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'Additions and corrections' to a work of the writer's own, which appears to have been entitled 'The History of the Rebellion in the years 1745 and 1746'.
Item
Identifier: MS.3865
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was probably written in or shortly after 1755, a date which occurs on page 31.The original work has not been traced; it may or may not have been printed. It was divided into at least twelve sections, and should be identifiable from many references to its pages in the present manuscript, for example: page 86, Lovat's escape from Inverness; pages 15, 153, the meeting of Jacobite leaders at Muirlaggan in May, 1746; pages 165, 246, Murray of Broughton's capture and...
Dates:
[1755, or after.]
'Copy of original letters &c. &c. by Queen Mary, King James VI, &c. &c. to the Lairds of Barnbarroch &c. from 1559 to 1618', 1794.
File
Identifier: MS.3002
Scope and Contents
The copies of letters are preceded by an engraved table of the branches of the family of Vaux, Vaus, or Vans, 1815, pasted inside the front cover, and a list of members of the Barnbarroch family who have held public office (folio ii), and followed by a manuscript pedigree of that family to 1809 (folio 89).
Dates:
1559-1618.
Manuscript, circa 1600, of Robert Lindesay, "History and Chronicles of Scotland".
File
Identifier: Acc.3736
Scope and Contents
With a list of the Bishops of Moray to 1638, and a letter, 1847, of Cosmo Innes to William Brodie, concerning the manuscript.
Dates:
circa 1600, circa 1638, 1847.
Manuscript of 'Secretum secretorum' by Pseudo-Aristotle, 'De excidio Troiae' by Dares Phrygius, and 'Historia regum Britannie' by Geoffrey of Monmouth; written by a 13th- or 14th-century hand of uncertain origin.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Pseudo-Aristotle, 'Secretum secretorum' (edited by R. Steele, in 'Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi', fascicule V, pages 25-172). This manuscript contains the letter of Philip, a list of chapters, and the text in seven books (the headings for i, iv, and vi are omitted). It is of the common class, omitting all the test passages of Gilson and Steele (cf. 'Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi', pages xxv-xxvi); further omissions are...
Dates:
13th century-14th century.
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 pseudo-Aristotle, ‘Secretum secretorum, ‘De excidio Troiae’ by Dares Phrygius, and Historia regum Britannie’ by Geoffrey of Monmouth; written by a 13th- or 14th-century hand of uncertain origin.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.481
Dates:
13th century-14th century.
Miscellaneous papers and correspondence relating to engineering.
File
Identifier: MS.19989
Dates:
1815-1907.
Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.9.1-81.9.12
Dates:
Late 17th century-?1829.
“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 containing an account of Leven`s Regiment (which later became the 25th Foot) from 1688, when it was raised by David Leslie, 3rd Earl of Leven, to 1826.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.21
Scope and Contents
The volume would appear to have been the first of two, for the leaves are watermarked 1860 and folio 175 is inscribed in pencil `See Book No II`. The work is anonymous: it appears to have been made the basis of the text of ‘Records of the King`s Own Borderers’ by R T Higgins, but neither the text nor the many pencil additions and alterations appear to be in his hand. The account begins at folio 13, being preceded by a summary account to 1793 (folio 1) and `A List of His Majesty`s...
Dates:
1860, or after-1908.
Volume of miscellaneous papers, mostly Scottish, many relating to ecclesiastical affairs.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.13
Dates:
1563-1670 and undated.