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:
Manuscripts from the library of St Andrew`s College, Drygrange.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9180
Dates:
18th century to 19th century.
Manuscripts from the Riddell Collection., 14th century-19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.9.1-25.9.23
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts, including collections of formal documents (but not single documents, for which see Ch.A245-A251), owned by Riddell, arranged as far as possible in chronological order.
Dates:
14th century-19th century.
Manuscripts in German script., 1776, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.5721
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) 'Die Erschaffung Adam und Eva' in the form of a libretto (folio 1);
(ii) 'Haubt Relation über das Churfürstenthum Bayern' (folio 17);
(iii) Miscellaneous verses (folio 69).
Dates:
1776, undated.
Manuscripts, in the author's hand, and typescripts of dramas by William Sharp and 'Fiona MacLeod', and of two dramas by Maurice Maeterlinck translated by Sharp., [Before 1906.]
File
Identifier: MS.8776
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts range from early drafts to fair copies.
Dates:
[Before 1906.]
Manuscripts, in the author's hand, and typescripts of stories by 'Fiona MacLeod', and one by William Sharp., 1893-1905.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8771-8774
Scope and Contents
Although there are examples of evidently early composition, the manuscripts appear on the whole to be fair copies, which bear several, sometimes many, corrections. These stories appear in “The Works of 'Fiona MacLeod'” with three exceptions. 'The daughter of the sun' (MS.8772, folio 44) appeared in ‘The sin-eater and other tales’, but only a small portion was retained in the ‘Works’, volume iii, page 181. 'Green fire' ('MS.8774, folio 114) is a fair copy of Book I and the first chapter of...
Dates:
1893-1905.
Manuscripts, in the author's hand, of poems by 'Fiona MacLeod' and William Sharp., [1882, or after-1905, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.8775
Scope and Contents
On the whole the manuscripts are fair copies, but there are a few examples of Sharp's composition at an earlier stage.The contents are as follows:(i) Poems of 'Fiona MacLeod’, chiefly published in “The works of 'Fiona MacLeod'”, volume vii (some exceptions are noted in the contents list) (folio 1);(ii) Poems of William Sharp chiefly published in ‘Selected writings of William Sharp’, volume i (some exceptions are noted in the contents list) (folio 65);...
Dates:
[1882, or after-1905, or before.]
Manuscripts in the Cecil Hopkinson Collection of Hector Berlioz.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3428-3429
Dates:
Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
Manuscripts in the collection of Scottish and other music formed by Alexander Wood Inglis, Secretary to the Board of Manufactures, including compositions by Inglis himself.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3327-3353
Dates:
18th century-early 20th century.
Manuscripts in the Glen Collection of Scottish music.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3296-3302
Dates:
1710-1877.
Manuscripts notes for and drafts of reviews and articles of Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7675- is now MSS.26180-26187.
Scope and Contents
Mostly on artistic subjects.
Dates:
circa 1960-circa 1967.
Manuscripts of a French Officer named La Rochette, who appears to have been acting, at least in 1763, in the services of the Duc de Nivernais, then Ambassador at St James, in connection with Acadian and other French prisoners.
File
Identifier: MS.3803
Scope and Contents
In a note on folio i the officer is called Colonel de la Rochette; on folio 42 he describes himself as being addressed as General.The manuscripts consist of notes and drafts (some of these latter in several versions), chiefly on the following subjects. Some or all may have been intended for the Duc de Nivernais.(i) The campaigns of Agricola and Roman antiquities in Scotland, with some notes on early Britain in general. (Folios 1-42, 45-47, 58, 63.)(ii) A...
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Manuscripts of ‘A friend in need is a friend indeed’, by Letitia Landon., ?1836.
Item
Identifier: MS.42334
Scope and Contents
The manuscript entitled ‘A friend in need is a friend indeed’ is a short story by Letitia Landon that was first published in the ‘Monthly Magazine’, vol.47 in 1836. The story tells of a young man named Charles Bouverie, who, having come into a large fortune on the death of his uncles, finds London life without an occupation tedious. He quickly takes up the invitation of his friend, Horace Langham, to visit his aunt in Croydon. There Bouverie encounters the aunt, an uncle and a...
Dates:
?1836.
Manuscripts of a poem and an article by Philip Stanhope Worsley., [1862, or after; 1875, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.4888
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Manuscript, undated, of a poem by Philip Stanhope Worsley, published as 'Night' in ‘Poems and Translations’ (folio 1);
(ii) Manuscript of an apparently unpublished article of Worsley reviewing ‘Poems and Songs’ by David Wingate (folio 2).
Dates:
[1862, or after; 1875, or before.]
Manuscripts of addresses of Agnes Mure Mackenzie delivered to various bodies., 1932-1939.
File
Identifier: MS.9196
Dates:
1932-1939.
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.
Manuscripts of Agnes Ethel Mackay., 1940-1946.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26893-26894
Manuscripts of an article, ‘Prolegomena to a Psychology of Art’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn; with related notes and correspondence., 1937-1938.
File
Identifier: MS.50182
Scope and Contents
The papers are arranged chronologically. 1937-1938.Incomplete, amended, draft manuscript ‘I’, 1937, comprised of typescript and manuscript, of an article, ‘Prolegomena to a Psychology of Art’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. The article is based on Fairbairn’s paper of the same title read to the British Psychological Society, Scottish Branch meeting, 6 March 1937. The typescript has been amended by Fairbairn. Folios 1-29.Amended, superseded typescript...
Dates:
1937-1938.
Manuscripts of an unpublished novel, 'Gilded Ganymede: letters to the Devil' by Fred Urquhart, written under the pseudonym 'Fred Valdred', 1929-1930., 1929-1931.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26993-26995
Manuscripts of an unpublished novel, 'Hyphen' by Fred Urquhart., 1932.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26996-26997
Manuscripts of and relating to William Hutchison Murray, 1944-2002.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13936/24-38
Manuscripts of Angus Mackay containing piobaireachd., [?1826-?1840.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3753-3754
Dates:
[?1826-?1840.]
Manuscripts of articles and books of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., [Circa 1948]-1966, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27064
Dates:
[Circa 1948]-1966, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Literary papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Prose works of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Articles and short pieces of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Fragments of articles and books of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
Manuscripts of ‘As good as a mile’ by Edward Albert., [1934, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9060-9061
Dates:
[1934, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Edward Albert (1890-1944), who graduated Master of Arts in English at Edinburgh University, 1908, and spent his professional life as English master at George Watson's College, Edinburgh.
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Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of, and notebooks containing material collected for, the fictional works of Edward Albert.
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Manuscripts and typescripts, undated, of the novel ‘As good as a mile’ by Edward Albert.
Manuscripts of biographical articles for the 8th edition of the `Encyclopaedia Britannica` by Lord Macaulay.
File
Identifier: Acc.11868
Scope and Contents
Essays on Atterbury, Bunyan, Goldsmith, Johnson, and William Pitt
Dates:
circa 1852-1859.
Manuscripts of books, articles and essays on historical subjects of William Ferguson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11277
Dates:
1959-1991.