Abridgements. Versions of documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Versions of written works produced by condensation and omission but with retention of the general meaning and manner of presentation of the original, often prepared by someone other than the author of the original.
Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:
15th-century manuscript containing 'De remediis utriusque fortunae' of Adrianus Carthusiensis, incorporating passages from the 'De remediis utriusque fortunae' of Petrarch.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.1
Scope and Contents
The place of production of this manuscript is unclear. The volume is the work of one scribe, in a hand which Nicholas Mann has described as a Germanic gothic bookhand. The work is written in one column of 27 lines to a page. Mann has dated this manuscript to the first half of the 15th century. The work itself contains an abridged and revised version of the second book of the 'De remediis utriusque fortunae', compiled from Petrarch's 'De remediis utriusque fortunae' and Adrianus...
Dates:
1st half of the 15th century.
17th-century extracts and transcripts, in the hand of Sir James Balfour, of chartularies and other historical works.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.9
Scope and Contents
17th-century manuscript written and compiled by Sir James Balfour containing the following works:1. Copy by Sir James Balfour of George Marjorybanks, 'Annals of Scotland, 1514-94'. Folios 6r-23r.A history of Scotland in the form of annals written in Scots, originally written in the late 16th century by George Marjoribanks, burgess of Edinburgh. The location of the original manuscript from which Balfour made his copy is unknown. The work is separated into...
Dates:
17th century.
Abbreviated version of the ‘Scotichronicon’ by Walter Bower.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.1.7
Scope and Contents
The exemplar for the manuscript was being compiled no later than 1444 under the direction of Bower himself. Richard Augustine Hay, writing in the early 18th century, at the beginning of the manuscript, states that it was written 1453-1454 by a canon of Inchcolm called Peter, and presented to Couper Abbey by William Earl of Orkney and Caithness in 1445 (probably a mistake for 1455), but he cites no evidence for this (see ‘Scotichronicon by Walter Bower in Latin and English’, ix, chapter 12,...
Dates:
Circa 1450 x 1480.
Abridged copy, 1673-1731, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, ‘Minor Practicks’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.3
Dates:
1633.
Abridgement, 17th century, of the register of Parliament, 1424-1621.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.4
Dates:
1424-1621.
Abridgement, 18th century, of the `Acts of the Convention of Royal Burghs of Scotland, 1552-1708`.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.1
Dates:
1552-1708.
Abridgement by Patrick Russell, prior of the Charterhouse of Perth, of a work by Walter Bower known as the 'Book of Cupar Angus'.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.7
Scope and Contents
Manuscript compiled in Scotland by Patrick Russell, a prior of the Charterhouse of Perth. The manuscript is an abridged copy of the 'Book of Cupar Angus', which is itself an abbreviation of the 'Scotichronicon'.The manuscript is written in a single column, probably all by the same hand, which is becomes harder to read towards the end of the volume. The work is not complete, as two or more folios are missing between 246v and 247r.Watt suggests that the lost examplar...
Dates:
1460 - 1488
Abridgement, mid 18th century, of great seal charters, 1538-1540, in the hand of Walter Macfarlane.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.7
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.v.5.29.
Dates:
1538-1540.
Abridgement of the ‘Chroniche’ of Giovanni Villani (died 1348) continued by his brother Matteo (died 1363) and by Matteo`s son Filippo, to the end of 1365.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.2
Scope and Contents
The abridgement breaks off, in mid-sentence, in 1363 (in the middle of Chapter 69 of Book XI of the Matteo-Filippo Chronicle), 3¾ folios at the end being blank. The manuscript was written, probably in Florence, shortly after 1500; there are two water-marks, an eagle (Briquet 87: Florence, 1495) and a hat (Briquet 3383-3393: mostly Florence, 1470-1500). It is therefore possible that it is the autograph of the author of the abridgement, who was alive in 1500 (see folio 14 verso)....
Dates:
After 1500.
'Abridgement of the Scottish History', a list of the succession of the Kings of Scotland from Fergus I to James VI by Sir James Balfour, in his hand.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.29
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.7.14.
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Abridgements, 17th -18th century, of the Acts of the Convention of Royal Burghs.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.1
Dates:
1552-1669.
‘Assumption of the benefices’, copy, 18th century, of a book of assumptions, tax rolls of church properties, and retour of Fife.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.13
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.V.3.1.The contents are as follows:
(i) An abridgement of part of the valuation, 1551 (page 5);
(ii) The rent paid to the King out of the surplus of the thirds of benefices (page 48);
(iii) Various taxt rolls of Benefices and church property - temporality as well as spirituality, chiefly early 17th century (page 51);
(iv) List of Religious houses (page 185);
(v) Copy of a retour,...
