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, "Short notes of the life of Horatio Walpole, youngest son of Sr. Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, and of Catherine Shorter, his first wife", by an unidentified author., ? 1810-? 1840.
Item
Identifier: MS.42597
Scope and Contents
The date of the watermark of the paper of the wrapper binding is 1810. The watermark of the paper of the manuscript itself is 1840. The manuscript is written in the first person and may, therefore, be a copy of a manuscript by Walpole.
Dates:
? 1810-? 1840.
Manuscript shorthand transcription of Isaac Watts, "Horae Lyricae".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7081
Dates:
1818.
Manuscript song of Donald R Morrison, "Ri` Taobh a` Chuain".
Item
Identifier: Acc.4697
Dates:
circa 1969.
Manuscript, suppressed preface to "Missionary travels and researches in South Africa", by David Livingstone., 1857.
Item
Identifier: MS.42427
Scope and Contents
The manuscript begins : "After spending some sixteen years in teaching honesty to the Africans ... "
MS.42420, folios 81-82 would seem to refer to this alternative preface and, therefore, to supply a date of October 1857 for its creation.
Dates:
1857.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning David Livingstone.
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Manuscripts by David Livingstone in which are recorded his journeys and experiences in Africa; with related proofs, sketches, a photographic print and a printed portrait.
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Manuscript, "Missionary travels and researches in South Africa", by David Livingstone; with related proofs.
Manuscript text, in the hand of Agnes Mure Mackenzie, of a schools' broadcast on Stirling., 1942.
Item
Identifier: MS.9198
Dates:
1942.
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, speeches, articles and broadcasts of Agnes Mure Mackenzie.
Manuscript, the autobiography of James Nasmyth. Included is a ?pastel sketch of a landscape of a tower on a promontory at sunset., 1883, or before.
File
Identifier: MS.42505
Manuscript, "The Cicerone. A handbook to the works of sculpture in Italy. From the German of Jacob Burckhardt"; with a prelimary notice by "MW"., 1861.
Item
Identifier: MS.42047
Scope and Contents
The translation relates only to the part of Burckhardt`s "Der Cicerone" that concerns Italian sculpture.
"MW" has not been identified.
Dates:
1861.
Manuscript, "The Commune and the International", by Robert Cecil : an article for the "Quarterly Review"., 1871.
Item
Identifier: MS.42060
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was published in the "Quarterly Review" for October 1871.
With the manuscript is a letter, 25 October 1871, of Mary Stanley to John Murray III in which she mentions the article by Cecil. Also included is a printed portrait of Robert Cecil.
Dates:
1871.
Manuscript, "The History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France from the year 1807 to the year 1814", volume one, by William Napier., ? 1826-1928.
File
Identifier: MS.42501
Scope and Contents
The manuscript has been annotated, "Copied out by Col. W. Napiers Lady". Included are three maps, in manuscript, of battle plans.
Also included is a letter, 27 December 1901, of J.B. Hughes relating an anecdote about Napier; and a newspaper cutting, "Napier`s `Peninsular War`", from "The Times", 29 March 1928.
Dates:
? 1826-1928.
Manuscript, "The State in its relations with The Church", by William Gladstone., 1838.
Item
Identifier: MS.42266
Scope and Contents
Title on the spine of the binding : "Gladstone`s Church and State. M S."
Dates:
1838.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning William Gladstone.
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Manuscripts by William Gladstone.
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Manuscript and marked proofs, "The State in its relations with the Church", by William Gladstone.
Manuscript thesis on Lib.XLI, title IX of the ‘Digest, Pro Dote’, written by Robert Louis Stevenson for his admission to the Faculty of Advocates on 16 July 1875.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.5.8
Dates:
1875.
Manuscript titled, ‘Ane accompt of His Majesties proper rent aryseing from the feu and blensh dueties of the severall lands holdin few and blensh of His Majestie [Charles II] in his kingdome of Scotland with the deductions, alterations & differences betwixt the present rentall and the former preceeding King James of blessed memorie his going in to England in anno 1603’., 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.201
Scope and Contents
There is an introduction ‘Of the Revenue or Patrimonie of the Croune’, explaining of what the manuscript consists (folio 1). Thereafter the revenues of each shire are given.
Dates:
17th century.
Manuscript titled, 'Coustumes et usaiges du pays et duchie de thouraine, des ressors et exemptions daniou et du maine, redigees et mis par escript en la ville de [Langes]'., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3175
Scope and Contents
Begins (folio ii), 'Sensuyt la table de ce present livre. Ainsi que les feulletz sont merchez pareillement en ceste presente table sont merchez'.
Dates:
15th century.
Manuscript titled 'Dictata Practica Prestantissimi Clarissimi Frederici Dekkers’, by Frederik Dekkers, Professor of Medicine at Leyden., Early 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.2724
Manuscript titled ‘Entretien Durant la Sainte Messe’., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3061
Scope and Contents
Headings, etc., in red and blue.
Dates:
18th century.
Manuscript titled ‘King James the Saxt, of Scotland King. The tragicall historie of his tyme'., 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3149
Scope and Contents
The manuscript deals with affairs to 1617.
Dates:
17th century.
Manuscript titled 'Poems part X' by Ruth Munro., December 1942.
Item
Identifier: MS.26987
Dates:
December 1942.
Manuscript titled ‘Reliquiae divi Andreae, or, the State of the Venerable and Primitiall See of St. Andrews, by George Martine'., 1683-1689.
Item
Identifier: MS.3151
Scope and Contents
This manuscript, which is signed by George Martine, appears to have been written between 1683 and 1685 (see dates on folios 1, 2 verso), and to have been used by him in revising and enlarging his original work. It is probably the copy referred to in a manuscript of the same work in Edinburgh University Library. It contains many marginal notes which are apparently in Martine's hand, including a reference to an event in 1689 (folio 70). A modern description of the manuscript and of its...
Dates:
1683-1689.
Manuscript titled 'The way of making that sort of potash wch is Commonly called pearl ash in England'., 1749.
Item
Identifier: MS.17568
Scope and Contents
The cover is endorsed 'Pearl Ash p[r]. D[r]. [John] Mitchel 1749'.
Dates:
1749.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
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Papers concerning the Commissioners and Trustees for improving Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland (later, for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland), appointed in 1727.
Manuscript titled "Traité d'artillerie, contenant les proportions des canons de feu, et de fonte, de chaque partie de la piece, des mortiers, & affuts, et generallement de tous les autres ustançilles qui leur sont necessaires pour estre bien servis; avec plusieurs regles touchant le canonage, & non moins curieuses, qu'utiles, et necessaires a ceux qui y sont employez"., ?19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.2196
Dates:
?19th century.
Manuscript titled 'War Poems' by Ruth Munro., June 1942.
Item
Identifier: MS.26986
Dates:
June 1942.
Manuscript transcript of ‘Lines on Sir Walter Scott leaving London for Scotland...’, 1834.
Item
Identifier: MS.23069, folio 11
Dates:
1834.
Manuscript translation, 1971, into Scots by J K Annand of Pierre de Ronsard, "Elegie sur le Despart de la Royne Marie Retournant a` son Royaume d`Escosse" (1561).
Item
Identifier: Acc.5190
Dates:
1971.
Manuscript translation of the works of Lucian by an English merchant resident at Naples.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7834
Dates:
1779.