:;c x ifirnsM TEXTS AMP AI^Nt&RS HSBBBBm —fi g f. .'TV Sc-i. S,HS.IS^ ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY GUIDES AND HANDBOOKS No. 14 SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY FOURTH SERIES VOLUME 23 SCOTTISH TEXTS AND CALENDARS AN ANALYTICAL GUIDE TO SERIAL PUBLICATIONS SCOTTISH TEXTS AND CALENDARS AN ANALYTICAL GUIDE TO SERIAL PUBLICATIONS BY DAVID AND WENDY B. STEVENSON LONDON ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY EDINBURGH SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY 1987 © Royal Historical Society and Scottish History Society 1987 First published 1987 by TheThe RoyalScottish Historical History SocietySociety and RoyalScottish Historical History Society ISBN 0 9062458619B 111 08 47 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Stevenson, David, 1942- analyticalScottish texts guide and to calendars:serial publications. an — (Royal Historical Society guides and —handbooks; (Scottish no.History 14) Society; ser.1. Scotland—History—Sources— 4, no. 23) I.Bibliography Title II. Stevenson, Wendy B. 016.9411III. Series Z2061 ISBN 0-906-245-08-70-86193-111-4 Printed in Great Britain by St Edmundsbury Press, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, PREFACE This book is primarily intended to form a companion volume to two works produced by E. L. C. Mullins for the Royal Historical Society’s ‘Guides and Handbooks’ series: Texts and calendars. An analytical guide to serial publications (1958) and Texts and calendars II. An analytical guide to serial publications 1957-1982 (1983). Mullins described the first of these works as ‘an analytical guide to printed texts and calendars relating to English and Welsh history issued in general collections or in series by a public body or private society’. However, the work was also planned to form a catalogue of a section of the Royal Historical Society Library which, though defined in similar terms to those quoted above, was in fact rather more extensive than they suggest, in that the Library included texts and calendars published by official bodies relating to Scotland (and some relating to Ireland) as well as English and Welsh ones. Thus, in both of Mullins’ invaluable works, ‘Part 1: Official Bodies’ includes works relating to Scotland, while parts 2-5, concerned with publications of private societies, are limited in coverage to England and Wales. The present work, designed as a Scottish supplement to Mullins’ works, is therefore limited to private societies; listings of Scottish works produced by official bodies should be sought in Mullins. The only exception to this is that a few Scottish official publications omitted by Mullins, or published since his second work appeared, are listed in an Appendix. Thus it might be argued that Mullins’ works contain a degree of inconsistency in their coverage (British for official publica- tions but English and Welsh for private ones) through trying to be two things at once (general reference work and library guide). It may be that the same strains are apparent in the present work. As well as being designed as a supplement to Mullins, it is also intended to update and partly replace two older Scottish reference works: C. S. Terry, A catalogue of the publications of Scottish historical and kindred clubs and societies, and of the volumes v PREFACE relevant to Scottish history issued by His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1780-1908 (1909), and C. Matheson, A catalogue of the publica- tions of Scottish historical and kindred clubs and societies . 1908-1927 (1928). The replacement of Terry and Matheson offered by the present volume is however incomplete in that— 1. As explained above, the present work does not list official publications. 2. The present work is limited to listing series mainly concerned with primary sources, and thus omits the listing of contents of series and periodicals consisting of secondary works which Terry and Matheson included. 3. The detailed bibliographical information they contained as to pagination, size of volumes, illustrations, etc., has been omitted. 4. No attempt has been made to continue Terry’s policy of including such items as the annual reports, rules, and lists of members of societies—though those he listed do appear in the present work. In compensation for these omissions, however, the present work offers much more information than Terry and Matheson as to the contents of the works listed. They were primarily concerned to catalogue, leaving titles to speak for themselves (however inadequately). The present work, being an analytical guide, seeks as far as is possible in brief entries, to elucidate the contents of the works listed. The compilers have to admit some inconsistency in the choice of series for inclusion. The general policy has been to seek to be inclusive rather than exclusive. In some instances, in which a large portion of the publications in a series are not relevant (e.g., 2, 17, 19, 35, 41), only relevant works are listed. Series 