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Manuscripts.

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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 Strathspey and reel of A J Lawson.

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Identifier: Acc.10302
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Prize-winning entry in the Edinburgh Reel and Strathspey Society`s McInroy Cup, 1991.

Dates: 1991.

Manuscript of “Táin Bó Cuailnge” and other tales, written by Eoghan Mac Gilleoin.

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Identifier: MS.14873
Scope and Contents The manuscript was written by Eoghan Mac Gilleoin (Hugh Maclean) between 1692 and 1698. Mac Gilleoin was in 1699 schoolmaster at Kilchenzie, parish Killean and Kilchenzie, south Kintyre, (Campbell & Thomson, ‘Edward Lhuyd in the Scottish Highlands’, page 10). John MacNeill’s pedigree (folio 52 verso) was written in 1720. ‘Contracte’ is scrawled in the margin of folio 53 recto. ‘In my defence God me defend’ is written at folio 57 recto in a quaint early hand, and in the...
Dates: 1692-1698.

Manuscript of the 'Bartasias' of Adrian Damman de Bystervelt, a translation of 'La premiere sepmaine' of Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.10
Scope and Contents This manuscript was probably written in Scotland and can be dated to 1596. It is the work of Adrian Damman and contains his translation of the 'Sepmaine' of Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas, which is dedicated to King James VI by his 'cliens devotissimus'. The work comprises seven books, each of which is preceded by an 'argumentum'. There is a running header designating the division of each book in the upper margin.This manuscript is a fair copy which was probably meant for the...
Dates: 1596

Manuscript of 'The brut, or the chronicles of England', containing the text up to the death of Edward III in 1377., 15th century.

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Identifier: MS.6128
Scope and Contents The manuscript contains the text up to the death of Edward III in 1377, substantially as printed by Friedrich W D Brie.The missing first folio of the original text has been supplied in a later hand. A gap in the text from the middle of cap. lxxiii to the middle of cap. lxxvi is the result of losses between folios 29 and 30. Cap. ci is followed by a section entitled, 'How kyng Cadwaladre that was Cadwaleynes sone regnede aftir his fader and was laste kyng of the...
Dates: 15th century.

Manuscript of the ‘Dindshenchas’.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.16
Scope and Contents The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text, folio 1. Large, with tall loop on ‘g’. Fine ornamental initials, decoration in red.2. Folio 1, lower margin. Large.3. Text, folios 2-5. Large, many oblique strokes. A bold clear hand. Ornamental initials, decoration in red.4. Text, folio 6. Large but crude, written between rather than on the lines and therefore irregular in appearance.In addition there are marginalia on every...
Dates: ?15th Century.

Manuscript of the 'Epistolae ex Ponto' by Ovid, written in Italy.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.5
Scope and Contents i.4-5 and iv.14-15 are not separated. At the end occur the verses '(E)xpers naso modi' etc., printed from Breslau MS. R.109 folio 349, in 'Catalogus codicum latinorum classicorum qui in Bibliotheca Vrbica Wratislaviensi adservantur', page 76.Subscription, folio 74 verso: 'Explicit liber ouidij de po(n)to. Mcccclxxº [x]iiiº decimo KL.April.'Space has been left for initials, which have not been added. Written in a competent humanistic bookhand. There are a few later...
Dates: 1470.

Manuscript of the `Fasti` by Ovid., Late 12th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.13(i), folios 1-47
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Verses 305-472 (two folios) and 726 to the end (more than one gathering) are lost.

The text agrees mostly with A (Vatican, cod.Reginae 1709, 10th century), but shares some errors with U (Vatican lat.3262, 11th century), D (Munich lat.8122, 11th century), and G (Brussels MS.5369-5373, 12th century). Occasional interlinear and marginal notes.

The initials of books are alternately in blue and red.

Dates: Late 12th century.