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‘Scottish Historical documents’, being transcripts and notes, in manuscript and typescript, by and for Sir Archibald C Lawrie in preparation for continuations (never published) to his ‘Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D.1153’.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.37.3.1-37.3.15
Scope and Contents
The arrangement is as follows:Volumes I-VII: Royal charters and others of the same period; these have been used by the editors of the ‘Regesta Regum Scottorum’, volumes 1-3.Volumes VIII-XIII: Religious houses; there is no discernible order.Volume XIV: Bishoprics; alphabetical.Volume XV: Burghs and miscellanies.Each volume has an identical printed title page, on whose verso is given biographical information on Lawrie.The...
Dates:
1153-1249, ?1905, or after.
Scribal copy of letter, 1643, of Oliver Cromwell to Lawrence Crawford
File
Identifier: Acc.5003
Scope and Contents
With annotated transcript and notes, circa 1840-circa 1845, of Thomas Carlyle.
Dates:
1643-circa 1845
'Sibbaldi Fragmenta Historica.'
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.25
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Transcript of the 'Chronicon de Melross';
(ii) Relationes Arnaldi Blair;
(iii) 'Extracta de MS. D. Gul. Cunninghaim de rebus gestis Gul. Vallæ', 1296;
(iv) Dr. Jamieson’s notes upon the ‘Chronicon de Melross’;
(v) Three letters of Queen Mary extracted from a Roman Manuscript;
(vi) Dr Jamieson’s observations on Melville’s Memoirs and on Bede;
(vii) Off the revenue or patrimony of the Crown;
(viii) Bull of Pope Urban Vth Contra Magnqs Societates;
(ix) A Charter...
Dates:
Late 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century.
"Singapore and Afterwards", manuscript account of the fall of Singapore in 1942, by W D Brown.
File
Identifier: Acc.9948
Scope and Contents
With typed transcript, 1989.
Dates:
circa 1943.
`Sir Lodovick Steuart of Kirkhill Advocat his Collectiones ... with Several Valuable Additions of charters andc ... out of the valuable Collectiones of Mr Richard Hay ... Ex Manuscriptis Roberti Mylne scribae ...`, a transcript of parts of Sir Lewis Stewart`s collections, compiled early in the 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.12
Scope and Contents
The volume, almost entirely in the hand of Mylne, begins (folio i verso) with an index (extra entries have been added later; those for the letters B, C, D, K and M continue on folio v verso, those for P on folio vi verso); there follows (page 1) a transcript of Stewart`s historical collections as in Stewart`s own manuscript (Adv.MS.22.1.14) with most of the additions found also in the transcript Adv.MS.34.3.11, and further additions, some not by Mylne; finally (page 352) come the transcripts...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Six diaries of Arthur Birnie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11018
Scope and Contents
Includes transcript and notes.
Dates:
1906-1909, 1934-1936.
Six letters of Captain Thomas Henry Montgomery, Black Watch, from the Crimea.
File
Identifier: Acc.11640
Scope and Contents
Includes typed transcripts of nine others.
Dates:
1854-1856.
Small collections of letters and papers, and some transcripts from manuscripts made with the permission of the owners of the originals.
File
Identifier: MS.1758
Dates:
1645-1936, undated.
Sound recording, with transcript, of a BBC television programme, 'Spectrum: Kenneth White - Nomad -'.
Series
Identifier: Acc.8606/1-3
Dates:
1983.
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 33: copies of lists of the records removed from Scotland on the orders of Edward I and of material in the chapterhouse of Westminster Abbey.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.30 [33]
Scope and Contents
Also included are transcripts of some formal documents, 1189-1299.
Dates:
1189-1299, 17th century.
Stewart genealogies: papers on various families of Stewart collected by, and with some notes of, George Chalmers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.12
Scope and Contents
(i) `Inventar of the papers and chartours of the Stewarts of Hallrig and Raice and thair Genealogy proceeding from Stewart of Darnly who are descended from Robert Stewart Lord Tarboltone second son to Walter the 2ᵈ High Stewart of Scotland.` Seventeenth century (folio 1).(ii) Papers, in three late-eighteenth-century hands, on the Stewarts of Allanton and their cadets, all mostly derived from an account of the family written by Sir Archibald Steuart Denham of Westshield. In 1842...
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Dates:
17th century.
Tapes (master and working copies) and transcripts of interviews with Scots involved in the process of decolonisation throughout the British Empire.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10809 -is now MSS.22631-22998C
Dates:
1986-1991.
