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Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript of the poem 'Sealwear' by Edwin Morgan., 1966.
Item
Identifier: MS.27494
Scope and Contents
This is one of fourteen copies written out in booklet form by Edwin Morgan, with the imprint 'Gold Seal Press', Glasgow. Morgan invented the Gold Seal Press for this booklet.
Dates:
1966.
Manuscript of the ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, statutes, ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, written soon after the middle of the 15th century, and belonging to the Charterhouse at Perth.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘Quoniam attachiamaenta’ (folio 1). Folios 7 verso and 8 are blank. ‘Acts of the Scottish Parliament’, i, pages 281-295.(ii) `Modus seu processus breuium`, elsewhere the last chapters of the `Quoniam attachiamenta` (folio 10). Only the title of the last one is written on folio 12 recto.Folio 12 verso blank.(iii) `De exceptionibus` (folio 13).(iv) `Modus procedendi in itinere...
Dates:
14th century-3rd quarter of 15th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, baron court laws, burgh and guild laws, and some other legal texts, some in Scots, written by George Cuyk (later clerk of the Privy Seal) in 1528.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.11
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is incomplete at the end.The contents are as follows:(i) `The baroun Lawis. Modus tenendi curias` in 61 chapters (modern numbering), in Scots (folio 2). The explicit is followed by four lines, beginning `Haec faciunt causas festis tractare diebus` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xvi).(ii) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 4 parts of 212 continuously numbered chapters (36, 74, 34, and 68 in each part) with table at the beginning (folio...
Dates:
14th century-early 17th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, statutes, burgh laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, mostly in Scots, written in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century. Sections (xxv)-(xxvii) are a slightly later addition.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.15
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 4 books of 191 continuously numbered chapters (34, 74, 26, and 57 in each book respectively) with table at the beginning (folio 1). The end of chapter 6 to the beginning of chapter 14 is lost. ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 233-277.(ii) `Quoniam attachiamenta` in 61 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 60 verso). Chapters 11-24 are lost. ‘Acts of the Parliament of...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, baron court laws, burgh and guild laws, and some other legal texts, all in Scots, written by one A de D probably in the 1470s.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.7
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is imperfect at the end; and sections (i) and (ii), which belong after section (xvii), have been misbound.The contents are as follows:(i) `Statuta regis Jacobi secundi` (folio 1). The beginning is lost; see section (xvii). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, ii, pages 31-52.(ii) `Ye statutis of ye law of march mayd be erll villȝham of Douglas`, 1448 (folio 3). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page 350.folio 5 verso...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh and guild laws, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, a few in Scots, mostly written by John Bannatyne in 1520, with some later additions.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Regiam Maiestatem` in four books of 209 continuously numbered chapters (34, 72, 34, and 69 in each book), with table at the beginning (folio 2). This is preceded (folio 1 verso) by a couplet beginning `Me legat antiquas qui vult proferre loquelas` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xxvi) and 11 verses beginning `Hoc trahit ad lumen antiqua statuta volumen` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xv). ‘Acts of...
Dates:
14th century-16th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh and guild laws, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots, mostly written by James Monynet in 1488, with some later additions.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.6
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Table of sections (iii) and (v)-(vii) (folio vi).(ii) ‘Brevis ordo judiciarius,` maxims and procedures in 12 chapters, in a later hand (folio x verso).(iii) `Regiam Maiestatem,` in four books of respectively 35, 74, 35, and 68 chapters (folio 1). In addition to this numbering (in red) there is a continuous numbering of the chapters to ccxi. Prefixed are 11 lines beginning `Hoc trahit ad lumen antiqua...
Dates:
1248-15th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh laws, `Quoniam attachiamenta`, and `De judicibus`, written by Alexander Foulis in 1454; the last two items have been completed and other statutes, etc., added by a later hand.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Fragment of chapters in a later hand (folio 1).(ii) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 3 parts of 34, 108, and 58 chapters (parts 1 and 2 are numbered continuously) with table at the beginning (folio 2). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 233-277.(iii) `Assisa Regis David` in 46 chapters (modern numbering) (folio 30 verso). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 3-13.(iv) `Statuta regis...
Dates:
1209-late 16th century.
Manuscript of which the greater part consists of historical collections or copies of English state papers concerning Scotland in the Cotton collection.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.13
Scope and Contents
The documents are chiefly in the hand of Matthew Crawfurd professor of ecclesiastical history at Edinburgh in the beginning of the 18th century. The last part of the volume appears from a note of Crawfurd’s to have been copied for him by David Casley, Keeper of the Cotton manuscripts. At the beginning of the volume is a list, also in Crawfurd’s hand, of ‘the blazoning of the arms of a great many surnames in Scotland’ copied from the original by Professor Thomas Crawfurd who died in 1664....
Dates:
16th century.
Manuscript press-copy of chapters 1-20 of ‘Briseis’ by William Black., [1896, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.19647
Dates:
[1896, or before.]
Manuscript titled ‘A breife treatise concerning the mint or coyning hous in Scotland. Reduced and drawen in method 10 Nouember 1626’., 1611, 1626.
File
Identifier: MS.172
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of two letters from the Earl of Salisbury to the Earl of Dunfermline on the subject, 12 October and 13 November 1611.
Dates:
1611, 1626.
Manuscripts and letters of Duncan Forbes, 3rd of Culloden, and others., 1696-1747.
