Copies. Derivative objects.
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of agreement and regulations (including some correspondence) concerning the French customs., 1816-1818.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.7.21
Dates:
1816-1818.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
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Correspondence and papers relating to General Sir George Murray`s tenure of office of chief of staff of the allied armies of occupation in France following the Congress of Vienna.
Copy of ‘An Account of the Lord`s Gracious dealing with me; and of his remarkable hearing and answering my supplications` , being the religious memoirs of Mrs Marion Veitch, wife of William Veitch, minister of Dumfries, written apparently in or about 1711, the date of the latest events recorded.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.22
Scope and Contents
This copy, one of three known, which was written in a near-contemporary hand, appears to have lost all after page 74: the remainder is supplied on different sheets written in an apparently late 18th-century hand.
Dates:
1711, or after.
Copy of `An Account of the Number of People in Scotland`, Alexander Webster`s analysis of the population arranged by counties.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.1.9
Dates:
1755.
Copy of an apparently unpublished poem beginning 'How shall I admire Your courage, ye Marine Adventurers', by William Crowe., Early 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.4787
Scope and Contents
Also included are an introductory note and instructions to the printer.
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Copy of an apparently unpublished work entitled 'Practical Tracts of Artillery', written by Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald, Fellow of the Royal Society.
File
Identifier: MS.8185
Scope and Contents
The work was written by John Macdonald when he was Captain Commanding the Artillery at Fort Marlborough, [Sumatra]. The text is preceded by a letter to the Governor and Council of the Military Department there, an introduction to the work, and a letter to the Governor-General and the Supreme Council at Fort William.
Dates:
1787.
Copy of an article entitled, "The Young Scots Society: a Lost Liberal Legion", by R Ian Elder.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12097
Dates:
2001.
Copy of an article in French, 1779, by Major A Munck, concerning Gustavus III, King of Sweden., 1779, 1933.
Item
Identifier: MS.10233
Copy of an autograph verse prologue of Robert Burns.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10399
Scope and Contents
Verse begins "What needs this did about the town o` Lon`on...".
Dates:
circa 1790.
Copy of 'An eccelent arithmetick book, being a plain and Familiar method suitable to the meanest Capacity ... composed by eduard cocker.'
Item
Identifier: MS.8186
Scope and Contents
The copy was made in Edinburgh by James Burgess in the first half of the eighteenth century, of "Cocker's Arithmetick", edited by John Hawkins. The edition used was probably that of 1694 or 1697.
The manuscript contains a few verses unrelated to the text, and is decorated with numerous pen flourishes, calligraphic birds, and other figures.
Dates:
?1694 or ?1697.
Copy of ‘An essay on the war galleys of the ancients’ (Edinburgh, 1826) by John Howell, miscellaneous writer and janitor at the Edinburgh Academy., [1826, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.19738
'Copy of An explanatory Introduction [by Samuel Hart] to the Journal of the Process of Bleaching as carried on at The British Linen Comp[ys]. Bleachfield [at Saltoun, 29 Dec.] 1752 For the Hon[ble]. The Board of Trustees.' , 1752.
Item
Identifier: MS.17571
Dates:
1752.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
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Papers concerning the Commissioners and Trustees for improving Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland (later, for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland), appointed in 1727.
Copy of an extract of an opera of Simone Mayr, "Ginevra di Scozia".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7302
Dates:
1816.
Copy of an ode by Antoinette Thérèse de la Fon de Boisguérin Deshoulières, with a lengthy criticism of it by Dr Cairon, a Huguenot refugee., 1687.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.2(vi), folios 114-162
Scope and Contents
The criticism is followed (folio 160) by two sonnets of Cairon, one on the ode, and the other on the departure of the Marquis de Ruvigny for Ireland, ?1691.
Dates:
1687.
Copy of ‘Ane essay on the office of notary’., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.7.7
Scope and Contents
A smaller part of the same work in Adv.MS.25.7.8.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.7.24).
Dates:
18th century.
Copy of ‘Ane essay on the office of notary’., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.7.8
Scope and Contents
A treatise on the office and duties of notaries.
Dates:
18th century.
Copy of Anna Laura Simoni`s thesis, "Uno Scozzese Impopolare: Fionn MacColla", University of Bologna.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11301
Dates:
1995.
Copy of appointment by Anne McGillivray of John Auldjo in place of George Wallace as trustee of the late Simon McGillivray., 28 September 1850.
Item
Identifier: Ch.12762
Copy of autograph manuscript of poem, "Highland Laddie" by James Hogg.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11775
Dates:
1818.
Copy of book 1 of ‘Chroniques de Genève’ by Michel Rozet., 1562.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.1 (1 of 4)
Dates:
1562.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Copy, 18th century, of “Chroniques au foumaire recit de ce qui se trouve de plus remarquable dans l’etat de la Republique de Geneve et de l’eglise qui y est recueillie depuis qu’elle est connue jusques à l’année 1562 par Michel Rozet.”
Copy of book 6 of ‘Chroniques de Genève’ by Michel Rozet., 1562.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.1 (4 of 4)
Dates:
1562.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Copy, 18th century, of “Chroniques au foumaire recit de ce qui se trouve de plus remarquable dans l’etat de la Republique de Geneve et de l’eglise qui y est recueillie depuis qu’elle est connue jusques à l’année 1562 par Michel Rozet.”
Copy of books 2 and 3 of ‘Chroniques de Genève’ by Michel Rozet., 1562.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.1 (2 of 4)
Dates:
1562.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Copy, 18th century, of “Chroniques au foumaire recit de ce qui se trouve de plus remarquable dans l’etat de la Republique de Geneve et de l’eglise qui y est recueillie depuis qu’elle est connue jusques à l’année 1562 par Michel Rozet.”
Copy of books 4 and 5 of ‘Chroniques de Genève’ by Michel Rozet., 1562.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.1 (3 of 4)
Dates:
1562.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Copy, 18th century, of “Chroniques au foumaire recit de ce qui se trouve de plus remarquable dans l’etat de la Republique de Geneve et de l’eglise qui y est recueillie depuis qu’elle est connue jusques à l’année 1562 par Michel Rozet.”
Copy of Bruce Charlton, "The Literature of Alasdair Gray", a Durham University thesis.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9824
Dates:
1988.
Copy of “Caelia's country-house and closet”, a poem by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, here with the title “Coelia's solitude or closset”.
Item
Identifier: MS.15979
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is in a seventeenth-century hand; there are marginal corrections or elucidations and instructions about paragraphing, which appear to be in George Mackenzie's own hand.This manuscript and MS.550 (which is later and less complete) represent a recension of the text frequently and significantly different from that of the printed editions (first in James Watson, ‘Choice collection of comic and serious Scots poems’, Part 2, page 71, and separately, (London, [1715?]);...
Dates:
Late 17th century.