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Volume consisting mostly of transcripts of medieval charters and other formal documents.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.23
Scope and Contents The transcripts are written on paper watermarked 1794.Most of the originals were written between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries and many were issued by the kings of Scotland and their relatives. Several documents relate to religious institutions: at folios 62-71 verso are transcripts of documents contained in the cartulary of Reading Abbey (British [Museum] Library Egerton MS 3031) relating to the priory of the Island of May. The volume, which is in the same hand...
Dates: ?12th century-?14th century.

Volume containing four items transcribed by Robert Mylne, the Antiquary, between the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.15
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) ‘The Staggering State of Scottish Statesmen’ by Sir John Scot of Scotstarvet, written about 1665 (folio 1).(ii) ‘The History of the Picts’, written by Henry Maule of Melgum sometime in the 17th century (folio 43).(iii) ‘The Genealogies of the Nobility of Scotland Present and Extinct`, by Sir James Dalrymple of Borthwick, undated and apparently unpublished (folio 65).(iv) `The Historie of the Kings...
Dates: 17th century.

Volume containing transcripts by Alexander Brown, Keeper of the Advocates’ Library, of some early Scottish charters, with a few other writings.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.4
Scope and Contents The volume appears to have been begun about 1780 and entries made until about 1787, but by far the greater part of the volume is blank. The contents are as follows:(i) transcript of instrument and protest of Sir Alexander Moray of Abercairnay, 7 December 1391 (page 1). Printed (from the original, then at Abercairney) in ‘Liber Insulae Missarum’, page xlix; see page xii.(ii) memorandum, 1781, concerning chapel in grounds of seat of Cockburn family at...
Dates: Before 1172-1781.

Volume entitled (folio i) `Miscellania [sic] Scotica Curiosa Or A Collection of Curious, rare, and valuable Paper`s: Relating to Scotland, and Scots Affaires. Collected and Coppied, from the Originalls. by C:R:S:` containing transcripts of Scottish historical documents, extracts of manuscripts and copies of correspondence, from various sources, 1419-1731, and undated.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.18
Scope and Contents The collection was compiled by Captain Robert Seton, Judge Advocate for Scotland, and consists of:(i) Copies of correspondence, 1566-1567, of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (folio 1) including two letters of Mary, Queen of Scots not recorded in Labanoff`s collection. The letters are similar to, but not the same as many of the letters in MS Calig CI from the Cottonian Library in the British Library: they may have been copied from the portion of the collection that was destroyed in the...
Dates: 1419-1731.

Volume, stamped on the spine `Papers relating to Cromwell and the Regicides`, containing materials assembled by George Chalmers.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.28
Scope and Contents The date is given on folio 34 verso. The papers consist of:(i) notes and extracts relating to the history of Great Britain in the mid 17th century, in particular notes of treaties with other countries, 1654, and their provisions (folio 1), extracts from the Books of the Privy Council, 1660 (folio 7) and notes and extracts concerning the Regicides 1660-1662 (folio 12); (ii) a chronological list, compiled apparently about the same time, of treaties between...
Dates: 1792.

Work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical (Adv.MS.34.1.8) and secular (Adv.MSS.34.1.9(i)-34.1.9(ii)) antiquities of Scotland.

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Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.1.8-34.1.9
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The work is in the same hand as, and was begun probably as the consequence to, Hay’s ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio` (Adv.MS.34.1.10) in 1700 (the date quoted on each title page) and completed in 1707 or later (Adv.MS.34.1.9(ii), folio 62).

Dates: 1700-1707, or after.