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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:

Microfilm of the heraldic manuscript of Adam Loutfut.

 Item
Identifier: MS.15527 [Mf.MSS.48]
Scope and Contents

See ‘The book of the Ordre of Chyvalry’ edited by Alfred T P Byles (Early English Text Society, Original Series, 168), pages xxvi-xxix.

Dates: Late 15th century.

Microfilm of the manuscript of chapters 4 and 1-2 of 'Il bizarro, a Calabrian tale', an unpublished novel by Sir Walter Scott.

 Item
Identifier: MS.15558 [Mf.MSS.37]
Scope and Contents

There is a summary of the novel in ‘The journal of Sir Walter Scott’, page 709.

Dates: [1832.]

Microfilm of the manuscript of ‘The talisman’ by Sir Walter Scott.

 Item
Identifier: MS.15532 [Mf.MSS.38]
Scope and Contents

See Gillian Dyson, 'The manuscripts and proof sheets of Scott's Waverley novels', ‘Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions’, volume iv, part 1 (1960), page 35.

Dates: [1825, or before.]

Microfilm of the Regiam Maiestatem, [circa 1500], mid 16th century; and, Book of Hours, fifteenth- to sixteenth-century, according to the use of Sarum.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.512
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Manuscript, [circa 1500], mid 16th century, of the Regiam Maiestatem, Quoniam attachimenta, burgh and guild laws, forest laws, De judicibus, statutes, and other legal texts, one in Scots, written by David Baldovy, vicar of Guthrie (MS.16497);

Book of Hours, fifteenth-sixteenth century, according to the use of Sarum, in Latin; written and illuminated in the Netherlands (MS.16499).

Dates: 15th century-16th century.

Microfilm of the Seaforth Manuscript of Piobaireachd; and, ‘Ceol Mor’ by Major-General C S Thomason., 1826-[1900, or before].

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.938
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Seaforth Manuscript of Piobaireachd, 1826-1854, written for K W S Mackenzie of Seaforth in 1854 by Angus Mackay (MS.3744), 28 frames;

Manuscript of Major-General C S Thomason's ‘Ceol Mor’: volume I, [1900, or before] (MS.3747), 203 frames;

Manuscript of Major-General C S Thomason's ‘Ceol Mor’: volume II, [1900, or before] (MS.3748), 204 frames.

Dates: 1826-[1900, or before].

Microfilm of three Gaelic manuscripts., [1574, or before]-1709.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.565
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Manuscript, 1692-1698, of “Táin Bó Cuailnge” and other tales, written by Eoghan Mac Gilleoin (MS.14873);

Genealogical manuscript, 1709, titled ‘An Leabhar Muimhneach’ written by Diarmuid Ó Conchubhair (MS.14874);

Translation into Gaelic, in an early seventeenth-century hand, of 'Lilium medicinæ' of Bernard de Gordon of Montpellier, [1574, or before] (MS.2076).

Dates: [1574, or before]-1709.

Microfilm of two Gaelic manuscripts.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.497
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Manuscript containing the letter of Prester John, and other works, ?15th century-17th century (Adv.MS.72.1.41);

Manuscript of various Gaelic texts, 17th century (Adv.MS.72.1.42).

Dates: 14th century-17th century

Microfilm of two Gaelic manuscripts.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.508
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Notes, 1874, on the Clanranald manuscript, then in the possession of Admiral Ronald J MacDonald of Clanranald (MS.14900);

Gaelic manuscript (MS.14989).

Dates: ?19th century.

Microfilm of two Gaelic manuscripts, late 17th century; and, letters, 1694-1701, to Professor James Wodrow, and his sons, Alexander and Robert.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.560
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Manuscript of Geoffrey Keating’s ‘History of Ireland’ written by the scribe Sémus Ó Gribín, 1696 (Adv.MS.33.4.11);

Gaelic manuscript (Adv.MS.50.3.12);

Letters, 1694-1701, to Professor James Wodrow, and his sons, Alexander and Robert (Wod.Lett.Qu.I).

Dates: Late 17th century-1701.

Microfilm of two manuscripts of ballads collected by Mrs Anne Brown, wife of the minister of Falkland.

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Identifier: MS.15550 [Mf.MSS.29]
Scope and Contents

One ballad was given by Anne Brown to William Tytler in 1783, the other to Alexander Fraser Tytler in 1800; both were used by Sir Walter Scott for ‘The minstrelsy of the Scottish Border’, but only the latter was available to Francis J Child for his ‘The English and Scottish popular ballads’ (see volume 5, page 397).

Dates: 18th century.

Microfilm of two Piobaireachd manuscripts.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.567
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Piobaireachd manuscript, 1859-1869, of Colin Cameron, piper to the Duke of Fife, and son of Donald Cameron, piper to Seaforth (MS.3745), 80 frames;

Alexander Skinner's manuscript of Piobaireachd, so-called from the inscription 'Presented to Mr. Duncan Campbell, Piper to Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., of Newe, by Alex. Skinner, Teacher of Dancing ... London, June 15, 1855', [1855, or after] (MS.3746), 72 frames.

Dates: [1855, or after]-1869.

Microfilm of various Gaelic manuscripts.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1365
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Manuscript, 1462, known as the ‘Emanuel Manuscript’, containing 'An Cath Cathardha', written by Tadhg Ó Cianáin (Adv.MS.72.1.46);Gaelic version of classic epics, 14th-15th century (Adv.MS.72.1.8);Continuation of Adv.MS.72.1.43: 17th century copy of Foundation of Knowledge of Ireland; or History of Ireland. A narrative history by Geoffrey Keating (Adv.MS.72.2.1);Compendium of medical treatises, 1611-1614, in Gaelic written by...
Dates: 14th century-17th century.

Microfilm of Wodrow manuscript.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1254
Scope and Contents

This is a basic record only.

The dates are taken from the record for the collection and might not be the specific dates of the manuscript on the microfilm.

Dates: 1650-1750.

Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reel 6., Mid 17th century-[1817, or after].

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1318
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Manuscript, [1817, or after], of part of the ‘Autobiography’ of Mrs Eliza Fletcher (1770-1858), chiefly in the hand of the author (MS.3758);

'Meditations', [v], mid 17th century-late 17th century, by Anne Lady Halkett (MS.6489);

'Meditations', [vi], 1658-1659, by Anne Lady Halkett. (MS.6490).

Dates: Mid 17th century-[1817, or after].

Microfilm of Nineteenth Century Literary Manuscripts. Part 6. Correspondence and papers, 1788-1827, of Archibald Constable, from the National Library of Scotland (Adam Matthew).

 Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1460-1489
Scope and Contents

The microfilms in this series have been described to a basic standard only.

Dates: 18th century.