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15th-century manuscript containing various legal works: an index to the works of Bartolus de Saxoferrato; the 'Allegationes' of Lapo da Castiglionchio the Elder, abbreviated by Anthonius de Butrio; the 'Canonum Collectio' of Pseudo-Isidore.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.10.1.5
Scope and Contents
15th-century manuscript containing various legals works. Dolezalek dates the work to after 1440, and its place of production as Italy due to the style of hands and decoration. The inscription on folio 381v suggests that the manuscript was probably complete and together by 1483. Borland suggests that the place of production may be Spain, based on the hand on folios 267r-382r.Each work is written in double columns of varying length, normally around 62 lines per column. The majority...
Dates:
15th century, after 1440.
Alexander Skinner's Manuscript of Piobaireachd, so-called from the inscription 'Presented to Mr. Duncan Campbell, Piper to Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., of Newe, by Alex. Skinner, Teacher of Dancing ... London, June 15, 1855'.
Item
Identifier: MS.3746
Scope and Contents
What Alexander Skinner presented was, it seems, the blank volume, cf. MS.3745. The music was almost certainly written by Duncan Campbell.According to a note (folio ii) by Archibald Campbell, Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society, Duncan Campbell left at least two manuscripts, one referred to simply as Duncan Campbell's Manuscript in the publications of the Piobaireachd Society, the other, this, an incomplete and probably unrevised copy of the first. The...
Dates:
[1855, or after.]
Alphabetical index to obituary notices in ‘Gentleman`s Magazine’, 1791-1855, written in a notebook, the paper of which is watermarked 1855.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.23
Dates:
1855.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates:
?1825-1856.
Chronicles and historical works, written in England.
Item
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.
`Collection of armorial bearings, inscriptions, etc.` made by Alexander Deuchar.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.7.1A-B
Dates:
1812-1841.
Collection of autographs formed by William Finlay Watson (died 1881), bookseller, Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.577-600
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of letters and documents in the autograph of literary, political, social, artistic, naval, military, and legal celebrities, chiefly covering the period from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth.
The first 2,300 items bear numbers given in the National Galleries. Certain letters, etc., have been retained for exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery; the series is therefore not continuous (see MS.595).
Dates:
16th century-19th century.
Collection of English arms in trick, probably compiled as a working notebook by herald painters in London, one of whom appears to have worked with Sir Henry Saint George, Garter King of Arms.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.6
Scope and Contents
The earliest section (folio 14) includes a number of mythological coats (for example, those of Cupid and the Nine Worthies) and some of members of the nobility and gentry from 1573 onwards. Many of the later additions are dated between 1630 and 1641. There are a few pedigrees and three indices to the compilation (folios i verso, 82 verso, and 86 verso). There is also a list of arms painters authorised in England (folio 88 verso), with a note `all theas in my life time kepte open shope and...
Dates:
Late 16th century-1664.
`Collection of illuminate arms` by Etherington Martyn, in 2 volumes, containing watercolour paintings of Scottish, English and a few foreign arms.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.1(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
In an introductory note (volume 1, folio iv.), Martyn states that many of the arms were unpublished, and taken from seals, drawings, paintings and manuscript blazons; also from a manuscript collection of heraldry `purchased at Mr Cummyngs sale by a Mr Rose`. This probably refers to James Cummyng, herald painter and Lyon Clerk Depute (died 1793). Martyn sometimes gives the source for a particular coat of arms, and occasionally criticises the heraldry.
Dates:
1794.
Copies, 1725-1726, of Great Seal charters of the 14th and early 15th centuries, made by John Corss, Keeper of the Records.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.35.6.1-35.6.2
Scope and Contents
Each volume has an elaborate title-page and an index of personal names.
Dates:
14th century-early 15th century.
Copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas and other documents, mostly conferring titles.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.6.2-34.6.3
Dates:
16th century-18th century.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’ made in 1673 for John Smith of Brousterland, apparently from a text written in or about 1662.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.9
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 rather shorter, many of the decisions quoted are earlier, and the titles are divided into fewer paragraphs. It is followed by an index of subjects discussed (page 409), and a contents list of each Title (page 413), both written apparently in different hands, neither being that of the text. The volume lacks apparently one leaf at the end.
Dates:
Circa 1662.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in an unidentified hand apparently in or about 1666.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.5
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 of each title is shorter, contains fewer chapters, and is illustrated with fewer references to case decisions. An alphabetical index of subjects has been added in the same hand (folio 509). At page 307 is a signature of J or T Skene dated April 4 1678, and at folio i is an undated signature probably of John Swinton, Lord Swinton. Inside the...
Dates:
Circa 1666.
