Copies. Derivative objects.
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:
Copy, late 17th century, of a treatise on sea laws by Alexander King, Judge Admiral of Scotland, circa 1590, entitled `Tractatus Legum et Consuetudinum Navalium quae apud omnes fere Gentes in usu habentur; Omnia Nautica et quaecumque ex causis marinis in judicium veniunt succincte definiens in certos Titulos ... methodice distinctos. Authore Alexandro Regio`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.4.7
Scope and Contents
The last Titulus (`De Piratis`) is in Scots, as is the appendix on `The forme and Maner of holding of Courts of Admiralitie and processe led befoir Them` which follows.
Dates:
Circa 1590.
Copy, late 17th century, of `De jure prelationis Nobilium scotie or A Memoriall of the evidents and writs produced ... before the Comissioners ... anent the precedency and prioritie of dignitie [1606]`, incorporating additional information up to 1667.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.6
Scope and Contents
The text is followed by a list of titles of the nobility and other related material (folio 34 verso), and verses and notes on the history of Aberdeen (folio 45). An 18th-century hand has added a list of dates of the patents of Scottish nobles (folio 52).
Dates:
1606-1667.
Copy, late 17th century, of part I of Samuel Colvil`s ‘Mock poem, or Whiggs supplication’ (London, 1681).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.9
Scope and Contents
There were several editions of the poem, of which the preface to the first was signed S.C. In this manuscript, a later hand has added the full name to the initials. The manuscript shows a number of variations from the printed text, including some omissions and additions.
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Copy, late 17th-century, of the chronicle of the Civil War in Scotland compiled by Henry Guthrie, Bishop of Dunkeld, 1644-1676.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.9
Scope and Contents
The text of this manuscript (but not the division into paragraphs) is the same as that common to the other copies in this Library, agreeing with them against the printed book in some small omissions and additions, and numerous variants in vocabulary, spelling and word-order. Some of the words of the title, and the opening words or phrases of many of the paragraphs have been written in red, and most of the pages have been ruled in green.On page 190 is an unidentified memorandum in...
Dates:
1644-1676.
Copy, late 17th century to 18th century, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, ‘Major Practicks’ by Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie., 1st half of 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.3(a)
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (a.3.20).
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Copy, late 17th century to 18th century, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, ‘Minor Practicks’ by Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.3A
Scope and Contents
A collection of decisions and law notes.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (a.3.20).
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Copy, late 17th or early 18th century, of the memoirs of James Fraser of Brea, minister of Culross.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.11
Scope and Contents
This copy begins with the author`s preface, omitting the letter of dedication to Thomas Ross, and breaks off at the end of chapter 8. It contains a small amount of biographical material which does not appear in the published version.
The name William Lindsay, Letham, Dunnichen, appears on folio 1.
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Copy, late 18th century, of a Solemn League and Covenant, 1666, apparently signed at Rullion Green.
Item
Identifier: Ch.2519
Dates:
1666.
Copy, late 18th century, of `Nockrar óreglulegar reglur` by Eggert Ólafsson, and `Grammatica Islandica` by Jón Magnússon, 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.7.18
Dates:
18th century.
Copy, late seventeenth century-eighteenth century, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, ‘Major Practicks’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.10
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Copy, late seventeenth century, of Sir Thomas Nicolson of Carnock, ‘Practicks’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.3
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Copy, late seventeenth century, of the chronicle of the Civil War in Scotland compiled by Henry Guthrie, Bishop of Dunkeld., Mid 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7117
Scope and Contents
The text of the manuscript is the same as that of the printed book, excepting some small omissions and additions, and numerous variants in vocabulary, spelling, and word order.
Dates:
Mid 17th century.
Copy letter, 1986, of Margaret Tait, together with copies of letters, 1863 and 1897, of her grand-uncle, William Archer Porter, and her father, John Guthrie Tait.
File
Identifier: Acc.10621
Scope and Contents
Letters concern Indian matters.
Dates:
1863-1897.
Copy letter-book of official correspondence between Sir Robert Liston and William Eden, Baron Auckland., 1774-1776.
File
Identifier: MS.5511
Dates:
1774-1776.
Copy letter-book of Sir Robert Liston, containing his official correspondence as secretary to Hugh Elliot in Berlin., 1779-1780.
Item
Identifier: MS.5519
Copy letter-book of the family of Foulis of Ravelston and Woodhall., 1834-1836.
