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 of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on Greek literature., 1772-?1781, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24511
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Material on the works of Homer, 1779, undated. (Folio 1.) It includes a comparison of the ‘Odyssey’ with Virgil's ‘Aeneid’. (Folio 9.) Monboddo numbers 209, 123-124, 131.
(ii) 'Of the poetry of Plato', 1772. (Folio 26.) Monboddo number 158.
(iii) Papers on the orations of Demosthenes, ?1781, undated. (Folio 37.) They include observations on the Karl of Mansfield’s Latin oration on Demosthenes, which are closely related to a passage in the ‘Origin and progress...
Dates:
1772-?1781, undated.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on Greek philosophy and philosophers., 1771-[circa 1790], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24519
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) 'The history of the metaphysical philosophy', concerning philosophy and religion in ancient Greece and Egypt, 1777. (Folio 1.) Monboddo number 67.
(ii) 'Of the philosophy of Greece before Plato and Aristotle', 1771. (Folio 9.) Monboddo number 36.
(iii) 'The history of antient philosophy in later times' from Plotinus to Themistius, undated. (Folio 38.) Monboddo number 68.
(iv) Comparisons between the philosophies of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, undated....
Dates:
1771-[circa 1790], undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714-1799) and his family.
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Literary and philosophical papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo.
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on particular philosophies and individual philosophers.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on happiness, free will and the origins of evil., 1783, 1790, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24514
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) 'Of happiness in the universe', 1783. (Folio 1.) Endorsed 'This to be diligently studied before I write upon the origin of evil and the fall of Man’. Monboddo number 269. (ii) Papers on free will and the origin of evil, 1783, 1790, undated. (Folio 21.) Monboddo numbers 61, 266, 220.
Dates:
1783, 1790, undated.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on History., 1765-1796, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.24528-24534
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on language., [Circa 1735]-1796, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.24505-24510
Dates:
[Circa 1735]-1796, undated.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on language in poetry., 1789, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24508
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) 'Of the rhythme of Greek and Latin verse', undated. (Folio 1.) Monboddo number 236. (ii) 'Of English verse', undated. (Folio 8.) Much of this concerns Milton's poetry. Monboddo number 241. (iii) Papers on poetry in general, 1789, undated. (Folio 44.) Two items (folios 44 and 48) were intended for the ‘Origin and progress of language’, but were not used. Includes Monboddo numbers 243, 232, 242.
Dates:
1789, undated.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on nature, man in his natural state and men in a state of society., 1777, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24515
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) 'Of the notion of infinite ... Of the eternity of God and his works', 1777. (Folio 1.) Monboddo number 63.
(ii) 'Of the progress of nature from the first principle. Of ill in the universe and of natural and moral ill', undated. (Folio 21.) Monboddo number 268.
(iii) Papers on the difference between man in his natural state and civilised man, 1777, undated. (Folio 54.) Monboddo numbers 62, 300.
(iv) 'Of the degeneracy of men in a state of society', undated....
Dates:
1777, undated.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on particular philosophies and individual philosophers., 1765-1796, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.24519-24522
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on Plato's works., 1787, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24520
Scope and Contents
The papers include Monboddo numbers 135, 38, 298.
Dates:
1787, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714-1799) and his family.
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Literary and philosophical papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo.
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on particular philosophies and individual philosophers.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on rhythm., 1768-1790, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24507
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) 'Of the sound of language', 1790. (Folio 1.) Monboddo number 244.
(ii) 'Of the ancient verse compared with the modern, and of the accents and quantity of the ancient languages', 1766. (Folio 18.) Monboddo number 154.
(iii) 'Of rhythme'. (Folio 44.) Several articles and parts of articles, 1766, undated. The last of these (folio 124) ends with several pages on the teaching of accent and verse in English schools. Monboddo made several changes in the arrangement...
Dates:
1768-1790, undated.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on Scottish, English and Irish history., 1765-?1794, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24532
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Two papers on the ancient history of Scotland, 1765, undated. (Folio 1.) The second ends with the royal pedigree in Gaelic which occurs in Adv.MS.72.1.1, folio 1 recto. Monboddo numbers 171, 173.
(ii) 'Of the succession in the kingdom of Scotland', undated. (Folio 41.) Monboddo number 174.
(iii) Transcripts, undated of charters and formal documents. (Folio 47.)
(iv) 'Observations upon Lord Lyttelton's History, and the constitution of the antient Parliaments...
Dates:
1765-?1794, undated.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on style., 1766, 1777-1789.
File
Identifier: MS.24506
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) 'Of stile', 1766. (Folio 1.) Monboddo number 145. (ii) 'Of composition', 1766. (Folio 5.) Monboddo number 148. (iii) Papers on the language of Homer, 1777-1789. (Folio 21.) Monboddo numbers 231, 230, 132, 229, 233.
Dates:
1766, 1777-1789.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on the philosophy of John Locke., 1774, 1795, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24521
Dates:
1774, 1795, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714-1799) and his family.
