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Found in 3635 Collections and/or Records:
Chartulary of the Hospital of the Holy Trinity at Soutra, written in 1399 by William de Cranstoun, notary public.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.1
Scope and Contents
The charters, which are not in chronological order, cover the period 1162-circa 1330. They are followed by a copy of Cranstoun`s notarial instrument concerning the making of the chartulary (folio 25) and copies of two charters of 1426 and 1440 in different hands (folio 26 verso).
Some of the initials have simple penwork decoration by the scribe, whose notarial sign is also given (folio 25 verso).
Dates:
1162-circa 1330.
Chiefly original correspondence, May 1809-January 1810, concerning the Kutch expedition, chiefly concerned with commissariat matters., 1809-1810.
File
Identifier: MS.13706
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates:
1809-1810.
Christmas cards of Naomi Mitchison, with woodcuts of Gertrude Hermes and others.
File
Identifier: Acc.4845
Scope and Contents
With typescript and copy of memorandums on National Parks, Highland education and museums of Mitchison.
Dates:
circa 1940-circa 1969.
`Chronicle of Perth`, 1210-1668, also known as Mercer`s Chronicle and Fleming`s Chronicle, with other documents relating to the burgh of Perth.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.4.4
Scope and Contents
The `Chronicle` was compiled probably between 1600 and 1668 by more than one person. Though attributed to John Mercer, town clerk of Perth, only the latter part appears to be his work. From 1660 it is almost entirely a register of burials.
Other items in the volume are a fragment of a legal memorial, circa 1597, concerning the foundation of the King James VI Hospital in Perth (folio 1), and a group of letters concerning Royal Burgh affairs (1614-1628), all copies (folio 20).
Dates:
?1600-1688.
Chronicle of the Civil War in Scotland, being largely a copy of the work later printed as 'The Memoirs of Henry Guthrie', 1638-1649.
Item
Identifier: MS.3468
Scope and Contents
The manuscript, which is in different hands of the seventeenth century, wants pages 1-2, 15-16, and 21-26.
Dates:
1638-1649.
"Cinquant [sic] Octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, dediez a tresillustre seigneur le conte de Shrewsbury, pour ses estrennes l'an 1607", being a calligraphic copy of the verses by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu, first published anonymously in ‘Les Cantigues du Seigneur de Maisonfleur’.
Item
Identifier: MS.25240
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in a variety of calligraphic hands and is decorated throughout with paintings of flowers, birds and insects. The pages containing Octonaires XVII, XXXI and XXXVIII are missing.The original title page and the dedication to the Earl of Shrewsbury have been cut out and pasted onto the verso of folio i and the inside of the front cover respectively.There are a number of later drawings and notes, including records of births of members...
Dates:
[1586, or before]-19th century.
Circa 100 letters to, and copies of letters of, John Soutar concerning the publication of the works of William Soutar; with an inventory of the library of William Soutar.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7105/1-3
Scope and Contents
Papers of John Soutar, father of the poet William Soutar (1898-1943).
This accession mostly contains letters concerning the publication of William Soutar's works following his death. They are particularly concerned with the editorship of the 'Collected Poems', edited by CM Grieve (London: A Dakers, 1948), and 'Diaries of a
Dying Man', edited by Alexander Scott (Edinburgh: W and R Chambers, 1954).
Dates:
1943-1956.
Cistercian rules, copied by Alexander Scot, monk of the Cistercian Abbey of Newbattle.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.1
Scope and Contents
(i) 'Liber antiquarum definitionum', i-iv, omitting ii.1-2 ('Nomasticon Cisterciense', pages 367-400). Section i is the 'Carta caritatis', the original rule of the order (folio 1).(ii) 'Constitutio Benedicti Papae XII' ('Nomasticon Cisterciense', pages 473-495; different numbering of chapters), with an index prefixed (folio 19).(iii) 'Liber antiquarum definitionum', ii.1-2, iii-xiii, omitting iii.2 and xii.1 ('Nomasticon Cisterciense', pages 376-378, 395-457) (folio...
Dates:
1523.
Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, part 1., 1761-1822, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.22
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The collections is supplemented by a large number of finished drawings (some in colour), a few maps, and some architectural plans and elevations, professionally drawn for Hutton by others, or done as favours by some of his correspondents, together with a number of separately acquired prints, and engraved views cut out from contemporary printed booksThe collection, which was previously bound in two large volumes, was subsequently dismounted and the items individually attached to...
