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 of Foras Feasa Ar Éirinn, written by Geoffrey Keating.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.43
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains a ‘Sword’ watermark. (Heawood 3911, dated 1647) with letters G R B. The text is in fact dated 1647 (folio 9 recto). The Scribe is as that of Adv.MS.72.1.38, pages 29-30, 193; Adv.MS.72.1.42, folio 26; Adv.MS.72.1.49; Adv.MS.72.2.1; and Adv.MS.72.2.2, folio 46. Adv.MS.72.2.1 is simply the concluding portion of the present manuscript. Also Royal Irish Academy MS D i 1 (1237) section VI.The contents are as follows.(i) Brief description of text by...
Dates:
1647.
Manuscript of Francesco Marcaldi's work on Mary, Queen of Scots.
Item
Identifier: MS.8890
Scope and Contents
Other copies of this work are entitled 'Dello Stato della Regina di Scozia', or 'Narratione del stato della Regina di Scotia'. This is one of about thirty copies of the work, each written in Francesco Marcaldi's hand, but each with a different date and a different dedication. The preface in this copy is dated at Venice, 14 March 1580, and is addressed to Domenico Barbarigo.Marcaldi seems to have written it as propaganda in Mary's favour. See S. Rossi, 'Tre Narrazioni...
Dates:
1580.
Manuscript of ‘Frost and Fire’ by John Francis Campbell, being a collection mainly of his geological observations while on his travels from July 1862 to November 1863, including extracts from earlier journals., 1862-1865.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.5.13-50.6.1
Scope and Contents
On the whole the manuscript and printed versions correspond.
Dates:
1862-1865.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
Manuscript of ‘Frost and Fire’ by John Francis Campbell, chapters 1-20., 1862-1865.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.5.13
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains notes at the beginning relating to the publication of the manuscript. The text has been heavily corrected by Campbell.
Dates:
1862-1865.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
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Manuscript of ‘Frost and Fire’ by John Francis Campbell, being a collection mainly of his geological observations while on his travels from July 1862 to November 1863, including extracts from earlier journals.
Manuscript of ‘Frost and Fire’ by John Francis Campbell, chapters 21-42., 1862-1865.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.5.14
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains extra notes on publication by Campbell.
Dates:
1862-1865.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
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Manuscript of ‘Frost and Fire’ by John Francis Campbell, being a collection mainly of his geological observations while on his travels from July 1862 to November 1863, including extracts from earlier journals.
Manuscript of ‘Frost and Fire’ by John Francis Campbell, chapters 43-58., 1862-1865.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.1
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains the preface to the first volume (folio 465) and additional material at the end which appears not to have been published. Rough diagrams illustrate the text and there are copies of Campbell`s ‘On a New Self-Registering Sun-Dial’ (folio 396) and ‘A Method of Converting Collodion Negatives into Positives by Heat’ (folio 401), together with proofs of the index and a list of illustrations to ‘Frost and Fire’ inserted at the back of the manuscript.There is also...
Dates:
1862-1865.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
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Manuscript of ‘Frost and Fire’ by John Francis Campbell, being a collection mainly of his geological observations while on his travels from July 1862 to November 1863, including extracts from earlier journals.
Manuscript of “Gaël Albanich” by William Forbes Skene (1809-1892), containing a history of the Highland clans.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14896-14897
Scope and Contents
The manuscript, dated 1st March 1834, was the winning entry in a competition of the Highland Society of London for the best essay on the history of the Highland Clans. It is illustrated in pen and ink and in watercolours.
Dates:
1834.
Manuscript of “Gaël Albanich” by William Forbes Skene, volume 1: General survey., 1834.
Item
Identifier: MS.14896
Manuscript of “Gaël Albanich” by William Forbes Skene, volume 2: History of individual clans., 1834.
Item
Identifier: MS.14897
'Manuscript of Gaelic poetry, etc., collected in the Outer Islands by Mr. MacDonald in the summer of 1852. Glasgow 21 April 1852. J.R.M'., 1852, 1854.
File
Identifier: MS.3783
Scope and Contents
One or other of the dates in the title is presumably an error. 'J.R.M.' has not been identified, but the material was collected and the manuscript written by the Reverend John Norman MacDonald, Minister of Harris. Notes on folios 6 verso and 50 verso, the latter dated 'Oct. 30th 1854', are signed with his initials. There are also some notes in pencil, in the hand of the Reverend A J Macdonald, Killearnan.
