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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 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.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.6.4
Scope and Contents

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’.

Dates: Mid 18th century.

Notebook, "The Life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu", by an unidentified compiler., Mid 19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.42596
Scope and Contents The "Life" is comprised of ten folios of notes only. The notes on Lady Montagu have been augmented through the inclusion of press cuttings. In particular :(1) a copy of the biography of Lady Montagu from "Chambers`s papers for the people", number 64 (pages 3 and 4, and part of page 5 and part of page 6, have been cut from the copy and pasted into the pages of the notebook); and,(2) five portraits, printed from engravings by W. Greatbatch, extracted from a...
Dates: Mid 19th century.

Notebooks and manuscripts of Willa Muir, Edwin Muir's wife.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19675-19702
Dates: 1959-[1968, or before], undated.

Notebooks and papers of Canon Andrew John Young, the poet and naturalist (1885-1971).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19740-19767
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1937-1971.

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.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.30.5.1-30.5.28
Scope and Contents

The notes and extracts appear to have been made between about 1784 and about 1820, but most are undated.

Dates: Circa 1784-circa 1820.

Notebooks containing much of ‘Fotheringhay’ by George Scott-Moncrieff., 1951.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19628-19629
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1951.

Notebooks of George Crabbe., 1779-1827.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42067-42079
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1779-1827.

Noted liturgical books compiled for two nuns at the Convent of St Martha, Genoa.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.8188-8189
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1761-1762.

Notes and additions and miscellaneous papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo., [Circa 1774]-1793, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.24509
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: [Circa 1774]-1793, undated.

Notes and copies or extracts from documents and printed books on historical and other subjects, titled ‘Miscellaneous Papers and Notes’; several of the notes are in Sir Walter Scott’s autograph., 1821-1850, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.911
Scope and Contents The volume also contains material accumulated by John Gibson Lockhart.The papers include :Copies of four letters of Sir Walter Scott, 1824, 1829 (folios 15-22);Information regarding Jonathan Swift supplied by Irish correspondents (folios 33, 70);Maria Edgeworth’s note of the tour which she took with Scott in August 1825 (folio 50);Thomas Moore’s journal, in his hand, of his visit to Abbotsford in 1825, used by Lockhart in his ‘Life...
Dates: 1821-1850, undated.

Notes and correspondence of James R Anderson, concerning a bibliography of Philip Doddridge's ‘Life of Colonel Gardiner’.

 File
Identifier: MS.6156
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript of a lecture by James R Anderson, possibly given to Glasgow Bibliographical Society, apparently unprinted (folio 1);(ii) Extracts from an article and subsequent correspondence in the 'Scotsman', September-October 1918, relating to the Battle of Prestonpans and to Colonel Gardiner (folio 22);(iii) Notes, etc., relating to the compilation of the bibliography (folio 28);(iv) Letters, 1918-19, 1925, to...
Dates: 1918-1919, undated.