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Manuscript volume of poems and prose pieces by Alexander Pennecuik, entitled `The Whole Works of Alexr Pennecuik Gent. Volura 2d`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.15
Scope and Contents
The volume also includes the text of ‘Coridon and Cochrania’ (folio 65) and `The Publict and Secret History of the Malt Tax,` 1725 (folio 86).The manuscript is in several hands of the 18th century. It was originally paginated, containing pages 215-337 (folios 2-59 and 80-85) and there is an index to these sections (folio 124). Folio 85 verso contains a `List of ye persons who are furnished with my weekly papers`, 1726, and there is also a list of Pennecuik`s works (folio 126...
Dates:
Circa 1723-1726.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates:
1177, 15th century-1924.
Manuscripts of the Reverend George Low, the naturalist.
File
Identifier: MS.3935
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Lists of plants, animals, and fossils from W Hudson's ‘Flora anglica’, Sibbald's ‘Scotland illustrated’, and Martin Martin's ‘Description of the Western Islands’, pages 61-82. This should perhaps come after folio 45. (Folios 1-11.)(ii) 'Some observations on natural history, founded on experience; together with descriptions of curious animals, plants, fossils, microscopic views, &c., &c. The whole illustrated with drawings ......
Dates:
1770-1772.
Material of Sir James Balfour on the Irish nobility.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.27
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `A Catalonge [sic] of The Earlls Viscounts and Barrons of Irland as they ar Ranket in this present Zeir 1628’ (folio 1).(ii) `The armes of The Nobilitie of Irland and of Divers Gentelmen of The Same Countrey`. The date 1627 has been added. A sectionon the nobility is followed by one on the gentry arranged under the first letter of each name. The entries are blazons sometimes accompanied by sketches (folio...
Dates:
1627.
Microfilm of English manuscript, probably from Exeter Cathedral, of the ‘Historia Ecclesiastica’ by Bede.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2066
Dates:
14th century.
Microfilm of four or five medical manuscripts of the 14th century, with additions of the 14th and 15th centuries.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.300
Dates:
14th century.
Microfilm of Sermones de Tempore, a homiliary, early 12th century; and, medical manuscripts, 13th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.423
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Sermones de Tempore, a homiliary written in the early 12th century for Rochester Cathedral Priory (Adv.MS.18.2.4).
Two English medical manuscripts, each written by two scribes of the thirteenth century, bound together from an early date (Adv.MS.18.2.5).
Dates:
Early 12th century, 13th century.
Minutes of Sederunt of the Committee of Management of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteer Light Dragoons (from 1800 the Royal Midlothian Yeomanry Cavalry), 15 March, 1797-9 July, 1801.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.21
Scope and Contents
Sir Walter Scott was quartermaster and secretary, and regularly attended the meetings. The minutes are in a clerk`s hand. Some letters concerning the company have been pasted in towards the end, and some concerning the manuscript at the beginning. There is a list of members at the end.
Dates:
1797-1801.
Minutes of the Select Society of Edinburgh, 1754-1762, together with the Rules and Orders and lists of members of the society, and a section at the back of the volume on `Questions to be debated in the Select Society` and several notes of apology for absence at meetings from various members, 1763.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.1
Dates:
1754-1763.
Miscellaneous bibliographical and other works in several hands of the 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.12
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `A Catologue [sic] of Bookes to be sold by auctione at the D[?] of M[?] Lodgeings in St James`s`. A list of apocryphal titles, probably drawn up as part of a satire on Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copy of ‘Asserti Scotiae cives sui’ by Thomas Dempster. The leaves containing pages 8-9 and 50-52 of the printed text are missing. (Folio 3.)(iii) List of books printed before 1500, copied from a...
Dates:
?17th century-18th century.
Miscellaneous documents concerning heraldry, many by officials of the English College of Arms; including designs for a union flag, ca. 1604.
File
Identifier: MS.2517
Scope and Contents
The documents are almost all concerned with the general subject of knighthood and a very large number of them have to do either with the Order of the Bath or with the Baronetage; they include lists of knights made on various ceremonial occasions. They include also the following items of particular Scottish interest:Six designs in colour for uniting the crosses of St George and St Andrew in one flag, with a note of preference by the Earl of Nottingham, circa 1604 (folio 67...
Dates:
16th century-17th century.
Miscellaneous documents of Sir James Balfour.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `De Jure praelationis Nobilium Scotiae or Ane Memoriall of ye Evidents patents and rights producit be sundrie Earles and Lords Befor ye Comissioners ... anent ye precedencie and prioritie of dignities ... 1606`. In 1626 Balfour added (folio 16) notes on peers created since 1606. For other copies of this see Adv.MS.33.7.6 and MS.3171. (Folio 1.)(ii) ‘Memorialls extracted out of the imprinted Bookes of the Statuts and...
