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:
Notes on Scottish history and documents by Sir Archibald C Lawrie, volume 7: K-L., ?1901, or before.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.4.7
Dates:
?1901, or before.
Notes on Scottish history and documents by Sir Archibald C Lawrie, volume 8: M., ?1901, or before.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.4.8
Dates:
?1901, or before.
Notes on Scottish history and documents by Sir Archibald C Lawrie, volume 9: N-Q., ?1901, or before.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.4.9
Dates:
?1901, or before.
Notes on Scottish history and documents by Sir Archibald C Lawrie, volume 10: R-S., ?1901, or before.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.4.10
Dates:
?1901, or before.
Notes on Scottish history and documents by Sir Archibald C Lawrie, volume 11: T-Z., ?1901, or before.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.4.11
Dates:
?1901, or before.
Notes on Swedish history taken from a work by Sven Lagerbring, possibly ‘Sammandrag af Swearikes Historia’., ?1787.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.7.11
Notes on the origin of the English people and the antiquity of the English language, with lists of surnames, titles of honour, etc., Early 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2755
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is of the early eighteenth century, and is copied from an undetermined geographical work by 'Mr. Morden'.
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Notes on the Romans, and on a Greek author, written by Sir Charles Erskine of Alva, probably from the lectures of his Regent, Andrew Burnet, at Glasgow University.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.6.3
Scope and Contents
The volume contains part of a series of lectures on the social, religious, and cultural life of the Romans (folios 1-38), very incomplete due to missing pages. An inverted series of notes contains a glossary or vocabulary to the oration of Isocrates to Demonicus, sections 1-9, also very incomplete (inverted folios 1-12). Two pages (inverted folios 13-14) contain an ink sketch of a man training a horse.
Dates:
Circa 1660.
'Notes on the Surnames of Francus, Franceis, French, etc., in Scotland; with an account of the Frenches of Thornidykes, by A.D. Weld French'., 1893.
File
Identifier: MS.2109
Notes on various Greek and Latin authors and on Greek language by James Moor, Professor of Greek at Glasgow University, and others.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.18
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the material consists of elementary exegesis, apparently notes for Moor`s lectures. The dates 1746 and 1751-1753 occur in various places.The principal works dealt with are: ‘Philippics’, ‘On the Peace’, ‘Olynthiacs’, ‘On Halonnesus’, and ‘On the Affairs in the Chersonese’ by Demosthenes (folios 1-50);‘Hiero’ by Xenophon (folios 57-69);‘How a young man should listen to poetry’ by Plutarch (folios 71-80);‘Agamemnon’ by...
Dates:
1746-1757.
Notes on writs in the Earl of Morton`s Charter-Chest, collected by David Simpson, with an index of surnames at the end (Inv. XVI, Mac. 63)., 1st half of 18th century, or before.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.49.7.8
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is in the autograph of Robert Mylne, the antiquary.
Dates:
1st half of 18th century, or before.
[Notes relating to maps of the Battle of Pomball, March 11, 1811, describing battle movements.], 1811.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(58)
Scope and Contents
Manuscript key relating to the maps of Adv.MS.46.10.1(57) and Adv.MS.46.10.1(59).
Dates:
1811.
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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Collection of maps (several in duplicate), approximately two-fifths manuscript, the remainder printed.
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Collection of maps.
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[2 maps of the Battle of Pombal, March 11, 1811, with key.]
Notes, synopses, manuscripts and typescripts of episode 1 of 'Kilellan' by Robert McLellan., 1960.
File
Identifier: MS.26407
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Preliminary notes and synopses in manuscript and typescript (folio 1); (ii) Manuscript, corrected typescript and fair typescript of episode 1, 'Guests’ (folio 47).
Dates:
1960.
Notes, taken by Wilhelm Ludwig Becker, of the lectures of Christoph August Heumann at Göttingen on his ‘Conspectus reipublicae literariae’, based on the expanded text of the 3rd and subsequent editions.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.15
Scope and Contents
The notes on chapter v are divided in two (pages 725, 846); otherwise the order of the published work is reproduced exactly (notes on chapter i begin on page 3, on ii on page 9, on iii on page 14, on iv on page 28, on vi on page 726, on vii on page 786).
Dates:
1746-1747.
Notes which were incorporated into the final manuscript version of ‘Thermography’ by John Francis Campbell, under such headings as ‘Pictorial Thermography’ and ‘Solar Thermography’., 1882-1883.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.10
Dates:
1882-1883.
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.
`Notice bog pro diverse over stadens regnskabers indtaegter og udgifter.`
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.8.15
Dates:
1798.
Notices, by John Drummond, of Clan Cameron and Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel., 17th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3193-3194
Notices, by John Drummond, of Clan Cameron and Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel., 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3193
Notices, by John Drummond, of Clan Cameron and Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel., 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3194
`Observations on a work called Remarks on Colonel Stewart`s Sketches of the Highlanders`, a copy of Major-General David Stewart of Garth`s reply to the anonymous author of the ‘Remarks’, who had criticised Stewart`s ‘Sketches of the Highlanders’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.5
Scope and Contents
A printed copy of the ‘Remarks’ is bound with the manuscript.
Dates:
1823, or after.
Observations on Scots law, including notes on runrig lands.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.22
Dates:
18th century.
'Observations on the fishing trade, Nov. 1784'; with letters of James Anderson, the economist, George Dempster, and others, 1784-1785, concerning fisheries. Bound in a volume of pamphlets on fisheries., 1784-1785.
File
Identifier: MS.6602 [L.C.2605]
'Observations on the geology and natural history of Loch Leven' by Alexander J Adie., 1832.
Item
Identifier: MS.24631
'Of the Objects of Chemistry. Explanation of the Terms And A View of the principal Operations & Instruments'., 1790.
Item
Identifier: MS.2725
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was copied by Sir Andrew Lauder Dick, Baronet, from a manuscript lent to Sir Andrew Lauder Dick by Dr Lashlie, about 1770 (folio iii). It is incomplete.
Dates:
1790.
'Of the progress of Man from the natural state to a state of civility; of philosophy ...; of the different kinds of government ...; government cannot be perfect without philosophy; the necessary preparation for philosophy ...', undated, by James Burnett, Lord Monboddo., Mid 18th century-late 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.24516
Scope and Contents
Also included is a manuscript marked 'To be printed" and probably intended for Antient Metaphysic’. It has been heavily re-worked, with three sets of pagination, and numerous 'papers apart' added.
Dates:
Mid 18th century-late 18th century.