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 entitled ‘Traite du Blazon’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.19
Scope and Contents
The treatise is in thirty-five chapters and is followed (folio 105) by explanatory notes to the illustrations, and (folio 127) by the illustrations themselves, which are in trick. It is preceded (folio 1 verso) by a diagram of the divisions of a field.Three folios which probably contained the title page and dedication have been removed from between folios 2 and 3. Offsets of the dedication survive, from which it appears that the author`s name was Bonin, and that he presented his...
Dates:
1678.
Manuscript essay of Alexander Bryce, probably Minister of Kirknewton.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5016
Scope and Contents
Concerning rainfall.
Dates:
1770.
Manuscript essay or talk entitled "Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe" of Mary S Thomson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11257
Dates:
circa 1960.
Manuscript excerpt from Passacaglia on DSCH for piano solo, by Ronald J Stevenson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5071
Dates:
1963.
Manuscript extract of Ivor Brown, "Summer in Scotland".
Item
Identifier: Acc.4587
Dates:
circa 1968.
Manuscript, "Fall of Jerusalem", by Henry Hart Milman., 1820, or before.
Item
Identifier: MS.42482
Manuscript, fifteenth century, of the earlier Wycliffite translation of the Epistles of St Paul., 1409.
Item
Identifier: MS.6127
Scope and Contents
The Epistle to the Romans begins on the bottom half of folio 1. The top half of the folio contained the end of Acts, now erased, over which has been written in a cursive, sixteenth-century hand, 'All thepisties of Paule apostle followen writen 1409 into English'; in the margin the date 1209 is added, presumably a misreading of the indistinct date in the inscription.The latter part of the Prologue to the Epistle to the Romans is missing, as in British Library Egerton MS.618,...
Dates:
1409.
Manuscript, first page proofs, and an interleaved proof copy of J A Harvie-Brown, "The Wonderful Trout".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3467
Scope and Contents
With relevant notes and correspondence.
Dates:
1898.
Manuscript folio, observations concerning Lake Nyasa including a pencil sketch of a fish called a "sanjika", by David Livingstone., ? 1868-? 1870.
Item
Identifier: MS.42439
Scope and Contents
Livingstone first visited Lake Nyasa on 17 September 1859, claiming its discovery. It is likely, however, that this folio, with its sketch of a fish described by Livingstone as a "sanjika", dates from his last journeys when he skirted the southern edge of the lake on his way to Lake Tanganyika.
Dates:
? 1868-? 1870.
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 David Livingstone.
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Manuscripts by David Livingstone in which are recorded his journeys and experiences in Africa; with related proofs, sketches, a photographic print and a printed portrait.
Manuscript, followed by notes and drafts of 'The Jolly Beggars: a parable in three acts' by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1960.
File
Identifier: MS.26133
Dates:
1960.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary manuscripts and personal papers of the poet and art critic, Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915-1975).
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Plays of Sydney Goodsir Smith.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of 'The Jolly Beggars: a parable in three acts' by Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Manuscript for chapter four here entitled 'The monarch and class'., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.10951/64
Scope and Contents
Chapter four within published volume entitled '...and the class structure'.
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of William Winter Hamilton.
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Writings of William Winter Hamilton.
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Manuscript and typescript drafts and other papers, circa 1971-1975, concerned with the composition of 'My Queen and I', by William Winter Hamilton, published by Quartet Books, London, 1975.
Manuscript, "Foreign Politics", by William Gladstone., ? 1860.
Item
Identifier: MS.42270
Scope and Contents
The title of the manuscript has been taken from the spine of the binding.
Dates:
? 1860.
Manuscript fragment containing a section Bernard of Gordon’s ‘Lilium medicinae’ written by Donnchadh Ó Conchubhair, formerly part of Adv.MS.73.1.22.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.18
Scope and Contents
The manuscript begins ‘⁊ gurub measa a regimin go coitchenn’.
Dates:
[After 1574.]
Manuscript fragments and notes of Muriel Spark., Circa 1954-1980, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10989/11-17
Dates:
Circa 1954-1980, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary papers of Muriel Spark, containing manuscripts, research material for critical works, and papers concerning her autobiography, 'Curriculum vitae'.
