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Four or five medical manuscripts of the 14th century, with additions of the 14th and 15th centuries.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.9(i)-(v)
Scope and Contents
The volume has been heavily trimmed, leading to the partial loss of some headings and marginal notes.
Dates:
14th century.
Further papers of Gordon Jarvie.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13398
Scope and Contents
The papers comprise: (1) draft, 2013, of "Bessy Bell", a collection of poems by Gordon Jarvie, (2) drafts and correspondence relating to 1st and 2nd editions of "Climber`s Calendar" (2001, 2007), with correspondence, papers and ephemera relating to Jarvie`s Scottish mountain climbing and `Munro-bagging`, (3) finding list for Jarvie`s literary works.
Dates:
circa 1999-2013.
Genealogical and legal papers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.2.1.13
Scope and Contents
(i) Copy of `Appeal to the House of Lords, George Udny v. John Henry Allat or Udny and William Skinner: Supplemental Joint Appendix [list of interlocutors in the case and genealogical tree of the family of Udny of Udny]’, London, 1866. (Folios 1-11.)(ii) Printed list of witnesses in the trial of Thomas Hardy, indicted for High Treason, 1794. The names of the witnesses are annotated, e.g. `L.C.S.` [London Corresponding Society], `informer`, etc. (Folios 12-15.)(iii)...
Dates:
1794-1866.
Genealogical chart of and list of references to the family of Macfarlane of Gartartan.
File
Identifier: Acc.10336
Dates:
1991.
‘Genealogical collections’, containing notes on Scottish genealogies, with lists of Officers of State, Knights, Baronets, etc., in the handwriting of Alexander Nisbet.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.5
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Genealogical material collected by George Crawfurd.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.9
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.
Hand-list of Northern manuscripts in the Faculty of Advocates Library, based on the Latin catalogue made by Mr T G Repp, 1830, compiled by J M G Barclay.
Item
Identifier: F.R.209a
Dates:
1907.
Heraldic collection of Sir David Lindsay.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.20
Scope and Contents
Material copied in the late 16th and early 17th centuries apparently for Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Lord Lyon King of Arms from 1591 to 1620. It is closely related to John Scrymgeour`s manuscript (Adv.MS.31.5.2) in that some of its contents are apparently taken from Adam Loutfut`s manuscript (British [Museum] Library Harleian MS.6149), and the same order of arrangement is followed as by Scrymgeour; but there is also some additional material. Loutfut`s manuscript is described in ‘The...
Dates:
Late 16th century-early 17th century.
Heraldic collections of David and Alexander Deuchar.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.7044
Dates:
circa 1820-circa 1840.
Historical papers formerly belonging to the antiquary Robert Mylne.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.1
Scope and Contents
The papers mostly concern events in Scotland from 1637 to 1652, and include copies of acts, proclamations, petitions, etc. The subjects include the service book, the National Covenant, teinds, and the College of Justice. There is also a copy of ‘Irene’ by William Drummond of Hawthornden (folio 213). A list has been inserted of those items which have been published.There are a few notes by Mylne, identifying some of the papers. His instructions for binding the collection and his...
Dates:
Late 16th century-17th century.
‘Historie of the estate of the Kirk of Scotland’ by John Row, Minister of Carnock; and papers on ecclesiastical affairs.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.14
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) A copy of ‘Historie of the estate of the Kirk of Scotland’ by John Row, with an addition after 1637 (beginning at page 284). At the end, in what appears to be a transcript of Mr Row’s own memorandum, it is noted that the text was copied at Aberdeen, October 2 1650;
(ii) Miscellaneous papers concerning church affairs, duplicating some of those found in Adv.MS.34.5.13;
(iii) ‘A supplement of the historie of the Kirk of Scotland…: or ane handful of goates haire...
Dates:
17th century.
‘History of the baronetage of Scotland and Nova Scotia’ by Robert Riddell, advocate (born 1797-died 1862).
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.2.1-Adv.MS.23.2.9
Dates:
Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
History of the see of Durham and its bishops from Aidan to Cuthbert Tunstall (died 1559), `summarily comprisinge such memorable acts and works of Charitie...with sundrie other things worthy of remembraunce, collected out of the auncient and late records of the Cathedrall Church of Durham, and for the most parte translated forth of Latten into English: the first day of August Anno Domini 1603`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.2
Scope and Contents
The title `Origo Episcopatus Dunelmensis` bears the date 1616, but the text is followed (folio 25 verso) by lists of bishops up to Richard Neile (1617-1628), deans from 1543 to 1620, and mayors from 1603 to 1627.