File
Identifier: MS.6144
Copy letter books of Douglas Kinnaird., 1815-1819.
File
Identifier: MS.43458
Scope and Contents
The five volumes here contain copies of letters of Douglas Kinnaird. The descriptions below are taken from how Kinnaird has described them on the front cover. The volumes contain copy letters of Kinnaird to various correspondents, many of which relate to either his brother, Charles Kinnaird, 8th Baron Kinnaird, or his friend, Lord Byron. The volumes have been arranged in chronological order.‘Lord K’s affairs Oct 1815’, 9 Oct 1815-4 Dec 1815: folios 1-48;...
Dates:
1815-1819.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Correspondence of, to and concerning Lord Byron and his circle.
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Letters and copies of letters of and to Douglas James William Kinnaird.
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Copy letter books of Douglas Kinnaird to various correspondents.
Copy letter books of Douglas Kinnaird., 1819-1825.
File
Identifier: MS.43459
Scope and Contents
The three volumes here contain copies of letters of Douglas Kinnaird. The descriptions below are taken from how Kinnaird has described them on the front cover. The volumes contain copy letters of Kinnaird to various correspondents, many of which relate to Lord Byron. The volumes have been arranged in chronological order.In addition to the letter books, there is a letter of Stephen Lushington to Douglas Kinnaird, which has been placed at the end of the sequence....
Dates:
1819-1825.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Correspondence of, to and concerning Lord Byron and his circle.
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Letters and copies of letters of and to Douglas James William Kinnaird.
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Copy letter books of Douglas Kinnaird to various correspondents.
Copy letter books of Douglas Kinnaird., 1826-1828.
Item
Identifier: MS.43460
Scope and Contents
The two volumes here contain copies of letters of Douglas Kinnaird. They have been arranged in chronological order. After the letter books there is an uncut pamphelt of Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird. This folder also holds the original boards for the folder containing the copy letter books of Douglas Kinnaird.Copy book of Douglas Kinnaird, with some folios removed, 13 June 1826-9 Apr 1828: folios 1-91;Copy book of Douglas Kinnaird, 8 July 1828-25 Nov 1828:...
Dates:
1826-1828.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Correspondence of, to and concerning Lord Byron and his circle.
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Letters and copies of letters of and to Douglas James William Kinnaird.
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Copy letter books of Douglas Kinnaird to various correspondents.
Copy letter of Anton Mussert, founder of the Dutch National Socialist Party, to Mussolini; and letters to Mussert of Professor J L and Lucia Pierson, chiefly concerning Mussert's desire to meet Mussolini again., 1939.
File
Identifier: MS.20765, folios 246-250
Dates:
1939.
Copy letter of Robert F Fairlie to Mountstuart E Grant Duff, Under Secretary of State for India.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10255
Dates:
1870.
Copy letters and memoranda of concerning Bábáji, the Gaikwar's Commander., 1802-1810.
File
Identifier: MS.13650
Scope and Contents
The copies were probably compiled circa 1825.
Included is a memorandum on panchayet courts in Baroda in 1808 (folio 23).
Dates:
1802-1810.
Copy letters of Captain S A Greenwood concerning his translation of ‘The mirror of Sultan Ahmed’., 1807.
File
Identifier: MS.13685
Copy, made apparently in 1729, of ‘the most material passages’ of ‘Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum’ by Thomas Dempster (Bononiae, 1627).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.22
Scope and Contents
Almost all the entries in the printed book have been summarized in the manuscript, which also contains details not recorded in the printed book; many of the entries are partly in English. A later and more detailed entry on Robert Bodie has been written (in English) in the same hand on a small sheet of paper (folio 32) tipped into the volume. The frequent unintentional omissions made in the copying of the manu¬script have been supplied in the same hand in the margins. The dates 2...
Dates:
1627.
Copy, made apparently in or about 1704 by Thomas Ruddiman, Keeper of the Advocates` Library, of (i) a letter written by James V in 1528 to the authorities of the town of Ratisbon (now Regensburg) in favour of the Scots monks there (folio i); and (ii) the preface, entitled `Praefatio, sive Velitatio in Irlandos`, of the `Germania Christiana` of Robert (in religion, Boniface) Strachan, Benedictine monk at Ratisbon (folio 1, where his name is wrongly recorded as Bonaventure).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.6
Dates:
1528, 17th century.