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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.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘The Portrait of True Loyalty exposed in the Family of Gordon, without interruption to this present year 1691. With a Relationof the Castle of Edr. in the year 1689’ (folio 1), which is attributed to David Burnet, a Catholic Priest. The original manuscript, which was in Blairs College, Aberdeen (‘The House of Gordon’, page xxxvi), is at the Scottish Catholic Archives, Columba House, Edinburgh, where it has the...
Dates:
1554-1720.
Commonplace book of James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.3
Scope and Contents
Composite manuscript produced in Scotland and compiled in the late 15th century, probably circa 1500, by James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane and secretary to William Scheves, Archbishop of St Andrews. The manuscript is a commonplace book and consists of a variety of religious, historical, legal, and literary material. There are several hands evident throughout the manuscript. Anderson states that folios 1r-24v are written by very similar hands, and could...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Copy of the first part of a history of the houses of the Lords and Earls of Douglas (the Black Douglases) and of the Earls of Angus (the Red Douglases) by David Hume of Godscroft.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.21
Scope and Contents
This copy, which is entitled ‘THE ORIGINE And Descent of the most noble and jllustre familie, and name of Douglas: (etc.)`, is a fair copy made in another hand from a manuscript of the author`s, and deals only with the Black Douglases. From internal evidence, Hume`s manuscript was written before the death of James VI in 1625: this copy was made after 1621. It is written in an anglicized and inconsistent Scots, but the text has been heavily edited, with numerous alterations...
Dates:
Before 1625.