Archives and Manuscript Catalogue

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Fair copy, 1686-1689, of ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio’, being Richard Augustine Hay’s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh, volume 1. (Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)); Register of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, written, circa 1537, by John Lambert, prebendary of the Chapel, containing copies of papal bulls and other documents, 1501-1537...

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The contents are as follows: Book of Assumption of Beneficies (Adv.MS.31.3.12);

‘Assumption of the benefices’, copy, 18th century, of a book of assumptions, tax rolls of church properties, and retour of Fife, 16th century-early 17th century (Adv.MS.31.3.13);

Copies by Sir James Balfour of chiefly rentals, 16th century-1628, of Church and Crown lands in Scotland (Adv.MS.31.3.16).

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The contents are as follows: ‘Tabula super bibliam’. A glossed copy, early 15th century, of a summary of the Bible in Latin verse by Johannes Vasco, Order of Friars Minor, with the explanatory verses which give the date of composition as 1393 (Adv.MS.18.4.2);

Copies, 1623, by John Wither of English rolls of arms, 13th-15 century, mostly from ‘An auntient booke of Armes which Mr Glover Somerset the Harald had of Mr Joseph Holland in Cullers’ (Adv.MS.31.7.10).

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The contents are as follows: Papers, 1624-?1625, early 18th century, concerning the erection of baronetcies in Nova Scotia (Adv.MS.16.2.3);

Papers concerning the Dukes of Atholl (Adv.MS.16.2.4).

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Laws of the Society. (Folio 1.) (ii) List of meetings for each session, with the name of the speaker and the title of his 'discourse', November 1764–January 1771 (folio 3 verso). Occasionally the elections of new members or the names of absentees are recorded. 'There is a gap in the Records for the next 5 years, and the only information we have of their Transactions during the years 1771 and 1773 is from a loose jotting, of which the following is a copy'...

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The contents are as follows: Solemn League and Covenant, printed by Evan Tyler (Edinburgh, 1643), and subscribed in West St. Giles’s, Edinburgh, in October 1643. It has some 750 names, of which two-thirds are actual signatures (Adv.MS.23.3.16);

Copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas conferring titles and Baronetcies, 1554-1707, most of the material being late 17th and early 18th century. Also included are copies of material concerning the Order of the Thistle (Adv.MS.34.6.2).