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Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Transcribed collections of numbers, names, or other text indicating tallies of concepts collocated for any particular purpose.
Found in 1660 Collections and/or Records:
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 11: letters and papers, 1620-1626 (chiefly 1624-1625), undated., 1620-1626, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 [xi]
Scope and Contents
Documents are chiefly to James VI and the Lord Chancellor, George Hay (later Earl of Kinnoull), but there are some administrative documents from early in the reign of Charles I.
Dates:
1620-1626, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
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State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 1-13: letters and papers on various topics.
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 13: papers., ?1639-1641, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 [xiii]
Scope and Contents
Documents concerning political events, especially the Scots army at Newcastle and affairs in the English Parliament. Some printed ballads and letters to Sir James Balfour are included.
Dates:
?1639-1641, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
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State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 1-13: letters and papers on various topics.
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 33: copies of lists of the records removed from Scotland on the orders of Edward I and of material in the chapterhouse of Westminster Abbey.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.30 [33]
Scope and Contents
Also included are transcripts of some formal documents, 1189-1299.
Dates:
1189-1299, 17th century.
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 1-13: letters and papers on various topics., 1560-1641, undated.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 (i)-(xiii)
Statements and lists relating to the 7:84 archive and the John McGrath and Elizabeth MacLennan papers., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.10893/369
Statistics and information concerning the inhabitants of Newfoundland and the development of its agriculture and fisheries., 1804-1810, 1826-1834.
File
Identifier: MS.2351
Dates:
1804-1810, 1826-1834.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Letters and papers of and concerning Sir Thomas John Cochrane as Governor of Newfoundland.
Stock journal of the Darien Company: list of capital subscribers, 1696; transfers of capital, 1697-1707., 1696-1707.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.83.1.7
Strike-pay list of the Edinburgh Typographical Society., 22 November [?1872]-14 March [?1873].
Item
Identifier: Acc.4068/112
Dates:
22 November [?1872]-14 March [?1873].
Student's notes of lectures on Government given by Professor John Millar., 1780-1781.
File
Identifier: MS.3931
Scope and Contents
The student notes are preceded by a printed title page, ‘A Course of Lectures on Government; given annually in the University, Glasgow, 1778', with an analytical list of the lectures.
Dates:
1780-1781.
Style-book of Senior William Steuart of Castlemilk, inscribed on the flyleaf, 'This styll Book was begun be Sr. Wm. Steuart of Castlemilk ye 6th of March 1690'., 1690.
Item
Identifier: MS.5343
Scope and Contents
On folio 2 is a short poem. The styles occupy folios 3-9. On folios 10-15, written in an eighteenth century hand, is a list of books in Latin, French and English, on literature, agriculture, philosophy, divinity and law. The remaining folios are blank.
Dates:
1690.
Subject and people lists (M-Z), for 'Chambers Biographical Dictionary'., 1988-1990.
File
Identifier: Acc.13542/24
Succession of the dukes of Normandy and kings of England from 874 to 1307.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.9(viii), folio 60 verso
`Summa magistri Walteri de Agelon facta de dosis medicinarum`, and a list of symptoms., 14th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.9(iii), folios 59-68
Scope and Contents
`Summa magistri Walteri de Agelon facta de dosis medicinarum`, incipit `Medicinarum uero quedam sunt simplices quedam composite` (‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column 860) (folio 59).A list of symptoms, incipit `Significat solutionem se acute mediante fluxu sanguinis a naribus’ (folio 65 verso).Vacant spaces are filled in by different hands of the 14th and 15th centuries with recipes (folios 65, 68 verso, some of the latter in...
Dates:
14th century.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Dates:
17th century.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of Scottish historical documents, for the most part copies from the Cotton Library, originally labelled ‘Kirk manuscripts B’., 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.19
Scope and Contents
A collection copied by various hands without sufficient accuracy, possibly for Matthew Crawford.The contents are as follows:
(i) Letter, 3 May 1582, of Sir John Foster to Secretary Walsingham.
(ii) Advertisement out of Scotland, 22 June 1582.
(iii) Letter, 20 August 1582, of the Queen of England to the King of Scotland.
(iv) Depositions of George Douglas sent the 14 September from Stirling, and received the 20 September at Windsor. ‘Septr. 28 1582’.
(v) The heads whereof George...
Dates:
17th century.
