Bibliographical material of Sir Robert Sibbald.
Scope and Contents
(i) `Catalogus Scriptorura Historicorum, Geographicorum et Politicorura qui de rebus Scoticis scripsere` (folio 1). This lists both manuscript and printed material and includes Sibbald`s ‘Memoria Balfouriana’. There are 224 entries arranged on a roughly chronological basis. It is followed (folio 12 verso) by other titles, mostly of works on Scottish history.
(ii) `Catalogus poetarum Scotorum qui Latine scripsere pro compositione Corporis poetarum Scotorura` (folio 21). For a fuller bibliography, see Adv.MS.33.3.24.
Dates
- Creation: Circa 1700.
Extent
0.00 Linear metres (28 folios. Octavo.)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.
Bibliography
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland
- Date
- 23 07 2015
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Prepared Using Local Descriptive Rules
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository
Archives and Manuscript Division
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