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11 literary notebooks and other papers of Morley Jamieson.
13th-century manuscript containing Books 1-24 of the 'Digestum vetus' of Justinian, with glosses in several hands.
13th-century manuscript of the 'Institutes' of Justinian with the 'Glossa Ordinaria' of Accursius, and a fragment of the 'Lectura Institutionum' of Guillaume de Ferrières.
14th-century manuscript of Books 1-5 of the 'Consuetudines Normanniae', the laws and customs of Normandy from the 13th and 14th centuries.
14th-century manuscript produced in England containing English law statutes and writs.
15th-century manuscript containing 'De remediis utriusque fortunae' of Adrianus Carthusiensis, incorporating passages from the 'De remediis utriusque fortunae' of Petrarch.
15th-century manuscript containing various legal works: an index to the works of Bartolus de Saxoferrato; the 'Allegationes' of Lapo da Castiglionchio the Elder, abbreviated by Anthonius de Butrio; the 'Canonum Collectio' of Pseudo-Isidore.
15th-century manuscript of the 'Jónsbók', containing the laws of Iceland.
15th-century transcript of the chartulary of Dryburgh Abbey.
16th-century manuscript containing a register of charters and leases of St Andrews Priory, Pittenweem Priory and the archbishopric of St Andrews, covering the years 1553-1574.
16th-century manuscript containing the Accounts of the Archbishopric of St Andrews, covering the years 1539-1549.
17th-century extracts and transcripts, in the hand of Sir James Balfour, of chartularies and other historical works.
21 documents relating to the lands of Curriehill near Edinburgh.
28 letters of Richard Holden, merchant, Bristol, to his father, Richard Holden, of Baldovie, Dundee, and his brothers, John and Abraham.
Some letters concern the slave trade.
With two legal documents of the Holden family, Baldovie.
43 drafts and final copies of letters of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, while Governor-General of Canada, to Kings George V, Edward VIII and George VI.
63 deeds mostly concerning tenure of lands in North and South Kinkell.
64 charters and documents, 1513-1773, of the Flemings of Wigtown.
With, 16 charters, 1592-1693, of the Earls Marischal
petition, 1746, of David Carmichael of Maudsley to sell entailed lands
four deeds, 1813-1860, concerning property in Sierra Leone.
535 legal papers pertaining to lands of the Earls of Galloway.
‘1467 MS’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín.
A collection of deeds concerning members of the family of Buchanan of Auchentoshan [subsequently Cross-Buchanan].
Ch.5911 is a charter, 1484, of William, 3rd Lord Graham [subsequently 1st Earl of Montrose] to Thomas Buchanan of Drummikill.
A collection of documents relating to the family of Moubray of Cockairnie.
Comprised of: title deeds to their various estates and other properties in Fife and elsewhere (Ch.12871-12978), burgess tickets (Ch.12979-12984), military commissions (Ch.12985-12993) and other documents (Ch.12994-1296) relating to various members of the family, and a few apparently unrelated documents. An inventory, listing each document individually, is available.
A collection of formal papers, relating to the surgeon, Robert Liston.
Comprises: instruments of sasine, 1626-1756, mostly relating to properties in Culross (Ch.5832-5838), papers, mostly passports, 1794-1818, of his uncle, Sir Robert Liston (Ch.5839-5842), and four formal documents of his own, 1814, 1818 (Ch.5943-5946). An inventory has been placed with the collection.
'A collection of the best reciepts in cookery, pastery and confectionary taken from the best authors by Margt Hume Campbell, with a dedication to the Right Honourable Lady Diana Scott’.
The collection was probably intended for Lady Diana, the author's younger sister, on her approaching marriage to Walter Scott of Harden in 1754. There are a few later additions and an index (folio iii) but no section on confectionery. Some of the sources of the recipes are named.
A miscellaneous collection of documents.
Ch.5902-5903 and Ch.5905 refer to members of the Pitcairn family of Forthar; the remainder concern transactions between John Mowat and James Fullarton, burgesses in Edinburgh. Ch.5901 is an abstract of the documents.