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Copies. Derivative objects.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

Copy, 18th century, of the Standing Orders of the House of Lords, 1763, and before.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.5
Scope and Contents

The manuscript contains numbers 1-127 of the Orders. The latest Orders are dated 1763.

Dates: 1763, and before.

Copy, 18th century, written on paper watermarked 1742 or 1749, of an extract from `An Abridgment of the Scotishe historie`, written by John Maxwell, 4th Lord Herries of Terregles and dated 1656.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.7
Scope and Contents The extract covers the period 1541-1571. There is a brief description of the original manuscript on the flyleaf of the present volume. According to Robert Pitcairn in his preface to the published work, the original manuscript was probably destroyed sometime during the French Revolution, having been housed in the Scots College at Douai. The copyist, whose initials appear to be J P (folio 1), may have been Friar John Pepper, Society of Jesus, who was a student at the Scots College, Douai from...
Dates: 1656.

Copy, 19th century, of the poetical collection made in 1630 by Margaret Robertson, wife of Alexander Stewart of Bonskeid.

 File
Identifier: MS.15937
Scope and Contents The original collection belonged to John Richardson of Pitfour (later Sir John Stewart-Richardson) who lent it to Peter Buchan for the compilation of his ‘Ancient ballads and songs of the North of Scotland’. Buchan intended to use it in the third volume of his work which was never completed. His extracts from it are contained in British Library, Add.MS.29409, folios 256-277; the whereabouts of the original is not known.The paper is watermarked 1823.The writers of the...
Dates: [Before 1630.]