4 and 8, being the inventions of booksellers rather than genuine private societies, and having no emphasis on Scottish sources, might well have been omitted, but have been included for the sake of completeness as they were catalogued by Terry. The purely literary and linguistic publishing societies would have been excluded by strict adherence to Mullins’ criteria, but are included here both because they are listed in Terry and Matheson, and because a high proportion of their publications consist of important historical sources. Two further series perhaps require special pleading to justify their inclusion. ‘Bute Scottish Record Series’ (7) is a title created here to describe the series of volumes printed and circulated privately by the 4th vi PREFACE Marquis of Bute and his successor. Being the productions of an individual rather than a society they should, strictly speaking, not appear in the present work. But they form a clearly-defined series of great value which it is hard to find listed anywhere else. Though the Roxburghe Club (17) has a Scottish name it is essentially English—and literary at that. But a significant proportion of its publications consists of sources relating to Scottish (primarily Jacobite) history, and these have been fisted. Both cases for inclusion rest on expediency rather than principle, but it is hoped the compilers may be indulged here as the inclusion of these series should add to the usefulness of the work as a reference tool. In general the forms of entry and index used in this volume follow Mullins, though there are some minor differences. For those not familiar with Mullins, entries take the form of a title entry followed (indented and in smaller type) by an analytical entry. In some instances the title entry conveys so much information that it stands alone, no analytical entry being thought necessary. Titles are copied strictly from title pages, except that capitalization has been standardized and punctuation added where necessary for clarity. Phrases such as ‘Edited by’ or ‘with introduction and notes by’ are copied from the title page, but names of editors, etc., are standardized by giving a single Christian name and other initials before the surname; titles such as ‘Rev.’ or ‘Dr’ are omitted, along with details of qualifications, offices held, etc. Where no editor’s name appears on the title page, this is added silently if the editor can be identified from the volume itself. If, however, the indentification has been made from other sources, the editor’s name appears in square brackets. In some cases of publications for which no editor can be identified with certainty, but which carry the name of the person presenting the volume to the club or society, the presenter’s name is included in the title entry. Those who thus presented volumes were frequently, but not invariably, their editors. Dates of publication are those that appear on the volumes, though it is clear in some cases that they are incorrect. Full titles are given, except in a few instances in which excessively long ones have been slightly shortened. Where works consist of several volumes which are fisted separately, title entries after the first are often shortened, the editor’s name being omitted if it is the same as in the previous volume or volumes. It vii PREFACE is assumed that pagination is continuous in works issued in several ‘parts’, separate in each volume of works produced in several ‘volumes’. But where, as frequently happens, clubs and societies do not adhere to this distinction between parts and volumes this is commented on in the analytical entry. In the numbering of items within a series (at the start of title entries), for most series the numbering of Terry and Matheson has been adopted and, where necessary, continued. Elsewhere the official numbering of the issuing body has usually been adopted. Divergences from these practices are explained and justified in footnotes on the first pages of entries for the series concerned. The references in the right-hand margins opposite each title entry are solely for purposes of cross-referencing and indexing, taking the form of a number in bold denoting the series, followed (after a full point) by the number of that item within the series. These forms of reference are not intended to replace the Terry and Matheson numbering, or official club numbering, for general jeference purposes. The analytical entries that follow the title entries are intended to supplement the latter, and thus title and analytical entries should be read together; information clearly given in the title entry is not repeated in the analytical entry. Thus the informa- tion in the analytical entry depends to a considerable extent on how informative the title of the work is; the intention is to give as much information as is possible in a few lines about the type of documents printed, the form of publication (full transcripts assumed unless otherwise stated), and the subjects or topics they are mainly concerned with.