Manuscripts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to handwritten documents, and may also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.
Found in 6567 Collections and/or Records:
Copy, in an early 18th-century hand, of `The secret and true history of the Church of Scotland from the Reformation to the Restauration (sic; in fact, to the year 1678) by Mr [James] Kirkton. Anno 1690` (folio 1).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.18
Dates:
1690.
Copy in an unidentified formal hand, apparently datable to the 2nd quarter of the 18th century, of `The Pourtrait of True Loyalty Exposed in the Family of Gordon without interruption to this present year 1691 With A Relation of the Siege of the Castle of Edinburghe in the year 1689’ [apparently corrected from 1699].
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.11
Scope and Contents
The original manuscript of this work, which was in Blairs College, Aberdeen (see ‘The House of Gordon’, page xxxvi), is at the Scottish Catholic Archives, Columba House, Edinburgh, where it has the pressmark MM 2/2. The work is ascribed to David Burnet, a Scottish Catholic priest working mainly in the Enzie, who died in 1696. The work was used by William Gordon for his ‘History of the Family of Gordon’. ‘The Siege of Edinburgh Castle’ (in this manuscript, beginning page 497) was...
Dates:
1691.
Copy in an unidentified hand of ‘Memorial offered to the Honourable Commissioners of Excise concerning the Mensuration of Tuns or Backs that have some irregularity in the Figure and Situation of the Bottom ... To which is added a Method of correcting the common Tables, and some new Theorems` by Colin Maclaurin.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.13
Scope and Contents
There is a pen drawing of a ship on folio vi. This is a work of applied mathematics written in order to enable customs officers to gauge the contents of molasses barrels used in the port of Glasgow.
Dates:
1735.
Copy, late 15th or early 16th century, of material, early 14th century-1364, concerning the Parlement de Paris.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.15
Scope and Contents
(i) List of contents (folio 1).(ii) Guillaume du Breuil, `Stylus curie Parlamenti` (folio 5). This manuscript was known to Félix Aubert who edited the ‘Stilus curie Parlamenti’ (Paris, 1909). It belongs to Aubert`s second family of manuscripts; chapter 25 follows chapter 21, and chapter 37 item 39 is omitted. There are many inaccuracies and the scribe made a number of additions in the margin.(iii) `Sequuntur ordinationes adiunctiones et statuta parlamenti` (folio...
Dates:
Late 15th or early 16th century.
Copy, late 17th century, of `A Discourse concerning the three Unions of Scotland and England`, written circa 1670 and apparently unpublished.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.13
Dates:
Circa 1670.
Copy, late 17th century, of a treatise on sea laws by Alexander King, Judge Admiral of Scotland, circa 1590, entitled `Tractatus Legum et Consuetudinum Navalium quae apud omnes fere Gentes in usu habentur; Omnia Nautica et quaecumque ex causis marinis in judicium veniunt succincte definiens in certos Titulos ... methodice distinctos. Authore Alexandro Regio`.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.28.4.7
Scope and Contents
The last Titulus (`De Piratis`) is in Scots, as is the appendix on `The forme and Maner of holding of Courts of Admiralitie and processe led befoir Them` which follows.
Dates:
Circa 1590.
Copy, late 17th century, of `De jure prelationis Nobilium scotie or A Memoriall of the evidents and writs produced ... before the Comissioners ... anent the precedency and prioritie of dignitie [1606]`, incorporating additional information up to 1667.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.6
Scope and Contents
The text is followed by a list of titles of the nobility and other related material (folio 34 verso), and verses and notes on the history of Aberdeen (folio 45). An 18th-century hand has added a list of dates of the patents of Scottish nobles (folio 52).
Dates:
1606-1667.
Copy, late 17th century, of part I of Samuel Colvil`s ‘Mock poem, or Whiggs supplication’ (London, 1681).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.9
Scope and Contents
There were several editions of the poem, of which the preface to the first was signed S.C. In this manuscript, a later hand has added the full name to the initials. The manuscript shows a number of variations from the printed text, including some omissions and additions.
