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Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Brief statements of a fact or experience, written down for review, or as an aid to memory, or to inform someone else; also includes short, informal letters.
Found in 1168 Collections and/or Records:
Genealogical notes concerning the family of Douglas of Cavers.
File
Identifier: Acc.10971
Dates:
1938 and undated.
Genealogical notes of Andrew B W MacEwen, on the MacGregor family of Black River, Prince Edward Island.
File
Identifier: Acc.6829
Dates:
1975.
Genealogical notes of Sidney Cramer.
File
Identifier: Acc.9063
Scope and Contents
Includes copies and extracts from birth, marriage and death certificates, with notes and temple ordinance data.
Dates:
1904-1970.
Genealogical notes of the family of Malcolm of Burnfoot.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11019
Scope and Contents
Includes loosely inserted family and estate papers.
Dates:
1776-1942 and undated.
Genealogical notes on ancient Scottish families compiled by, and partly in the hand of, George Chalmers.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.29
Scope and Contents
The approximate date of the manuscript has been suggested by the range of dates of the watermarks, 179?, 1800 and 1801.The contents include the families of:Campbell of Lochow (folio 180);Douglas (folios 1, 31);Lindsay of the Byres (folio 101);Ogilvy (folio 187);Percy (folio 10); and,Stewart (folios 5, 16, 29).The Earldoms of:Angus (folio 92);Atholl (folio...
Dates:
Circa 1800.
Genealogical notes on the family of Brown of Finderlie and other Brown families.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11614
Dates:
19th century to 20th century.
Genealogical papers on the different branches of the Bruce family collected by Major William Bruce Armstrong for his work ‘The Bruces of Airth and their cadets’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15982-15988
Scope and Contents
Most of the material is printed, with annotations by William Brue Armstrong.
Dates:
Mid 19th century-[before 1892.]
'Genealogie of the family of Achinbreck' (Campbell): a typewritten copy of a manuscript, 1741, in Adv.MS.34.6.19 (Genealogical collections), with autograph notes and corrections by Herbert Campbell, Cyprus, circa 1932.
Item
Identifier: MS.810
Dates:
1741, [circa 1932].
Genealogies, notes, formal documents and other papers of and concerning the Elphinstone family of Lopness.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.8924/1-45
Dates:
1511-1951, undated.
Genealogies of Scottish families.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.14
Scope and Contents
(i) The compilation by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (see Adv.MS.34.3.19). This copy (folio 1) appears to have been made between 1679 and 1684, during which period the Earl of Linlithgow was colonel of the Guards (folio 40). A leaf containing notes by David Sibbald of Kair on the Sibbald families of Balgonie and Kair has been inserted (folio 65), and notes by Sir Robert Sibbald on the family of Boyd have also been added (folio 67 verso).(ii) Copy of part of William Drummond,...
Dates:
Late 17th century.
‘Gentle shepherd’ by Allan Ramsay, being pages 307-382 of his ‘Poems’, volume 2, with marginal notes in the hand of Allan Ramsay the Younger.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.5.15
Scope and Contents
The intention was to republish the Scots text with an Italian translation (the latter already in existence), see folio 6. No Italian translation seems to be recorded.The notes consist of: the addition of title and dedication; the deletion of W H`s dedicatory verses; an amplification of the note of the scene, a few changes in the text, mostly orthographical, except for the final verses, which are completely recast; and the general comment (folio 6), `This edition has too many...
Dates:
1728 or after.
George Home of Wedderburn`s copy of "The Mirror", with manuscript notes and essay drafts inserted.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7665
Dates:
1779-1780.
Glenmasan manuscript (Ulster cycle).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.3
Scope and Contents
It may be said in summary that the manuscript appears to be a product of a school conducted by An Giolla Riabhach Ó Cléirigh and Dubhthach Ó Duibhgeannáin, and that it circulated for a hundred years and more in Cowall. The Reverend William Campbell’s formalised note at page ii, giving the place Glenmasan and the date 1268, has provided the name by which it is generally known. In view of the difficulty Campbell experienced in the 1760s or 1770s in writing the date at page 29, one is entitled...
Dates:
ca. 1500.
Glossary of Scots words by Lord Hailes, printed on one side of the leaf, with corrections and additions in the author's hand.
Item
Identifier: MS.3565
Dates:
18th century.
‘Goetz of Berlichingen with the iron hand: A Tragedy. Translated from the German of Goethe. By Walter Scott, Esq., Advocate, Edinburgh. London, 1799’, copied, 1827, by Mary Anne Hughes.
Item
Identifier: MS.131
Scope and Contents
The text may have been copied from the printed work (see ‘Letters and recollections of Sir Walter Scott’, pages 221, 224, 227). On the inside cover is the following note in the hand of John Hughes: "The contents were copied by my mother from Sir W. Scott’s manuscript at the time when he never thought of republishing it. The book was then out of print (now reprinted). It got, with other literary property of his, into the hands of his creditors who made use of it for what it would...
Dates:
1827.
Grangerized copy of ‘A large new catalogue of the Bishops of...Scotland’ by Robert Keith (Edinburgh, 1755).
