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Chartularies.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Registers, usually in volume form, of copies of charters, title deeds, and other documents of significance belonging to a person, family, or institution. (AAT) .

Found in 90 Collections and/or Records:

‘Collection of charters, evidents and antiquities collected by E. Hadinton, vol. I’., ?Early 17th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.1a
Scope and Contents From the Series:

There is no method preserved in the arrangement of the charters nor any index to the contents of the volumes but along the margins, especially of the first volume are notes in the hand of Sir James Balfour, which though imperfect are convenient.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.4.16.

Dates: ?Early 17th century.

‘Collection of charters, evidents and antiquities collected by E. Hadinton, vol. II’, ?Early 17th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.1b
Scope and Contents From the Series:

There is no method preserved in the arrangement of the charters nor any index to the contents of the volumes but along the margins, especially of the first volume are notes in the hand of Sir James Balfour, which though imperfect are convenient.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.4.16.

Dates: ?Early 17th century.

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.

Copies, 1796, of charters and other papers, 1st half of 16th century-1740, written for and partly by William Rose, in Montcoffer, the genealogist.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.9
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Copy of the lesser Aberdeen Cartulary, 1st half of 16th century, made from Adv.MS.34.4.4 (folio 1).(ii) Copy of charters concerning Banffshire (folio 69).(iii) Copy of the tax-rolls of Aberdeenshire for 1554 and 1613, the latter made from Adv.MS.49.7.19, folios 32-35 (folio 81).(iv) Copy of the rentals of Aberdeenshire for 1674 and 1740, made from Adv.MS.49.7.18 (folio 88).(v) Copy...
Dates: 1st half of 16th century-1740.

Early 16th-century transcript of selected parts of the chartulary of Lindores Abbey.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.1
Scope and Contents Chartulary produced in Scotland containing copies of royal, papal, episcopal, and other charters, as well as some grants of the abbey of Lindores.The work is written in a small cursive hand and was probably written in the early 16th century. According to Davis it certainly dates from after 1502. Dickson also suggests that the manuscript may have been written as late as the reign of James IV (d. 1513). The work contains 25 documents concerning the abbey of Lindores and...
Dates: Early 16th century.

Extracts, 1556, from chartularies of the Archbishopric of Glasgow which were deposited in the Scots College in Paris; followed by a short history, in Scots, of the Hamilton family entitled 'Frier Mark Hamiltonis historie'

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.5
Scope and Contents Manuscript of transcripts of the chartularies and original charters of the Archbishopric of Glasgow which were deposited in the Scots College in Paris. The material in the manuscript covers the 12th to the 16th centuries.The work is written in one hand and contains frequent additions, erasures, and corrections. The additions to the work, both in the margins and interlineal, are partly in Latin and partly in Scots.As well as charters, the volume contains extracts of...
Dates: 1556

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.

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.

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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.

General and East Lothian papers., 1541-1891, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14750-14756
Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates: 1541-1891, undated.

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.

Manuscript containing a register of documents relating to the Dominican Priory of Elgin and the Maison Dieu, copied from the chartulary of the see of Moray and certified mostly by David Douglas, notary public, in 1548.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.2
Scope and Contents A register of documents pertaining to the Dominican Priory of Elgin and the Maison Dieu, copied from the Chartulary of the see of Moray and certified mostly by David Douglas, notary public, in 1548. An introduction by John Leslie (1527-1596), later bishop of Ross, on f. 1v states the purpose and attests the transcription. This is written in a different hand from that of David Douglas, whose transumpts or transcriptions begin on folio 2r. His hand continues to folio 71r, where...
Dates: 1548.

Microfilm of Paisley chartulary and Papal Bull.

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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 psalters and chartulary, 13th-15th century, of Scottish religious houses; and, 'Lives of the bishops of Dunkeld' by Alexander Myln, 16th century.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.470
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Culross psalter, [circa 1470], made for Richard Marshall, Cistercian abbot of Culross (Adv.MS.18.8.11);

Aberdeen psalter and hours, 15th century (Adv.MS.18.8.14);

Ramsay psalter, late 13th century, written for use at Saint Omer (Adv.MS.18.8.8);

15th century manuscript, Chartulary of Scone Abbey (Adv.MS.34.3.28);

'Lives of the bishops of Dunkeld' by Alexander Myln, 16th century (Adv.MS.34.5.4).

Dates: 13th century-16th century.

Microfilm of transcripts, 1818, made for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, of copies of the cartularies of the abbeys of Dryburgh, 15th century, and Balmerino, [after 1331]., [After 1331], 15th century.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.149
Scope and Contents

The transcripts are of: a copy of the cartulary of the abbey of Dryburgh (folio 1); and a copy of the cartulary of the abbey of Balmerino (folio 320). The transcripts are in the same hand as Adv.MS.9A.1.1, folio 429 and after, and 9A.1.2, on paper watermarked 1818, and bound with endpapers watermarked 1818. The copies from which the transcripts were made were at Panmure at the time of transcription. Marginalia in pencil by Hutton on many of the leaves. Folios 289-318 are blank.

Dates: [After 1331], 15th century.

Miscellany of antiquarian papers compiled by Richard Augustine Hay in 1725-1726 and probably over a somewhat longer period, consisting for the most part of transcripts of royal, episcopal, baronial and other charters and other formal documents from the 12th to the 17th centuries, together with some extracts from medieval cartularies, and a few notes on contemporary published works.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.35.4.16-35.4.17
Scope and Contents

The papers are in some confusion and many others dispersed. Some (Adv.MS.25.9.10) were acquired by the Advocates` Library in 1881 as part of the Riddell Papers; and others (Acc.5022 and Acc.5694) were acquired by the National Library of Scotland in 1970 and 1972.

The purposes for which the papers were originally compiled and the circumstances of their dispersal are alike unknown.

Dates: 12th century-17th century.

Miscellany of antiquarian papers compiled by Richard Augustine Hay, volume 1., 12th century-17th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.4.16
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The papers are in some confusion and many others dispersed. Some (Adv.MS.25.9.10) were acquired by the Advocates` Library in 1881 as part of the Riddell Papers; and others (Acc.5022 and Acc.5694) were acquired by the National Library of Scotland in 1970 and 1972.

The purposes for which the papers were originally compiled and the circumstances of their dispersal are alike unknown.

Dates: 12th century-17th century.

Morton chartulary, a register of the writs of the Douglases of Lochleven, Earls of Morton., 14th century.

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Identifier: MS.72
Scope and Contents The chartulary contains some 300 charters, most of which are printed in 'Registrum Honoris de Morton' (Bannatyne Club, 1853), volume ii. At the date of that publication, the register, 'probably the oldest Chartulary of lay possessions in Scotland', consisted of two separate parts, one of which, written about the middle of the 14th century, contained 40 leaves of vellum, and the other, written somewhat later but before the end of the century, 91 written leaves of vellum. This later portion...
Dates: 14th century.

Morton chartulary and papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.72-84