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Add MS 37977
- Record Id:
- 032-002054458
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002054458
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000046.0x0003e4
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100151955346.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 37977
- Title:
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Memoirs of the diplomat Sir James Melville of Hallhill (1559–1594)
- Scope & Content:
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An autograph copy of Melville's memoirs. This manuscript is most likely the one Robert Trail found in Edinburgh Castle in 1660 and identified as Melville's handwriting. Trail gave it to Melville's grandson George Scott of Pitlochie, who published it with significant alterations in 1683.
The 1827 Bannatyne Club edition used this manuscript of Melville's memoirs. The 1969 Folio Society edition, based on Scott's edition, corrects his errors in line with the Bannatyne Club text.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002054458
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002054458
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100151955346.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1595
- End Date:
- 1605
- Date Range:
- c 1600
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 302 x 219 mm.
Foliation: ff. 111 + 13 (old pagination pp. 222).
Binding: British Museum binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Scotland.
Provenance:
Hugh Hume-Campbell, 3rd Earl of Marchmont, before 1794.
George Rose, PC, MP, in 1794.
Sir George Henry Rose, in 1827.
Hugh Scott, 6th Baron Polwarth (d. 1841).
Walter Hugh Hepburne-Scott, 8th Baron Polwarth, before 1910.
Purchased by the British Museum at Sotheby's, 25 April 1910 (lot 7).
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1906–1910 (London, 1907), p. 193.
Gordon Donaldson (ed.), The memoirs of Sir James Melville of Halhill (London: Folio Society, 1969).
George Scott, The Memoires of Sir James Melville of Hal-hill (London: E.H. for Robert Boulter, 1683).
T. Thomson (ed.), Memoirs of his own life, by Sir James Melville of Halhill, Bannatyne Club, 18 (Edinburgh, 1827).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)