Dates:
Circa 1308-1626.
Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.19
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Printed prospectus of the Sanitary Protection Association of Edinburgh, late 19th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Printed list of members, with subscriptions, of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries (Konungliga Norraena Fornfraeda-Felag), 1849, in Icelandic. There are also an extract from the constitution of the Society (in French), a note on the subscriptions (in Danish), and a list of the books published by the Society....
Dates:
1561, 17th century-late 19th century.
Miscellaneous material, mostly of a religious nature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `A Testamentary Memoir written by Theophilus, in which his own dearest concerns are Ingenuously Narrated, and sundry of a more publick Nature are also touched, all Addressed to his surviving friends`, early 18th century. This is similar in style to the ‘Memorial` of James Hog, and the hand is probably the same as that of Adv.MS.32.3.8. The author appears to have written other memorials and a short history of the Covenanters based...
Dates:
18th century.
Miscellaneous notes, letters and other items.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Notes of decisions of the Court of Session, 1714-1721. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies, early 18th century, of letters of and to George Buchanan, 1573-1581, and undated, with notes on others of his letters, mostly in Thomas Ruddiman`s hand; these are Epistolae XXVII, XV, XII, XXXI, XXIV, XL, XXXVII in Ruddiman`s edition of Buchanan`s Works, and Ruddiman`s introductory notes to Epistolae XI, XVI, VIII, XII, XX, XXVIII, XXXI, XXXIV,...
Dates:
17th century-1912.
Miscellaneous notes towards a monasticon for Scotland collected by George Chalmers, the antiquary.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.2.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) A list of the pre-reformation abbeys and other religious houses of Scotland, each accompanied by the names and dates of the abbots and other heads who had been identified from cartularies in the Advocates Library and in private possession (folio 5).(ii) Notes on the various houses, derived mainly from Keith, with some from Dugdale and Spottiswoode, arranged in chronological order of the kings in whose reigns they were...
Dates:
Circa 1798.
Miscellaneous papers, chiefly of the seventeenth century, relating to private, domestic, and public matters.
File
Identifier: MS.3830
Scope and Contents
Included are letters to John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, various members of the Townshend family, George Livingston, 3rd Earl of Linlithgow, and Sir Michael Stanhope, son of Sir Michael Stanhope (died 1552).
Dates:
17th century.
`Miscellany collections out of the Registers of the justiciary parliament and containing historical and genealogical Collections`, a transcript, late 17th century, partly in the hand of Robert Mylne, of the historical part of Sir Lewis Stewart`s collections, compiled early in the 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.11
Scope and Contents
Compared with Stewart`s own manuscript (Adv.MS.22.1.14), this transcript has several additional texts (which also mostly appear in the other transcript, Adv.MS.34.3.12); as only a few of these can ever have been in Adv.MS.22.1.14, it is likely that this transcript was not made from it, but from a lost expanded version; and if the Lues Stewart mentioned on folio 145 as a borrower of books is Sir Lewis, the expansion may not have been by him.The correspondence between the two...
Dates:
1134-[circa 1627].
Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh; together with a list of the full collection.
Series
Identifier: MSS.7122-7150
Scope and Contents
In addition to the medieval manuscripts, there are some non-religious books of later date, and a few unrelated fragments.
Dates:
13th century-17th century; 1881-1882.
'Names of Scottis[h] Vocal Melodies composed not later than 1800 A.D., compiled by C. M. Gray and Wm. Muir, 1908', giving references to the works in which each melody is found or mentioned.
File
Identifier: MS.2254
Dates:
1908.
Negative photographic plates of the pages in the second part of the Vatican manuscript, Collectoriae 213 ("Bagimond's Roll"), in which are listed amounts collected in Scotland for the Papal Tenth imposed by the General Council of Lyons.
File
Identifier: MS.3705
Dates:
1274.
Notebook of Richard Augustine Hay apparently originally intended for notes (folio 1), meditations and extracts (folios 1-10 inverted) of a religious character, but used almost entirely for transcripts of documents relating to the family of Sinclair of Rosslyn (folios 3-83).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.2
Scope and Contents
Following the transcripts are a list of books ‘of help for Composing our history’ (folio 84) and transcripts of two charters apparently unrelated to Rosslyn or the Sinclairs. The notes and transcripts are all undated but were doubtless made before the writing of Adv.MSS.34.1.8-34.1.9 was begun in 1700. Most perhaps were made by Hay when he was in Scotland between 1686 and 1690; Slezer`s ‘Theatrum Scotiæ’ (first published 1693) is mentioned at folio 86. The watermark of the leaves...
Dates:
4th quarter of 17th century.