Statutes. Legislative acts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Acts of a legislature declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something, expressed according to the forms necessary to constitute law. For regulations having the force of law issued by a government agency in order to interpret or implement the provisions of a statute, use ""administrative regulations."".
Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:
Statute work on highways in Saltoun., 1763.
Item
Identifier: MS.17261
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
1763.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Estate papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning Saltoun estate.
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Papers and accounts concerning roads, mostly in East Lothian.
'Statutes and Orders of the most Ancient and most Noble Order of the Thistle': eighteenth-century copies of statutes of 1703-1721., 1703-1721.
File
Identifier: MS.5832
Scope and Contents
The 2nd Marquess of Lothian was invested with the order in 1705.
Dates:
1703-1721.
Statutes of the Order of the Garter., Circa 1500.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.43
Scope and Contents
Compared with the French text printed in the appendix to `The Institution, Laws and Ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter`, this copy has, in addition to frequent minor variations, large differences in section 25 (=XXIV), and sections 24, 26-28 do not appear in the printed text at all.
Dates:
Circa 1500.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS’, a collection of copies of Scottish historical documents, originally labelled ‘Kirk manuscripts A’., 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.18
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains copies of the following:
(i) ‘The contraversie concerning the validitie of the obligation of the tendes for union in one commonwealth, discussed’;
(ii) Part of a paper respecting the controversy between Resolutioners & Protesters;
(iii) Continuation of section (i): ‘The contraversie concerning the validitie of the obligation…’ (folio 11);
(iv) Continuation of section (i): ‘The contraversie concerning the validitie of the obligation…’ (folio 20);
(v) Reasons...
Dates:
17th century.
Transcript, early-mid twentieth century, of Habbakkuk Bisset’s ‘Rolment of Courtis’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MSS.37.1.1-37.1.4
Dates:
[Circa 1626.]
Transcript, early-mid twentieth century, of Habbakkuk Bisset’s ‘Rolment of Courtis’., [1626.]
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Identifier: Adv.MS.37.1.1
Transcript, early-mid twentieth century, of Habbakkuk Bisset’s ‘Rolment of Courtis’., [1626.]
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Identifier: Adv.MS.37.1.2
Transcript, early-mid twentieth century, of Habbakkuk Bisset’s ‘Rolment of Courtis’., [Circa 1626.]
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Identifier: Adv.MS.37.1.3
Transcript, early-mid twentieth century, of Habbakkuk Bisset’s ‘Rolment of Courtis’., [Circa 1626.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.1.4
Transcript of Asser's ‘De rebus gestis Aelfredi’ and 'The appendix to the collection of the historie of England'., 11th century-1403.
File
Identifier: MS.5736
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Transcript, late 16th century, of Asser's 'De rebus gestis Aelfredi', from the library of John, Lord Lumley. The unique eleventh century manuscript, Cotton Otho.A.Xll, was in the Lumley Collection before passing into the Cotton Collection and being burnt in 1731; The present manuscript seems to have been copied from this manuscript or a transcript of it, and then collated with Archbishop Parker's printed edition of 1574. See Stevenson, W H....
Dates:
11th century-1403.
Transcripts, 17th century, of accounts of the Scottish Exchequer, 1561, and of acts and other related documents, 1362-1638.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.5
Dates:
1362-1638.
Volume containing a copy of the statutes of the Royal College of Physicians of London and a manuscript of an apparently unpublished early edition of the Edinburgh ‘Pharmacopoeia’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.4
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) A 17th-century copy of the statutes of 1647 of the Royal College of Physicians of London (folio 1).(ii) ‘Pharmacopoeia a Regio Medicorum Edinburgensium Collegio adornata. Edinburgi Typis Haeredis Andreae Anderson MDCLXXXV` (folio 27). This appears to be the manuscript of an early edition of the ‘Pharmacopoeia’ which was never published. The work was first proposed in 1683 but did not appear until 1699 (see ‘The Edinburgh...
Dates:
1647-late 17th century.
Volume entitled `Statuti della Mercanzia` (folio 1) containing a copy in a 17th-century hand of the statutes on trade enacted under Francesco de` Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, shortly after his accession in 1574.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.2.9
Scope and Contents
The text of the work, which is in three books, is preceded by an engraved title page (folio 1), lists of contents (folio 3) and an index of the most frequently occurring topics (folio 7), and is followed by additional statutes dated 1522-1523, 1526, 1528, 1613, and other material (folio 184).
Dates:
1522-1613.