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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.
Abstracts and facsimiles of Scottish armorials by William Rae Macdonald, Albany Herald (1843-1923).
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.53.3.1-53.3.13
Dates:
16th century-1902.
Account by William Rose, the genealogist, of the Chaplaincies, Prebendaries and Alterages in the Dioceses of Ross, Caithness, Moray and Dunkeld, the revenue from which was granted to Rose in 1776.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.18
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is mostly in Rose`s hand. At folio 159 is a summary of the work.
Dates:
1776, or after.
`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.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.19
Scope and Contents
Smith`s letters (folios 47-61), some of which are originals, concern the records of Scottish history surviving at Durham. Other contents are as follows:(i) Notes on historical manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library (folio 2).(ii) The life of Robert Morison copied from his ‘Plantarum Historiae Universalis Oxoniensis’, part 3, with notes on the same volume (folio 4 verso).(iii) `A list of Gold Scotch Coyns` (folios 13 verso, 18).(iv) `The...
Dates:
Circa 1682-1706, and undated.
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 state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents
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`.
Dates:
1548-1641.
Composite volume containing four fragmentary manuscripts of the 12th and 13th centuries, all of uncertain origin.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) `Synonyma` by Pseudo-Cicero, beginning in the middle of the article `Domuit`. This manuscript differs considerably, both in number of articles and verbally, from the printed texts. On folios 10-11 is an 18th-century note on the bibliography of this work. (Folio 2.)(ii) Fragment of a mediaeval work on logic, listing types of argument (intrinsecus: a comparatione, a parte, a nota; extrinsecus: a coniugatis, a genere, a...
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Copy made in or about 1690 by James Clapperton, Dalkeith, of the chronicles of the Civil War in Scotland compiled by Henry Guthrie, Bishop of Dunkeld.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.23
Scope and Contents
The text of this manuscript is the same as that common to the other copies in this Library, agreeing with them against the printed book in some small omissions and additions, and numerous variants in vocabulary, spelling and word order. In addition to the text, the manuscript contains: summaries (in red) in the margins of most of the pages; at page i, a table of contents (as far as page 105 only); at page 161, a list of Royalist supporters executed in England during the Commonwealth period;...
Dates:
Circa 1690.
Copy of a work written by Alexander Dickson in support of the claims of James VI of Scotland to the crown of England in reply to ‘A Conference about the next succession to the crowne of Ingland’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.8
Scope and Contents
‘Conference about the next succession to the crowne of Ingland’ was published in 1594 under the pseudonym R Doleman by a number of authors including chiefly Sir Francis Englefield and Cardinal William Allen: Robert Parsons, Society of Jesus, to whom the work has often been ascribed, was a minor contributor (see ‘Recusant History’, volume 4, page 126). Dickson, who had been a supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots, appears to have become a servant of James VI shortly before he began this reply,...
Dates:
1598.
Copy of a work written shortly after the death in 1751 of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, to show that the principalities usually possessed by the Prince of Wales belong to the Crown.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.12
Scope and Contents
The work consists largely of copies and abstracts of charters and other formal documents relating to the Stewartry and Principality of Scotland (folio 6), the Duchy of Cornwall (folio 52 verso), the Principality of Wales and the Earldom of Chester (folio 56) , the Duchy of Normandy (folio 58 verso) and the Dauphine of France (folio 58 verso), preceded by a summary of the contents (folio 2), and followed by a conclusion (folio 62), an appendix (folio 63), a copy (folio 72 verso) of an act of...
Dates:
1751, or after.
Copy of a work written shortly after the death in 1751 of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, to show that the principalities usually possessed by the Prince of Wales belong to the Crown.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.3
Scope and Contents
The work consists largely of copies and abstracts of charters and other formal documents relating to the Stewartry and Principality of Scotland (folio 7), the Duchy of Cornwall (folio 57), the Principality of Wales and the Earldom of Chester (folio 60), the Duchy of Normandy (folio 62 verso) and the Dauphine of France (folio 62 verso), preceded by a summary of the contents (folio 2), and followed by a conclusion (folio 65 verso), an appendix (folio 66 verso), a copy (folio 75 verso) of an...
Dates:
1751, or after.
Copy of the statutes of the Order of the Garter in English, written probably in 1558, containing the statutes of Henry VIII, and of Mary and Philip, and a further statute, dated 12th of January in the first year of Elizabeth, added in another hand.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.18
Scope and Contents
The title, and the statutes of Henry VIII, are introduced by small gold initials within blue and brown parti-coloured squares. Many of the statutes of Henry VIII, and most of those of Mary and Philip have a title or a summary in red in the margin, written in the same hand as the text; several have marginal annotations in another hand of the late 16th or early 17th century. All the statutes, except that of Elizabeth, have been numbered, and at folios i-ii is a list of contents, written in a...
Dates:
1558.
Diaries and notebooks of Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick L Maitland.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.353
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the fair copy (not autograph) of Maitland’s ‘Narrative of the Principal Occurrences on board HMS Bellerophon’, and journals of his naval service in South America, 1819-20, the Mediterranean 1820-1, and 1828-30, and India, 1837-9. It also includes a number of printed books relating to Napoleon, particularly to the time he spent on St Helena. Some of these were written by Barry O’Meara and dedicated by him to Maitland with whom he had served as surgeon...
