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:
Manuscript book, containing psalm-tunes, philosophical notes, notes of sermons, etc.
Item
Identifier: MS.784
Scope and Contents
The manuscript book is inscribed on the fly-leaf 'Rogerus Kirkpatrick...1697, 1698', and contains some entries of later date.
Dates:
1697-1698.
Manuscript by Archibald Campbell of "The Kilberry Book of Ceol Mor".
File
Identifier: Acc.12926
Scope and Contents
Includes an analysis of it and notes on its history by Dr Roderick Cannon, January 2008.
Dates:
circa 1947.
Manuscript, by John Gibson junior, a canon of Glasgow, of an abridged copy of the 'Black Book of Paisley', a version of the 'Scotichronicon' of Walter Bower.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.8
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in Scotland and written by John Gibson junior, a canon of Glasgow. The manuscript is an abridged copy of the 'Black Book of Paisley', a version of the 'Scotichronicon'. The original copy of the 'Black Book of Paisley', from which Gibson made his abridgement, is in the British Library. The full contents of the manuscript are as follows:A verse history of the Scots from their origins to the reign of James II. Folios 1r-10r.Genealogy from...
Dates:
1501
Manuscript card catalogue of the library at Edgerton.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7756
Dates:
20th century.
Manuscript, "Catalogue of Ancient Charters in Bibliotheca Advocatienis Edinburghiensis", 19th century.
File
Identifier: Acc.4420
Scope and Contents
With "Inscriptions", 1789-1800, by John Ramsay.
Dates:
1789-circa 1899.
Manuscript checklist of the works of Eden Phillpotts, compiled by W M Parker.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6078
Dates:
circa 1960.
Manuscript chiefly concerning alchemy., 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.5776
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Two poems about alchemy, in different hands, entitled 'Amen his huntinge of the Green Lyon' (an account of an experiment with green vitriol), and 'The vision of Sir George Ripley, Chanon of Bridlington' (folios 1, 4);(ii) Directions for alchemical experiments to find the quintessence of wine, honey, sugar, blood, etc., taken from 'the first part of the vegetables of Mr Isaac of Holland, philosophe' and others of his works (presumably...
Dates:
17th century.
Manuscript, circa 1560, of the Regiam Maiestatem, burgh laws, statutes, Quoniam attachiamenta, De judicibus, forest laws, and various smaller legal texts, mostly in Scots.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.7.1.9
Scope and Contents
For the suggested date of the manuscript see folio 283. Sections (xxvi) and (xxxvii) are in different, later hands. The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Regiam Maiestatem`, in 4 books of 41, 75, 37, and 57 chapters with table at the beginning of each book (folio x). Book 4 is in Latin. Folio 47 blank.(ii) Various laws (folio 48).(iii) `The Lawis of the burgh` in 120 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 49). (iv)...
Dates:
1249-late 16th century.
Manuscript, circa 1600, of Robert Lindesay, "History and Chronicles of Scotland".
File
Identifier: Acc.3736
Scope and Contents
With a list of the Bishops of Moray to 1638, and a letter, 1847, of Cosmo Innes to William Brodie, concerning the manuscript.
Dates:
circa 1600, circa 1638, 1847.
Manuscript collection of unpublished Italian satirical poems: ‘Raccolta delle migliori satire venute alla luce in occasione di diversi conclavi. Da quello di P.P. Alesandro VIII sino à quello di PP. Benedetto XIV’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.15
Scope and Contents
The satires are directed mainly against the corruption of the (Roman Catholic) Church. The popes mentioned in the collection are: Pope Alexander VIII (Pietro Ottoboni, 1689-1691), Innocent XIII (Michelangelo dei Conti, 1721-1724), and Benedict XIV (Prospero Lambertini, 1740-1758). The manuscript contains a table of contents at the end (folio 147), and the following satires:(i) ‘II Calascione à tre corde. In occasione della morte di Papa Alessandro VIII Ottoboni’....
Dates:
18th century-early 19th century.
Manuscript commonplace book entitled "Fancy Gleanings".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9783
Dates:
circa 1818.
Manuscript compiled or copied by John Sutherland, "Lineage of Sutherland - Lord Duffus".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7412
Dates:
1827.
Manuscript concerning crown patrimony and south-west Scotland, written by two hands, the first, of the first half of the 18th century, being responsible for section (i), the second, circa 1760, for the remainder.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) `An Accompt of His Majestys Proper Rent...`, by Sir William Purves. This is a copy of MS.201. See the catalogue record for Adv.MS.31.1.16. (Folio 1.)(ii) `State of the Stipends, Glebes, Grass andc. of the parishes within the presbitrys following [Dumfries, Penpont, Lochmaben, Annan]. Made out by Mr Andrew Chalmer from the Attested Copies of the Reports of the particular Ministers 10 Decr. 1750.` (Folio 47 verso.)...