Dates:
1761-1822, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks and sketchbooks compiled by, and architectural plans and drawings made by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton in his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
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Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton; with original binding.
Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, part 1, box 1., 1789-[circa 1820], undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.22 (1 of 7), numbers 1a-7h
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Aberdeen
(1a) Drawing, undated, probably a prospect of Aberdeen.
(1b) Engraving, 1812, ‘Plan of the city and harbour of Aberdeen. and improvements.’, from a copy of the ‘History of Aberdeen’, by Walter Thom, volume 1, preceding the title page.
(2a) Drawing, 1815, annotated “Aberdeen [St Machar’s] Cath[edra]l. S. E. view, from a sketch by Mr G. Smith”.
(2b) Drawing, 1815, annotated “Aberdeen [St Machar’s] Cathedral – West View – From a sketch by Mr. G....
Dates:
1789-[circa 1820], undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks and sketchbooks compiled by, and architectural plans and drawings made by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton in his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
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Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton; with original binding.
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Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, part 1.
Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, part 1, box 3., 1761-1820.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.22 (3 of 7), numbers 17a-22b
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Angus
(17a) Drawing, ‘Restennet [i.e Restenneth] Priory, south view, 1785’. Reproduced in ‘The antiquities of Scotland’ by Francis Grose, volume 2, facing page 263. For a rough sketch of this view see (17e verso).
(17b) Sketch ‘Restennet [i.e Restenneth] Priory, south west view, Oct. 12 1820.’
(17c) Sketch, ‘[Interior of] Restennet, Priory looking east, 18 Sept. 1814.’
(17d) Sketch, ‘Restennet [i.e Restenneth] Priory – S.W. view, 17th Septr. 1814.’
(17e recto)...
Dates:
1761-1820.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks and sketchbooks compiled by, and architectural plans and drawings made by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton in his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
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Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton; with original binding.
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Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, part 1.
'Collection of Ancient Piobaireachd Music, arranged by D.S. Macdonald, Pipe Major, First Battn. the Royal Scots', Edinburgh., 1882.
File
Identifier: MS.3110
Scope and Contents
This collection is apparently as prepared for publication, and has at the beginning instructions for blowing and keeping the pipes in order, and various exercises on piobaireachd. It contains 64 tunes, among them two which are not from Angus Mackay's manuscripts.
Dates:
1882.
`Collection of armorial bearings, inscriptions, etc.` made by Alexander Deuchar.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.7.1A-B
Dates:
1812-1841.
`Collection of armorial bearings, inscriptions, etc.` made by Alexander Deuchar, volume 1., 1812-1841.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.7.1A
Scope and Contents
The volume consists of notes on, and sketches of arms, mostly taken from churchyards in Edinburgh and elsewhere in Scotland, with a few copied from seals. They are followed by a list of clans and their badges (page 495), a list of chartularies and related material in the Advocates` and other libraries (page 501), and an index (page 521).
Dates:
1812-1841.
Collection of copies of letters and papers concerning the formation of the Irish Treasury Board and the procedures to be adopted by it, with notes on the procedures of the British Treasury.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.4.1.2, vols. I-II
Scope and Contents
The volumes have the book-plate of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, and, as he was secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1794-1795, were presumably compiled on his instructions.
Dates:
1793-1794.
Collection of "day-books" containing copies of letters, routes, instructions and memoranda by General Sir George Murray and by members of his staff., 1809-1814.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.46.5.6-46.5.16
Scope and Contents
Many of the letters are merely summarized. Most of those written during Murray’s absence in 1812-1813 (Adv.MS.46.5.12-46.5.14) are addressed to the commissary general.
Dates:
1809-1814.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War in which he served (except during 1812 when he was in Ireland) as quartermaster-general.
Collection of epigrams, songs, copies of letters and documents, etc., relating to current events in France., 1712-1730.
File
Identifier: MS.160
Dates:
1712-1730.
‘Collection of epitaphs and inscriptions out of the counties of Hampshire (Isle of Wight), Hertfordshire, Essex, Cambridgeshire, as copied literally from tomb & other stones by Russell Skinner'.
File
Identifier: MS.3000
Scope and Contents
Only Hertfordshire inscriptions are given, but the index of first lines (folio i) refers to those in other counties.
Dates:
19th century.
