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 notes for Dolly book set around Dubrovnik, containing possible notes for the last Johnson Johnson novel., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.12135/1042
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary and personal papers of Dorothy Dunnett.
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Further literary and personal papers of Dorothy Dunnett, including notebooks, photographs, typescripts, reviews, press cuttings, correspondence and related papers, mostly concerning historical research.
Manuscript notes of Alexander Dundas Ogilvy Wedderburn, King’s Counsel, 'directed in the main to the correction and completion of the pedigree of the Grahams of Claverhouse' as set forth in the writer's ‘The Wedderburn Book’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3566-3567
Dates:
1666-[1945, or before].
Manuscript notes of Dorothy Dunnett, relating to 'King hereafter'., Undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12135/116-118
Manuscript notes of Dorothy Dunnett, relating to the novel 'King hereafter'., Undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12135/100-107
Manuscript notes of John J Bell.
File
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 notes of the early days of bookbinding organisation in Edinburgh (incomplete)., [1822-1956].
Item
Identifier: Acc.4395/35
Manuscript notes on lectures by Dr Birkbeck and Mr Wallis at London Mechanics Institution.
File
Identifier: Acc.7615
Dates:
1829.
Manuscript novel entitled 'Knave of diamonds', apparently unpublished, by Alexander Leighton.
Item
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.
File
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 biography of Sir Stamford Raffles by George Reith., [?1885-?1941.]
Item
Identifier: Acc.3564/101
Manuscript of a biography of Thaddeus Kosciuszko, by an unidentified author., Circa 1834.
Item
Identifier: MS.42590
Scope and Contents
Watermark, 1834.
Dates:
Circa 1834.
Manuscript of a brief account of the establishment and demise of "The Representative" newspaper by John Murray III., ? 1879.
Item
Identifier: MS.42630
Dates:
? 1879.
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 concerning the establishment, publication and demise of "The Representative" newspaper.
Manuscript of "A Carlyle Suite, for Piano" by Ronald Stevenson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11839
Dates:
1995.
Manuscript of a commentary by Michael Miniclardi on 'De consolatione philosophiae' by Boethius.
Item
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.
Series
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 course of lectures on the ‘Digest’ of Justinian; Books 1-19., November 1710-February 1711.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.8.1
Dates:
November 1710-February 1711.
Manuscript of a course of lectures on the ‘Digest’ of Justinian; Books 20-41., March-June 1711.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.8.2
Dates:
March-June 1711.
Manuscript of "A criticism of ‘Limekilns and Passagium Reginae'" by George Algernon Fothergill., 1930.
File
Identifier: MS.5311
Scope and Contents
The manuscript explains the relationship between MSS.5309 and 5310.
Dates:
1930.
Manuscript of a dramatization in four parts by Robert McLellan of Sir Walter Scott's novel, ‘Waverley’, broadcast in the series 'This is my country'., 1957.
Item
Identifier: MS.26394
Dates:
1957.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the playwright, Robert McLellan, and his family.
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Broadcasts written for radio and television by Robert McLellan.
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Dramatisation in four parts by Robert McLellan of Sir Walter Scott's novel, 'Waverley', broadcast in the series 'This is my country'.
Manuscript of `A Genealogical Description of the Mathesons an Ancient Clan in Scotland and other Countries`, known as `The Iomaire manuscript`, by Roderick Matheson.
Item
Identifier: Dep.347
Dates:
1824.
Manuscript of ‘A handful of earth’ by William Soutar., 1936.
Item
Identifier: MS.8581
Dates:
1936.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Scots poet William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of poems of William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and signed typescripts of published poems of William Soutar.
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Manuscript and corrected typescript of ’A handful of earth’ by William Soutar.
Manuscript of a history of Scotland 'From the earliest accounts that can be depended upon' to the reign of James II, written by Thomas Lucas., 1809-1810.
Item
Identifier: MS.9856
Manuscript of a history of Scotland: the reigns of James III to James VI, written by Thomas Lucas., 1809-1810.
Item
Identifier: MS.9857
Manuscript of a history of Scotland to the union of the Crowns, written by Thomas Lucas, surgeon in Stirling.
Series
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.
Item
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.
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 Austen Henry Layard.
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Manuscripts and proofs of various works by Austen Henry Layard.
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Manuscripts and proofs of the works of Austen Henry Layard concerning his journeys through, and his archaeological excavations and diplomatic missions in, the Ottoman Empire.