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:
Miscellaneous collection of items of various dates transcribed by George Paton, the antiquary, circa 1790.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.12
Scope and Contents
The principal works are:(i) Copy of ‘Genealogical Account of the Family of Maclean from its first settlement in the Island of Mull and parts adjacent’, undated (folio 2). An earlier version, dated 1716, which corresponds more or less with folios 2-10 of the present manuscript, appears among Walter Macfarlane`s ‘Genealogical Collections’, Adv.MS.35.4.8, volume I, page 175.(ii) Descriptions of several Western Isles (Lewis, Skye, Iona, Tiree etc.) by various authors,...
Dates:
1532-18th century, and undated.
Miscellaneous collection of letters and other papers relating to Ossianic poetry.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3408-3410
Dates:
18th century-1872, undated.
Miscellaneous correspondence.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.25
Scope and Contents
The volume includes four letters, 1544 and 1550, addressed to Mary of Guise from the Regent Arran and others (folio 2); a letter, 1597, of Sir Walter Lindsay of Balgavie to James VI, written during his term of exile (folio 11); two letters, 1672, of the Earl of Kincardine, discussing the progress of the French campaign in Holland (folio 30); and a small collection, 1666-1668, concerning the affairs of Viscount Stormont (folio 34).
Dates:
1544-1778.
Miscellaneous correspondence and manuscripts of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers., 1817-[1897, or before].
Series
Identifier: MSS.4937-4940
Dates:
1817-[1897, or before].
Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of James Law, Writer to the Signet., 1832-1855.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.2.7
Miscellaneous Corsican papers concerning the 1st Earl of Minto., 1793-1798, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.11214
Dates:
1793-1798, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Diplomatic correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto.
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Diplomatic correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto concerning Toulon and Corsica.
Miscellaneous documents and letters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.35
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Papers connected with the reduction of the process of forfeiture of George Gordon, Earl of Huntly, William Douglas, Earl of Angus, and Francis Hay, Earl of Errol, 1597. See also Ch.B.40, and ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, volume iv, pages 124-130. (Folio 1.)(ii) Mock petition to the Lords of Session, in verse, beginning:`The Humble Petition of Mr Robert Cook,Having lost all His Means in following his...
Dates:
1597-1752.
Miscellaneous documents concerning heraldry, many by officials of the English College of Arms; including designs for a union flag, ca. 1604.
File
Identifier: MS.2517
Scope and Contents
The documents are almost all concerned with the general subject of knighthood and a very large number of them have to do either with the Order of the Bath or with the Baronetage; they include lists of knights made on various ceremonial occasions. They include also the following items of particular Scottish interest:Six designs in colour for uniting the crosses of St George and St Andrew in one flag, with a note of preference by the Earl of Nottingham, circa 1604 (folio 67...
Dates:
16th century-17th century.
Miscellaneous documents of Sir James Balfour.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `De Jure praelationis Nobilium Scotiae or Ane Memoriall of ye Evidents patents and rights producit be sundrie Earles and Lords Befor ye Comissioners ... anent ye precedencie and prioritie of dignities ... 1606`. In 1626 Balfour added (folio 16) notes on peers created since 1606. For other copies of this see Adv.MS.33.7.6 and MS.3171. (Folio 1.)(ii) ‘Memorialls extracted out of the imprinted Bookes of the Statuts and...
Dates:
Circa 1308-1626.
Miscellaneous documents of the Hays of Yester including copies and typescripts., Early 17th century-[mid 20th century], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14826
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) 'Ane soverane and precious balm for the healing of all the distempers of all the reformed churches in Christen[dom] especially in thir nationes both in spiritualls & temporalles', early 17th century (folio 1);(ii) Notes, 1659, for the funeral sermon of Mr. Justice John Puleston (folio 3);(iii) A history of Drummond in Strathearn, 17th century (folio 39);(iv) ‘An advice for the educating of youth’, 17th...
Dates:
Early 17th century-[mid 20th century], undated.
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers., 16th century-19th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.4.1-80.4.16
Dates:
16th century-19th century.
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers: inventories of household plenishing., 1687, 1760, 1793-1794.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.4.4
Dates:
1687, 1760, 1793-1794.
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers: inventories of writs and other papers., 17th century-18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.4.5
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers: inventories of writs and other papers., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.4.6
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers: inventories of writs and other papers., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.4.7
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers: inventories of writs and other papers., 17th century-19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.4.5-80.4.7
Scope and Contents
Dates refer to the dates of inventories.
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers: papers relating to the management of Dundas Mains., 1810-1812.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.4.11
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers relating to coal, roads and wood, some of which have a financial aspect., 1719-1820, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.4.3
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:
(i) Papers relating to coal mining mainly on the Dundas estate, on the lands of Wemyss of Bogie, and at Ormiston, East Lothian, 1719-1759 (folio 1).
(ii) Papers relating to roads and bridges, 1748-1791 (folio 28).
(iii) Papers relating to wood sales, 1796-1820, and undated (folio 39).
Dates:
1719-1820, and undated.
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers: sederunts and other papers of Dundas trustees and tutors., 1774-1795.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.4.8
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers: sederunts and other papers of Dundas trustees and tutors., 1796-1812.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.4.9
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers: sederunts and other papers of Dundas trustees and tutors., 1774-1812.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.4.8-80.4.10
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers: sederunts and other papers of Dundas trustees and tutors: minute book., 1795-1809.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.4.10
Miscellaneous estate papers of the family of Menzies of Menzies., ?1631-1842, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.9958
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of: (i) Rolls of freeholders, and papers concerning Perthshire elections and Commissioners of Supply, 1737-1833 (folio 1); (ii) Papers concerning church affairs in Perthshire, 1722-1821, undated (folio 72); (iii) Petitions of tenants, 1795-1831, undated (folio 90); (iv) Offers for leases, 1806-1819 (folio 132); (v) Miscellaneous estate papers, ?1631-1842, undated (folio 157).
Dates:
?1631-1842, undated.