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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:

Register of constitutions and other legal documents concerning the bishopric of Aberdeen, written in the 16th century and covering the 13th to 16th centuries.

 Item
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 bishopric of Dunblane, entitled 'Registrum capituli Dunblanensis', 1663-1688.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.8
Scope and Contents

The volume contains records of the bishopric from 15 January 1663 to 14 August 1688.

Paginated [1]-235 by a contemporary hand, with page 225 repeated in pagination. Written by several different hands, with a noticeable change of hands on page 174. According to a note by the donor on folio iii verso, the main scribe of the volume was John Graham, commissary clerk and clerk of the Chapter of Dunblane.

Dates: 1663-1688.

Register of the Cathedral Church and Bishopric of Aberdeen, also known as the 'Registrum Album', written between 1380 and 1550.

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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.

`Registrum Coenobii Arbrothensis: Impensis Walteri McFarlan De Eodem, Transcriptum. 1740`., 14th century, 1700-1707, or after.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.2
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is copied from Adv.MS.34.4.2, 14th century, with extracts from Hay on Arbroath, 1700-1707, or after (page 331; from Adv.MSS.34.1.8, page 191, and 34.1.10(ii), pages 434-498) and Fyvie (page 408; from Adv.MS.34.1.8, page 386), and a list of the charters (page 409).

Dates: 14th century, 1700-1707, or after.

`Registrum Coenobii de Cambus-Kenneth: Impensis Walteri McFarlan de Eodem In ipsius usum transcriptum MDCCXXXVIII`., 1535, 1700-1707, or after.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.7
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is copied from Adv.MS.34.1.2, 1535 (the list of the charters is trans¬ferred to the end), with extracts from Hay on Cambuskenneth, 1700-1707, or after (page 313; from Adv.MS.34.1.8, pages 511-516) and from ‘Collections concerning the Scottish History’, pages 264-265 (page 319), and a rental of the abbey in 1561 (page 321; `Ex MS[??] penes T[homam] C[alderwood] de P[olton] Jurisconsultum`). The rental is in Macfarlane’s own hand.

Dates: 1535, 1700-1707, or after.

‘Registrum Coenobii de Dunfermline: Impensis Walteri Macfarlan de Eodem In ipsius usum transcriptum. MDCCXXXVIII`., 13th century-16th century, 1700-1707, or after.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.9
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is copied from Adv.MS.34.1.3A, 13th century-16th century (the index on folios 11-15 is placed after the first section), with an extract from Hay on Dunfermline, 1700-1707, or after (page 784; from Adv.MS.34.1.8, pages 323-338), an additional note by Macfarlane himself (page 804), and a list of the charters (page 805).

Dates: 13th century-16th century, 1700-1707, or after.

`Registrum Coenobii Kalsonensis: Impensis Walteri Macfarlan de Eodem In ipsius usum transcriptum MDCCXXXVIII`., 14th century, 1700-1707, or after.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.6
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is copied from Adv.MS.34.5.1, 14th century (the medical treatise on folios 213 verso-215 is placed after the chartulary, the defaced last leaves of which are not completely transcribed; the rental on folios 1-6 is transferred to the end), with extracts from Hay on Kelso, 1700-1707, or after (page 489; from Adv.MS.34.1.8, pages 500-504) and Lesmahagow (page 495; from Adv.MS.34.1.8, pages 509-510), and a list of the charters (page 497).

Dates: 14th century, 1700-1707, or after.

`Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis: Impensis Walteri Macfarlan De Eodem Transcriptum. 1740`., Late 14th century-16th century, 1700-1707, or after.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.4
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is copied from Adv.MSS.16.1.10, late 14th century-16th century (page 1), and 34.4.4, 1st half of 16th century (page 505; documents already tran¬scribed from Adv.MS.16.1.10 are omitted), with an extract from Hay, 1700-1707, or after, on the see of Aberdeen (page 593; from Adv.MS.34.1.8, pages 159-90) and a list of the charters (page 625).

