Manuscripts.
Found in 6567 Collections and/or Records:
Charms and spells etc., including notes on witchcraft and astrology., Late 18th century, 1818.
A late eighteenth-century manuscript bearing the signatures 'John Blakey' (page 15) and 'Thomas Wyld' (pages 30, 72), with some additional matter (page i), dated 1818, written perhaps by the James Lomax whose signature is on page 3.
Chartulary of Dunfermline Abbey.
Chartulary of Kelso Abbey, 14th century.
Chartulary of Paisley Abbey, 16th century, containing material covering the years 1163-1530.
Chartulary of the bishopric of Moray, 16th century.
Chartulary of the Bishopric of Moray, written in parts from the late 13th century to the late 16th century.
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).
Choirbook of St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Dalkeith: Services, volume 1: Decani alto., [?1854-?1893.]
Only the first leaf of the volume survives. To this have been added a number of printed and manuscript leaves and fragments found loosely enclosed in other volumes (folio i, and what follows).
‘Christian. Spiritual Poems on Several Subjects, Relating to the conduct of providence and cases of the soul. In four parts. Part I’, by James Meikle, a surgeon of Carnwath, probably written between 1750 and 1780.
As explained by the author in his Preface to the Reader, the poems were written over a period of many years, with additions and revisions being made at later dates. This first part contains 101 poems, only a few of which are dated.
According to ‘The Life of James Meikle’, it was Meikle`s intention to publish the poems in four volumes, but for various reasons, publication never took place.
Chronicle of England, and theological works., 14th century.
`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 Popes and Emperors by Martinus Polonus., Circa 1277.
The manuscript is of the later recension, which includes the passage on Pope Joan (folio 22 verso), and ends with the death of Pope John XXI. The entries for the Popes are on the versos and for the Emperors on the rectos of the leaves. There are some glosses and marginal notes in other hands.
Initials in red and blue with decorative penwork, and rubrics in red.
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.
Chronicles and historical works, written in England.
Chronicon Angliæ, 400-1327, being a nineteenth century transcript of Barberini MS.2689, which was written at Sempryngham in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries., 13th century-14th century.
According to a note (folio iv), dated 1823, by Luigi Maria Rezzi, Librarian of the Barberini Library, the transcript was made by him for Benjamin Heywood Bright.
'Chronometer rates'., 1834.
‘Church and Church-yard of Kilbirnie', with notes on Kilbirnie House and Glengarnock Castle, by William Dobie, Grangevale, Beith, 1843; illustrated with prints and photographs., 1843.
Circa 20 manuscripts concerning Edinburgh.
Inserted in William Maitland, "History of Edinburgh" (1753).