Manuscripts.
Found in 2102 Collections and/or Records:
118 letters to James K Annand.
Concerning literary and personal matters, with associated manuscripts of poems.
Correspondents include: Robert Garioch, Hugh MacDiarmid and Albert D Mackie.
‘1467 MS’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín.
`A Description of the Islands belonging to the Crowne of Scotland taken from severall manuscripts, and the relations of thos that lived in them or frequented them`, written probably circa 1700.
The volume begins with a brief general account of Scottish islands followed by detailed descriptions of the Western isles.
The fullest descriptions are of Mull, Iona, Harris and Lewis, Islay, Skye, Uist and in particular, St. Kilda (folios 21 verso, 26 verso, 27 verso).
Towards the end of the volume are transcripts of ‘Genealogies of the Chief Clans of the Isles’ (folio 34 verso) and `Descriptio Insularum Orchadiarum (folio 35).
`Abbreviat of his Majesties proper and constant rent peyit be the severall ffewars for their respective Lands And be the severall Shirreffs for the blensch dueties, castellwards and others out of the respective Shyres As the same Compts by the present Rolls, With the deductiones and differences betwixt the same and former Rolls preceiding King James of blissed memorie his goeing To England In Anno 1603. Collected out of the Roll and Records of Exchequer, by Sir William Purves of Woodhouslee Knight and Baronet his Majesties Sollicitor In Anno 1667`, with an introductory essay `Of the Revenue or Patrimony of the Crown`.
Abbreviated version of the ‘Scotichronicon’ by Walter Bower.
Abridgement by Patrick Russell, prior of the Charterhouse of Perth, of a work by Walter Bower known as the 'Book of Cupar Angus'.
Abridgement of the ‘Chroniche’ of Giovanni Villani (died 1348) continued by his brother Matteo (died 1363) and by Matteo`s son Filippo, to the end of 1365.
'Abridgement of the Scottish History', a list of the succession of the Kings of Scotland from Fergus I to James VI by Sir James Balfour, in his hand.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.7.14.
Abstracts and facsimiles of Scottish armorials by William Rae Macdonald, Albany Herald (1843-1923).
Abyssinian manuscripts, acquired by General Sir William Knox, Knight Commander of the Bath, probably during the Abyssinian campaign of 1867-1868.
"Accomptt of each Heretores frie Rent with in the Shyre of", Fife.
Account book kept by James Traill of Woodwick and his nephew John Traill of Westness, of rents paid by their tenants in the mainland of Orkney and the island of North Ronaldsay.
James Traill`s accounts (folio 1) cover the crop years 1728-1731, and those of his successor, 1746-1747 (folio 128). There is also an inventory of goods belonging to James Traill left in North Ronaldsay (folio 175).
Account book of Archibald Hamilton, merchant in Edinburgh, and brother of Lord Presmennan.
There is a gap in the accounts between 1667 and 1671. Hamilton appears to have dealt in general merchandise, and to have had shares in several ships trading to Holland, France and Spain.
On folio 1, Hamilton has written the dates of his marriages and of the births of his children.
Account book of William Baillie, a wright in Edinburgh.
Baillie apparently owned a joiner`s shop and employed a number of workmen both there and on his clients` premises. His account book records the number of days per week worked by each man, with their wages and a few receipts. Mention is made of work in the University and the Tolbooth Kirk, as well as for private individuals.
The first few pages are missing.
Account books and other business records of T and T Clark, publishers, Edinburgh.
Account by William Rose, the genealogist, of the Chaplaincies, Prebendaries and Alterages in the Dioceses of Ross, Caithness, Moray and Dunkeld, the revenue from which was granted to Rose in 1776.
The manuscript is mostly in Rose`s hand. At folio 159 is a summary of the work.
Account of the history of the residence in Edinburgh, during the last year of the reign of George II and first year of George III, of William Gordon, 17th Earl of Sutherland, by John Wilde.
Account of the peasant rising of 1865 in Jamaica, being the final draft of part of an uncompleted work on Governor Eyre, by William Law Mathieson, Doctor of Laws.
`Account of the Scotish Poets either printed or manuscript which I have seen, from Ancient tymes to the year 1701` compiled by Sir Robert Sibbald, being the preface and drafts of two books consisting respectively of lists of poems in Latin or Greek, and lists of vernacular poems.
The poems are arranged under their authors and there are a few biographical notes.
Account of the Scots Benedictine abbey at Ratisbon, copied apparently in 1684 for the abbot, Placid Fleming, by Andrew Cook, one of the monks.
The text is an excerpt from ‘Ratisbona religiosa’, the fourth (and largest) volume of ‘Ratisbona dioecesis illustrata’, a work in 7 volumes on the diocese of Ratisbon, written about 1660 by its chancellor, Eberhard Wassenberg. The work, which is little more than a catena of excerpts mostly from printed sources, was never published.
Account of the trial of Alexander Wilson, the weaver-poet and ornithologist, at the instance of William Sharp, in connexion with his poem ‘The Shark’.
In accordance with the order of the Sheriff-Substitute, Alexander Wilson publicly burned two copies of the poem at the Tolbooth, Paisley. Bound with a printed copy of ‘The Shark’, 1792.
Accounts and papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (Darien Company).
Accounts and papers relating to the Scottish Mint.
The papers consist of the counter warden`s accounts of silver minted from February 1699 to November 1700; of orders for payment by the Generals and Masters of the Mint; and of receipts of various employees.