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Abridgement by Patrick Russell, prior of the Charterhouse of Perth, of a work by Walter Bower known as the 'Book of Cupar Angus'.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.7
Scope and Contents
Manuscript compiled in Scotland by Patrick Russell, a prior of the Charterhouse of Perth. The manuscript is an abridged copy of the 'Book of Cupar Angus', which is itself an abbreviation of the 'Scotichronicon'.The manuscript is written in a single column, probably all by the same hand, which is becomes harder to read towards the end of the volume. The work is not complete, as two or more folios are missing between 246v and 247r.Watt suggests that the lost examplar...
Dates:
1460 - 1488
Chronicles and historical works, written in England.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Table of the sons and grandchildren of St. Louis (folio 1)(ii) `Scala mundi`: historical and genealogical tables from the Creation (folio 1 verso). A similar manuscript of this text is in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS. 645. The chronology goes up to 1519, but apart from a few additions in later hands, the last entry is the accession of Albert the Great in 1438. The tables include lunar and solar years, the dates of...
Dates:
15th century.
Early 16th-century manuscript copy of the work known as 'Liber Pluscardensis', a chronicle of the history of Scotland founded mainly on the 'Chronica gentis Scotorum' of John of Fordun, and the 'Scotichronicon' of Walter Bower.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.2
Scope and Contents
The manuscript begins with five books closely following the first five books of Fordun as given in Bower, followed by 15 chapters of Book VI, somewhat abridged from Bower, Book VI, chapters 9-23 nearly as compiled by Fordun. This is followed by the rest of Book VI and by five more books, being an abridgement of Scotichronicon, though at variance with it on some points, and introducing much original matter.The manuscript is a copy, made probably in the early 16th century, of MS...
Dates:
1461.
Extracts, 1556, from chartularies of the Archbishopric of Glasgow which were deposited in the Scots College in Paris; followed by a short history, in Scots, of the Hamilton family entitled 'Frier Mark Hamiltonis historie'
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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.5
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of transcripts of the chartularies and original charters of the Archbishopric of Glasgow which were deposited in the Scots College in Paris. The material in the manuscript covers the 12th to the 16th centuries.The work is written in one hand and contains frequent additions, erasures, and corrections. The additions to the work, both in the margins and interlineal, are partly in Latin and partly in Scots.As well as charters, the volume contains extracts of...
Dates:
1556
Fifteenth-century manuscript of the 'short version' of the 'Polychronicon' of Ranulph Higden.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.12
Scope and Contents
This is a copy of the original, short version ending in 1327. It contains preface (folio iii), alphabetical table (folio v; the reference-system, explained at the beginning, is to the foliation of this manuscript), map of the world (folio xiii verso), and text in seven books (folios 1, 33, 57, 92, 122 verso, 159 verso, 183), not formally divided into chapters.The presence of a map is unusual in this version (‘Universal Chronicle of Ranulf Higden’, pages 63-68, 97-98). It is...
Dates:
1327, and before.
Late 14th-century manuscript of part of the 'Chronicle' of Walter of Guisborough.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.3
Scope and Contents
The manuscript now ends in the middle of the year 1297, page 297, 1.7 of H Rothwell`s edition; the remainder is British Library,Cotton MSS. Vesp. A.ix, folios 122-153, and Calig. A.xiii, folios 5-16. `Finis` has been substituted on folio 171 verso for the original catchword `Quidam Scottorum`. A letter of Felix Liebermann, 1887, on the relation of this and Cotton Vesp. A.ix is tipped in at folio iii.In the first three gatherings initials and headings are in red,...
Dates:
Late 14th century.
Manuscript, by John Gibson junior, a canon of Glasgow, of an abridged copy of the 'Black Book of Paisley', a version of the 'Scotichronicon' of Walter Bower.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.8
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in Scotland and written by John Gibson junior, a canon of Glasgow. The manuscript is an abridged copy of the 'Black Book of Paisley', a version of the 'Scotichronicon'. The original copy of the 'Black Book of Paisley', from which Gibson made his abridgement, is in the British Library. The full contents of the manuscript are as follows:A verse history of the Scots from their origins to the reign of James II. Folios 1r-10r.Genealogy from...
Dates:
1501
Manuscript of the late 11th and early 12th century containing: the 'Paradisus' of Heraclides; the 'Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae sub Geiserico et Hunrico regibus Wandalorum' of Victor Vitensis; 'De corpore et sanguine Domini' of Paschasius Radbertus (attributed to Rabanus Maurus); 'De corpore Domini contra Berengarium' of Guitmund; and two sermons of St Augustine of Hippo.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.3
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of the late 11th and early 12th century, written in England and containing various theological works. The manuscript has been dated to the early 12th century by Borland, Ker, Schenkl, Paul, and Römer. In private correspondence with the National Library of Scotland Michael Gullick has stated that folios 1-122 were written at Durham, probably in the 1090s, but definitely before 1096. He further suggests that folios 123-149 were added to the manuscript sometime in the late 11th or...
Dates:
Late 11th century - early 12th century.
The Chronicle of Fortingall, a 16th-century manuscript written in Highland Perthshire, Scotland.
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Identifier: MS.50300
Scope and Contents
A manuscript of varied contents, written by a group of scribes in Fortingall, Perthshire, mostly in the third quarter of the 16th century. The volume chronicles deaths and other events mainly in Highland Perthshire and other Highlands areas, but it also occasionally includes events of national concern, such as those surrounding the forced abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots. The chronicle entries are mainly in Latin, sometimes with Scots words used instead Latin terms, but a number of...
Dates:
ca. 1550-1579