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Manuscripts from the library of St Andrew`s College, Drygrange.
Miscellaneous letters and papers chiefly of the seventeenth century and chiefly relating to affairs in Scotland.
There are some transcripts, notes, and a table of contents in a modern hand.
`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.
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.
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).
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.
Papers relating to the publication of works of Michael Strachan.
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).
Reminiscences of Andrew Macgeorge.
Concerning his family, upbringing and social life.
With typed transcript.
‘Scottish Historical documents’, being transcripts and notes, in manuscript and typescript, by and for Sir Archibald C Lawrie in preparation for continuations (never published) to his ‘Early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’.
"Singapore and Afterwards", manuscript account of the fall of Singapore in 1942, by W D Brown.
With typed transcript, 1989.
`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.
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.
Transcript, 17th century, of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’, and other material.
Transcript, 18th century, of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’, and other material.
Transcript, eighteenth century, of documents illustrating the claim of the English Crown to the overlordship of Scotland.
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’.
Transcript made by Ewen MacLachlan of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Transcript made by the Reverend Walter MacLeod of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Transcript, written in 1528, of the chartulary of Crail Collegiate Church.
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.
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.
Transcripts of Gaelic manuscripts written by the Reverend Donald Mackintosh.
Transcripts of Norwegian and Icelandic documents.
‘View of the diocese of Aberdeen’, a volume of historical narrative written by Alexander Keith, episcopal minister at Cruden.
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.