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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 'William and Helen' by Sir Walter Scott.

 File
Identifier: MS.5278
Scope and Contents

There is an inscription to Lady Charlotte Home and Miss Haldane on folio 1.

Dates: 1796.

Manuscript of William Roxburgh, "Remarks Made About the Year 1790".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7664
Scope and Contents

On the absorption of tropical heat. With manuscript amendments.

Dates: circa 1790.

Manuscript on botany.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.10
Scope and Contents

The contents of the manuscript are as follows:

(i) `Historia plantarum in horto regio Parisiensi`, late 17th century (folio 1). A list of plants, followed (folio 275) by a list of the trees and shrubs. They are closely related to Joseph Pitton de Tournefort`s Schola Botanica (Amsterdam, 1689), but are not as full.

(ii) `Methodus plantarum secundum D.D. Turnefortij principia Adornata`, dated at Paris, 14 April 1696 (folio 305).

Dates: Late 17th century.

Manuscript on botany, entitled `Manuel de botanique ou Principes pour connoitre les Plantes que la nature produit leurs Noms, Caracteres, Et Vertus. MDCCXXXVI’.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.5.12
Scope and Contents Under each plant, there is a brief note about its habitat, but most of the entry concerns its medicinal uses. The text is followed (folio 215) by an appendix, indices of names in Latin and French, and an index of diseases. Folios 272-279 contain miscellaneous medical recipes, some of which have been written on loose sheets of paper and inserted.The inscription `J.B.M. Guidi scripsit anno 1757 et 1758` occurs on folio 271 verso, and the title-page (folio 1) bears his initials and...
Dates: 1757-1758.

Manuscript poem of Robert Burns, "Answer to a Tiviotdale Farmer`s Wife`s Epistle".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7748
Scope and Contents

Containing textual variations from the version published in James Kinsley`s edition of "The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns".

Dates: 1787.

Manuscript poems and sketches of Sir William Quiller Orchardson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8025
Scope and Contents

With associated photographs.

Dates: circa 1855.

Manuscript poems of Forbes Macgregor.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10549
Scope and Contents

With manuscripts and typescripts of three articles, 1932 and undated, of Macgregor.

Dates: 1921-1990 and undated.