Chartularies.
Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:
Extracts and copies of historical works, collected by Sir James Balfour, 17th century.
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.
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.
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.
Microfilm of 13th century manuscript, Chartulary of Melrose Abbey.
Microfilm of manuscript produced between 1380 and 1550, the register of the Cathedral Church and Bishopric of Aberdeen.
Microfilm of Paisley chartulary and Papal Bull.
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).
Microfilm of psalters and chartulary, 13th-15th century, of Scottish religious houses; and, 'Lives of the bishops of Dunkeld' by Alexander Myln, 16th century.
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).
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.
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.
Papers of and concerning Robert Graham of Gartmore, R C Cunninghame Graham, and R B Cunninghame Graham.
Register of constitutions and other legal documents concerning the bishopric of Aberdeen, written in the 16th century and covering the 13th to 16th centuries.
Register of the bishopric of Dunblane, entitled 'Registrum capituli Dunblanensis', 1663-1688.
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.
Register of the Cathedral Church and Bishopric of Aberdeen, also known as the 'Registrum Album', written between 1380 and 1550.
Saint Andrews Priory. 'Registrum Chartarum Prioratus Sancti Andreae Impensis Walteri Macfarlane de Eodem Ex Apographo Transcriptum. MDCCLI', copied by Macfarlane's later copyist from a copy of the chartulary then at Panmure.
Scotsman Buildings Chartulary
Copies of title deeds, legal documents and fire insurance policies relating to buildings on North Bridge, Edinburgh, occupied by 'The Scotsman' newspaper.
Scottish chartularies and other works transcribed for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist in 1742 and 1746.
Scottish chartularies transcribed, 1738-1744, for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist.
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.
Transcript, eighteenth century, of ‘Chartularium Britannodunense sive collection veterum diplomatum Comitum Levenice Ab anno 1180 ad annum 1398’, in the handwriting of Walter Macfarlane’s copyist, with corrections in his own hand.
Transcript, written in 1528, of the chartulary of Crail Collegiate Church.
Transcripts, made for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, of four mediaeval manuscripts relating to the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, the originals of which were in the Advocates’ Library.
Transcripts (mostly abstracts or calendar entries) of the chartularies of "registra" of the monasteries of Scone, Inchcolm, Lindores, Coupar Angus and Balmerino.
Tip-ins include letter of C T McInnes, SRO, 1956, to Robert Maxtone Graham concerning this manuscript.
Transcripts written for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of documents extracted from the Glasgow cartularies and of some other writings.
These transcripts were written, on sheets watermarked 1796, for Hutton, whose signature dated 1797 is at folio ii (torn), and are followed (folio 95) by the contents list (described as an index) compiled by the copyist of British [Museum] Library Harl.MS.4631.