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Found in 3635 Collections and/or Records:

Volume containing copies of two accounts of the family of Dunbar.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.2
Scope and Contents (i) `A short account of the noble and ancient Family of Dunbar. Writen, A[?] 1744.` The writer deals with the origin of the family, the family of Dunbar and March descended from the Earls of Northumberland, the families of Dundas and Home, the Dunbars of Cumnock and Mochrum, the Dunbars Earls of Moray, the Dunbars of Westfield and their branches, and the armorial bearings of the Dunbars, and adds genealogical trees of the family of Dunbar and March, of the Earls of Home and Marchmont, and of...
Dates: 1554, 1744.

Volume containing copies, written on sheets watermarked 1798, of notes of events, and the sources in which they are recorded, in the reigns of the kings of Scotland from 1040 (the beginning of the reign of Macbeth) to 1570.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.7
Scope and Contents A page is accorded to each year, even when there is little or nothing recorded; but 1199 is followed by 1277 (the pagination is continuous) without any explanation for the gap being given. From 1537 several (from 1559, most) of the years are accorded more than one page. The manuscript appears to have written by James Chalmers for his uncle George Chalmers the antiquary, whose bookplate is pasted inside the front cover. The source is unidentified, but may have been notes compiled by Thomas...
Dates: 1798, or after.

Volume containing extracts (folio 1) made about 1794 (the date of the watermark of the leaves) from the topographical collections of Walter Macfarlane of that ilk, 1748-1749 (Adv.MS.35.3.12), followed by fragments (folio 63), being folios 109-112 and 127-144, of ‘The Geography of Moray`.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.20.1.13
Scope and Contents The items appear to have been collected for George Chalmers (a letter to whom, 1798, is at folio 17) as materials for his ‘Caledonia’, the first volume of which was published in 1807. The descriptions of parishes at folios 1-10, 11-16, 19-50 verso, are taken from Adv.MS.35.3.12(i), pages 81-90, 291-299 and 310-340 respectively, and at folios 50 verso-61 from Adv.MS.35.3.12(iii), pages 259-270. `The Geography of Moray` is unidentified; it appears to have been written in the latter half of the...
Dates: 1748-2nd half of 18th century.

Volume containing fair copies of poems in the hand of Margaret Loudoun., 1803-1809.

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Identifier: MS.23226
Scope and Contents

Margaret Loudoun's pencilled signature, dated 1809, is at folio i. (Some of the poems, at folios 28 verso and 42 verso, and possibly at folios 5 verso and 8, are addressed to her.) The poems, several of which are by (or a few, to) Francis Jeffrey are dated between 1793 and 1809: the leaves are watermarked 1803. A leaf has been cut out between folios 19 and 20.

Dates: 1803-1809.

Volume containing: (i) ‘An Essay on the Origine of the Royal Family of the Stewarts’ by Richard Augustine Hay (Edinburgh, 1722); (ii) ‘A Vindication of Elizabeth More from the Imputation of being a Concubine ...’ by Richard Augustine Hay (Edinburgh, 1723)., 1722-1723.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.9
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The volume contains George Paton’s signature and bookplate on the verso of the title page of (i), marginalia in another hand on pages 118-119 of (ii), and, on leaves bound in at the back of the volume, copies in his hand of most of Hay’s additions and corrections in his copy of (i) which he gave to Alexander McFarlane on 22 September (not April) 1725.

Dates: 1722-1723.

Volume containing inter alia translations or copies, 1706 or after, of treatises on maritime law, chancery styles, and Crown patrimony, an index to Stair’s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, and copies of Scottish patents, 16th and 17th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.2
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is in the hand of Robert Mylne, and his initials are recorded on the inside front cover. The latest document is dated 1706, and the manuscript was probably written soon after that date. On the flyleaf a contemporary hand has written `This Book Considering the Valuable Miscellanies therein cannot be sold under ten dollars at least [[ … ]] I.V.G.`

Dates: 16th century-1706.

Volume containing manuscript poems of Lord Byron and some letters of various correspondents; with a manuscript catalogue relating to manuscripts and correspondence of Lord Byron., ?1811-1831, undated.

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Identifier: MS.43341
Scope and Contents There are here two volumes. The first contains a number of manuscripts of the poetry of Byron, with some correspondence of and to Byron.The content has been listed in the order in which it appears in the volume. For poetical works, first lines are given in brackets after the title of the poem. The manuscripts are in the hand of Byron unless otherwise stated; pencil notes are in an unidentified hand.‘Lord Byron: Complete poetical works’, edited by...
Dates: ?1811-1831, undated.

Volume containing miscellaneous copies, in a 17th-century hand, of documents concerning the affairs of the Church of Scotland.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.11
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Scot`s Apologetical Narration`, the account by William Scott, minister of Cupar, of the affairs of the Church of Scotland from the Reformation to the meeting of parliament after the arrival of King Charles I in Edinburgh in 1633 (folio 1). The account was printed from an earlier, fuller, privately owned copy in ‘An apologetical narration of the state and government of the Kirk of Scotland since the Reformation …’, page 1. This...
Dates: 17th century.

