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 Luggie' by David Gray., [1861, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8464
Scope and Contents
Apart from several omissions in the manuscript, folios 1-15 constitute a fair copy of pages 3-56 of ‘The Poetical Works of David Gray’, a few of the missing passages being later added on folios 17-23. On folios 15-17 there is a section which does not appear in the printed text of 'The Luggie', but is included in the works of David Gray as a separate poem, entitled 'The Love-Tryst'.
Dates:
[1861, or before.]
Manuscript of the 'Memoirs of Sir Henry Slingsby From 1638 to 1648', which was used by Sir Walter Scott in his edition of 'Original memoirs, written during the Great Civil War: being the life of Sir Henry Slingsby, and memoirs of Capt. Hodgson. With notes. &c'.
Item
Identifier: MS.23621
Scope and Contents
The text is carefully written in a late eighteenth-century hand (evidence of pricking survives in the outer margins of most of the leaves) and bears marks of Sir Walter Scott's editorial work. The chief alteration to the text is the replacement by Scott of Sir Henry Slingsby's last sentence; otherwise the amendments consist mostly of expansions of contracted words and the introduction of consistency in the use of capitals; the additions are in the form of footnotes, a few of which were not...
Dates:
Late 18th century-[1806 or before.]
Manuscript of ‘The mirror and the cross’ by George Scott-Moncrieff, heavily corrected and with many variants from the published version., 1960.
Item
Identifier: MS.19631
Scope and Contents
The manuscript does not include the prologue and epilogue, most of chapter 12 and all chapters 8 and 13-14. Chapter 5 occurs in the middle of and following chapter 6 (folios 41, 63).
Dates:
1960.
Manuscript of ‘The Navy of Henry VIII’ by Robert Purves Hardie., 1st quarter of 20th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5294-5296
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Manuscript of ‘The Navy of Henry VIII’ by Robert Purves Hardie., 1st quarter of 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.5294
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript works of Robert Purves Hardie concerning early British naval history, with transcripts, notes and maps.
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Manuscript works of Robert Purves Hardie concerning early British naval history.
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Manuscript of ‘The Navy of Henry VIII’ by Robert Purves Hardie.
Manuscript of ‘The Navy of Henry VIII’ by Robert Purves Hardie., 1st quarter of 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.5295
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript works of Robert Purves Hardie concerning early British naval history, with transcripts, notes and maps.
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Manuscript works of Robert Purves Hardie concerning early British naval history.
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Manuscript of ‘The Navy of Henry VIII’ by Robert Purves Hardie.
Manuscript of ‘The Navy of Henry VIII’ by Robert Purves Hardie., 1st quarter of 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.5296
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript works of Robert Purves Hardie concerning early British naval history, with transcripts, notes and maps.
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Manuscript works of Robert Purves Hardie concerning early British naval history.
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Manuscript of ‘The Navy of Henry VIII’ by Robert Purves Hardie.
Manuscript of the novel 'Kingisbyres or the end of an old song' by John Dick Scott., 1931-1947.
Item
Identifier: MS.9913
Scope and Contents
Folios 1-37 are in a different hand.
Dates:
1931-1947.
Manuscript of the novel ‘Now and then’ by Samuel Warren.
Item
Identifier: MS.9640
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is dated (folio 153) 9 December [1847]. Heavily corrected by the author, it does not vary greatly from the published version.
Dates:
[1847.]
Manuscript of the novel ‘Witchwood’ by John Buchan, here called 'The minister of Woodilee'.
Item
Identifier: MS.9865
Scope and Contents
There is a presentation inscription by the author on the flyleaf, dated 1928, followed by the note: "Written at Elsfield Oct 1925-May, 1926. Published under the title 'Witch Wood' July 1927." The manuscript has been heavily corrected by the author, but does not vary greatly from the printed version.
Dates:
1925-1926.
Manuscript of the pageant by Robert McLellan., 1964.
