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Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:
Extract copy of instrument of sasine, 11 July 1603, registered, 1 August 1603, to Mr John Skene, clerk register and Helen Somerville, of Saltoun., 11 July 1603.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13321
Dates:
11 July 1603.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Charters and formal documents from the Saltoun Papers.
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Early Saltoun documents.
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Documents relating to Sir John Skene of Curriehill, Alexander Peirson, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh, Sir Alexander Hay of Fosterseat, and William Kellie, W.S. Their claims were transferred to Forbes of Craigievar.
Extract copy of reversion, 17 June 1603, registered, 30 June 1603, by Alexander Peirson and Elizabeth Easton to John, Lord Saltoun of West Saltoun and an annualrent., 17 June 1603.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13314
Dates:
17 June 1603.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Charters and formal documents from the Saltoun Papers.
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Early Saltoun documents.
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Documents relating to Sir John Skene of Curriehill, Alexander Peirson, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh, Sir Alexander Hay of Fosterseat, and William Kellie, W.S. Their claims were transferred to Forbes of Craigievar.
Extract of registered copy, 5 March 1585/1586, of contract, 4 March 1585/1586, between Alexander, Lord Saltoun and John Wardlaw, burgess of Edinburgh and Janet Hutton his wife, concerning lands in Easter Saltoun., 4 March 1585/1586.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13106
Dates:
4 March 1585/1586.
Extracts and copies of historical works, collected by Sir James Balfour, 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.7
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Epitome Codicis Sconensis ... ex libro M.S. Magni Mackculloche` (folio 1). Material in Latin and English, taken from the `Scotichronicon` for 1057 to 1436, with a supplement (folio 34) for 1199-1263. This was the basis of the early part of Balfour`s ‘Annales of Scotland’. ‘The Scottish historical library’, pages 92-93, refers to this manuscript.(ii) Extracts from ‘Scotorum historiae’ by Hector Boece (folio 39)....
Dates:
1440-1642.
Extracts by Lieutenant-General George Henry Hutton from a manuscript compiled mainly by John Smyth, a monk at Kinloss Abbey (folio 1), followed by a copy by Hutton of the description (in fact a list of contents) of the original (Harl.MS.2363) from ‘A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum’, volume II (folio 28).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.6
Scope and Contents
Smyth`s manuscript appears to have been compiled from 1532 until his death in 1557 (several of the entries are undated): Hutton made his extracts about 1809, the date of the watermark of the leaves, and had them bound about 1824, the date of the watermark in the (blank) endpapers, Smyth`s manuscript appears to have consisted of fifteen items: Hutton appears to have copied the first seven and to have made extracts, some quite brief, from some of the remainder.
Dates:
1532-1557.
'Extracts from Lord Minto's journal 1821-1822'; fair copies bound by, and in the hand of the 2nd Earl of Minto, of material recorded originally in MSS.11983-11988., 1821-1822.
File
Identifier: MS.11990
Dates:
1821-1822.
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, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Journals of the 2nd Earl and Countess of Minto, and their children.
Extracts from registers in Glasgow, chiefly of the Kirk, made about 1706., 1583-1706.
File
Identifier: MS.2782
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) 'Exce[r]pta from the Synod Register of Glasgow and Air', 1687-1703 (folio 1);(ii) 'Excerpta from The Register of the Presbytrie of Glasgow', 1687-1706 (folio 7);(iii) 'Excerpta out of the Registers of the Sessions of Glasgow', 1583-1705 (folio 13); arranged under heads, with a contents table.(iv) 'A List of the Magistrates of the City of Glasgow from anno 1583 to this present time', 1705, the latest date (folio...
Dates:
1583-1706.
Fair copies, drafts and other papers concerning 'Jadee Jathu’, an account of the castes in Malabar by Alexander Walker., ?1st quarter of 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13810-13815
Fair copies, drafts, notes and chapter summaries of Alexander Walker's history of Malabar., ?1st quarter of 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13797-13809
Fair copy, 1886, of the journal of James Greig of a hunting expedition in South Africa and Becknanaland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10027
Scope and Contents
Gives impressions of the scenery, games and meeting with missionaries, including David Livingstone.
Dates:
1844-1845.
Fair copy, in a contemporary hand, of `De Hominio Disputatio` by Sir Thomas Craig.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.25
Scope and Contents
Sir Thomas Craig wrote this work in 1603 to show that Scotland had never done homage to England, in reply to strenuous claims to the contrary in the 1587 edition of Holinshead`s ‘Chronicles’ (`in manibus hominum his sexdecim annis`- page 2). Like many of Craig`s works this was not published in his lifetime; but an English translation, almost certainly from another copy (pages xxxvii-xxxviii), was produced at London under the title `Scotland`s Soveraignty asserted ...` by George Ridpath in...
Dates:
1603.
Fair copy in a contemporary hand of `De Hominio Disputatio` by Sir Thomas Craig.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.2
Scope and Contents
Craig wrote this work in 1603 to show that Scotland had never done homage to England, in reply to strenuous claims to the contrary in the 1587 edition of Holinshead`s ‘Chronicles’ (`in manibus hominum his sexdecim annis` - folio i verso).
Dates:
1603.
Fair copy in a contemporary hand of ‘De jure successionis andc regni Angliae Libri duo’ by Sir Thomas Craig.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.1
Scope and Contents
This was one of several works written in reply to ‘A Conference abovt the next svccession to the crowne of Ingland’ written in 1594 by `N. Doleman` (a pseudonym for a group of Recusant exiles led by Sir Francis Englefield, but then and long afterwards thought to be of Robert Parsons, Society of Jesus).The dedication of the work, to King James VI of Scotland, is dated 1 January 1603: the peaceful accession of James to the throne of England later that year was probably deemed by...
