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, "Herrick No 7", by William Gifford., ? 1810.
Item
Identifier: MS.42255
Scope and Contents
The manuscript forms part of a review of "Select poems from the Hesperides, or works both human and divine, of Robert Herrick, esq. with occasional remarks. By J.N.", that was included in the "Quarterly Review" of August 1810.
The manuscript relates to pages 171 (part)-172 of the article.
Dates:
? 1810.
Manuscript history of the British Empire by an unknown author.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10656
Scope and Contents
Manuscript possibly used as printer`s copy.
Dates:
circa 1860.
Manuscript history of the family of Maitland of Eccles, down to 1740.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6049
Dates:
circa 1740-circa 1770.
Manuscript, "History of the United Netherlands from the death of William the Silent to the synod of Dort", by John Lothrop Motley., 1860, or before-1867.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42494-42497
Manuscript, "Huskisson on currency", by William Huskisson., 1810.
Item
Identifier: MS.42306
Manuscript, in a late sixteenth-century hand, containing the whole of the 'Description of Scotland' and part of the 'Historie of Scotlande', corresponding to pages 1-82 of that portion of 'The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande and Irelande' by Raphael Holinshed.
Item
Identifier: MS.1693
Scope and Contents
The remainder of the manuscript has been cut away.
Dates:
Late 16th century.
Manuscript in Chinese, "Laws of Lioo Kioo".
Item
Identifier: Acc.4032
Dates:
19th century to 20th century.
Manuscript in Gaelic containing a collection of the religious poems of Tadhg Óg Ó Huiginn (died1448), written chiefly by Eoghan Carrach Ó Siaghail.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.29
Scope and Contents
A collection of the religious poems of Tadhg Óg Ó Huiginn written chiefly by Eoghan Carrach Ó Siaghail (folio 6 recto). Eoghan Carrach is the scribe of a poem in Bodleian MS. Laud Misc. 615, page 129, and of Franciscan MS. A 8, written for Niall Óg Ó Néill during 1532-1545 (Dillon, Mooney and de Brún, ‘Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the Franciscan Library, Killiney’, page 16; cf. Plummer ‘On the colophons and marginalia of Irish scribes’, page 17). The manuscript was completed...
Dates:
[Before 1449.]
Manuscript in Gaelic containing historical and mythological texts.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.28
Scope and Contents
The chief hand is number 1 of Adv.MS.72.1.6 - medium to large in size, with a lack of curves and a downward tendency of many strokes, particularly noticeable in ‘g’ and ‘t’. Two hands without these characteristics relieve it at folios 3, 6 verso and 7 recto. Marginalia are mainly by these secondary hands: ‘amen’ (passim), letters of alphabet (folio 1 verso, 3 verso), ‘abair’ (folio 5 recto, 6 recto), ‘ma beandacht’ (folio 5 verso), ‘cenn’ (folio 6 recto), ‘comaimsir’ (folio 6 recto). ...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Manuscript in Gaelic containing medical and religious text, with encomiastic verse.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.25
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text, folios 1-2, 23-24. Formal, often unusually large for a medical hand; bold, strongly seriffed.2. Relieves hand 1 at intervals, folios 1-2, 23; distinguishable by its crooked ‘s’.3. Text, folio 24 recto, column b, line 1-end. Small.4. Text, folios 3-22. Ovoid ‘d’. Changes style (notably ‘g’) and ink at folio 18; a face is amusingly drawn in the initial 'D' here, almost the only decoration...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Manuscript in Gaelic containing medical, religious, and mythological texts.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.26
Scope and Contents
Consists of two distinct manuscripts: (a) folios 1-4, 11, containing chiefly a collection of mirabilia, and (b) folios 5-10, a medical remnant possibly of east Connacht origin (see folios 7 recto, 9 verso).The manuscript is written in the following hands:1. Text, folios 1-4, 11. A hand with curved strokes and distinctive ‘g’.2. Text, folio 4 verso, column b, lines 36-42. Neat.3. Text, folios 5-10. Strongly seriffed, slightly crabbed. Includes...
Dates:
15th Century-16th Century.
Manuscript in Gaelic containing mythological verse.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.19
Scope and Contents
A manuscript beautifully written by a single hand, large with distinctive ‘g’, strongly seriffed. Each poem begins with a large illuminated capital, and there is much decoration besides; colouring is red. There are marginalia in later hands: ‘Amen dico vobis’ (folio 3 recto); ‘olc an litir sin agad a Eogain’ (folio 5 verso, of Adv.MS.72.1.2, folio 86 verso); ‘Ag so leabar………Briain(?) ull(?)’. The contents are as follows.About 25 quatrains, acephalous and...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Manuscript in Gaelic containing short religious, historical and mythological texts.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.5
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text and notes, folios 1 verso-10 verso. A hand of a type more characteristic of medical manuscripts, cf. Adv.MS.72.1.12. Distinctive uncial 'r' and v-shaped 'u'. No decoration save some red on capitals, folios 5-10. From various additions in a similar hand, especially that at folio 6 verso, column b, line 41, it appears as if the scribe returned to annotate his work at a later point in time. Possibly in fact more than one hand:...
