Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) 'Cronica de regibus et pontificibus Anglie', compiled by a Franciscan and based mainly on the works of Ralph de Diceto. It begins with a description of Britain and its marvels (cf. Diceto, ‘Opera Historica’, volume i, pages 30, 10-15), followed (folio 3 verso) by Diceto's 'De partitione provinciae', which is printed in Thomas Gale, ‘Historiae Britannicae ... scriptures XV’, volume i, pages 560-562. The first part of the chronicle (folio 4 verso) is...

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The manuscript, which is in different hands of the seventeenth century, wants pages 1-2, 15-16, and 21-26.

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According to a note (folio iv), dated 1823, by Luigi Maria Rezzi, Librarian of the Barberini Library, the transcript was made by him for Benjamin Heywood Bright.

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The text of the manuscript is the same as that of the printed book, excepting some small omissions and additions, and numerous variants in vocabulary, spelling, and word order.

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Six volumes bound in four.

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Six volumes bound in four.

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Six volumes bound in four.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Six volumes bound in four.

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The copy of the chronicles is followed (folio 115) by 'Digitus Dei or Gods [[judgement]] Justice upon Treacherie and Treason & c.', a polemic against the 1st Duke of Hamilton. The signature 'W.Sanders' dated 1697 is on folio 1.

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The work is preceded by a dedication to Robert Heywood, Governor of the Isle of Man, and 'The supposed true cronicle of the Isle of Mann, coppied out of the originall'. It is written on paper watermarked 1744.

Scope and Contents The manuscript contains the text up to the death of Edward III in 1377, substantially as printed by Friedrich W D Brie.The missing first folio of the original text has been supplied in a later hand. A gap in the text from the middle of cap. lxxiii to the middle of cap. lxxvi is the result of losses between folios 29 and 30. Cap. ci is followed by a section entitled, 'How kyng Cadwaladre that was Cadwaleynes sone regnede aftir his fader and was laste kyng of the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The collection consists largely of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century correspondence. The chief correspondents are the members of the family most active in public life, and their letters are on the whole more concerned with public than with personal affairs, though there is some discussion of family matters in the seventeenth-century letters. The most important and extensive correspondence is that of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, which dates from 1660 to 1697, and covers most of his...

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The book also contains parts of Dell's sermon given in MS.3160 (inside front and back covers), part of a sermon of 'Mr. George Hutchisone', probably the Minister of Irvine (folio xiii verso), a note of the date of a disposition and assignation made by Christine Rollo to George Cockburne of Piltoun, 1664 (folio ii), a medical recipe and other medical notes (folios ii-iii), mention of a star seen in daylight, 1649 (folio iv verso), a list of game dated 1614 (folio vi), and other material.

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Many of the papers are accompanied by transcripts or summaries by Alexander Macdonald.

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These comprise of bound papers, 1754-1770, with a list of contents by the Honourable George F S Elliot, 1896. The last item described in this list of contents, 'A Chronicle of political events - 1751-1763 - in Sir Gilbert Elliot's handwriting', is noted as not having been bound but inserted loose in the cover of the volume, and is now missing.

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In the original manuscript in the British Library (Royal MS.17.D.XX) the work forms a continuation of Wyntoun's Chronicle.

The chronicle is followed by a Scottish text, circa 1500, based on a fourteenth-century Latin original, of the supposed letter of Prester John to the Emperor Frederick I (folio 28). A typescript of the latter is also included (folio 32).

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On folio xvii verso is a poem, in a late 16th-century hand, on tobacco, beginning:

'Why should any man dispise so good, so holy ane exercyse'.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) ‘Ane Addition to the Chronicles of Scotland beginning ... 1436 and ... continued to the year 1564’, by Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie. From November 1563 to the end, the narrative is abbreviated as in the printed editions of Dalzell and Freebairn. See Æ J G Mackay’s edition (Scottish Text Society, 1899), volume ii, pages 179, 436 (page 1).(ii) ‘A Chronologicall Collection of severall Memorable Events in Scotland ... 1440 [to] 1617 May 17...

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Many of the manuscripts contain notes, indexes, etc., by George Neilson.

Scope and Contents The main work begins at folio 17. It is preceded by a summary (folio 1) entitled, 'The Contents of the severall Centuryes in this Booke concerning (especially) the state of the Roman Church and Empire, the decay of true Religion and rysing of the Papacy brieffely sett down and more fully shewed in the Booke following'. On folio 401 is a commentary on the Revelation of St John.At the end (folio 413) there is the beginning of another copy in the same hand. Throughout the complete...

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In the course of transcription the text has been considerably altered.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Verse chronicle, 1429-1496, of Georges Chastellain and Jean Molinet. See J A Buchon, 'Collection des chroniques nationales françaises’ (Paris, 1824-1828), volume xli, page xxxix, where a somewhat different version is given. (Page 1.)(ii) Verse chronicle, 1492-1527, of Nicaise Ladam. Apparently not the work listed by A Molinier, "Les Sources de l’histoire de France des origines aux guerres d'Italie (1494)" (Paris, 1901-1906), volume v,...