Bulls. Papal records.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Particular types of formal documents issued by the pope and sealed with a bulla (a round, usually leaden seal) or sealed with a red-ink imprint of the device on the bulla. Papal bulls were originally issued by the pope for many kinds of public communication, but since the 15th century have been reserved only for particular types of solemn written communication in which the pope refers to himself as ""episcopus servus servorum Dei,"" meaning ""Bishop, Servant of the Servants of God""Scholars may use the term to describe any elaborate historical papal document issued in the form of a decree, privilege, and sometimes in the form of a letter.
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
14th-century manuscript of the chartulary of Arbroath Abbey, also known as the 'Registrum Vetus'.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.2
Scope and Contents
Chartulary produced in Scotland recording grants relating to the Tironensian Abbey of Arbroath. The material present roughly covers the years 1178 to 1329, with some later insertions and additions. The manuscript consists of copies of royal, episcopal, papal and other charters, arranged partly by reigns and partly by grantors. Borland also notes that it contains many notices of the Culdees, especially in connection with their convent at Abernethy and with the Cathedral at Brechin. Davis...
Dates:
Mid 14th century.
Bull (lacking seal) of Pope Boniface IX to The Abbey of Cistercian nuns at Almoster.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9040
Scope and Contents
Agreeing to place the abbey and its possessions under papal protection.
Signed "William Gavin, 71st Regiment Light Infantry".
Dates:
? 1392.
Bull of Alexander IV to the monks of the Cistercian order regarding their regulations., July 1254.
Item
Identifier: Ch.17306
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
More detailed lists are available on request.
Dates:
July 1254.
Bull of Benedict XIII absolving Sir William Keith from fault in building Dunnottar Castle on consecrated ground., 18 July 1395.
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Identifier: Ch.17307
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
More detailed lists are available on request.
Dates:
18 July 1395.
Bull of Pope Leo X confirming the authority of Alexander Mylne as Abbot of the Monastery of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Cambuskenneth.
Item
Identifier: Ch.2137
Dates:
1519.
Bull, or commission, by Pope Paul III in favour of Peter Balfour, treasurer of Glasgow Metropolitan Church, and John Spens, principal official of St Andrews, to confirm disposition by prior of Pittenweem to John Brown in Anstruther and Beatrix Leirmonth, his spouse, of certain subjects in Pettinweem., 4 may 1536.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6088
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From the Series:
The charter and legal material contained here is of importance as giving the continuous history of a landed family in Fife from the 13th to the 18th century. The Halkett family appear to have risen partly on the decline of the Lochores of Lochore. By 1431, the former are having transumpts made of charters of the early 13th century granted to the latter (Ch.6018-6019).
Dates:
4 may 1536.
Collection of 25 papal bulls, 1156 or 1158-1555, and a petition to the Pope, 1542x1561, with original binding.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.19
Scope and Contents
Of the bulls, numbers 1-2, 4-7, 11-13, 17-23, and 25 concern the Bishopric and/or the Church of St Andrews; numbers 3, 8, 10, and 14 Dunfermline Abbey; number 9 the ransom of David II; number 15 the erection of the Collegiate Church of Seton; and numbers 24 and 26 appointments to the benefices of Cruden and Largo. Number 16 is a petition for indulgences on behalf of Henry Lauder, advocate of Mary Queen of Scots. The majority are of the thirteenth century. A more detailed...
Dates:
1156 or 1158-1542x1561.
Extracts and copies of historical works, collected by Sir James Balfour, 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.7
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Epitome Codicis Sconensis ... ex libro M.S. Magni Mackculloche` (folio 1). Material in Latin and English, taken from the `Scotichronicon` for 1057 to 1436, with a supplement (folio 34) for 1199-1263. This was the basis of the early part of Balfour`s ‘Annales of Scotland’. ‘The Scottish historical library’, pages 92-93, refers to this manuscript.(ii) Extracts from ‘Scotorum historiae’ by Hector Boece (folio 39)....
Dates:
1440-1642.
Instrument of publication of a Bull of Pope Paul III (dated 14 April 1539) granting to Robert, elect of Ross, formerly abbot of Holyrood, a pension of 500 merks Scots out of the parish kirks of Falkyrk and Livyngston, in the diocese of St Andrews, and the town of Brochtoun, in the parish of St Cuthberts and same diocese, pertaining to said abbey; the abbacy having been papally provided to Robert Steward, clerk or scholar of said diocese, and its revenues being greater than those of the bishopric., 24 May 1539.
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Identifier: Acc.7750/50
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From the Record Group:
Contains 71 writs and three detached seals, with Cairncross Charters of the Regality of Melrose (listed in "Selections from the Regality of Melrose", volume III, (1917), pp 373-382).Please note that the Rutherford name is represented variously throughout the charters, including Ruderfurde, Ruthirfurde, and Rutherfurde.This collection consists of material transferred from the Scottish Record Office to the National Library, and is supplementary to the main body of...
Dates:
24 May 1539.
Mandate by Pope Clement VII commanding the archbishop of Glasgow and the bishops of Dunkeld and Aberdeen to admit Robert Carncors, a priest of the diocese of Glasgow, if fit, as a canon regular of the monastery of Holyrood; dated at Rome., 6 November 1528.
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Identifier: Acc.7750/22
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
Contains 71 writs and three detached seals, with Cairncross Charters of the Regality of Melrose (listed in "Selections from the Regality of Melrose", volume III, (1917), pp 373-382).Please note that the Rutherford name is represented variously throughout the charters, including Ruderfurde, Ruthirfurde, and Rutherfurde.This collection consists of material transferred from the Scottish Record Office to the National Library, and is supplementary to the main body of...
