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:
‘M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. VIII`, containing mostly original Gaelic scripts produced by John Francis Campbell`s collectors of “Versions of Stories in [‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’] Vol. 1”., 1859-1860.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.1.8(Part 1-Part 2)
Scope and Contents
Some scripts bear prefatory notes by Campbell, and English summaries or notes relating to some were published in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 1.
Dates:
1859-1860.
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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Manuscripts, proofs and editorial commentary, with some associated correspondence, papers and notes, of John Francis Campbell and his team of collectors for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 1859-1862, and of the later tale collection fieldwork by Campbell himself, 1870-1871.
'Mss. relating to gipsies': letters of George Miller, Junior, Edinburgh, to William Smith, Writer and Baillie of Kelso, asking him, in the name of the Society of Friends, for information about the gipsies of Kirk Yetholm and elsewhere in Roxburghshire, with a draft and a final report of Smith, 1815., 1815.
File
Identifier: MS.175
Scope and Contents
George Miller and William Smith both refer to Walter Scott’s interest in the gipsies (folios 1, 14).
Dates:
1815.
'Mum and Sally: a thirty minute play for television' by Robert McLellan., 1965.
Item
Identifier: MS.26375
Scope and Contents
Contains a fragment of the original manuscript (folio l), a heavily corrected typescript (folio 4), a typescript with a few manuscript corrections (folio l9), and the final typescript (folio 37).
Dates:
1965.
Music book of George Chalmers containing catches (mostly for three voices) and songs., Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.9.12
Scope and Contents
The catches (folios 2-9, 15-15 verso) all appear in one or other of the editions of ‘The Musical Companion’. Composers include William and Henry Lawes, John Hilton, Edmund Nelham, and W[?alter] P[?orter].The following songs have been identified:`Where are all thy beauties` by Thomas Campian, in ‘First Book of Ayres’ (folio 9 verso).`My love bound me` by Robert Jones, in ‘Second Book of Songs’; also in Adv.MS.5.2.14, folio 4 verso (folio 9 verso)....
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Music book of M Carter, containing the words and melodies (occasionally with bass) of songs from late 17th- and early 18th-century operas.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.20
Scope and Contents
Composers include Handel, Henry and Daniel Purcell, Pepusch, Leveridge, Carey, Hayden etc. The collection also contains English country dances arranged for violin, and scraps of poetry by Milton, Pope, and others. The name M Carter, and the date 1719 appear inside the front cover.
Dates:
1719-circa 1750.
Music by Ian Whyte, mostly autograph, including most of his second symphony, and scraps of many of his orchestral and vocal works.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.167- is now Acc.5081.
Dates:
20th century.
Music manuscript for the harp of Frances E Moray-Stirling, of Abercairnie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10883
Dates:
1813.
Music manuscripts of Tom McCourt.
File
Identifier: Acc.10612
Scope and Contents
Mostly in connection with ballad operas.
Dates:
2nd half of 20th century
Muster-roll of the 1st Company of the Edinburgh Volunteer Rifle Battalion., 1859-1864.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.2.15
Muster-roll of the 1st Company of the Edinburgh Volunteer Rifle Battalion, at 20 July 1859 and 1 January 1865., 1859, 1865.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.2.14
'My dear, dear sister!', a play by Robert McLellan about William and Dorothy Wordsworth, originally entitled 'Dorothy'., 1970, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26381-26385
Scope and Contents
The play was completed in 1970.
Dates:
1970, undated.
Names of members of the Mackenzie family, with dates of birth, death and marriages, written on the preliminary leaves, which are all that survive, of a copy of Samuel Clark's annotated edition of the Bible, 1690., 1712-1877.
Item
Identifier: MS.2534
Scope and Contents
The manuscript gives details of members of the Mackenzie family from Henry Mackenzie, the author's grandfather, married in 1712, to the children of his son, Lord Mackenzie.
Dates:
1712-1877.
'Names of Scottis[h] Vocal Melodies composed not later than 1800 A.D., compiled by C. M. Gray and Wm. Muir, 1908', giving references to the works in which each melody is found or mentioned.
File
Identifier: MS.2254
Dates:
1908.
'Names of those that usit thair componitures in the Schirefdome of Forfar.', Early 16th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.17145
Dates:
Early 16th century.
Negative microfilm of, chiefly manuscripts of literary works of Sir Walter Scott., 1791-1830.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.592
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, [before 1829], of the ‘Chronicles of the Canongate’, 1st and 2nd series, by Sir Walter Scott (MS.23048);Manuscript, 1813, of a ‘Farewell address for Mrs Siddons’ by Sir Walter Scott. (MS.23049);Manuscript, [Circa 1828], of a lecture titled 'Psalm 1st' by Sir Walter Scott, later published as 'The blessedness of the righteous, discourse II', and proof sheets of the same with corrections in Scott's hand. (MS.23051);...
Dates:
1791-1830.
