Chronicles.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Histories in which events are described in chronological order. For records of events in yearly sequence but less connected or filled out by commentary or interpretation, use ""annals."".
Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:
Notebooks in a seventeenth-century hand, apparently compiled by the same person., 17th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3159-3160
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many of the papers are accompanied by transcripts or summaries by Alexander Macdonald.
Dates:
17th century.
Notes concerning, and transcripts of, chronicles and other material from various Welsh manuscripts made by William Forbes Skene.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.21
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Papers titled, 'Sir Gilbert Elliot's Memoranda and Notes - Political'., 1751-1770, 1896.
File
Identifier: MS.11032
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1751-1770, 1896.
Photostat of a short Scottish prose chronicle to 1482 entitled 'Heir is assignyt ye cause quhy oure natioun vas callyt fyrst ye Scottis'., [1482, or after]-circa 1500.
File
Identifier: MS.8494, folios 17-36
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
[1482, or after]-circa 1500.
'Roit or Quheill of Tyme', a chronicle of the Kings of Scotland, with a history of the world, from the Creation to the marriage of James V of Scotland in 1537, by Adam Abell., 16th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1746
Scope and Contents
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'.
Dates:
16th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts: part of a Gaelic grammatical treatise, a chronicle of the Kings of Scotland, and answers of John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, to certain interrogatories put to him concerning his negotiations with Spain for the marriage of Charles I.
Scottish Chronicles., 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.185
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...
Dates:
17th century.
Seventeenth century copy of Thomas Favent’s chronicle, 'Historia sive Narratio modo et forma mirabilis Parliamenti; Apud Westmonasterium Anno Domini 1386: Regni vero Regis Richardi Secundi post Conquestum Anno Decimo’, apparently written about 1390., Circa 1390.
Item
Identifier: MS.2703
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many of the manuscripts contain notes, indexes, etc., by George Neilson.
Dates:
Circa 1390.
'Short Cronography or description of the tymes of the Estate of the Church from the Birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ till Martin Luther', by Michael Dalton., 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.2680
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...
Dates:
17th century.
The Chronicle of Fortingall, a 16th-century manuscript written in Highland Perthshire, Scotland.
Item
Identifier: MS.50300
Scope and Contents
A manuscript of varied contents, written by a group of scribes in Fortingall, Perthshire, mostly in the third quarter of the 16th century. The volume chronicles deaths and other events mainly in Highland Perthshire and other Highlands areas, but it also occasionally includes events of national concern, such as those surrounding the forced abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots. The chronicle entries are mainly in Latin, sometimes with Scots words used instead Latin terms, but a number of...
Dates:
ca. 1550-1579
Transcript, 17th century, of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’, and other material.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.10
Scope and Contents
At the end of the Chronicon is this notice: ‘Hac est vera copia antiquæ chronicæ monasterii de Melros in Scotia inchoatæ per Abbatem de Dundranan ab anno 735 continuata per varios ad annum 1270. Autographum extat in bibliotheca domini Roberti Cotton militis apud Vestmonasterium.’At page 42 commences ‘Relationes quodam Arnaldi Blair monachi de Dunfermelein et capellani D Wilhelmi Wallace militis 1327’, written in the same hand with/as the preceding chronicle but without any notice...
Dates:
Late 13th century, 1327.
Transcript, 18th century, of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’, and other material.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.6
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:Transcript of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’: a copy of Adv.MS.33.3.25 (page 1);‘Addenda ex exemplari Anglico impresso’ (page 41);The ‘Relationes Arnaldi Blair’ copied from Adv.MS.35.6.10 (page 44);‘Addenda alia e chronico Melrosensi impresso’ (page 51);Copies of letters, 1563, of Queen Mary to the Council of Trent in Latin, and to the Cardinal of Lorrain and the Pope in Italian (page 65);...
Dates:
12th century-1683.
Transcript of Adv.MS.33.3.28: 'The descriptioun of Scotland with ane cronickill off the kings'.., Early 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.2718
Scope and Contents
In the course of transcription the text has been considerably altered.
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Transcripts, eighteenth century, of two chronicles and an epitaph., 1429-1527, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2780
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,...
Dates:
1429-1527, undated.