Lists.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Transcribed collections of numbers, names, or other text indicating tallies of concepts collocated for any particular purpose.
Found in 1660 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript ‘List of Electors of the County of Perth’, possibly prepared by one of the rival parties for the parliamentary by-election of that year (May 1834).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.20
Scope and Contents
In addition to details extracted from the electoral rolls, the list has a column reserved, but not used, for `Observations` of canvassers.
Dates:
1834.
Manuscript list of paintings of George F Robson, to be shown in an exhibition by Society of Painters in Watercolour.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5789
Dates:
1833.
Manuscript of ‘An anthology of Scottish history’, prepared by Andrew Ross, Ross Herald., 1908.
Item
Identifier: MS.355A
Dates:
1908.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Author's manuscript and printed proof of ‘An anthology of Scottish history’ from 1093 to 1746, being a list of characters, etc., prepared by Andrew Ross, Ross Herald, for the pageant given at the Scottish National Exhibition, 1908.
Manuscript of book I of the ‘Scale of perfection’ by Walter Hilton., Mid 15th-century.
Item
Identifier: MS.6126
Scope and Contents
The text begins 'Gostely suster in Jhesu Crist I praye the', and is preceded by a list of chapters. The chapter divisions do not always correspond to those in Evelyn Underhill's edition. The text represents the earlier of the two versions (see Underhill's edition, page xliv). It includes the passage on the Holy Name of Jesus in cap. xliv (folio 33); and belongs to class A of Helen L Gardner's classification.Four leaves have been cut out at the end, the text ending...
Dates:
Mid 15th-century.
Manuscript of chapters 1-2 and 4-11 of ‘The first ascent of Mont Blanc’, and of the 'List of Ascents, etc.' and 'Bibliography', written by Professor Thomas Graham Brown.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5167-5169
Scope and Contents
Chapter 3 was written by Sir Gavin de Beer, who also prepared and annotated the appendices, but this portion of the book is not represented in the manuscript.
Dates:
[1957, or before].
Manuscript of chapters 9-11, and of the ‘List of Ascents’ and ‘Bibliography’ of ‘The first ascent of Mont Blanc’ by Professor Thomas Graham Brown., [1957, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.5169
Manuscript of English-Gaelic vocabulary compiled by a blinded veteran of the 92nd (Gordon) Regiment, Malcolm MacPherson, at Bridge of Teith, Doune, Perthshire, and written for him by another.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.6
Dates:
1812.
Manuscript of Ewen MacLachlan’s ‘Celtic Analysis’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.4
Scope and Contents
A description by Ewen MacLachlan of fourteen manuscripts sent to him by the Highland Society of Scotland for examination. It was remitted to him by the Society in eight instalments between 26 May 1812 and 3 July 1813, and was intended for use in the compilation of the Society’s Dictionary. Pages 1-152 were therefore forwarded by the society to the Reverend Dr John MacLeod (MacLachlan’s co-adjutor on the Dictionary) on 3 June 1813. On this occasion the five instalments making up pages 1-120...
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Manuscript of ‘Frost and Fire’ by John Francis Campbell, being a collection mainly of his geological observations while on his travels from July 1862 to November 1863, including extracts from earlier journals., 1862-1865.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.5.13-50.6.1
Scope and Contents
On the whole the manuscript and printed versions correspond.
Dates:
1862-1865.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
Manuscript of ‘Frost and Fire’ by John Francis Campbell, chapters 43-58., 1862-1865.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.1
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains the preface to the first volume (folio 465) and additional material at the end which appears not to have been published. Rough diagrams illustrate the text and there are copies of Campbell`s ‘On a New Self-Registering Sun-Dial’ (folio 396) and ‘A Method of Converting Collodion Negatives into Positives by Heat’ (folio 401), together with proofs of the index and a list of illustrations to ‘Frost and Fire’ inserted at the back of the manuscript.There is also...
Dates:
1862-1865.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
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Manuscript of ‘Frost and Fire’ by John Francis Campbell, being a collection mainly of his geological observations while on his travels from July 1862 to November 1863, including extracts from earlier journals.
Manuscript of material intended to be used as appendices to the unfinished continuation of ‘The history of Liddesdale, Eskdale, Ewesdale, Wauchopedale and the Debateable Land’ by Robert Bruce Armstrong., [1883, or after.]
File
Identifier: MS.6112
Scope and Contents
Also included is a list of books (folio 272) perhaps intended as a bibliography.
Dates:
[1883, or after.]
Manuscript of 'Secretum secretorum' by Pseudo-Aristotle, 'De excidio Troiae' by Dares Phrygius, and 'Historia regum Britannie' by Geoffrey of Monmouth; written by a 13th- or 14th-century hand of uncertain origin.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Pseudo-Aristotle, 'Secretum secretorum' (edited by R. Steele, in 'Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi', fascicule V, pages 25-172). This manuscript contains the letter of Philip, a list of chapters, and the text in seven books (the headings for i, iv, and vi are omitted). It is of the common class, omitting all the test passages of Gilson and Steele (cf. 'Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi', pages xxv-xxvi); further omissions are...
