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:
Papers concerning the periodical publication, "The Academy"., 1869-1958.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42601-42608
Papers concerning the Society of Writers to His Majesty`s Signet.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.6
Scope and Contents
The papers include copies of acts and proposals to prevent abuses within the Society, 1666-1699 (folio 3); a declaration of loyalty to William III, 1701 (folio 19); and petitions to the Society, 1699-1733 (folio 21).
Dates:
1632-1733.
Papers concerning the territorial history of Dumbartonshire, compiled and collected by James Dennistoun for a projected history of Dumbartonshire., 1825-?1842.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.16
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of accounts of the parishes (folio 33), preceded (folio 6) by a prospectus, estimates of printing costs, dedication and other prefatory matter, and followed by an account of Dunbarton Castle (folio 245), notes and extracts from official papers (folio 271) and correspondence, 1826-1833, with various influential persons of the county (folio 335).
Dates:
1825-?1842.
Papers concerning the Tweeddale and Lauderdale families., 1632-1683, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14547
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) 'Relatione of the wrongs done to Ladie Yester’, 1683, being the original of MS.14546 (folio 1);(ii) Discharge of writs, 1652, by the 1st Earl of Lauderdale to the 1st Earl of Tweeddale (folio 9);(iii) Papers, 1644-1674, undated, relating to the executry of Mary, Countess of Home, including material concerning her property in Highgate and Aldersgate, London (folio 11);(iv) Contract, 1648, between the Duke of...
Dates:
1632-1683, undated.
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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Papers of transactions and lawsuits between the Tweeddale and Lauderdale families, deriving chiefly from the marriage between the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale and Lady Mary Maitland, daughter of the Duke of Lauderdale.
Papers concerning the wreck and salvaging of the Dutch East India Company's ship 'Adelaar'., 1729, 1732.
File
Identifier: MS.1492
Dates:
1729, 1732.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Mackenzies of Delvine and their clients.
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Papers of the Mackenzies of Delvine, relating to various subjects.
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Papers concerning the wreck and salvaging of the Dutch East India Company's ship 'Adelaar', of which Alexander Mackenzie, Writer to the signet, was involved.
Papers concerning the wreck and salvaging of the Dutch East India Company's ship 'Adelaar', of which Alexander Mackenzie, Writer to the signet, was involved., 1728-1738, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.1490-1492
Scope and Contents
The principal persons involved are Alexander Mackenzie of Dellvine, Writer to the Signet, Captain Jacob Rowe, Eugene Fothringham, Leith, and William Evans, Deptford.
Dates:
1728-1738, undated.
Papers concerning various members of the family of Kinloch of Gilmerton., 1692-1763.
File
Identifier: MS.17608
Scope and Contents
The papers especially concern Mary Leslie, Lady Milton's mother and successively wife of Sir Francis Kinloch and Sir Alexander Ogilvy, and Alexander Kinloch, Lady Milton's brother and controller of customs at Port Glasgow, and his son and widow.
Dates:
1692-1763.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers concerning individuals and families related to the Fletchers of Saltoun, and concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
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Papers concerning various persons and families related to the Fletchers of Saltoun.
Papers concerning various persons and families related to the Fletchers of Saltoun., 1682-1758, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.17700
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Papers concerning the children of Charles Carnegie, Minister of Farnell, 1721-1724, and Sir James Carnegie of Pittarrow, 1729 (respectively cousin and nephew of Margaret Fletcher of Saltoun) (folio 1);(ii) Papers concerning James Christie, clothier in Stirling, and his widow, 1738-1758, undated, concerning his support of the Whig interest there and his tack of the King's Park from the Earl of Loudoun (folio 15);(iii) Papers...
Dates:
1682-1758, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers concerning individuals and families related to the Fletchers of Saltoun, and concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
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Papers concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
Papers concerning various persons related to the Fletchers of Saltoun., 1616-1659, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.17606
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Papers of and concerning Henry Lindsay, son of Sir John of Ballinscho and Colonel in the Swedish service, 1637-1648, undated. Some of his debts were assigned to Robert Fletcher of Ballinscho. See also Ch.14884-14895. (Folio 1.)(ii) Papers concerning the marriage of John Fletcher, Dean of Carlisle, to Katherine Gray, 1629-1633, undated. His brothers Sir Andrew and Sir George attempted to have the marriage annulled. (Folio 30.)...
Dates:
1616-1659, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers concerning individuals and families related to the Fletchers of Saltoun, and concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
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Papers concerning various persons and families related to the Fletchers of Saltoun.
Papers concerning various plays of Robert McLellan., 1959-1966, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26391
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Fragments of unidentified plays, undated (folio l); (ii) Synopses of plays for stage, radio and television, 1959-1966, undated (folio 27); (iii) Manuscript and typescript drafts of an article concerning 'Young Auchinleck', published in the ‘Radio Times’, 21 October 1965, page 37 (folio l06).
Dates:
1959-1966, undated.
Papers concerning Zetland in the hand of Dr James Scott., 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.907
Scope and Contents
‘The Sword Dance: a Danish or Norwegian Ballet, &c., as performed in the island of Papa Stour, Zetland’ followed (folio 7) by “Laxa’s Lines, a poem founded in facts and attributed to a Clergyman of the Presbytery of Zetland, who died at a very advanced age about the year 1750”, both in the hand of Dr James Scott, Lecturer at the R N Hospital, Haslar. The ‘Sword Dance’, which is annotated by James Scott, is taken from a transcript by William Henderson, Junior, of Papa Stour, from an older...
