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:
Material for a work, in the hand of John Spottiswoode, Keeper of the Advocates' Library, titled, 'Essay towards the digesting & disposing in good order, & to the best advantage, the styles of all the writts, evidents, & securities made use of in the Scotch law, & practised among the Writters to the Signet’., 1689-1692, 1697, 1722, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2946
Scope and Contents
Most of the papers were bound in a volume (not in order of date); others, found loose either at an appropriate place in the volume or at the end, have now been bound in.
Dates:
1689-1692, 1697, 1722, undated.
Material for ‘Ancient monuments of Arran: official guide’ by Robert McLellan., [1977, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26426-26427
Dates:
[1977, or before.]
Material for Sir Robert Sibbald`s projected `Bibliotheca Scotica`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) An alphabetical index of Scottish authors and their works, circa 1700 (folio 1). The beginning is probably missing (the pagination commences with page 11). Most of the entries are copied from ‘Historia ecclesiastica gentis Scotorum lib.XIX’. It is followed by an appendix (folio 137 verso) in which the entries are more detailed.(ii) `De Scriptoris Scoticis`, circa 1702 (folio 150). A bibliography of works, including...
Dates:
Circa 1700, circa 1702.
Material for the adaptation by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid' and Elspeth Harley Schubert of Harry Martinson's poem, ‘Aniara’., 1956-1960.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27010-27012
Material for the article 'Digging up Scotland' by Alastair Reid., [1981, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27459-27461
Dates:
[1981, or before.]
Material for 'The Isle of Arran' by Robert McLellan., 1968-1975, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26419-26425
Dates:
1968-1975, undated.
Material of Alexander Philip on the reform of the calendar, including an interleaved copy of ‘The determination of Easter Day’ (London, 1915) by A M W Downing, typescript and manuscript notes, press-cuttings and letters., 1914-1929.
File
Identifier: MS.10308
Material of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on the Middle East and Far East., 1766-1782, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24535
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Notes on Egypt and Arabia, 1766, 1781-1782, undated (Folio 1.) Includes Monboddo numbers 81, 181, 260. (ii) Notes on Indian laws and customs, 1779. (Folio 72.) Monboddo number 169. (iii) 'Of the islands of the Eastern ocean', 1782. (Folio 87.) Monboddo number 87.
Dates:
1766-1782, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714-1799) and his family.
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Literary and philosophical papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo.
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on anthropology and travel, consisting to a great extent of notes taken from published works.
Material of John McGrath, containing manuscript notes, photocopies and papers on political theatre, possibly from the Cambridge seminars., 1979.
File
Identifier: Acc.10893/425
Scope and Contents
Cambridge seminar papers by John McGrath were published as 'A Good Night Out' (Eyre Methuen, 1981).
Dates:
1979.
Material of Ruthven Todd by and concerning other writers and artists., 1960-1978, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26888
Dates:
1960-1978, undated.
Material of Ruthven Todd on islands., 1962-1967, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26835-26836
Scope and Contents
This material was probably part of Ruthven Todd's projected 'Love Letter to Three Islands', an account of his experiences on Mull, Martha's Vineyard and Majorca.
Dates:
1962-1967, undated.
Material of Ruthven Todd probably intended for books., 1962-1976, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26856
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscripts, typescripts, photocopies and notes concerning mushrooms, 1962-1976, undated (folio 1); (ii) Notes, introduction and contents lists for a recipe book for visitors to Majorca, 1976, undated (folio 30); (iii) Notes for a book about garlic, ?1968 (folio 67); (iv) Typescript introduction and notes for a work on extinct and newly-discovered animals, undated (folio 84).
Dates:
1962-1976, undated.
Material of Sir James Balfour on the Irish nobility.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.27
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `A Catalonge [sic] of The Earlls Viscounts and Barrons of Irland as they ar Ranket in this present Zeir 1628’ (folio 1).(ii) `The armes of The Nobilitie of Irland and of Divers Gentelmen of The Same Countrey`. The date 1627 has been added. A sectionon the nobility is followed by one on the gentry arranged under the first letter of each name. The entries are blazons sometimes accompanied by sketches (folio...
Dates:
1627.
Material on Aberdeenshire used by George Chalmers in the compilation of ‘Caledonia’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.29
Scope and Contents
The manuscript mostly concerns the boundary between the counties of Banff and Aberdeen, but also includes an essay on the University of Aberdeen (folio 18).
Dates:
4th quarter of 18th century-1st quarter of 19th century.
