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Copies. Derivative objects.

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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

Copy, made by Andrew Cook, of ‘Germania Christiana’ by Robert (in religion, Boniface) Strachan, Benedictine monk at Ratisbon.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.20
Scope and Contents This copy was made by Andrew Cook, a fellow monk, in or before 1684, when, according to the inscription at folio 1, it was sent as a present by the Abbot, Placid Fleming, to Christopher Irvine, physician and philologist. The work was intended by Strachan as volume 1 of a work in two volumes (see Adv.MS.17.1.9, folio 225, his letter to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet, in 1641), but no more was ever written, nor was this part published.The pagination of this manuscript, which is...
Dates: 1684, or before.

Copy made by John Riddell, on paper watermarked 1809, of the `Copy Search of Charters, Diplomas, andc in favours of the Peers of Scotland containing the Charts of Dignities and Series of Heirs` (folio 7), and of the appendix (folio 162) and index (folio 183) thereto in Adv.MS.34.3.20., Early 13th-early 18th century, ?1809-?1842.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.6
Scope and Contents The copy is written in a formal hand on alternate leaves, the others being left blank for notes and additions, which have been added at various times until 1842 (folio 79 verso), or possibly later.Stitched in at folio 7 is a `List of ancient Peerages to be met with in the Registers of Parliament` in Riddell`s hand (folio 1). A note (folio 9) formerly stitched to folio 7 verso has been tipped in at folio 11. A letter of Lord Lindsay to Riddell, 1855, which was formerly pinned to...
Dates: Early 13th-early 18th century, ?1809-?1842.

Copy made by Thomas (Dom Placid) Fleming, Abbot of Ratisbon, of papers in the dispute between the Irish and the Scottish benedictines over the rightful ownership of the former Irish monasteries in Germany, and particularly that of St. James, Ratisbon.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.29.7.1
Scope and Contents The papers copied are:(i) the supplication for the return of the monasteries made on behalf of the Irish benedictines by Dom Columbanus Duffy, Prior of St. John`s, Waterford, with a list of questions for the Scottish benedictines to reply to (folio 2); (ii) excerpts from documentary and printed sources referred to in the supplication (folio 7); (iii) Fleming`s notes, with additional observations, on all the foregoing (folio 26); (iv) his reply...
Dates: Late 17th century.

Copy made in or about 1690 by James Clapperton, Dalkeith, of the chronicles of the Civil War in Scotland compiled by Henry Guthrie, Bishop of Dunkeld.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.23
Scope and Contents The text of this manuscript 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. In addition to the text, the manuscript contains: summaries (in red) in the margins of most of the pages; at page i, a table of contents (as far as page 105 only); at page 161, a list of Royalist supporters executed in England during the Commonwealth period;...
Dates: Circa 1690.

Copy, made in the second half of the sixteenth century, of the Hamilton Armorial.

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Identifier: MS.10337
Scope and Contents The outline of the shields and mantling have been painted over traced copies, and rather crude crests and supporters added. Following the armorial bearings are remarks (folio 87 verso) on surnames and forfeited arms (cf. Adv.MS.31.4.3, folios 110 and 53). These are followed (folio 89) by notes on Scottish noble families and the contemporary holders of the titles. They may be English in origin and were added after 1588 since they mention the marriage of the Earl of Huntly. There is a note...
Dates: [?1561-?1564.]

Copy, mid-17th century-18th century, of Sir George Auchinleck, Lord Balmanno, ‘Practicks’.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.9
Scope and Contents

Imperfect at the end.

Dates: 1st half of 17th century.

Copy, mid-17th century-18th century, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, 'Minor Practicks', and commentary on Justinian, 'Digest', 'Codex' and 'Novellae'., 1st half of 17th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.6
Scope and Contents

Also contains paraphrases of Justinian (Digest, Codex, Novellae), and other works.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (a.3.7).

Dates: 1st half of 17th century.

Copy, mid 18th century, of 'Inventory of the Writts and Evidents of the Lands and Barrony of Lenzie, Lands of Cumbernauld and others ...', 1681; with indexes of lands mentioned and a chronology down to 1744., 1681, mid 18th century.

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Identifier: MS.20788
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The indexes are of lands mentioned which (1) belonged to the Flemings in 1681 (folio 109) and (2) had been sold before 1681 (folio 117 verso). Also present is additional information about the arrangement and location of the deeds.

Dates: 1681, mid 18th century.

Copy of a letter, 1875, of Bismarck to Thomas Ogilvie Smith and David Hyne Fair; with a letter, 1876, of Bismarck to the same acknowledging the gift of a copy of `The Scots Worthies`., 1875-1876, 1920.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.2.1.15(ii), folios 5-10
Scope and Contents

The letter, 1875, of Bismarck to Thomas Ogilvie Smith and David Hyne Fair acknowledges the gift of a copy of the Scottish National Covenant (the original in British Museum Addit. MS.38891). The letter, 1876, of Bismarck to the same acknowledges the gift of a copy of `The Scots Worthies`, edited by James A Wylie (1876).

Dates: 1875-1876, 1920.