Tables. Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Condensed, orderly arrangements of data, especially those in which the data are arranged in columns and rows.
Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:
Account and letter book of William Angus of North Grange, Lindores, elder of Abdie Church.
Item
Identifier: MS.17949
Scope and Contents
The account and letter book contains tables of agricultural wages 1857-1873, letters concerning local affairs 1846-1867, and letters and statements of Abdie church 1835-1875. At the back there is a record of baptisms of the Angus Family 1789-1840 (folio 17).
Dates:
1835-1875.
‘Account of the Ecclesiastical Benefices ... and the number of people in Scotland’, ‘prepared for the information of Government by the late Doctor Alexander Webster’, and dedicated by his son, John Webster, to Pitt.
Item
Identifier: MS.89
Scope and Contents
The manuscript begins with an account of the manner in which the figures were collected, and contains:(i) ‘An alphabet list of the parishes of the Church of Scotland, shewing the extent of each parish, the number of Papists and Protestants, the name of the patron, and the stipend payable to the Minister,' as at ‘end of the year 1785' (see ‘Explanation of Scheme First’);(ii) ‘A list of the several shires in Scotland, shewing the number of parishes, ministers, Papists,...
Dates:
1755, 1785
Anonymous description of a proposed route from Port Patrick, Wigtonshire, to Edinburgh for Sir Edward Baker, formely Littlehales, 1st Baronet of Ashcombe, Surrey, with maps and mileage tables.
Item
Identifier: MS.17958
Scope and Contents
This is a carefully planned tour. The writer states his reasons for the selection of the route and for rejecting the alternatives, and comments on the history and contemporary situations of the major settlements en route.
Dates:
1819.
Collection of late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts of places in Scotland, partly compiled by Sir John Skene, Lord Curriehill.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.15
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i)-(ix) Accounts compiled by Sir John Skene.(i) ‘Ane tabill and repertour of the Cheker Rollis [...] collectit and put in ordour conforme to the number and ordour of Kingis [...] be Mr Jhone Skene [...] 1595.’
(ii) ‘Ane particular and perfyte rentall ... collectit be Maister Johne Skene Clerk of the Register. 1595.’
(iii) ‘The rentall buik of the propertis.’
(iv) ‘Computa et libri thesaurariorum.’
(v) ‘Libri responsionum.’
(vi) ‘Libri...
Dates:
Late 16th century-17th century.
Composite volume of 15th-century manuscripts of miscellaneous works by four hands bound together, with an incunable, in the 16th-century or earlier.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.8
Scope and Contents
The collection has been in one volume since the 16th century at least. The contents are as follows:[(i) A printed book: Johannes de Hildesheim, ‘Liber de gestis ac translatione trium regum’, etc., ([Cologne], 1478) = National Library of Scotland Inc.43 (B.M.Cat. IB 4236) (folio 1)]. Folio 56 blank.(ii) Baebius Italicus (?), `Ilias latina` (‘Poetae latini minores’ ii.3; this manuscript is not included in the list given by P Vollmer in ‘Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen...
Dates:
15th century.
‘Contents of the Winton Estate’, that is, the Lordship of Seaton and the Baronies of Long Niddry, Tranent and Winton in East Lothian.
File
Identifier: MS.104
Scope and Contents
In tabular form, showing the names of the tenants, 'the number of acres in each lot and barony, with the total rents and rent of an acre', with a covering letter.
Dates:
1778.
Copies, 17th century, of Ramón Lull, ‘Ars juris’ and ‘De inventione mediorum juris civilis’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.6.4
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.5.7).
Dates:
13th century-14th century.
Copies of letters and reports from Captain John Barlow and other officers commanding detachments of the Buffs in the Western Isles and the Laggan and Loch Rannoch areas.
File
Identifier: MS.10691
Scope and Contents
Captain Barlow reports on his searches for arms and Catholic priests in the islands, and on shipping in the area. He also comments on the topography and social conditions, and puts forward suggestions for a permanent garrison, the building of schools and customs houses, etc. Reports from the mainland are chiefly concerned with cattle thieving and the power of the chiefs. The inverted folios contain tables of military posts in the Highlands and Scotland generally.
