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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.28
Scope and Contents
Chartulary produced in Scotland containing documents relating to the Augustinian Abbey of Scone, covering the 12th to the 15th centuries. The chartulary is incomplete, but does contain copies of 148 royal, papal, episcopal and other charters and documents.The documents are written in a variety of hands which appear to be contemporary, or near-contemporary, with one another, with 29 lines to a page. Davis has dated the manuscript to the 15th and 16th centuries. Borland and Innes...
Dates:
15th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.9
Scope and Contents
17th-century manuscript written and compiled by Sir James Balfour containing the following works:1. Copy by Sir James Balfour of George Marjorybanks, 'Annals of Scotland, 1514-94'. Folios 6r-23r.A history of Scotland in the form of annals written in Scots, originally written in the late 16th century by George Marjoribanks, burgess of Edinburgh. The location of the original manuscript from which Balfour made his copy is unknown. The work is separated into...
Dates:
17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.5
Scope and Contents
A volume containing transcripts of foundation charters of religious houses in Scotland in the hand of Sir James Balfour, and a late 16th-century transcript of the Chartulary of Balmerino Abbey.The two sets of transcripts were probably brought together in the mid-17th century, and were certainly together before the death of Charles Fairfax in 1673. The volume is interleaved, which was probably done in the late 18th century, with insertions also added at the end.Folios...
Dates:
Late 16th century and 1st half of 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.14
Scope and Contents
Chartulary produced in Scotland containing documents and charters concerning Paisley Abbey. The contents are arranged according to subject matter, and in part topographically. The volume includes copies of royal, papal and episcopal charters, with a contemporary table of contents at the front.Davis has dated the manuscript to the 1520s. Scott suggests that part of the manuscript may have been started around 1505, but that the presence of a group of texts dated to 1522 supports...
Dates:
1520-1530.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.9
Scope and Contents
Chartulary compiled in Scotland containing a selection of transcripts of charters, deeds, and acts of the Bishopric of Moray, covering the 13th to the 16th centuries. The manuscript is also known as the 'Red Book of the Church of Moray'. Davis dates the manuscript to the 16th century. Borland suggests that the manuscript can be dated to circa 1540, with later 16th-century additions. This suggestion is certaninly true of the later portion of the chartulary, but the first 94 folios were...
Dates:
16th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.1a-b
Scope and Contents
There is no method preserved in the arrangement of the charters nor any index to the contents of the volumes but along the margins, especially of the first volume are notes in the hand of Sir James Balfour, which though imperfect are convenient.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.4.16.
Dates:
?Early 17th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.9A.1.1-9A.1.20
Scope and Contents
Many of the transcripts are undated: apart from those in Adv.MS.9A.1.17, which were made in 1800, few appear from the watermarks in the leaves to have been made before 1813. From the watermarks of the endpapers the volumes appear to have been bound about 1818 or later.Several of the transcripts were made from original manuscripts or eighteenth-century copies then in possession of the Honourable William Maule of Panmure, who was created Baron Panmure in 1831: others were made from...
Dates:
1164-1639.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.1
Scope and Contents
Chartulary produced in Scotland containing copies of royal, papal, episcopal, and other charters, as well as some grants of the abbey of Lindores.The work is written in a small cursive hand and was probably written in the early 16th century. According to Davis it certainly dates from after 1502. Dickson also suggests that the manuscript may have been written as late as the reign of James IV (d. 1513). The work contains 25 documents concerning the abbey of Lindores and...
Dates:
Early 16th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.5
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of transcripts of the chartularies and original charters of the Archbishopric of Glasgow which were deposited in the Scots College in Paris. The material in the manuscript covers the 12th to the 16th centuries.The work is written in one hand and contains frequent additions, erasures, and corrections. The additions to the work, both in the margins and interlineal, are partly in Latin and partly in Scots.As well as charters, the volume contains extracts of...
Dates:
1556
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.3.1-20.3.9
Scope and Contents
Most of these transcripts and extracts, which were made between circa 1794 and circa 1824, are in the hand of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton: most of the rest are in the same hand as Adv.MS.9A.1.4. Many of the transcripts were made from originals and copies in possession of William Maule of Panmure, who was created Baron Panmure in 1831: many of the rest were copied from documents in possession of Thomas Thomson and at the Scottish Record Office, General Register House.
Dates:
12th century-1661.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.6
Scope and Contents
Manuscript containing a transcript of the chartulary of Crail Collegiate Church, which was founded as a Collegiate in 1517.The volume consists of transcripts of the charters of constitution and endowment, with inventories of plates, ornaments and books. The work is arranged in a rough topographical order, and the charters are followed by their respective instruments.Davis dates the manuscript to 1528. The main body of work covers the years 1499-1530. The volume is...
Dates:
1528