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, possibly 11th century, of the Gospels of Saints Mark and Luke, and part of the prologue of Saint John.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.16
Scope and Contents
This manuscript was produced in Ireland and is an example of a pocket Gospel book. It was possibly written in the 11th century, based on the script. Schenkl has dated the work to the 9th century, and Borland has attributed it to the 13th century. The manuscript is written in an Insular minuscule script with 23 or 24 lines to a page. There are brief scribal marginal glosses related to the text throughout, although some of these have been lost due to cropping. There are...
Dates:
?11th century.
Manuscript prepared for typing, of the prelude and chapter 1 to chapter 3, part 4 of the novel ‘Mungo’ by George W Slaney, (‘George Woden’)., [1932, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.19632
Scope and Contents
Two later fragments have been tipped in at the end.
Dates:
[1932, or before.]
Manuscript press-copy of chapters 1-20 of ‘Briseis’ by William Black., [1896, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.19647
Dates:
[1896, or before.]
Manuscript, "Pretty Bob!", by Maria Edgeworth., ? 1815.
Item
Identifier: MS.42183
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is of a short story of Maria Edgeworth that recounts the history of a young chimney sweep referred to as ‘Pretty Bob’ and, later ‘Poor Bob’. It highlights the harsh conditions of such work for children. The story was first published by John Murray in 1832 as part of ‘Garry Owen, or, The snow-woman ; and Poor Bob, the chimney- sweeper’.Original foliation of the manuscript has been retained (ff. 1-14), with a wrapper for the manuscript placed after...
Dates:
? 1815.
Manuscript, probably from Normandy, of the complete works of Horace.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.12
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists of two originally separate parts: (i) containing 'Carmina' (folio 1), 'Epodi' (folio 41), and 'Carmen saeculare' (folio 50); and(ii) containing 'De arte poetica' (folio 51), 'Epistolae' (folio 58), and 'Sermones' (folio 81). It presents basically a Ψ text, most closely related to δ (Brit.Mus.Harl.MS.2725, 9th century) and π (Paris.lat.10310, 9th century), with some contamination from Ξ bringing it into occasional agreement with [?]...
Dates:
11th century-early 12th century.
Manuscript, probably of the 15th century, written in England, containing various works on canon law, including: the 'Casus decretalium' of Johannes Burgundus de Maioricis; a summary of the 'Decretales - Liber Sextus' of Pope Boniface VIII; the 'Apparatus ad Constitutiones Clementinas' possibly by Gulielmus de Monte Lauduno; and short extracts by other authors.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.17
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in England containing various works on canon law, including the 'Casus decretalium' of Johannes Burgundus de Maioricis; a summary of the 'Decretales - Liber Sextus' of Pope Boniface VIII; the 'Apparatus ad Constitutiones Clementinas' possibly by Gulielmus de Monte Lauduno, as well as short extracts by various other authors.The date of production of the manuscript is unclear. A 19th-century pencil inscription on the recto of folio i suggests that it is a work of...
Dates:
?15th century.
Manuscript, probably Scottish, of the 'Vitae Caesarum’ of Suetonius.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.11
Scope and Contents
The final lines, ‘pro certo habuisse’ etc., are lost.
Before the text is placed without heading Ausonius, `Caesares` (XXI Monosticha 6-41 in Karl Schenkl`s edition), which is found in other 15th-century manuscripts of Suetonius, and a list of chapters.
Ornamental initials in blue and red.
Marginalia throughout in the hand of Archibald Whitelaw, secretary to James III.
Dates:
Late 15th century
Manuscript prologue to a projected histocial novel of Meredith H Armstrong Davison, "The Melee of the Lowlands, a Story of the 16th Century".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10592
Scope and Contents
Includes notes on events in Scotland in 1542-1543.
Dates:
Undated.
Manuscript prompt-copy of act I of ‘Donna Diana’ adapted by John Westland Marston., 1863.
Item
Identifier: MS.9991
Manuscript prompt-copy of act II of ‘Donna Diana’ adapted by John Westland Marston., 1863.
Item
Identifier: MS.9992
Manuscript prompt-copy of act III of ‘Donna Diana’ adapted by John Westland Marston., 1863.
Item
Identifier: MS.9993
Scope and Contents
On folio 41 is a note in the same hand as the text, 'G.H. Gates. Prompter. Royal Lyceum Theatre 1863'.
Dates:
1863.
Manuscript prompt-copy of ‘Donna Diana’, a comedy in three acts, adapted by John Westland Marston from the German version of ‘El Desdén con el Desdén’ by Agustin Moreto.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9991-9993
Scope and Contents
John Westland Marston wrote his version of the play for the actor Hermann Vezin, to whom this manuscript belonged. There are numerous annotations of the actors' movements and cuts in the text.
Dates:
1863.
Manuscript, "Remarks on the Royal Supremacy as it is defined by Reason, History, and the Constitution. A letter to the Lord Bishop of London", by William Gladstone., 1850.
Item
Identifier: MS.42269
Manuscript research notes and drafts of 'Tricks of the light' by Alison Fell., 2003, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12394/52-64
Dates:
2003, undated.
Manuscript resolution of Leith workmen against Incorporation of Weavers.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5670
Dates:
1745.
Manuscript revisions by Robert McLellan for "The Isle of Arran" (2nd edition, 1976).
File
Identifier: Acc.9625
Dates:
circa 1976.
Manuscript score, 1979, of Ronald Stevenson`s "Violin Concerto".
File
Identifier: Acc.10774
Scope and Contents
Includes note, 1992, of Yehudi Menuhin and three photographs taken at the first performance, Glasgow, 1992.
Dates:
1979-1992.
Manuscript score and printed copy of Marie Dare, "Menuet for Double Bass and Piano".
File
Identifier: Acc.4931
Dates:
1969.
Manuscript score of Murray M W Adair setting of, The Auld Man", a poem by William Soutar.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6092
Dates:
1973.
Manuscript scores of Gaelic and Scots songs for the clarsach, by Jean Campbell.
File
Identifier: Acc.11770
Scope and Contents
Includes a copy of article (English translation) by Ank Van Campen on Jean Campbell.
Dates:
1959, 1972-1973 and undated.
Manuscript, seventeenth century, of 'Diurnal of occurrents, 1513-1572', based, perhaps indirectly, on the same original as the Pollok Manuscript, published as ‘A diurnal of remarkable occurrents’.
Item
Identifier: MS.3805
Scope and Contents
The manuscript differs considerably from the Pollok Manuscript; in parts it is fuller, but it ends in 1572 (page 299 of the Bannatyne volume).
A note of the donor (folio ii) suggests it is one of the Demnilne Manuscripts.
Dates:
Late 16th century.
Manuscript, seventeenth century, of 'The staggering state of the Scotish statesman thir last 100 years bygone, viz. frae 1550 to 1650' by John Scot of Scotstarvet.
Item
Identifier: MS.3032
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century.