Dates:
1753-1754.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Edward Sang.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10780
Scope and Contents
Includes mathematical tables.
Dates:
1821-1942.
Description by Sir William Burrell of a tour made by him, chiefly in Scotland.
Item
Identifier: MS.2911
Scope and Contents
Sir William Burrell’s route takes him from London through the eastern counties of England to Durham, and by Carlisle into Galloway. After an excursion into County Antrim, he proceeds by the Ayrshire coast to Greenock, and thence to Glasgow and Stirling. Having explored Perthshire, he goes to Edinburgh, and visits many places in the neighbourhood. He then takes the route marked by Dumbarton, Inveraray, Fort William, Inverness, Banff, Aberdeen, St. Andrews, and Kinghorn. After further visiting...
Dates:
1758.
Fifteenth-century manuscript of the 'short version' of the 'Polychronicon' of Ranulph Higden.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.12
Scope and Contents
This is a copy of the original, short version ending in 1327. It contains preface (folio iii), alphabetical table (folio v; the reference-system, explained at the beginning, is to the foliation of this manuscript), map of the world (folio xiii verso), and text in seven books (folios 1, 33, 57, 92, 122 verso, 159 verso, 183), not formally divided into chapters.The presence of a map is unusual in this version (‘Universal Chronicle of Ranulf Higden’, pages 63-68, 97-98). It is...
Dates:
1327, and before.
Jacobite papers deriving from W B Blaikie`s collection.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.6849
Scope and Contents
Including:
manuscript draft report, circa 1745, on Sir John Cope`s military operations
manuscript verses, 1745, on Gladsmuir
"A Chronological Table of Military Operations in Great Britain, 1745-1746".
Dates:
circa 1745-1746.
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth.
Item
Identifier: MS.5898
Scope and Contents
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth (folio 28), and subsequently belonging to Robert Blair, Writer in Errol (folio 176 verso).The contents are as follows.(i) Style-book of Scots Law forms based on examples collected in and around Perth (folio 5); preceded by two indices (folios 1 verso, 3).(ii) Latin verses, 1683, entitled 'Carmina auditu digna', possibly written by James Blair. (Folio 92.)(iii) Recipes for dyeing...
Dates:
1682-1683.
List of appeal cases in the House of Lords.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.3
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.
Lists of Presbyterian and Episcopalian ministers, the names arranged under the presbyteries in each synod.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Roll of the names of the Ministers of the Kirk in Scotland who refused to submit to Prelacy and continued stedfast in owning Presbyterian Government after the Re-establishment of Episcopacy 1661. 1662.` The presbyteries of Auchterarder and Lerwick are omitted. In some cases, mention is made of a minister`s death, execution, or banishment, but this information is not always correct. The list must have been compiled after 1694, as...
Dates:
After 1694-circa 1712.
Manual of mathematics, evidently for the use of a military officer, compiled by James Douglas.
Item
Identifier: MS.3939
Scope and Contents
The manual, compiled in 1698 (dates on pages 334a, 401), contains arithmetic, based on E Cocker's ‘Arithmetick’, with some rules for extracting roots by algebra and logarithms; "the doctrine of decimall fractions takne out of Mr. Coker's Decimall Arithmetick", (page 156); and 'the doctrine of plain triangles, or ... plain trigonometry' (page 334a), with rules for ascertaining heights, etc., with instruments.The words 'Heir endeth so much of the arithmetick as a souldier ought...
Dates:
1698.
Manuscript of "Cours de I'Histoire Général" by Claude François Henry.
Item
Identifier: MS.17999
Scope and Contents
A work intended as a universal history from the earliest times to the French Revolution, but which, from the 11th century onwards, is confined to the history of France. The text begins (folio 28) with a description of the work and material on the planetary system and world geography. It is preceded by geographical and chronological tables (folio 2). The work was compiled while Henry (1773-1820), a French army officer, was a prisoner of war near Jedburgh.