Dates: Late 14th century-16th century, 1700-1707, or after.

`Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis Impensis Walteri MacFarlan De Eodem Transcriptum Anno MDCCXLII Volumen I`., Late 13th century-16th century, 1700-1707, or after.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.5(I)
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is copied from Adv.MS.34.4.10, late 13th century-16th century, with an extract from Hay on the see of Moray, 1700-1707, or after (page 548a; from Adv.MS.34.1.8, pages 559-566).

Dates: Late 13th century-16th century, 1700-1707, or after.

`Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis Impensis Walteri MacFarlan De Eodem Transcriptum Anno MDCCXLIIl Volumen Il`., 16th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.5(II)
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is copied from Adv.MS.34.4.9, 16th century, folios 117-154, 92-116, 155-321, with a copy of the rental of the see of Moray in 1565 (page 1085, from Adv.MS.34.5.2, folios 2-39), and a list of the charters (page 1125). The rental is in another hand.

Dates: 16th century.

Scotsman Buildings Chartulary

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13823
Content Description

Copies of title deeds, legal documents and fire insurance policies relating to buildings on North Bridge, Edinburgh, occupied by 'The Scotsman' newspaper.

Dates: 1898-1903.

Scottish chartularies and other works transcribed for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist in 1742 and 1746.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.13
Scope and Contents The sources are mainly the original manuscripts then in the Advocates` Library. Only those documents not known from other sources are indexed in detail. The contents are as follows:(i) `Registra Coenobiorum de Melrose et Balmerino Impensis Walteri McFarlan de eodem Transcripta Anno MDCCXLII`, copied from Adv.MSS.34.4.11, late 13th century (folio 1), and 34.5.3, 14th century (folio 67), with extracts from Richard Augustine Hay on Melrose, 1700-1707, or after (folio 54; from...
Dates: Late 13th century-1707, or after.

Scottish chartularies transcribed, 1738-1744, for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.35.2.5-35.3.9
Scope and Contents

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: 13th century-1707, or after.

Transcript by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1815, of the cartulary of the Dominican priory of St Andrews, 13th century-14th century., 13th century-14th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.9A.1.3
Scope and Contents

The transcript was made from the original which was then at Panmure. A few textual losses are supplied by Hutton from "the other copy", presumably that known as the `Magnum Registrum’. A bifolium containing a few excerpts by John Stuart, formerly loosely enclosed, is at Adv.MS.9A.1.20, folio 1. The volume is bound with endpapers watermarked 1818.

Dates: 13th century-14th century.

Transcript by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1824, of the late 15th-16th-century cartulary of the cathedral of Aberdeen known as ‘Registrum Capellanorum Chori’ (‘Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain’, number 1112), which is kept at Aberdeen University Library., Late 15th century-16th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.20.3.1
Scope and Contents The transcript is followed by: (i) copies by Hutton on leaves watermarked 1818 and 1819 of various leaves of the cartulary (folios 475, 519); (ii) Hutton’s transcript on leaves watermarked 1818 of the Inventory of the cathedral, 1549, which is printed in ‘Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis’, volume i, pages 179-199 (folio 487); (iii) transcripts (one in another hand) of two charters, 1492, 1499, of William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen (folio 521);...
Dates: Late 15th century-16th century.

Transcript made for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1813-1816, of two cartularies of the Diocese of Glasgow, 13th century-15th century., 13th century-15th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.9A.1.2
Scope and Contents The transcript, in an unidentified hand, is of the second part of the copy (in two volumes) made for and sent to Glasgow University Library in 1766 by the Scots College, Paris, containing full copies of John Dillon`s copy of the cartulary of the diocese of Glasgow, known as the `Registrum Vetus`, 13th century-15th century, preceded by a calendar transcribed from an unidentified source; of Dillon`s copy of the cartulary of the diocese, known as the `Liber Ruber`, early 15th century-1476; and...
Dates: 13th century-15th century.