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:
Notebook of George Crabbe containing a sermon on the "7th Chapter of St. Matthew 14 verse"., 1816-1828.
Item
Identifier: MS.42073
Scope and Contents
This notebook is recorded under "George Crabbe. Sermons" in the "Index of English Literary Manuscripts", volume 3, part 1, page 323, CrG 300 (London : Mansell, 1986).
Dates:
1816-1828.
Notebook of George Crabbe containing the poem `Hester`., 1804.
Item
Identifier: MS.42070
Scope and Contents
This notebook is recorded under `Hester` in the section on George Crabbe`s verse in the `Index of English Literary Manuscripts`, volume 3, part 1, page 302 (London : Mansell, 1986).
Dates:
1804.
Notebook of George Dundas of Dundas: `A Diary of Policy and Improvements etc.`, being an account of work on the estate of Dundas, 1707-1729, prefaced by two memoranda on earlier improvements from the succession of George Dundas in 1706., 1706-1729.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.6.13
Dates:
1706-1729.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas.
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Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, advocate.
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Notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas: `A Diary of Policy and Improvements etc.`, being an account of work on the estate of Dundas, 1707-1757, prefaced by two memoranda on earlier improvements from the succession of George Dundas in 1706.
Notebook of George Dundas of Dundas: `A Diary of Policy and Improvements etc.`, being the continuation of an account of work on the estate of Dundas., 1729-1757.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.6.14
Dates:
1729-1757.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas.
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Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, advocate.
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Notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas: `A Diary of Policy and Improvements etc.`, being an account of work on the estate of Dundas, 1707-1757, prefaced by two memoranda on earlier improvements from the succession of George Dundas in 1706.
Notebook of James Leslie Mitchell containing the outline and the manuscript of parts X-XII of 'The last ogre', published in 'Persian dawns, Egyptian nights'., [1932, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.26038
Scope and Contents
The inverted folios contain miscellaneous notes, mostly concerning the James Leslie Mitchell's house and furniture, and a timetable of Mitchell's day (folio ll inverted).
Dates:
[1932, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the novelist James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), the author 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', and of his wife Rebecca ('Ray') Mitchell.
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Papers chiefly typescripts of the publications of James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'.
Notebook of John Francis Campbell containing rough notes, diagrams and experiments relating to thermography, dated June 1880., 1880.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.7.6c
Dates:
1880.
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.
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Miscellaneous small items of John Francis Campbell.
Notebook of John Francis Campbell describing the registering sun-dial contrived by him in 1853, with the results of experiments using the appliance recorded for the month of June 1874., 1874, or before, 1879.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.12a
Scope and Contents
At the back of the volume Campbell lists the types of materials used in the experiments.
There are several letters of and to the astronomer William Ellis, 1879, discussing the sun-dial (folios 26 verso-35), and a letter of William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong of Cragside, 1874 (folio 1), is also included.
Dates:
1874, or before, 1879.
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.
Notebook of John Riddell, containing extracts and some notes, written for the most part in connexion with peerage cases on which Riddell was engaged., Circa 1824.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.6.9
Dates:
Circa 1824.
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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Notebooks from the Riddell Collection.
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Small notebooks from the Riddell Collection, containing extracts and some notes, written for the most part in connexion with peerage cases on which John Riddell was engaged.
Notebook of John Wilson ('Christopher North'), containing chiefly verse., 1811.
Item
Identifier: MS.4886
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains: lists of expenses and financial transactions (folios 2, 7); notes for a poem and an article (folios 24-25, 38); fragments of verse, possibly drafts for various projected poetical works, and unpublished in this form; and completed poems and sonnets. A number of the sonnets form part of a projected sonnet cycle on the Lake District which was apparently never completed.
Dates:
1811.
Notebook of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton., Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.8
Scope and Contents
The contents of the notebook are as follows:(i) descriptions of the `Religious Houses andc of Edinburgh` extracted from ‘History of Edinburgh’, pages 242-257, 263, 267-271, 561-563 (folio 1);(ii) an account of some of the cartularies and other registers of Scottish religious houses copied from ‘The Lives and Characters of the most Eminent Writers of the Scots Nation’, volume 1, pages 466-475 (folio 33);(iii) a note of some members of the family of Graeme...
Dates:
Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Notebook of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton., Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the notebook are as follows:(i) a copy made by Hutton in 1790 of the part of Giovanni Ferreri`s history of Kinloss Abbey printed in ‘Veterum Scriptorum ... amplissima collectio’, tomus 6, columns 319-327, which Bishop John Geddes had made in 1770 from the copy in the Royal Library, Madrid (folio 2);(ii) extracts from Adamnan`s Life of Saint Columba, taken possibly from ‘Vitæ Antiquæ Sanctorum qui habitaverunt in ... Scotia ...’ (folio 15);...