Dates:
[Circa 1815.]
Manuscript of 'Oculus Sacerdotis' by William of Pagula.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.6
Scope and Contents
The text (folio 12) contains the three sections of the treatise, ‘Pars Oculi`, `Dextera Pars` and `Sinistra Pars`, but cap. 26 to the end of the `Sinistra Pars` is missing. The text is preceded by:(i) Four short works on diet and blood-letting in English, beginning ‘Here seyth galian ye leche and thecheth of metes and drinkes’. At the end is a rubric ‘Secundum Robertum[?] Grant de Everton’ (folio 1 verso).(ii) Remarks on the qualities of the Virgin...
Dates:
14th century.
Manuscript of the English text of the `Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern` by Sir Robert Sibbald; with maps.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.15.1.1-15.1.1a
Dates:
1595-[Circa 1682.]
Manuscript of the ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, statutes, ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, written soon after the middle of the 15th century, and belonging to the Charterhouse at Perth.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘Quoniam attachiamaenta’ (folio 1). Folios 7 verso and 8 are blank. ‘Acts of the Scottish Parliament’, i, pages 281-295.(ii) `Modus seu processus breuium`, elsewhere the last chapters of the `Quoniam attachiamenta` (folio 10). Only the title of the last one is written on folio 12 recto.Folio 12 verso blank.(iii) `De exceptionibus` (folio 13).(iv) `Modus procedendi in itinere...
Dates:
14th century-3rd quarter of 15th century.
Manuscript of the Regiam Maiestatem and other legal texts; with three items formerly loosely inserted therein.
Series
Identifier: MSS.16497-16498
Dates:
[Circa 1500], mid 16th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, baron court laws, burgh and guild laws, and some other legal texts, some in Scots, written by George Cuyk (later clerk of the Privy Seal) in 1528.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.11
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is incomplete at the end.The contents are as follows:(i) `The baroun Lawis. Modus tenendi curias` in 61 chapters (modern numbering), in Scots (folio 2). The explicit is followed by four lines, beginning `Haec faciunt causas festis tractare diebus` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xvi).(ii) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 4 parts of 212 continuously numbered chapters (36, 74, 34, and 68 in each part) with table at the beginning (folio...
Dates:
14th century-early 17th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, statutes, and burgh laws, written in 1439.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.13
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Table for the volume (folio 1). The sections appear in the order (ii)-(iv), (vi), (v), (vii). Single leaves are lost before folio 1 (for section (ii), part 1 and part 2, chapters 1-9) and folio 12 (for section (v), chapters 109-154).(ii) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 3 parts of 34, 114, and 64 chapters (folio 13). ‘Acts of the Scottish Parliament’, i, pages 233-277.(iii) ‘Quoniam attachiamenta` in 95 chapters (not...
Dates:
?14th century-1439.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, statutes, burgh laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, mostly in Scots, written in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century. Sections (xxv)-(xxvii) are a slightly later addition.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.15
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 4 books of 191 continuously numbered chapters (34, 74, 26, and 57 in each book respectively) with table at the beginning (folio 1). The end of chapter 6 to the beginning of chapter 14 is lost. ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 233-277.(ii) `Quoniam attachiamenta` in 61 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 60 verso). Chapters 11-24 are lost. ‘Acts of the Parliament of...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, baron court laws, burgh and guild laws, and some other legal texts, all in Scots, written by one A de D probably in the 1470s.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.7
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is imperfect at the end; and sections (i) and (ii), which belong after section (xvii), have been misbound.The contents are as follows:(i) `Statuta regis Jacobi secundi` (folio 1). The beginning is lost; see section (xvii). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, ii, pages 31-52.(ii) `Ye statutis of ye law of march mayd be erll villȝham of Douglas`, 1448 (folio 3). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page 350.folio 5 verso...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.