Transcripts
Found in 501 Collections and/or Records:
"The 1878-1880 Royal Geographical Society Expedition to East Africa: the Diary of Keith Johnston", transcribed with explanatory notes by James McCarthy.
"The Humble Complaint of Geo[rge] Eglisham Doctor of Physicke" addressed to Charles I.
Includes typescript transcription.
"The Testament Dative and Inventory of the debts and sums of money which were justly owing to umquhile Robert Burns, Officer of Excise in Dumfries, at the time of his decease, viz. the [21st] day of July last, faithfully made out and given up by Jean Armour, Widow of the said defunct, and executrix qua relict decerned to him by decreet dative of the Commissary of Dumfries dated the 16th day of September last," Dumfries.
Thirty letters and papers addressed to John Mure of Rowallan by Mary of Guise, Mary Queen of Scots, the Earls of Arran, Argyll, Lennox, Mar, and Morton, and others; with a transcript thereof.
Titledeeds of the lands of East Barns, alias Grange, in Dunfermline., 1566-1806.
Four of these are signed by James VI and Anne of Denmark.
Topographical extracts by Lieutenant-General George Henry Hutton from ‘A topographical dictionary of Scotland’ by Nicholas Carlisle, and from other works.
Transcript, 1796, of the register of St Machar`s Cathedral entitled ‘Constitutiones Ecclesiae Cathedralis Abbyrdonensis ...’, 1st half of 16th century, which appears to have been at the time in possession of King`s College, Aberdeen (folio 34), made for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton by James Paterson, session clerk, Aberdeen., 1st half of 16th century, 1789-1798.
From folio 46 onwards (corresponding to Adv.MS.34.4.4, folio 13) the rubrics in the original are copied in red ink. Bound in at the front of the volume are a letter and a draft of a letter, 1789, of Thomas Gordon, Professor of Greek at King`s College, Aberdeen (folio 1), a letter and a receipt, 1796-1797, of the copyist (folio 31) and a letter, 1798, of Alexander Dickson (folio 32).
Transcript, 1809-1814, by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of the cartulary of the cathedral and diocese of Brechin, 15th century-16th century., 15th century-16th century.
Written on sheets of paper watermarked between 1809 and 1814 and bound with endpapers watermarked 1818.
The cartulary was at Panmure at the time of transcription.
Transcript, 1819, of the cartulary of Kelso Abbey, after 1316, made for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton by William Robison, writer, Aberdeen (folio ii), from an 18th-century copy at Panmure House., After 1316.
There are marginalia in pencil by Hutton on several of the pages.
Transcript, 1893, of `Nobiles Maiores et Minores` by James Pont, 17th century., 17th century.
The transcript is not in William Rae Macdonald`s hand.
Transcript, 1893, of the manuscript journal, 1736-1737, of Dr Alexander Cunyngham, later Sir Alexander Dick of Prestonfield, made on his Italian journey with Allan Ramsay, painter.
Includes material not printed in "Curiosities of a Scots Charta Chest" (1897).
Transcript, 1993, of letter of John Rennie to Robert Stevenson.
Transcript and audiocassette copy of BBC radio broadcast, "MacDiarmid at 85".
On the occasion of Hugh MacDiarmid`s 85th birthday, including an interview between MacDiarmid and George Bruce.
Transcript, by Dr Walter Seton, of Adv.MS.54.1.7: Thirty letters and papers addressed to John Mure of Rowallan by Mary of Guise, Mary Queen of Scots, the Earls of Arran, Argyll, Lennox, Mar, and Morton, and others., 1548-1593.
Prefixed is a typescript copy of the press-notice of the acquisition of these letters for the Nation.
Transcript by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1800, of manuscripts kept in the archives of the Town Council of Ayr, ?1242-1614., ?1242-1614.
The transcripts are of:
(i) a collection of charters, ?1242-1614, relating to the Dominican convent at Ayr (folio i);
(ii) The Obit Book of the parish church of St John the Baptist, Ayr, 1306-1595 (folio 205).
Bound with endpapers watermarked 1821.
Transcript by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1811-1819, of extracts from the Council, Bailie and Court Registers of Aberdeen, 1398-1550., 1398-1550.
Transcript by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1811-1819, of extracts from the Council, Bailie and Court Registers of Aberdeen, 1398-1639., 1398-1639.
The transcripts are written on sheets of paper watermarked between 1811 and 1819.
Most of the extracts relate to the ecclesiastical antiquities of Aberdeen. The rest relate to various religious houses elsewhere in Scotland.
Bound in two volumes with endpapers watermarked between 1820 and 1822.
Transcript by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1811-1819, of extracts from the Council, Bailie and Court Registers of Aberdeen, 1551-1639., 1551-1639
A large number of binder`s blanks are bound in at the back of the volume.
Transcript by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1812, of charters and other formal documents, 1243-1488, relating to officials and other secular clergy of, and regular clergy in religious houses in the medieval diocese of Glasgow., 1243-1488.
Transcript by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1812, of charters and other formal documents, 1243-1609, relating to officials and other secular clergy of, and regular clergy in religious houses in the medieval diocese of Glasgow., 1243-1609.
Bound in two volumes with endpapers watermarked 1822.
Transcript by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1812, of charters and other formal documents, 1488-1609, relating to officials and other secular clergy of, and regular clergy in religious houses in the medieval diocese of Glasgow., 1488-1609.
Transcript by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1813-1815, of the Register of the parish church of St Nicholas, Aberdeen, late 15th century-16th century., Late 15th century-16th century.
The transcript, made from the original, was written on sheets of paper watermarked between 1813 and 1815 and bound with endpapers watermarked 1820.
Transcript by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1815, of the cartulary of the Dominican priory of St Andrews, 13th century-14th century., 13th century-14th century.
The transcript was made from the original which was then at Panmure. A few textual losses are supplied by Hutton from "the other copy", presumably that known as the `Magnum Registrum’. A bifolium containing a few excerpts by John Stuart, formerly loosely enclosed, is at Adv.MS.9A.1.20, folio 1. The volume is bound with endpapers watermarked 1818.
Transcript by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1818, of the cartulary of the Poor Hospital, Elgin, 1548, which consists of authenticated copies of relevant extracts from the cartularies of the diocese of Moray, late 13th century-1548, or before., Late 13th century-1548, or before.
At folio 1 is Hutton`s transcript of a descriptive note by William Anderson, Writer to the Signet, 1798, of the 1548 manuscript.
Bound with endpaper watermarked 1823.