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'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.
Six letters of Captain Thomas Henry Montgomery, Black Watch, from the Crimea.
File
Identifier: Acc.11640
Scope and Contents
Includes typed transcripts of nine others.
Dates:
1854-1856.
Small collections of letters and papers, and some transcripts from manuscripts made with the permission of the owners of the originals.
File
Identifier: MS.1758
Dates:
1645-1936, undated.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.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.
"The Humble Complaint of Geo[rge] Eglisham Doctor of Physicke" addressed to Charles I.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11944
Scope and Contents
Includes typescript transcription.
Dates:
1626.
Thirty letters and papers addressed to John Mure of Rowallan by Mary of Guise, Mary Queen of Scots, the Earls of Arran, Argyll, Lennox, Mar, and Morton, and others; with a transcript thereof.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.54.1.7-54.1.8
Dates:
1548-1593.
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.
Transcript, 1993, of letter of John Rennie to Robert Stevenson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10757
Dates:
1807.
Transcript, apparently made in 1817, of 'Records of the Committee of the Synod of Galloway for the visitation of churches, 1697’, with several relevant letters, 1863, 1902, 1915-1916.
File
Identifier: MS.1673
Scope and Contents
With several relevant letters, 1863, 1902, 1915-1916.
Dates:
1697, 1863, 1902, 1915-1916.
Transcript in a contemporary hand, of the ‘Autobiography’ of Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk.
File
Identifier: MS.3732
Scope and Contents
This version of the ‘Autobiography’, the same as that found in MS.3462 (folios 1-371), contains also the opening pages which are missing in that manuscript. Included (as far as folio 34 verso) are numerous excerpts from Thomas Carlyle's 'Recollections', some of which were printed for the first time, perhaps from MS.3463, in the form of footnotes in the 1910 edition of the ‘Autobiography’. Thereafter, apart from minor variations in arrangement and the omission of several paragraphs, the text...
Dates:
1765, 1800, 1819.
Transcript made by the Reverend Walter MacLeod of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.12
Scope and Contents
Transcript of the Book of the Dean of Lismore (Adv.MS.72.1.37) made in 1897 by the Reverend Walter MacLeod (1864-1935) of Strathkinnes, Fife. Corresponds page for page and line for line to the original. The circumstances of the transcript are described by Donald Mackinnon in a letter to J T Clark, Keeper of the Advocates’ Library, 13 November 1895 (now pages ii-iii) and in a note at folio i verso. The Reverend Walter MacLeod was chosen to make the transcript due to his skill in...
Dates:
1897.
Transcript of Adv.MS.15.1.26 by Professor R K Hannay: a letter from the General Council of Basle to the bishops and other councillors of James II of Scotland, covering a letter to James II in which the Council asks him to revoke his decree of non-recognition and return to the attitude of his father James I.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.26A
Dates:
1442.
Transcripts, 18th century, of eight letters, 1590-1600 and undated, of King James I to Sir Robert Mure, of Caldwell.
File
Identifier: Acc.6776
Scope and Contents
With a document, "The Bride of Lammermuir", containing a narrative of the original marriage of Janet Dalrymple on which Sir Walter Scott based his tale.
Dates:
18th century.
Transcripts, 1977, by Doreen Caraher Manning, of two letters, 1789, of G H Hutton to the Reverend John Dow.
File
Identifier: Acc.6996
Dates:
1789, 1977.
Transcripts, chiefly, of letters and papers of Sir Hew Campbell of Cessnock and his descendants, and of a few other letters, all of which seem to be connected with the Hamiltons of Silvertonhill.
File
Identifier: MS.1671
Scope and Contents
All are transcripts except drafts of a clause to be added to the Act of Security, circa 1711, and a letter of John Hamilton, 1775, which are originals.
Dates:
1666-1775, undated.
Transcripts, circa 1806, of letters, 1746-1758, of James Hervey made for the Reverend John Brown.
File
Identifier: Acc.9900
Scope and Contents
With annotations by Brown.
Dates:
1746-circa 1806.
Transcripts, circa 1830, of letters, 1657-1674, of Sir Robert Moray to Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine, and of four other letters, 1663-1666, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5049-5050
Scope and Contents
The transcriber is not identified. The transcripts were corrected by a second anonymous writer, but still contain lacunae. They were formerly in the Crawford Library.
Dates:
1657-1674.
Transcripts, first half of twentieth century, of letters and papers, 1599-1611, concerning the Graham family and the Royal Commission appointed in 1605 for the settlement of the Borders.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5273-5276
Dates:
1599-1611.
Transcripts, late 18th century (the paper of Adv.MS.22.2.5 being watermarked 1798), made for George Chalmers, the antiquary, of Thomas Innes`s ‘Civil and Ecclesiastical History of Scotland, from A.D 80 – A.D. 818’.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.2.5-22.2.6
Scope and Contents
The hand appears to be that of George Chalmers’s nephew, James Chalmers.
Dates:
2nd quarter of 18th century.
Transcripts made by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, possibly intended for publication.
Series
Identifier: MSS.16491-16492
Dates:
1573, [?1732-?1737.]
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.
Transcripts (mostly abstracts or calendar entries) of the chartularies of "registra" of the monasteries of Scone, Inchcolm, Lindores, Coupar Angus and Balmerino.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12520
Scope and Contents
Tip-ins include letter of C T McInnes, SRO, 1956, to Robert Maxtone Graham concerning this manuscript.
Dates:
circa 1800, 1956.
Transcripts of five letters of Janes Welsh Carlyle to John Stodart, transcribed by Forbes Macgregor.
File
Identifier: Acc.8044
Dates:
1849-1865.
Transcripts of letters in the possession of Mrs Clephan, the Cottage, Monkseaton, Northumberland.
File
Identifier: MS.811
Scope and Contents
The letters are arranged as follows.From a volume entitled ‘A Collection of Autographs, etc., Newcastle-upon-Tyne 9th September, 1832. G. H. Gilchrist': letters of John Ross, the explorer, 1833, James Hogg, 1834, and James Montgomery, the poet, 1836.From a volume entitled ‘Letters from Kirkpatrick Sharpe, James Hogg and others to Robert Surtees. From 1804 to 1833’: letters of Hogg to Surtees, 1817, of Thomas Thomson to Sir Walter Scott, undated, and of Charles...
Dates:
1804-1834, undated.
Transcripts of letters of and to David Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8788
Scope and Contents
Volume made at Buchan`s behest as one of his "Gleanings of Literature", and sent to the Bishop of Llandaff.
Letters concern Celtic languages and correspondents include Sir James Foulis of Colinton, Charles Vallancey, the Reverend Donald MacQueen and Jacob Bryant Phillipps.
Dates:
circa 1794.