Dates:
6 November 1528.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates:
1177, 15th century-1924.
Microfilm of assorted 13th-17th century manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.465
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Fair copy, 1686-1689, of ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio’, being Richard Augustine Hay’s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh, volume 1. (Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)); Register of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, written, circa 1537, by John Lambert, prebendary of the Chapel, containing copies of papal bulls and other documents, 1501-1537...
Dates:
13th century-1689.
Microfilm of manuscript produced between 1380 and 1550, the register of the Cathedral Church and Bishopric of Aberdeen.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.438
Dates:
1380-1550.
Microfilm of Paisley chartulary and Papal Bull.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.418
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
16th century manuscript, Chartulary of Paisley Abbey, with material covering the years 1163-1530 (Adv.MS.34.4.14);
Papal Bull (Ch.A6).
Dates:
[?16th century.]
Microfilm of papal bulls, 1156 or 1158-1555, and a petition, 1542x1561, to the Pope; and, Bills, 1819, 1822-1825 accepted by Sir Walter Scott.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.354
Dates:
1156 or 1158-1542x1561, 1819-1825.
Papal bulls, numbers 1-4, 7, 10, 12, 14, 18, 23., 1156 or 1158-1292.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.19 (1 of 4)
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Of the bulls, numbers 1-2, 4-7, 11-13, 17-23, and 25 concern the Bishopric and/or the Church of St Andrews; numbers 3, 8, 10, and 14 Dunfermline Abbey; number 9 the ransom of David II; number 15 the erection of the Collegiate Church of Seton; and numbers 24 and 26 appointments to the benefices of Cruden and Largo. Number 16 is a petition for indulgences on behalf of Henry Lauder, advocate of Mary Queen of Scots. The majority are of the thirteenth century. A more detailed...
Dates:
1156 or 1158-1292.
Papal bulls, numbers 5-6, 8, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19-22., Circa 1215-circa 1254.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.19 (2 of 4)
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Of the bulls, numbers 1-2, 4-7, 11-13, 17-23, and 25 concern the Bishopric and/or the Church of St Andrews; numbers 3, 8, 10, and 14 Dunfermline Abbey; number 9 the ransom of David II; number 15 the erection of the Collegiate Church of Seton; and numbers 24 and 26 appointments to the benefices of Cruden and Largo. Number 16 is a petition for indulgences on behalf of Henry Lauder, advocate of Mary Queen of Scots. The majority are of the thirteenth century. A more detailed...
Dates:
Circa 1215-circa 1254.
Papal bulls, numbers 9, 24-26; and a petition to the Pope, number 16.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.19 (3 of 4)
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Of the bulls, numbers 1-2, 4-7, 11-13, 17-23, and 25 concern the Bishopric and/or the Church of St Andrews; numbers 3, 8, 10, and 14 Dunfermline Abbey; number 9 the ransom of David II; number 15 the erection of the Collegiate Church of Seton; and numbers 24 and 26 appointments to the benefices of Cruden and Largo. Number 16 is a petition for indulgences on behalf of Henry Lauder, advocate of Mary Queen of Scots. The majority are of the thirteenth century. A more detailed...
Dates:
1156 or 1158-1542x1561.
Papers and accounts concerning the University of Saint Andrews., 1438-1630.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.7
Scope and Contents
Most of the papers relate to, or resulted from the various Royal Commissions to Saint Andrews University in the late 16th century. Copy of the statutes of the Faculty of Theology, 1438; in Latin (folios 1-8). - This has been printed from other manuscripts in Hannay, page 112.Transcript, 1570, of the statutes of the Faculty of Arts, signed by John Rutherford; in Latin (folios 9-15). - This has been printed from another manuscript in Hannay, page...
Dates:
1438-1630.
Photograph of the Bull of Foundation of the University of Aberdeen.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9514
Dates:
1495.
Photograph of the Bull of Foundation of the University of St Andrews.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9512
Dates:
1413.
Register of constitutions and other legal documents concerning the bishopric of Aberdeen, written in the 16th century and covering the 13th to 16th centuries.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.4
Scope and Contents
Chartulary produced in Scotland containing various documents relating to the Bishopric of Aberdeen. The documents include constitutions, ordinances, royal charters, inquisitions, and lists of bounds.Davis has dated the manuscript to the 1st half of the 16th century. Innes suggests that the volume was begun circa 1520 due to two factors. The first is the mention in an inscription on folio 50r of Alexander Galloway as a canon of Aberdeen and patron of the manuscript. Galloway was a...
Dates:
1st half of 16th century.
Register of the Cathedral Church and Bishopric of Aberdeen, also known as the 'Registrum Album', written between 1380 and 1550.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.10
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Scotland containing the register of the cathedral church and bishopric of Aberdeen. This volume, also known as the 'Registrum Album', is a composite work containing miscellaneous charters of the church and see, including sections of royal and papal charters, as well as grants by the bishops. The manuscript dates from the late 14th century, with additions which extend into the 16th century. Davis has suggested that the work was probably begun during the...
Dates:
1380-1550.
Register of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, written, circa 1537, by John Lambert, prebendary of the Chapel.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.5
Scope and Contents
The register contains copies of papal bulls and other documents concerning the Chapel, dated from 1501 to 1537. The text is all in Lambert`s hand, except for folios 41-42, and there are large calligraphic initials. Each folio is signed by James Primrose, clerk to the Privy Council; this was probably done in 1621 when the Register and other documents of the Chapel Royal were put into his keeping for transfer to the Bishop of Dunblane (see ‘Register of the Privy Council...
Dates:
1501-1537.
'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.