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 the final published version of ‘Brief words’ by William Soutar., [1935, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8579
Dates:
[1935, 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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Typescript and manuscript of ‘Brief words’ by William Soutar.
Manuscript of the first draft of ‘The Edinburgh of Queen Mary’ by Agnes Mure Mackenzie., 1948.
Item
Identifier: MS.9181
Dates:
1948.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts and typescripts of, and notes for, historical and literary works, speeches, and broadcasts, together with correspondence, of Agnes Mure Mackenzie, Commander of the British Empire, Master of Arts, Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Laws (1891-1955).
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Manuscripts and typescripts of, and notes for, historical works of Agnes Mure Mackenzie.
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Manuscripts and typescript of ‘The Edinburgh of Queen Mary’, and typescript of chapter 2, 'Literary poetry, 1500-1600', of 'An Historical Survey of Scottish Literature to 1714' by Agnes Mure Mackenzie.
Manuscript of the first half (pp 1-108) of William E Baxter, "A Winter in India".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6560
Dates:
1882.
Manuscript of the first part of 'The howdie', an unfinished story by John Galt.
File
Identifier: MS.5207
Scope and Contents
With the manuscript are the pages of "Tait's Edinburgh Magazine" containing the first part of the story, a typescript of the second part, and a memorandum on the history of the manuscript by Sir Robert Simpson, the latter reprinted and supplemented by William Roughead in his edition.
Dates:
[Circa 1831.]
Manuscript of the first two volumes of ‘History of Europe from the fall of Napoleon in MDCCCXV to the accession of Louis Napoleon in MDCCCLII’ by Sir Archibald Alison., 1852-1853.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9582-9583
Dates:
1852-1853.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts, with additions and amendments as sent to the printer, of two major works and part of a third work of Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet, historian, Sheriff of Lanarkshire and writer on legal and social questions; with mathematical notes of his son, General Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet.
Manuscript of the Gaṇapatisūkta, a hymn to Ganapati or Ganesha, the God of Wisdom, and Śāntisūtra, a hymn of atonement.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.13
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is in Devanāgarī script.The contents are as follows:(i) Gaṇapatisūkta (Hymn to Ganapati or Ganesha, the God of Wisdom).
Side margins drawn in red, daṇḍas highlighted in red, accents marked in red, incipit daubed with red (all marks of a carefully prepared and valued manuscript). No colophon.(ii) Śāntisūtra (Hymn of Atonement).
No margins or colouring. Colophon (folio 21 verso): ॥ oṃm ॥ śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu ॥ cha (6 times) [that is, a...
Dates:
Undated.
Manuscript of 'The Gododdin' by William Owen Pughe, with facing English translation, and other papers.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.18
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written during 1784-1785 (see pages iii, 198) by William Owen Pughe (1759-1835), co-editor of ‘The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales’. For further transcripts of the work in his hand see the following National Library of Wales manuscripts: 13240 B; 21281 E, page 231, column a; Erfyl Fychan papers.The contents are as follows.(i) Line from an ‘awdl’ ascribed to Casnodyn: ‘Cyn glas ved cyn glassu vyggran’. ‘The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales’, volume 1,...
Dates:
1784-1785.
Manuscript of the greater part of the autobiography of Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk., [Before 1806.]
Item
Identifier: MS.3462
Scope and Contents
Contents include:(i) A transcript, lacking a few leaves at the beginning, of the text found also in MS.3732; there the relationship of this text to that of the printed editions of 1860 and 1910 is briefly described. Capital letters which appear at intervals in the margin refer to the paragraphs in (ii) below.(ii) 'Paragraphs in the Original omitted in the Copy' (folio 372), that is, in (i) above. All these paragraphs are incorporated in both editions of the printed...
Dates:
[Before 1806.]
Manuscript of ‘The grey wind’ by Edward Albert., [1929, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.9072 (1)-(2)
Dates:
[1929, or before.]
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, typescript and galley proofs of the novel, ‘The grey wind’ by Edward Albert.
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Manuscript, undated, of ‘The grey wind’ by Edward Albert.
Manuscript of ‘The grey wind’ by Edward Albert., [1929, or before.]
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Identifier: MS.9072 (1)
Dates:
[1929, or before.]
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, typescript and galley proofs of the novel, ‘The grey wind’ by Edward Albert.
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Manuscript, undated, of ‘The grey wind’ by Edward Albert.
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Manuscript of ‘The grey wind’ by Edward Albert.
Manuscript of ‘The grey wind’ by Edward Albert., [1929, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.9072 (2)
Dates:
[1929, or before.]
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, typescript and galley proofs of the novel, ‘The grey wind’ by Edward Albert.
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Manuscript, undated, of ‘The grey wind’ by Edward Albert.
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Manuscript of ‘The grey wind’ by Edward Albert.
