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Manuscripts from the library of St Andrew`s College, Drygrange.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9180
Dates:
18th century to 19th century.
Miscellaneous letters and papers chiefly of the seventeenth century and chiefly relating to affairs in Scotland.
File
Identifier: MS.3368
Scope and Contents
There are some transcripts, notes, and a table of contents in a modern hand.
Dates:
1545-1745.
`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].
Notebook containing transcripts of specifications and articles by various authors relating to a wide variety of small engineering undertakings, owned and chiefly compiled by R Blackadder.
Item
Identifier: MS.19981
Scope and Contents
R Blackadder worked in Dundee, and appears to have been a member of the family of mapmakers and civil engineers from Berwickshire. He was part estate management consultant and part engineer. His interests ranged from manure and drainage, to the construction of damheads, ice houses, bridges, and railway curves. He also made notes on landlord tenant relations, on crop rotation, and on the organisation of various large estates. His work was primarily in Angus, but he spent some time in...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
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.
Papers, consisting of historical and genealogical notes and extracts, transcripts of formal and legal documents of earlier periods (as well as a number of original documents and papers), and a few unrelated letters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.9
Scope and Contents
The papers, written in many different 18th-century hands, are very mixed and are quite brief. The largest groups are:(i) part (pages 17-32) of a collection of transcripts, in the hand of one of Walter Macfarlane`s assistants, of documents relating to members of the family of Stirling of Keir (folios 23-30); (ii) part of a collection of transcripts, in the hand of another of Macfarlane`s assistants, of royal and other letters to members of the family of Mure of...
Dates:
?17th century-18th century.
Papers relating to the publication of works of Michael Strachan.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11154/1-47
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, manuscript drafts, copies and transcripts of 17th-century documents relating to the following works of Michael Strachan: 'The life and adventures of Thomas Coryate' (Oxford University Press, 1962); 'The East India Company journals of Captain William Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 1615-1617' (University of Minnesota Press, 1971); 'Sir Thomas Roe (1581-1644): a life' (Salisbury, 1989).
Dates:
1959-1990.
Reminiscences of Andrew Macgeorge.
File
Identifier: Acc.8341
Scope and Contents
Concerning his family, upbringing and social life.
With typed transcript.
Dates:
19th century.
‘Scottish Historical documents’, being transcripts and notes, in manuscript and typescript, by and for Sir Archibald C Lawrie in preparation for continuations (never published) to his ‘Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D.1153’.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.37.3.1-37.3.15
Scope and Contents
The arrangement is as follows:Volumes I-VII: Royal charters and others of the same period; these have been used by the editors of the ‘Regesta Regum Scottorum’, volumes 1-3.Volumes VIII-XIII: Religious houses; there is no discernible order.Volume XIV: Bishoprics; alphabetical.Volume XV: Burghs and miscellanies.Each volume has an identical printed title page, on whose verso is given biographical information on Lawrie.The...
Dates:
1153-1249, ?1905, or after.
"Singapore and Afterwards", manuscript account of the fall of Singapore in 1942, by W D Brown.
File
Identifier: Acc.9948
Scope and Contents
With typed transcript, 1989.
Dates:
circa 1943.
`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.
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, 17th century, of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’, and other material.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.10
Scope and Contents
At the end of the Chronicon is this notice: ‘Hac est vera copia antiquæ chronicæ monasterii de Melros in Scotia inchoatæ per Abbatem de Dundranan ab anno 735 continuata per varios ad annum 1270. Autographum extat in bibliotheca domini Roberti Cotton militis apud Vestmonasterium.’At page 42 commences ‘Relationes quodam Arnaldi Blair monachi de Dunfermelein et capellani D Wilhelmi Wallace militis 1327’, written in the same hand with/as the preceding chronicle but without any notice...
Dates:
Late 13th century, 1327.
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, eighteenth century, of documents illustrating the claim of the English Crown to the overlordship of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: MS.746
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is entitled ‘Instrumentorum quorundam authenticorum exemplaria aliquot ex ipsis archetipis in archivis quod Thesauriariam vocant repositis, transcipta et collecta jussu et mandato ... Edwardi ... Ducis Somerseti ... ex quibus planum fit a tempore Bruti ad nostram pene usque etatem Reges Scocie in fide fuisse Regum Anglie, Regnumque Scocie Reges Anglie tanquam superiores dicti Regni dominos per sacramentum fidelitatis agnouisse. An. MDXLIX collegit Joannes Masonius’.
Dates:
1549.
Transcript made by Ewen MacLachlan of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.3
Scope and Contents
Manuscript in the hand of Ewen MacLachlan, Aberdeen, entitled ‘An t-Easpaig’ - presumably because it contains the work of the Dean of Lismore, whom MacLachlan calls (page 1) “Easpuig Leasmòr”. This is valuable, as being MacLachlan’s original Book of the Dean of Lismore transcript, subsequently (but not always accurately) copied by himself and others. (See Adv.MS.72.3.6). It does not strictly follow the order of the original, but the order in which MacLachlan found it easiest to read the...
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
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, written in 1528, of the chartulary of Crail Collegiate Church.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.6
Scope and Contents
Manuscript containing a transcript of the chartulary of Crail Collegiate Church, which was founded as a Collegiate in 1517.The volume consists of transcripts of the charters of constitution and endowment, with inventories of plates, ornaments and books. The work is arranged in a rough topographical order, and the charters are followed by their respective instruments.Davis dates the manuscript to 1528. The main body of work covers the years 1499-1530. The volume is...
Dates:
1528
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 made by the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross (later Minister of Lochbroom) of James Macpherson`s Gaelic manuscripts of the Ossian poems, together with the Latin translation by Robert Macfarlane, made for the edition published by the Highland Society of London in 1807.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.73.4.1-73.4.6
Dates:
3rd quarter of 18th century, 1804, or before.
Transcripts of Gaelic manuscripts written by the Reverend Donald Mackintosh.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.11
Scope and Contents
The transcripts were written by the Reverend Donald Mackintosh, who was ‘Keeper of the Records and Translator of the Gaelic Language’ to the Highland Society of Scotland from January 1801 until his death in 1808. These are transcripts from 2 of the 5 manuscripts which Mackintosh obtained on loan from Ewen MacLachlan of Kilbride in July 1801. He dates the completion of the last of the major items of his transcript 3rd August 1804 (page 201); on 25th May of that year he had in fact requested a...
Dates:
1801-1804.
Transcripts of Norwegian and Icelandic documents.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.8.6
Dates:
Early 18th century.
‘View of the diocese of Aberdeen’, a volume of historical narrative written by Alexander Keith, episcopal minister at Cruden.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.12
Scope and Contents
It includes descriptions of the civil parishes, biographies of bishops of the diocese, accounts of the old religious houses, collegiate churches and deaneries and of King`s College and University, parochial histories arranged by presbyteries and transcripts and extracts of documents relating to the history of the see.
Dates:
1732.
Volume containing four items transcribed by Robert Mylne, the Antiquary, between the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.15
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) ‘The Staggering State of Scottish Statesmen’ by Sir John Scot of Scotstarvet, written about 1665 (folio 1).(ii) ‘The History of the Picts’, written by Henry Maule of Melgum sometime in the 17th century (folio 43).(iii) ‘The Genealogies of the Nobility of Scotland Present and Extinct`, by Sir James Dalrymple of Borthwick, undated and apparently unpublished (folio 65).(iv) `The Historie of the Kings...
Dates:
17th century.