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 “Man's chief end” by Edward Albert., 1st half of 20th century
Item
Identifier: MS.9113 (2)
Dates:
1st half of 20th century
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 and typescript, undated, of “Man's chief end” by Edward Albert.
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Manuscript of “Man's chief end” by Edward Albert.
Manuscript of material intended to be used as appendices to the unfinished continuation of ‘The history of Liddesdale, Eskdale, Ewesdale, Wauchopedale and the Debateable Land’ by Robert Bruce Armstrong., [1883, or after.]
File
Identifier: MS.6112
Scope and Contents
Also included is a list of books (folio 272) perhaps intended as a bibliography.
Dates:
[1883, or after.]
Manuscript of ‘Meteorologicae Peripateticae adversus Aristotelem Liber singularis’ by Constantyn Huygens, together with letters to Huygens from various people.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.15
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Manuscript, apparently autograph, of ‘Meteorologicae Peripateticae adversus Aristotelem Liber singularis’ by Constantyn Huygens, 1636, printed in his ‘Momenta Desultoria’, 2nd edition, pages 119-131, and in ‘De Gedichten van Constantijn Huygens’, edited by J A Worp, volume 3, pages 15-26. This manuscript stands between ‘Momenta Desultoria’ and the manuscripts used by Worp; details of the variants have been placed before the...
Dates:
1627-1644, 1660-1684.
Manuscript of Moray McLaren, "Return to Scotland: an Egoist`s Journey".
Item
Identifier: Acc.3580
Dates:
circa 1964.
Manuscript of 'Narratione del stato della Regina di Scotia' by Francesco Marcaldi, dated at Milan, 10 June 1582, and addressed to Filippo Gambalvita., 1582.
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Identifier: MS.5010
Scope and Contents
This is one of about thirty known copies of the work, each written in Francesco Marcaldi's hand, but each with a different date and a different dedication. Marcaldi seems to have written it as propaganda in Mary, Queen of Scots' favour. See S Rossi, 'Tre Narrazioni storiche su Maria Stuart'.
Dates:
1582.
Manuscript of "No one to worry us", a novel by Tony Strachan.
File
Identifier: Acc.12954
Scope and Contents
With a related letter of Rebecca West.
Dates:
1947-1949.
Manuscript of 'Not where I breathe', a study of love by George Moncrieff-Scott., [?1963.]
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Identifier: MS.26966
Scope and Contents
The beginning is missing, and the manuscript contains chapter 3, part ii to the end only. The versos have been used for drafts of verses, some of which were intended for the ballad opera about Dr Johnson's visit to Raasay (MSS.26960-26961). The beginning of a story, 'The Boy who listened', is written on the inverted folios.
Dates:
[?1963.]
Manuscript of notes on Ronald Firbank., 1934-1936.
File
Identifier: Acc.10397/9
Manuscript of novel of Compton Mackenzie, "The Rival Monster".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6450
Dates:
circa 1920-circa 1972.
Manuscript of 'Observations on the election law of Scotland dictated to me by my Father at Auchinieck in Autumn 1771 James Boswell'., 1771.
Item
Identifier: MS.9860 [Manuscript]
Scope and Contents
The crest of Beswell of Auchinleck is on the front board.
Dates:
1771.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript and electrostatic copies of 'Observations on the election law of Scotland dictated to me by my Father at Auchinieck in Autumn 1771 James Boswell', a detailed historical and legal analysis of the law governing elections to Parliament in Scotland, by Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, Senator of the College of Justice, in the hand of his son James, the biographer.
Manuscript of ‘Observations on the nature and treatment of cholera’ by Alexander Turnbull Christie., [1828, or before.]
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Identifier: MS.9494
Scope and Contents
Some pages are missing at the beginning of the text, and the appendix of case notes is not included.
Dates:
[1828, or before.]
Manuscript of 'Oculus Sacerdotis' by William of Pagula.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.6
Scope and Contents
The text (folio 12) contains the three sections of the treatise, ‘Pars Oculi`, `Dextera Pars` and `Sinistra Pars`, but cap. 26 to the end of the `Sinistra Pars` is missing. The text is preceded by:(i) Four short works on diet and blood-letting in English, beginning ‘Here seyth galian ye leche and thecheth of metes and drinkes’. At the end is a rubric ‘Secundum Robertum[?] Grant de Everton’ (folio 1 verso).(ii) Remarks on the qualities of the Virgin...