Negative microfilm of five manuscripts of, or concerning, Sir Walter Scott from the Pforzheimer Library, collectively known as the ‘Pforzheimer Scott manuscripts’., [1815, or before]-1830.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.591
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, April 1830, of the preface to ‘Marmion’ by Sir Walter Scott. (MS.23042);Manuscript, April 1830, of the preface to ‘Lord of the Isles’ by Sir Walter Scott. (MS.23043);Manuscript, [1815, or before], of 'Lord of the Isles', together with notes to the poem, by Sir Walter Scott (MS.23044);Transcript of correspondence, 1815, of an unknown writer in Staffa, relating to Sir Walter Scott's ‘Lord of the Isles’, with marginal...
Dates:
[1815, or before]-1830.
Negative microfilm of literary works of Sir Walter Scott., 1792-[circa 1831].
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.595
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Original manuscript, [1808, or before], of ‘Marmion’ by Sir Walter Scott (Adv.MS.19.1.16);Original manuscript, [1824, or before], of ‘Redgauntlet’ by Sir Walter Scott (Adv.MS.19.2.29);Presentation copy of Sir Walter Scott’s printed thesis on titles XXIV and XLVIII of the ‘Digest, Disputatio Juridica ... De Cadaveribus Damnatorum’ (Edinburgh, 1792), written for his admission to the Faculty of Advocates (Adv.MS.20.5.9);Page from...
Dates:
1792-[circa 1831].
Negative microfilm of manuscripts, commonplace book and transcript of journal of Sir Walter Scott., 1792-1827.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.577
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Original manuscript, [1818, or before], of 'The heart of Midlothian' by Sir Walter Scott (MS.1548);Commonplace book, 1792-1803, bearing the name Gualterus Scott, containing notes and extracts on Italian poetry, Scottish history, Northern antiquities, ballads, romances, witchcraft, etc., in Sir Walter Scott’s autograph, with a few passages in other hands (MS.1568);Transcript of Sir Walter Scott’s journal, 1825-1827, copied in the...
Dates:
1792-1827.
Negative microfilm of manuscripts of, or concerning, Sir Walter Scott; and, daybooks and an autograph book of William Scott of Raeburn (1773-1855)., 1796-1854.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.590
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Anecdotes of dogs, in William Laidlaw's hand, with additions by Sir Walter Scott, 1817-1818, (MS.3937);Manuscript of 'William and Helen' by Sir Walter Scott, 1796 (MS.5278);Daybook, 1837-1839, of William Scott of Raeburn (MS.6312);Daybook, 1842-1844, of William Scott of Raeburn (MS.6313);Daybook, 1848-1850, of William Scott of Raeburn (MS.6314);Autograph book, 1843-1854, of William Scott of Raeburn,...
Dates:
1796-1854.
Negative microfilm of manuscripts of Sir Walter Scott from the Pforzheimer Library, collectively known as the ‘Pforzheimer Scott manuscripts’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.546
Dates:
[1808, or before]-1830.
Negative microfilm of materials for works written or edited by Sir Walter Scott., [?1743-1832.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.574
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Volume, 1800-[1832], entitled 'Scotch Ballads. Materials for Border Minstrelsy', chiefly containing ballads sent to Sir Walter Scott when he was collecting material for his ‘Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border’, but with, in addition, many other poems and songs, ancient and modern, English and Gaelic (MS.877);Drafts and notes [1801-1802] of Joseph Strutt for the novel, ‘Emma Darcy, or, the Manners of Old Times’, which Sir Walter Scott completed and...
Dates:
[?1743-1832.]
Negative microfilm of papers and manuscripts of and concerning Sir Walter Scott., [?1789]-1871.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.594
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Incomplete manuscript, ?1805-1814, of ‘Waverley’ by Sir Walter Scott (Adv.MS.1.1.0);Manuscript, [1827, or before], of ‘The life of Napoleon Buonaparte’, volume II, by Sir Walter Scott (MS.23059 (part));Album containing portraits of Sir Walter Scott, with papers of and concerning him, 1821-1827 (MS.23060);‘Rob Roy’, a national drama based on the novel of Sir Walter Scott, consisting of annotated pages from the book, interleaved...
Dates:
[?1789]-1871.
Negative microfilm of papers chiefly of Sir Walter Scott., 1799-1831.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.573
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Statement, 1821-1822, of the case of the petitioners in the case of the 'Beacon' newspaper, in the hand of Walter Scott [?1821], with the printed 'Petition', 1821, and 'Answers' thereto, 1822 (MS.126);‘Goetz of Berlichingen with the iron hand: A Tragedy. Translated from the German of Goethe. By Walter Scott, Esq., Advocate, Edinburgh. London, 1799’, copied, 1827, by Mary Anne Hughes (MS.131);Proof-sheets, [1827, or before], of 'The life of...
Dates:
1799-1831.
Negative microfilm of papers of, concerning, or collected by, Sir Walter Scott.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.573-610
Dates:
[?1622]-1854.
Negative microfilm of papers of, or concerning, Sir Walter Scott., [?1800-?1850.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.576
Scope and Contents
The dates are taken from the records for the original documents and might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.The contents are as follows:
Letters to Sir Walter Scott, with other documents, 1827-1828, chiefly concerning the life of Napoleon Buonaparte (MS.885);Letters to Sir Walter Scott, [?1825]-1828, with other documents, concerning the life of Napoleon Buonaparte (MS.886);Exercise book containing notes in Sir Walter Scott's hand...
Dates:
[?1800-?1850.]