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Literary papers of Muriel Spark, containing works of prose, poetry and drama.
Manuscript fragments, notes, drafts, a bibliography and an outline plan for a book by Rachel Annand Taylor., 1927-1953, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.20426
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) Manuscript fragments of reviews published in the ‘Spectator’ and the ‘Spectator literary supplement’ (folio 1); (ii) Notes for and drafts of 'Gilles de Rais', 1933 (folio 3); (iii) Bibliography and notes for and drafts of Mrs Taylor's articles on mythological figures in “Cassell's encyclopaedia of literature” (folio 91).
Dates:
1927-1953, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the author, poet and journalist, Rachel Annand Taylor (1876-1960), consisting chiefly of material for her published and unpublished works.
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Manuscript, typescript and printed texts of articles, reviews and poems by Rachel Annand Taylor, and notes for these publications.
Manuscript fragments of, and letters of and to, Sir Walter Scott.
Series
Identifier: MS.9609
Dates:
1807-1830, undated.
Manuscript, ‘Frances Beaumont’ by Letitia Elizabeth Landon., ?1836.
Item
Identifier: MS.42329
Scope and Contents
The manuscript here is for the short story, ‘Frances Beaumont’ by Letitia Landon, which was first published as part of ‘Traits and trials of early life’, in 1836. This volume was a book of moral short stories for girls. Frances Beaumont is a character who must find employment as a governess to support her mother and sister after the death of her father leaves the family without income.There are some amendments, deletions and additions to the text. The text is not...
Dates:
?1836.
Manuscript full orchestral score by Norman O'Neill for the complete play of ‘The last heir’ by Stephen Phillips., 1907-1908.
Item
Identifier: MS.7170
Dates:
1907-1908.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Successive typescript texts, fragmentary notes, and revisions of 'The last heir', a dramatization, in four acts, of ‘The bride of Lammermoor’ by Sir Walter Scott, made for Sir John Martin-Harvey by Stephen Phillips; together with an orchestral score by Norman O'Neill.
Manuscript, 'Glimpses of Mission Work in the United Provinces'., N.d.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4886/8
Manuscript, heavily corrected and rewritten, of 'Jubilee of a ghost' by Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost'., [1968, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27398-27399
Dates:
[1968, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Margaret M Morrison, the novelist (died 1973), who wrote under the pseudonym 'March Cost'.
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Notes for and manuscripts and typescripts of literary works of Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost'.
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Notes for and manuscripts of 'Jubilee of a ghost' by Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost'.
Manuscript, heavily corrected and rewritten, of 'Jubilee of a ghost' by Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost'., [1968, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.27398
Dates:
[1968, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Margaret M Morrison, the novelist (died 1973), who wrote under the pseudonym 'March Cost'.
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Notes for and manuscripts and typescripts of literary works of Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost'.
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Notes for and manuscripts of 'Jubilee of a ghost' by Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost'.
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Manuscript, heavily corrected and rewritten, of 'Jubilee of a ghost' by Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost'.
Manuscript, heavily corrected and rewritten, of 'Jubilee of a ghost' by Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost'., [1968, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.23799
Scope and Contents
The chapter “Bishop's Move" (MS.27399, folio 221) is incomplete.
Dates:
[1968, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Margaret M Morrison, the novelist (died 1973), who wrote under the pseudonym 'March Cost'.
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Notes for and manuscripts and typescripts of literary works of Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost'.
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Notes for and manuscripts of 'Jubilee of a ghost' by Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost'.
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Manuscript, heavily corrected and rewritten, of 'Jubilee of a ghost' by Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost'.
Manuscript, "Henry Taylor`s Essays. - M.S." : the manuscript of "Notes from life in six essays", by Henry Taylor., 1847, or before.
Item
Identifier: MS.42567
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript has been taken from the spine of the volume. Of the six essays in the published work the manuscript contains only the first two :
"Of Money", folios 1-37; and,
"Humility and Independence", folios 38-53.
Dates:
1847, or before.