Summary

Identifier

Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15

Dates

• 1548-1641. (Creation)

Extents

• 30 Volumes (Whole)

Subjects

• Letters. Correspondence.

• Government records.

• Petitions.

• Decrees.

• Autographs (manuscripts).

• Minutes. Administrative records.

• Copies. Derivative objects.

• Depositions. Testimonies.

• Loyalty oath.

• Indictments. Legal documents.

• Declarations.

• Dispatches.

• Notarial documents.

• Statements.

• Indictments. Legal documents.

• Dispatches.

• Warrants. Permissions.

• Memorandums.

• Documents.

• Proclamations.

• Agreements. Legal instruments.

• Proceedings. Reports.

• Epigrams.

• Excerpts.

• Notes.

• Licences. Permissions.

• Reports.

• Testimonials.

• Drafts. Documents.

• Lists.

• Speeches. Documents.

• Orations (speeches).

• Legislative acts. Legislative records.

• Agreements. Legal instruments.

• Transcriptions. Documents.

• Poetry.

• Printed materials. Object genre.

• Orders. Records (documents).

• Abstracts. Summaries.

• Instructions. Document genre.

• Missives. Legal documents.

• Proposals.

• Sonnets.

• Ciphers. Codes.

• Bonds. Legal instruments.

Notes

• Scope and Contents

  The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.

• Separated Materials

  State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne: volumes 15-16: Adv.MS.33.3.12.

  State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne: volume 33: Adv.MS.33.2.30.

• Bibliography

  Mackie, J D. `The Denmilne Manuscripts in the National Library of Scotland.` (Edinburgh, 1928).

• Other Finding Aids

  A calendar of the collection, in five volumes, was compiled in the 19th and early 20th centuries and is available on request. Much of the material has been published, and the calendar is annotated with the appropriate references.

  ‘Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. State Papers’. The catalogue includes transcripts and fuller descriptions of certain letters and documents.

• Custodial History

  For an account of the fate of Sir James Balfour`s library after his death in 1657 and of how the Denmilne Manuscripts were bought by the Faculty of Advocates in 1698, see `The Denmilne Manuscripts in the National Library of Scotland`.

• Conditions Governing Access

  Normal access conditions apply.

• Conditions Governing Use

  Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.

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