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Manuscripts.

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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 notes of John J Bell.

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Identifier: Acc.5845
Scope and Contents

Written in answer to questions on his literary work and his views on Scottish literature, education and politics.

Dates: circa 1934.

Manuscript novel entitled 'Knave of diamonds', apparently unpublished, by Alexander Leighton.

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Identifier: MS.5726
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is written on paper watermarked 1856.

Dates: [1856, or after.]

Manuscript of 3 legal works, written in a late 17th-century hand.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.12
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows: (i) `Extract of the practiques of the Commissioners for valuatione of teinds and plantation of Kirks`, 1629-1643. Those from 1631 to 1643 are also in Adv.MSS.31.2.11, page 126, and 33.2.40, last item. (Page 1.)(ii) `Admiralitie. The fforme and manner of holding of courts of Admiraltie and proces led before them`. This text appears elsewhere (Adv.MS.28.4.7; and, in an abbreviated form, MS.1948) as an appendix to...
Dates: 17th century.

Manuscript of a commentary by Michael Miniclardi on 'De consolatione philosophiae' by Boethius.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.3
Scope and Contents The main text ends on folio 221 verso. Folio 222 contains 30 hexameters on Boethius (incipit 'Floruit hic doctor clarusque Boetius autor'). Folios 223-228 recto contain an 'exortatio' 'ad honorem dei et sanctorum apostolorum petri et pauli', written by Miniclardi in 1444. Folio 228 verso-230 verso contain, in a different hand, a draft speech against Q Ligarius (defended by Cicero in his extant speech 'Pro Ligario'), presumably a school exercise; interlinear corrections are possibly by...
Dates: 1443.

Manuscript of a course of lectures on the ‘Digest’ of Justinian.

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Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.8.1-81.8.2
Scope and Contents Folios 1-16, commenting up to Book 2, Title 12, are on different paper and in a different hand; some folios (probably only 2), containing the commentary on Book 2, Title 13, have been lost after folio 16. A substantial number of folios have been lost at the end, as the commentary breaks off in Book 41, Title 2. Dates of delivery, from November 1710 to June 1711, appear regularly in the margins.It is possible that the lectures are those of James Craig, who became Professor of...
Dates: 1710-1711.

Manuscript of a history of Scotland to the union of the Crowns, written by Thomas Lucas, surgeon in Stirling.

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Identifier: MSS.9856-9857
Scope and Contents

The volumes have been compiled from the standard histories of the period, and reflect current historical method and style.

Dates: 1809-1810.

Manuscript of a history of the Nestorians., ? 1845-? 1851.

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Identifier: MS.42346
Scope and Contents

This is manuscript by Austen Henry Layard relating to the history of the Nestorians. The manuscript contains a map of Lake Ooroomiah and the text has many edits, additions and deletions. In addition, there is a manuscript note relating to the works of Justin Perkins and Asahel Grant.

Dates: ? 1845-? 1851.