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Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of ‘Table Talk: The Discourse of John Selden Esq., or his sense of various matters of weight and high consequence, Relating especially to Religion and State.’
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.13
Scope and Contents
The first edition of this work appeared in 1689, 35 years after Selden`s death and 9 years after the death of Richard Milward who had collected the material for the work and arranged it for publication. Milward was Rector of Great Braxted in Essex from 1643 and had also acted as Secretary to Selden for twenty years.
Dates:
17th century.
Copy of the appendix to John MacGregor "The Rob Roy on the Jordan, Red Sea, and Gennesareth".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6669
Dates:
1869.
Copy of the autobiography of James, 4th Earl of Panmure, with, at the end, some financial and personal notes, 1720-1721, of Lord Milton., 1720-1721.
Item
Identifier: MS.17804
Dates:
1720-1721.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Academic and literary papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Copy of "The Bruce and Wallace; Published from Two Ancient Manuscripts... in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates", with annotations by Patrick Fraser Tytler.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10398
Dates:
1820.
Copy of the charter, George Halkheid of Pitfirrane to John Stevenson and Marjory Turnbull, his spouse, in an annual-rent of £10 from lands of Burnmouth., 4 April 1587.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6308
Copy of the chronicles of the Civil War in Scotland compiled by Henry Guthrie, Bishop of Dunkeld, subsequently printed as ‘The memoirs of Henry Guthrie’ (London, 1702)., 1697, [1702, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.17806
Scope and Contents
The copy of the chronicles is followed (folio 115) by 'Digitus Dei or Gods [[judgement]] Justice upon Treacherie and Treason & c.', a polemic against the 1st Duke of Hamilton. The signature 'W.Sanders' dated 1697 is on folio 1.
Dates:
1697, [1702, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Academic and literary papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Copy of the commission of the Marquess of Hamilton concerning the management of his affairs in Scotland., 1620.
Item
Identifier: Ch.10776
Copy of the contract by Sir William Alexander for the first settlement of Nova Scotia.
File
Identifier: Acc.11716
Scope and Contents
Includes copy of a letter signed by James VI and I granting Alexander funds for the colony.
Dates:
1622.
Copy of the contract of marriage between Sir Charles Halket of Pitfirran, knight baronet, and Janet Murray, eldest daughter of Sir Patrick Murray of Dryden, knight., 5 August 1675.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6629
Copy of the decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1681-1684, collected, late 17th century, by Sir Patrick Home of Renton, volume I., 1681-1684.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.6
Copy of the decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1681-1688, collected, late 17th century, by Sir Patrick Home of Renton.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.24.3.6-24.3.6a
Scope and Contents
This is an older copy of Adv.MS.24.3.4 containing volumes I and II.
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Copy of the decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1684-1688, collected, late 17th century, by Sir Patrick Home of Renton, volume II., 1684-1688.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.6(a)
Copy of the decreet for the Earl of Errol against the city of Edinburgh., 1633.
Item
Identifier: Ch.10781
Copy of the diary of the early part of the Crimean War compiled by Major Alexander Irving, Royal Artillery (later Major-General), in an unidentified late nineteenth or early twentieth- century hand (presumably that of a descendant).
Item
Identifier: MS.15391
Scope and Contents
It is not clear whether the original diary remained unfinished or whether there were other, untranscribed volumes, but this copy covers only the period from 8 August (folio 1 verso), when Alexander Irving embarked at Woolwich, until 3 December 1854 (folio 122). Also copied at appropriate points in the narrative are private letters written chiefly to his wife Mary and to a friend John Scott Moncrieff. The copyist has begun at folios 1 verso-2 and proceeds one opening at a time, presumably in...
Dates:
1854.
Copy of the dispatch of the 1st Earl of Minto to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors, concerning disaffection in the Madras Army, 15 April 1810., [1810, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.11349
Dates:
[1810, or after.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto with the Chairman and Directors of the East India Company.
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Copies of the correspondence of the Bengal Government with the Court of Directors, and papers printed by order of the Court Directors.
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Copies of dispatches and enclosures of the 1st Earl of Minto to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors, concerning disaffection in the Madras Army.
Copy of the Duke of Wharton's address to the people of England, ?April 1729., 1729.
Item
Identifier: MS.3836, folios 9-10
Dates:
1729.
Copy of the dying declarations of nine Jacobites, inserted in ‘True copies of the dying declarations of ... [various Jacobites]’ (Edinburgh, 1750)., 1746.
Item
Identifier: MS.6576 [L.C.1835]
Copy of “The fairy lovers’ days” compiled by Eleanour S Rohde (London, 1930), containing fair copies of poems by Marion Lochhead., 1952-1967.
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Identifier: MS.26192
Copy of the first part of a history of the houses of the Lords and Earls of Douglas (the Black Douglases) and of the Earls of Angus (the Red Douglases) by David Hume of Godscroft.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.21
Scope and Contents
This copy, which is entitled ‘THE ORIGINE And Descent of the most noble and jllustre familie, and name of Douglas: (etc.)`, is a fair copy made in another hand from a manuscript of the author`s, and deals only with the Black Douglases. From internal evidence, Hume`s manuscript was written before the death of James VI in 1625: this copy was made after 1621. It is written in an anglicized and inconsistent Scots, but the text has been heavily edited, with numerous alterations...
Dates:
Before 1625.
Copy of the Gulistān of Sa‘dī, probably of the early eighteenth century., 1258
Item
Identifier: MS.2734
Copy of the indictment against Edward Davies, Sergeant., 1712.
Item
Identifier: MS.17513
Dates:
1712.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
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Papers concerning the trial and murder of John Porteous, Captain of the Edinburgh City Guard. Lord Milton, as Lord Justice Clerk, presided at the trial.
Copy of the inscription on the tombstone of Sir Thomas Hislop, Baronet, and his wife Emma., 1866.
Item
Identifier: MS.13471
Copy of the inventory, 1615-1630, of the Trésor des Chartes, the muniments of the Crown of France. Volume 3: Gouvernements de Normandie, de Picardie, et de Bretagne., 1713-1714.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.4.1.5