Dates:
1852, 1854.
Manuscript of ‘Gallipoli memories’ by Sir Compton Mackenzie., [1929, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.10791
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is heavily corrected, and chapter 3 is missing. According to correspondence placed at the beginning of the volume (folios i-iv), this chapter was dictated. The preface is placed at the end (folio 525).
Dates:
[1929, or before.]
Manuscript of Geoffrey Keating’s ‘History of Ireland’ written by the scribe Sémus Ó Gribín.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.11
Scope and Contents
The scribe of the manuscript is Sémus Ó Gribín, who also wrote Royal Irish Academy 24 L 17, Geoffrey Keating’s ‘Eochair-Sgiath an Aifrinn’. He completed the manuscript in March 1696 for Patrick Logan, schoolmaster at Lurgan. Bound in (folios vi-vii) is a letter dated Lurgan, 17th August 1696, from Logan to an unnamed friend, consigning the manuscript to him for scholarly perusal and ultimate delivery to the Advocates Library. It thus became the first of the Advocates’ Gaelic manuscripts....
Dates:
1696.
Manuscript of George Macintosh, "Researches Relative to the Cyclopian Ruins of Antiquity, Written Originally 1822, Rewritten 1826".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7435
Dates:
1826.
Manuscript of 'George Scott Moncrieff and a few friends: a brief memoir' by Morley Jamieson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26974-26976
Scope and Contents
The memoir was not published, but twenty copies were circulated in typescript.
Dates:
[1987.]
Manuscript of George Scott-Moncrieff's autobiography, '40 Years'., [?1950.]
Item
Identifier: MS.26968
Manuscript of ‘Gleanings by an undergraduate’ by William Soutar., [1923, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8563
Scope and Contents
The manuscript lacks eight of the poems contained in the published volume.
Dates:
[1923, or before.]
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 typescript of ‘Gleanings by an undergraduate’ by William Soutar
Manuscript of Hamish M Brown, "Scotland: Coast to Coast".
File
Identifier: Acc.9999
Scope and Contents
With papers of the first ten years of the Ultimate Challenge, an annual walk across Scotland.
Dates:
1980-1989.
Manuscript of Henry Myers, "Hegelian Dialectics of Moses, Jesus, and Paul. "What was the Real Jesus?""
Item
Identifier: Acc.8458
Dates:
1938.
Manuscript of "Herrin' Jennie" by Edward Albert., [1931, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.9068 (1)-(2)
Dates:
[1931, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Edward Albert (1890-1944), who graduated Master of Arts in English at Edinburgh University, 1908, and spent his professional life as English master at George Watson's College, Edinburgh.
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Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of, and notebooks containing material collected for, the fictional works of Edward Albert.
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Manuscript, typescript and proofs, undated, of ‘Herrin' Jennie’ by Edward Albert.
Manuscript of ‘Highland cousins’ by William Black., [1894, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19645-19646
Dates:
[1894, or before.]
Manuscript of ‘Highland cousins’ by William Black., [1894, or before.]
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Identifier: MS.19645
Manuscript of ‘Highland cousins’ by William Black., [1894, or before.]
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Identifier: MS.19646
Manuscript of ‘Historia abbatum monasterii a Kynlos’ by Joannes Ferrerius.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.5B
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) 'Historia Abbatum Cisterciencis familiæ Monasterii de Kynlos, cum aliis plerisque vetustis monumentis, Joanne Ferrerio Petemontano Authore’ etc. 1537 (folio 1);
(ii) Gestorum et totius vite Reverendi in Christo patris domini Thome Chrystalli Abbatis a Kynlos Compendium, a J Ferrerio Conscriptum, 1535 (folio 49).
Dates:
1537.
Manuscript of ‘Historia Romana’ by Paulus Diaconus and ‘Index commentariorum G. Julii Caesaris’ by Raimundus Marlianus, probably written by Robert Braidfut.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.10
Scope and Contents
(i) ‘Historia Romana’ by Paulus Diaconus. The title in the manuscript is ‘Incipit Eutropius historiographus et post eum Paulus diaconus de historiis Italie provincie et romanorum’, but the whole text is the recension of Eutropius by Paulus. There are 18 books, the normal book xii being divided at chaper 8, and book xvii being included (cf. Crivellucci in ‘Bulletino dell’ Istituto storico italiano’, xl, page xlviii and what follows). The text is of the second class (cf....
Dates:
1481.