Manuscript of ‘The grey wind’ by Edward Albert., [1929, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.9073 (1)-(2)
Dates:
[1929, or before.]
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, typescript and galley proofs of the novel, ‘The grey wind’ by Edward Albert.
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Manuscript, undated, of ‘The grey wind’ by Edward Albert.
Manuscript of ‘The grey wind’ by Edward Albert., [1929, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.9073 (1)
Dates:
[1929, or before.]
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, typescript and galley proofs of the novel, ‘The grey wind’ by Edward Albert.
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Manuscript, undated, of ‘The grey wind’ by Edward Albert.
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Manuscript of ‘The grey wind’ by Edward Albert.
Manuscript of ‘The grey wind’ by Edward Albert., [1929, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.9073 (2)
Dates:
[1929, or before.]
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, typescript and galley proofs of the novel, ‘The grey wind’ by Edward Albert.
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Manuscript, undated, of ‘The grey wind’ by Edward Albert.
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Manuscript of ‘The grey wind’ by Edward Albert.
Manuscript of the ‘Historia Ecclesiastica’ by Bede, probably from Exeter Cathedral.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the prologue (folio 1) and five books (folios 2, 23, 39 verso , 60, 79), each with a list of chapters at the beginning. The text is of the c-type and of the D branch of that (see ‘Opera Historica’, volume 1, pages xciii-xcv, civ-cix, and ‘Ecclesiastical History of the English People’, page 1).A few headings are in red. Initials for the preface and books are in red and blue with red tracery, those for chapters are alternately blue and red with tracery of...
Dates:
14th century.
Manuscript of 'The history and chronicles of Scotland', John Bellenden's translation of Hector Boece's ‘Scotorum historiae’.
Item
Identifier: MS.5288
Scope and Contents
Most of the manuscript is, with slight alterations, similar to the first printed edition of John Bellenden's translation (circa 1536), but in places it differs substantially from that and from other texts; it contains only chapters 2 and 3 of 'The cosmographie and discription of Albion' which precedes the main work, but is otherwise complete.Bellenden's chronicle is continued at folio 313 without a break by Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie's 'Historie and chronicles of Scotland' to...
Dates:
17th century.
Manuscript of 'The history of England' of Sir James Mackintosh.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.6633/1-2
Dates:
1830.
Manuscript of ‘The history of Greece from its conquest by the crusaders to its conquest by the Turks, and of the Empire of Trebizond, 1204-1461’ by George Finlay., [1851, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.4795
Dates:
[1851, or before.]
Manuscript of 'The history of the Church of Scotland', books I-VI, by the Archbishop John Spottiswoode, in the hand of a scribe, with corrections and rubrics in that of the Archbishop., Early 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2938
Scope and Contents
Several pages, apparently containing book VII, are cut out.
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Manuscript of 'The history of the Church of Scotland’, by Archbishop John Spottiswoode: corrections and other material., Early 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2939
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Further corrections to MS.2938, to the pages of which reference is made. The corrections are followed in the text printed by the Right Reverend M Russell for the Spottiswoode Society, 1851. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'The Seventh booke of the History of the Church of Scotland'. Incomplete, ending in a passage relating to the year 1623 (Russell, volume iii, page 267). On folio 10 are the words, '20 Feb., 1635, begann to write this book in Edr.', and...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Manuscript of the history of the kings of Scotland, in the handwriting of Robert Mylne., 2nd half of 17th century-1st half of 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.2087
Scope and Contents
The chronicle covers the kings from Eugenius VI to Robert III.
The manuscript is imperfect, containing only pages 51-62, 80-95, 114-125, 176-191, 208-239, 242-287.
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century-1st half of 18th century.
Manuscript of ‘The history of the rebellion which broke out in Scotland in the year 1745’ by John Home., [1802, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.310
Scope and Contents
The manuscript which is partly in John Home’s hand consists of the draft and final copy of parts of the text, together with the drafts of many passages written on scraps of paper.
Dates:
[1802, or before.]
Manuscript of ‘The history of the rebellion which broke out in Scotland in the year 1745’ by John Home., [1802, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.310(i)
Dates:
[1802, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts collected by Walter Biggar Blaikie, Doctor of Laws, editor of volumes concerning Jacobitism in the publications of the Scottish History Society, etc.
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Manuscript of ‘The history of the rebellion which broke out in Scotland in the year 1745’ by John Home.
Manuscript of ‘The history of the rebellion which broke out in Scotland in the year 1745’ by John Home., [1802, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.310(ii)
Dates:
[1802, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts collected by Walter Biggar Blaikie, Doctor of Laws, editor of volumes concerning Jacobitism in the publications of the Scottish History Society, etc.
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Manuscript of ‘The history of the rebellion which broke out in Scotland in the year 1745’ by John Home.
Manuscript of 'The Hoopoe: a comedy in three acts' by George Moncrieff-Scott., [Circa 1970.]
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Identifier: MS.26951