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 part of a story, 'Cutting out', by David Stewart., [Circa 1821].
Item
Identifier: MS.4876
Manuscript of part of an article, undated, apparently a history of the Knights Templar in Scotland, probably by a member of the Grant family., [?19th century.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8883
Manuscript of part of ‘Annals of a publishing house: William Blackwood and his Sons’ by Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant, consisting of the first twelve chapters of text, corresponding roughly to the first volume of the printed version. , [1897, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.4939
Scope and Contents
The manuscript text differs, in some places considerably, from the final form, both in matter and in the arrangement of the material, especially in the last five chapters.
A few leaves are missing.
A few miscellaneous notes associated with the text have been placed at the end of the volume (folio 236).
Dates:
[1897, or before.]
Manuscript of part of chapter v and of the whole of chapter vi of ‘Valerius’ by John Gibson Lockhart., [1821, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.4821
Dates:
[1821, or before.]
Manuscript of part of ‘The Parisians’ by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer, 1st Baron Lytton, corresponding to book XII of the printed work., [1872, or before-1874, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.4843
Dates:
[1872, or before-1874, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Manuscripts and proofs of works offered for publication to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Part of the manuscript of ‘The Parisians’ by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer, 1st Baron Lytton.
Manuscript of parts I, II, and IV of 'Bothwell' by William Edmondstoune Aytoun; with fragments of part IV, written on the reverse of some corrected galley proofs of parts II and IV., [1856, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.4921
Dates:
[1856, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Letters and papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, which, on his death, came into the hands of John Blackwood as his executor.
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Material concerning ‘Bothwell’ by William Edmondstoune Aytoun.
Manuscript of parts I, III, and IV of ‘The Caxtons: a family picture’ by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer, 1st Baron Lytton., [1848, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.4825
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is in the form in which it was first published in "Blackwood's Magazine", April, June, and July 1848.
Dates:
[1848, or before.]
Manuscript of parts of 'Eiger Direct' by Dougal Haston., 1966.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14376/15
Scope and Contents
In the published version of 'Eiger Direct', the main narrative is interspersed with sections written by Dougal Haston. The manuscripts here relate to those sections. They are corrected and annotated throughout.
There are also some manuscript notes included in the hand of Haston.
Dates:
1966.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers relating to the climb featured in and the publication of 'Eiger Direct', by Dougal Haston, Peter Gillman and Chris Bonington.
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Records relating to the publication of ‘Eiger Direct’ by Dougal Haston, Peter Gillman and Chris Bonington.
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Manuscripts and drafts of 'Eiger Direct'.
Manuscript of parts of 'Kenelm Chillingley' by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer, 1st Baron Lytton., [1873, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.4839
Scope and Contents
The volume contains the manuscript of Book II, chapters xv-xxi (incomplete) (folio 1), and of Book III (folio 44).
Dates:
[1873, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Manuscripts and proofs of works offered for publication to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Manuscript and proofs of parts of 'Kenelm Chillingley' by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer, 1st Baron Lytton.
Manuscript of parts of ‘The Parisians’ by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer, 1st Baron Lytton, corresponding to books VIII-IX of the printed work., [1872, or before-1874, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.4841
Dates:
[1872, or before-1874, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Manuscripts and proofs of works offered for publication to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Part of the manuscript of ‘The Parisians’ by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer, 1st Baron Lytton.
Manuscript of parts of ‘The Parisians’ by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer, 1st Baron Lytton, corresponding to books X-XI of the printed work., [1872, or before-1874, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.4842
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is lacking approximately one folio at the end of book X.
Dates:
[1872, or before-1874, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Manuscripts and proofs of works offered for publication to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Part of the manuscript of ‘The Parisians’ by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer, 1st Baron Lytton.
Manuscript of piobaireachd of Pipe Major Robert Meldrum.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11151
Dates:
1929-1933.
Manuscript of pipe music, probably compiled in the Plockton district of Wester Ross.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9884
Dates:
circa 1850.
Manuscript of poem of Hercules Rollock, "De Peste Edinburgi Grassante, anno 1585".
File
Identifier: Acc.4373
Scope and Contents
With contemporary copy, signed by Rollock.
Dates:
circa 1585.
Manuscript of poem of Iain Crichton Smith, "The Ladder of Experience".
Item
Identifier: Acc.5983
Dates:
circa 1950-circa 1973.
Manuscript of poem of James Hogg, "The White Rose of Scotland".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9701
Dates:
circa 1834.
Manuscript of ‘Poems in Scots’ by William Soutar., [1935, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.8580
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is accompanied by a duplicate in typescript of the major poem 'The Auld Tree' and the part of the glossary relating to it.
Dates:
[1935, or before.]
Manuscript of portions of 'Essay XIX: motive power' by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer, 1st Baron Lytton., [1863, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.4838
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Manuscript of portions of 'Essay XIX: motive power' (folio 1);
(ii) Corrected proof of part of the essay(folio 64).
Dates:
[1863, or before.]
Manuscript of ‘Quentin Durward’ by Sir Walter Scott., [1823, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.23046
Manuscript of 'Quest' by William Soutar., [Before 1944.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8603
Dates:
[Before 1944.]
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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Manuscript and incomplete typescript of ‘Earth’, and manuscript of ‘Quest’, by William Soutar.
Manuscript of ‘Regiam Maiestatem ...’ by Sir John Skene, corresponding almost exactly to the published work, but without the indices.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.8
Scope and Contents
Like the earlier draft of this work, Adv.MS.7.1.10, the manuscript is in the hand of Charles Lumsden, minister of Duddingston, although it is not signed by him. It contains title-page (folio 1), dedication (folio 3), to the reader (folio 6), laws of Malcolm Mackenneth (folio 10), ‘Regiam Maiestatem’ books i (folio 17), ii (folio 39), iii (folio 81), and iv (folio 100), ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’ (folio 110), burgh laws (folio 135), guild laws (folio 157), Chamberlain ayre (folio 164), Justice...
Dates:
1609 or before.
Manuscript of 'Regole della fortificatione' by Giulio Savorgnano, with many illustrations., 16th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.5735
Scope and Contents
The main work ends with the signature 'Neubattell’, and folio 25 contains notes in English on the use of the ruler.
Giulio Savorgnano was responsible for Venetian fortifications in Cyprus and elsewhere.
Dates:
16th century.
Manuscript of religious verse in Gaelic.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.14
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains an early ‘pot’ watermark. The scribe unknown, but his hand bears family resemblance to that of some Ó Siaghails, e.g. Eoghan Carrach. ‘Saltair’ format, i.e. written along the page, 1 quatrain per line, with single unrelated quatrains at foot of many pages; at folios 1 verso and 5 verso-10 recto these are followed by the date 1582. As manuscript dating this appears consistent with text and watermark. There are many corrections to the text in what appears to be the...
Dates:
1582.