Volume containing notes, copies and extracts from manuscripts and documents, together with a few extracts from printed books, collected between about 1709 (folio 15) and about 1717 (folio 230 verso), many of the entries, which include a number of genealogies, relating to persons, families and places in Fife.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.24
Scope and Contents A large number of the sources used were at the Advocates` Library, and of these many had previously been in the possession of Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms (for example, the charters (now in Adv.MSS.15.1.18 and 15.1.19) excerpted at folio 91, and what follows, and folio 263, and what follows, and the cartularies excerpted at folios 1-8, 22-33, 43-49 verso, 230 verso-274 verso), as had the manuscript (now British Library, Harl MS. 4693) once in his possession which is...
Dates: Circa 1709-circa 1717.

Volume entitled 'Claims of Paishwa and Scindea on Guicawar'., 1802, 1806-1808.

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Identifier: MS.13671
Scope and Contents The manuscript includes:(i) Contemporary copies of official correspondence, 1806-1808, chiefly between Francis Warden as Secretary to the Bombay Council and Alexander Walker (folio 1);(ii) Copies of official correspondence, August-December 1802, between Jonathan Duncan, Walker and Barry Close at Poona concerning the movements of Holkar's pindaris and Sindhia's threat to Gujarat (folio 67);(iii) Copies of official correspondence, August-December 1806 and...
Dates: 1802, 1806-1808.

Volume entitled (folio 2) `Memoirs of the Family of Rose of Kilravok`, being the epitome by Lachlan Shaw, minister of Elgin, of `A Genealogical Deduction of the Family of Rose of Kilravock`, by Hugh Rose, minister of Nairn.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.7
Scope and Contents

Rose`s work was first written in 1683-1684: Shaw`s epitome records also later members of the family until about 1756 (folio 69 verso), with a supplement until about 1772 (folio 83 verso). This copy appears to have been written for the antiquary William Rose in Montcoffer in the same hand as Adv.MS.32.6.8, and has a note inside the front cover, a contents list at folio 1 and a few textual additions in his hand.

Dates: 3rd quarter of 18th century.

Volume entitled 'Governor General’, containing copies of letters of Henry Dundas to Lord Cornwallis, and others., 1786-1799.

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Identifier: MS.3387
Scope and Contents

The volume contains copies of letters of Henry Dundas to Lord Cornwallis, 1786-1792 (page 1), Sir John Shore, 1793-1797 (page 238), and Lord Mornington, 1798-1799 (page 270).

The book was not kept up and the last letter is unfinished.

Dates: 1786-1799.

Volume entitled 'Notes on Climbing in and about Wasdale'., 1866-1891, undated.

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Identifier: MS.6345
Scope and Contents Inside the front cover of the volume are the words "this book is a facsimile of the Climbers' Book at Wasdale Head Hotel", with the signature 'R.W. Lloyd, November 1953' (folio i). It includes pages of ‘All the year round’, 1884, and ‘Chamber's Journal’, 1887, containing articles on climbs in the English Lake District, by C N Williamson, and on 'The Death-Roll of Snowdon' (folio 1); entries, 1866-1891, copied from the Wasdale Head book, describing the impressions of mountaineering visitors...
Dates: 1866-1891, undated.

Volume entitled 'Pirates, Cambay and Kattywar'., 1805-1808, [circa 1820].

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Identifier: MS.13675
Scope and Contents The manuscript includes:(i) Contemporary copies of official correspondence and memoranda, November 1807-January 1808, concerning the movement of naval vessels in joint operations against the Kathiawar pirates because of the threat to trade (folio 1);(ii) Contemporary copies of official correspondence and memoranda, July 1805-September 1806, concerning revenue matters in Cambay (folio 120);(iii) Official memoranda, July 1806, concerning the position of Sir...
Dates: 1805-1808, [circa 1820].

Volume entitled `Statuti della Mercanzia` (folio 1) containing a copy in a 17th-century hand of the statutes on trade enacted under Francesco de` Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, shortly after his accession in 1574.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.2.9
Scope and Contents

The text of the work, which is in three books, is preceded by an engraved title page (folio 1), lists of contents (folio 3) and an index of the most frequently occurring topics (folio 7), and is followed by additional statutes dated 1522-1523, 1526, 1528, 1613, and other material (folio 184).

Dates: 1522-1613.

Volume formerly containing charters collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne., 1627 or after-18th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.18 (1 of 2)
Scope and Contents

Copies of charters have been added: 4 in a seventeenth-century hand (folios 75-76), 4 by Thomas Ruddiman, 1705-1710 (folios 77-78), and 1 (incomplete) in an eighteenth-century hand (folio 78 verso).

Dates: 1627 or after-18th century.