Manuscripts from Scotland

'Manuscripts from Scotland' contains the following 77 items:

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Notes, "J. Ritson of London Esqrs Observations on a MS. in the Advocates Library Edinb. 1792.", formerly bound at the beginning of the 'Auchinleck manuscript' (Adv.MS.19.2.1) [217627800]

Author: Ritson, Joseph (antiquary), 1752-1803

Date created: 1792-1799

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Extracts, late 17th century, from the Books of Sederunt of the Court of Session, 1532-1575 [228813983]

Creator: Court of Session (supreme civil court of Scotland), 1532-

Date created: 1532-1575

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'Morton chartulary' [229918119]

Date created: 1300-1399

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Lesmahagow Missal (MS.16495); with (MS.16495A) binding fragments from the missal [229918121]

Date created: 1200-1249

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'Chronicle of Fortingall' [229918123]

Date created: 1550-1579

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Fowlis Easter Breviary [232641631]

Date created: 1430-1470

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Lindores chartulary [233460200]

Date created: 1502-1513

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Manuscript, entitled ‘Registrum Monasterii de Cambeskenneth’, of a transcript, 1536, of the charters of Cambuskenneth Abbey [234773628]

Date created: 1535

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Chartulary of Dunfermline Abbey [234773629]

Date created: 1254-1255

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'Perth Psalter' [235163106]

Date created: 1460-1499

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Dean Brown's Prayerbook [75519184]

Probable date created: 1498-1499

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Abridgement by Patrick Russell, prior of the Charterhouse of Perth, of a work by Walter Bower known as the 'Book of Cupar Angus' [228670834]

Compiler: Russell, Patrick (Prior of Perth Charterhouse), fl 1443-1474

Date created: 1460-1488

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Chartulary of Paisley Abbey, 16th century, containing material covering the years 1163-1530 [229918103]

Date created: 1520-1530

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Chartulary of Kelso Abbey [229918108]

Date created: 1316-1399

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Register of constitutions and other legal documents concerning the bishopric of Aberdeen, written in the 16th century and covering the 13th to 16th centuries [232505113]

Date created: 1520-1549

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Extracts, 1556, from chartularies of the Archbishopric of Glasgow which were deposited in the Scots College in Paris; followed by a short history, in Scots, of the Hamilton family entitled 'Frier Mark Hamiltonis historie' [233410347]

Date created: 1556

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15th-century transcript of the chartulary of Dryburgh Abbey [233410348]

Creator: Dryburgh Abbey (Dryburgh)

Date created: 1400-1499

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Carver Choir-book (The Scone Antiphonary) [233451601]

Date created: 1513-1520

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Register of the bishopric of Dunblane, entitled 'Registrum capituli Dunblanensis' [233456045]

Date created: 1663-1688

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Early 15th-century manuscript containing short prayers, followed by conversion tables for calculating the price of merchandise [233456046]

Date created: 1400-1440

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Chartulary of the bishopric of Moray [232641628]

Date created: 1500-1599

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Manuscript containing a 15th-century list of benefactors, prayers, obituaries, and rental of the Hospital of St Anthony, Leith; with a 16th-century extract from a rental of Newhaven [232641629]

Date created: 1400-1549

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Manuscript of 'The Brus' of John Barbour [232641633]

Author: Barbour, John, approximately 1320-1395

Date created: 1489

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Manuscript of the 'Wallace' of Blind Hary [232641634]

Author: Blind Hary, active 1470-1492

Date created: 1488

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'Bannatyne manuscript': a collection of some 400 poems, mostly Scottish, compiled and written by George Bannatyne. Vol. 1 [232641635]

Compiler: Bannatyne, George, 1545-1608?

Author: Lindsay, David, active 1490-1555

Author: Scot, Alexander (Cistercian monk), fl 1523

Author: Dunbar, William, 1460?-1520?

Author: Lydgate, John (poet, Prior of Hatfield Regis), c 1370-?1450

Author: Douglas, Gawin, 1474?-1522

Date created: 1568

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'Bannatyne manuscript': a collection of some 400 poems, mostly Scottish, compiled and written by George Bannatyne. Vol. 2 [232641636]

Compiler: Bannatyne, George, 1545-1608?

Author: Lindsay, David, active 1490-1555

Author: Scot, Alexander (Cistercian monk), fl 1523

Author: Dunbar, William, 1460?-1520?

Author: Lydgate, John (poet, Prior of Hatfield Regis), c 1370-?1450

Author: Douglas, Gawin, 1474?-1522

Date created: 1568

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'Blackadder Prayerbook' [235163103]

Date created: 1450-1499

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Asloan manuscript [235163104]

Compiler: Asloan, John (Notary Public)

Author: Dunbar, William, 1460?-1520?

Author: Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?

