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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.8.1-26.7.37

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of printed books, 1718-1850 (Adv.MSS.25.8.1-25.8.42), and manuscripts, 1511-1857 (Adv.MSS.25.9.1-25.9.23), owned by Riddell, correspondence and papers (many incomplete) ?1799-1860, and undated, relating to peerages (Adv.MSS.26.1.1-26.1.29), to baronetcies, to landed families and to various related topics (Adv.MSS.26.2.1-26.2.23), and a large number of notebooks, circa 1805-1852, containing excerpts from the public records of Scotland, and other matter (Adv.MSS.26.3.1-26.7.37).

Dates

  • Creation: 1511-1860.

Extent

0.00 Linear metres

Language of Materials

English

Custodial History

Adv.MSS.25.8.1-4, 26.3.1-26.7.37 presented, 1867, the remainder bequeathed, 1881, to the Advocates’ Library by the 25th Earl of Crawford.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.

Related Materials

For charters owned by Riddell, see Ch.A245- Ch.A251.

For other papers and documents of Riddell, see Adv.MSS.22.3.14, 81.2.1-81.2.10 and Ch.A205-Ch.A209.

For his correspondence with John Maidment, see MS.5312.

Bibliography

The collection was described (with some differences of arrangement and content) by John Maidment in his anonymously published ‘The Riddell Papers: a Catalogue of the Annotated Books and Manuscripts of the late John Riddell, Esq., Advocate’ (privately printed, Edinburgh, 1863).
Title
National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
Author
National Library of Scotland
Date
22 06 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

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