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 scorpion's nest' by Hugh D M McCutcheon., [1967, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.26988
Scope and Contents
Included is a draft of part of a speech on the probable effects of local goverment reorginisation (folio 76 verso).
Dates:
[1967, or before.]
Manuscript of the second draft of ‘The Edinburgh of Queen Mary’ by Agnes Mure Mackenzie., 1948.
Item
Identifier: MS.9182
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 section ’Lyrics in English’ of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar., [Before 1944.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8594
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 signed typescripts of published poems of William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and incomplete typescripts of sections of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar.
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Manuscripts of the sections ’Whigmaleeries’ and ‘Lyrics in English’ of ‘Collected Poems’ by William Soutar.
Manuscript of the section ’Lyrics in Scots’ of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar., [Before 1944.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8591
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 signed typescripts of published poems of William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and incomplete typescripts of sections of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar.
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Manuscript and incomplete typescript of the section ’Lyrics in Scots’ of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar.
Manuscript of the section ‘Theme and variation’ of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar., [Before 1944.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8595
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 signed typescripts of published poems of William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and incomplete typescripts of sections of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar.
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Manuscript and incomplete typescript of the section ‘Theme and Variation’ of ‘Collected Poems’ by William Soutar.
Manuscript of the section ’Whigmaleeries’ of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar., [Before 1944.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8593
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 signed typescripts of published poems of William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and incomplete typescripts of sections of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar.
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Manuscripts of the sections ’Whigmaleeries’ and ‘Lyrics in English’ of ‘Collected Poems’ by William Soutar.
Manuscript of ‘The Spanish Armada’ by Robert Purves Hardie., 1st quarter of 20th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5297-5298
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Manuscript of ‘The Spanish Armada’ by Robert Purves Hardie., 1st quarter of 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.5297
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 Spanish Armada’ by Robert Purves Hardie.
Manuscript of ‘The Spanish Armada’ by Robert Purves Hardie., 1st quarter of 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.5298
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 Spanish Armada’ by Robert Purves Hardie.
Manuscript of the speech concerning the Douglas Cause made by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, in the Court of Session, 11th July 1767., 1767.
Item
Identifier: MS.5355
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written by Lord Hailes himself, and was apparently compiled from the notes he actually used on that occasion (see marginal note on folio 11 verso).
Dates:
1767.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause.
Manuscript of the story for children ‘Guest castle’ by 'Kathleen Fidler' (Kathleen A Goldie).
Item
Identifier: MS.19708
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes notes on Fetteresso Castle which apparently served as a model for the castle in the novel, and on the characters.
Dates:
[1949, or before.]
Manuscript of 'The story of Henrietta Rhense' by William Black, with letters of and to Black., 19th century, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19650
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Manuscript of 'The story of Henrietta Rhense.' It is undated but must have been written between 1866 and 1872 when William Black was living in Catherine Terrace in London (folio 1);
(ii) Letters of William Black, 1877-1879, undated, to William Isbister and Donald Macleod, the publisher and editor of ‘Good Words’, concerning the serial publication and illustration of ‘Macleod of Dare’ (folio 8);
(iii) Letters, 1912, concerning MS.19644 and other books in...
Dates:
19th century, undated.
Manuscript of the title-page, dedication and preface for the "History of the Peninsular War" by Robert Southey., 1822.
File
Identifier: MS.42556
Scope and Contents
The manuscript has the following arrangement :
folio 1 : title page;
folio 2 : dedication to "The King", George IV;
folio 3 : preface.
The date of the manuscript has been taken from the preface which was dated by Southey, "Keswick 22 July 1822".
Dates:
1822.
Manuscript of the “Togail Troí”.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.15
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text, pages 1-49. Tuathal Buidhe Ó Duibhgeannáin (cf. pages ii, 10, 32, 42). Perhaps the Tuathal Ó Duibhgeannáin of the celebrated Connacht scribal family whose son Cú-coigcríche (flourished 1629) was one of the Four Masters (Walsh, ‘Irish men of learning’, page 2). His hand is rather large and coarse, and includes a frequent distinctive ‘a’ with curved-back ascender. There are some decorative initials, with a little mauve...