Author: Cassalis, Jacob von, active 1288-1322

Author: Chartier, Alain, 15th century

Date created: 1513-1542

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Sweetheart Breviary [235163105]

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17th-century transcripts of foundation charters of religious houses in Scotland made by Sir James Balfour; and a transcript, probably late 16th-century, of the Chartulary of Balmerino Abbey [233410345]

Date created: 1560-1657

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17th-century extracts and transcripts, in the hand of Sir James Balfour, of chartularies and other historical works [233410346]

Author: Marjorybanks, George (historian), fl 1594

Date created: 1600-1657

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Poems in Scots of the Reverend James Melville, minister of Kilrenny, mostly on religious themes [229918116]

Author: Melville, James, 1556-1614

Author: Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612

Date created: 1606-1611

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14th-century manuscript of the chartulary of Balmerino Abbey [135641582]

Date created: 1331-1350

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17th-century manuscript, probably written in Scotland, containing a translation into Latin of the 'Οἰκουμένης περιήγησις' ['Description of the Known World'] by Dionysius Periegetes [205174266]

Author: Dionysius, Periegetes (poet)

Date created: 1600-1687

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Manuscript of 'Historia Romana' by Paulus Diaconus and ‘Index commentariorum G. Julii Caesaris’ by Raimundus Marlianus, probably written by Robert Braidfut [205174269]

Author: Paul the Deacon (monk, historian, scribe), c. 720-?799

Author: Raimundus Marlianus, 1420-1475

Date created: 1481

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16th-century manuscript of the romance 'Clariodus', a translation of a French prose original into Older Scots verse [210499911]

Date created: 1500-1599

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Manuscript, probably Scottish, of the 'Vitae Caesarum' of Suetonius [210499912]

Author: Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius (historian), b 69

Date created: 1460-1499

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Chartulary of the Hospital of the Holy Trinity at Soutra, written in 1399 by William de Cranstoun, notary public [212450853]

Date created: 1162-1330

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Indexes to the chartularies of various Scottish religious houses, etc., by George Chalmers [212450856]

Compiler: Chalmers, George (antiquarian), 1742-1825

Date created: 1801

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Excerpts made in 1748 from the 14th-century register of the Abbey of Holme Cultram, Cumbria [212450859]

Creator: Goldie, John, of Craigmure (Commissary of Dumfries)

Compiler: Holme Cultram Abbey (Cumbria)

Date created: 1748

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16th-century manuscript containing a register of charters and leases of St Andrews Priory, Pittenweem Priory, and the archbishopric of St Andrews, covering the years 1553-1574 [212450860]

Author: Forbes, James David (natural philosopher), 1809-1868

Date created: 1550-1599

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Commonplace book of James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane [212467260]

Compiler: Gray, James (priest and Secretary to the Archbishop of St Andrews), fl 1460-1504

Date created: 1460-1499

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'Meroure of Wyssdome' by John Ireland [212879752]

Author: Irlande, John (theologian), fl 1455-1490

Author: Irish Republican Brotherhood

Date created: 1490

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14th-century manuscript of the chartulary of Arbroath Abbey, also known as the 'Registrum Vetus' [212879757]

Date created: 1300-1350

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15th-century manuscript of the chartulary of Arbroath Abbey, known as the 'Registrum nigrum' [213337855]

Date created: 1400-1499

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Register of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, written, circa 1537, by John Lambert, prebendary of the Chapel [213862800]

Date created: 1501-1537

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Transcript, early 19th-century, of 'The Passioun of Crist' by Walter Kennedy, from British Library Arundel MS 285, folios 6-46 [213862801]

Author: Kennedy, Walter, c 1455-c 1518

Date created: 1500-1599

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16th-century manuscript containing the Accounts of the Archbishopric of St Andrews, covering the years 1539-1549 [213862803]

Date created: 1549

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Paisley Rental Book [213862804]

Date created: 1460-1550

Thumbnail for 'Early 16th-century manuscript copy of the work known as 'Liber Pluscardensis', a chronicle of the history of Scotland founded mainly on the 'Chronica gentis Scotorum' of John of Fordun, and the 'Scotichronicon' of Walter Bower'

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Early 16th-century manuscript copy of the work known as 'Liber Pluscardensis', a chronicle of the history of Scotland founded mainly on the 'Chronica gentis Scotorum' of John of Fordun, and the 'Scotichronicon' of Walter Bower [213862806]

Author: Bower, Walter (Abbot of Incholm Abbey and chronicler), c 1385-1449

Author: John of Fordun (chronicler), fl. 1360-1384

Date created: 1461

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Manuscripts from Scotland
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DescriptionA selection of over 200 volumes of medieval and early modern manuscripts, dating from the 9th to the 17th century. Some of Scotland's most important early manuscripts are included in the many Scottish volumes. These are complemented by interesting and significant works of international origin, including volumes from France, England, the Low Countries, Italy and a number of other countries. Most of the manuscripts were collected by the Advocates Library, the forerunner of the National Library of Scotland.
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