File
Identifier: MS.2973
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'State of things... 1696', by Duncan Forbes, 3rd of Culloden, printed in ‘Culloden papers’ (London, 1815), page 317 (folio 1);(ii) 'Ane account of the familie of Innes', by the same, in his autograph, ?1698; a draft of a portion, corresponding to MS.2970, folios 285-292 (folio 25);(iii) 'Chamberland Compt Book of Farintosh, cropt 1705', etc. (folio 45);(iv) Modern copies of letters of Lord President Forbes and...
Dates:
1696-1747.
Manuscripts and typescripts of 'A Clyack Sheaf' by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1957, 1968, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27015
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscripts and typescripts of some individual poems published in the collection, 1957, undated (folio 1); (ii) Fair manuscript copy probably made from the published text, undated, (folio l8). A page is missing between folios 59 and 60. (iii) Typescript, marked up for the printer, 1968 (folio 83).
Dates:
1957, 1968, undated.
Manuscripts and typescripts of 'Mature Art' by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’., 1937-1938, 1956, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27019-27026
Scope and Contents
Hugh MacDiarmid originally planned four volumes of this immensely long poem, but only one, ‘In memoriam James Joyce’, (Glasgow, 1955), was published.
Parts of the rest appeared in periodicals or in later collections of Hugh MacDiarmid's poems. These papers contain numerous drafts and re-workings of sections of the poem, made over a period of many years. MacDiarmid frequently rearranged sequences or withdrew them for use elsewhere, so while some of the drafts and copies are substantial,...
Dates:
1937-1938, 1956, undated.
Manuscripts and typescripts of poems by John Kincaid (1909-1981), the schoolteacher and founder member of the Clyde Group.
File
Identifier: MS.26189
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Drafts, fair copies and a few typescripts of poems, 1968-1969, undated (folio l). These were included in the posthumously published collection of John Kincaid's poems, ‘Windward of Ithaca; one man's love of Mull’ (Droitwich, 1986).
(ii) 'The Flyting of Kincaid and Gold', 1969 (folio 36). Manuscripts, corrected typescripts and the final typescript of a poetic dispute written by Kincaid and Eric Gold.
(iii) Drafts of poems by Kincaid, 1968-1969, undated...
Dates:
1968, 1969, undated.
Manuscripts and typescripts of ‘Stony limits and other poems’ by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., [1934, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.27004
Scope and Contents
The papers comprise an incomplete contemporary manuscript of the whole collection, with the title 'Forty New Songs' (folio 1), and drafts and fair copies of individual poems (folio 58), including some versions in English and poems deleted from the first edition.
Dates:
[1934, or before.]
Manuscripts collected by William Lee Ferguson, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5170-5177
Dates:
1537-1934.
Manuscripts, correspondence, and other papers of and concerning James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26105-26115
Dates:
1913-1971.
Manuscripts from the Bishop Dowden Memorial Library, St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20483-20486
Dates:
Mid 17th century-1743.
Manuscripts from the Riddell Collection., 14th century-19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.9.1-25.9.23
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts, including collections of formal documents (but not single documents, for which see Ch.A245-A251), owned by Riddell, arranged as far as possible in chronological order.
Dates:
14th century-19th century.
Manuscripts of an article, ‘Prolegomena to a Psychology of Art’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn; with related notes and correspondence., 1937-1938.
File
Identifier: MS.50182
Scope and Contents
The papers are arranged chronologically. 1937-1938.Incomplete, amended, draft manuscript ‘I’, 1937, comprised of typescript and manuscript, of an article, ‘Prolegomena to a Psychology of Art’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. The article is based on Fairbairn’s paper of the same title read to the British Psychological Society, Scottish Branch meeting, 6 March 1937. The typescript has been amended by Fairbairn. Folios 1-29.Amended, superseded typescript...
Dates:
1937-1938.
Manuscripts of miscellaneous poems and verses by William Edmondstoune Aytoun., 1825-1863.
File
Identifier: MS.4919
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Originals and copies of verses, 1825-1829, written by William Edmondstoune Aytoun while a schoolboy at Edinburgh Academy, all apparently unpublished. (Folio 1.)(ii) Verse translations from the German of Goethe, presumably compiled by Aytoun for his ‘Poems and ballads of Goethe’ (Edinburgh, 1859) but all, with one exception, apparently unpublished. The titles are: “The shepherd's lament” (or 'Schafers Klagelied', there are two versions...
Dates:
1825-1863.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Letters and papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, which, on his death, came into the hands of John Blackwood as his executor.
Manuscripts of poems by Ruth Munro.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26985-26987
Scope and Contents
Ruth Munro was the daughter of Robert Henry Munro, an Edinburgh hosiery manufacturer.
These manuscripts are fair copies of later poems written out in coloured inks, in covers decorated by the author.
All the poems in MS.26986 are also included in MS.26985.
Dates:
1942.
Manuscripts of several poems by and an article concerning John Eagles., 1835-1855, 1858.
File
Identifier: MS.4792
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscripts of fourteen apparently unpublished poems by John Eagles, 1835-1855, copied and mostly dated by Miss Zoe King. The titles are: 'Garland to Blackwood on publishing no. cccc', 'Ten unpublished sonnets', "Inscription for Chatterton's Monument", 'Reconciliation', and 'Woods'. (Folios 1-19 recto, 21-32.)(ii) Manuscripts of three poems by Eagles entitled 'The earth bears fruit in life and fruit in death', 'Hail! Sacredness of hoar...
Dates:
1835-1855, 1858.