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:
`Off the Military and Equestrial Ordor of St Andrew commonly called the ordor of the Thisle`; an essay, apparently intended as the first chapter of a larger work, on the early history, insignia, etc., of the Order.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.13
Scope and Contents
The essay ascribes the foundation of the Order to Achaius, and quotes the same authorities as does ‘A System of Heraldry’, volume ii, pages 104-106. It also cites a manuscript by Sir James Balfour.
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Official copies, 16th century, of English state papers, 1571-1572.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Responsum summarium eorum quae serenissima Regina Angliae ... proposuit in colloquio habito de tribus Articulis cum illustrissumis Oratoribus Christianissimi Regis`, 24 August 1571, concerning the proposed marriage of Elizabeth and the Duke of Anjou. See ‘The Compleat Ambassador’ pages 131-133. (Folio 1.)(ii) Instructions to Sir Thomas Smith on his embassy to France, 3 December 1571. (Folio 3.)(iii)...
Dates:
1571-1572.
Official papers of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale as Governor of Madras and Commander-in-Chief at Madras., 1842-1848.
File
Identifier: MS.14563
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Papers, 1843, concerning teak cultivation in Malabar (folio 1);(ii) Papers, 1843-1847, including statistics, concerning cotton production in the Madras Presidency (folio 12);(iii) Paper, 1844, by William Gilchrist, of the Madras Medical Service, entitled 'The question whether there are numerous boulders scattered over the surface of Peninsular-India considered' (folio 123);(iv) Miscellaneous official papers,...
Dates:
1842-1848.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of the Hays of Yester on special subjects.
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Official papers, being chiefly copies, of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale as Governor of Madras and Commander-in-Chief at Madras.
Official papers of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale as Governor of Madras and Commander-in-Chief at Madras., 1842-1849.
File
Identifier: MS.14559
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Statistics of crime in the Madras Army, 1842-1847 (folio 1);
(ii) Papers, including a map, undated, concerning the battle of Aliwal (folio 87);
(iii) Plan, 1849, of the position of the British and Sikh armies (folio 93);
(iv) Papers, 1849, concerning the mutiny of the 6th Light Cavalry (folio 93).
Dates:
1842-1849.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of the Hays of Yester on special subjects.
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Official papers, being chiefly copies, of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale as Governor of Madras and Commander-in-Chief at Madras.
Old Testament (Edinburgh, 1826) in Gaelic, interleaved and with manuscript amendments and notes, probably for a revised edition of the Gaelic Bible.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8943
Dates:
1826.
'Operis Chronologici Tomus prior Rerum per universum orbem Gestarum seriem, Brevemque ab Anno 330 ante salvatoris nostri Dei Jesu Christi adventum. Ad Annum usque 1567. Complecteus narrationem. Auctore Jacobo Balfouris Kynardio Milite Leone Armorum in Regno Scotiæ Rege' in the hand of Sir James Balfour.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.25
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.7.13.
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
`Opinions Customs Scotland`: copies of opinions of Scottish Crown counsel in cases connected with the customs of Scotland, and other cases in the Court of Exchequer., 1708-1751.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.1.3(i)-(iii)
Scope and Contents
A note of Baron Maule records that the documents were copied in October 1751 ` from a book in the Custom house at Edinburgh`. Tables of contents are entered in the first two volumes.
Dates:
1708-1751.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
`Opinions Customs Scotland`: copies of opinions of Scottish Crown counsel in cases connected with the customs of Scotland, and other cases in the Court of Exchequer, volume I., February 1708-August 1732.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.1.3(i)
Dates:
February 1708-August 1732.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
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`Opinions Customs Scotland`: copies of opinions of Scottish Crown counsel in cases connected with the customs of Scotland, and other cases in the Court of Exchequer.
`Opinions Customs Scotland`: copies of opinions of Scottish Crown counsel in cases connected with the customs of Scotland, and other cases in the Court of Exchequer, volume II., June 1734-October 1746.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.1.3(ii)
Dates:
June 1734-October 1746.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
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`Opinions Customs Scotland`: copies of opinions of Scottish Crown counsel in cases connected with the customs of Scotland, and other cases in the Court of Exchequer.
