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:
Partial transcript of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh in the hand of the donor, Lord Kingsburgh; Part II, Chapter XV `Obligations Quasi ex Contractu` (folio 1); Chapter XVI `Obligations Quasi ex Delicto` (folio 57); Chapter XIV `Obligations ex Delicto` (folio 92); Appendix `Contract of Insurance` (folio 207) (Volume III, pages 165-98, 120-64, 310)., 1786-1822.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.6.40
Dates:
1786-1822.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Autograph manuscripts, with an incomplete transcript, of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh.
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Partial transcript of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh in the hand of the donor, Lord Kingsburgh.
Partial transcript of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh in the hand of the donor, Lord Kingsburgh; Part V, Chapter XIV `Personal Diligence` (folio 1); Chapter XV `Meditatio Fugae: Liberation` (folio 21); Chapter XVI `Cessio Bonorum` (folio 78) (Volume VI, pages 120-157)., 1786-1822.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.6.41
Dates:
1786-1822.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Autograph manuscripts, with an incomplete transcript, of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh.
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Partial transcript of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh in the hand of the donor, Lord Kingsburgh.
Parts of the manuscript and proofs of ‘Annals of a publishing house: William Blackwood and his Sons', volume iii by Mary Porter., [1898, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.4863
Scope and Contents
The manuscript begins on folio 1 and the proofs on folio 91.
Dates:
[1898, or before.]
Passage of the 6th Division on the 13 December 1813 [near Villefranque]., 1813.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(80)
Passages, from unidentified poems of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid' in manuscript and typescript., [1925, or before]-[1978, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27032-27033
Dates:
[1925, or before]-[1978, or before.]
'Passe-temps' by Henry Mackenzie: poems, 1763-1766, some published., 1763-1770.
File
Identifier: MS.2535
Scope and Contents
There is a postscript, 1770, by Henry Mackenzie commenting on the value of the poems (folio 88), and prose remarks, 1764, on various subjects (folio 89 verso).
Dates:
1763-1770.
Patent of nobility by the Empress Maria Theresa, in favour of Johann Baptist and Karl Joseph Hepperger, merchants in Botzen.
Item
Identifier: MS.10336
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in an engraved frame dated 1757, and includes a painting of the Hepperger coat of arms. Inserted at the beginning is a paper read to the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1842, and other material concerning the document.
Dates:
1770.
Pedigrees and descents of Scottish noble and landed families, compiled in an unidentified hand about 1715 (possibly being a revision of a work compiled a little earlier), with a number of additions made at various times, some in a different hand, until about 1745., 1715-1745.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.9.18
Scope and Contents
John Riddell supplied a contents list at folio i verso but could not complete it in the space available.
Dates:
1715-1745.
‘Peninsular scenery illustrated in a series of views, taken from nature A.D. 1819. By an amateur’ (London, 1824), with manuscript descriptions by the author, George Lewis Augustus Douglas, of the engraved scenes.
File
Identifier: MS.10341 [AB.9.204.07]
Scope and Contents
This text is a condensed version of an earlier text (MS.10361), but contains all the engravings included in the earlier journal in a later, possibly a third, state.
Although the engraved title page is dated 1824, the manuscript interleaves were probably written in 1836 as the paper of the text is watermarked 1835. The item is inscribed 'Presented, by the author, to his much esteemed friend Alexander Thomson, of Banchory, Esq. A.D.1836' (folio 2), and a copy of a note (folio 4) from the Duke...
Dates:
1819, [?1836].
Persian manuscripts, most of which are undated, but seem to be chiefly of the eighteenth century, and to have been acquired in India., ?18th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3179-3185
Personal accounts of James Blair Oliphant of Gask., 1825-1836.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.8.9
Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13338/1-687
Scope and Contents
The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates:
1818-2011, undated.