Dates:
14th century.
Manuscript of "Olaf's son", books I-V, 'first copy', by George Donald Valentine., [1936, or before.]
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Identifier: MS.5188
Dates:
[1936, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Poetry of George Donald Valentine in manuscript and typescript.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of "Olaf's son" by George Donald Valentine.
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Manuscripts of "Olaf's son", 'first version', undated; and 'Medea in Love', 1941-1942, by George Donald Valentine.
Manuscript of "Olaf's son", books I-X, 'revised', by George Donald Valentine., [1936, or before].
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Identifier: MS.5192
Dates:
[1936, or before].
Manuscript of "Olaf's son", books V-X, 'first copy', by George Donald Valentine., [1936, or before.]
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Identifier: MS.5189
Dates:
[1936, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Poetry of George Donald Valentine in manuscript and typescript.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of "Olaf's son" by George Donald Valentine.
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Manuscripts of "Olaf's son", 'first version', undated; and 'Medea in Love', 1941-1942, by George Donald Valentine.
Manuscript of "Olaf's son", books X-XVI, 'first version', by George Donald Valentine., [1936, or before.]
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Identifier: MS.5190
Dates:
[1936, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Poetry of George Donald Valentine in manuscript and typescript.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of "Olaf's son" by George Donald Valentine.
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Manuscripts of "Olaf's son", 'first version', undated; and 'Medea in Love', 1941-1942, by George Donald Valentine.
Manuscript of "Olaf's son", books XI-XVI, 'revised', by George Donald Valentine., [1936, or before.]
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Identifier: MS.5193
Dates:
[1936, or before.]
Manuscript of "Olaf's son", books XVII-XXIII, by George Donald Valentine., [1936, or before.]
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Identifier: MS.5194
Dates:
[1936, or before.]
Manuscript of "Olaf's son", 'revised', by George Donald Valentine., [1936, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5192-5194
Manuscript of "One man’s happiness", by John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.11628/264
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
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Papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, relating to publications mostly by him, containing reviews, manuscripts, typescripts, letters and other material.
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Papers relating to "One man's happiness", by John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
Manuscript of Ossianic poems written by various anonymous hands from recitation of Archibald Fletcher (born circa 1734), Achallader, Argyll.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.24
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is watermarked 1798, and is described by John Francis Campbell (‘Leabhar na Feine’, page xvi) ‘as genuine a bit of folk lore as any in the world’.Archibald Fletcher’s affidavit, sworn before Archibald Menzies, Justice of the Peace, in Edinburgh, 1801, is printed in the Ossian Report, Appendix, page 270. It lists the tradition-bearers from whom he learned the poems. Menzies states that Fletcher could write his name, but was unable to read the manuscript, which is...
Dates:
[1798, or after.]
Manuscript of 'Over the goompa gu' by William Soutar., 1924.
Item
Identifier: MS.8597
Dates:
1924.
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 typescripts of selected sets of poems of William Soutar, apparently intended for publication.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of ‘Over the goompa gu’ and ‘Epigrams’ by William Soutar.
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Manuscript and typescript of 'Over the goompa gu' by William Soutar, of which all the poems appear to be unpublished.
Manuscript of 'Panurgi Philo-Caballi-Scoti Poemata ... 1688', and ‘Panurgi Philo-Caballi-Scoti Grameidos libri sex 1691’.
Item
Identifier: MS.100
Scope and Contents
‘Panurgi Philo-Caballi-Scoti Poemata . . . 1688’ (folio 1); ‘Panurgi Philo-Caballi-Scoti Grameidos libri sex 1691’ (folio 9).
Dates:
1688, 1691.
Manuscript of part I of an apparently unpublished poem, 'Nature and art' by Alexander Peterkin., Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.4862
Scope and Contents
Included in the manuscript are 'Notes and illustrations' to the verses and a prefatory note.
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.