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Fair copy 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.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)-(iii)
Scope and Contents

The copy was probably begun in 1696 (the date quoted on the title page) and not completed until 1701 or later (34.1.10(iii), folio 294 verso), made apparently by a copyist from the transcripts made by Hay when he was in Scotland between 1686 and 1689.

Dates: 1686-1689.

Fair copy 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., 1686-1689.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)
Scope and Contents The volume contains transcripts of documents from various sources, including: the cartulary of St Mary`s Abbey, Newbattle (Adv.MS.34.4.13), in a different arrangement (folio 15); charters of Holyroodhouse, apparently from an unknown source (folio 152); these transcripts were used in ‘Liber Cartarum Sancte Crucis’, those at folios 154 verso-162 verso being printed (in a different order) at pages xvi-xli (passim) of the preface. Some (folios 158-159) are also printed in...
Dates: 1686-1689.

Fair copy 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 2., 1686-1689.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.10(ii)
Scope and Contents

The volume contains transcripts of the cartulary of the Abbey of St Thomas the Martyr, Arbroath (Adv.MS.34.4.2), in a different arrangement (folio 17); a Calendar of Saints` days observed in Scotland before the Reformation (folio 267), and a list of feasts formerly held in Scotland (folio 286 verso).

Dates: 1686-1689.

Four music part-books (1st, 2nd violins, viola and cello).

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.10303
Scope and Contents

Includes Alberto Gallo, "Twelve Sinfonie or Sonatas" and Johan Joachim Agrell, "Six Sonatas" (both London, undated) and transcripts, circa 1770, of 19 chamber music works of, or attributed to, Thomas Alexander Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie.

Dates: circa 1770 and undated.

Fragments of at least 7 and perhaps 8 manuscripts on medicine and astrology, some, if not all, English.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.11A-H; (former binding)
Scope and Contents

A and E may be in the same hand and from the same manuscript.

Dates: 14th century-15th century.

‘Geographical Collections relating to Scotland containing particular Description of Shires, Parishes, Burroughs etc in that Kingdom’, of Walter Macfarlane, 1748-1749, volume 2., Circa 1640-1700.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.12(ii)
Scope and Contents

The volume is for the most part a transcript of material contained in ‘Topographical Notices of Scotland’ by Sir Robert Sibbald, Adv.MS.34.2.8, circa 1640-1700, with the additional descriptions from Adv.MS.31.6.19, ‘Provincial Edinburgenae Descriptio’ and ‘Edinburgi Descriptio’ by David Buchanan, circa 1648.

Dates: Circa 1640-1700.

‘Geographical Collections relating to Scotland containing particular Description of Shires, Parishes, Burroughs etc in that Kingdom’, of Walter Macfarlane, 1748-1749, volume 3., 1549, circa 1682.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.12(iii)
Scope and Contents

The volume is a copy of the ‘Collection of Papers and informations’ of Sir Robert Sibbald, Adv.MS.33.5.15, circa 1682, with copies of accounts by Donald Monro, Dean of the Isles and of ‘Description of Orkney’.

Dates: 1549, circa 1682.

`History of the most noble and illustrious family of the Frasers, particularly of the illustrious family of Lovat Chief and head of that numerous Clan`.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.13
Scope and Contents

The manuscript was intended for publication in London, 1749. No author is given.

At the back of the volume are transcripts of `Original papers relating to the foregoing Memoirs` I-XIII, with a brief account of the family of Fraser of Fruid.

Dates: 1749, or before.

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.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.3.1-20.3.9
Scope and Contents

Most of these transcripts and extracts, which were made between circa 1794 and circa 1824, are in the hand of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton: most of the rest are in the same hand as Adv.MS.9A.1.4. Many of the transcripts were made from originals and copies in possession of William Maule of Panmure, who was created Baron Panmure in 1831: many of the rest were copied from documents in possession of Thomas Thomson and at the Scottish Record Office, General Register House.

Dates: 12th century-1661.

Indexes and transcripts by Robert Mylne, the antiquary.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.9
Scope and Contents Mylne`s pagination and the size of paper show that the volume is composed of seven separate parts: section (i), section (ii), section (iii), sections (iv) and (v), section (vi), sections (vii)-(xiii), section (xiv). None are exactly dated, but (v) must be later than 1705, (xiv) later than 1700; and probably all were compiled in the early 18th century.The contents are as follows:(i) `Ane Alphabeticall Index [A-C only] To the Book of Collections of Notes of Charters...
Dates: Early 18th century.

Inscribed copy of Jessie Cormack, "The Spell".

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Identifier: Acc.9282
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with additional poems in typescript.

Dates: 1961.

John Riddell s copy of ‘Genealogical History of the Stewarts’ by Andrew Stuart (London, 1798), bearing a number of corrections and marginal notes in his hand., 1798, 1854.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.13
Scope and Contents

A letter, 1854, of the 24th Earl of Crawford to Riddell is tipped in before page v and a transcript of a charter of Edward I to James, Seneschal of Scotland, is tipped in before page 17.

Dates: 1798, 1854.