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17th-century extracts and transcripts, in the hand of Sir James Balfour, of chartularies and other historical works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.9
Scope and Contents
17th-century manuscript written and compiled by Sir James Balfour containing the following works:1. Copy by Sir James Balfour of George Marjorybanks, 'Annals of Scotland, 1514-94'. Folios 6r-23r.A history of Scotland in the form of annals written in Scots, originally written in the late 16th century by George Marjoribanks, burgess of Edinburgh. The location of the original manuscript from which Balfour made his copy is unknown. The work is separated into...
Dates:
17th century.
Descriptions of the shires of Scotland by Sir Robert Sibbald, interleaved with the Scottish section (colls. 877-960) of Edmund Gibson`s edition of William Camden`s ‘Britannia’ in English.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.5
Scope and Contents
Sibbald intended that his work (which is not his revised edition of and supplement to Camden`s `Description of Scotland’) should both give a fuller account than the descriptions written for his `Atlas Scoticus` (Adv.MS.15.1.1), and clarify Camden`s text. He included material on topography, flora and fauna, industry, agriculture and outstanding buildings. The description of Shetland (which is not that published by Sibbald in 1711) was based on accounts sent to him by ministers there (folio...
Dates:
Circa 1695.
Early 16th-century manuscript, 'Extracta ex variis cronicis Scotiae'.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.13
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in Scotland containing extracts from Scottish chronicles, primarily drawing upon the works of Fordun and Bower, but also including independent entries. The main text is the work of one scribe, and written in a cursive script with 22 lines to a page. Additions and insertions are in another hand of the 16th century.The manuscript has been dated to the end of the 15th century by the folio catalogue, which was probably compiled by Cosmo Innes. Borland...
Dates:
Early 16th century.
Early 17th-century manuscript of copies of various historical and legal papers made for Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington, with material covering the years 1400-1626.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.16
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Scotland in the early 17th century, before 1637, for Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington. The volume consists of copies and extracts of various historical and legal works.The full contents are listed below, primarily taken from Dolezalek's census and the 'Historical Catalogue' record. Any gaps in the foliation refer to blank sheets or sheets used for titles and headings.Extracts of the rental book of the Abbey of Dunfermline. This is printed...
Dates:
Early 17th century, before 1637.
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'
Item
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
Genealogical papers on the different branches of the Bruce family collected by Major William Bruce Armstrong for his work ‘The Bruces of Airth and their cadets’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15982-15988
Scope and Contents
Most of the material is printed, with annotations by William Brue Armstrong.
Dates:
Mid 19th century-[before 1892.]
Kilberry book of piobaireachd: papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22098-22117
Scope and Contents
Archibald Campbell, who entered the Indian Civil Service and retired as Judge of the High Court of Lahore, was the youngest son of John Campbell of Kilberry, and Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society. The material is arranged tune by tune, approximately in the order of appearance in ‘Ceol mor’ by C S Thomason, and consists of copies of the text of each piobaireachd from all authoritative sources, both printed (including some proof sheets) and manuscript....
Dates:
1892-1963, undated.
Letters and papers of, and concerning, Sir Patrick Geddes and Dr Arthur Geddes.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21204-21205
Dates:
1913-1977, undated.
Manuscript containing a 15th-century list of benefactors, prayers, obituaries, and rental of the Hospital of St Anthony, Leith; with a 16th-century extract from a rental of Newhaven.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.5
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in Scotland containing Church offices; a calendar; obituaries of benefactors; a rental of the hospital of St Anthony, Leith; and a rental of Newhaven.The manuscript appears to be the work of two separate hands executed at different times. The earlier part of the work is of the 15th century. From folio 19r onwards the hand can be attributed to the mid-16th century.The contents are as follows:Flyleaves with shelfmark inscriptions. Folios...
Dates:
15th century-1st half of 16th century.
Manuscript extract of Ivor Brown, "Summer in Scotland".
Item
Identifier: Acc.4587
Dates:
circa 1968.
Manuscript of the first part of 'The howdie', an unfinished story by John Galt.
File
Identifier: MS.5207
Scope and Contents
With the manuscript are the pages of "Tait's Edinburgh Magazine" containing the first part of the story, a typescript of the second part, and a memorandum on the history of the manuscript by Sir Robert Simpson, the latter reprinted and supplemented by William Roughead in his edition.
Dates:
[Circa 1831.]
Manuscripts collected by William Lee Ferguson, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5170-5177
Dates:
1537-1934.
Notes and correspondence of James R Anderson, concerning a bibliography of Philip Doddridge's ‘Life of Colonel Gardiner’.
File
Identifier: MS.6156
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript of a lecture by James R Anderson, possibly given to Glasgow Bibliographical Society, apparently unprinted (folio 1);(ii) Extracts from an article and subsequent correspondence in the 'Scotsman', September-October 1918, relating to the Battle of Prestonpans and to Colonel Gardiner (folio 22);(iii) Notes, etc., relating to the compilation of the bibliography (folio 28);(iv) Letters, 1918-19, 1925, to...
Dates:
1918-1919, undated.
Photocopies of papers from the Thomas Tait Collection.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9835
Scope and Contents
With additional commentary and extracts compiled by William Tait, son of Thomas and co-creator of the collection.
Dates:
20th century.
Three documents concerning the family of Boyd of Knockson and to the farm of Knockson, near Ayr.
File
Identifier: Acc.5275
Dates:
1845, 1859-1860.
Volume written in 1796 entitled `Copy Search of Charters, Diplomas, andc in favours of the Peers of Scotland containing the Charts of Dignities and Series of Heirs`.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.20
Scope and Contents
The volume consists of a collection of copies and extracts of charters and other formal documents dating from the early 14th to the early 18th century from the Register of the Great Seal and the Records in Chancery (folio 2), an appendix concerning certain Scottish peerages (folio 63 verso), a list of the Parliaments of England and of Great Britain (folio 96 verso), names of Scots Representative Peers who sat in the House of Lords in the 18th century (folio 97 verso), and an index to the...
Dates:
Early 14th century-18th century.
Work-book of John Shirley, Solicitor, containing his fair copy, written out in full, of his ‘History of Scottish Law’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.4
Dates:
1898, or after.