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Copy, late 17th or early 18th century, of the memoirs of James Fraser of Brea, minister of Culross.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.11
Scope and Contents
This copy begins with the author`s preface, omitting the letter of dedication to Thomas Ross, and breaks off at the end of chapter 8. It contains a small amount of biographical material which does not appear in the published version.
The name William Lindsay, Letham, Dunnichen, appears on folio 1.
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Copy, late 18th century, of `Nockrar óreglulegar reglur` by Eggert Ólafsson, and `Grammatica Islandica` by Jón Magnússon, 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.7.18
Dates:
18th century.
Copy, late seventeenth century-eighteenth century, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, ‘Major Practicks’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.10
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Copy, late seventeenth century, of the chronicle of the Civil War in Scotland compiled by Henry Guthrie, Bishop of Dunkeld., Mid 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7117
Scope and Contents
The text of the manuscript is the same as that of the printed book, excepting some small omissions and additions, and numerous variants in vocabulary, spelling, and word order.
Dates:
Mid 17th century.
Copy, made apparently in 1729, of ‘the most material passages’ of ‘Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum’ by Thomas Dempster (Bononiae, 1627).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.22
Scope and Contents
Almost all the entries in the printed book have been summarized in the manuscript, which also contains details not recorded in the printed book; many of the entries are partly in English. A later and more detailed entry on Robert Bodie has been written (in English) in the same hand on a small sheet of paper (folio 32) tipped into the volume. The frequent unintentional omissions made in the copying of the manu¬script have been supplied in the same hand in the margins. The dates 2...
Dates:
1627.
Copy, made apparently in or about 1704 by Thomas Ruddiman, Keeper of the Advocates` Library, of (i) a letter written by James V in 1528 to the authorities of the town of Ratisbon (now Regensburg) in favour of the Scots monks there (folio i); and (ii) the preface, entitled `Praefatio, sive Velitatio in Irlandos`, of the `Germania Christiana` of Robert (in religion, Boniface) Strachan, Benedictine monk at Ratisbon (folio 1, where his name is wrongly recorded as Bonaventure).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.6
Dates:
1528, 17th century.
Copy, made by Andrew Cook, of ‘Germania Christiana’ by Robert (in religion, Boniface) Strachan, Benedictine monk at Ratisbon.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.20
Scope and Contents
This copy was made by Andrew Cook, a fellow monk, in or before 1684, when, according to the inscription at folio 1, it was sent as a present by the Abbot, Placid Fleming, to Christopher Irvine, physician and philologist. The work was intended by Strachan as volume 1 of a work in two volumes (see Adv.MS.17.1.9, folio 225, his letter to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet, in 1641), but no more was ever written, nor was this part published.The pagination of this manuscript, which is...
Dates:
1684, or before.
Copy made by James Keay of Snaigow, circa 1722-1730, of `An Essay upon the office of Messengrie. By A.F. Wryter to the Signet, 1715`., 1715.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.10
Copy made by James Keay of Snaigow, circa 1722-1730, of `Ane Essay on the office of Notary`., Circa 1722-1730.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.11
Scope and Contents
Pages 278-320 are blank.
Dates:
Circa 1722-1730.
Copy made by James Keay of Snaigow, circa 1722-1730, of Books I and II of “Notes for the use of the students of the Municipal Law in the University of Edinburgh, being a supplement to Sir George Mackenzie`s Institutions” by Alexander Bayne., Circa 1722-1730.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.9
Scope and Contents
The text varies little from the printed version.
Dates:
Circa 1722-1730.
Copy made by John Riddell, on paper watermarked 1809, of the `Copy Search of Charters, Diplomas, andc in favours of the Peers of Scotland containing the Charts of Dignities and Series of Heirs` (folio 7), and of the appendix (folio 162) and index (folio 183) thereto in Adv.MS.34.3.20., Early 13th-early 18th century, ?1809-?1842.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.6
Scope and Contents
The copy is written in a formal hand on alternate leaves, the others being left blank for notes and additions, which have been added at various times until 1842 (folio 79 verso), or possibly later.Stitched in at folio 7 is a `List of ancient Peerages to be met with in the Registers of Parliament` in Riddell`s hand (folio 1). A note (folio 9) formerly stitched to folio 7 verso has been tipped in at folio 11. A letter of Lord Lindsay to Riddell, 1855, which was formerly pinned to...
