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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

Household accounts of the Earl of Angus, and other miscellaneous papers., 1608, 18th century-19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.2200
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Household accounts of the Earl of Angus, June-November 1608, signed by the Earl, 'V. D. Erll Anguss'. See A O Curle, "The kitchen and buttery accounts of the Earl of Angus's Household, &c.", in ‘Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’, volume xlii, page 191, where a transcript is given of the accounts for a week in July. (Folio 1.)(ii) Papers regarding the state of the Highlands in relation to Jacobitism: part of a...
Dates: 1608, 18th century-19th century.

Imperfect copy in a 17th-century hand of John Bellenden`s translation of the ‘Scotorum Historiae’ of Hector Boece.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.15
Scope and Contents This copy lacks folios 2, 3 and 163 (the last), which are supplied in a hand apparently of the 2nd quarter of the 18th century. It appears to have been copied from an earlier manuscript, rather than from the edition which was printed about 1536 in Edinburgh, from which it diverges in a number of places. It is not known who made this copy nor who owned it: what may be `Rob: Innes` has been written in a 17th-century hand at folios 1 and 14 but has been subsequently deleted. The upper corner of...
Dates: Early 16th century.

Imperfect copy in several hands, lacking both beginning and end, of ‘Staggering State of Scottish Statesmen’ by Sir John Scot., Circa 1754.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.1(i), folios 1-47
Scope and Contents

The text was published from another manuscript by Walter Goodall. The correct order should be folios 1-3, 5, 4, 7, 6.

Dates: Circa 1754.

Incomplete collection (lacking original pages 1-2) of fair copies, with frequent calligraphic embellishments, of royal decreets and other formal documents relating to the administration of teinds (tithes) in Scotland.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.21
Scope and Contents

The documents are copies of originals mostly from the period 1626 to 1643, but they include a commission, January 1678, granted by Charles II, and the copyist`s hand is characteristic of the late 17th century.

Dates: 1626-1643, 1678

Incomplete copy of a descriptive and historical account of the public records of Scotland, followed (folio 14 verso) by observations, possibly unfinished, on the account.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.15
Scope and Contents Further versions of the account, both datable to 1760, each complementing the other, are at Adv.MS.16.2.14 and Adv.MS.33.5.6, which former is ascribed by a later owner, James Maidment, to William Tytler. In comparison with Adv.MS.33.5.6, which appears to be William Tytler`s original report, this copy lacks words and sentences at folio 6 verso, and a paragraph at each of folio 1 verso and folio 13 verso and breaks off at folio 14, where there is the beginning of a paragraph not present in...
Dates: 1760, or after.

Incomplete copy of MS.1680: 'Select collection of the ancient music of Caledonia, called Piobaireachd, set to music as performed on the Great Highland Bagpipe, by Donald MacDonald'., 4th quarter of 19th century.

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Identifier: MS.22119
Scope and Contents

The copy breaks off (folio 118) in the middle of the fortieth tune 'Lament for the Great John Maclean' (MS.1680, page 230).

According to an undated note on the flyleaf (folio i), “The Contents ... was (sic) copied from the 2nd (Unpublished) volume of Donald MacDonald's Pibrochs”, to which is added in pencil 'by John McKenzie of London'.

Two loose leaves have been tipped in at the back (folios iv-v). A leaf is torn out after folio 118 and folio 119 is damaged.

Dates: 4th quarter of 19th century.

Incomplete copy, written in the late 17th century, of the chronicle of the Civil War in Scotland compiled by Henry Guthrie, Bishop of Dunkeld, subsequently printed as ‘The Memoirs of Henry Guthrie’ (London, 1702).

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.17
Scope and Contents

The manuscript, which covers the period only as far as October 1643, is the same as that common to the other copies in this Library, agreeing with them against the printed book occasionally in small omissions and additions, and frequently in vocabulary, spelling and word order. A few of the early pages contain summaries in the margin.

Dates: 17th century.

Incomplete translation, late sixteenth or early seventeenth century, of Adam Blackwood's ‘Martyre de Marie Stuart’, being the manuscript edited for the Maitland Club as ‘History of Mary, Queen of Scots’, by Alexander Macdonald., Late 16th century-early 17th century.

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Identifier: MS.3148
Scope and Contents

At the end are copies of an instrument of sasine following on a charter of Queen Mary to William Livingstone of Kilsyth, 1564 (folio 66), and of papers relating to Susanna Bruce and Barbara Livingstone, sister-in-law and daughter of William Livingstone of Easter Greenyards, 1629 (folios 67-67 verso), besides another fragmentary legal note, 1629 (folio 68 verso).

Dates: Late 16th century-early 17th century.

‘Innes of Drumgask, Balnacraig, and Ballogie’, Aberdeenshire, 'a family history', by the Reverend John Stirton., 1942.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3068-3069
Scope and Contents

A typewritten work, dealing in particular with Lewis Innes, Principal of the Scots College in Paris, and his brother Thomas, the historian, and containing accounts of the Scots College, of Jacobite activities in France, and of the founding of the Roman Catholic Seminary at Scalan, Banffshire. Copies of correspondence from the Stuart Papers at Windsor are included.

Dates: 1942.

Intelligence reports on the progress and aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745., 1745-1747, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.17514
Scope and Contents

These are in the form of reports, original and copies, notes by Lord Milton, and letters (mostly anonymous) to Lord Milton and others, including some intercepted Jacobite letters.

Dates: 1745-1747, undated.

Interleaved copy of the introduction to 'Border Antiquities of England and Scotland' (1817) by Sir Walter Scott, with the author’s manuscript annotations; and some additional, related content., 1823.

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Identifier: MS.50704
Scope and Contents

Copy of a letter, 18 December 1793, of Scott to Robert Shortreed on collecting old ballads. Folios i-ii.

Note indicating that the corrections made by Scott to the text remained unpublished. Folios iii-iv.

Note containing the words 'This might perhaps be improved though not enlarged'. Folio v-viii.

Interleaved copy of the introduction of 'Border Antiquities of England and Scotland'. Folios 1-130.

Dates: 1823.