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Hutton transcripts. A collection of transcripts of the cartularies of Aberdeen Cathedral (Adv.MS.20.3.1) and Newbattle Abbey (Adv.MS.20.3.3) and of charters and other formal documents, many of which are extracts from other cartularies, of and concerning several of the medieval dioceses and religious houses of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.3.1-20.3.9
Scope and Contents
Most of these transcripts and extracts, which were made between circa 1794 and circa 1824, are in the hand of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton: most of the rest are in the same hand as Adv.MS.9A.1.4. Many of the transcripts were made from originals and copies in possession of William Maule of Panmure, who was created Baron Panmure in 1831: many of the rest were copied from documents in possession of Thomas Thomson and at the Scottish Record Office, General Register House.
Dates:
12th century-1661.
'Imago mundi' by Honorius of Autun, 'Speculum regum' by Godfrey of Viterbo, and an anonymous poem 'De laude civitatis Laudae'. A manuscript written in Italy in the late 13th or early 14th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The `Imago mundi` of Honorius (folio 1), here entitled `Mappa mundi`, and attributed in both the title and the colophon to Isidore of Seville.(ii) `Speculum regum` by Godfrey of Viterbo (folio 23 verso). It contains the preface, list of chapters, and list of popes, but not the poem itself.(iii) ‘De laude civitatis Laudae’ (folio 38). An anonymous poem. Written in an Italian littera textualis...
Dates:
Late 13th century-early 14th century.
Instructions for making fireworks, probably intended as part of a scientific work.
File
Identifier: MS.9240
Scope and Contents
The text refers to figures which are not included. The manuscript also contains household and pharmaceutical recipes (folio 52), and a list of books and equipment of an army officer (folios 1 inverted).
Dates:
19th century.
Interleaved copy of Sir Arthur Mitchell, "List of Travels, Tours, etc, Relating to Scotland" (from "Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland", XXXV, 1902), with manuscript and typed notes of James McKinlay.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5620
Dates:
1902.
'Inventar of Buikis pertaining to Walter Dalgleische this 3 November 1652', a list of some 160 books, chiefly religious and literary, written on the front flyleaves of ‘Recreations with the muses’ by William Alexander, Earl of Stirling (London, 1637).
Item
Identifier: MS.9484
Scope and Contents
Walter Dalgleish was probably factor to the Earl of Dunfermline. His ex-libris, dated 1656, appears on the first flyleaf.
Dates:
1637, 1952
‘Inventory of charters’, 1456-1552, in the ‘Registrum Magni Sigilli’, in the hand of Sir John Scott of Scotstarvit.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.4
Scope and Contents
At the end is a list of charters, 1587-1630, ‘The taxed lands’.
Dates:
1456-1552, 1587-1630.
Italian manuscript of Books 1-5 of 'De consolatione philosophiae' by Boethius.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.14
Scope and Contents
The text ends on folio 105 verso; on folios 106-107 recto in the same hand is a note 'Ad sciendum de vita et morte Boetii Notandum ...'; folios 107 verso and 108 are blank.The text is written in a round Italian gothic hand. There are initials in red and blue, infilled and framed with red and green, at the beginning of each book (folios 1, 15 verso, 35, 63 verso, 87 verso). There are plain initials (some shaded) at the beginning of each section, alternately red and blue; within...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Jacobite Papers.
File
Identifier: Acc.3412
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.
Dates:
1645-1891.
Jacobite relics comprising an engraved rose, a list of martyrs, a fragmentary family tree, and a supposed section of the plaid of Charles Edward Stuart.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14399
Dates:
1836.
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.
Journal, 1729, of George Skene, containing ‘An Account of a Journey to London, with the particular rout by Thomas Burnett of Kirkhill, George Skene of that ilk, and David Skene his brother german'.
Item
Identifier: MS.3806
Scope and Contents
In addition to George Skene's journal there are notes of expenditure on the journey and of the mileage of part of the route (folio 1 verso); part of an anti-Hanoverian parody of the ‘Te Deum’, ?1742 (folio 34); and part of a diary, probably of Joseph Mackie, 1837 (folio 35).At the end of the volume, inverted, are detailed accounts of expenditure on the journey of 1729 (folio 1 inverted) and recipes, medical and other (folio 3 inverted), including directions for the treatment of...
Dates:
1729-19th century.