File
Identifier: MS.8888
Scope and Contents
The volume contains additional notes and information (taken chiefly from the Acts of the General Assembly) written in a contemporary hand in the margins of many of the pages and on small sheets of paper tipped in at various places throughout.
Also enclosed are a printed prospectus of the work, dated Edinburgh, 1753, receipted by the author (folio 3), and a letter, 1925, returning the volume to its owner.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1753, 1755, 1925.
Greek poetry; a volume consisting of three printed books, with manuscript notes and annotations in Latin in an 18th-century hand.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.8.4
Scope and Contents
The printed books are:(1) Reiske, Johann J. ‘Anthologiae Graecae a Constantino Cephala conditae libri tres’, 2 parts (Leipzig, 1754);(2) an unidentified Ανθόλγια;(3) Μόσχου καὶ βιῶνος εἰδὐλλια, edited by A van Meetkercke (Bruges, 1565). The first part of (1) (except the preface) has been interleaved and several leaves have been added at the end of (2). On these leaves, on the last page of (3), and on the lower paste-down are manuscript...
Dates:
1565, 18th century.
"Heads and Notes of Certain Sermons and Discourses from Diverse Texts of Scripture; by Mr. Thomas Hog, Minister of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ at Killtearn in the Shire of Ross. Transcribed from the Original Coppy of the Author, which was lent me for that purpose by Mrs. Maire Relict of the deceas'd Mr. George Maire Minister of Cullross" (died 1716).
File
Identifier: MS.3010
Scope and Contents
Thomas Hog was a noted Covenanter (see 'The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'). The dates of the sermons, where specified, cover the period 1659-1673; in some cases the place of delivery is given. At folio vii verso is some account of Hog, taken from Robert Wodrow, ‘History’ (Edinburgh, 1722-1723), volume i, page 41.
Inserted (folio i), is a letter, 1887, of Robert Cumming McDougall, Minister of Resolis, to Hog of Newliston recommending the publication of a manuscript volume of Hog's...
Dates:
1659-1673, 1887.
Henry Mackenzie's copy of the "Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland appointed to inquire into the nature and authenticity of the poems of Ossian" (Edinburgh, 1805), drawn up by himself; with a few corrections and additions in his hand.
Item
Identifier: MS.2613
Scope and Contents
The corrections and additions occur on pages iii-iv, 46, 71-72, 82, 102, and Appendix, page 76.
Dates:
1805.
Heraldic collection of Sir David Lindsay.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.20
Scope and Contents
Material copied in the late 16th and early 17th centuries apparently for Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Lord Lyon King of Arms from 1591 to 1620. It is closely related to John Scrymgeour`s manuscript (Adv.MS.31.5.2) in that some of its contents are apparently taken from Adam Loutfut`s manuscript (British [Museum] Library Harleian MS.6149), and the same order of arrangement is followed as by Scrymgeour; but there is also some additional material. Loutfut`s manuscript is described in ‘The...
Dates:
Late 16th century-early 17th century.
`Histoire de Frere Roger et de sa compagnie, tirée de l`ancienne chronique de l`illustre conquerant Dom Jaques I roi d`Aragon, écrite par Raimond Muntaner, et traduite au pié de la lettre par I.M. A Neufchatel en Suisse. MDCCLV`. A translation of part of the 14th-century Catalan chronicle of Ramon Muntaner.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.10
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists of chapters 194-243 of the chronicle, which recount the life of the Italian mercenary soldier, Roger de Flor, and his campaign in Asia Minor.The manuscript appears to have been intended for publication, and has numerous marginal notes. In a preface to the reader (folio iii), the translator states that his patron was `Milord Keith`, probably the Earl Marischal who became Governor of Neufchâtel in 1752. Keith`s name has been inserted over another name,...
Dates:
14th century.
Historical material from the collection of Sir James Balfour, compiled by Robert Mylne, writer, with additions by Mylne.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.10
Dates:
17th century-1st half of 18th century.
'Historical memoirs of his late Royal Highness William-Augustus, Duke of Cumberland' (London, 1767), with marginal notes of Thomas Carlyle.
Item
Identifier: MS.1039
Dates:
1767, 1859.
Historical papers formerly belonging to the antiquary Robert Mylne.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.1
Scope and Contents
The papers mostly concern events in Scotland from 1637 to 1652, and include copies of acts, proclamations, petitions, etc. The subjects include the service book, the National Covenant, teinds, and the College of Justice. There is also a copy of ‘Irene’ by William Drummond of Hawthornden (folio 213). A list has been inserted of those items which have been published.There are a few notes by Mylne, identifying some of the papers. His instructions for binding the collection and his...
Dates:
Late 16th century-17th century.
‘History of the Kirk of Scotland after the Reformation’, covering the period from the Parliament of August 1560, to that of June 1633, in a seventeenth-century hand.
Item
Identifier: MS.3926
Scope and Contents
A note in an eighteenth-century hand (folio 1) suggests this is a manuscript copy of David Calderwood, ‘The true history of the Church of Scotland’, 1678; but, although there are striking textual similarities at various places, the text is by no means the same, and begins and ends at later dates. As many of the documents quoted in full by Calderwood are omitted, this may be an abridgement and continuation of Calderwood's work.
Dates:
17th century-18th century.