Volume containing two descriptions by the Scottish author David Buchanan (?1595-?1652): `Provinciae Edinburgenae Descriptio` and `Edinburgi Descriptio`, possibly written in his own hand.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.19
Dates
- Creation: Circa 1648.
Extent
0.00 Linear metres (11 pages. Quarto.)
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
The manuscript was bought by the Advocates’ Library at the sale of Sir Robert Sibbald’s books, April 1723.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.
Bibliography
The descriptions were published in ‘Macfarlane`s Geographical Collections’, volume ii (Edinburgh, 1907) and in ‘Miscellanies’ of the Bannatyne Club, volume ii.
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland
- Date
- 13 07 2015
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Prepared Using Local Descriptive Rules
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository
Contact:
Archives and Manuscript Division
National Library of Scotland
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Edinburgh EH1 1EJ
0131 623 3700
manuscripts@nls.uk
Archives and Manuscript Division
National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1EJ
0131 623 3700
manuscripts@nls.uk