Dates:
Circa 1603.
Fair copy in an unidentified hand of apparently early 18th-century provenance of `Buchanan Revis`d [:] Annotations or Animadversions on Buchanan`s Historie and his Dialogue, etc.` by Sir James Turner, along with the rest of the contents of Adv.MS.31.1.14.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.15
Scope and Contents
The transcript of Turner`s `observations` on O`Flaherty`s ‘Ogygia’ is written in the same hand but on slightly smaller leaves.
The copy may have been made for Sir Robert Sibbald who appears to have made a few brief additions at various places.
The volume appears to have been re-bound early in the 19th century.
Dates:
1643-1679.
Fair copy in an unknown hand of `De Unione Regnorum Britanniae Tractatus` by Sir Thomas Craig.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.3
Scope and Contents
There are many words and passages left blank, and corrections and additions have been made in the original hand and others. Some omissions have been supplied and marginal notes added, by William Aikman of Carnie, Advocate, in 1690, from a copy then in the possession of Christopher Irvine, Doctor of Medicine, for which see folio 132 verso.Sir Thomas Craig was one of the Scottish Commissioners appointed to discuss closer political links with England following James VI`s accession...
Dates:
Circa 1604.
Fair copy, not in his hand, of an unpublished paper, `Note as to various MacDwyne, Macarthus, Mac O Diunne or Campbell Tartans` by John Francis Campbell, with annotations and comments in his own hand on opposite pages., 1871.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.3.10
Scope and Contents
A letter of John Sobieski Stuart, 1871, has been inserted at the end of the volume.
Dates:
1871.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Collections of Gaelic tales, folklore and proverbs, mainly written by John Dewar; material relating to folklore in general; papers concerning Highland dress; and several volumes relating to Irish language and folklore.
Fair copy of a collection of extracts mostly from mediaeval registers of religious houses, with some from current printed reference books, concerning the ancestors of the family of Stirling of Keir: volume 1., 1818-1822.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.12
Dates:
1818-1822.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Notebooks from the Riddell Collection.
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Large notebooks from the Riddell Collection, containing genealogical and other notes relating to Scottish families.
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Fair copy, written on paper watermarked 1825, of a collection of extracts mostly from mediaeval registers of religious houses, with some from current printed reference books, made apparently between 1818 and 1822, concerning the ancestors of the family of Stirling of Keir.
Fair copy of a collection of extracts mostly from mediaeval registers of religious houses, with some from current printed reference books, concerning the ancestors of the family of Stirling of Keir: volume 2., 1818-1822.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.13
Dates:
1818-1822.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Notebooks from the Riddell Collection.
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Large notebooks from the Riddell Collection, containing genealogical and other notes relating to Scottish families.
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Fair copy, written on paper watermarked 1825, of a collection of extracts mostly from mediaeval registers of religious houses, with some from current printed reference books, made apparently between 1818 and 1822, concerning the ancestors of the family of Stirling of Keir.
Fair copy of a collection of extracts mostly from mediaeval registers of religious houses, with some from current printed reference books, concerning the ancestors of the family of Stirling of Keir: volume 3., 1818-1822.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.14
Dates:
1818-1822.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Notebooks from the Riddell Collection.
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Large notebooks from the Riddell Collection, containing genealogical and other notes relating to Scottish families.
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Fair copy, written on paper watermarked 1825, of a collection of extracts mostly from mediaeval registers of religious houses, with some from current printed reference books, made apparently between 1818 and 1822, concerning the ancestors of the family of Stirling of Keir.
Fair copy of a short story, 'John Vincent', written under the pseudonym 'William Douglas' by George Douglas Brown, but never offered for publication., 1897.
Item
Identifier: MS.8177
Fair copy of administrative correspondence, apparently unconnected with James Stuart, chiefly between officials of the East India Company and Indian princes., 1767.
File
Identifier: MS.8403
Dates:
1767.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Correspondence and papers of Major-General James Stuart, younger brother of Andrew Stuart.
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Copies of correspondence, chiefly compiled for James Stuart, probably as part of his defence against accusations of inefficiency.
Fair copy of an unpublished novel, 'Gilded Ganymede: letters to the Devil' by Fred Urquhart, written under the pseudonym 'Fred Valdred'., 1930-1931.
File
Identifier: MS.26995
Scope and Contents
The copy is preceded (folio i) by three letters from Aldous Huxley, 1931, advising Fred Urquhart against publication.
Dates:
1930-1931.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript and typescripts of short stories and novels by Fred Urquhart (1912-1995).
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Manuscripts of an unpublished novel, 'Gilded Ganymede: letters to the Devil' by Fred Urquhart, written under the pseudonym 'Fred Valdred', 1929-1930.
Fair copy of correspondence, January-April 1781, of James Stuart and officials and officers of the East India Company, possibly compiled for publication., 1781.
File
Identifier: MS.8404
Dates:
1781.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Correspondence and papers of Major-General James Stuart, younger brother of Andrew Stuart.
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Copies of correspondence, chiefly compiled for James Stuart, probably as part of his defence against accusations of inefficiency.
Fair copy of `Diplomatum veterum collectio`, being Richard Augustine Hay`s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)-(iii)
Scope and Contents
The copy was probably begun in 1696 (the date quoted on the title page) and not completed until 1701 or later (34.1.10(iii), folio 294 verso), made apparently by a copyist from the transcripts made by Hay when he was in Scotland between 1686 and 1689.
Dates:
1686-1689.