'Tabula super bibliam': an early 15th-century glossed copy of a summary of the Bible in Latin verse by Johannes Vasco, Order of Friars Minor, with explanatory verses which give the date of composition as 1393.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.2
Scope and Contents
The text begins 'Ante fir. lux producitur' and the interlinear gloss '[fir]mamentum. quia deus appellat diem'. There are also interlinear capitals indicating to which parts of the chapter the verse refers. Rubrics at the beginning of each book give the number of chapters. The text is followed (folio 123) by mnemonic verses on the books of the Bible with the numbers of their chapters, beginning 'Pentateu genesis exitque levi'; explanatory verses (folio 123 verso) beginning 'Finit tractatus...
Dates:
Early 15th century.
Tabular voting and canvass lists of the Irish Member of Parliament’s returned to the Parliament of 1806-1807., 1806-1807.
File
Identifier: MS.12925
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of attitudes to the 'Talents' Ministry marked 'For', 'Against', and 'Doubtful', and 'Remarks' on the local interests involved. The first list (folio 1) includes the names of unsuccessful candidates.
Dates:
1806-1807.
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 chiefly of William Nassau Elliot of Wells (?1736-1775), Barrister (Inner Temple), and of his son, William Elliot of Wells (1766-1818), Member of Parliament.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning William Elliot of Wells.
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Correspondence and papers of William Elliot of Wells as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1806-1807.
'The Chapmens Cowrt Book belonging to the West Nwck'., 1706-1767.
Item
Identifier: MS.199
Scope and Contents
Includes 'The Acts of the Chapmen Cowrt of Fife', Dunfermline, 8 July 1706.
Dates:
1706-1767.
‘The coates armoriall of severall knights and gentlemen as they are matriculat in the New Register of Armes in the Lyon Office` by Robert Mylne. Followed (folio 204) by `The blazons of the Royall Burghs in Scotland`, also taken from the Lyon Register.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.8
Scope and Contents
A number of the entries include the date (1692 or later) on which they were extracted from the Register, and some have additional information probably supplied by Mylne. There are some notes (folio ii) in 19th-century hands, including a list of officials of the Lyon Court.
Dates:
1711.
`The Consultation Book of James Boswell Esquire of Auchinleck Advocate Who put on the Gown 29 July 1766. Written with his own hand.`
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.3.1.10
Scope and Contents
James Boswell’s case-book for the law sessions 1766-1772, listing the cases which he pleaded, together with the names of the agents, judges and opponents, and the fees received. Followed, from folio 12 verso, by lists, 1831-1833, of wines and spirits acquired from various merchants.
Dates:
1766-1772, 1831-1833.
The MacNicol collection, comprising Gaelic songs and other papers collected by the Reverend Donald MacNicol, minister of Lismore, and his son Dugald MacNicol, with some added papers and listings of later owners and users of the collection.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.14850-14864
Scope and Contents
A collection of Gaelic songs and associated papers, brought together by the Rev. Donald MacNicol (1735-1802), minister of Lismore, and continued by his son Dugald (b. 1791), an army officer. The Gaelic songs are from a range of periods and include Ossianic verse, waulking songs and songs by contemporaries of the collectors, such as Dugald Buchanan, Donnchadh Bàn Macintyre and Seumas Mac Gille-Sheathanaich (Shaw). The Ossianic verse was published in John Francis Campbell's 'Leabhar na...
Dates:
1752-ca. 1900 and undated, with most of the material dating from the later 18th and early 19th century.
‘The War, 1914-1918’ (London, 1929) a booklist compiled by Edmund Blunden, Cyril Falls, H.M. Tomlinson and R. Wright, with notes in the hand of William Soutar., 1929-[Before 1944.]
File
Identifier: MS.8769
Three documents concerning electioneering in Scotland in the 1830s.
File
Identifier: Acc.6204
Dates:
circa 1830-circa 1839.
Three documents concerning the family of Boyd of Knockson and to the farm of Knockson, near Ayr.
File
Identifier: Acc.5275
Dates:
1845, 1859-1860.
Topographical and other works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.22
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Scotia illustrata sive Theatrum Urbium, Arcium, Monasteriorum et aedium quarundam illustrium in Scotia`, circa 1692. The Latin text by Sibbald intended for John Slezer`s ‘Theatrum Scotiae’. It is very different from the published text which Slezer had had translated without Sibbald`s authority. The preface is in Slezer`s hand, and each entry is signed by both Sibbald and Slezer. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copy of William Harvey`s...
Dates:
Circa 1692-1709, and undated.