Manuscripts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to handwritten documents, and may also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.
Found in 6567 Collections and/or Records:
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, volume 1., 1746-1775.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.16
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, volume 2., 1746-1775.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.17
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, volume 3., 1746-1775.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.18
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, volume 4., 1746-1775.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.19
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, volume 5., 1746-1775.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.20
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, volume 6., 1746-1775.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.21
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, volume 7., 1746-1775.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.22
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, volume 8., 1746-1775.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.23
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, volume 9., 1746-1775.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.24
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, volume 10., 1746-1775.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.25
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, with an index (Adv.MS.32.6.26) by Sir Henry Stewart of Allanton.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.32.6.16-32.6.26
Dates:
1746-1775.
MacRae-Fairley Collection of highland bagpipe music.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12810(1)-(21)
Scope and Contents
A collection of Piobaireachd and other music, consisting of bound books, groups of unbound sheets, and disparate sheets. Includes "Captain Chisholm's manuscript", possibly one of the oldest manuscripts of Ceòl Beag.
The descriptions are taken from an assessment made by Dr Roderick Cannon.
Dates:
Majority of material found within [1st half of the 19th century-1st half of the 20th century], 2007, undated.
Magazine in manuscript, 'The Gael', created by Marjory Bonar.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14198
Scope and Contents
17 issues of 'The Gael: A magazine for mutual improvement' compiled between 1874 and 1887 by Marjorie Bonar of Glasgow from contributions from family members. The magazine (later bound together in a volume) contains articles, poems and illustrations. It includes descriptions of their excursions in Scotland, including a holiday in Oban, an account of ascending Ben Cruachan and an excursion to Iona and Staffa, and even some comic sketches about a journey to America in 1881. There was a...
Dates:
1874-1887.
‘Magnum Opus’ of Sir Walter Scott, volume 40: ‘Introductions and notes and illustrations to the novels, tales and romances of the author of Waverley [Sir Walter Scott]. Volume I. Waverley – The Abbot’ (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833)., 1833.
File
Identifier: MS.23040
Dates:
1833.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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‘Magnum Opus’ of the ‘Waverley novels’ of Sir Walter Scott, chiefly the ‘Interleaved Waverley novels’.
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‘Magnum Opus’ of Sir Walter Scott, volumes 33-41: additional volumes.
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‘Magnum Opus’ of Sir Walter Scott, volumes 40-41: ‘Introductions and notes and illustrations to the novels, tales and romances of the author of Waverley’ [Sir Walter Scott]. Volumes I-II (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833).
‘Magnum Opus’ of Sir Walter Scott, volume 41: ‘Introductions and notes and illustrations to the novels, tales and romances of the author of Waverley [Sir Walter Scott]. Volume II. Kenilworth - The surgeon's daughter' (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833)., 1833.
File
Identifier: MS.23041
Dates:
1833.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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‘Magnum Opus’ of the ‘Waverley novels’ of Sir Walter Scott, chiefly the ‘Interleaved Waverley novels’.
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‘Magnum Opus’ of Sir Walter Scott, volumes 33-41: additional volumes.
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‘Magnum Opus’ of Sir Walter Scott, volumes 40-41: ‘Introductions and notes and illustrations to the novels, tales and romances of the author of Waverley’ [Sir Walter Scott]. Volumes I-II (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833).
‘Magnum Opus’ of Sir Walter Scott, volumes 40-41: ‘Introductions and notes and illustrations to the novels, tales and romances of the author of Waverley’ [Sir Walter Scott]. Volumes I-II (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833)., 1833.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.23040-23041
Manuscript, 17th century, of the second part of ‘I.G.De Rebus ... sub imperio illustrissimi Jacobi Montisrosarum Marchionis ... anno MDCXLIV et duobus sequentibus praeclare gestis, commentarius’ by George Wishart.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.8
Scope and Contents
The beginning and end are missing.
Dates:
1644.
Manuscript, 17th century, of the second part of ‘I.G.De Rebus ... sub imperio illustrissimi Jacobi Montisrosarum Marchionis ... anno MDCXLIV et duobus sequentibus praeclare gestis, commentarius’ by George Wishart.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.16
Scope and Contents
Some corrections have been made and omissions supplied by another hand.
Dates:
1644-1646.
Manuscript, 18th century, containing lists of peers and barons taken from the Rolls of Parliament and lists and copies of charters taken from the records of the Great Seal (both sources being then unpublished).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.14
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) List of peers mentioned in the Rolls of Parliament, 1424-1707 (folio 1).(ii) List of charters, etc., granting peerages, down to 1707 (folio 10).(iii) Index to sections (i) and (ii) (folio 23).(iv) Observations on section (i) (folio 36).(v) Observations on section (ii), generally quoting part of the deed (folio 59).(vi) Copy of declarations of Parliament on the succession...
Dates:
1371, 1373, 1615-1707, 18th century.
Manuscript, 18th century, of Sir George Auchinleck of Balmanno’s Practicks, ?1626-?1639, entitled `Auchinleck, Ld. Balmanno’s Practicks’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.5.1
Scope and Contents
Auchinleck was admitted an Ordinary Lord in 1626, and retained the position until his death in 1639. His practicks, arranged alphabetically, are unpublished.
Dates:
?1626-?1639.
Manuscript, ?1645-?1652, of Sir George Auchinleck of Balmanno’s Practicks, ?1626-?1639, entitled `Practickes and Decisions of the Lords of Sessione Observed and Collected be Sir George Auchinleck of Balmanno, Knight, One of the ordinarie Lords of the Colledge of Justice`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.6.13
Scope and Contents
On folio 224 is written: `Jo: Wr[quhart] scripsit Apud Strathloch 8. octob. anno 1645`; and on folio 2: `Ex Libris Jacobi Gordon P.R. Anno 1652 Novris 13. J.B.R. D.D.` (James Gordon, Minister of Rothiemay, was a son of Robert Gordon of Straloch, the Geographer.)
Auchinleck was admitted an Ordinary Lord in 1626, and retained the position until his death in 1639. His practicks, arranged alphabetically, are unpublished.
Dates:
?1626-?1639.
Manuscript, 1965, of the first three chapters of Ruthven Todd's reminiscences of his life on Mull in 1932., 1965.
Item
Identifier: MS.26836
Manuscript, "A Chapter of Autobiography", by William Gladstone., 1868.
Item
Identifier: MS.42271
Manuscript, "A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, by Fray Antonio Agapida", by Washington Irving., 1828-1829.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42310-42312
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is in three volumes. Sections of the manuscript would appear to be in the hand of a copyist.
With the manuscript is a brief outline, by Earl Harbert of Tulane University, of the history of the manuscript.
Dates:
1828-1829.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning Washington Irving.
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Manuscripts by Washington Irving, with some proofs of works by Irving.