Item
Identifier: MS.26368
Scope and Contents
Many of the scenes are heavily reworked, and some exist in several versions.
Dates:
1964.
Manuscript of ‘The passing of the Stewarts’ by Agnes Mure Mackenzie., 1936.
Item
Identifier: MS.9176A
Dates:
1936.
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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Incomplete manuscript of ‘The passing of the Stewarts’ by Agnes Mure Mackenzie.
Manuscript of 'The Patriot Princess; or Political Monitor, calculated to rouze the reflection, invigorate the Spiritual health, and fortify the Mind of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales, previously to her approach to the Sovereignty of the British Realms'., [Circa 1811-1812.]
Item
Identifier: MS.5751
Scope and Contents
A note on folio 81 by the author, Thomas Ashe, explains that the work was commissioned by Lord Perceval. It was intended as an attack on the Prince Regent, but was apparently not published.
Dates:
[Circa 1811-1812.]
Manuscript of ‘The people of the palace’, a satirical novel by Marryat Ross Dobie, former Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: MS.6304
Scope and Contents
The novel is greatly influenced, and its subject was probably suggested, by the discoveries in Crete of Sir Arthur Evans and others, 1899-1911; authentic characteristics of the Cretan civilisation of the period appear in drawings and are described in the text. The volume is illustrated and bound by the author himself. A note, dated 1955 (folio i verso), by Sir John Spencer Muirhead explains that 'The people of the palace' was ‘one of a series of stories written on holiday on the island of...
Dates:
1912.
Manuscript of 'The place names of France, and British surnames derived from France' by James Brown Johnston., Circa 1926.
File
Identifier: MS.5279
Manuscript of the play 'Toon Byres' by Robert McLellan., 1936.
Item
Identifier: MS.26463
Dates:
1936.
Manuscript of the play ‘Young Auchinleck’ by Robert McLellan, including preliminary notes and synopses., ?1960.
File
Identifier: MS.26468
Manuscript of the poem 'Sealwear' by Edwin Morgan., 1966.
Item
Identifier: MS.27494
Scope and Contents
This is one of fourteen copies written out in booklet form by Edwin Morgan, with the imprint 'Gold Seal Press', Glasgow. Morgan invented the Gold Seal Press for this booklet.
Dates:
1966.
Manuscript of the preface to ‘Lord of the Isles’ by Sir Walter Scott., April 1830.
Item
Identifier: MS.23043
Scope and Contents
This preface was printed in the edition of 1833. The poem itself appeared in 1815.
Dates:
April 1830.
Manuscript of the preface to ‘Marmion’ by Sir Walter Scott., April 1830.
Item
Identifier: MS.23042
Manuscript of the printed text of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson., 1899, or before-1901.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.14
Scope and Contents
Variations from the printed text are slight: the last paragraph of the General Introduction to Volume I and Volume I, pages xxxiv-xxxv are omitted; the `Note of Appointment of Adjutants, Quartermasters, Surgeons, etc. 1705-1782`, printed at the end of Volume II, appears before the main text of that volume. Of Volume III, only part i, the Rotterdam Papers, appears. There are no indexes.
Dates:
1899, or before-1901.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
Manuscript of the printed text of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson; Volume I, Division I, section 5., 1899, or before.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.3.2
Dates:
1899, or before.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
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Manuscript of the printed text of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson.
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Manuscript of the printed text of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson; Volume I.
Manuscript of the printed text of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson; Volume I, Division I, section 6., 1899, or before.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.3.3
Dates:
1899, or before.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
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Manuscript of the printed text of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson.
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Manuscript of the printed text of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson; Volume I.
Manuscript of the printed text of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson; Volume I, Division II, introductory narrative (folio 1), sections 1 (folio 13), 2 (folio 33), 3 (folio 91), 4 (folio 118) and 5 (folio 173)., 1899, or before.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.3.4
Dates:
1899, or before.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
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Manuscript of the printed text of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson.
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Manuscript of the printed text of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson; Volume I.