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Literary and philosophical papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo.
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on particular philosophies and individual philosophers.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo on theology., 1766-1781, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24527
Scope and Contents
The papers on religion are as follows.
(i) ‘Of the necessity of religion in a nation’, undated. (Folio 1.) Monboddo number 253.
(ii) Two papers on the history of religion from the earliest times to the ancient Greeks, 1766, undated. (Folio 11.) Monboddo numbers 4, 3.
(iii) 'Of natural religion and its progress', undated. (Folio 57.) Monboddo number 9.
(iv) 'An account of the Chaldaeans', 1769. (Folio 73.) A translation from Diodorus Siculus, ‘Bibliotheca historica’, book 2. Monboddo number...
Dates:
1766-1781, undated.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on various particular philosophies and philosophers., 1769-1796, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24522
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Two papers on Sir Isaac Newton's theories of motion, 1777, undated. (Folio 1.) The beginning of the first is closely related to ‘Antient metaphysics’, i, page 251, and what follows. Monboddo numbers 162, 48.
(ii) Part of a paper on individual philosophers, undated (Folio 26.) It deals with the theories of Newton, Timaeus and Plato.
(iii) Two papers on the Pythagoreans, 1770, undated (Folio 38.) Monboddo numbers 31, 21.
(iv) 'Of the history of the Epicurean...
Dates:
1769-1796, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714-1799) and his family.
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Literary and philosophical papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo.
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on particular philosophies and individual philosophers.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on various philosophical subjects., 1767-1780, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24517
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) 'Of abstract ideas as applied to natural philosophy', 1767. (Folio 1.) Monboddo number 14.
(ii) 'Of the system of the universe', undated. (Folio 12.) Numbered 303.
(iii) 'Of numbers and of their influence in the system of the universe; of musical concords; of the Pythagorean philosophy; and of the Ideas of Plato', undated. (Folio 18.) Monboddo number 30.
(iv) 'Of the origin of virtue', undated. (Folio 75.) Monboddo number 8.
(v) 'Of beauty', 1772. (Folio 84.)...
Dates:
1767-1780, undated.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on various philosophical subjects., 1784-1795, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24518
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Paper discussing the difference between the ancient and modern treatment of morals, logic, natural philosophy and metaphysics; the value of philosophy; effects of money, etc., undated. (Folio 1.) It is headed 'To be inserted in the third Book of Vol.4 of Origin of L.’, but it bears no relation to the published edition. One of the 'papers apart' (folio 52) is similar to the discussion of wealth in ‘Antient Metaphysics’ v, page 70.
(ii) 'Comparison of ancient...
Dates:
1784-1795, undated.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Mondobbo, on literature., 1772-1783, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.24511-24512
Papers of James Lauder Davidson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13567
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises several manuscript and typescript diaries which illustrate James Lauder Davidson’s experiences during his time in Burma, before and after WWII, and his military involvement in the conflict. Of particular interest are the earlier and later diaries, as well as the diary charting his escape into China. The collection also includes two photographic albums. The first one (item 2 in the collection) includes original photographs taken by Davidson. Most of them include...
Dates:
1938-1947
Papers of James Logie Robertson.
Series
Identifier: Acc.6578/1-3
Scope and Contents
James Logie Robertson was born in Milnathort, Kinross-shire in 1846 and educated at Orwell Parish School and Edinburgh University. He was assistant master at Heriot’s Hospital and George Watson’s College before joining the staff at Edinburgh Ladies’ College in 1876. His writings, some under the pen-name of ‘Hugh Haliburton’, include English text-books, essays and poetry. Robertson died in 1922.
1. corrected manuscript, circa 1880, of "Orellana: a Poem"2. corrected...
Dates:
[Circa 1880]-1889.
Papers of James Maidment concerning the peerages of Annandale and Hamilton., 1792, 1813, 1818.
File
Identifier: MS.5267
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Papers concerning the peerage of Annandale, 1792 and 1813 (folio 1);
(ii) 'A statement of the claim of the Marquis of Abercorn to the dignities of the house of Hamilton', compiled by James Maidment in 1818 (folio 28).
Dates:
1792, 1813, 1818.
Papers of Janet Adam Smith relating to her autobiography., 1914-1998, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13861/72-77
Dates:
1914-1998, undated.
Papers of Janet Paisley.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14151 Box 1(1)-Box 6(46)-was TD.3720
Scope and Contents
This is a box list of the papers of Janet Paisley, as received by the Library. No attempt has been made currently to review the order of the papers, to date them or to otherwise interpret them. The aim of the box list is to facilitate access in advance of any fuller arrangement and description.
Dates:
1981-2017.
Papers of Jessie M King.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6740
Scope and Contents
Comprising drawings, sketchbooks, manuscripts of books and articles, diaires, and correspondence, with letters of Gordon Bottomley and Cecile Walton.
Dates:
circa 1899-1949.