Letters of Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney, to his brother-in-law, Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston, and his sister Jane, Sir Archibald`s wife.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.54.1.6
Scope and Contents
Among the subjects of the letters are his troubled relations with Sir John Bellenden, the Lord Justice Clerk, the education of his nephew, John (the inventor of logarithms), and the plague at Edinburgh.
Dates
- Creation: 1559-1561, 1568.
Extent
0.00 Linear metres (8 folios. Folio and under.)
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
The letters were presented to the Advocates’ Library in 1924 by J Cathcart White, Advocate.
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 letters are printed in full in ‘Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston’ by Mark Napier (Edinburgh, 1834), pages 63-71, 110-111.
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland
- Date
- 01 09 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
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Archives and Manuscript Division
National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1EJ
0131 623 3700
manuscripts@nls.uk