Material on Scottish history intended to be read in conjunction with ‘Abridgement or Summarie of the Scots Chronicles’ by John Monipennie.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.25
Scope and Contents
The author, who was writing between 1612 and 1625, made use of the histories by John Major, Boece and Holinshed. The later entries, from the 15th century onwards, become progressively lengthier until the text breaks off in November 1585.The text is followed by an index of the kings of Scotland, and a general index. Both contain page references to the manuscript (indicated by the letter u or by numbers above 72) and to Monipennie`s published text. The author`s own copy of the...
Dates:
1612-1625.
Material on the early history of Scotland by Sir Robert Sibbald.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.26
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Caledonia sive Scotia Antiqua et Recentior`, 1680 (folio 1). According to the preface, Sibbald intended this to be a work in four books, but it breaks off after the beginning of the second. The contents do not correspond with those of `Caledonia` described by Sibbald in ‘An Account of the writers antient and modern’, pages 9-11, which refers to Adv.MS.15.1.2, folios 3-14.(ii) `Corn: Taciti Britannia`, 1687-1688 (folio...
Dates:
1680-1698.
Material relating to Professor Derick S Thomson’s collection of poems ‘Eadar Samhradh is Foghar’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14969-14970
Dates:
1958, 1966-1967, undated.
Material relating to ‘The poems and ballads of Schiller’, translated by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer, 1st Baron Lytton., 1844, 1851.
File
Identifier: MS.4824
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript, 1851, of the preface to 'The poems and ballads of Schiller', second edition (folio 1);(ii) Dismembered copy of pages 1-232 of volume ii of the first edition, heavily corrected for the second (folio 16);(iii) Manuscripts of 'The cranes of lbycus' and a portion of 'The victory feast', corresponding to pages 127-139 of volume i of the first edition (folio 132);(iv) Manuscripts of 'Farewell to the reader'...
Dates:
1844, 1851.
Material relating to Thomas Muir, the political reformer.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3824-3829
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Materials for a preface to a proposed but unrealised edition of the works of George Buchanan by the genealogist James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, and others.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.4
Scope and Contents
The work was intended as a reply to the criticisms of Buchanan by Robert Freebairn in the preface and by Thomas Ruddiman in the life of Buchanan in Ruddiman`s edition of Buchanan`s ‘Opera Omnia’. The edition appears to have been proposed by the Lord Advocate, Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, of Hailes, and a society was formed under Anderson in 1719, but following the deaths shortly afterwards of some of Anderson`s principal collaborators, including Dalrymple, the project lapsed....
Dates:
1719, or after.
Materials for a preface to a proposed but unrealized edition of the works of George Buchanan by the genealogist James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, and others.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.2
Scope and Contents
The work was intended as a reply to the criticisms of Buchanan by Robert Freebairn in the preface and by Thomas Ruddiman in the life of Buchanan in Ruddiman`s edition of Buchanan`s ‘Opera Omnia’. The edition appears to have been proposed by the Lord Advocate, Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, of Hailes, and a society was formed under Anderson in 1719, but following the deaths shortly afterwards of some of Anderson`s principal collaborators, including Dalrymple, the project lapsed. ...
Dates:
1719, or after.
Materials for works written or edited by Sir Walter Scott., 1762-[1832].
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.877-882
Dates:
1762-[1832].
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.
Materials towards a preface to a proposed, but unrealized, edition of the works of George Buchanan by the genealogist James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, and others.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.11
Scope and Contents
The work was intended as a reply to the criticisms of Buchanan by Robert Freebairn in the preface and by Thomas Ruddiman in the life of Buchanan in Ruddiman`s edition of Buchanan`s ‘Opera Omnia’. The edition appears to have been proposed by the Lord Advocate, Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, of Hailes, and a society was formed under Anderson in 1719, but following the deaths shortly afterwards of some of Anderson`s principal collaborators, including Dalrymple, the project lapsed....
Dates:
1719, or after.
Materials towards ‘Caledonia’ by George Chalmers.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.2.3-20.2.9
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of notes and extracts, mostly from published sources, together with some correspondence, and a number of fair copies of early versions of parts of the text. Many of the items, particularly the fair copies of the text, are in the hand of Chalmers’s nephew James Chalmers. The letters are dated between 1794 and 1805: the other writings are undated but watermarks visible in the leaves are dated within this period.
Dates:
?1794-?1805.
Materials used for ‘The Life of Thomas Ruddiman, A.M. ... to which are subjoined New Anecdotes of Buchanan’ by George Chalmers., 1794, or before.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.9.8
Scope and Contents
Among the contents are notes on: schoolmasters (folio 5), letters of Mary Queen of Scots (folio 15), newspapers (folio 21), and George Buchanan (folio 123).
Dates:
1794, or before.