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Papers of the families of Crawfurd of Kilbirnie and of Jordanhill.
File
Identifier: MS.20988
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) Legal documents and correspondence, 1488-1789 (folio 1); (ii) Notes, ?1786-1821, on legal cases (folio 33); (iii) Genealogical papers, 1707-1731, undated (folio 65); (iv) Poetry, 18th century-19th century, including an early copy, dated 1734, of Allan Ramsay's poem, 'The Thimble' (folio 93); (v) Notes, undated, by George Crawfurd, the antiquary, and a translation of a charter, 1748, by Thomas Ruddiman (folio 107).
Dates:
1488-1821, undated.
Papers of the family of Cathcart of Cathcart, Lords and Earls Cathcart and Lords Greenock, including the papers of Major-General the Honourable Sir George Cathcart.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12686
Dates:
Late 14th century-circa 1905.
Papers of the family of Forbes and Stuart Forbes of Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.137- is now Acc.4796.
Dates:
1447-20th century.
Papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes of Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4796
Dates:
1447-1969
Papers of the Sutherland Estates relating to the management of the Estates and the personal and business affairs of the Sutherland family.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.313
Dates:
13th century-1861.
'Sibbaldi Fragmenta Historica.'
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.25
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Transcript of the 'Chronicon de Melross';
(ii) Relationes Arnaldi Blair;
(iii) 'Extracta de MS. D. Gul. Cunninghaim de rebus gestis Gul. Vallæ', 1296;
(iv) Dr. Jamieson’s notes upon the ‘Chronicon de Melross’;
(v) Three letters of Queen Mary extracted from a Roman Manuscript;
(vi) Dr Jamieson’s observations on Melville’s Memoirs and on Bede;
(vii) Off the revenue or patrimony of the Crown;
(viii) Bull of Pope Urban Vth Contra Magnqs Societates;
(ix) A Charter...
Dates:
Late 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.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.
Transcript, 18th century, of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’, and other material.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.6
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:Transcript of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’: a copy of Adv.MS.33.3.25 (page 1);‘Addenda ex exemplari Anglico impresso’ (page 41);The ‘Relationes Arnaldi Blair’ copied from Adv.MS.35.6.10 (page 44);‘Addenda alia e chronico Melrosensi impresso’ (page 51);Copies of letters, 1563, of Queen Mary to the Council of Trent in Latin, and to the Cardinal of Lorrain and the Pope in Italian (page 65);...
Dates:
12th century-1683.
Transcripts, made for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, of four mediaeval manuscripts relating to the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, the originals of which were in the Advocates’ Library.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.2.1-22.2.4
Dates:
?12th century-1st half of 16th 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.