Dates:
19th century.
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.
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Miscellaneous material, literary, antiquarian, topical, etc., chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
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Material concerning antiquarian matters chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
Papers connected with the Earldom of Crawford., 18th century, 1808-1834, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.7
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of a miscellany of 18th-century papers, some of which relate to Lady Mary Campbell, sister of the 19th Earl of Crawford (folios 1-24), followed by a possibly incomplete collection of letters and papers (including several copies of 18th-century documents) in the unsuccessful claim by Colonel William Claude Campbell to the Earldom of Crawford, 1808-1834, and undated (folios 25-285).
Dates:
18th century, 1808-1834, and undated.
Papers connected with the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1011-1014
Scope and Contents
All, except MS.1011, accompanied by typed transcripts and notes.
Dates:
1715, 1745-1746.
Papers consisting of copies of correspondence, statements, transcripts of documents, and printed legal papers, arranged apparently in a chronological sequence, concerning the competing claims of Reginald George Macdonald of Castletirrim and Alexander Ronaldson MacDonell of Glengarry as Chief of Macdonald., 1822-1824, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.7
Dates:
1822-1824, and undated.
Papers, consisting of historical and genealogical notes and extracts, transcripts of formal and legal documents of earlier periods (as well as a number of original documents and papers), and a few unrelated letters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.9
Scope and Contents
The papers, written in many different 18th-century hands, are very mixed and are quite brief. The largest groups are:(i) part (pages 17-32) of a collection of transcripts, in the hand of one of Walter Macfarlane`s assistants, of documents relating to members of the family of Stirling of Keir (folios 23-30); (ii) part of a collection of transcripts, in the hand of another of Macfarlane`s assistants, of royal and other letters to members of the family of Mure of...
Dates:
?17th century-18th century.
Papers, consisting of notes, part of a draft of the text, and other items in John Riddell`s `Reply to Mr Tytler`s "Historical Remarks on the Death of Richard II”’., 1834.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.17
Papers, entitled "Women's STUC Conference, 23, 24 Nov[ember].83', containing printed material, papers and five pages of manuscript notes., 1983.
File
Identifier: Acc.10893/416
Papers found loose in, or otherwise associated with, various manuscripts belonging to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, now bound together., 1681-1919, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2212
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Road-bills, 1757-1881, undated, found loose in MSS.1921-1923: Bills of inn-keepers, chiefly in Moray, Banffshire, and Aberdeenshire; among these are some bills of 1871-1881, including a few of foreign hotels (folio 1);(ii) 'Information for Mr James Eleis & ye poor of ye Westkirk paroch agt Hary Nisbet yor of Dean', 1681, found loose in MS.1953: 'Leaves from the Buik of the West Kirke' (folio 32);(iii) Bills and notes,...
Dates:
1681-1919, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Miscellaneous smaller manuscripts, single letters, small collections, etc., now made up into volumes, the property of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Papers from and relating to the Scottish Foreign Mission records.
Series
Identifier: MS.8990(A)-(C)
Dates:
19th century-20th century.
Papers from the collection of Andrew Scott Rankin, animal-painter., 1655, 1695, 1810-1896, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2980, folios 11-24
Scope and Contents
The papers include:A letter, 1655, from William Douglas, afterwards Lord Mordington, to Lady Alexander, on the affairs of the son and widow of Archibald, Earl of Angus (folio 11);'Double of the rentall given in be Duntroon', probably David Graham of Duntrune, of lands in the parishes of Dundee, Tealing, Mains, and Monikie, the customs of the fish-fair of Dundee, the passage of the water of Tay, etc., 1695 (folio 15);Letter, 1810, of Mr Home, Signet Office,...
Dates:
1655, 1695, 1810-1896, undated.
Papers from the collection of Thomas Ruddiman.
File
Identifier: MS.2918
Scope and Contents
Numbers (i), (iv)-(vi) are in Thomas Ruddiman's hand, and some of the others are doubtless copied from his drafting.(i) Epitaph on Sir George Ogilvie, 1st Baronet of Barras.(ii) 'Presbyter Reformatus ad Reginam', Latin Second Asclepiadeans, signed 'Nabothus Chamaeleon' and inscribed by the author to Sir George Lockhart of Carnwath.(iii) Printed address of the corporation and people of Kirkwall to Alexander Geddes, a bailie of that town, to accompany a...
Dates:
18th century.
Papers from the library of St Benedict`s Abbey, Fort Augustus.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11218
Scope and Contents
Includes:
patristic texts, 1080, of Marianus at Regensburg
"Rule of St Benedict", 15th century
Book of Hours, late 15th century, with the signature of Mary of Guise
fragments of music, 15th century to 16th century, from the Inverness song-school
Dates:
11th century to early 18th century.
Papers in the claim to the Earldom of Airth by Robert Barclay Allardice of Ury and Allardice (died 1854)., 1835-1839, and undated
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.26.1.1-26.1.1a
Dates:
1835-1839, and undated
Papers in the claim to the Earldom of Stirling by Alexander Humphreys Alexander (formerly Humphreys)., 1825-1843, and undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.26.1.23-26.1.24
Dates:
1825-1843, and undated.
Papers in the claims to the title of Marquess of Annandale made by Sir George Frederic Johnstone, of Westerhall, 7th Baronet, and by John James Hope Johnstone of Annandale., 1825-1844, and undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.26.1.3-26.1.5
Dates:
1825-1844, and undated.