Copies. Derivative objects.
Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:
Chartulary of the Hospital of the Holy Trinity at Soutra, written in 1399 by William de Cranstoun, notary public.
The charters, which are not in chronological order, cover the period 1162-circa 1330. They are followed by a copy of Cranstoun`s notarial instrument concerning the making of the chartulary (folio 25) and copies of two charters of 1426 and 1440 in different hands (folio 26 verso).
Some of the initials have simple penwork decoration by the scribe, whose notarial sign is also given (folio 25 verso).
Chiefly original correspondence, May 1809-January 1810, concerning the Kutch expedition, chiefly concerned with commissariat matters., 1809-1810.
Christmas cards of Naomi Mitchison, with woodcuts of Gertrude Hermes and others.
With typescript and copy of memorandums on National Parks, Highland education and museums of Mitchison.
`Chronicle of Perth`, 1210-1668, also known as Mercer`s Chronicle and Fleming`s Chronicle, with other documents relating to the burgh of Perth.
The `Chronicle` was compiled probably between 1600 and 1668 by more than one person. Though attributed to John Mercer, town clerk of Perth, only the latter part appears to be his work. From 1660 it is almost entirely a register of burials.
Other items in the volume are a fragment of a legal memorial, circa 1597, concerning the foundation of the King James VI Hospital in Perth (folio 1), and a group of letters concerning Royal Burgh affairs (1614-1628), all copies (folio 20).
Chronicle of the Civil War in Scotland, being largely a copy of the work later printed as 'The Memoirs of Henry Guthrie', 1638-1649.
The manuscript, which is in different hands of the seventeenth century, wants pages 1-2, 15-16, and 21-26.
"Cinquant [sic] Octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, dediez a tresillustre seigneur le conte de Shrewsbury, pour ses estrennes l'an 1607", being a calligraphic copy of the verses by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu, first published anonymously in ‘Les Cantigues du Seigneur de Maisonfleur’.
Circa 100 letters to, and copies of letters of, John Soutar concerning the publication of the works of William Soutar; with an inventory of the library of William Soutar.
Papers of John Soutar, father of the poet William Soutar (1898-1943).
This accession mostly contains letters concerning the publication of William Soutar's works following his death. They are particularly concerned with the editorship of the 'Collected Poems', edited by CM Grieve (London: A Dakers, 1948), and 'Diaries of a
Dying Man', edited by Alexander Scott (Edinburgh: W and R Chambers, 1954).
Cistercian rules, copied by Alexander Scot, monk of the Cistercian Abbey of Newbattle.
Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, part 1., 1761-1822, undated.
Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, part 1, box 1., 1789-[circa 1820], undated.
Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, part 1, box 3., 1761-1820.
'Collection of Ancient Piobaireachd Music, arranged by D.S. Macdonald, Pipe Major, First Battn. the Royal Scots', Edinburgh., 1882.
This collection is apparently as prepared for publication, and has at the beginning instructions for blowing and keeping the pipes in order, and various exercises on piobaireachd. It contains 64 tunes, among them two which are not from Angus Mackay's manuscripts.
`Collection of armorial bearings, inscriptions, etc.` made by Alexander Deuchar.
`Collection of armorial bearings, inscriptions, etc.` made by Alexander Deuchar, volume 1., 1812-1841.
The volume consists of notes on, and sketches of arms, mostly taken from churchyards in Edinburgh and elsewhere in Scotland, with a few copied from seals. They are followed by a list of clans and their badges (page 495), a list of chartularies and related material in the Advocates` and other libraries (page 501), and an index (page 521).
Collection of copies of letters and papers concerning the formation of the Irish Treasury Board and the procedures to be adopted by it, with notes on the procedures of the British Treasury.
The volumes have the book-plate of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, and, as he was secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1794-1795, were presumably compiled on his instructions.
Collection of "day-books" containing copies of letters, routes, instructions and memoranda by General Sir George Murray and by members of his staff., 1809-1814.
Many of the letters are merely summarized. Most of those written during Murray’s absence in 1812-1813 (Adv.MS.46.5.12-46.5.14) are addressed to the commissary general.
Collection of epigrams, songs, copies of letters and documents, etc., relating to current events in France., 1712-1730.
‘Collection of epitaphs and inscriptions out of the counties of Hampshire (Isle of Wight), Hertfordshire, Essex, Cambridgeshire, as copied literally from tomb & other stones by Russell Skinner'.
Only Hertfordshire inscriptions are given, but the index of first lines (folio i) refers to those in other counties.