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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4895/2
Title:: Inventory of charters granted in Scotland from James V to James VI
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-337v: Inventory of charters granted in Scotland from James V to James VI, beginning in 1516 and ending in 1591: beginning: 'Inventare of the charters […] 1516'. This manuscript is the second volume of a manuscript in two parts. The first volume is Harley MS 4895/1. Together, t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1590s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6101
Title:: A Scots heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A full-page coat of arms with crest (quarterly of nine): arms of Jermyn. f. 2r: The ‘Armes of the Balliam’. ff. 3r-17r: Royal arms, from King Malcolm III (‘Malcum Camoir’) to Mary I of Scotland [Mary, Queen of Scots] (r. 1542-1567). ff. 18r-71r: The arms of Scots peerage...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Scots
Date Range:: 1567-1578
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6149
Title:: A collection of Scots and Latin heraldic and chivalric treatises
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-1v: An untitled Scots heraldic treatise on the different rights and privileges of the kings of arms and heralds, and the sergeants of arms in service of the king, beginning: ‘Arthour son to the duke of Bertaingnie erle of Richmont lord of partynay Counstable of ffrance Till all...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Scots
Date Range:: c 1494
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6219
Title:: The life and acts of William the Conqueror; fragment of a history of Scotland (1291); Metrical History of the Deposition of Richard II
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-4r: A tract on the acts of William the Conqueror, beginning: ‘These thynges whiche folow of the lyfe and actes of the gloryous William Duke of Normandye , and victoryous Kynge of Englande were detracted out of a certen auncyent boke of the monasterye of St Stephen of Cane [Abbe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6371
Title:: The Diariey of Robert Birrell Burgess of Edinburgh - Containing Diverse Passages of State, and uthers Memorable Accidents - From the 1532 Zeir of Our Redemption, Till the Beginning of the Zeir 1605
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-77r: The Diariey of Robert Birrell Burgess of Edinburgh - Containing Diverse Passages of State, and uthers Memorable Accidents - From the 1532 Zeir of Our Redemption, Till the Beginning of the Zeir 1605.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Scots
Date Range:: 1605
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6919
Title:: William of Touris, Contemplacioun of Synnaris
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-49v: William of Touris, Contemplacioun of Synnaris. The seven poems, one for each day of the week, were published by Wynkyn de Worde in Westminster on 10 July 1499. Decoration: Initials in blue with foliate decoration in red and purple (ff. 2r, 17r, 30v, 45v). Puzzle or pla...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Scots
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 16th century or 3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F206
Title:: Macnabb Collection: papers of successive generations of the Macnabb family who served in India
Scope & Content:: Macnabb Collection: correspondence and papers of Dr James Macnabb (1759-1822), Bengal Medical Service 1789-1818, his son James Munro Macnabb (1790-1860), Bengal Civil Service 1806-31, and successive generations of the Macnabb family who served in India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1778-1970
Extent:: 462 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F407
Title:: 'Lieut.Col. Donald Macleod, H.E.I.C. of Achagoyle, 1795-1813 and of St. Kilda 1804-1813' by Mrs R N W Smith: manuscript life of Lt-Col Donald Macleod, Madras Army 1767-87 following hs return to Scotland.
Scope & Content:: 'Lieut.Col. Donald Macleod, H.E.I.C. of Achagoyle, 1795-1813 and of St. Kilda 1804-1813' by Mrs R N W Smith: manuscript life of Lt-Col Donald Macleod, Madras Army 1767-87 following hs return to Scotland.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1795-1813
Extent:: 1 portfolio

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Photo Eur 482
Title:: 'Reminiscences of and Anglo-Indian': typescript memoir of Maria Mackenzie Wilson (1845-1925)
Scope & Content:: 'Reminiscences of and Anglo-Indian': typescript memoir of Maria Mackenzie Wilson (1845-1925)
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1925
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 B XV
Title:: Basilikon Doron, or Book of the Institution of a Prince
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the autograph copy of the Basilikon Doron (The Royal Gift), a treatise on kingship and government written in the form of a private letter by James VI, King of Scotland (r. 1567–1625) and England (r. 1603–1625) for the instruction of his son Prince Henry (b. 1594, d. 1612...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1598
Extent:: 1 volume

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