Dates:
16th century-early 17th century.
‘Breviary of the Decisions of the Lords of Session ... and of the Acts of Sederunt, from June, 1661, to July, 1681, observed by Sir James Dalrymple of Stair.’
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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.1
Scope and Contents
The Acts of Sederunt, 1661-1681, as in the printed ‘Decisions of the Lords of council and session’, are followed by a summary of Decisions arranged alphabetically according to subject. The text is apparently copied from an incomplete manuscript.At the end, inverted, is a copy of ‘Instructions and rules ... to the Commissaries, clerks, procurators fiscalls, and other members of the court of the whole ecclesiasticall jurisdiction,’ forwarded under cover of a Royal letter dated...
Dates:
1661-1681.
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 of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, 'Major Practicks', Sir Thomas Nicolson’s abridgement of Sir Peter Wedderburn's 'Practiques', and a copy of Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie, Lord Justice Clerk, ‘Collections’.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.24.1.3(a)-(b)
Dates:
17th century.
Correspondence and papers of Louisa Kathleen Haldane concerning her parents, Coutts and Harriet A Trotter of Dreghorn, and their ancestors.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20262-20267
Dates:
1708-1958, undated.
‘Insula Monae’, an abridgment of the laws of the Isle of Man by John Parr.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.7
Dates:
Late 17th century.
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of very miscellaneous papers on ecclesiastical history.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.5.8-11
Scope and Contents
According to the folio catalogue (F.R.186) the volumes were originally marked ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’.
The description of the manuscripts in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.5.7.7-10.
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Manuscript, by John Gibson junior, a canon of Glasgow, of an abridged copy of the 'Black Book of Paisley', a version of the 'Scotichronicon' of Walter Bower.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.8
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in Scotland and written by John Gibson junior, a canon of Glasgow. The manuscript is an abridged copy of the 'Black Book of Paisley', a version of the 'Scotichronicon'. The original copy of the 'Black Book of Paisley', from which Gibson made his abridgement, is in the British Library. The full contents of the manuscript are as follows:A verse history of the Scots from their origins to the reign of James II. Folios 1r-10r.Genealogy from...
Dates:
1501
Manuscript containing various legal works, compiled in 1704.
File
Identifier: MS.9248
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Abridgement of ‘Jus Feudale’ by Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton. The text is in a considerably shorter form than the usual epitomes (for which see MS.1950 and Adv.MSS.25.6.1-2, 28.3.14), and omits book i, 11 and 13, book ii, 5 and 15, and book iii, 4 and 7. (Folio 1.)(ii) "Inventory of ane Burges's airship moveables". (Folio 88.) (iii) Latin mottoes. (Folio 90.)(iv) Notes on land measures in Scotland and weights...
Dates:
[1704, or before.]
Manuscript, written in Italy, of the epitome by Junianus Justinus of 'Historiae Philippicae' by Trogus Pompeius, and of the prologues to that work.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.11
Scope and Contents
The epitome begins on folio 1, and the prologues on folio 163.The text is apparently contaminated from the [?] and [?] classes.Headings in red. A large initial on folio 1 in blue, red, and gold and a border of flowers and leaves in red, brown, green and blue; in the centre of this at the root is a coat of arms, azure three thistles on a chevron or. Initials of each book and prologue alternately red and blue (except that those of books xx and xxi are both blue and...
Dates:
15th century.
Microfilm of abbreviated version of ‘Scotichronicon’ by Walter Bower.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1522
Dates:
[?1450-?1480.]
Microfilm of abridgement, 18th century, of the 'Acts of the Convention of Royal Burghs of Scotland, 1552-1708'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.128
Dates:
1552-1708.
Microfilm of Andrew of Wyntoun: 'The oryginale cronykil of Scotland'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.910
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Andrew of Wyntoun: 'The oryginale cronykil of Scotland', early 16th century (Adv.MS.19.2.4);
Abbreviated version of ‘Scotichronicon’ by Walter Bower, [circa ?1450-circa ?1480](Adv.MS.35.1.7).
Dates:
[Circa ?1450-circa ?1480], early 16th century.
Microfilm of assorted 13th-17th century manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.465
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Fair copy, 1686-1689, 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, volume 1. (Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)); Register of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, written, circa 1537, by John Lambert, prebendary of the Chapel, containing copies of papal bulls and other documents, 1501-1537...
Dates:
13th century-1689.