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 ‘Some account of my life and writings: an autobiography’ by Archibald Alison., 1862.
Item
Identifier: MS.4760
Dates:
1862.
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 of ‘Some account of my life and writings: an autobiography’ by Archibald Alison.
Manuscript of ‘Some passages in the life of Mr Adam Blair’ by John Gibson Lockhart., [1822, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.4818
Dates:
[1822, 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 corrected proof of ‘Some passages in the life of Mr Adam Blair’ by John Gibson Lockhart.
Manuscript of Sorley MacLean, "My Relationship with Poetry".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10117
Dates:
1976.
Manuscript of Strathspey and reel of A J Lawson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10302
Scope and Contents
Prize-winning entry in the Edinburgh Reel and Strathspey Society`s McInroy Cup, 1991.
Dates:
1991.
'Manuscript of surgery by Andrew Carre Esq.', containing notes on anatomy and surgery., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.5453
Manuscript of “Táin Bó Cuailnge” and other tales, written by Eoghan Mac Gilleoin.
Item
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 1933 edition of ‘Seeds in the wind’ by William Soutar., [1933, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8571
Dates:
[1933, 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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Manuscripts and typescripts of ‘Seeds in the wind’ by William Soutar.
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Manuscript and typescripts of the 1933 edition of 'Seeds in the wind' by William Soutar.
Manuscript of 'The anecdotes and egotisms of Henry Mackenzie'., [Before 1832.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.6376-6378
Manuscript of the 'Bartasias' of Adrian Damman de Bystervelt, a translation of 'La premiere sepmaine' of Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas.
Item
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 betrothed’ by Sir Walter Scott., [1825, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.23047
Manuscript of ‘The Brownie of Bodsbeck’, volume i, by James Hogg., [1818, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.4806
Scope and Contents
Leaves corresponding to printed pages i-xii, 96-118, 239-263 and 294-295 are lacking.
Dates:
[1818, or before.]
Manuscript of 'The brut, or the chronicles of England', containing the text up to the death of Edward III in 1377., 15th century.
Item
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 ‘Chronicles of the Canongate’, 1st and 2nd series, by Sir Walter Scott., [Before 1829.]
Item
Identifier: MS.23048
Manuscript of the ‘Codex Edinburgensis’., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.23b
Manuscript of "The Confession of Montmorenci Grubb, Esq: A Tale of the Late Election", by Mrs Catharine Ponsonby.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10520
Dates:
circa 1850-1859.
Manuscript of 'The dead Achilles', an apparently unpublished translation by Sir Theodore Martin of the poem 'Der tote Achill' by Conrad Meyer., Circa 1898.
Item
Identifier: MS.4848
Manuscript of the ‘Dindshenchas’.
Item
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 dramatic poem, 'Sweet Largie Bay' by Robert McLellan., 1955.
Item
Identifier: MS.26431
Manuscript of ‘The early British Navy: Romans to Henry V’ by Robert Purves Hardie., 1st quarter of 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.5293
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Manuscript of the English text of the `Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern` by Sir Robert Sibbald; with maps.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.15.1.1-15.1.1a
Dates:
1595-[Circa 1682.]
Manuscript of the 'Epistolae ex Ponto' by Ovid, written in Italy.
File
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.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.13(i), folios 1-47
Scope and Contents
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.
Manuscript of the final 4 chapters of ‘Thermography’ which corresponds with the printed version., 1883.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.7
Scope and Contents
Some correspondence and statistics which Campbell made use of in writing ‘Thermography’ are bound in at the end of the volume (folios 517-639).
Dates:
1883.
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.