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 Nineteenth Century Literary Manuscripts. Part 7. Correspondence and papers, 1788-1827, of Archibald Constable. Reel 21A., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1552
Scope and Contents
Content, whether whole or in part, from the following manuscripts in the collections of the National Library of Scotland is included on the microfilm.
MS.21059.
MS.21060.
Dates:
19th century.
Microfilm of Nineteenth Century Literary Manuscripts. Part 7. Correspondence and papers, 1788-1827, of Archibald Constable. Reel 22., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1553
Scope and Contents
Content, whether whole or in part, from the following manuscripts in the collections of the National Library of Scotland is included on the microfilm.
MS.21067.
MS.21068.
MS.21069.
MS.21070.
MS.21071.
Dates:
19th century.
Microfilm of Nineteenth Century Literary Manuscripts. Part 7. Correspondence and papers, 1825-1846, of Robert Cadell, from the National Library of Scotland. Reels 1-22 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1526-1553
Scope and Contents
The microfilms in this series have been described to a basic standard only.
Dates:
19th century.
Microfilms of a copy made by Allan Ramsay the elder from the Bannatyne manuscript of 'Satyre of the thrie estaitis' by Sir David Lindsay; and of a collection of ballads and songs made for ‘Popular ballads and songs’ by Robert Jamieson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15556-15557 [Mf.MSS.51-52]
Dates:
2nd quarter of 16th century, [1806, or before].
Military and maritime papers of and concerning Charles Grant, Vicomte de Vaux., 1775-1809, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.25161-25164
Dates:
1775-1809, undated.
Minute book of the 1st Company of the Edinburgh Volunteer Rifle Battalion., 1859, 1863.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.2.27
Scope and Contents
In addition to minutes of the Company and its Committees and related papers, the book contains copies of minutes of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the Company.
Dates:
1859, 1863.
'Minute of decreits before the Shreife' of Dumfries, giving merely dates and the names of parties., 1664-1710.
Item
Identifier: MS.2711
Minutes of Sederunt of the Committee of Management of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteer Light Dragoons (from 1800 the Royal Midlothian Yeomanry Cavalry), 15 March, 1797-9 July, 1801.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.21
Scope and Contents
Sir Walter Scott was quartermaster and secretary, and regularly attended the meetings. The minutes are in a clerk`s hand. Some letters concerning the company have been pasted in towards the end, and some concerning the manuscript at the beginning. There is a list of members at the end.
Dates:
1797-1801.
Minutes of the Commissioners of Laurence Blair Oliphant of Gask., 1807-1814.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.5.8
Minutes of the Commissioners of Laurence Blair Oliphant of Gask., 1815-1819.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.5.9
Minutes of the Commissioners of Laurence Blair Oliphant of Gask., 1807-1819.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.5.8-82.5.9
Scope and Contents
There are two copies of many of the minutes: a draft and a final version signed by the Commissioners.
Dates:
1807-1819.
`Minutes of the Convention of Estats of the kingdome of Scotland`, 14 March-24 May 1689, and the minutes of the first and second sessions of the first Parliament of William and Mary, 5 June-2 August 1689, and 15 April-22 July 1690.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.8
Scope and Contents
The Convention of 1689 was adjourned from 29 April to 21 May.
Dates:
1689-1690.
`Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords of Council and Session in the triall of Mr Patrick Haldane Advocat named to be one of their Number`, 12-28 February 1723.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.12
Scope and Contents
On the death of Lord Fountainhall in September 1721, Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles, who had been admitted advocate in 1715, sought to become a judge. The Faculty objected, and a long struggle ensued until 12 February 1723 when the Lord Justice-Clerk presented to the Lords of Session the judgement of the House of Lords in Haldane`s favour. The Faculty voted by seven Ordinary Lords to six against him (two Extraordinary Lords voted for him), and after further litigation the candidature was...
Dates:
1723.
Minutes of the Select Society of Edinburgh, 1754-1762, together with the Rules and Orders and lists of members of the society, and a section at the back of the volume on `Questions to be debated in the Select Society` and several notes of apology for absence at meetings from various members, 1763.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.1
Dates:
1754-1763.
