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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:

Manuscripts of Donald MacPherson.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14890-14895
Scope and Contents Donald MacPherson is described in ‘Cairm’, volume 25, page 207. He was born in Laggan, Badenoch, about 1788 (MS.14891, page 124). He served in the 75th Regiment for fourteen years, and reached the rank of sergeant. On leaving the army he married Mary Stacey, a native of Richmond-on-Thames, and entered business as a bookseller at 54 Upper Ebury Street, Pimlico. In 1824 he published some of his English poems as ‘Melodies from the Gaelic’. This achieving some success, he proposed another work,...
Dates: 1st half of 19th century.

Manuscripts of early laws, statutes, and practicks, written from the 15th to the early 17th centuries, and combined probably in the early 17th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.11
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Notes of Acts of Parliament of circa 1606-1609 and from the reign of James I to that of James VI and I, early 17th century (folio 1 verso).(ii) A collection of laws in six books, taking its material from the ‘Regiam Maiestatem, the ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, the early statutes, the burgh and forest laws, etc., 15th-16th century (folio 10). An index is bound in at folio 102.(iii) `Assise et statuta Regis David...
Dates: 15th century-early 17th century.

Manuscripts of four poems in the hand of Allan Ramsay.

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Identifier: MS.5200
Scope and Contents

The poems are apparently extracted from a volume, the pages being numbered 89 to 104.

The titles are: 'The general mistake', published in ‘Poems’, 1728; and 'The Gods of Egypt', 'Ane epistle to A R on the poverty of the poets', and 'Answer', all three published in ‘Poems’, 1729.

The manuscript texts vary very little, except in spelling and punctuation, from the printed texts; that of 'The general mistake', however, lacks the first part of the final printed version.

Dates: [1728, or before-1729, or before.]

Manuscripts of lyrics written by Ian Rankin., 1977-2006.

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Identifier: MS.50518
Scope and Contents Manuscripts of lyrics by Ian Rankin, written for various bands. Folios 1-6.Lyrics are arranged alphabetically by the name of the band for which they were written.Manuscript lyrics, circa 1977, by Ian Rankin for Rankin’s band The Dancing Pigs. Lyrics for songs 'Johnnies' and 'All F**ked Up', and track listing for L.P. 'Auschwitz '77'. Folio 1.Manuscript lyrics, 2006, 'The Sixth Stone', written by Ian Rankin for the band Saint Jude's Infirmary. Includes...
Dates: 1977-2006.

Manuscripts of miscellaneous poems and verses by William Edmondstoune Aytoun., 1825-1863.

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Identifier: MS.4919
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Originals and copies of verses, 1825-1829, written by William Edmondstoune Aytoun while a schoolboy at Edinburgh Academy, all apparently unpublished. (Folio 1.)(ii) Verse translations from the German of Goethe, presumably compiled by Aytoun for his ‘Poems and ballads of Goethe’ (Edinburgh, 1859) but all, with one exception, apparently unpublished. The titles are: “The shepherd's lament” (or 'Schafers Klagelied', there are two versions...
Dates: 1825-1863.