Manuscripts.
Found in 6567 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook ruled for cash, which was used for legal notes, elementary French exercises and as a commonplace book (folios 2-12, 1-34 verso inverted). The entries, the latest of which is dated 1739, are written mostly in Byrom`s system of shorthand, which was not published until 1767.
The owner, who remains unidentified, was a young man, probably of wealthy family, studying law, possibly at one of the Inns of Court in London. Pages have been torn out after folios 11, 12 and 13 inverted; folios 30-34 are written sideways. The volume, which was received without the original covers, was unintentionally rebound upside-down, and incorrectly labelled on the spine ‘French Commonplace Book’.
Notebook, 'Sept - Oct 1991 Skye Knitwear, Folk Fest, Atoms of Delight'., 1991.
Notebook, 'The Attic Archive. 1989 Harry Henriksen, Abu Tele, S. Mhor Ostaig, The Midge, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Gavin Maxwell'. , 1989.
Notebook, "The Attic Archive. 1990 Tam's Story"., 1990.
Notebook, "The Life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu", by an unidentified compiler., Mid 19th century.
Notebook, undated, of Ruthven Todd containing shopping lists, addresses, sketches and other miscellaneous jottings., 3rd quarter of 20th century.
Notebooks and manuscripts of Willa Muir, Edwin Muir's wife.
Notebooks and papers mainly relating to earlier published work of Andrew Greig., Circa 2000-2008
Notebooks and papers of Canon Andrew John Young, the poet and naturalist (1885-1971).
Much of the material consists of notes made by Canon Andrew John Young of his reading. Some of the notebooks include page references to other volumes of notes which are not in this collection.
Notebooks and sketchbooks compiled by, and architectural plans and drawings made by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton in his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
The notes and extracts appear to have been made between about 1784 and about 1820, but most are undated.
Notebooks containing much of ‘Fotheringhay’ by George Scott-Moncrieff., 1951.
The beginning of Act I is not included and pages which probably contained the end of Act II and beginning of Act III are missing from MS.19629. This manuscript includes additional material for all three acts and a list of suggested titles. The manuscripts were written in 1951 (MS.19629, folio 20) and the play was first performed in 1953.
Notebooks containing part of the manuscript of 'Laidlaw' by William McIlvanney., [?1966-?2015].
Notebooks containing the complete draft manuscript of 'The Ravished Porcupine'/'Reality and Dreams'., 1995.
Notebooks for 'Tricks of the light' by Alison Fell, containing manuscript drafts and notes, and research notes., Undated.
Notebooks, manuscript volumes, typescripts and proofs, relating to 'Curriculum Vitae', by Muriel Spark., 1991-1992, undated.
Notebooks of Elspeth Davie containing manuscript drafts of novels., 1966, [1989].
Notebooks of George Crabbe., 1779-1827.
George Crabbe filled notebooks with poetry, ideas for sermons and observations on the natural world. Some have been used for just one purpose, but many are of mixed content. Some of the notebooks also include a variety of pressed flowers and some preserved insects.
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., 1706-1757.
Notebooks of manuscripts of 'Evangelicalism in Highlands'., Undated.
Noted liturgical books compiled for two nuns at the Convent of St Martha, Genoa.
Both volumes are written in imitation of Roman type. The stave, the rubrics, and the initials are in red; the text and the plainchant notes are in black. There is no decoration (except an imitation of a printer's device on the title page of each volume).
Notes, 17th century, on the Books of Sederunt of the Court of Session, 1567-1664. At the end (folio 51) there are notes of expenditure, August, 1718.
`Notes about tartans` of John Francis Campbell, written between 1871 and 1873, ‘while seeking for the real Campbell Clan Tartan’., 1871-1873.
Correspondence, notes and a few sketches, 1871-1873, 1884, are interspersed throughout the volume. The majority of the letters are from members of the Sobieski Stuart family.
One or two samples of tartan have been bound in at the beginning of the volume.
Notes and additions and miscellaneous papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo., [Circa 1774]-1793, undated.
The contents are as follows. (i) Notes and additions for the ‘Origin and progress of language’, circa 1774-1770, undated. (Folio 1.) Includes Monboddo numbers 271, 53, 192, 245. (ii) Miscellaneous papers and notes, mostly on the Greek language, 1793, undated. (Folio 77.) Includes Monboddo numbers 77, 234, 180, 255, 99.