Copies. Derivative objects.
Subject
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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.
Volume X of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'., [1836, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.2138
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Dates:
[1836, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'.
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Volumes I-X of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'.
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.
Volumes, each stamped 'Piobaireachd M.S.S.' on the upper board, written in the same hand about the end of the nineteenth century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22119-22120
Dates:
4th quarter of 19th century.
'Voyage to St. Kilda ... by M. Martin, Gent., 1697': a copy, made in the eighteenth century, of the beginning of Martin Martin's printed work, from which it appears to differ only in the date, the earliest known copy of the printed work being dated 1698., 1697.
Item
Identifier: MS.2975, folios 4-26
Dates:
1697.
"Warnings of the Camisars" being copies of sermons preached by Thomas Dutton, James Cuninghame of Barns, and other Quietists, in Edinburgh and elsewhere.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8592
Dates:
1707-1711.
Wet-press copy of a journal of Bandawe Mission Station kept by the Reverend Dr Robert Laws and (in his absence on furlough) by Dr William Scott and Dr David Kerr Cross., 1881, 1883-1887.
Item
Identifier: MS.7911
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Livingstonia Mission was founded in 1875 and directed for more than fifty years by the Reverend Dr Robert Laws.
Dates:
1881, 1883-1887.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
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Foreign mission records of the United Free Church of Scotland, incorporating records of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland.
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Foreign mission records of the Free Church of Scotland (after 1900, the United Free Church of Scotland).
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Correspondence and papers concerning the Livingstonia Mission of the Free Church of Scotland.
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Journals of Livingstonia Mission Stations of the Free Church of Scotland.
Work-book of John Shirley, Solicitor, containing his fair copy, written out in full, of his ‘History of Scottish Law’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.4
Dates:
1898, or after.
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.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Materials for works written or edited by Sir Walter Scott.
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Writings of Anna Seward, copied in her autograph and bequeathed by her to Sir Walter Scott.
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