Dates:
1815, 1819-1820, 1828-1839.
Incomplete copy, written in the late 17th century, of the chronicle of the Civil War in Scotland compiled by Henry Guthrie, Bishop of Dunkeld, subsequently printed as ‘The Memoirs of Henry Guthrie’ (London, 1702).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.17
Scope and Contents
The manuscript, which covers the period only as far as October 1643, is the same as that common to the other copies in this Library, agreeing with them against the printed book occasionally in small omissions and additions, and frequently in vocabulary, spelling and word order. A few of the early pages contain summaries in the margin.
Dates:
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.
Legal manuscript, 4 November 1609 to 12 December 1623, containing abstract decisions of the Court of Session, Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Acc.7938
Scope and Contents
With other legal notes, early 17th century.
Dates:
early 17th century.
Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.27
Scope and Contents
It was originally Ferguson`s intention to print Dutch text and English translation of all Dutch documents quoted, but this scheme had to be abandoned for reasons of space, and only the English translations were ultimately printed (Volume I, page xxxiii). Before this change of plan, the Dutch texts had been inserted into the appropriate places of the manuscript of Volume I and part of Volume II; the rest are preserved separately, Adv.MSS.81.3.15-81.3.23.Summaries and extracts of...
Dates:
1698-1901.
Manuscript of Ossianic poems written by various anonymous hands from recitation of Archibald Fletcher (born circa 1734), Achallader, Argyll.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.24
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is watermarked 1798, and is described by John Francis Campbell (‘Leabhar na Feine’, page xvi) ‘as genuine a bit of folk lore as any in the world’.Archibald Fletcher’s affidavit, sworn before Archibald Menzies, Justice of the Peace, in Edinburgh, 1801, is printed in the Ossian Report, Appendix, page 270. It lists the tradition-bearers from whom he learned the poems. Menzies states that Fletcher could write his name, but was unable to read the manuscript, which is...
Dates:
[1798, or after.]
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, statutes, burgh laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, mostly in Scots, written in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century. Sections (xxv)-(xxvii) are a slightly later addition.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.15
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 4 books of 191 continuously numbered chapters (34, 74, 26, and 57 in each book respectively) with table at the beginning (folio 1). The end of chapter 6 to the beginning of chapter 14 is lost. ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 233-277.(ii) `Quoniam attachiamenta` in 61 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 60 verso). Chapters 11-24 are lost. ‘Acts of the Parliament of...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Medical manuscript in Gaelic.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.10
Scope and Contents
The text is a commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates. The text-hand, crabbed in appearance, is generically similar to hand 75 of Adv.MS.72.1.2. Capitals are coloured red, but much of the pigment has dissolved and spread. A preliminary sketch has been made for a decorative initial at folio 3 recto. At folio 2 recto the missing matter is supplied in the bottom margin, parts of it two or three times. Here and at folios 2 verso, 3 recto and 5 verso emendations appear in two or three hands...
Dates:
15th Century.
Microfilm of an illuminated calligraphic manuscript of Esther Inglis, forming a summary of St Matthew’s Gospel, ‘Argumenta singulorum capitum Evangelii Matthaei Apostoli, per tetrasticha manu Estherae Inglis exarata Londini XXVI Ianuari, 1607’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1394
Dates:
1607.
Miscellaneous items.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.12
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Abstract in English of Gerard Goris`s treatise on mercury, ‘Mercurius Triumphator’, probably made from the Leyden edition of 1717. Written in three hands of the early 18th century (folio 1).(ii) `The Dyet of Poland, A Satyr. Lib. J.H. Aug. 27. 1705.` A copy in two hands, of Daniel Defoe`s verse satire, published anonymously in London (with the false imprint `Dantzick`) in 1705 (folio 20). It is followed (folio 41) by a...
Dates:
16th century-18th century.
Notes and descriptions of the important features and places in the various counties and other administrative and jurisdictional areas of Scotland, compiled by Sir James Balfour, 1st Baronet, of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.27
Scope and Contents
The volume is labelled on the spine ‘Balfour`s collections on the shires’, and is inscribed ‘Vol:3.’ in a seventeenth-century hand on folio 5.The main text is preceded by a contents list (folio 5). Almost all of the entries are undated, but appear to have been written at different times between about 1630 and about 1640, with later additions until at least 1650 (folio 94) and 1654 (folio 321). The entries record natural features such as rivers and glens, and...
Dates:
Circa 1630-circa1654.
Rubricated copy of ‘Compendium sive Breviarium Primi Voluminis Annalium seu Historiarum’ by Johann Tritheim (Moguntiacum, 1515), containing a few insignificant corrections, but no additions to the text.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.1
Scope and Contents
Bound in at the back of the volume are copies, written in an early 16th-century hand of German provenance, of the following:(i) The Bulla Aurea of the Emperor Charles IV promulgated in 1356 (folio 1). The text appears to be almost exactly the same as that published in ‘H.G. Thulemarii de Bulla Aurea, Argentea, Plumbea et Cerea in genere nec non in specie de Aurea Bulla Caroli IV Imp. Tractatio’.(ii) The Concordat of Vienna, concluded between the Emperor Frederick III...
Dates:
1503-1515.