Cowie collection of manuscripts of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Allan Ramsay and others, made by Charles R Cowie of Glasgow.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.15951-15975
Scope and Contents
The Cowie manuscripts include the final version of ‘The gentle shepherd, a Scots pastorall comedy’ by Allan Ramsay (MS.15972).
Dates:
1720-1914, undated.
Genealogies of Scottish families, copied by Robert Mylne.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.8
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The compilation by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (see Adv.MS.34.3.19) copied from a manuscript of 1685 or later, with some additional material taken from ‘The Great historical geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary’ (page 1).(ii) Genealogical material taken partly from Camden, Dugdale and other historians (page 395).(iii) Verses on the death of William, 6th Earl of Douglas (page 480)....
Dates:
1685, or later.
Index to the Register of the Great Seal to Book 59, compiled for Walter Macfarlane.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.1.8(I)-(V)
Scope and Contents
The index is of beneficiaries only, and each roll and book is indexed separately.
Dates:
1757-1763.
Indexes and transcripts by Robert Mylne, the antiquary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.9
Scope and Contents
Mylne`s pagination and the size of paper show that the volume is composed of seven separate parts: section (i), section (ii), section (iii), sections (iv) and (v), section (vi), sections (vii)-(xiii), section (xiv). None are exactly dated, but (v) must be later than 1705, (xiv) later than 1700; and probably all were compiled in the early 18th century.The contents are as follows:(i) `Ane Alphabeticall Index [A-C only] To the Book of Collections of Notes of Charters...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
‘Institutionum Chemicarum Pars Prima`; a treatise on chemistry in two parts, including comments on other writers on the subject.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.6
Scope and Contents
Mention is made of Nicolas Lemery`s work, published in Paris, `hoc Anno 1713` (folio 10 verso). There are a few small pencil sketches of pieces of equipment, and the work is followed by an index.
Dates:
1713.
John Sawers` Armorial, containing the arms of the Scottish nobility, mostly painted on engraved outlines.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.4
Scope and Contents
The later entries are unfinished and some are merely pencil sketches. The manuscript was shown in the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1891 (see ‘Memorial Catalogue’, number 60).The armorial is preceded by a printed form of charge concerning the right to bear arms, 1675 (folio ii verso) and a list of Scottish peers (folio iv). It is followed by an index and, on inverted pages 1-47, by a copy of a list of Scottish families and their arms by Thomas Craufurd,...
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.14
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:List, 1606, of Scottish nobility (folio 1);Process of apprising of the Bishop of Orkney against Sinclair, 1572 (folio 3);Process of apprising of Sir Thomas Hamilton against Sir Blaise Belmer, 1607 (folio 13 verso);Reduction of a decreet of perambulation obtained by Lord Hay of Yester against the James Heriot of Trabroun, 1572 (folio 21 verso);Registered submission and decreet arbitral, 1614, between...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Lindsay Armorial: the armorial register of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Lyon King of Arms from 1542 to 1555.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.3
Scope and Contents
In 1630 the armorial was formally recognised by the Privy Council as an official register and a note to that effect, signed by Sir James Balfour, Lord Lyon, and Thomas Drysdale, Islay Herald, is on folio 110 verso.The manuscript was shown in the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1891 (see ‘Memorial Catalogue’, number 663).The contents are as follows:(i) Latin verses on and a painting of the royal arms (folio 1 verso).(ii) Arms of mythical...
Dates:
16th century-17th century.
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, with an index (Adv.MS.32.6.26) by Sir Henry Stewart of Allanton.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.32.6.16-32.6.26
Dates:
1746-1775.
Manuscript, 18th century, containing lists of peers and barons taken from the Rolls of Parliament and lists and copies of charters taken from the records of the Great Seal (both sources being then unpublished).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.14
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) List of peers mentioned in the Rolls of Parliament, 1424-1707 (folio 1).(ii) List of charters, etc., granting peerages, down to 1707 (folio 10).(iii) Index to sections (i) and (ii) (folio 23).(iv) Observations on section (i) (folio 36).(v) Observations on section (ii), generally quoting part of the deed (folio 59).(vi) Copy of declarations of Parliament on the succession...
Dates:
1371, 1373, 1615-1707, 18th century.
Manuscript concerning crown patrimony and south-west Scotland, written by two hands, the first, of the first half of the 18th century, being responsible for section (i), the second, circa 1760, for the remainder.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) `An Accompt of His Majestys Proper Rent...`, by Sir William Purves. This is a copy of MS.201. See the catalogue record for Adv.MS.31.1.16. (Folio 1.)(ii) `State of the Stipends, Glebes, Grass andc. of the parishes within the presbitrys following [Dumfries, Penpont, Lochmaben, Annan]. Made out by Mr Andrew Chalmer from the Attested Copies of the Reports of the particular Ministers 10 Decr. 1750.` (Folio 47 verso.)...
Dates:
First half of 18th century-circa 1760.