`Opinions Customs Scotland`: copies of opinions of Scottish Crown counsel in cases connected with the customs of Scotland, and other cases in the Court of Exchequer, volume III., October 1746-May 1751.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.1.3(iii)
Dates:
October 1746-May 1751.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
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`Opinions Customs Scotland`: copies of opinions of Scottish Crown counsel in cases connected with the customs of Scotland, and other cases in the Court of Exchequer.
`Opinions Excheq[ue]r Scotland`, a volume containing copies of opinions and reports of Crown counsel to the Barons, `Copyed from a book in the Exchequer at Edinburgh`., 1714-1759.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.1.4
Dates:
1714-1759.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
`Opinions Excise Scotland`, a volume containing copies of cases and opinions of Crown counsel in excise matters relating to Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.5
Scope and Contents
The volume is stated (folio i) to have been copied for John Maule, Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, February 1752, from a book in the Excise Office at Edinburgh. It is prefaced by an indexed table of contents.
Dates:
1707-1752.
'Oratio Francisci Castilionensis in Coena Domini.’, 1477.
Item
Identifier: MS.2808
Scope and Contents
The text is, 'Desiderio desideravi hoc pascha manducare vobiscum', from Luke, xxii, 15. The colophon reads: 'Dixi Florentie ydibus Ianuariis: 1477'. Throughout there are small corrections in the margin in the same humanistic hand as the body of the text. At the beginning there is a capital in red.
Dates:
1477.
Oration, 'given on March 27, 1845', on a proposal by France to put down disturbances in Switzerland by armed intervention, probably delivered by Joshua Henry Mackenzie, Lord Mackenzie., 1845.
Item
Identifier: MS.6383
Order for the Massacre of Glencoe: letter of Major Robert Duncanson to Captain Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, ordering him to fall on the Macdonalds of Glencoe and destroy them.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.24
Dates:
1692.
Orders regarding naval signals by flag, gun, light, bell, drum, and musket, supplementary to those given in general printed sailing and fighting instructions., 1760-1761.
Item
Identifier: MS.3163
Scope and Contents
A printed book with blank spaces for the insertion of the signals ordered by a particular command. Copy issued by Admiral Sir Charles Saunders, Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, to the Honourable Charles Napier, commanding H M S Cygnet, 1760-1761, with the blanks filled up in manuscript, manuscript instructions pasted in, and coloured illustrations in the margin.
Dates:
1760-1761.
"Original Border Poems", containing manuscript, typescript and printed poems by, among others, George Hope Tait and James Hope Brown.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9955
Dates:
1913-1932 and undated.
Original compositions of Sir Walter Scott., [?1799]-1831, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.875-876
Dates:
[?1799]-1831, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
Original deed of the King`s Confession, signed by, among others, James VI, Lennox, Morton, Ruthven, and John Craig, the minister who drew it up.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.12
Dates:
1580-1581.
Original, heavily corrected manuscript of 'Blood upon the Rose: a play in three acts' by George Moncrieff-Scott., [?1956.]
Item
Identifier: MS.26945
`Original institutions of the princely orders of collars` by Sir William Segar.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.5
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is not dated, but is thought to have been written and illuminated shortly after the accession of James VI to the English throne. Most of the material is to be found in ‘Honor Military, and Civill’, pages 65-91.
The manuscript was included in the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1891 (see ‘Memorial Catalogue’, number 720).
Dates:
1603, or after.
Original manuscript, first and second typescripts, and galley proofs of ‘Gallipoli memories’ by Sir Compton Mackenzie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10791-10794
Dates:
[1929, or before.]
Original manuscript, heavily reworked, of the play 'My dear, dear sister!' by Robert McLellan., ?1970.
Item
Identifier: MS.26382
Dates:
?1970.
Original manuscript, notes, corrections and insertions, of sir James Mackintosh, "Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7405
Dates:
1830.
Original manuscript of ‘A Large description of Galloway` by Andrew Symson.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.17
Scope and Contents
The work was written in reply to a series of questions circulated by Sir Robert Sibbald in 1682, as a preliminary to the publication of a Scottish atlas. The title is in Sibbald`s hand.
Dates:
1684.