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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.
Indexes and transcripts by Robert Mylne, the antiquary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.9
Scope and Contents
Mylne`s pagination and the size of paper show that the volume is composed of seven separate parts: section (i), section (ii), section (iii), sections (iv) and (v), section (vi), sections (vii)-(xiii), section (xiv). None are exactly dated, but (v) must be later than 1705, (xiv) later than 1700; and probably all were compiled in the early 18th century.The contents are as follows:(i) `Ane Alphabeticall Index [A-C only] To the Book of Collections of Notes of Charters...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
`Sir Lodovick Steuart of Kirkhill Advocat his Collectiones ... with Several Valuable Additions of charters andc ... out of the valuable Collectiones of Mr Richard Hay ... Ex Manuscriptis Roberti Mylne scribae ...`, a transcript of parts of Sir Lewis Stewart`s collections, compiled early in the 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.12
Scope and Contents
The volume, almost entirely in the hand of Mylne, begins (folio i verso) with an index (extra entries have been added later; those for the letters B, C, D, K and M continue on folio v verso, those for P on folio vi verso); there follows (page 1) a transcript of Stewart`s historical collections as in Stewart`s own manuscript (Adv.MS.22.1.14) with most of the additions found also in the transcript Adv.MS.34.3.11, and further additions, some not by Mylne; finally (page 352) come the transcripts...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical (Adv.MS.34.1.8) and secular (Adv.MSS.34.1.9(i)-34.1.9(ii)) antiquities of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.1.8-34.1.9
Scope and Contents
The work is in the same hand as, and was begun probably as the consequence to, Hay’s ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio` (Adv.MS.34.1.10) in 1700 (the date quoted on each title page) and completed in 1707 or later (Adv.MS.34.1.9(ii), folio 62).
Dates:
1700-1707, or after.