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Collection of genealogical material on various Scottish families and items of historical interest copied by Robert Mylne, the antiquary, in the late 17th or early 18th century.
Collection of Icelandic laws and legal material.
Collection of Icelandic laws and ordinances.
Note by F Magnusson: `No. 15. Vetus Collectio Variarum legum et constitutionum in Comitiis Islandicis editarum - inedita - Exemplar fere Unicum.`
Collection of late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts of places in Scotland, partly compiled by Sir John Skene, Lord Curriehill.
Collection of manuscript material transferred from printed theses collection, 1637-late 19th century, chiefly consisting of German academic papers, but including a small cache of Scottish legal papers, 19th century.
With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.
Collection of papers concerning the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
Collection of papers consisting mostly of briefs for various peers in support of their voting as Scottish Representative Peers in the election of 1790.
Collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.
Collection of papers relating to Scottish earldoms, with transcripts, early twentieth century, by Sir Alexander Lawrie, of early charters and other documents.
Collection of romances and religious material, mostly in verse, written in the North Midlands by Richard Heeg with some items by James Hawghton and additions in other hands.
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
‘Collection of the principal officers of state & others in the Kingdom of Scotland, the erection of Abbacies & other such, & the genealogy of the nobility’, in the handwriting of Walter Goodall.
‘Collections relative to the affairs of Scotland. Written by George Chalmers, Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh’.
Commentary on book four of a legal work, chiefly on actions.
Commentary on Justinian, ‘Digest’, ‘Codex’, and 'Novellae’ in the hand of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall.
Commonplace book of Hew Love.
Including translations from Ovid, Virgil, and Terence.
Commonplace book of the Earl of Buchan.
Commonplace book, undated, compiled by James Glasford (died 1845).
The contents include: extracts from personal letters, biblical commentaries, poems and translations of poems.
‘Compend or breviarie of the most substantiall poynts relateing to the law, extracted forth of the bookes of that learned Jurisconsult D[ominus] T[homas] C[raig] relating upon the feudall law’.
Complaint made to Henry VI by the Duke of Gloucester, and ‘A fulle lamentable cronicle of the dethe and fals murder of James Steward [James I]’.
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.
Composite volume of 15th-century manuscripts of miscellaneous works by four hands bound together, with an incunable, in the 16th-century or earlier.
Contemporary copies and translations of letters, mainly from Italy, reporting on European and Turkish affairs.
Most of the documents are dated 1596. The subjects include Spanish policy in June and July of that year, leading up to the capture of Cadiz by the English (cf. ‘Calendar of State Papers, Domestic series ... 1595-1597’); a rising of janissaries in Constantinople; and events in Italy and eastern Europe. These are followed (folio 33) by miscellaneous papers, mostly concerning the siege of Montauban in 1621.
‘Contents of the Winton Estate’, that is, the Lordship of Seaton and the Baronies of Long Niddry, Tranent and Winton in East Lothian.
In tabular form, showing the names of the tenants, 'the number of acres in each lot and barony, with the total rents and rent of an acre', with a covering letter.