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Copy of part of Stair's 'Institutions of the Law of Scotland', being Titles 1-22 with Title 19 omitted.
Item
Identifier: MS.5058
Scope and Contents
Contains Titles 1-22 with Title 19 omitted.
Dates:
1666.
Copy of Robert Spottiswoode, "Practicks of the Laws of Scotland".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9313
Dates:
circa 1660-circa 1699.
Copy of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, 'Major Practicks', Sir Thomas Nicolson’s abridgement of Sir Peter Wedderburn's 'Practiques', and a copy of Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie, Lord Justice Clerk, ‘Collections’.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.24.1.3(a)-(b)
Dates:
17th century.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’ made apparently in 1677 from a text written probably in or about 1666.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.7
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order), but the text is rather shorter and illustrated by references to earlier decisions, and most of the Titles are divided into fewer paragraphs.The text is preceded (folio iii) by an introduction, identical with that of the first printed edition, from which it may have been copied. At the end (page 276) is the signature of J Broune, dated 29...
Dates:
Circa 1666.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’ made in 1673 for John Smith of Brousterland, apparently from a text written in or about 1662.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.9
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the text is rather shorter, many of the decisions quoted are earlier, and the titles are divided into fewer paragraphs. It is followed by an index of subjects discussed (page 409), and a contents list of each Title (page 413), both written apparently in different hands, neither being that of the text. The volume lacks apparently one leaf at the end.
Dates:
Circa 1662.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’ made in 1677 from a text written probably in or shortly after 1666.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.3
Scope and Contents
Although the general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order), the text is considerably shorter, for most of the Titles have fewer chapters (some have only half as many), and fewer references to case-decisions.At folio iv is an inscription (repeated at folio v verso) stating that the copying of the book was completed on 19 October 1677; it is presumably in the hand of James Hay, whose note of...
Dates:
1666 or after.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’ written apparently in a number of hands.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.17
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681, except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order, but the text of each title is rather shorter and illustrated with fewer references to case-decisions. There are blank leaves between Titles 11 and 12 (folios 69-76), between sections 8 and 9 of Title 16 (folios 115-126) and following Title 31 (folios 229-241). The writing on folio 174 (but not folio 174 verso) is upside down. The chapter-headings in Titles...
Dates:
Circa 1662.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’ written apparently in or about 1662.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.8
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681, except that the contents list of Title 9 (followed by a blank leaf) has been written into the text of Title 7, doubtless due to a miscalculation by the copyist; the contents list of Title 30 has been written in on the leaf following the end of the work, and Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order; also, the text is rather shorter, and the titles, most of which are divided into fewer paragraphs, are illustrated...
Dates:
Circa 1662.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’ written apparently in or about 1662.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.10
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the text is generally shorter and the titles are usually divided into fewer paragraphs.The name W Primerose, possibly the signature of Sir William Primrose of Elphinstoun, is written several times at folios i, ii and iii, together with a variety of Latin tags, pen-flourishes, arithmetical calculations, and (at folio ii) a version of the...
Dates:
Circa 1662.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’ written apparently in or about 1662.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.11
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the text is generally shorter and is illustrated by references to earlier case-decisions, and the titles are usually divided into fewer paragraphs.An inaccurate pagination (which has been ignored) has been added almost throughout, but no running titles or paragraph numbers. The contents lists of Titles 25 to 31 have not been entered in the...
Dates:
Circa 1662.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written apparently in or about 1666.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.12
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the text in general appears to be rather shorter and is illustrated by references to earlier case-decisions, and the titles are divided into fewer paragraphs. The text is preceded (folio ii verso) by an index (more correctly by a list of Titles and their contents), in the same hand, which has also been responsible for the pagination, and is followed...
Dates:
Circa 1666.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written apparently in or shortly after 1666.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.2
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the titles are mostly shorter, containing fewer chapters and references to case-decisions. A few textual corrections and marginal additions have been made in a contemporary hand, mostly in Titles 1-6; most of Titles 8-31 are followed by blank leaves presumably intended for additions and corrections. Chapters 7-18 of Title 6 have been written in...
