Tracts. Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Brief treatises or pamphlets for general distribution, usually on a religious or political topic.
Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:
Papers, undated, of Hugh Dalrymple Murray Kynynmound concerning philosophy, chronology, and miscellaneous papers., Early 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.12813
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) 'Of the Laws of Evidence' (folio 1);
(ii) Philosophical tract concerning justice and injustice (folio 18);
(iii) Tract concerning the existence of witches (folio 22);
(iv) 'Extract from Gerards Herbal' with related articles (John Gerard, ‘The Herball’, edited by Thomas Johnson, (London, 1636) (folio 28);
(v) Review of Jean Baptiste Du Halde's ‘The General History of China’ (London, 1736) (folio 38);
(vi) 'From the travels of the Abbé [François] Sevin just now...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Literary papers, music and drawings of various members of the Elliot of Minto family.
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Literary papers, apparently of Hugh Dalrymple Murray Kynynmound of Melgund and Kynynmound (died 1741), Advocate, second son of Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, of Hailes, and father-in-law of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet of Minto.
Political tract titled "Non Nobis Domine. My Help is onelie in God. My heart trusted & I am helped. A Conference betwixt Orthodoxus and Sophronus, concerning the contents of Buchanan's tractate entituled de jure Regni apud Scotos, and that other entitled Vindiciae contra Tyrannos".
Item
Identifier: MS.2567
Scope and Contents
The work, apparently not known in print, is in a hand of the early eighteenth century, with a dedication to the Marquess of Huntly and a preface, both signed 'Aretophilus'.
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Printed Books from the Riddell Collection., 1718-1850.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.8.1-25.8.42
Scope and Contents
Printed books owned by John Riddell, consisting of standard works of Scottish genealogical reference, volumes of printed session papers, collections of papers in peerage and other claims, and copies of some of Riddell`s published works.
Dates:
1718-1850.
'Tracts on Projectiles', being printed tracts in English on fire-arms, armour, etc., collected by John Sobieski Stuart., 1852-1866, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2177
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Dates:
1852-1866, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Unpublished treatises of John Sobieski Stuart (John Hay Allan), calling himself Count d'Albanie, with materials collected for them.
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Manuscript of the treatise, 'The History of Hand Fire-arms', by John Sobieski Stuart; with realted material.
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'Tracts on Projectiles', being printed tracts on fire-arms, armour, etc., collected by John Sobieski Stuart.
'Tracts on Projectiles', being printed tracts in various languages on fire-arms, armour, etc., collected by John Sobieski Stuart., 1848, 1862-1863, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2178
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Dates:
1848, 1862-1863, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Unpublished treatises of John Sobieski Stuart (John Hay Allan), calling himself Count d'Albanie, with materials collected for them.
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Manuscript of the treatise, 'The History of Hand Fire-arms', by John Sobieski Stuart; with realted material.
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'Tracts on Projectiles', being printed tracts on fire-arms, armour, etc., collected by John Sobieski Stuart.
'Tracts on Projectiles', being printed tracts on fire-arms, armour, etc., collected by John Sobieski Stuart., 1848-1866, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2177-2178
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Dates:
1848-1866, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Unpublished treatises of John Sobieski Stuart (John Hay Allan), calling himself Count d'Albanie, with materials collected for them.
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Manuscript of the treatise, 'The History of Hand Fire-arms', by John Sobieski Stuart; with realted material.
Transcript, received bound, of MS.14547, folios 1-8: 'Relatione of the wrongs done to Ladie Yester’, an account of Lauderdale-Tweeddale relations., 1683.
Item
Identifier: MS.14546
Scope and Contents
Included is a note by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe on page 1: "copied from a manuscript in the first Marquis of Tweeddale's handwriting", and an inscription by Sharpe on the verso of the front cover: 'This manuscript of the Tweeddale family formerly belonged to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, with his handwriting on the first page and corrected throughout. The tract at the end is entirely in his handwriting'. The additional tract referred to (page 47) is "An observable exercise of a dying...
Dates:
1683.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of the Hays of Yester on special subjects.
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Papers of transactions and lawsuits between the Tweeddale and Lauderdale families, deriving chiefly from the marriage between the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale and Lady Mary Maitland, daughter of the Duke of Lauderdale.
Volume containing: (i) a copy of ‘An Index, drawn up about the year 1629, of many records of charters, granted by the different Sovereigns of Scotland between the years 1309 and 1413 ...’ by William Robertson (Edinburgh, 1798); (ii) a copy of ‘Various tracts concerning the Peerage of Scotland’ by James Carmichael (Edinburgh, 1791), 1791, 1798.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.16
Scope and Contents
(i) contains some amendments (chiefly at pages x-xxv) and notes in an unidentified contemporary hand, and a few notes by John Riddell. (ii) contains marginal notes by John Eiston, whose signature is on the verso of the title page, and a few by Riddell.
Dates:
1791, 1798.