Some Important Sources for Early Forms of Scottish Place-Names

Each source begins with an abbreviation taken mostly from the ‘List of Abbreviated Titles of the Printed Sources of Scottish History to 1560’ (Supplement to the Scottish Historical Review, October 1963).

Bagimond’s Roll – Scottish History Society Misc. vi, pp.3-77, ed. A.I. Dunlop 1939.

Balm. Lib. – Liber Sancte Marie de Balmorinach, Abbotsford Club 1841.

Barrow, G. W. S., 1999 (ed) The Charters of David I (Woodbridge)
Blaeu’s Atlas Novus 1654, reproduced in J.Stone’s Illustrated Maps of Scotland, 1991. [see also Pont]

Book of Deer – see Jackson 1972.

Camb. Reg. – Registrum Monasterii S. Marie de Cambuskenneth, Grampian Club 1872.

Dunf.Reg. – Registrum de Dunfermelyn, Bannatyne Club 1842.

ER The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, ed. J.Stuart & others 1878-1908.

ESC – Early Scottish Charters prior to 1153, ed. A.C. Lawrie 1905.

Fife Ct. Bk. – The Sheriff Court Book of Fife 1515-22, ed. W.C. Dickinson, SHS 1928.

Glas. Reg. – Registrum Episcopatus Glasguensis, Bannatyne & Maitland Clubs, 1843.

Inchaff. Chrs. – Charters, Bulls and other Documents relating to the Abbey of Inchaffrey, SHS 1908.

Inchcolm Chrs. – Charters of the Abbey of Inchcolm, ed. D.E. Easson & A. Macdonald, Scottish History Society 1938.

Jackson, K.H., 1972, The Gaelic Notes in the Book of Deer (Cambridge).

Laing Chrs. – Calendar of the Laing Charters 854-1837, ed J. Anderson 1899.

Lind. Cart. – Chartulary of the Abbey of Lindores, Scottish History Society 1903.

N.B. Chrs. – Carte Monialium de Northberwic, Bannatyne Club 1847.

Pont: Stone, J.C., 1989, The Pont Manuscript Maps of Scotland: Sixteenth century origins of a Blaeu atlas (Tring)

Retours – Inquisitionum ad capellam domini regis retornatarum…abbreviatio Rec.Com., (3 vols., 1811-16).

RMS – Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scottorum ed. J.M. Thomson & others 1882-1914 [aka Register of the Great Seal].

Roy/1750s – General William Roy’s Military Survey of Scotland 1750s [copies held by the Department of Geography. See also G. Whittington, ‘The Roy Map: The Protracted and Fair Copies’ (Part One), Scottish Geographical Magazine vol.102 (1) pp.18-28, 1986; and ‘The Roy Map: The Protracted and Fair Copies’ (Part Two), Scottish Geographical Magazine vol.102 (2) pp.66-73(1986). These articles contain detailed studies of the Roy maps as they relate to parts of Fife].

RRS i – Regesta Regum Scottorum vol.i, (Acts/Malcolm IV) ed. G.W.S. Barrow, 1960.

RRS ii – Regesta Regum Scottorum vol.ii, (Acts/William I) ed. G.W.S. Barrow, 1971.

RRS v – Regesta Regum Scottorum vol.v, (Acts/Robert I) ed. A.A.M. Duncan, 1988.

RRS vi – Regesta Regum Scottorum vol.v, (Acts/David II) ed. B. Webster, 1982.

RSS Registrum Secreti Sigilli Regum Scottorum, ed. M. Livingstone & others (Edinburgh 1908- )
Sasines – Register of Sasines, kept at (East) Register House, National Archives of Scotland, Princes Street, Edinburgh.

St A. Lib. – Liber Cartarum Prioratus Sancti Andree in Scotia, Bannatyne Club 1841.

St A. Rent. – Rentale Sancti Andree, Scottish History Society 1913.