Dates:
1666 or after.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in an unidentified hand apparently in or about 1666.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.5
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order), but the text of each title is shorter, contains fewer chapters, and is illustrated with fewer references to case decisions. An alphabetical index of subjects has been added in the same hand (folio 509). At page 307 is a signature of J or T Skene dated April 4 1678, and at folio i is an undated signature probably of John Swinton, Lord Swinton. Inside the...
Dates:
Circa 1666.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in or about 1662.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.14
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the text is generally shorter and illustrated with references to earlier case-decisions, and most of the titles are divided into fewer paragraphs. According to a note inside the front cover, dated Perth, 4th August 1731, this copy was written by Sir Alexander Falconer, Lord Halkerton, in his own hand.The lists of paragraphs have been omitted...
Dates:
Circa 1662.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in or about 1666.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.13
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the text is generally shorter and is illustrated by references to earlier case-decisions and most of the titles are divided into fewer paragraphs.At folio i are a variety of jottings in a contemporary hand, or hands, and at folio i verso the style of an obligation. The name William Hay in an early 18th-century hand appears also at folio i...
Dates:
Circa 1666.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Laws of Scotland’, written apparently in a number of hands.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.2.10
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the text of each title is shorter, generally divided into fewer chapters, and illustrated with fewer references to case-decisions. The chapter-headings appear to have been written in after the copying of the text, and in Title 7 most of them have been omitted. Blank leaves at folios 17, 25, 31 and 35 verso. At the end (folios 195-204) are accounts of...
Dates:
Circa 1662.
Copy of the 'Evidence taken before the Lords Committee' ... on the 'Act for making a railway from Glasgow to Crofthead ... to be called the Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway'.
Item
Identifier: MS.19980
Scope and Contents
This manuscript relates specifically to objections to it raised by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr railway company, but also includes much evidence from local manufacturers as to the use they could make of the proposed line. The line was opened in 1848.
Dates:
1843.
Copy of the rental of Kintyre for the year 1678, attested by Archibald Campbell, Notary Public, at Inveraray, 10 March 1719.
Item
Identifier: MS.3367
Dates:
1678.
Copy of the `Velitatio in Georgium Buchananum` of Ninian Winzet, which was published as part of his ‘Flagellum Sectarioram’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.8
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is a copy of the complete text preceded by the dedicatory epistle but without the marginal summaries and the Synopsis.Together with Adv.MS.33.7.20 it was made at the Benedictine Abbey of St. James, Ratisbon, in or about 1684, for the Abbot, Thomas (Dom Placid) Fleming by Andrew Cook, one of the monks (who subsequently became Prior), as a present to Christopher Irvine, physician and philologist.The text is followed by copies of documents relating to the...
Dates:
1582.
Copy, possibly the holograph, of the report by Thomas Tucker on the customs and excise of Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.6.5
Scope and Contents
Tucker had been sent to Scotland in the autumn of 1655 to set up the customs and to re-establish the excise, and his report, dated 20 November 1656, was written after his return to London. The report is followed by an unmarked copy of ‘Rules, Orders and Instructions, Made and Published by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise in Scotland ...’ (Edinburgh, 1656) (folio 54), and by `The forme of the Cash or Day Booke to be kept by the severall Collectors of Customs and Excise in...
Dates:
1655-1656.
Copy, with translation, of a letter of Dmitri Shostakovich to John McLeod.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10799
Scope and Contents
Concerns variations by McLeod on a theme from Shostakovich`s Fifth Symphony.
Dates:
1973.
Corrected drafts and typescripts of ten series of poems of Kenneth White.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5918
Dates:
circa 1960-circa 1963.
Corrected manuscript and printed version of poem of David Morrison, "Sterk Vision".
File
Identifier: Acc.5005
Dates:
1970.