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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Physical or digital representations of a body of information designed with the capacity to communicate. In its broadest sense, ""documents"" include any item amenable to cataloging and indexing, that is, including nonprint media. For the activity of gathering and recording information, see ""documentation (function)""For specfic types of documents, see concepts under ""document genres."".

Found in 1533 Collections and/or Records:

‘Caledonia, seu dissertationes de primis Caledoniae incolis.’

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.13
Scope and Contents

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.V.514.

‘In quibus, Origo, Antiquitas, Mores, Instituta, Linqua, Religio Veterum Caled oniorum una cum situ ac Natura Regionis, monstrantur. Volumen Primum. Eveteribus scriptis collegit, et in ordinem Ne pereat, digessit Patricius Ninianus Gemius de Gemijs & societate Jesu.’

Dates: 1726.

Collection of autographs formed by William Finlay Watson (died 1881), bookseller, Edinburgh.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.577-600
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of letters and documents in the autograph of literary, political, social, artistic, naval, military, and legal celebrities, chiefly covering the period from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth.

The first 2,300 items bear numbers given in the National Galleries. Certain letters, etc., have been retained for exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery; the series is therefore not continuous (see MS.595).

Dates: 16th century-19th century.

Collection of papers concerning the Jacobite Rising of 1745.

 File
Identifier: MS.1081
Scope and Contents The papers fall into three divisions. The first (folios 1-8) contains copies of letters and documents, August-September 1745, concerning Prince Charles Edward Stuart’s movements, chiefly letters of the 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and the 2nd Duke of Atholl, which retail current rumours. The second division (folios 9-47) contains letters and documents, some original, some copies, September 1745-January 1746, concerning the course of the rebellion. Many of the letters are addressed to Robert...
Dates: 1745-1746, 1755.

Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents

The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.

Dates: 1548-1641.

Copies, 17th century, of diplomas, gifts, and other documents, 1615-1651, in favour of Sir James Carmichael, 1st Baronet, of Westraw, and 1st Lord Carmichael; and of papers, 1600-1618, concerning the vicarage and stipend of Pettinain., 1600-1651.

 File
Identifier: MS.20799
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Copies, 17th century, of diplomas, gifts, and other documents in favour of Sir James Carmichael, 1st Bartonet, of Westraw, and 1st Lord Carmichael, 1615-1651. (Folio 1.) This volume is related but not apparently identical to the 'Hyndford Inventory' cited in ‘The Scots peerage’, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, volume 4 (Edinburgh, 1907) pages 584-585. (ii) Copies, early 17th century, of papers, 1600-1618, concerning the vicarage and stipend of Pettinain....
Dates: 1600-1651.

Copies, 17th century, of letters, 1636-1640, of Samuel Rutherfurd chiefly written during the period of his banishment to Aberdeen in 1637.

 File
Identifier: MS.15950
Scope and Contents

The letters are followed (folio 56) by copies of sermons and similar material of Hugh Mackail, David Dickson and others.

The inverted folios contain political and other poems, including 'The black bastel' by James Melvill.

Dates: 1636-1640.