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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 Lady Charlotte Murray, "The British Garden" (London, 1808).

 Item
Identifier: Acc.4567
Scope and Contents

With specimens of pressed flowers.

Dates: 1808.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Manuscript of `Lamentationum Ieremiae paraphrasis poetica, auctore Thoma Moravio Scoto`.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.23
Scope and Contents

The author was probably the same Thomas Murray whose ‘Naupactiados’ was published in 1604. The manuscript contains two verse dedications to James VI, composed before 1603 (folios 2-6), and, following the Lamentations, a version of Psalm 1 (folio 32 verso).

Dates: Late 16th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Manuscript of ‘Leycester`s Commonwealth’, an attack on the Earl of Leicester, here given the title: `The coppie of a l[etter] written by a M[?] of Artes Cambr[idge] to his freind in London concerning some talke past of late … about the presente State and some proceedings of the Earle of Leycester and his freindes in Englande`.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.3.10
Scope and Contents The author was probably Sir Charles Arundell (see Leo Hicks in ‘Studies’ xlvi, pages 99-103), but the work has also been attributed to Robert Persons and Thomas Morgan. It is followed here by `A godly and Proffitable Meditacion of the 20th chapter of Job` (folio 71 verso).The manuscript has been badly damaged and most of folios 46-57 is missing. The names John Corsonne, Richard Corsonne and Thomas Miles occur in the margins, and a note on the titlepage reads `John corsonne write...
Dates: Late 16th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Manuscript of ‘Leycester`s Commonwealth’, `The Copie of a Letter written by a M[?] of Arte of Cambridge to his friend in London concerninge some talke past of late ... about the present state and some proceedinges of the Earle of Leicester and his Frends in England.`

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.3
Scope and Contents

The name W Hepburne appears on folio ii in a 17th-century hand.

Dates: Late 16th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Manuscript of ‘Leycester`s Commonwealth’, `The Coppie of a Lettre written by A M[?] of Arte of Cambridge to his friend in London Concerning some talke ... aboute the present state and some proceedings of the Earle of Leister and his Frinds in England.`

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.13
Dates: Late 16th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19463-19466
Scope and Contents

This fair copy of the text is in several hands and is complete to the end of volume II, chapter IV with many small divergences from the published work.

Dates: [1874, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family. / Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto.

Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.19463
Dates: [1874, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family. / Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’.

Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.19463 (part 1)
Dates: [1874, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family. / Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’.

Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.19463 (part 2)
Dates: [1874, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family. / Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’.

Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.19464
Dates: [1874, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family. / Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’.

Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.19464 (part 1)
Dates: [1874, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family. / Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’.

Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.19464 (part 2)
Dates: [1874, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family. / Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’.

Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.19465
Dates: [1874, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family. / Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’.

Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.19465 (part 1)
Dates: [1874, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family. / Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’.

Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.19465 (part 2)
Dates: [1874, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family. / Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’.

Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’., [1874, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.19466
Dates: [1874, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family. / Papers and correspondence of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto. / Manuscript of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751-1806’.

Manuscript of 'Life of Hugh Miller' by Hugh Miller Williamson, Edinburgh, with various items, mainly correspondence of Hugh Miller, pasted into the manuscript as illustrative material by the writer, and numbered independently., ?1881.

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Identifier: MS.7527
Dates: ?1881.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Letters, notebooks and manuscripts of and concerning Hugh Miller, geologist.

Manuscript of 'Lord of the Isles', together with notes to the poem, by Sir Walter Scott., [1815, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.23044
Dates: [1815, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts of Sir Walter Scott from the Pforzheimer Library, collectively known as the ‘Pforzheimer Scott manuscripts’.

Manuscript of MacDiarmid's prose and verse contributions to ‘Scottish scene: the intelligent man's guide to Albyn’ by Hugh MacDiarmid and Lewis Grassic Gibbon., 1923-[1934, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.27034
Scope and Contents

The plays 'Some day' and 'The Purple Patch' are represented by pages from the ‘Scottish Nation’, 30 October 1923, and the ‘Northern Review’, May 1924 (folios 76, 122). The manuscript also contains designs for the dust-jacket and titlepage which were not used (folio 193).

Dates: 1923-[1934, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'. / Literary papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'. / Prose works of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'. / Books of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.

Manuscript of Major-General C S Thomason's ‘Ceol Mor’, containing bagpipe music, together with a volume of notes on the occasions commemorated by various piobaireachd.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3747-3749
Dates: [1900, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Manuscript of Major-General C S Thomason's ‘Ceol Mor’: volume I., [1900, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.3747
Dates: [1900, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscript of Major-General C S Thomason's ‘Ceol Mor’, containing bagpipe music, together with a volume of notes on the occasions commemorated by various piobaireachd.

Manuscript of Major-General C S Thomason's ‘Ceol Mor’: volume II., [1900, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.3748
Dates: [1900, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscript of Major-General C S Thomason's ‘Ceol Mor’, containing bagpipe music, together with a volume of notes on the occasions commemorated by various piobaireachd.

Manuscript of major poems of Claudian., 13th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.13(ii), folios 48-106
Scope and Contents There remain `De bello Gildonico` 464-526 (folio 48), `In Eutropium` i and ii preface and 1-337 (folio 49), `Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti` 78-341 (folio 64), `Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti` (folio 68), ‘Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti` (folio 72), `Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro Consuli` (folio 82 verso), `De consulate Stilichonis`, i, ii.1-90 and 154-476, iii preface, 1-85, and 149-369 (folio 88), `Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii...
Dates: 13th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Composite volume of English origin, containing works of Ovid ('Fasti') and Claudian (major poems), the former of which belonged to Leicester Abbey.

Manuscript of “Man's chief end” by Edward Albert., 1st half of 20th century

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.9113 (1)-(2)
Dates: 1st half of 20th century
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / 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. / Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of, and notebooks containing material collected for, the fictional works of Edward Albert. / Manuscript and typescript, undated, of “Man's chief end” by Edward Albert.

Manuscript of “Man's chief end” by Edward Albert., 1st half of 20th century

 Item
Identifier: MS.9113 (1)
Dates: 1st half of 20th century
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / 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. / Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of, and notebooks containing material collected for, the fictional works of Edward Albert. / Manuscript and typescript, undated, of “Man's chief end” by Edward Albert. / Manuscript of “Man's chief end” by Edward Albert.

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