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15th-century English manuscript containing three Middle English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the chivalric poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.
15th-century manuscript containing the first statutes of the Ordre de Saint-Michel drawn up in 1469, but not those of 1476.
`Account of the Scotish Poets either printed or manuscript which I have seen, from Ancient tymes to the year 1701` compiled by Sir Robert Sibbald, being the preface and drafts of two books consisting respectively of lists of poems in Latin or Greek, and lists of vernacular poems.
The poems are arranged under their authors and there are a few biographical notes.
'Additions and corrections' to a work of the writer's own, which appears to have been entitled 'The History of the Rebellion in the years 1745 and 1746'.
`Adversaria`, being miscellaneous notes and copies of correspondence of Sir Robert Sibbald, with scholars such as William Nicolson, Edward Lhuyd and John Smith of Durham on Scottish history and antiquities.
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
Album of miscellaneous printed and manuscript matter.
The printed items are mostly newspaper cuttings, from the period circa 1780-circa 1830; they have not been indexed. The manuscript items, a list of which has been added at the beginning of the volume, are mostly Scottish, several relating to Bo`ness and Linlithgow, and date from 1562 to 1826. On folio 44 is a note signed `A.E.N.`
`Alphabet of Honnor: or The Succession and Armes of the Kinges, Princes, Dukes, Marquesses, Earles, Barons, and Gentry of England since the Conquest’.
Anonymous English treatises on the probability of war with Spain and the political scene in Europe.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Author's manuscript and printed proof of ‘An anthology of Scottish history’ from 1093 to 1746, being a list of characters, etc., prepared by Andrew Ross, Ross Herald, for the pageant given at the Scottish National Exhibition, 1908.
Chronicles and historical works, written in England.
‘Collection of above 700 names that begin with Mac`, compiled By Robert Glen.
The names are listed under the letter immediately following the prefix `Mac`. The main series is followed by additional material (page 26) and a note of the number of names under each letter (page 39).
`Collection of armorial bearings, inscriptions, etc.` made by Alexander Deuchar.
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.
Collection of quarto volumes of transcripts by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1st quarter of 19th century, of several of the surviving cartularies and other registers, and of some collections of charters and other deeds, of the medieval dioceses, churches and religious houses of Scotland, 1164-1639.
Collection of Scottish poems and satirical verse.
The first 70 folios are in manuscript while the latter half of the volume consists of a collection of printed broadsides of the 18th century. Several of the manuscript items appear in print and a list of them is inserted at the beginning of the volume.
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`.
Commonplace book of the Earl of Buchan.
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 made up in or about 1819 (the date of the watermark of the binder`s blanks) from five folio notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton.
Copies, 19th century, and original papers collected by Sir William Fraser, 16th century-1793.
Copy, late 17th century, of `De jure prelationis Nobilium scotie or A Memoriall of the evidents and writs produced ... before the Comissioners ... anent the precedency and prioritie of dignitie [1606]`, incorporating additional information up to 1667.
The text is followed by a list of titles of the nobility and other related material (folio 34 verso), and verses and notes on the history of Aberdeen (folio 45). An 18th-century hand has added a list of dates of the patents of Scottish nobles (folio 52).