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:
Genealogical manuscript titled ‘An Leabhar Muimhneach’ written by Diarmuid Ó Conchubhair.
Item
Identifier: MS.14874
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written in 1709 by Diarmuid Ó Conchubhair (Dermod Connor) for Muiris Ó Sobháin (Maurice Sovane or Savage) in the latter’s house at Ballineedora, parish Ballymacelligot, barony of Trughanacmy, County Kerry. In his preface the scribe craves indulgence for any faults in his work on the grounds that this is his first book, and that he had been pressed into the service of Queen Anne. The names of his patron and of another Sovane, Hugh, have been carefully mutilated wherever...
Dates:
1709.
Genealogical material collected by Sir Robert Douglas, 6th Baronet, of Glenbervie, for his projected ‘Baronage of Scotland’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.21
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes a number of notes by the antiquary James Cummyng. Douglas died in 1770, but the ‘Baronage of Scotland’ was not published until 1798.
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Genealogical material collected by Sir Robert Douglas, 6th Baronet of Glenbervie, some of which was used in his ‘Peerage of Scotland’ and ‘Baronage of Scotland’.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.1.6-20.1.11
Dates:
2nd half of 18th century.
Genealogical material collected by Sir Robert Douglas concerning the families of: Abercrombie peerage; Ainslie; Arbuthnott of Arbuthnott; Boyd, Earls of Kilmarnock; Scott, Dukes of Buccleuch; Bruce; Buchanan; Campbell., 2nd half of 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.1.6
Genealogical material collected by Sir Robert Douglas concerning the families of: Dalzell of Dalzell; Douglas; Dundas of Newliston; Dunbar; Edmondstone; Elphinstone; Hay, Earls of Erroll; Forbes; Gordon; Grant., 2nd half of 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.1.7
Genealogical material collected by Sir Robert Douglas concerning the families of: Hunter of Hunterston; Innes; Campbell of Loudoun; Lockhart of Carnwath; Graham, Earls of Menteith; Somerville., 2nd half of 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.1.9
Genealogical material collected by Sir Robert Douglas concerning the families of: Learmonth; Leslie; Lindsay; Livingstone; Leith; Macdonald, Lords of the Isles; Makgill of Rankeillor; Stewart., 2nd half of 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.1.10
Genealogical material collected by Sir Robert Douglas concerning the families of: Oliphant; Skene; Stewart of Grandtully; Lords Somerville; Sinclair; Spens of Lathallan; Torthorwald peerage., 2nd half of 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.1.11
Genealogical notes and miscellaneous papers, of Charles Grant, Vicomte de Vaux, and his family., 1755-1807, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.25169
Scope and Contents
Included are pages from Charles Grant's ‘Mémoires’ and verses by members of his family.
Dates:
1755-1807, undated.
Genealogical paper in an unidentified hand entitled `Deduction of the Pedigree of the Maxwells of Nether Pollok`, 1820, with corrections in pencil and an addition (folio 6) by John Riddell., 1820.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.9.22
Genealogical paper on the family of Bruce of Kennet., Mid 19th century-[before 1892.]
File
Identifier: MS.15983
Genealogical paper on the family of Bruce of Newtoune., Mid 19th century-[before 1892.]
File
Identifier: MS.15985
Genealogical paper on various branches of the Bruce family., Mid 19th century-[before 1892.]
File
Identifier: MS.15986
Dates:
Mid 19th century-[before 1892.]
Genealogical papers on the different branches of the Bruce family collected by Major William Bruce Armstrong for his work ‘The Bruces of Airth and their cadets’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15982-15988
Scope and Contents
Most of the material is printed, with annotations by William Brue Armstrong.
Dates:
Mid 19th century-[before 1892.]
Genealogical papers on various branches of the Bruce family., Mid 19th century-[before 1892.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.15986-15987
Genealogical tree of the Bell family.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.7.2
Scope and Contents
The last entries show the children of the advocate, George Joseph Bell.
Dates:
19th century.
Genealogies of European royalty and nobility.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.24
Scope and Contents
The genealogies appear to have been compiled, partly from printed material, between 1582 and 1587, but have additional material, some of which is in German, up to 1613.
There is a list of contents on folio 111.
Dates:
Late 16th century.
Genealogies of Scottish families.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.14
Scope and Contents
(i) The compilation by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (see Adv.MS.34.3.19). This copy (folio 1) appears to have been made between 1679 and 1684, during which period the Earl of Linlithgow was colonel of the Guards (folio 40). A leaf containing notes by David Sibbald of Kair on the Sibbald families of Balgonie and Kair has been inserted (folio 65), and notes by Sir Robert Sibbald on the family of Boyd have also been added (folio 67 verso).(ii) Copy of part of William Drummond,...
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Genealogies of Scottish families, copied by Robert Mylne.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.8
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The compilation by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (see Adv.MS.34.3.19) copied from a manuscript of 1685 or later, with some additional material taken from ‘The Great historical geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary’ (page 1).(ii) Genealogical material taken partly from Camden, Dugdale and other historians (page 395).(iii) Verses on the death of William, 6th Earl of Douglas (page 480)....
Dates:
1685, or later.
`Genealogiska tabeller` of Norse kings by Sven Lagerbring.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.7.16
Dates:
18th century.
'Genealogy of the family of Moubray of Barnbougle, Dalmeny, Inverkeithing, Cockairny, the Bush and Castlelaw' by John Philp Wood., 1830.
File
Identifier: MS.5271
General correspondence of John Duncan Hamilton, arranged chronologically., 1894-1930, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.24
Scope and Contents
Hamilton frequently wrote to authors to point out errors and misprints in their works, and much of this correspondence consists of the authors` replies. A few of Hamilton`s own notes and press-cuttings are included.
Dates:
1894-1930, and undated.
General Correspondence of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1582-1878.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.1.12
Scope and Contents
The correspondence as a whole consists chiefly of letters written to successive lairds by their agents, factors and lawyers, by local merchants, and by members of the neighbouring nobility and gentry and other branches of the Dundas family. It relates mainly to the administration of the Dundas estate and the affairs of the Dundas family. Public affairs are touched on to a lesser degree. The 18th-century correspondence, though it continues to centre on the estate and family (in particular the...
Dates:
1582-1878.
General Correspondence of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1582-1644.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.1.1