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Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
File
Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents
The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates:
1696-1891, undated.
Antiquarian collections of W T Johnston.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11781
Scope and Contents
Includes transcripts of letters and papers of eminent Scotsmen and other material relating to them. Files organised by subject.
Dates:
Late 20th century.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates:
?1825-1856.
Composite volume made up in or about 1819 (the date of the watermark of the binder`s blanks) from five folio notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.13
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Extracts, 1797, in the hand of the chief clerk, Robert Lemon, from the `Rotuli Scotiae` kept in the Tower of London (cf. folio 282). The extracts relate to the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. The manuscripts were published, in two volumes, in 1814 and 1819. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies by Hutton of charters of Newbattle Abbey (folio 32). The source is unidentified: they are in a different order from those of the cartulary...
Dates:
?1789-?1797.
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.2(i)-(xiii)
Scope and Contents
The correspondence consists of letters to Hutton from various correspondents, many of whom were parish ministers to whom he had written asking for information; the papers consist of transcripts of charters and other formal documents, extracts from cartularies and other registers, and descriptions, sketches, plans and elevations of monasteries and other religious buildings. The greater part of the collection is dated between 1788 and 1790, and between 1809 and 1822 (many of the...
Dates:
1785-1823, undated.
Hutton transcripts. A collection of transcripts of the cartularies of Aberdeen Cathedral (Adv.MS.20.3.1) and Newbattle Abbey (Adv.MS.20.3.3) and of charters and other formal documents, many of which are extracts from other cartularies, of and concerning several of the medieval dioceses and religious houses of Scotland.
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.
Microfilm of assorted 13th-17th century manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.465
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...
Dates:
13th century-1689.
Microfilm of Elizabethan letters and transcripts of the register of Arbroath Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.175
Scope and Contents
Elizabethan letters (Adv.MS.1.2.2);
Transcripts, 1815, by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, of the register, 13th century-16th century, of the abbey of Arbroath and of various charters, 1213-1246. (Adv.MS.9A.1.18).
Dates:
13th century-16th century.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, relating principally to William Forbes Skene’s work in preparing his ‘Chronicles of the Picts and Scots’ and ‘Celtic Scotland’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.16
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Photocopies of transcripts, 1849-1894, of "Mundell Family Extracts from Loch Broom and Ullapool Parish Kirk Session Records"
File
Identifier: Acc.10874
Scope and Contents
With copies of related letters, 1975, of James R Matheson.
Dates:
1849-1894 and 1975.
Research papers concerning Clan Gregor, including extracts and copies of historical and genealogical papers; with some papers relating to the history and administration of the Clan Gregor Society.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12335/84-243
Scope and Contents
The arrangement and description of the papers from the Clan Gregor Centre was undertaken by Sheila McGregor on behalf of the Centre. The described papers represent the activities of a small number of people who collected and compiled them over many years, combining traditional knowledge with research to both preserve and extend information about the clan.
Dates:
1539-2001.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Dates:
17th century.
Volume entitled (folio i) `Miscellania [sic] Scotica Curiosa Or A Collection of Curious, rare, and valuable Paper`s: Relating to Scotland, and Scots Affaires. Collected and Coppied, from the Originalls. by C:R:S:` containing transcripts of Scottish historical documents, extracts of manuscripts and copies of correspondence, from various sources, 1419-1731, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.18
Scope and Contents
The collection was compiled by Captain Robert Seton, Judge Advocate for Scotland, and consists of:(i) Copies of correspondence, 1566-1567, of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (folio 1) including two letters of Mary, Queen of Scots not recorded in Labanoff`s collection. The letters are similar to, but not the same as many of the letters in MS Calig CI from the Cottonian Library in the British Library: they may have been copied from the portion of the collection that was destroyed in the...
Dates:
1419-1731.
Volume of miscellaneous papers, mostly Scottish, many relating to ecclesiastical affairs.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.13
Dates:
1563-1670 and undated.