Collection of genealogical material on various Scottish families and items of historical interest copied by Robert Mylne, the antiquary, in the late 17th or early 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘The Portrait of True Loyalty exposed in the Family of Gordon, without interruption to this present year 1691. With a Relationof the Castle of Edr. in the year 1689’ (folio 1), which is attributed to David Burnet, a Catholic Priest. The original manuscript, which was in Blairs College, Aberdeen (‘The House of Gordon’, page xxxvi), is at the Scottish Catholic Archives, Columba House, Edinburgh, where it has the...
Dates:
1554-1720.
Collection of leaves of John Riddell, stitched together to form a notebook., Circa 1818.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.6.12
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The extracts are taken mainly from the public records of Scotland (Registers of the Great Seal and the Privy Seal, and the Acts of the Lords of Council and of Parliament), from Justiciary and Commissary Court Records, and from Burgh Records of various towns, with some from charter chests and other records in private hands, and range from the 14th to the 18th century. The contents, which in some notebooks are very miscellaneous, have not been indexed. Most of the notebooks are...
Dates:
Circa 1818.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Notebooks from the Riddell Collection.
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Small notebooks from the Riddell Collection, containing extracts and some notes, written for the most part in connexion with peerage cases on which John Riddell was engaged.
Collection of manuscripts, apparently belonging to William Edmondstoune Aytoun., 1653-1746.
File
Identifier: MS.4932
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Contemporary copy of a 'Report of the committee from the commissioners of Shyres, 20 July 1653', concerning shire valuation and taxation in Scotland. (Folio 1.)(ii) Manuscript of the first part of 'A journall of the siege and the taking of Buda, begun in June in the year 1686' (folio 2). To this is added a transcript in William Edmondstoune Aytoun's hand, apparently of the whole manuscript, in which he inaccurately dates the siege 1684,...
Dates:
1653-1746.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Letters and papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, which, on his death, came into the hands of John Blackwood as his executor.
Collection of notarial papers compiled by James Dennistoun for a projected history of Dumbartonshire., 1471-1547.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.23
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of (i) notarial entries 1471-1477 relating to Dumbartonshire (notary and place unidentified) (folio 1). The name John Kyd (?) is at folio 11 verso; folio 1 is stuck to folio 2 and folios 11-12 appear to be wrongly folded; (ii) copies by Walter Watson, notary, keeper of the protocol books, of documents dated Dunbarton 1449, 1507-1511, 1526 and 1547 (not in chronological order) (folio 20); (iii) an unidentified protocol book, possibly a fragment, apparently relating to...
Dates:
1471-1547.
Collection of notebooks containing a copy made by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of a `Monasticon Scoticanum` compiled by John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode (died 1793)., Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.30.5.1-30.5.7
Scope and Contents
The work, which was apparently intended for publication but never published, is based upon the `Account of all the Religious Houses that were in Scotland at the time of the Reformation` by John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, Keeper of the Advocates` Library, which was first printed as an Appendix to ‘Minor Practicks’, but it contains considerable additional matter and the order is rather different. Hutton appears to have made further additions from his own researches at the end of...
Dates:
Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Collection of notebooks containing a copy made by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of a `Monasticon Scoticanum` compiled by John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, volume 1., Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The work, which was apparently intended for publication but never published, is based upon the `Account of all the Religious Houses that were in Scotland at the time of the Reformation` by John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, Keeper of the Advocates` Library, which was first printed as an Appendix to ‘Minor Practicks’, but it contains considerable additional matter and the order is rather different. Hutton appears to have made further additions from his own researches at the end of...
Dates:
Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks and sketchbooks compiled by, and architectural plans and drawings made by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton in his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
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Collection of notebooks containing a copy made by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of a `Monasticon Scoticanum` compiled by John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode (died 1793).
Collection of notebooks containing a copy made by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of a `Monasticon Scoticanum` compiled by John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, volume 2., Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The work, which was apparently intended for publication but never published, is based upon the `Account of all the Religious Houses that were in Scotland at the time of the Reformation` by John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, Keeper of the Advocates` Library, which was first printed as an Appendix to ‘Minor Practicks’, but it contains considerable additional matter and the order is rather different. Hutton appears to have made further additions from his own researches at the end of...
Dates:
Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks and sketchbooks compiled by, and architectural plans and drawings made by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton in his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
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Collection of notebooks containing a copy made by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of a `Monasticon Scoticanum` compiled by John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode (died 1793).