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Typed transcripts of letters to John Mackenzie of Delvine, Advocate, from the wife and son of the Reverend Dr Alexander Monro, and from Alexander Monro, Provost of St Salvator’s College, St. Andrews.
File
Identifier: MS.1788
Dates:
1684-1717, undated.
Typed transcripts of radio broadcasts by Denys Hay on "Aspects of the Renaissance".
File
Identifier: Acc.8812
Dates:
1963.
Typed transcripts of 'The Bush aboon Traquair' and 'The surpassing adventures of Allan Gordon' by James Hogg.
File
Identifier: MS.6139
Dates:
[1829, or after-1837, or after.]
Typed transcripts of the library catalogues of Robert Erskine (1719) and Archibald Pitcairne (1718).
File
Identifier: Acc.8042
Dates:
1718-1719.
Typed verbatim report of Conference called by the Scottish National Congress, held in Glasgow.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3604
Dates:
1 December 1956.
Typed verbatim report of the meeting of the Scottish National Party held in Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3603
Dates:
16 April 1929.
Typescript copies, 1964, of correspondence of Major-General Kenneth Mackenzie.
File
Identifier: MS.8028
Scope and Contents
The letters are chiefly of Sir John Moore and Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, to Kenneth Mackenzie. The correspondence refers to service in the Peninsular War and in the Netherlands campaign of 1813-1814.
The typescript was taken from a transcript, made circa 1912 from the original letters, which now seem to have disappeared.
Dates:
1798-1827, undated.
Typescript copies of correspondence between Thomas Goldie Scot, Surgeon-Major, Cameron Highlanders, in India, and his family in Edinburgh and Moniaive.
File
Identifier: Acc.9266
Scope and Contents
Transcribed from the originals, with two photographs of portraits of Thomas Scot, father of Thomas Goldie Scot.
Dates:
1842-1859.
Typescript copy of a manuscript register of Leith Races, 1753-1770.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11594
Dates:
late 20th century
Typescript transcripts of correspondence of the descendants of James Lundie, Minister of North Leith, who died in 1696, principally that of his great-grandson, Robert, Minister of Kelso.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1675-1676
Scope and Contents
The letters fall into three divisions. The first (MS.1675, folio 1) contains letters to James Lundie at Leyden and Amsterdam, chiefly from his brother Archibald, Minister of Saltoun, 1708-1710; the second (MS.1675, folio 47), general family correspondence, 1745-1770; the third (MS.1675, folio 80, and MS. 1676), the correspondence of Robert Lundie, Minister of Kelso, and others. The writers include many eminent authors and theologians of the time.
Dates:
1708-1840, undated.
Typescript transcripts of letters to Robert Lundie, Minister of Kelso, from John and Robert Leyden.
File
Identifier: MS.1722
Dates:
1795-1828.
Typescript transcripts of the literary correspondence of John Galt, transcribed by Ian A Gordon.
File
Identifier: Acc.11276
Dates:
1807-1839.
‘View of the diocese of Aberdeen’, a volume of historical narrative written by Alexander Keith, episcopal minister at Cruden.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.12
Scope and Contents
It includes descriptions of the civil parishes, biographies of bishops of the diocese, accounts of the old religious houses, collegiate churches and deaneries and of King`s College and University, parochial histories arranged by presbyteries and transcripts and extracts of documents relating to the history of the see.
Dates:
1732.
Volume consisting mostly of transcripts of medieval charters and other formal documents.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.23
Scope and Contents
The transcripts are written on paper watermarked 1794.Most of the originals were written between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries and many were issued by the kings of Scotland and their relatives. Several documents relate to religious institutions: at folios 62-71 verso are transcripts of documents contained in the cartulary of Reading Abbey (British [Museum] Library Egerton MS 3031) relating to the priory of the Island of May. The volume, which is in the same hand...
Dates:
?12th century-?14th century.
Volume containing four items transcribed by Robert Mylne, the Antiquary, between the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.15
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) ‘The Staggering State of Scottish Statesmen’ by Sir John Scot of Scotstarvet, written about 1665 (folio 1).(ii) ‘The History of the Picts’, written by Henry Maule of Melgum sometime in the 17th century (folio 43).(iii) ‘The Genealogies of the Nobility of Scotland Present and Extinct`, by Sir James Dalrymple of Borthwick, undated and apparently unpublished (folio 65).(iv) `The Historie of the Kings...
Dates:
17th century.
Volume containing transcripts by Alexander Brown, Keeper of the Advocates’ Library, of some early Scottish charters, with a few other writings.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.4
Scope and Contents
The volume appears to have been begun about 1780 and entries made until about 1787, but by far the greater part of the volume is blank. The contents are as follows:(i) transcript of instrument and protest of Sir Alexander Moray of Abercairnay, 7 December 1391 (page 1). Printed (from the original, then at Abercairney) in ‘Liber Insulae Missarum’, page xlix; see page xii.(ii) memorandum, 1781, concerning chapel in grounds of seat of Cockburn family at...
Dates:
Before 1172-1781.
Volume entitled (folio i) `Miscellania [sic] Scotica Curiosa Or A Collection of Curious, rare, and valuable Paper`s: Relating to Scotland, and Scots Affaires. Collected and Coppied, from the Originalls. by C:R:S:` containing transcripts of Scottish historical documents, extracts of manuscripts and copies of correspondence, from various sources, 1419-1731, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.18
Scope and Contents
The collection was compiled by Captain Robert Seton, Judge Advocate for Scotland, and consists of:(i) Copies of correspondence, 1566-1567, of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (folio 1) including two letters of Mary, Queen of Scots not recorded in Labanoff`s collection. The letters are similar to, but not the same as many of the letters in MS Calig CI from the Cottonian Library in the British Library: they may have been copied from the portion of the collection that was destroyed in the...
Dates:
1419-1731.
Volume of miscellaneous papers, mostly Scottish, many relating to ecclesiastical affairs.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.13
Dates:
1563-1670 and undated.
Volume, stamped on the spine `Papers relating to Cromwell and the Regicides`, containing materials assembled by George Chalmers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.28
Scope and Contents
The date is given on folio 34 verso. The papers consist of:(i) notes and extracts relating to the history of Great Britain in the mid 17th century, in particular notes of treaties with other countries, 1654, and their provisions (folio 1), extracts from the Books of the Privy Council, 1660 (folio 7) and notes and extracts concerning the Regicides 1660-1662 (folio 12); (ii) a chronological list, compiled apparently about the same time, of treaties between...
Dates:
1792.
Work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical (Adv.MS.34.1.8) and secular (Adv.MSS.34.1.9(i)-34.1.9(ii)) antiquities of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.1.8-34.1.9
Scope and Contents
The work is in the same hand as, and was begun probably as the consequence to, Hay’s ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio` (Adv.MS.34.1.10) in 1700 (the date quoted on each title page) and completed in 1707 or later (Adv.MS.34.1.9(ii), folio 62).
Dates:
1700-1707, or after.
Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.3134-3185
Scope and Contents
Many of the papers are accompanied by transcripts or summaries by Alexander Macdonald.
Dates:
1552-19th century