Inventories.
Subject
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Found in 104 Collections and/or Records:
Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1540-1549, 1570-1593, collected, late 17th century, by Alexander Colvill, and John or Henry Sinclair.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.4
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'Sinclair, Maitland, Culroes, decisions MS’, to which Thomas Ruddiman has prefixed a note which informs us that it was a copy from the originals in the library of Sir Alexander Seton of Pitmedden, who has himself explained the collection;(ii) Subjoined to it is ‘a compend of decisions by an uncertain author’;(iii) Transcript of the manuscript inventory of pious donations from James I’s reign to that of James VI....
Dates:
1540-1549, 1570-1593.
Documents, chiefly copies, and papers in the claim to the ancient earldom of Levenax, or Lennox, drawn up about 1772-1774 (but not brought to the House of Lords) by George Cockburn Haldane of Gleneagles.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20001-20003
Dates:
?1195-1844, undated.
‘Excerpts from an "Inventary of Writs in the Charter house of Hamilton” Vol 2ᵈ. ...` in the hand of James Chalmers.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.26
Scope and Contents
The excerpts were probably made for the benefit of James Chalmers` uncle, George Chalmers, in preparation for the third volume of the latter`s ‘Caledonia’.
The date of the manuscript has been suggested by the watermark of the sheets, 1812.
Dates:
1812, or after.
Fair copy of `Diplomatum veterum collectio`, being Richard Augustine Hay`s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)-(iii)
Scope and Contents
The copy was probably begun in 1696 (the date quoted on the title page) and not completed until 1701 or later (34.1.10(iii), folio 294 verso), made apparently by a copyist from the transcripts made by Hay when he was in Scotland between 1686 and 1689.
Dates:
1686-1689.
Fire insurance inventory and valuations of books belonging to Sir Charles Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, of Newhailes, compiled by Alexander Dowell, Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11816
Dates:
1915.
Formal documents from the Hunter of Glencarse papers.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15397-15431
Dates:
1685-1842.
Formal documents from the MacLeod of Geanies papers.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15326-15347
Dates:
1662-1805, undated.
Formal documents relating to Major-General John Brown and General Sir George Brown.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.1441-1449
Dates:
1790-1854.
Hutton transcripts. A collection of transcripts of the cartularies of Aberdeen Cathedral (Adv.MS.20.3.1) and Newbattle Abbey (Adv.MS.20.3.3) and of charters and other formal documents, many of which are extracts from other cartularies, of and concerning several of the medieval dioceses and religious houses of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.3.1-20.3.9
Scope and Contents
Most of these transcripts and extracts, which were made between circa 1794 and circa 1824, are in the hand of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton: most of the rest are in the same hand as Adv.MS.9A.1.4. Many of the transcripts were made from originals and copies in possession of William Maule of Panmure, who was created Baron Panmure in 1831: many of the rest were copied from documents in possession of Thomas Thomson and at the Scottish Record Office, General Register House.
Dates:
12th century-1661.
Inventories and other legal papers concerning the family of Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11461
Dates:
1776-1844.
Inventories of lands and revenues of the sees of Skálholt and Hólar.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.3.18
Dates:
18th century.
Inventory, 17th century, of charters, 1424-1546, in the ‘Registrum Magni Sigilli, books 3-22 by Sir James Balfour.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.4
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.2.22.
Dates:
17th century.
‘Inventory of charters’, 1456-1552, in the ‘Registrum Magni Sigilli’, in the hand of Sir John Scott of Scotstarvit.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.4
Scope and Contents
At the end is a list of charters, 1587-1630, ‘The taxed lands’.
Dates:
1456-1552, 1587-1630.
Inventory of farming stock, implements and furniture of Peter Stewart.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7876
Dates:
1862.
'Inventory of Fixtures on the Premises, York House, Twickenham, Middlesex, to be taken by the Purchaser of the Estate', probably 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.6292
Dates:
?19th century.
Inventory of furniture and other plenishings at Abbotsford in 1848; a copy made at a later date.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12905
Dates:
1891.
Inventory of jewellery belonging to Queen Anne of Denmark.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.10
Scope and Contents
The pieces of jewellery are described, with their weight, on the rectos of the folios; on the versos are notes in two different hands, 1606-1611, concerning items taken away for repair, sent to the goldsmiths for use in other pieces, or removed for other reasons.The inventory is not signed but was probably compiled under the supervision of Francis Goffin. See `Anne of Denmark`s Jewellery: The Old and the New`, pages 228-236.A copy of a letter, 1618, to one of the...
Dates:
Circa 1606-1611, 1618.
Inventory of the library of John Campbell, Marquess of Breadalbane, at Taymouth Castle and London.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8940
Dates:
circa 1863.
Inventory of the Reay charter chest and a copy of "Description of the Estate of Reay, 1797".
File
Identifier: Acc.8748
Dates:
20th century.
'Inventory of the writes of the lands of Ffriarcarse &c'.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.13
Dates:
1745.
Inventory of writs of a tenement of lands in Portsoy.
Item
Identifier: Dep.168- is now Acc.5084.
Dates:
1794.