Personal and literary papers of Naomi Mitchison
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12578/1-45
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to the life and work of the novelist, poet and writer Naomi Mitchison. Includes personal correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, press cuttings, family papers and photographs.Naomi Mary Margaret Mitchison, née Haldane, was born in Edinburgh in 1897. She was the youngest child of Louisa Kathleen Haldane, née Trotter, and John Scott Haldane (1860-1936). Her elder brother was the biologist J. B. S. 'Jack' Haldane (1892–1964).Naomi attended the Dragon School...
Dates:
1836-2002
Personal and miscellaneous papers of Charles Grant, Vicomte de Vaux., 1650-1808, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.25173
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Personal papers, 1775-1796, undated. (Folio 1.) They include a journal of Charles Grant's exile in Jersey, 1790. (Folio 9.) (ii) Medical recipes, 1749-1787, undated. (Folio 28.) (iii) Miscellaneous papers, 1650-1808, undated. (Folio 56.)
Dates:
1650-1808, undated.
Personal and naval papers of Robert Kirk Dickson., 1913-1951.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13577-13588
Dates:
1913-1951.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Rear-Admiral Robert Kirk Dickson (1898-1952) and of his younger brother, Midshipman Archibald Kirk Dickson (died 1916), with some papers of their father, William Kirk Dickson (1860-1949), first Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.
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Papers of Rear-Admiral Robert Kirk Dickson.
Personal and professional papers of Edith Simon
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13772/1-325
Scope and Contents
The papers of writer and artist Edith Simon relate to both strands of her artistic life, documenting her prolific output as an author of contemporary novels, historical novels, and histories, as well as a pioneering artist across multiple forms.The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, research material, and news cuttings concerning her writing career; alongside photographs, news cuttings, art diaries and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within circa 1932-2008
Personal papers concerning William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn and his family; with miscellaneous literary papers., After 1916-1959, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.50246
Scope and Contents
The papers are arranged chronologically. Where material concerning a particular subject spans two or more years the papers are placed by the earliest date.1927-1936.Papers relating to the children of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn.Commemorative offprint, 1927, of the notice in the ‘Scotsman’, 23 June 1927, of the birth of Ellinor Fairbairn. Folio 1.Manuscript and typescript notes, 1932-1936, of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn recording...
Dates:
After 1916-1959, undated.
"Personal Thoughts and Reflections on 20 Years of Preaching and Teaching", memoirs of the Reverend James W McIntyre, Rector of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Stirling.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11033
Dates:
circa 1994.
`Petitions letters etc. to the Council of State 1745-7.`, 1745-1747.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.3.22
Dates:
1745-1747.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
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Texts of documents not inserted into the manuscript (Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.14) of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson.
`Petitions to the Council of State 1738-45` (folio 1); `Resolutions of States of Holland project of sending troops to America 1775-6` (folio 43)., 1738-1745, 1775-1776.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.3.18
Dates:
1738-1745, 1775-1776.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
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Texts of documents not inserted into the manuscript (Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.14) of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson.
Photocopied typescript of 'The Russians of Ross', by George Gunn, containing manuscript amendments., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.11443/109
Photocopies and transcripts of manuscripts and typescripts of Eric Linklater., [1922-1982], undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10248/89-103
Dates:
[1922-1982], undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Research material, including correspondence, notes, copies and transcripts, of and collected by Michael Parnell for his 'Eric Linklater: a critical biography'.
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Photocopies and transcripts of works by and concerning Eric Linklater.
Photocopies of antiquarian papers of the Reverend James Scott.
File
Identifier: Acc.6923
Dates:
circa 1790.
Photocopies of British Museum manuscripts Arundel 285 and Harleian 6919.
File
Identifier: Acc.3768
Scope and Contents
Edited for the Scottish Text Society by J A W Bennett in "Devotional Pieces in Verse and Prose" (Edinburgh and London, 1955).
Dates:
Undated
Photocopies of copies of documents concerning Scotland.
File
Identifier: Acc.9053
Dates:
14th century to 16th century.