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‘Breviary of the Decisions of the Lords of Session ... and of the Acts of Sederunt, from June, 1661, to July, 1681, observed by Sir James Dalrymple of Stair.’
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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.1
Scope and Contents
The Acts of Sederunt, 1661-1681, as in the printed ‘Decisions of the Lords of council and session’, are followed by a summary of Decisions arranged alphabetically according to subject. The text is apparently copied from an incomplete manuscript.At the end, inverted, is a copy of ‘Instructions and rules ... to the Commissaries, clerks, procurators fiscalls, and other members of the court of the whole ecclesiasticall jurisdiction,’ forwarded under cover of a Royal letter dated...
Dates:
1661-1681.
Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.15
Scope and Contents
Each volume has a contents list (folios 1, 77) and the second volume has its own foliation added in an apparently later hand.The first volume (folios 1-74) consists of copies (in the same hand), made apparently in or about 1585, of the following:(i) ‘Discorso del Priore d`Inghilterra a Papa Pio V circa la Riduttione di quel Regno’ (folio 2), being an account by Sir Richard Shelley, Grand Prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, written apparently early in 1570,...
Dates:
1537-1606.
Copies, mid-17th century-18th century, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, ‘Minor Practicks’, 'Major Practicks', and commentary on Justinian, 'Digest', 'Codex' and 'Novellae'.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.24.1.6-24.1.7
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Copies of documents concerning the Commission for Valuation of Teinds.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.7
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Copies or styles of deeds more or less connected with tythes and patronages;
(ii) Decisions and proceedings of the Commission for Plantation of Kirks, 1631-1673.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (Jac.V.2.5).
Dates:
17th century.
Copy, 17th century, of “Lord Chancellor’s Practicks” (possibly by Alexander Seton, Earl of Dunfermline.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.3.4
Scope and Contents
A volume with ‘General Index’ on the fly leaf, then:
(i) Lord Chancellor’s Practiques (pages 1-72);
(ii) Sinclair’s Practiques (pages 72-235);
(iii) Maitland’s Practiques (page 237).
(iv) Colvill's Practiques (page 635);
(v) Haddington's Practiques.
A descriptive note of the contents of the book, written in a later hand, is fixed on the first fly leaf.
Dates:
[Circa 1606.]
Copy, 17th century, or Sir James Balfour of Pittendrigh, ‘Practicks’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.3.3
Dates:
[Circa 1579.]
Copy, early 19th century, of decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1673-1677, refuted by Sir Patrick Home of Renton.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.8
Dates:
1673-1677.
Copy, late 17th century to 18th century, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, ‘Minor Practicks’ by Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.3A
Scope and Contents
A collection of decisions and law notes.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (a.3.20).
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Copy, mid-17th century-18th century, of Sir George Auchinleck, Lord Balmanno, ‘Practicks’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.9
Scope and Contents
Imperfect at the end.
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Copy of decreet arbitral and decisions of the Court of Session (practicks).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.13
Dates:
1661-1663.
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 the decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1681-1688, collected, late 17th century, by Sir Patrick Home of Renton.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.24.3.6-24.3.6a
Scope and Contents
This is an older copy of Adv.MS.24.3.4 containing volumes I and II.
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth.
Item
Identifier: MS.5898
Scope and Contents
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth (folio 28), and subsequently belonging to Robert Blair, Writer in Errol (folio 176 verso).The contents are as follows.(i) Style-book of Scots Law forms based on examples collected in and around Perth (folio 5); preceded by two indices (folios 1 verso, 3).(ii) Latin verses, 1683, entitled 'Carmina auditu digna', possibly written by James Blair. (Folio 92.)(iii) Recipes for dyeing...
Dates:
1682-1683.
Manuscript of 3 legal works, written in a late 17th-century hand.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.12
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows: (i) `Extract of the practiques of the Commissioners for valuatione of teinds and plantation of Kirks`, 1629-1643. Those from 1631 to 1643 are also in Adv.MSS.31.2.11, page 126, and 33.2.40, last item. (Page 1.)(ii) `Admiralitie. The fforme and manner of holding of courts of Admiraltie and proces led before them`. This text appears elsewhere (Adv.MS.28.4.7; and, in an abbreviated form, MS.1948) as an appendix to...
Dates:
17th century.
Miscellaneous papers.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Translation, 17th century, of Jan de Laet`s edition of ‘Lexicon Vitruvianum’. The beginning is missing; the text starts at `Abstantia` and breaks off at `Mataxa`. (Folio 1.)(ii) Article attacking the service-book, circa 1638. (Folio 51.)(iii) Manuscript, 1709, of ‘A Letter directed thus, for Mr James Lyon in Kirkwal’ by James Sands. (Folio 72.)(iv) Copy, late 17th century, of George Buchanan`s...
Dates:
?1595-18th century.