Dates:
Early 13th-early 18th century, ?1809-?1842.
Copy made by Thomas (Dom Placid) Fleming, Abbot of Ratisbon, of papers in the dispute between the Irish and the Scottish benedictines over the rightful ownership of the former Irish monasteries in Germany, and particularly that of St. James, Ratisbon.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.29.7.1
Scope and Contents
The papers copied are:(i) the supplication for the return of the monasteries made on behalf of the Irish benedictines by Dom Columbanus Duffy, Prior of St. John`s, Waterford, with a list of questions for the Scottish benedictines to reply to (folio 2); (ii) excerpts from documentary and printed sources referred to in the supplication (folio 7); (iii) Fleming`s notes, with additional observations, on all the foregoing (folio 26); (iv) his reply...
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Copy, made in 1702, of letters and memoirs of Major-General Hugh Mackay of Scoury (?1640-1692), concerning the campaigns in Scotland in 1689-1690, and in Ireland in 1691.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.1
Dates:
1689, and after.
Copy, made in 1734, of an Inventory of the estate of Maria de Jonge made in 1732 by the executors (Simon Schaap, Counsel in the Court of Holland, Zeeland, and Friesland, and Frans van Limborch, Advocate before the Courts of Justice in Holland) appointed under the will of Maria de Jonge., 1732.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.3
Dates:
1732.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Accounts concerning the estate of Maria de Jonge (wife of Cornelis de Jonge of Ellemeet, Receiver-General of the United Provinces),bequeathed, in 1732 to her daughter, Maria Margaretta, Baroness North and Gray, later Lady Elibank.
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Copies, made in 1734 and 1736, of an Inventory of the estate of Maria de Jonge made in 1732 by the executors (Simon Schaap, Counsel in the Court of Holland, Zeeland, and Friesland, and Frans van Limborch, Advocate before the Courts of Justice in Holland) appointed under the will of Maria de Jonge.
Copy, made in 1736, of an Inventory of the estate of Maria de Jonge made in 1732 by the executors (Simon Schaap, Counsel in the Court of Holland, Zeeland, and Friesland, and Frans van Limborch, Advocate before the Courts of Justice in Holland) appointed under the will of Maria de Jonge., 1732.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.4
Dates:
1732.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Accounts concerning the estate of Maria de Jonge (wife of Cornelis de Jonge of Ellemeet, Receiver-General of the United Provinces),bequeathed, in 1732 to her daughter, Maria Margaretta, Baroness North and Gray, later Lady Elibank.
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Copies, made in 1734 and 1736, of an Inventory of the estate of Maria de Jonge made in 1732 by the executors (Simon Schaap, Counsel in the Court of Holland, Zeeland, and Friesland, and Frans van Limborch, Advocate before the Courts of Justice in Holland) appointed under the will of Maria de Jonge.
Copy made in or about 1690 by James Clapperton, Dalkeith, of the chronicles of the Civil War in Scotland compiled by Henry Guthrie, Bishop of Dunkeld.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.23
Scope and Contents
The text of this manuscript is the same as that common to the other copies in this Library, agreeing with them against the printed book in some small omissions and additions, and numerous variants in vocabulary, spelling and word order. In addition to the text, the manuscript contains: summaries (in red) in the margins of most of the pages; at page i, a table of contents (as far as page 105 only); at page 161, a list of Royalist supporters executed in England during the Commonwealth period;...
Dates:
Circa 1690.
'Copy of a Memoire or paper upon Lime, read in a Meeting of the Philosophical Society at Edinburgh Aug: 2[d] 1739 containing an Account of the Materials of which it is made, the way of burning or calcining Limestone, and the Nature [and] Properties and uses of Lime by Mr [Alexander] Lind [of Gorgie] Member of the Said Society.', [1739, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.17834
Dates:
[1739, or after.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning science.