Manuscripts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to handwritten documents, and may also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.
Found in 2109 Collections and/or Records:
Copy, late 17th century, of a treatise on sea laws by Alexander King, Judge Admiral of Scotland, circa 1590, entitled `Tractatus Legum et Consuetudinum Navalium quae apud omnes fere Gentes in usu habentur; Omnia Nautica et quaecumque ex causis marinis in judicium veniunt succincte definiens in certos Titulos ... methodice distinctos. Authore Alexandro Regio`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.4.7
Scope and Contents
The last Titulus (`De Piratis`) is in Scots, as is the appendix on `The forme and Maner of holding of Courts of Admiralitie and processe led befoir Them` which follows.
Dates:
Circa 1590.
Copy, late 17th century, of `De jure prelationis Nobilium scotie or A Memoriall of the evidents and writs produced ... before the Comissioners ... anent the precedency and prioritie of dignitie [1606]`, incorporating additional information up to 1667.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.6
Scope and Contents
The text is followed by a list of titles of the nobility and other related material (folio 34 verso), and verses and notes on the history of Aberdeen (folio 45). An 18th-century hand has added a list of dates of the patents of Scottish nobles (folio 52).
Dates:
1606-1667.
Copy, late 17th century, of part I of Samuel Colvil`s ‘Mock poem, or Whiggs supplication’ (London, 1681).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.9
Scope and Contents
There were several editions of the poem, of which the preface to the first was signed S.C. In this manuscript, a later hand has added the full name to the initials. The manuscript shows a number of variations from the printed text, including some omissions and additions.
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Copy, late 17th or early 18th century, of the memoirs of James Fraser of Brea, minister of Culross.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.11
Scope and Contents
This copy begins with the author`s preface, omitting the letter of dedication to Thomas Ross, and breaks off at the end of chapter 8. It contains a small amount of biographical material which does not appear in the published version.
The name William Lindsay, Letham, Dunnichen, appears on folio 1.
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Copy, late 18th century, of `Nockrar óreglulegar reglur` by Eggert Ólafsson, and `Grammatica Islandica` by Jón Magnússon, 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.7.18
Dates:
18th century.
Copy, late seventeenth century-eighteenth century, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, ‘Major Practicks’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.10
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Copy, made apparently in 1729, of ‘the most material passages’ of ‘Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum’ by Thomas Dempster (Bononiae, 1627).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.22
Scope and Contents
Almost all the entries in the printed book have been summarized in the manuscript, which also contains details not recorded in the printed book; many of the entries are partly in English. A later and more detailed entry on Robert Bodie has been written (in English) in the same hand on a small sheet of paper (folio 32) tipped into the volume. The frequent unintentional omissions made in the copying of the manu¬script have been supplied in the same hand in the margins. The dates 2...
Dates:
1627.
Copy, made apparently in or about 1704 by Thomas Ruddiman, Keeper of the Advocates` Library, of (i) a letter written by James V in 1528 to the authorities of the town of Ratisbon (now Regensburg) in favour of the Scots monks there (folio i); and (ii) the preface, entitled `Praefatio, sive Velitatio in Irlandos`, of the `Germania Christiana` of Robert (in religion, Boniface) Strachan, Benedictine monk at Ratisbon (folio 1, where his name is wrongly recorded as Bonaventure).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.6
Dates:
1528, 17th century.
Copy, made by Andrew Cook, of ‘Germania Christiana’ by Robert (in religion, Boniface) Strachan, Benedictine monk at Ratisbon.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.20
Scope and Contents
This copy was made by Andrew Cook, a fellow monk, in or before 1684, when, according to the inscription at folio 1, it was sent as a present by the Abbot, Placid Fleming, to Christopher Irvine, physician and philologist. The work was intended by Strachan as volume 1 of a work in two volumes (see Adv.MS.17.1.9, folio 225, his letter to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet, in 1641), but no more was ever written, nor was this part published.The pagination of this manuscript, which is...
Dates:
1684, or before.
Copy made by Thomas (Dom Placid) Fleming, Abbot of Ratisbon, of papers in the dispute between the Irish and the Scottish benedictines over the rightful ownership of the former Irish monasteries in Germany, and particularly that of St. James, Ratisbon.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.7.1
Scope and Contents
The papers copied are:(i) the supplication for the return of the monasteries made on behalf of the Irish benedictines by Dom Columbanus Duffy, Prior of St. John`s, Waterford, with a list of questions for the Scottish benedictines to reply to (folio 2); (ii) excerpts from documentary and printed sources referred to in the supplication (folio 7); (iii) Fleming`s notes, with additional observations, on all the foregoing (folio 26); (iv) his reply...
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Copy, made in 1702, of letters and memoirs of Major-General Hugh Mackay of Scoury (?1640-1692), concerning the campaigns in Scotland in 1689-1690, and in Ireland in 1691.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.1
Dates:
1689, and after.
Copy made in or about 1690 by James Clapperton, Dalkeith, of the chronicles of the Civil War in Scotland compiled by Henry Guthrie, Bishop of Dunkeld.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.23
Scope and Contents
The text of this manuscript is the same as that common to the other copies in this Library, agreeing with them against the printed book in some small omissions and additions, and numerous variants in vocabulary, spelling and word order. In addition to the text, the manuscript contains: summaries (in red) in the margins of most of the pages; at page i, a table of contents (as far as page 105 only); at page 161, a list of Royalist supporters executed in England during the Commonwealth period;...
Dates:
Circa 1690.
