Inscriptions.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Lettering marked on something, especially for documentation or commemoration. On prints, the specific information lettered on the print, not usually part of a larger text. Regarding material from the ancient period, includes most preserved written matter of any length, other than papyri. For standardized symbols or notations on objects that convey official information, use ""marks (symbols)""(AAT) .
Found in 182 Collections and/or Records:
Commonplace book of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, inscribed 'Begun at Utrecht, 1746'., 1746-1756.
Item
Identifier: MS.25423
Scope and Contents
The volume includes notes on classical and modern authors, Lord Hailes' contemporaries at Eton (folio 38), life in Holland, 1748 (folio 7), books read, 1749-1755 (folio 233), and legal cases represented to 1755 (folio 241).
Dates:
1746-1756.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Miscellaneous papers of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Notebooks and commonplace books of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Copies of Edwin Muir, "First Poems" (1925) and "Chorus of the Newly Dead" (1926), the former inscribed by Muir to John and Dorothy Holms.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9645
Scope and Contents
Both annotated by Beatrix Holms
Dates:
circa 1925-1926.
Copies of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions in Carnwath Parish churchyard, Lanarkshire, compiled, with an introduction and photographs, by John Smith, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland., 1917-1918.
File
Identifier: MS.2242
Dates:
1917-1918.
Copies of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions in Carstairs Parish churchyard, Lanarkshire, compiled, with an introduction and photographs, by John Smith, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland., 1918.
File
Identifier: MS.2243
Dates:
1918.
Copies of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions in Covington (1918), Libberton (1919), Pettinain (1918), Quothquan (1918), and Walston (1918) Parish churchyards in Lanarkshire, compiled, with introductions and photographs, by John Smith, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland., 1918-1919.
File
Identifier: MS.2244
Dates:
1918-1919.
Copies of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions in Culter churchyard, Lanarkshire, 1916-1917, and in Kilbucho churchyard, Peeblesshire, 1915, compiled, with photographs, by John Smith, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland., 1915-1917.
File
Identifier: MS.2241
Dates:
1915-1917.
Copies of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions in parish churchyards in Lanarkshire, compiled, with introductions, photographs, lists of contents, and indexes, by John Smith, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2238-2244
Scope and Contents
John Smith is the author of "Monumental inscriptions in St. Cuthbert's Churchyard, Edinburgh", edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, in 'Scottish Record Society' series (Edinburgh, 1915, 1919).
Dates:
1915-1919.
Copies of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions in St John's Kirk burying ground, Thankerton, compiled, with photographs, by John Smith, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland., 1916.
File
Identifier: MS.2240
Dates:
1916.
Copies of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions in Symington churchyard, Lanarkshire, compiled, with photographs, by John Smith, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland., 1916.
File
Identifier: MS.2239
Dates:
1916.
Copies of monumental inscriptions in St Mary's churchyard, Biggar, compiled with an introduction and photographs, by John Smith, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland., 1916.
File
Identifier: MS.2238
Dates:
1916.
Copies, sixteenth century, of miscellaneous Italian documents concerning Italian, and especially Venetian, diplomacy., 1532-1570, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.5732
Dates:
1532-1570, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Historical manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Copies, sixteenth century, of miscellaneous Italian documents concerning Italian, and especially Venetian, diplomacy.
Copy, dated 1800, of ‘The Historie and Life of King James the Sext’, attributed to John Colville.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.17
Scope and Contents
An inscription by Malcolm Laing appears on folio 181, dated 15 July, 1800.
Dates:
17th century.
Copy, early 19th century, of a manuscript tilted ‘Tractatus Theologicus de directione, usu, & necessitate sciae mediae inter vocandum providendum et praedestinandum’., ?17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.334
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is early 19th century in date and is probably a copy of a 17th century manuscript.
Dates:
?17th century.
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 George F R Henderson, "Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War" (1898), inscribed and marked by Douglas Haig.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7134
Scope and Contents
Containing a letter and report, 1919, to Haig, and a few maps, undated.
Dates:
1898, 1919 and undated.
Copy of 'In the Cairngorms' (Edinburgh, 1934), with a poem to Nan Shepherd, 'The Traveller' by Elspet Smith, 1919, written on the back flyleaf., 1934.
Item
Identifier: MS.27444
Copy of John MacDougall Hay's poetic work ‘Their dead sons’ (London, 1918), with a presentation inscription to James McIntyre.
File
Identifier: MS.26797
Scope and Contents
A covering letter to James McIntyre is inserted.
Dates:
1919.
Copy of 'Los Cachorros' (Barcelona, 1967) by Mario Vargas Llosa, with an inscription to Alastair Reid by the author., [1967, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.27462
Scope and Contents
There are also numerous manuscript notes by Alastair Reid for an intended translation.
Dates:
[1967, or after.]
Copy of 'On the hill of Marcus' (Aberdeen, 1977), inscribed by the author Dr Anna 'Nan' Shepherd'., 1977.
Item
Identifier: MS.27445
Copy of part of Stair's 'Institutions of the Law of Scotland', being Titles 1-22 with Title 19 omitted.
Item
Identifier: MS.5058
Scope and Contents
Contains Titles 1-22 with Title 19 omitted.
Dates:
1666.
Copy of S D Clough, "Backbone", with a 12-line inscription of Sir Harry Lauder on "my success".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6392
Dates:
first half of 20th century.
Copy of the first number of ‘The Pagan Review’, for August 15 1892, of which the complete contents were written by William Sharp under various pseudonyms., 1892.
Item
Identifier: MS.8786
Copy of the inscription on the tombstone of Sir Thomas Hislop, Baronet, and his wife Emma., 1866.
Item
Identifier: MS.13471
Copy of "The Life and Acts of the most Victorious Conqueror Robert Bruce...", inscribed Berlin, by the Earl Marischal and James Boswell.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5117
Dates:
1764.
Copy of Thomas Stamford Raffles' 'On the Maláyu Nation, with a translation of its Maritime Institutions' (no publisher, undated), inscribed to the 1st Earl of Minto., [?1810-1814.]
Item
Identifier: MS.11703
Dates:
[?1810-1814.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Correspondence with and papers concerning the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and other territories east of the Cape.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto and the Bengal Government concerning the British invasion and occupation of Java and other Dutch possessions in the East Indies.
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Copies of printed papers of Thomas Stamford Raffles, and a narrative of events during the conquest of Java in the hand of the Countess of Minto.