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 small collections.
File
Identifier: MS.14299
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes a group of letters about Lady Nairne's songs, one of which, from Henrietta Trelss (folio 188) was published by George Henderson, ‘Lady Nairne and her songs’, page 32.
Dates:
1708-1929.
Miscellaneous small items of John Francis Campbell., 1857-1883, and undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.7.6a-g
Dates:
1857-1883, and undated.
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.
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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
Miscellaneous smaller manuscripts, single letters, small collections, etc., now made up into volumes, the property of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland., 1590-1920.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2200-2211
Miscellaneous typescripts and manuscripts from the novel 'Kingisbyres or the end of an old song' by John Dick Scott, with extracts which were not used in the final version., 1931-[1954, or before].
File
Identifier: MS.9915
Scope and Contents
Folios 36-45 are in a different hand.
Dates:
1931-[1954, or before].
Miscellaneous volume of manuscript and printed items concerning Elizabeth Haldane's activities in connection with various subjects including the Poor Law, hospitals, Territorial and Red Cross nursing., 1892-1917, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.6045
Dates:
1892-1917, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane of Cloan (1856-1928), the statesman, lawyer and philosopher, and of his sister, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane (1862-1937), philanthropist and author.
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Papers of Elizabeth Haldane.
Miscellaneous volume of manuscripts in Elizabeth Haldane's hand., 1890-[1930, or before], undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.6044
Dates:
1890-[1930, or before], undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane of Cloan (1856-1928), the statesman, lawyer and philosopher, and of his sister, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane (1862-1937), philanthropist and author.
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Papers of Elizabeth Haldane.
Miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries., 12th century-13th century.
File
Identifier: MS.6122
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Part of the 'Historia scholastica' of Petrus Comestor, containing the history from II Maccabees ii to the end of the 'Historia evangelica', beginning 'Mortuo Simone qui ultimus quinque filiorum'; printed in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume cxcviii, 1525-1644. (Folio 1.)(ii) Commentary on the books of Kings, Tobit, Judith, Esther, Daniel, and Maccabees, beginning ‘Ozia lepra percusso in fronte'. It is apparently complete, but like Corpus...
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
`Miscellany collections out of the Registers of the justiciary parliament and containing historical and genealogical Collections`, a transcript, late 17th century, partly in the hand of Robert Mylne, of the historical part of Sir Lewis Stewart`s collections, compiled early in the 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.11
Scope and Contents
Compared with Stewart`s own manuscript (Adv.MS.22.1.14), this transcript has several additional texts (which also mostly appear in the other transcript, Adv.MS.34.3.12); as only a few of these can ever have been in Adv.MS.22.1.14, it is likely that this transcript was not made from it, but from a lost expanded version; and if the Lues Stewart mentioned on folio 145 as a borrower of books is Sir Lewis, the expansion may not have been by him.The correspondence between the two...
Dates:
1134-[circa 1627].
`Miscellany Exchequer Scotland`, a volume containing copies of accounts, warrants, minutes, reports and other papers created in the Court of Exchequer., 1705-1773.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.1.5
Dates:
1705-1773.
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.
Miscellany, mostly of drafts of papers, some incomplete, relating to the claim by David Maitland Makgill Crichton of Rankeillour to be served heir male general to James, 1st Viscount Frendraught., Circa 1827, circa 1835, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.14
Dates:
Circa 1827, circa 1835, and undated.
Miscellany of mostly incomplete papers on genealogical and other topics, written at different times between about 1816 and 1849., ?1816-1849.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.12
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of drafts of a pedigree of Sir John Maxwell of Pollok, 1847 (folios 4-60), notes written on sheets watermarked 1827 concerning persons named Mackenzie (folios 75-100), notes dated 1849 concerning persons named Kennedy (folios 101-120), notes on the office of Lord Justice General, 1833 (folios 121-124), notes written on sheets watermarked 1823, 1825 and 1826 concerning persons named Forbes (folios 129-147), and what appear to be corrected drafts of projected articles and...