Copy of a work written by Alexander Dickson in support of the claims of James VI of Scotland to the crown of England in reply to ‘A Conference about the next succession to the crowne of Ingland’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.8
Scope and Contents
‘Conference about the next succession to the crowne of Ingland’ was published in 1594 under the pseudonym R Doleman by a number of authors including chiefly Sir Francis Englefield and Cardinal William Allen: Robert Parsons, Society of Jesus, to whom the work has often been ascribed, was a minor contributor (see ‘Recusant History’, volume 4, page 126). Dickson, who had been a supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots, appears to have become a servant of James VI shortly before he began this reply,...
Dates:
1598.
Copy of a work written shortly after the death in 1751 of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, to show that the principalities usually possessed by the Prince of Wales belong to the Crown.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.12
Scope and Contents
The work consists largely of copies and abstracts of charters and other formal documents relating to the Stewartry and Principality of Scotland (folio 6), the Duchy of Cornwall (folio 52 verso), the Principality of Wales and the Earldom of Chester (folio 56) , the Duchy of Normandy (folio 58 verso) and the Dauphine of France (folio 58 verso), preceded by a summary of the contents (folio 2), and followed by a conclusion (folio 62), an appendix (folio 63), a copy (folio 72 verso) of an act of...
Dates:
1751, or after.
Copy of a work written shortly after the death in 1751 of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, to show that the principalities usually possessed by the Prince of Wales belong to the Crown.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.3
Scope and Contents
The work consists largely of copies and abstracts of charters and other formal documents relating to the Stewartry and Principality of Scotland (folio 7), the Duchy of Cornwall (folio 57), the Principality of Wales and the Earldom of Chester (folio 60), the Duchy of Normandy (folio 62 verso) and the Dauphine of France (folio 62 verso), preceded by a summary of the contents (folio 2), and followed by a conclusion (folio 65 verso), an appendix (folio 66 verso), a copy (folio 75 verso) of an...
Dates:
1751, or after.
Copy, of about the end of the seventeenth century, by the antiquary Robert Mylne, of ‘Ane account of ane Embassie performed by William Steuart [Stewart], Commendator of Pittenweim, and Mr John Skeen to England, Denmark, and the Princess [Princes] of Germanie in Anno 1590'.
Item
Identifier: MS.2912
Scope and Contents
The account was written by John Skene (afterwards Lord Curriehill) (see folio 42 verso). The mission was to the Protestant princes, and its object was to bring about peace treaties between England and Spain and between France and Spain, or, failing that, an alliance of Denmark, Scotland, and the Germans which should assist the peaceful party against the obdurate. See ‘Calendar of the state papers relating to Scotland... 1547-1603’ (1898-1963), volume x, page xvi. The journal covers the...
Dates:
1590.
Copy of Adv.MS.31.3.18, documents relating to heraldry, made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.22
Scope and Contents
Translations have been provided with the material in Latin.
Dates:
1385-1661.
Copy of ‘An Account of the Lord`s Gracious dealing with me; and of his remarkable hearing and answering my supplications` , being the religious memoirs of Mrs Marion Veitch, wife of William Veitch, minister of Dumfries, written apparently in or about 1711, the date of the latest events recorded.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.22
Scope and Contents
This copy, one of three known, which was written in a near-contemporary hand, appears to have lost all after page 74: the remainder is supplied on different sheets written in an apparently late 18th-century hand.
Dates:
1711, or after.
Copy of `An Account of the Number of People in Scotland`, Alexander Webster`s analysis of the population arranged by counties.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.1.9
Dates:
1755.
Copy of an apparently unpublished work entitled 'Practical Tracts of Artillery', written by Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald, Fellow of the Royal Society.
File
Identifier: MS.8185
Scope and Contents
The work was written by John Macdonald when he was Captain Commanding the Artillery at Fort Marlborough, [Sumatra]. The text is preceded by a letter to the Governor and Council of the Military Department there, an introduction to the work, and a letter to the Governor-General and the Supreme Council at Fort William.
Dates:
1787.
Copy of 'An eccelent arithmetick book, being a plain and Familiar method suitable to the meanest Capacity ... composed by eduard cocker.'
Item
Identifier: MS.8186
Scope and Contents
The copy was made in Edinburgh by James Burgess in the first half of the eighteenth century, of "Cocker's Arithmetick", edited by John Hawkins. The edition used was probably that of 1694 or 1697.
The manuscript contains a few verses unrelated to the text, and is decorated with numerous pen flourishes, calligraphic birds, and other figures.
Dates:
?1694 or ?1697.
Copy of Arts Council exhibition catalogue, "Charles Cameron, c 1740-1812".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7942
Scope and Contents
With associated manuscript notes.
Dates:
1967.
Copy of autograph manuscript of poem, "Highland Laddie" by James Hogg.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11775
Dates:
1818.
Copy of "Ballads of the Bench and Bar", with manuscript annotations.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5780
Dates:
1882.
Copy of `Collections of the most remarkable accounts that relate to the families of Scotland drawn from ther own charters and other authentick writts ... with ane account of ther armes’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.4
Scope and Contents
The authorship is attributed to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, but an 18th-century footnote added to the title page of Adv.MS.34.3.19 states that the collection was originally compiled by Sir Patrick Lyon of Carse, and that his manuscript was copied by Mackenzie and others who made their own additions to it. One such copy by William Aikman of Cairnie, advocate, is now MS.979; another is in Edinburgh University Library; five more are Adv.MSS.13.2.10, 32.6.1, 34.3.14, 34.3.19 and 34.6.8....
Dates:
Circa 1672.