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Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

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, volume 1., 1686-1689.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)
Scope and Contents The volume contains transcripts of documents from various sources, including: the cartulary of St Mary`s Abbey, Newbattle (Adv.MS.34.4.13), in a different arrangement (folio 15); charters of Holyroodhouse, apparently from an unknown source (folio 152); these transcripts were used in ‘Liber Cartarum Sancte Crucis’, those at folios 154 verso-162 verso being printed (in a different order) at pages xvi-xli (passim) of the preface. Some (folios 158-159) are also printed in...
Dates: 1686-1689.

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, volume 2., 1686-1689.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.10(ii)
Scope and Contents

The volume contains transcripts of the cartulary of the Abbey of St Thomas the Martyr, Arbroath (Adv.MS.34.4.2), in a different arrangement (folio 17); a Calendar of Saints` days observed in Scotland before the Reformation (folio 267), and a list of feasts formerly held in Scotland (folio 286 verso).

Dates: 1686-1689.

Fair copy of Henry Cockburn's diary in two volumes of the journey from London to Venice and back made with Francis Jeffrey and others., July-September 1823.

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Identifier: MS.23225
Scope and Contents

The copy was 'carefully and faithfully made by ... Charlotte Jeffrey one of the companions of the tour' (folio ii). Henry Cockburn did not keep his diary everyday; the last entry, dated 23 September, written after his return to London covers the preceding eighteen days, and the previous entry was written after a two days' gap.

Dates: July-September 1823.

Family correspondence and documents of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., 1844-1954, undated.

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Identifier: MS.9347
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letter, 1896, of Herbert Grierson to Mary Ogston, his future wife. (Folio 1.)(ii) Letters, 1912, of Grierson to his wife describing a tour he made of the Burns country. (Folio 3.)(iii) Letters, 1942-1943, of Grierson to his daughter Flora, concerning family and personal matters; also two letters, 1942, of Molly Dickins to her sister Flora Grierson. (Folio 11).(iv) Letters, 1930-1936, undated, of Mary Grierson to...
Dates: 1844-1954, undated.

Family letters of John Kirk, Alick Kirk, and James Kirk; with professional letters of Rear-Admiral Frederick Grey and the administrations of Mozambique to John Kirk., 1858-1863.

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Identifier: Acc.9942/2
Scope and Contents Typescript copies of 20 letters, 29 November 1859 – 14 July 1863 from John Kirk to his brother Alick, and one original letter from James Kirk to his brother Alick Kirk, 24 September 1861.Copy letter of Rear-Admiral Frederick Grey to John Kirk, 16 November 1858, with a copy of a letter of the Governor-General of Mozambique to Grey, 19 October 1858, and a copy of a letter from the Governor of Quillemane to the Mozambique administration, dated 9 September 1858, praising Kirk's...
Dates: 1858-1863.

Farming memoranda, rentals and accounts of the Scotts of Raeburn, with religious notes of the earlier lairds., 1664-1854.

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Identifier: MS.3842
Scope and Contents

To the papers William, the 6th Laird, has added extensive annotations, and historical accounts of the family and their lands, copies of letters and various excerpts relating to these subjects and local affairs, and accounts of his own career, the latest dated entry being of 1854.

Dates: 1664-1854.

Fifteenth-century manuscript of the 'short version' of the 'Polychronicon' of Ranulph Higden.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.12
Scope and Contents This is a copy of the original, short version ending in 1327. It contains preface (folio iii), alphabetical table (folio v; the reference-system, explained at the beginning, is to the foliation of this manuscript), map of the world (folio xiii verso), and text in seven books (folios 1, 33, 57, 92, 122 verso, 159 verso, 183), not formally divided into chapters.The presence of a map is unusual in this version (‘Universal Chronicle of Ranulf Higden’, pages 63-68, 97-98). It is...
Dates: 1327, and before.

Financial papers and papers concerning the Commercial Department., 1806-1807, 1809.

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Identifier: MS.11611
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) 'Account stating the loss of Freight that has arisen between the excessive Taxes which have been allowed in the Private Traders' Accounts of Privilege Goods, exported from Bengal, and the Taxes on the same goods which it has been deemed proper to deduct on the adjustment of the Accounts of the within ment[ione]d Ships', 1806-1807 (folio 1); (ii) Copies of the charter-parties of affreightment of the East India ships 'Lady Carrington' and 'Ann', 1809 (folio...
Dates: 1806-1807, 1809.