`Minutes relating to Forfeitures`, subtitled `Minutes of the Court of Exchequer relating to the Estates forfeited Anno 1745 Or Abstract of the Procedure of the Right Honble. Barons in Managing These Estates`., 1747-1773.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.1.7(i)-(ii)
Dates:
1747-1773.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
`Minutes relating to Forfeitures`, subtitled `Minutes of the Court of Exchequer relating to the Estates forfeited Anno 1745 Or Abstract of the Procedure of the Right Honble. Barons in Managing These Estates`, volume I., 1747-1763.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.1.7(i)
Dates:
1747-1763.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
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`Minutes relating to Forfeitures`, subtitled `Minutes of the Court of Exchequer relating to the Estates forfeited Anno 1745 Or Abstract of the Procedure of the Right Honble. Barons in Managing These Estates`.
`Minutes relating to Forfeitures`, subtitled `Minutes of the Court of Exchequer relating to the Estates forfeited Anno 1745 Or Abstract of the Procedure of the Right Honble. Barons in Managing These Estates`, volume II., 1764-1773.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.1.7(ii)
Dates:
1764-1773.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
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`Minutes relating to Forfeitures`, subtitled `Minutes of the Court of Exchequer relating to the Estates forfeited Anno 1745 Or Abstract of the Procedure of the Right Honble. Barons in Managing These Estates`.
‘Miraculi a S.Francisco Xaverio Indiarum Apostolo in Collegio Neapolitano Societatis Jesu patrati ... MDCXXXIV. Narratio ex Curiae Archiepiscopalis Tabulis deprompta et eodem anno typis mandata apud Lazarum Scorigium.’ An eye-witness account of the cure of the Jesuit, Marcellus Mastrillus.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.11
Scope and Contents
There is no record of the text having been printed by Scoriggio.
Dates:
1634.
Miscellanea of William Skeoch Cumming., Early 15th century-1927, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9803-9807
Dates:
Early 15th century-1927, undated.
Miscellaneous and somewhat confused collection of papers consisting mostly of genealogical notes and extracts by the antiquary Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane relating to a number of Scottish families. In addition there are numerous writings by Macfarlane on other topics, and notes and extracts in other hands.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.1.12
Scope and Contents
The dated items were written between 1748 and 1754: most are undated but are doubtless contemporary, apart from a legal opinion 1636 (folio 62) and some genealogical notes 1718 (folio 142).
Dates:
1748-1754.
Miscellaneous articles and lecture notes of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., [Circa 1895]-1947, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.9321
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript lecture notes, undated, on the subject of 'Lesser Elizabethan Dramatists, Beaumont and Fletcher' (folio 1);(ii) Manuscript notes for a lecture entitled 'Pope and Tennyson', delivered to the Aberdeen Clerical Society, circa 1895; dated by Sir Herbert Grierson in 1944 (folio 13);(iii) Manuscript notes, undated, on Charles Dickens; possibly material gathered for a lecture or article (folio 76);(iv)...
Dates:
[Circa 1895]-1947, undated.
Miscellaneous bibliographical and other works in several hands of the 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.12
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `A Catologue [sic] of Bookes to be sold by auctione at the D[?] of M[?] Lodgeings in St James`s`. A list of apocryphal titles, probably drawn up as part of a satire on Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copy of ‘Asserti Scotiae cives sui’ by Thomas Dempster. The leaves containing pages 8-9 and 50-52 of the printed text are missing. (Folio 3.)(iii) List of books printed before 1500, copied from a...
Dates:
?17th century-18th century.
Miscellaneous bound manuscripts of the Marquesses of Tweeddale., 1643-1771.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7114-7120
Miscellaneous collection, chiefly Gaelic or of Gaelic interest, apparently from the library of the Reverend A J Macdonald, Minister of Killearnan.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3781-3784
Scope and Contents
The earliest item is dated 1673, but the bulk of the material consists of copies made in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Dates:
1673-early 20th century.
Miscellaneous collection of isolated rentals of the estate of Dundas., 17th century-19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.2.50-80.2.51
Scope and Contents
The greater part of the material relating to rents is to be found included in the estate accounts and in the series of rental- and account-books.
Dates:
17th century-19th century.