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16th-century manuscript of the romance 'Clariodus', a translation of a French prose original into Older Scots verse.
The Manuscript is imperfect; according to the old foliation, seven folios are missing at the beginning, and another one or more at the end. A passage of eight lines has been pasted in on folio 125 verso.
Written in one hand throughout, with large decorative initials at the beginning of each book. Watermark of pot with letters IB (cf. Briquet number 12804).
17th-century extracts and transcripts, in the hand of Sir James Balfour, of chartularies and other historical works.
Agreement between Ian the Menzeis, Lord of Vogrie, and Robert, his son and heir, regarding the lands of Culter in Lanarkshire. Among the witnesses are Walter Trayl, Bishop of St Andrews, and Sir Robert Stewart, Earl of Fife. Linlithgow.
Seals wanting.
Asloan Manuscript: a miscellany of prose and verse, chiefly Scottish, written almost entirely by John Asloan early in the reign of James V (1513-1542).
Balcarres Papers.
Bannatyne Manuscript: a collection of some 400 poems, mostly Scottish, compiled and written by George Bannatyne.
"Bellenden's Livy": a manuscript of the first five books of Livy’s ‘History of Rome’ translated into Scots by Archdeacon John Bellenden.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.7.8.
Collection of genealogical material on various Scottish families and items of historical interest copied by Robert Mylne, the antiquary, in the late 17th or early 18th century.
Copies of passages from the diary of Robert Birrell.
Fragment of a copy, in a late 18th- or early 19th-century hand, of a number of passages from the diary of Robert Birrell, burgess of Edinburgh, 1542-1605. The passages copied concern events in the years 1567 and 1597.
Copy, late 17th century, of a treatise on sea laws by Alexander King, Judge Admiral of Scotland, circa 1590, entitled `Tractatus Legum et Consuetudinum Navalium quae apud omnes fere Gentes in usu habentur; Omnia Nautica et quaecumque ex causis marinis in judicium veniunt succincte definiens in certos Titulos ... methodice distinctos. Authore Alexandro Regio`.
The last Titulus (`De Piratis`) is in Scots, as is the appendix on `The forme and Maner of holding of Courts of Admiralitie and processe led befoir Them` which follows.
Copy of John Bellenden's translation of Hector Boece's "Scotorum historia", with additions to 1637, written by Richard Moir, schoolmaster at Campsie, 1636.
Copy of the first part of a history of the houses of the Lords and Earls of Douglas (the Black Douglases) and of the Earls of Angus (the Red Douglases) by David Hume of Godscroft.
Early 15th-century manuscript containing short prayers, followed by conversion tables for calculating the price of merchandise.
Early 16th-century manuscript of 'The oryginale cronykil of Scotland' by Andrew Wyntoun, with part of the anonymous 'Brevis Cronica' appended.
Early 17th-century manuscript of copies of various historical and legal papers made for Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington, with material covering the years 1400-1626.
"Eik to Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: By Andro Crawfuird".
Andrew Crawfurd began to collect materials for this dictionary in 1812, four years after the first publication of John Jamieson's 'Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language' (Edinburgh, 1808), and, in his preface (placed at the beginning of each volume), he shows how he was inspired to do this through the omissions and mistakes of that work. It does not appear to have been utilized in the later editions of and supplements to Jamieson.
Fifty-one reels of microfilm of unpublished material of the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, with contents lists and copies of unfilmed material; and microfiches and eleven floppy disks containing additional material.
"First Commonplace Book" of Robert Burns.
Further papers of and relating to Harvey Holton.
Late 15th-century manuscript of 'The oryginale cronykil of Scotland', or 'Original Chronicle', of Andrew Wyntoun.
Letter, 1795, of Robert Burns to Maria Riddell, tipped into an edition of "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" (1787).
Letter of Mary of Guise to William Keith, 3rd Earl Marischal.
A letter written by Mary of Guise from Edinburgh Castle, 17 May 1560, bearing her signature ("Vostre bonne cousinne Marie R"). She is asking Marischal to hear what the bearer of her letter will tell her about the state of affairs, and to act upon it.
Letters and legal documents of the Napier family of Merchiston.
A collection of 55 documents bound into a large volume, ca. 1900, where they are mostly mounted onto the pages. Items 1-29 are legal documents; 30-40 concern early 17th-century family matters; 41-50 concern domestic Scottish affairs during the reign of Charles I, and 51-55 relate to events in the reign of Charles II.
A list of the documents is kept with the volume.