Dates:
?16th century.
Manuscript of ‘The Trans-Caucasian campaign of the Turkish army under Omar Pasha: a personal narrative’ by Laurence Oliphant., [1855, or after.]
File
Identifier: MS.4855
Scope and Contents
Pages of "Blackwood's Magazine", November 1855, containing Laurence Oliphant's article, 'The eastern shores of the Black Sea', and press-cuttings from Oliphant's articles in 'The Times' have been incorporated into the manuscript, with emendations and additions.
Also included (folio 223) are corrected pages of Oliphant's pamphlet, ‘The coming campaign', with page proofs of an introduction, printed as an appendix to the second edition of ‘The Trans-Caucasian campaign’.
Dates:
[1855, or after.]
Manuscript of the treatise 'Illustrations of Popular Delusion in the Superstitions of the Werwolf, the Sabbaths of the Serfs, and the Seances of Spirituology. London, 1871', by John Sobieski Stuart., 1871.
Item
Identifier: MS.2173
Dates:
1871.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Unpublished treatises of John Sobieski Stuart (John Hay Allan), calling himself Count d'Albanie, with materials collected for them.
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Manuscript of the treatise 'Illustrations of Popular Delusion in the Superstitions of the Werwolf, the Sabbaths of the Serfs, and the Séances of Spirituology. London, 1871', by John Sobieski Stuart; with related material.
Manuscript of the treatise, 'The History of Hand Fire-arms', by John Sobieski Stuart; with realted material., 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2175-2182
Manuscript of the treatise, 'The History of Hand Fire-arms, from their origin to the present time, with relative illustrations of mediaeval artillery until the invention of the rifle in the XVth century . . . London, 1866 . . . Vol.1. The Origin and Progress of Fire-arms in the East', by John Sobieski Stuart., 1866.
Item
Identifier: MS.2175
Dates:
1866.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Unpublished treatises of John Sobieski Stuart (John Hay Allan), calling himself Count d'Albanie, with materials collected for them.
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Manuscript of the treatise, 'The History of Hand Fire-arms', by John Sobieski Stuart; with realted material.
Manuscript of `The Variation of the Armes and Badges of the Kings of England from the tyme of Brute untill this present yeare of our Lord 1604` by Sir William Segar, with paintings of the arms (some of which are mythical) and, from Henry II onwards, of the badges.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.11
Scope and Contents
The work was intended for presentation to James I.
Dates:
1604.
Manuscript of the 'Viaticum' of Constantinus Africanus, from the south of France, later in England.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.8
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the prologue and seven books, incipit `Quo]niam quidem ut in rethori[cis` (‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column 1898), with a full marginal gloss (incipit `Istud opus distinguitur in vii volumina`) and occasional interlinear glosses. At the end (folio 99) are notes, 14th century, on the treatment of hair-loss and on rapacious fish (this was originally the second leaf of a bifolium; of the first, probably blank, only a stub remains),...
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Manuscript of three papers read to the Glasgow Bibliographical Society on 21 January 1918 by Dr George Neilson.
File
Identifier: MS.10334
Scope and Contents
The subjects of the papers are:
“The unique copy of the first edition of Hume of Godscroft's ‘History'” (folio 1);
"Principal Baillie's copy of Osorius" (folio 6);
'An early Virgil' (folio 8).
A page of annotations by George P Johnston, 1928, has been inserted (folio i).
Dates:
1918, 1928.
Manuscript of "Thus spak Antony frae the Tomb o' Kings" by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1952.
Item
Identifier: MS.26125
Manuscript of 'Travels with the stranger' by Robert McKenzie., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.12911/250
Manuscript of ‘Trithemius Steganographia’ and ‘Clavis steganographiae’ by Johann Tritheim.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.12
Dates:
16th century.