Transcripts
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 501 Collections and/or Records:
3 letters to George Chalmers (from Joseph Ritson, Alexander Luders, and Christoph Friedrich Freudenreich) concerning the Bern manuscript of English and Scots laws, together with a calendar of the burgh laws and leges Scotie contained in it and a transcript of the memorandum on folio 61 verso.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.11A
Dates:
1802.
20 letters of William Lockhart to George Lockhart.
File
Identifier: Acc.5395
Scope and Contents
With transcripts, 20th century.
Dates:
1742-1756.
25 letters of Roderick Watson Kerr to George M Thomson.
File
Identifier: Acc.6831
Scope and Contents
Concerning the Porpoise Press.
With typescript copies annotated by Thomson.
Dates:
1925.
`A Description of the Islands belonging to the Crowne of Scotland taken from severall manuscripts, and the relations of thos that lived in them or frequented them`, written probably circa 1700.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.20
Scope and Contents
The volume begins with a brief general account of Scottish islands followed by detailed descriptions of the Western isles.
The fullest descriptions are of Mull, Iona, Harris and Lewis, Islay, Skye, Uist and in particular, St. Kilda (folios 21 verso, 26 verso, 27 verso).
Towards the end of the volume are transcripts of ‘Genealogies of the Chief Clans of the Isles’ (folio 34 verso) and `Descriptio Insularum Orchadiarum (folio 35).
Dates:
Circa 1700.
Aberdeen Franciscans. Transcript by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1813, of the Obit Book of the Observantine Greyfriars of Aberdeen, compiled between 1550 and 1560., 1550-1560.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.9A.1.14
Scope and Contents
The transcript is written on paper watermarked 1813 and bound with endpapers watermarked 1821.
Hutton`s description of the original manuscript is written on a leaf tipped in before the text (folio vii).
Dates:
1550-1560.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of quarto volumes of transcripts by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1st quarter of 19th century, of several of the surviving cartularies and other registers, and of some collections of charters and other deeds, of the medieval dioceses, churches and religious houses of Scotland, 1164-1639.
Abstracts and facsimiles of Scottish armorials by William Rae Macdonald, Albany Herald (1843-1923).
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.53.3.1-53.3.13
Dates:
16th century-1902.
Antiquarian collections of W T Johnston.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11781
Scope and Contents
Includes transcripts of letters and papers of eminent Scotsmen and other material relating to them. Files organised by subject.
Dates:
Late 20th century.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates:
?1825-1856.
Approximately 120 letters of Sir Walter Scott to Archibald Constable, with related correspondence and transcripts of seventy further Scott-Constable letters.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.145- is now Acc.4880.
Dates:
1800-1827.
Assorted papers concerning the Peninsular War, with transcripts of accounts relating to British military involvement in Portugal in 1762 and 1797., 1762, 1797, 1808-1814.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.3.5
Scope and Contents
The transcripts relating to British military involvement in Portugal concern the activities of Lieutenant-General George Townshend during the Spanish invasion of Portugal, 1762, and Colonel Sir Charles Stuart during the defence of Portugal, 1797.
Dates:
1762, 1797, 1808-1814.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War in which he served (except during 1812 when he was in Ireland) as quartermaster-general.
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Correspondence and associated papers of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War.
Autobiographical notes, transcribed diary and anecdote of James Wardrop.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.5653
Scope and Contents
With diary, 1841-1861, of his daughter, Shirley.
Dates:
circa 1855-1969.
Autograph manuscripts and typescripts of James Ramsay MacDonald entitled "Parliament and Revolution" and "India: Imprsessions and Opinions".
File
Identifier: Acc.11026
Dates:
circa 1910-1919.
Autograph manuscripts, with an incomplete transcript, of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.6.1-81.6.41
Scope and Contents
For each manuscript is given the chapter(s), with title(s) contained in it, and, in brackets, reference to volume and page of the Stair Society edition of the lectures.
Dates:
1786-1822.
Autograph transcripts of 15 of Hugh MacDiarmid`s poems.
File
Identifier: Acc.10095
Scope and Contents
Includes letter of MacDiarmid to W Gordon Smith concerning a recording of the poems.
Dates:
1962.
Calligraphic transcript, 7 August 1782, by John McOmie of the copy made by James Scott, minister of East church, Perth, of the charter granted 14 April 1498 to the Carthusian monastery, Perth, by James Stewart, Earl of Buchan (created 1469), of his garden or orchard without the Spey (folio 4).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.7
Scope and Contents
The main transcript is preceded by transcripts by McOmie of Scott`s account of the circumstances of the donation (folio 1) and Scott`s presentation note, 19 July 1782, to David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan (succeeded 1767) (folio ii).
Dates:
1498.
Cartularies of the Sligo family of Inzievar and Carmyle
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14134/1-8
Dates:
1874-1992.
Chartularies of Inchcolm Abbey and of Scone Abbey transcribed for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane., 14th century-16th century, 1700-1707, or after.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.2.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) `Registrum Coenobii Inch-colm: Impensis Walteri McFarlan De Eodem In ipsius usum transcripturn. 1739` (folio 1), copied from the originals belonging to the Earl of Moray (Moray Charters, 42.3, 1420, and 42.4, 1423; ‘Medieval Cartularies’, numbers 1158-1159), with a few additional documents also from the Moray Charters (cf. ‘Charters of the Abbey of Inchcolm’, page vii) (folio 25), extracts from Hay on Inchcolm, 1700-1707, or after...
Dates:
14th century-16th century, 1700-1707, or after.