Dates:
Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Notebook of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton containing a copy of the descriptions of the `Religious Houses andc of Edinburgh` extracted from ‘History of Edinburgh’, pages 242-257, 263, 267-271, 561-563, written in an unidentified hand on sheets of paper stamped `Excise Office`., Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.9
Scope and Contents
At the end (folio 38) is a list of letters, with expenses, sent apparently from the Excise Office during the latter part of 1820.
Dates:
Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Notebook of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton containing `Anecdotes of Scottish Topography`, being a copy of the section so entitled at pages 617-658 of ‘Annals of British Topography’ by Richard Gough., Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.24
Notebook of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton containing notes and drawings of, and many extracts concerning various churches and religious houses, begun in 1793 as a record of places that Hutton had visited., 1793, and after.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.17
Scope and Contents
The volume originally consisted of folios 1-46, to which two sets of additional leaves (folios 47-58, 59-65) have been stitched in at the back. A leaf has been cut out after folio 63.
Dates:
1793, and after.
Notebook of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton entitled (folio 1) `Extracts from Douglas`s Peerage of Scotland No. 2` being apparently the second of a pair of notebooks containing extracts referring to dioceses, churches and religious houses from ‘The Peerage of Scotland’ by Sir Robert Douglas., 1764.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.25
Scope and Contents
There is no order of subject matter or extraction from the work, except that all are from page 399 and what follows. The other notebook, presumably containing extracts from pages 1-398, is not found.
Dates:
1764.
Notebook of Neil Munro containing a later manuscript of "Boboon's children"., 1895.
Item
Identifier: MS.26908
Notebook of Neil Munro containing a later manuscript of 'Jus Primae Noctis'., 1895.
Item
Identifier: MS.26909
Notebook of Neil Munro containing an unfinished manuscript of 'Tale of the black soldier', apparently unpublished., 1896.
Item
Identifier: MS.26910
Notebook of Neil Munro containing draft and final manuscript of 'Castle dark'., 1895.
Item
Identifier: MS.26904
Scope and Contents
The notebook also contains the drafts of two articles, 'House building' (folio 23 verso) and 'Learning the pipes' (folio 17 verso).
Dates:
1895.
Notebook of Richard Augustine Hay apparently originally intended for notes (folio 1), meditations and extracts (folios 1-10 inverted) of a religious character, but used almost entirely for transcripts of documents relating to the family of Sinclair of Rosslyn (folios 3-83).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.2
Scope and Contents
Following the transcripts are a list of books ‘of help for Composing our history’ (folio 84) and transcripts of two charters apparently unrelated to Rosslyn or the Sinclairs. The notes and transcripts are all undated but were doubtless made before the writing of Adv.MSS.34.1.8-34.1.9 was begun in 1700. Most perhaps were made by Hay when he was in Scotland between 1686 and 1690; Slezer`s ‘Theatrum Scotiæ’ (first published 1693) is mentioned at folio 86. The watermark of the leaves...
Dates:
4th quarter of 17th century.
Notebook of Ruthven Todd containing shopping lists, addresses, sketches and other miscellaneous jottings., 1967.
Item
Identifier: MS.26869
Dates:
1967.
Notebook of Thomas Stoddart containing manuscripts of the songs printed in "An angler's rambles and angling songs’, some of which are annotated 'Written in 1837. Revised and altered in 1864'., 1837-[1866, or after].
File
Identifier: MS.10298
Scope and Contents
Press-cuttings of reviews of the book are pasted over many of the poems.
Dates:
1837-[1866, or after].
Notebook of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, originally labelled on the spine, 'My Barbarossa Succedaneum 1833-1834'., 1833-1834.
Item
Identifier: MS.4915
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains various jottings and quotations, fragments of a verse drama on Richard Coeur de Lion (folios 31 verso, 46) (see also MS. 4916), an early draft of parts of a translation of Goethe's 'Faust' (folios 36-44, 60-98, 100-124, 128-135) (see also MS. 4923), and thirty-one poems. Of the poems, 'Blind old Milton', only part of which is in existence here, was published in “Blackwood's Magazine”, December 1841 (folio 27). The following were published in “Tait's...
Dates:
1833-1834.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Letters and papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, which, on his death, came into the hands of John Blackwood as his executor.
"Notebook Poins" of George Crabbe., 1827.
Item
Identifier: MS.42079
Scope and Contents
Title taken from the "Index of English Literary Manuscripts", volume 3, part 1, page 295 (London : Mansell, 1986), which has a full description of the contents of the notebook.
Dates:
1827.