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Copies, 19th century, and original papers collected by Sir William Fraser, 16th century-1793.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.25
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Latin legal abbreviations, 16th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Speech in Latin addressed to `domine doctissime coeterique commilitones mei suavissimi`, in praise of modesty. Late 16th or early 17th century. (Folio 2.)(iii) Transcript, 19th century, of the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3 February, 1590, concerning the slaughter of David Taillor by William Spottiswood of that Ilk and others. Cf. ‘The...
Dates:
16th century-1793.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21001-21069
Scope and Contents
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Dates:
1802-mid 20th century, undated.
‘Epistolæ Regum Scotorum’, a register of correspondence of State, including contemporary copies of royal letters.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.9
Scope and Contents
The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. I. State Papers, part I (F.R.184)
Dates:
1505-1545, 1576-1626.
Extracts from official records, journals and newspapers, sixteenth to nineteenth century, relating to the family of Cockburn and their connections.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2996-2998
Scope and Contents
The family connections include Butler of Harpendean, Congalton (Congilton), Cumming (Cumine), Fairholme, Fortune, Naismith, Rainnie (Rennie, Rainny). The extracts and notes are taken from various registers in HM Register House, Edinburgh Burgh records, local records in Midlothian, East Lothian, Berwickshire, and Berwick-on-Tweed, and journals.
Dates:
16th century-19th century.
Meteorological records, mostly concerning Scotland and England, collected by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Robert Mossman and others.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.10069/1-114
Dates:
1731-1908.
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 collection of transcripts, 1st quarter of 19th century, by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of several of the surviving cartularies and other registers, and of some collections of charters and other deeds, of the medieval dioceses, churches and religious houses of Scotland, 1164-1639.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.146-159
Dates:
1164-1639.
Microfilm of genealogical and heraldic material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.31
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Armourial [sic] Bearings of the Bruces’ by Major William Bruce Armstrong, 1903 (Adv.MS.15.1.25);'Results of the investigation of the settlement of English families in Scotland', [?1801] (Adv.MS.16.2.9);‘Proper names with their significations’ by David Ure, minister of Uphall, late 18th century (Adv.MS.16.2.10);Collection of material on French heraldry, in several hands of the first half of the 18th century...
Dates:
1560-1903.
Microfilm of letter books, registers and orders and memoranda, from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1058-1060
Dates:
1842-[1847, or after].
Papers, comprising charters of various families, from the archives of Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, WS.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.291
Dates:
1554-19th century.
Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21193-21198
Dates:
1569-1876, undated.