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Collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.7
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) an engraved portrait of Boyd, 1596, by Thomas de Leu, or De Leeuw (folio 1), made probably when he was at Paris;(ii) an account of the family of Boyd (by Robert Boyd of Trochrig), undated, written to an unidentified correspondent (folio 1);(iii) heads of lectures on the Institutions of Justinian, entitled `In Instituta Imperatoris commenta, 1591` (folio 3), accompanied by marginalia, some lengthy, as far as folio 52 verso;...
Dates: 1590-1596, 1671, and undated.

Microfilm of documents concerning the Highlands of Scotland, including a history of the Macdonalds.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.861
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: ‘Some remarks on the Highland clans and methods proposed for civilising them’, early 18th century (Adv.MS.16.1.14);‘State of Emigration from the Highlands of Scotland, its extent, causes, and proposed remedy.’ An apparently unpublished treatise, dated ‘London March 21st 1803’ (Adv.MS.35.6.18);Manuscript copy of the English ‘History of the Macdonalds’, ascribed by Donald Gregory to a Hugh Macdonald, [1829, or after] (Adv.MS.73.1.12);...
Dates: Early 18th century-[1827, or after].

Microfilm of genealogical material.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.28
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Genealogical material, 17th century-18th century, relating to various families in Scotland (Adv.MS.16.2.5);Collection of papers, 16th century, relating to Scottish earldoms, with transcripts, early twentieth century, by Sir Alexander Lawrie, of early charters and other documents (Adv.MS.19.1.18);Copy, 16th century, of `Recueil des Principaux Seigneurs qui passerent la Mer avec Guillaume Conquereur d`Angleterre`, a treatise on the...
Dates: 16th century-18th century.

Volume of miscellaneous papers concerning genealogy and religion which belonged to Robert Mylne, the antiquary.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.1
Scope and Contents Sections (i), (ii), (v), and (vi) are written by Mylne himself; (iii) and (iv) by another late-seventeenth- or early-eighteenth-century hand; the last addition in (vi) is by an eighteenth-century hand. Sections (i), (ii), (iii)-(iv), and (vi) originally had separate paginations: Mylne has overwritten these in paginating throughout. An instruction to his binder survives on folio 75. There is the beginning of an index on folios 177-178, deleted and with the note that `the index is in loos...
Dates: 1st quarter of 15th century-1st half of 18th century.