Chartularies of the bishopric of Moray transcribed for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane., Late 13th century-16th century, 1700-1707, or after.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.5(I)-(II)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The wording and ornament of the title pages suggest a division into three groups:
(i) Adv.MSS.35.2.5, 35.3.6, 35.3.7, 35.39: 1738-1739.
(ii) Adv.MSS.35.3.2, 35.3.4: 1740.
(iii) Adv.MSS.35.3.3, 35.3.5, 35.3.8: 1740-1744.
The sources are mainly the original manuscripts then in the Advocates` Library, with notes taken from Richard Augustine Hay`s works. Only those documents the present location of whose originals is unknown are indexed in detail.
Dates:
Late 13th century-16th century, 1700-1707, or after.
Chartulary of Dryburgh Abbey and a selection of deeds of Coldingham priory transcribed for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane., 15th century, 16th century, 1700-1707, or after.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.8
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Registrum Coenobii de Dryburgh Impensis Walteri MacFarlan de Eodem Transcriptum, Anno MDCCXL` (folio 1), copied from Adv.MS.34.4.7, 15th century, with an extract from Hay on Dryburgh, 1700-1707, or after (folio 127 verso; from Adv.MS.34.1.8, pages 301-302) and a list of the charters (folio 129).(ii) ‘Chartae Prioratus de Coldingham Impensis Walteri MacFarlan de Eodem Transcriptae Anno MDCCXLIV` (folio 135), a...
Dates:
15th century, 16th century, 1700-1707, or after.
Collection of notes, copies and extracts, made by and for Dennistoun, of manuscripts of Scottish or British interest contained in several of the major libraries of Italy and Germany., 1836-1851.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.26
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates:
1836-1851.
Collection of quarto volumes of transcripts by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1st quarter of 19th century, of several of the surviving cartularies and other registers, and of some collections of charters and other deeds, of the medieval dioceses, churches and religious houses of Scotland, 1164-1639.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.9A.1.1-9A.1.20
Scope and Contents
Many of the transcripts are undated: apart from those in Adv.MS.9A.1.17, which were made in 1800, few appear from the watermarks in the leaves to have been made before 1813. From the watermarks of the endpapers the volumes appear to have been bound about 1818 or later.Several of the transcripts were made from original manuscripts or eighteenth-century copies then in possession of the Honourable William Maule of Panmure, who was created Baron Panmure in 1831: others were made from...
Dates:
1164-1639.
Composite volume consisting of two unrelated and formerly separate collections of transcripts made probably at the same time as each other by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.17
Scope and Contents
The first collection (folios 1-44) consists of extracts, together with footnotes and other editorial additions, copied from ‘Anglia Sacra’: `Chronicon cœnobii Sanctæ Crucis Edinburgensis’ (page 152), `Gaufridi sacristæ de Coldingham Historia de statu Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis’ (page 178) and `Genealogia Roberti Stewarde’ (page 686).The second collection (folios 45-96) consists of transcripts, made in 1801 and 1802, of a number of 16th-century documents in the possession of Walter...
Dates:
16th century, 1691.
Composite volume made up in or about 1819 (the date of the watermark of the binder`s blanks) from five folio notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.13
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Extracts, 1797, in the hand of the chief clerk, Robert Lemon, from the `Rotuli Scotiae` kept in the Tower of London (cf. folio 282). The extracts relate to the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. The manuscripts were published, in two volumes, in 1814 and 1819. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies by Hutton of charters of Newbattle Abbey (folio 32). The source is unidentified: they are in a different order from those of the cartulary...
Dates:
?1789-?1797.
Copies by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of manuscripts and documents of and relating to people and places in Aberdeen., Late 12th century-1567.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.3.2
Scope and Contents
The volume consists of:(i) copies on sheets watermarked between 1818 and 1824 of ‘Necrologia Ecclesie Cathedralis Aberdonensis’, which had been presented to the library of King`s College, Aberdeen in 1727. The original is briefly described (volume i, page lxxi) and extracts printed in ‘Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis’, 2 volumes, edited by C Innes (Spalding and Maitland Clubs, 1845) (folio 1); (ii) copy, circa 1821, of the foundation charter of the Franciscan...
Dates:
Late 12th century-1567.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Hutton transcripts. A collection of transcripts of the cartularies of Aberdeen Cathedral (Adv.MS.20.3.1) and Newbattle Abbey (Adv.MS.20.3.3) and of charters and other formal documents, many of which are extracts from other cartularies, of and concerning several of the medieval dioceses and religious houses of Scotland.
Copies made by the Reverend James Scott, probably between 1774 and 1788, of the Perth registers of marriages, baptisms and deaths, 1560-1582, supplemented by material taken from other records for dates thereafter., 1560-1671.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.1.4-31.1.6
Scope and Contents
The supplementary material is taken from `The Chronicle of Perth` (Adv.MS.35.4.4 and see Adv.MS.31.1.3), another small chronicle which had belonged to `Patrick Dundee, merchant in Perth in the beginning of the last century` and from the Kirk Session records of Perth (see Adv.MSS.13.1.3-13.1.4 and 31.1.1-31.1.1A).According to Scott`s preface to Adv.MS.31.1.4, prominent families with houses in or near the town at that time who feature in the records included Stewart Earl of Atholl,...
Dates:
1560-1671.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Transcripts, 1774-?1788, of ecclesiastical records of Perth, 1560-1668, made by the Reverend James Scott, minister of the East Church, Perth, and a copy in his possession, 1784, of the ‘History of the united Parishes of Monivaird and Strowan’ compiled, circa 1774, by James Porteous of Dalvich, Minister of Monzievaird and Strowan.