Dates:
13th century-14th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Historia Ecclesiastica’ by Bede, probably from Exeter Cathedral.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the prologue (folio 1) and five books (folios 2, 23, 39 verso , 60, 79), each with a list of chapters at the beginning. The text is of the c-type and of the D branch of that (see ‘Opera Historica’, volume 1, pages xciii-xcv, civ-cix, and ‘Ecclesiastical History of the English People’, page 1).A few headings are in red. Initials for the preface and books are in red and blue with red tracery, those for chapters are alternately blue and red with tracery of...
Dates:
14th 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 on botany.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:
(i) `Historia plantarum in horto regio Parisiensi`, late 17th century (folio 1). A list of plants, followed (folio 275) by a list of the trees and shrubs. They are closely related to Joseph Pitton de Tournefort`s Schola Botanica (Amsterdam, 1689), but are not as full.
(ii) `Methodus plantarum secundum D.D. Turnefortij principia Adornata`, dated at Paris, 14 April 1696 (folio 305).
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Manuscript volume of poems and prose pieces by Alexander Pennecuik, entitled `The Whole Works of Alexr Pennecuik Gent. Volura 2d`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.15
Scope and Contents
The volume also includes the text of ‘Coridon and Cochrania’ (folio 65) and `The Publict and Secret History of the Malt Tax,` 1725 (folio 86).The manuscript is in several hands of the 18th century. It was originally paginated, containing pages 215-337 (folios 2-59 and 80-85) and there is an index to these sections (folio 124). Folio 85 verso contains a `List of ye persons who are furnished with my weekly papers`, 1726, and there is also a list of Pennecuik`s works (folio 126...
Dates:
Circa 1723-1726.
Manuscripts and proofs of various works of John Wilson ('Christopher North')., [Circa 1814-1852, or after.]
File
Identifier: MS.4887
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscript of part of a review of ‘The man of Ton: a satire’ by Sir John Dean Paul, published in “Blackwood's Magazine”, June 1828. (Folio 1.)(ii) Manuscript of the conclusion of an article, "On Hogg's memoirs", published in “Blackwood's Magazine”, August 1821. Also included are the manuscripts of an apparently unpublished article, circa 1814, and fragments of an article, circa 1821, both concerning James Hogg. (Folio 5.)...
Dates:
[Circa 1814-1852, or after.]
Manuscripts and typescript lists of sets and notes on the characters for the television production of 'Rab Mossgiel' by Robert McLellan, with photographs of the sets., 1959.
File
Identifier: MS.26362
Dates:
1959.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the playwright, Robert McLellan, and his family.
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Plays written by Robert McLellan.
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'Rab Mossgiel', a play about Robert Burns and Jean Armour by Robert McLellan, commissioned by the BBC, (British Broadcasting company), for the Burns Bi-centenary celebrations in 1959.
Manuscripts and typescripts of several unpublished poems, arranged alphabetically from M-Z alongside lists of poems and their publication details., 1948-1950.
File
Identifier: Acc.11621/143
Manuscripts and typescripts of several unpublished poems, lists of poems and their publication details, and a research note related to poem 'The Rout'., 1929-circa 1951.
File
Identifier: Acc.11621/140
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates:
1177, 15th century-1924.
Manuscripts of the Reverend George Low, the naturalist.
File
Identifier: MS.3935
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Lists of plants, animals, and fossils from W Hudson's ‘Flora anglica’, Sibbald's ‘Scotland illustrated’, and Martin Martin's ‘Description of the Western Islands’, pages 61-82. This should perhaps come after folio 45. (Folios 1-11.)(ii) 'Some observations on natural history, founded on experience; together with descriptions of curious animals, plants, fossils, microscopic views, &c., &c. The whole illustrated with drawings ......
Dates:
1770-1772.
Manuscripts of various works of Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant., [1855, or before-1898 or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.4860
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript of an article, 'Bulwer', by Margaret Oliphant, published in “Blackwood's Magazine”, February 1855 (folio 1);(ii) Manuscript of an article, 'Theology: the broad church', published in “Blackwood's Magazine”, July 1855, as part of the series 'Modern light literature' (folio 24);(iii) Manuscript of the second part of an article, 'Macaulay', published in “Blackwood's Magazine”, September 1856; the opening paragraph...
Dates:
[1855, or before-1898 or before.]
Manuscripts relating to Parliament.., 1783.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.63A-B
Manuscripts, typescripts and other papers of Katharine Cameron Kay., 1934, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.8950/32-34