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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 959 Collections and/or Records:

Copy, 18th century, of ‘The Life and Death of ... James Renwick’ by Alexander Shields, Minister of St. Andrews, written in the late 17th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.3
Scope and Contents

The manuscript version corresponds more or less with the first printed version but excludes the `Epistle to the Reader` at the beginning and Renwick`s ‘Admission of Elders’ and several of his letters which are added at the end. The present manuscript breaks off abruptly near the end of the text and is left incomplete. There is no title page.

Dates: Late 17th century.

Copy, 18th century, of the Standing Orders of the House of Lords, 1763, and before.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.5
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The manuscript contains numbers 1-127 of the Orders. The latest Orders are dated 1763.

Dates: 1763, and before.

Copy, 18th century, written on paper watermarked 1742 or 1749, of an extract from `An Abridgment of the Scotishe historie`, written by John Maxwell, 4th Lord Herries of Terregles and dated 1656.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.7
Scope and Contents The extract covers the period 1541-1571. There is a brief description of the original manuscript on the flyleaf of the present volume. According to Robert Pitcairn in his preface to the published work, the original manuscript was probably destroyed sometime during the French Revolution, having been housed in the Scots College at Douai. The copyist, whose initials appear to be J P (folio 1), may have been Friar John Pepper, Society of Jesus, who was a student at the Scots College, Douai from...
Dates: 1656.

Copy, 19th century, of the poetical collection made in 1630 by Margaret Robertson, wife of Alexander Stewart of Bonskeid.

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Identifier: MS.15937
Scope and Contents The original collection belonged to John Richardson of Pitfour (later Sir John Stewart-Richardson) who lent it to Peter Buchan for the compilation of his ‘Ancient ballads and songs of the North of Scotland’. Buchan intended to use it in the third volume of his work which was never completed. His extracts from it are contained in British Library, Add.MS.29409, folios 256-277; the whereabouts of the original is not known.The paper is watermarked 1823.The writers of the...
Dates: [Before 1630.]

Copy, 1713-1714, of the inventory, 1615-1630, of the Trésor des Chartes, the muniments of the Crown of France.

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Identifier: Adv.MSS.4.1.3-4.1.14
Scope and Contents The original inventory was compiled between 1615 and 1630 by Pierre Dupuy and Theodore Godefroy. This copy, like the majority of the many in existence, follows the original closely and gives in the margin the pagination of the original, to which contents-lists and indexes refer. However, volume 8 (Adv.MSS.4.1.12-4.1.13) omits this pagination (it was probably thought inessential, as the index covers only volumes 1-7) and differs slightly in arrangement.According to a note in...
Dates: 1615-1630.

Copy, 1802, of verses of Sir John Harington, Queen Elizabeth I`s godson, written in 1602 to accompany a New Year`s gift of a dark lantern to James VI.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.2
Scope and Contents

The present manuscript was copied by the poet John Leyden. An inscription at the end of the verses states that he had made the transcription `from the original in the University Library, Edinburgh, March 26, 1802`. The verses, written in Latin and English, are preceded by a detailed description of the lantern.

The verses are apparently unpublished.

Dates: 1602.

Copy, 1812, of "Tales of the Peries the History of Azar Shah from the Persie", from a manuscript in the possession of John Leyden.

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Identifier: Acc.6138
Scope and Contents

With correspondence, 20th century, concerning John Leyden and to the Leyden papers now in the National Library of Scotland.

Dates: 1812, 20th century.

Copy, 1820, of verse, `Prophecies by Sundrie authors some wherof knowen and ther names affixed, others not knowen, but many of them old and currant thro the isle of Great Brittane. Collected and faithfully written by John Gordon of Gillichoudie, 1711`. In several cases the original dates of the Prophecies are given, and range from 1399 to 1688.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.14
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There are two copies, in different hands, of a prophecy by Mr Bickerhead, a priest, dated 1679, folios 3 and 8.

The first Prophecy is ascribed to two authors, Sir James Galloway and John Napier of Merchiston, the mathematician. None of the poems appear to have been published.

Dates: 1399-1688.

Copy, 1828, of the account of his activities leading to his flight from Scotland in 1567 and his subsequent adventures on the coast of Norway composed by James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, in 1568, whilst he was confined at Copenhagen by order of the King of Denmark.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.14
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The account was intended to show that Bothwell was the victim of ill will on the part of the Scottish nobility, and to persuade the King to release him; but he was unsuccessful and remained in prison until his death in 1578.

Following an application by the Curators of the Advocates` Library to the philologist R C Rask, this copy was made in 1828 from the original, in Drottningholm, by P A Wallmark, Librarian to the King of Sweden.

Dates: 1568.

Copy, after 1690, of `Collections of the most remarkable accounts that relate to the families of Scotland drawn from ther own charters and other authentick writts ... with ane account of ther armes’.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.1
Scope and Contents The authorship is attributed to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, but an 18th-century footnote added to the title page of Adv.MS.34.3.19 states that the collection was originally compiled by Sir Patrick Lyon of Carse, and that his manuscript was copied by Mackenzie and others who made their own additions to it. One such copy by William Aikman of Cairnie, advocate, is now MS.979; another is in Edinburgh University Library; five more are Adv.MSS.13.2.10, 31.7.4, 34.3.14, 34.3.19 and 34.6.8....
Dates: Circa 1672.

Copy by John Boswell of "Decreets of Division of Valuations in the Shire of Ayr".

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Identifier: Acc.7357
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Consisting of records of meetings of the Commissioners of Supply and other papers.

Dates: 1774, 1779.

Copy by Matthew Craufurd, Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Edinburgh, of ‘History of the University of Edinburgh from 1580 to 1646’ by Thomas Craufurd.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.23
Scope and Contents

A colophon dated 20 January 1725, states that Matthew Craufurd made this copy from the original, which then belonged to Laurence Dundas, Professor of Humanity.

The text is preceded by brief notes on purchases by and gifts to the University, 1582-1642.

Dates: 1646, or after.

Copy by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne of the log-book of Captain John Anderson for 1640 to 1643.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.14
Scope and Contents The manuscript is written in a Dutch printed pilot`s log-book, and the final entry and postscript are signed by Anderson (folios 79-80).In December 1640, Anderson, an experienced seaman, sailed as navigator in a Dutch ship bound from Holland to Java. From July 1641 to May 1642, he was with the Dutch fleet blockading the Portuguese off the coast of Goa, and in December 1642 he returned to Holland. His log consists chiefly of a record of distance covered, wind direction, land...
Dates: 1640-1643.

Copy by Sir James Balfour of the diary of Robert Birrell, burgess of Edinburgh.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.28
Scope and Contents

Apart from a few entries at the beginning, recording major events since 1370, it covers the period between 1566 and 1603, breaking off in July of that year. All the entries concern public events.

Dates: 1566-1603.