Transcripts.
Found in 164 Collections and/or Records:
Research material, including correspondence, notes, copies and transcripts, of and collected by Michael Parnell for his 'Eric Linklater: a critical biography'.
Includes photocopies of correspondence and other papers of and concerning Linklater.
Research papers concerning Clan Gregor, including extracts and copies of historical and genealogical papers; with some papers relating to the history and administration of the Clan Gregor Society.
The arrangement and description of the papers from the Clan Gregor Centre was undertaken by Sheila McGregor on behalf of the Centre. The described papers represent the activities of a small number of people who collected and compiled them over many years, combining traditional knowledge with research to both preserve and extend information about the clan.
'Sibbaldi Fragmenta Historica.'
Small collections of letters and papers, and some transcripts from manuscripts made with the permission of the owners of the originals.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Transcript, 17th century, in the hand of Sir James Balfour, of ‘History of the Picts’ by Henry Maule of Melgum.
At the beginning is a note by J. Ruddiman concerning the doubt of the authorship of the book.
Transcript, 17th century, of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’, and other material.
Transcript, 18th century, entitled ‘Choice psalms for 3 voices by Henry and William Lawes. With divers Elegies by several friends on the death of William Lawes and Nine Canons by Willm. Lawes. Scored from the Original Parts printed at London 1648'.
Transcript, 18th century, of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’, and other material.
Transcript, 19th century, of a plea roll of Edward I's army in Scotland.
A modern copy of the ‘pleas of the army’ under Edward of England, at Wark, Berwick, Roxburgh, etc., in the 24th year of his reign.
Transcript, 1820, of the account of the genealogy of the clan Campbell.
Transcript, 1861, of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Transcript, 1929, of the dedication of ‘Oenone and Paris’, from the unique copy in the possession of Dr Abraham Rosenbach, by J Denham Parsons, with notes.
Transcript, apparently made in 1817, of 'Records of the Committee of the Synod of Galloway for the visitation of churches, 1697’, with several relevant letters, 1863, 1902, 1915-1916.
With several relevant letters, 1863, 1902, 1915-1916.
Transcript, before 1700, of ‘True relatione of the proceidings of those matters which concernes the Kirk of Scotland fra the first of August 1637’ by John Leslie, Earl of Rothes.
The manuscript was written in a good hand before 1700.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.6.40.
Transcript by John Dougall, 1821, from the Harley manuscript, ‘The Morall fabillis of Esope’ by Robert Henryson, schoolmaster of Dunfermline.
A modern transcript from the Harleian MS.3865. Prefixed are five leaves of notices respecting the manuscript and the transcriber John Dougall, London, 1821.
Transcript copy, late eighteenth century, of ‘De hortorum cultura’, book III, by Josephus Mylius, and other poems.
‘De Hortorum Cultura, libri III. Josephi Misii Voltalinæ, ad Isabellam Sociam. Brixiæ apud vimentium Sabium, M.D.LXXIII’.
Transcript, early-mid twentieth century, of Habbakkuk Bisset’s ‘Rolment of Courtis’.
Transcript, eighteenth century, of ‘Chartularium Britannodunense sive collection veterum diplomatum Comitum Levenice Ab anno 1180 ad annum 1398’, in the handwriting of Walter Macfarlane’s copyist, with corrections in his own hand.
Transcript, eighteenth century, of documents illustrating the claim of the English Crown to the overlordship of Scotland.
The manuscript is entitled ‘Instrumentorum quorundam authenticorum exemplaria aliquot ex ipsis archetipis in archivis quod Thesauriariam vocant repositis, transcipta et collecta jussu et mandato ... Edwardi ... Ducis Somerseti ... ex quibus planum fit a tempore Bruti ad nostram pene usque etatem Reges Scocie in fide fuisse Regum Anglie, Regnumque Scocie Reges Anglie tanquam superiores dicti Regni dominos per sacramentum fidelitatis agnouisse. An. MDXLIX collegit Joannes Masonius’.
Transcript in a contemporary hand, of the ‘Autobiography’ of Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk.
Transcript, late 17th-18th century, of ‘History of Scotland during the reigns of the five Jameses’ by William Drummond of Hawthornden.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.V.5.36.
Transcript, late 17th-mid 19th century, of ‘History of the Church of Scotland’ by David Calderwood, 1st half of 17th century, from the commencement of the reign of James V to the death of James VI.
Volumes 4-10 are a transcript by the Reverend Mr James Inglis from the manuscript of David Calderwood, at that time the property of the Church of Scotland. The remainder are in a uniform hand of the end of the 17th or beginning of the following century.
This work is not only valuable as a history, but, as containing a great number of important state papers, which are not to be found elsewhere.