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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:

Accounts, chiefly relating to the household of Mary of Lorraine, but with a few items of the late 16th century., 1532-1600, and undated.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.5
Scope and Contents Unless otherwise stated all items are in French. Accounts of Jacques Girard, treasurer; Longueville, 25 May 1544 (folios 1-6; the correct order should be folios 1-2, 5, 4, 3, 6). - There is a partial translation in ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 4), page xxvii.Wine account of Jean Mean, butler to Mary, Queen of Scots, March 1544 (folios 7-8).Building expenses at Stirling Castle, March-April 1544 (folio...
Dates: 1532-1600, and undated.

Accounts concerning the building of Dundas Castle, and of a farm at Craigbrae in the parish of Dalmeny., 1818-1820.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.2.57
Scope and Contents

The contents of the volume are as follows:

(i) Accounts concerning the building of Dundas Castle, omitted from or preparatory to the account in final form: vouchers, mostly for wood sawing, plastering, digging and quarrying, 1818-1820 (folio 1); miscellaneous accounts, 1818-1820 (folio 79).

(ii) Account and vouchers concerning building a farm at Craigbrae in the parish of Dalmeny, 1819 (folio 126).

Dates: 1818-1820.