Dates:
?15th century.
Manuscript in Gaelic of the life of Saint Findchua of Brí Gobhann.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.24
Scope and Contents
According to its colophon (folio 8 recto), the manuscript is written by Conchubhar for the vicar and parson of Brí Gobhann (Mitchelstown, County Cork) and for the grandson of Robert Condon, all of whom, apparently, have promised to pay him for his work. He adds, apparently by way of warning, that his attorney (tuirrne) is Denis Ó Duinnín; this may be the Donnchadh mac Giolla-na-naomh Uí Dhuinnín who wrote a section of the Yellow Book of Lecan in ?1465. Conchubhar’s script is generally...
Dates:
?15th Century.
Manuscript in Gaelic titled ‘Aided Con Culainn’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.45
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written by a single hand, competent but unremarkable, and in this respect comparable to many medical hands such as that of Adv.MS.72.1.13, folios 17-24. No marginalia save for ‘ye men of ……’ and ‘…Mc….’(?) scrawled in what is presumably a late 18th-century hand at folio 1 recto.The manuscript is described thus in John Mackenzie’s inventory of 1803: ‘A large quarto Vellum Manuscript in Prose, containing 6 Leaves, with two Columns in a page, not stitched. Signed...
Dates:
?16th century.
Manuscript, in one volume, of ‘The principles of population and of their connection with human happiness’ by Sir Archibald Alison, which gives an anti-Malthusian point of view on demographic developments., 1814-1840.
Item
Identifier: MS.9584
Dates:
1814-1840.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts, with additions and amendments as sent to the printer, of two major works and part of a third work of Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet, historian, Sheriff of Lanarkshire and writer on legal and social questions; with mathematical notes of his son, General Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet.
Manuscript, in Principal William Robertson's hand, of the portion of his ‘History of America’ published by his son William, from book ix, page 15, to the end., 1775-1781.
Item
Identifier: MS.3965
Dates:
1775-1781.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
Manuscript, in Richard Burdon Haldane's hand, with many corrections, headed 'Donald Campbell and Company ... v Pollok. Judg[men]t of Viscount Haldane on Preliminary Point’., 1927.
Item
Identifier: MS.5924
Scope and Contents
Richard Burdon Haldane gave judgment in this case on 5 May 1927.
Dates:
1927.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane of Cloan (1856-1928), the statesman, lawyer and philosopher, and of his sister, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane (1862-1937), philanthropist and author.
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Papers of Richard Burdon Haldane.
Manuscript in Sinhalese written on palm leaves marked “Wirayoga-Sarā, a medical work”, Undated.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.7
Dates:
Undated.
Manuscript in the author`s hand (according to a pencil note by Cosmo Innes at folio i) of ‘The History of the Province of Moray’, by Lachlan Shaw, Minister of Elgin.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.3
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is not dated, but from internal evidence it would appear to have been written in or about 1757 (folio 251, ordination of Harry Gordon in 1757; folio 235, death of Robert Milne in 1758 not recorded).
Dates:
Circa 1757.
Manuscript in the hand of George Crabbe : lines copied from "Paradise Lost", Book V, by John Milton., 1780-1832.
Item
Identifier: MS.42124
Scope and Contents
The manuscript runs, with omissions, from line 120, "That what in sleep thou didst abhor to dream", to line 659, "Is heard no more in Heaven; he of the first".
The manuscript would appear to have been a part of a larger manuscript; or, perhaps, to have been extracted from a notebook.
Dates:
1780-1832.
Manuscript inscribed 'Girvane sesione booke'.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.8
Scope and Contents
A folio volume inscribed ‘Girvane Sesione booke’ and containing one page of entries of the session 1662. The remainder of the volume is occupied with notes of a student of history, philosophy, law, etc. of the latter part of the 17th century.
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Manuscript, "Jewish Disabilities Bill", by William Gladstone., 1847.
File
Identifier: MS.42268
Manuscript, "Journal. No. 2. Island of Lhegozhee, Niger", by John Lander., 1830.
Item
Identifier: MS.42326
Manuscript, "Jus Liberae Monarchiae", Latin translation of James VI, "The True Lawe of Free Monarchies"
Item
Identifier: Acc.7045
Dates:
first half of 17th century.