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Armorial bearings.

 Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Originally, the distinctive marks, badges or devices whereby warriors clad in armour were recognised in battle. Source: Watson, G 'Bell's Dictionary and Digest of the Law of Scotland' (Edinburgh, 1890).

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

15th-century English manuscript containing three Middle English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the chivalric poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.11
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘Liber maundevyle` (folio 1). The manuscript belongs to sub-group E of the Defective Version on which the earliest editions were based (`English manuscripts of Mandeville`s Travels`, pages 169-171). Several leaves are missing, containing the end of the prologue and beginning of chapter 1 (after folio 1), chapters 6-9 (after folio 10), and the end of chapter 32 onwards.(ii) `Sir Cleges` (folio 71). ‘The Index of Middle...
Dates: 15th century.

Armorial bearings of John Dunlop of Gairbraid., Circa 1860.

 File
Identifier: Ch.8480-8481
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The documents are mostly marriage-contracts, burgess-tickets, and similar documents concerning members of the Dunlop family in the 17th and 18th centuries. Three items concern William Dunlop`s affairs in South Carolina, 1688-1689 (Ch.8456-8458). An inventory is available.

Dates: Circa 1860.

`Armourial [sic] Bearings of the Bruces`, by Major William Bruce Armstrong.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.25
Scope and Contents

Arms and crests painted in colours, followed by brief notes on their holders and the authorities from which the information was taken.

Dates: 1903.

Collection of material on French heraldry, in several hands of the first half of the 18th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.14
Scope and Contents The collection has been attributed to a member of the Chevillard family of French genealogists.Contents.(i) Engravings of ecclesiastical arms, painted over in watercolours (folio 1).(ii) Watercolour drawings of crowns (folio 2).(iii) Genealogies, with the arms in colour, of the families of de Ligne, de la Marck, Clermont and others (folio 7). The latest date given is the marriage of Joseph M L de Halencourt in 1726. The pages have been bound in...
Dates: ?1700-1750.

Copy, 16th century, of `Recueil des Principaux Seigneurs qui passerent la Mer avec Guillaume Conquereur d`Angleterre`, a treatise on the genealogy and heraldry of the English nobility written by Jean Benard in 1567.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.2
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is similar to the autograph manuscript of 1572 (Bibliotheque Nationale, MS. français 19000), but lacks the dedicatory letter to Charles IX and has no miniatures. The decoration consists of paintings of flowers and fruit, borders and armorial bearings, with some decorated initials. There is a note, ‘Southampton`s Genealogies`, in a 17th-century hand on folio iii.

Dates: 1567.

Description of the armorial bearings of Scottish families, some bearings being shown in colour., Late 17th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.979
Scope and Contents

On folio 4 verso is a note, “This Copie I had from the originall written by Sr. Patrick Lyon Lord Carse and lent to me by him selfe all wrñ with his own hand, which he had lent before to Sr. George McKenzie the king's advocate, who copied itt & made severall additions therto, as every one may doe from ther own experience as I myselfe have done in seāll places. Facile est inventis addere. W A".

Dates: Late 17th century.

'Fitzalan Prayerbook', a 15th-century devotional manuscript written and illuminated in England, bearing the arms of the Fitzalan Earls of Arundel.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.53.3.14
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The Roman series of psalter collects. See ‘The Psalter Collects’. Each collect is preceded by the incipit of its psalm. Folios containing the collects for psalms 1-8, 68-83, 91-97, 104-110 and 146-150 are missing. (Folio 1.)(ii) Psalter of Saint Jerome. (Folio 16.)(iii) Litany. (Folio 24.)(iv) The verses `In iiij poyntis my will or I hens departe`, in a 16th-century hand. They are published from...
Dates: 15th century.

Genealogy of the family of Harry Robertson, Minister of Kiltearn., [Circa 1890.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.19403
Scope and Contents From the Series: Thomas Traill was born in Orkney in 1781 of the family of Traill of Tirlot and the collection includes miscellaneous genealogical, legal and historial material relating to Orkney. He graduated in medicine in the University of Edinburgh in 1802 and by 1803 had settled in practice in Liverpool where he became a prominent figure being prime mover in the foundation of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool of which he was first Secretary, and assisting in the foundation of the Royal...
Dates: [Circa 1890.]

John Riddell’s grangerized copy of ‘The Peerage of Scotland’ by Sir Robert Douglas (Edinburgh, 1764), divided at pages 364-365 of the printed text into two separately bound parts., 1764, ?1807.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.8.1-25.8.2
Scope and Contents

Both parts are interleaved, the paper being watermarked 1807, and contain Riddell`s notes and amendments throughout, and a small number of letters and papers (one printed) bound in at various places. Colours have been added to the majority of the armorial engravings.

Dates: 1764, ?1807.

Microfilm of genealogical and heraldic material.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.31
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: ‘Armourial [sic] Bearings of the Bruces’ by Major William Bruce Armstrong, 1903 (Adv.MS.15.1.25);'Results of the investigation of the settlement of English families in Scotland', [?1801] (Adv.MS.16.2.9);‘Proper names with their significations’ by David Ure, minister of Uphall, late 18th century (Adv.MS.16.2.10);Collection of material on French heraldry, in several hands of the first half of the 18th century...
Dates: 1560-1903.

Paintings of the armorial bearings of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun., 1825.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.14669
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer purchased Saltoun and Glencorse in 1642; Glencorse was sold in 1647. The documents concern both the estate and individual members of the family.

Dates: 1825.