"The 1878-1880 Royal Geographical Society Expedition to East Africa: the Diary of Keith Johnston", transcribed with explanatory notes by James McCarthy.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11937
Dates:
2000.
"The Humble Complaint of Geo[rge] Eglisham Doctor of Physicke" addressed to Charles I.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11944
Scope and Contents
Includes typescript transcription.
Dates:
1626.
"The Testament Dative and Inventory of the debts and sums of money which were justly owing to umquhile Robert Burns, Officer of Excise in Dumfries, at the time of his decease, viz. the [21st] day of July last, faithfully made out and given up by Jean Armour, Widow of the said defunct, and executrix qua relict decerned to him by decreet dative of the Commissary of Dumfries dated the 16th day of September last," Dumfries.
Item
Identifier: Ch.666
Dates:
6 October 1796.
Thirty letters and papers addressed to John Mure of Rowallan by Mary of Guise, Mary Queen of Scots, the Earls of Arran, Argyll, Lennox, Mar, and Morton, and others; with a transcript thereof.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.54.1.7-54.1.8
Dates:
1548-1593.
Topographical extracts by Lieutenant-General George Henry Hutton from ‘A topographical dictionary of Scotland’ by Nicholas Carlisle, and from other works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.5.6
Scope and Contents
The extracts from Carlisle, which are in alphabetical order, are at folios 1-24 verso, 95-109. At 25-94 verso are extracts concerning places (and a few concerning individuals) from a variety of published sources including especially ‘Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum in Archivis Publicis asservatum, MCCCVI-MCCCCXXIV’, and ‘Peerage of Scotland’. These are written not in alphabetical or topographical order but apparently as they were discovered by Hutton in the course of reading or...
Dates:
Circa 1813.
Transcript, 17th century, in the hand of Sir James Balfour, of ‘History of the Picts’ by Henry Maule of Melgum.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.2
Scope and Contents
At the beginning is a note by J. Ruddiman concerning the doubt of the authorship of the book.
Dates:
1764.
Transcript, 17th century, of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’, and other material.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.10
Scope and Contents
At the end of the Chronicon is this notice: ‘Hac est vera copia antiquæ chronicæ monasterii de Melros in Scotia inchoatæ per Abbatem de Dundranan ab anno 735 continuata per varios ad annum 1270. Autographum extat in bibliotheca domini Roberti Cotton militis apud Vestmonasterium.’At page 42 commences ‘Relationes quodam Arnaldi Blair monachi de Dunfermelein et capellani D Wilhelmi Wallace militis 1327’, written in the same hand with/as the preceding chronicle but without any notice...
Dates:
Late 13th century, 1327.
Transcript, 18th century, entitled ‘Choice psalms for 3 voices by Henry and William Lawes. With divers Elegies by several friends on the death of William Lawes and Nine Canons by Willm. Lawes. Scored from the Original Parts printed at London 1648'.
Item
Identifier: MS.654
Dates:
1648.
Transcript, 18th century, of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’, and other material.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.6
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:Transcript of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’: a copy of Adv.MS.33.3.25 (page 1);‘Addenda ex exemplari Anglico impresso’ (page 41);The ‘Relationes Arnaldi Blair’ copied from Adv.MS.35.6.10 (page 44);‘Addenda alia e chronico Melrosensi impresso’ (page 51);Copies of letters, 1563, of Queen Mary to the Council of Trent in Latin, and to the Cardinal of Lorrain and the Pope in Italian (page 65);...
Dates:
12th century-1683.
Transcript, 19th century, of a plea roll of Edward I's army in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.19
Scope and Contents
A modern copy of the ‘pleas of the army’ under Edward of England, at Wark, Berwick, Roxburgh, etc., in the 24th year of his reign.
Dates:
1296.
Transcript, 1820, of the account of the genealogy of the clan Campbell.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.14
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Transcript, 1861, of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.6
Scope and Contents
A not too accurate page-for-page copy of Aberdeen University (King’s College) Library (AUL) MS.449 (Mackechnie, page 356), which is itself largely a copy of Adv.MS.72.3.3. Made by a clerk (his initials, A C, are at pages 42, 75) for William Forbes Skene in 1861 when he and the Reverend Dr Thomas McLauchlan were preparing their edition of the Book of the Dean of Lismore, Adv.MS.72.3.3 being at this time still in possession of the Highland Society of Scotland and apparently therefore unknown...
Dates:
1512-1542.