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Copies. Derivative objects.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3635 Collections and/or Records:

Volume written in 1796 entitled `Copy Search of Charters, Diplomas, andc in favours of the Peers of Scotland containing the Charts of Dignities and Series of Heirs`.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.20
Scope and Contents The volume consists of a collection of copies and extracts of charters and other formal documents dating from the early 14th to the early 18th century from the Register of the Great Seal and the Records in Chancery (folio 2), an appendix concerning certain Scottish peerages (folio 63 verso), a list of the Parliaments of England and of Great Britain (folio 96 verso), names of Scots Representative Peers who sat in the House of Lords in the 18th century (folio 97 verso), and an index to the...
Dates: Early 14th century-18th century.

Volumes containing records of the Gray Library, Haddington., 1639-1885.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.16479-16482
Scope and Contents From the Series: The volumes consist of manuscripts compiled by John Gray, minister of Aberlady (who bequeathed his library and a sum of money to the town of Haddington) (MSS 16446-16467), other manuscript volumes written by Gray and by others, which were certainly or possibly in his possession (MSS 16468-16478), and volumes containing records of the Gray Library 1732-1885 (MSS.16479-16482).Printed labels identifying the volumes as manuscripts were pasted to the spines of most of them apparently...
Dates: 1639-1885.

Writings of Anna Seward, copied in her autograph and bequeathed by her to Sir Walter Scott., 1762-1768, 1804.

 File
Identifier: MS.879
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

Juvenile Letters, 1762-1768 (folio 1);

The remains of two volumes which originally contained Anna Seward's poems (folio 86), from which only the lists of contents (folios 86, 114) and copies of poems addressed to her by literary friends (folio 94) survive;

‘Last Lay of the Lichfield Minstrel’, 1804 (folio 117).

Dates: 1762-1768, 1804.

Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.3134-3185
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1552-19th century