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:
'Marre from Kincairne Pueill to the Springis of Dee' ; 'The Draught of Dee River fra Kincarne to Durris.', [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 28)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
Marriage Articles of Mary Queen of Scots and François II of France; and `Memoire des affaires d`escosse pour diceulx estre escript a n[?]e s[?] pere le pape de la part du Roy daulphin [François II] et Royne daulphine [Mary Queen of Scots] soubs le bon plaisir et intencion du Roy`., 1558-1559.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.54.1.2
Scope and Contents
(i) The Marriage Articles, 1558, of Mary Queen of Scots and François II of France, signed by Jacques Bourdin, Cosme Clausse, and Claude de l`Aubespine. This is the official and attested copy of the articles read and signed on the day of the betrothal. The articles are printed in ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, volume 2, pages 511-513.(ii) `Memoire des affaires d`escosse pour diceulx estre escript a n[?]e s[?] pere le pape de la part du Roy daulphin [François II] et Royne...
Dates:
1558-1559.
'Mary Lawrence' by Cecilia Campbell, an unpublished novel written circa 1850 and revised and enlarged in 1877., [Circa 1850], 1877.
Item
Identifier: MS.14300
Scope and Contents
It was probably this manuscript which Mrs Campbell offered to Blackwood and Sons for publication in 1878 (see MS. 4372, folio 127).
Dates:
[Circa 1850], 1877.
Masonic manuscript, "Décoration de l`Académie Ecossoise d`Edimbourg".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8422
Dates:
18th century.
Material by Robert McLellan for a film version of 'The Donegals'., 1977.
File
Identifier: MS.26417
Scope and Contents
The material consists of two typescript versions of the screenplay (folios 1, 16), the manuscript and typescript of additional dialogue (folios 29, 49), and colour photographs of scenes from the film (folio 60). The film was shown on television in February 1979.
Dates:
1977.
Material, chiefly genealogical, collected by John Philp Wood.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1872-1878
Scope and Contents
Leaves found loose in the volumes have been placed in MS.1878, with some other loose papers, and references have been made to and from the volumes in which they were found.
Dates:
1776-1829.
Material, chiefly genealogical, collected by John Philp Wood, chiefly leaves found loose in MSS.1872-1877., 1775-1814.
File
Identifier: MS.1878
Scope and Contents
Also included are: a State of Terregles Parish, 1776 (folio 24); a printed ‘Song for the Duddingston Curling Society’, 1817, with manuscript notes of the names of the persons mentioned (folio 26); and two leaves printed from John Philp Wood's biographies of the Presidents of the Court of Session (Adv.MS.37.2.1, pages 1-19), showing that he intended to publish them (folio 28).
Dates:
1775-1814.
Material collected by Principal William Robertson., Mid 18th century-late 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3954
Scope and Contents
The material was collected by Principal Robertson for his works on Scotland (folio 1), Charles V (folio 10), America (folio 11), India (folio 95).
Dates:
Mid 18th century-late 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
Material collected for, and a typescript, undated, of, the opening chapters of a biography of Lord Edward Saivesen by Edward Albert., Early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.9139
Dates:
Early 20th century.
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.
Material collected for and manuscript drafts of ‘Leabhar na Feinne’ by John Francis Campbell, with a volume of related correspondence.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.2.5-50.2.17
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Material collected for the 'Monasticon Scoticanum' projected by William Barclay David Donald Turnbull, arranged by establishments., Mid 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2100-2104
Material collected for the 'Monasticon Scoticanum' projected by William Barclay David Donald Turnbull, volume I: Canons of St Austin and St Anthony, Red Friars, Premonstratensians., Mid 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2100
Dates:
Mid 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Papers and correspondence of and relating to William Barclay David Donald Turnbull.
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Material collected for the 'Monasticon Scoticanum' projected by William Barclay David Donald Turnbull, arranged by establishments.
Material collected for the 'Monasticon Scoticanum' projected by William Barclay David Donald Turnbull, volume II: Benedictines, etc., Mid 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2101
Dates:
Mid 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Papers and correspondence of and relating to William Barclay David Donald Turnbull.
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Material collected for the 'Monasticon Scoticanum' projected by William Barclay David Donald Turnbull, arranged by establishments.
Material collected for the 'Monasticon Scoticanum' projected by William Barclay David Donald Turnbull, volume III: Carthusians, etc.; nuns., Mid 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2102
Dates:
Mid 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Papers and correspondence of and relating to William Barclay David Donald Turnbull.
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Material collected for the 'Monasticon Scoticanum' projected by William Barclay David Donald Turnbull, arranged by establishments.
Material collected for the 'Monasticon Scoticanum' projected by William Barclay David Donald Turnbull, volume IV: Collegiate Churches., Mid 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2103
Dates:
Mid 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Papers and correspondence of and relating to William Barclay David Donald Turnbull.
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Material collected for the 'Monasticon Scoticanum' projected by William Barclay David Donald Turnbull, arranged by establishments.
Material collected for the 'Monasticon Scoticanum' projected by William Barclay David Donald Turnbull, volume V: hospitals., Mid 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2104
Dates:
Mid 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Papers and correspondence of and relating to William Barclay David Donald Turnbull.
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Material collected for the 'Monasticon Scoticanum' projected by William Barclay David Donald Turnbull, arranged by establishments.
Material concerning antiquarian matters chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott., 17th century-early 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.901-908
Dates:
17th century-early 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Miscellaneous material, literary, antiquarian, topical, etc., chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
Material concerning ‘Bothwell’ by William Edmondstoune Aytoun., [1856, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.4921-4922
Dates:
[1856, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Letters and papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, which, on his death, came into the hands of John Blackwood as his executor.
Material concerning current events chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott., 1796-1829.
File
Identifier: MS.909
Scope and Contents
The subjects include the election of the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1796 (folio 1); the Peninsular War, 1809 (folio 3); Dunfermline Abbey, [?1818] (folio 6); the Scottish Regalia, [?1818] (folio 9); the execution of Andrew Hardie, the Radical, 1820 (folio 39); the King’s visit to Edinburgh, 1822 (folios 43-46); the Edinburgh Theatre, 1827 (folio 48); and the export of bodies from Dublin by Resurrectionists, 1829 (folio 50).
Dates:
1796-1829.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Miscellaneous material, literary, antiquarian, topical, etc., chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
Material concerning literary matters, chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott., 17th century-early 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.891-900
Dates:
17th century-early 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Miscellaneous material, literary, antiquarian, topical, etc., chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
Material concerning the Constables of Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.31
Scope and Contents
(i) `De Constabulariis fet officio Constabularij Angliae`, 1628. A collection of material compiled by Sir James Balfour on the duties and powers of the Constables, including copies of charters and other documents, mostly from the Cotton Manuscripts. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Copy of royal commission to report on the office of High Constable of Scotland, 1627. (Folio 41.)
Dates:
1627-1628.
Material concerning Virginia Woolf sent to Edwin Muir by Leonard Woolf., 1925-1941, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19673
Scope and Contents
The material consists of printed articles, reviews and press-cuttings, but also includes (folio 2) the typescript of E M Forster's "The novels of Virginia Woolf', published in ‘The New Criterion’ iv (1925-1926), pages 277-286, with manuscript corrections by Forster.
Dates:
1925-1941, undated.
Material connected with the ‘Memoirs of Sir Robert Strange, Knt., Engraver ... and of his brother-in-law Andrew Lumisden, private secretary to the Stuart Princes’, by James Dennistoun.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2898-2902
Dates:
1836-1855, undated.