotland, who refused to submitt to prelacie, and continued stedfast in owning presbiterian Government after the re-establishment of Episcopacy, An: 1661: 1662`. The presbyteries of Auchterarder and Lerwick are omitted. (Folio 1.)(ii) `List of Episcopall Ministers in parishes at ye Revolution...` In many cases, the dates of...
Dates: 1701.

Logbook of Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth, the geologist, containing accounts of two journeys made by him when he was a youth of eighteen and nineteen.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.20.5.15
Scope and Contents The first account describes `A Cruize among the Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland. June 1836` and the second is a `Log of the Barbara of Bedford during her voyage from Bedford to York. July 1835` (folio 43).At the end of each log, there are lists of illustrations which apparently were meant to accompany the text, but the only drawings in the logbook appear in the second account. There is a map of the area between York and Bedford (folio 44) and a sketch of `A Yorkshireman`s...
Dates: 1835-1836.

Manuscript, 18th century, containing lists of peers and barons taken from the Rolls of Parliament and lists and copies of charters taken from the records of the Great Seal (both sources being then unpublished).

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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.14
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) List of peers mentioned in the Rolls of Parliament, 1424-1707 (folio 1).(ii) List of charters, etc., granting peerages, down to 1707 (folio 10).(iii) Index to sections (i) and (ii) (folio 23).(iv) Observations on section (i) (folio 36).(v) Observations on section (ii), generally quoting part of the deed (folio 59).(vi) Copy of declarations of Parliament on the succession...
Dates: 1371, 1373, 1615-1707, 18th century.

Manuscript annotations of the first half of the eighteenth century on interleaved copies of ‘Fabularum aesopicarum delectus, cum Rogeri L'Estrange, equitis, interpretatione Anglica, necnon Latina variorum, Horatii, Phaedri, Faerni, &c. In usum studiosae juventutis Academiae Edinensis’ (Edinburgi, apud Jacobum Watson, MDCCX).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.16484-16485
Scope and Contents The similarity of the annotations suggests that these volumes reflect closely the elementary teaching of Greek at Edinburgh University in that period, and possibly that students were able to buy or encouraged to have the book interleaved. The only other copy recorded by D Wyn Evans in ‘James Watson of Edinburgh: a bibliography of works from his press 1695-1722’, Edinburgh Bibliography Society Transactions, volume V, part 2, 1982, number 190, in Edinburgh Central Public Library, is not...
Dates: 1st half of 18th century

Manuscript, circa 1600, of Robert Lindesay, "History and Chronicles of Scotland".

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Identifier: Acc.3736
Scope and Contents

With a list of the Bishops of Moray to 1638, and a letter, 1847, of Cosmo Innes to William Brodie, concerning the manuscript.

Dates: circa 1600, circa 1638, 1847.

Manuscript concerning crown patrimony and south-west Scotland, written by two hands, the first, of the first half of the 18th century, being responsible for section (i), the second, circa 1760, for the remainder.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.9
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) `An Accompt of His Majestys Proper Rent...`, by Sir William Purves. This is a copy of MS.201. See the catalogue record for Adv.MS.31.1.16. (Folio 1.)(ii) `State of the Stipends, Glebes, Grass andc. of the parishes within the presbitrys following [Dumfries, Penpont, Lochmaben, Annan]. Made out by Mr Andrew Chalmer from the Attested Copies of the Reports of the particular Ministers 10 Decr. 1750.` (Folio 47 verso.)...
Dates: First half of 18th century-circa 1760.

Manuscript containing material chiefly concerning Scotland.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.28
Scope and Contents The manuscript was written in a uniform hand in or about the year 1610.For a transcript of this manuscript see MS.2718.The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.4.35.The contents are as follows: (i) Chronicle of the Kings of Scotland, consisting partly of a translation from the historical works of David Chalmers of Ormond and George Buchanan. Printed by the Maitland Club as ‘A Chronicle of the Kings of...
Dates: [?1610.]

Manuscript ‘List of Electors of the County of Perth’, possibly prepared by one of the rival parties for the parliamentary by-election of that year (May 1834).

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Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.20
Scope and Contents

In addition to details extracted from the electoral rolls, the list has a column reserved, but not used, for `Observations` of canvassers.

Dates: 1834.

Manuscript of chapters 1-2 and 4-11 of ‘The first ascent of Mont Blanc’, and of the 'List of Ascents, etc.' and 'Bibliography', written by Professor Thomas Graham Brown.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.5167-5169
Scope and Contents

Chapter 3 was written by Sir Gavin de Beer, who also prepared and annotated the appendices, but this portion of the book is not represented in the manuscript.

Dates: [1957, or before].

Manuscript of Ewen MacLachlan’s ‘Celtic Analysis’.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.4
Scope and Contents A description by Ewen MacLachlan of fourteen manuscripts sent to him by the Highland Society of Scotland for examination. It was remitted to him by the Society in eight instalments between 26 May 1812 and 3 July 1813, and was intended for use in the compilation of the Society’s Dictionary. Pages 1-152 were therefore forwarded by the society to the Reverend Dr John MacLeod (MacLachlan’s co-adjutor on the Dictionary) on 3 June 1813. On this occasion the five instalments making up pages 1-120...
Dates: 1st quarter of 19th century.