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Name Balcanquall, Walter, Minister of St Giles Edinburgh, 1548-1616

1. Add MS 48027

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Add MS 48027
Title:
Papers and correspondence relating chiefly to Mary, Queen of Scots, 1559-1594
Scope & Content:
Papers and correspondence relating to Mary, Queen of Scots: the conspiracies and plots involving her and her trial and execution and its aftermath, 1559-1594, n.d. Mostly contemporary copies. Further official copies of many of the items are in Cotton MS Caligula C IX. This volume was compiled b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, Scots, and Spanish
Date Range:
1559-1626
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 48049

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Add MS 48049
Title:
Papers relating to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1565-c. 1600
Scope & Content:
This volume is made up of copies and drafts relating to Mary Queen of Scots and more broadly to Scottish politics in the reign of King James VI (up to c. 1600). The volume forms part of the papers collected by Robert Beale, Clerk of the Council, and there are many endorsements, memoranda and dra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Greek, Ancient, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
1560-1605
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 48117

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Add MS 48117
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Scope & Content:
PAPERS RELATING TO THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, etc.; 1563-1598, n.d. Partly Latin. Copies, unless otherwise described. 1. ff. 2-8. 'Of Discipline in the Church of Scotlande', a short tract followed by answers to James VI's questions (for which see art. 11 below) to the General Assembly at Perth, F...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1560-1599
Extent:
1 item

4. Burney MS 7

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Burney MS 7
Title:
Bible with prologues
Scope & Content:
Bible with prologues. The Interpretations of Hebrew names are absent. Psalms have the 10-part divisons. Decoration: Large foliate initials in colours and gold, with a green framing line, at the beginning of the volume and Genesis (ff. 2r, 4v). Large puzzle initials in red and blue, with red a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

5. Cotton MS Caligula C VI

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Cotton MS Caligula C VI
Title:
Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1580–1581
Scope & Content:
A volume of records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1580–1581. It includes items in the hand of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (d. 1598). ff. 2r–v: Robert Bowes, to William Cecil, reporting a plot of Esmé Stuart , Earl of Lennox and his friends to ruin Mor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, and French
Date Range:
1580-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume