Coats of arms. devices (symbols).
Found in 62 Collections and/or Records:
'Regum Principumque Christiani Orbis Terrarum fere Omnium Genealogia. Item, Archiepiscoporum et Episcoporum aliquot Catalogus. Wilhelmus Smith, Anglus, fecit et possidet. Anno 1587.' The compiler was, presumably, William Smith, Rouge-Dragon Pursuivant.
The Genealogia, every page of which is within a coloured border, gives coats of arms, emblazoned; there is an index to it (folio 1). Following the Genealogia come the Catalogus (folio 29); short drafts for parts of the Genealogia (folio 31); a broadsheet, ‘The Succession of the Kings of England’ (London, 1687) (folio 34); and a genealogy showing the royal connections of various English families from early times (folio 37).
Scottish armorial, probably produced in England between 1633 and 1641, entitled 'Painted peerage of Scotland being the armorial bearings of all the nobility of Scotland beautifully done in water colours in Charles the Ist' time.'
Scottish armorial, probably produced in England in the late 16th century.
This armorial is closely related to MS.10338; the text in both manuscripts is the same, but the names of some of the Scottish queens are omitted in MS.19610 (folios 2-3) and the reference to James VI as king of England (folio 4 verso) is added in the margin. The coats of arms were originally in trick and have been painted.
‘Short Account of the Familie of Birnie of that Ilk ... as also of The Hamiltons of Broomhill . . . conforme to The papers, and other wrytts . . . now in the Charter Chest at Broomhill ; with ane full account of the papers themselves . . . from anno 1473 ... By me Jo: Birnie.'
The label gives the final date as 1729, but a charter of 1730 is mentioned. The author left his work uncompleted.
Songbook containing the words of 150 popular Scottish, Irish, French and Dutch ballads.
Sticky labels of Lord Tweedsmuir with family crest., Undated.
Testimonial for Sir James Balfour of Denmilne by the English College of Arms, followed by the signatures and mottoes of the various heralds and pursuivants below paintings of their own arms.
The manuscript was displayed in the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1891.
'The Arms of Noblemen, Knights, and others who have been Recorded in the Books of the Lyon Office at Edinburgh. [Compiled, over a period of years at the end of the seventeenth century, by] Henry Frazer, Ross Herauld & Painter'.
Henry Frazer’s signature is on page 710.
There are additions throughout in various hands including that of David Deuchar, Seal Engraver, Edinburgh, who also compiled the indexes (cf. Adv.MSS.35.6.15-35.6.16). There are thirteen coats crudely emblazoned and a sketch of the seal of office of the Lyon King of Arms.
Translation into Latin by Alexander Ross of ‘The genealogie and pedigree of the most ancient and noble family of the Earles of Sutherland’ by Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun.
Treatise, apparently unpublished, entitled "The Science of Heraldry", the families and arms all being Scottish.
‘Two Leith Admiralls’: a descriptive account of two late 15th century Scottish naval commanders, Andrew Barton and Sir Andrew Wood.
The manuscript is written in purple ink in an unidentified hand of the late 19th century. Included are coloured drawings of the arms of Andrew Barton and Sir Andrew Wood (folios 2, 10).
The account, which is derived from printed sources, appears to have been the tenth part, consisting of pages 32-44, of a work written to illustrate the history, or the notable associations, of the port of Leith.
Volume entitled `Statuti della Mercanzia` (folio 1) containing a copy in a 17th-century hand of the statutes on trade enacted under Francesco de` Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, shortly after his accession in 1574.
The text of the work, which is in three books, is preceded by an engraved title page (folio 1), lists of contents (folio 3) and an index of the most frequently occurring topics (folio 7), and is followed by additional statutes dated 1522-1523, 1526, 1528, 1613, and other material (folio 184).