Dates:
?1816-1849.
Miscellany of papers concerning infanticide which, in part at least, form drafts of MS.13875: ‘Historical notices’, volume IV, and MS.13898: Manuscript concerning Hindu infanticide., 1805-1826, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13899-13902
Miscellany of papers concerning infanticide; with original cover., 1817-1826.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.13901
Dates:
1817-1826.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
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Papers of and collected by Alexander Walker for proposed publications.
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Miscellany of papers concerning infanticide which, in part at least, form drafts of MS.13875: ‘Historical notices’, volume IV, and MS.13898: Manuscript concerning Hindu infanticide.
Miscellany of papers consisting largely of formal documents, with a few letters., 1536-1740.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.9.13
Miscellany of papers, consisting of numerous memoranda, transcripts of documents, and a few letters, relating to different families of Ogilvy, to the Earldom of Findlater and the claim thereto by Alexander Ogilvie, Doctor of Medicine., 1607, 1812, 1814, 1845-1850, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.12
Dates:
1607, 1812, 1814, 1845-1850, and undated.
Miscellany of papers in the claims to the title of Marquess of Annandale, written or corrected by John Riddell as drafts for rewriting., Circa 1830, circa 1836.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.26.1.3-26.1.4
Scope and Contents
Almost all the papers are undated, but appear to have been written about 1830 and about 1856, and many are incomplete.
Dates:
Circa 1830, circa 1836.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.
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Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.
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Papers in the claims to the title of Marquess of Annandale made by Sir George Frederic Johnstone, of Westerhall, 7th Baronet, and by John James Hope Johnstone of Annandale.
Miscellany of papers in the claims to the title of Marquess of Annandale, written or corrected by John Riddell as drafts for rewriting: volume 1., Circa 1830, circa 1836.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.3
Dates:
Circa 1830, circa 1836.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.
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Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.
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Papers in the claims to the title of Marquess of Annandale made by Sir George Frederic Johnstone, of Westerhall, 7th Baronet, and by John James Hope Johnstone of Annandale.
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Miscellany of papers in the claims to the title of Marquess of Annandale, written or corrected by John Riddell as drafts for rewriting.
Miscellany of papers in the claims to the title of Marquess of Annandale, written or corrected by John Riddell as drafts for rewriting: volume 2., Circa 1830, circa 1836.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.4
Dates:
Circa 1830, circa 1836.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.
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Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.
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Papers in the claims to the title of Marquess of Annandale made by Sir George Frederic Johnstone, of Westerhall, 7th Baronet, and by John James Hope Johnstone of Annandale.
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Miscellany of papers in the claims to the title of Marquess of Annandale, written or corrected by John Riddell as drafts for rewriting.
Miscellany of papers of General Sir George Murray, relating to the duties of the quartermaster-general`s department, statistical returns of equipment, regulations and instructions concerning encampments, and papers concerning conditions of health and sickness in the army., 1796-1806, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.1.5
Dates:
1796-1806, and undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
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Papers of General Sir George Murray relating to his service in Ireland, 1804-1807 and 1808, where he was appointed deputy quartermaster-general in 1804.
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Papers of General Sir George Murray relating to the British army in Ireland.
Miscellany of papers on various topics, not all identified, including letters, 1811-1860, and undated (folios 1-98), a few printed legal papers, 18th-century (folios 102-127), extracts from public records and notes, almost all undated, many apparently incomplete., 18th century-1860.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.22
Miscellany of ten vellum fragments., 13th century, 16th century or 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.34
Scope and Contents
The largest fragment (which is almost broken in two) consists of the lower margin and a few words, amongst which the beginning of a section ‘Respice quis domine’ and ‘paschali’ can be read, of a bifolium from a 13th-century rubricated religious manuscript, probably a service-book. The other nine fragments (some of which are printed, at least in part) appear to be of a document, or documents, of French provenance, of the 16th or 17th century.The fragments were recovered from the...
Dates:
13th century, 16th century or 17th century.