Dates:
First half of 18th century-circa 1760.
Manuscript concerning North Argyll Gaelic., [Before 1928.]
Item
Identifier: MS.417B
Dates:
[Before 1928.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay.
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Papers concerning dialects and phonetics compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
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Papers of the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson concerning Gaelic dialects.
Manuscript concerning the French royal treasury, titled "Estat au vray de la Recepte et Despense faites par Maistre Estienne Jehannot Sieur de Bertillat Conseiller du Roy en son Conseil d’Estat et Garde du Tresor Royal de Sa Maiesté a cause de sa Commission durant l’année 1674"., 1674.
Item
Identifier: MS.206
Dates:
1674.
Manuscript concerning the offices of a herald.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.22
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Description of the offices of Constable, Admiral, Marshal, etc. (folio 1).(ii) ‘A nobile trety belangand the making of heraldis and ye properteis to yis office` (folio 3). It includes (folio 22) a set of rules for tournaments attributed to Philip of France.(iii) Statutes of the law of arms attributed to Louis III of France (folio 34 verso). This is followed by material on the coronation of emperors and...
Dates:
1st half of 16th century.
Manuscript concerning the Sunart dialect, Appin dialect and place names, and Sleat words., [Before 1928.]
File
Identifier: MS.417A
Dates:
[Before 1928.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay.
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Papers concerning dialects and phonetics compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
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Papers of the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson concerning Gaelic dialects.
Manuscript conducting score of the original version of Cedric Thorpe Davie`s music for the "Three Estates".
Item
Identifier: Acc.4521
Dates:
circa 1968.
Manuscript containing a 15th-century list of benefactors, prayers, obituaries, and rental of the Hospital of St Anthony, Leith; with a 16th-century extract from a rental of Newhaven.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.5
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in Scotland containing Church offices; a calendar; obituaries of benefactors; a rental of the hospital of St Anthony, Leith; and a rental of Newhaven.The manuscript appears to be the work of two separate hands executed at different times. The earlier part of the work is of the 15th century. From folio 19r onwards the hand can be attributed to the mid-16th century.The contents are as follows:Flyleaves with shelfmark inscriptions. Folios...
Dates:
15th century-1st half of 16th century.
Manuscript containing a collection of ballads and other poems
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.4
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘La Complainte de Nature a L`Alchymiste’ by Jean Perréal, followed (folio 18) by ‘La Response de l’Alchymiste’. Printed in ‘La Roman de la Rose’, iv, pages 123-202. It omits the prologue and a number of lines throughout, and the last 187 lines of the ‘Response’ are replaced by the last forty lines of the ‘Complainte’. For a discussion of the poem and its authorship, see A Vernet in ‘Bibliothèque d`Humanisme et Renaissance’, iii,...
Dates:
1st half of 16th century.
Manuscript containing a collection of Ossianic poems by the Reverend Alexander Pope (circa 1706-1782) of Reay.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.23
Scope and Contents
A letter written by Alexander Pope in 1763 and published in the Ossian Report, Appendix, page 52, indicates that this collecting activity took place about 1739. Folios 1-7 are in Pope’s hand, and a note at folio 1 verso confirming his identity appears to be signed W P, perhaps his son William. Folios 8-11 are in hand of the Reverend Alexander Sage (1753-1824) of Kildonan, as are numerous corrections passim and a reference at folio 5 verso.The contents are as follows....
Dates:
[Circa 1739.]
Manuscript containing a collection of tales by an anonymous Irish scribe.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.6
Scope and Contents
A recueil of material by an anonymous Irish scribe, probably the end portion of a larger manuscript.Of the manuscript, Ingliston MS. A.i.15 (g) declares “that he [Patrick Turner] purchased the manuscript without a cover and marked No.III. from a flying stationer in Dublin, whose name he cannot recollect”.'Peter Turner Aug' is written on page 427. On the final page, page 362, in addition to being inscribed ‘N. III’, it is signed by Turner and initialled by John...
Dates:
18th century.
Manuscript containing a medical compendium, in Gaelic, assembled by the Mull Beatons
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.2
Scope and Contents
A medical compendium assembled by the Mull Beatons, from materials originating with themselves, with Irish physicians and with Ó Conchubhairs, consisting of thirteen disparate sections of manuscript, recently bound individually in limp vellum. The medical theory represented may be described as practical by medieval standards. There is a preponderance of specific treatments, and later hands in particular have added many charms and prayers. There is little metaphysics except in sections 2, 4...
Dates:
16th century-17th century.