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:
Original manuscript of Nigel Tranter of 'The flowers of chivalry'., 1988.
File
Identifier: Acc.11170/42
Dates:
1988.
Original manuscript of Nigel Tranter of 'True Thomas'., 1981.
File
Identifier: Acc.11170/33
Original manuscript of ‘Off in a boat’ by Neil Gunn., 1937.
Item
Identifier: MS.26938
Original manuscript of ‘Off in a boat’, the description of a boating holiday off the west coast of Scotland by the novelist, Neil Gunn.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26938-26939
Dates:
1937.
Original manuscript of part I, and the beginning of part II, of ‘Grammaticae Latinae Institutiones’, by Thomas Ruddiman., [1725, or before-1731, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.770
Original manuscript of ‘Redgauntlet’ by Sir Walter Scott.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.29
Dates:
[1824, or before.]
Original manuscript of 'The heart of Midlothian' by Sir Walter Scott.
Item
Identifier: MS.1548
Dates:
[1818, or before.]
Original manuscript of the introduction to William Roughed, "Trial of John Donald Merret" (Edinburgh, 1929).
Item
Identifier: Acc.5280
Dates:
circa 1929.
Original manuscript of the 'Life of Robert Macnish' by David Macbeth Moir.
Item
Identifier: MS.3525
Dates:
[1838, or before.]
Original manuscript of the novel, ‘Dr. Antonio: A tale’, by Giovanni Domenico Ruffini.
Item
Identifier: MS.761
Dates:
[1855, or before.]
Original manuscript of the novel 'Malcolm' by George MacDonald, in volumes corresponding to the three volumes of the first edition.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2559-2561
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is incomplete, wanting chapters 1-7 and the first paragraph of chapter 8 of volume i, and all after 'How am I to see? I shall be dead and' on page 317 of volume iii.
It has been much altered; the published work shows still further changes.
Dates:
[1875, or before.]
Original manuscript of the play 'Rab Mossgiel' by Robert McLellan., 1958.
Item
Identifier: MS.26356
Scope and Contents
One scene is missing between folios 79 and 80.
Dates:
1958.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the playwright, Robert McLellan, and his family.
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Plays written by Robert McLellan.
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'Rab Mossgiel', a play about Robert Burns and Jean Armour by Robert McLellan, commissioned by the BBC, (British Broadcasting company), for the Burns Bi-centenary celebrations in 1959.
Original manuscript of the play 'The hypocrite' by Robert McLellan., [1966, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.26377
Scope and Contents
A few pages are missing from the first three acts.
Dates:
[1966, or before.]
Original manuscript of the poem 'In memory of Aurelio Saffi' by Algernon Charles Swinburne., 1890.
Item
Identifier: MS.9923
Original manuscript of "The Ship o' the Fiend", a ballad for Orchestra, Opus 5, composed by Hamish MacCunn.
File
Identifier: MS.3365
Scope and Contents
The ballad is preceded by a version, in Hamish MacCunn's hand, of the verse ballad that inspired the music, i.e., 'The Daemon Lover', number 243 of ‘The English and Scottish popular ballads’. A pencilled note records two performances in 1888.
Dates:
[1888, or before.]
Original manuscript of the story 'Digging for gold' by Robert Michael Ballantyne., [1869, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.1701
Dates:
[1869, or before.]
Original manuscript of the story 'Hunting the lions' by Robert Michael Ballantyne., [1869, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.1700
Dates:
[1869, or before.]
Original manuscript of 'The Story of the Rock' by Richard Michael Ballantyne., [Circa 1870.]
Item
Identifier: MS.1761
Dates:
[Circa 1870.]
Original manuscript of the story 'Saved by the lifeboat' by Robert Michael Ballantyne., [1869, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.1698
Dates:
[1869, or before.]
Original manuscript of the story 'The battle and the breeze' by Robert Michael Ballantyne., [1869, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.1702
Dates:
[1869, or before.]
Original manuscript of the story 'The Cannibal Islands' by Robert Michael Ballantyne., [1869, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.1699
Dates:
[1869, or before.]
Original manuscript of the story 'Up in the Clouds' by Richard Michael Ballantyne., [1869, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.1760
Dates:
[1869, or before.]
Original manuscript of volume I of 'Malcolm' by George MacDonald., [1875, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.2559
Original manuscript of volume II of 'Malcolm' by George MacDonald., [1875, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.2560
Original manuscript of volume III of 'Malcolm' by George MacDonald., [1875, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.2561