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:
Photographs of five pages of MS. Lat. Q.v.1, 112 in the M E Saltuikov-Shchedrin Library in Saint Petersburg: Hours of Mary, Queen of Scots.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.8
Scope and Contents
The manuscript, written and illuminated circa 1430, contains verses in French in Mary`s hand, most of which are reproduced here.
Placed with the photographs is a letter concerning them from Ronald Munro Ferguson to Lord Rosebery, 1903.
Dates:
Circa 1430.
Photographs of scenes in the Isle of Wight with brief geological notes on the backs., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.7.6e
Dates:
19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
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Miscellaneous small items of John Francis Campbell.
Photographs of the Asloan Manuscript: a miscellany in prose and verse written by John Asloan early in the reign of James V of Scotland (1513-1542)., Early 16th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.335
Photographs of the Asloan Manuscript: a miscellany in prose and verse written by John Asloan early in the reign of James V of Scotland (1513-1542)., Early 16th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.336
Photographs of the Asloan Manuscript: a miscellany in prose and verse written by John Asloan early in the reign of James V of Scotland (1513-1542).
Series
Identifier: MSS.335-336
Dates:
Early 16th century.
Photographs of the inside cover, titlepage, and first leaves of, 'Bασιλικόν Δῶρον, ὸ, Instruciones, compuestos por ... Jaymes ... Rey de Ingalaterra ... Traduzidado de Ingles en Romance vulgar ... por su muy humilde vassallo Juan Pemberton, gentilhombre, natural de la insigne Ciudad de Londres', preceded by a description of the work., 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.2980, folios 1-5
Dates:
17th century.
Photostat of a Chaucerian poem of 49 lines, beginning 'Devise prowes and eke humylitee', together with a note in the same hand of the date of birth of James IV, which could only have been written after his accession in 1488., [1488, or after.]
File
Identifier: MS.8494, folio 37
Scope and Contents
The scribe was probably James Gray, priest and notary in Dunkeld. See “The Scribe of the King's Quair” by G Neilson, in ‘The Athenaeum’ (1899), pages 835-836.
Dates:
[1488, or after.]
Photostat of a contemporary copy of 'Ung livret et traicte pour entendre quel ordre et train ung prince ou chef de guerre doibt tenir pour conquester ung pays ou passer on traverser le pays des ennemys. Compose par Messire Berault Stuart', i.e., Bernard Stuart, 3rd Seigneur d'Aubigny.
Item
Identifier: MS.1802
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is illustrated with seven miniatures.
Dates:
Late 15th century-early 16th century.
Photostat of a manuscript of the poem, 'The Telegraph'., 1796.
Item
Identifier: MS.3824
Photostat of 'The case of Mary Fenner', widow of William Fenner, printer to Cambridge University., 1735.
Item
Identifier: MS.8494, folios 200-209
Scope and Contents
The document relates to, among other things, the financial difficulties arising from the partnership between William Fenner and William Ged, the Edinburgh printer who invented stereotyping.
Dates:
1735.
Photostats and original manuscripts of Scottish music.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1781-1784
Dates:
17th century-1900.
Photostats of a manuscript, undated, containing Gaelic poetry in the hand of William MacMurchy found at Inverneill House in 1949 by Colonel Duncan Campbell of Inverneill.
Item
Identifier: MS.14951
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists of versions of four poems which also appear in Adv.MS.73.2.2.
The contents are as follows.
(i) ‘Tuirseach andiu crioch Gaoidhioll’, 152 lines (page 1);
(ii) ‘Do bheath Ghiolleasbuig gad dhuthchus’, 32 lines (page 5);
(iii) “Ghillasbuig mo bheannachd re m’bheo”, 7 stanzas (page 6);
(iv) “‘Ghillasbuig mo mholachd rem’ bheo”, 8½ stanzas (page 7).
Dates:
18th century.
Photostats of a small portion of the original manuscript of ‘The Antiquary’ by Sir Walter Scott, in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York., [1816, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.2248
Scope and Contents
The photostat is of leaves corresponding to the first edition (1816), volume i, pages 24-34.
Dates:
[1816, or before.]
Photostats of manuscript additions to ‘Ane compendius Tractiue ... ‘ by Abbot Quintin Kennedy (St Andrews, 1558), including copies of two treatises by Kennedy., [Before 1565.]
File
Identifier: MS.8494, folios 43-83
Dates:
[Before 1565.]
Photostats of manuscript material bound in a volume of Sir Robert Sibbald's printed works presented by him to Matthew Mackaile, apothecary, Aberdeen., 1685-1686.
File
Identifier: MS.2257, folios 1-8
Scope and Contents
The manuscript material consists of correspondence of Sir Robert Sibbald on his changes of religion, 1685-1686; satirical verses on the same subject; and verses on the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1685.
Dates:
1685-1686.
Photostats of manuscripts held in the Abbotsford Library, all in the hand of Sir Walter Scott.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2229-2232
Dates:
1796-1797.
Photostats of manuscripts of Edmund Castell, the Semitic scholar.
File
Identifier: MS.3589
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Photostats of manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge, illustrating Edmund Castell's use of shorthand, namely, Dd.xi.39, page 5 and odd scraps; Dd.vi.4, pages 2-3, 30-45, 52-53, 60-63, 66-87, 90-101, 114-115, 118-121, 130-131, 136-145, 148-157, 164-169, 172-173, 176-181, 206-207, 366-367, 370-377, 382-421, 424-429, 431-432, 436-461. The pages after page 206 are with some exceptions inverted in the original, and the photostats have been...
Dates:
1651-1672.
Photostats of parts of 'Adversaria', a commonplace-book of Sir Walter Scott., 1796.
File
Identifier: MS.2232
Scope and Contents
The following sections of the book are reproduced:(i) Poem on Cater Thun, beginning, 'Cold the wild blast that chills thy brow', 5 May 1796 (folio 1);(ii) 'To a Lady', lines beginning, 'For thee from Time's slow mouldering hold' (folio 3);(iii) Lines beginning, 'Farewell my dear Jamie, ah take my farewell', with the refrain, 'Lochaber no more' (folio 4);(iv) 'Elegy on Shenstone', beginning, 'Listless laid beneath a willow' (folio 5);...
Dates:
1796.
Photostats of portions of a manuscript, possibly written circa 1799, of Sir Walter Scott's tragedy 'House of Aspen' (not in Scott's hand) at Yale University, formerly in the possession of the Marquess of Lothian., [Circa 1799.]
File
Identifier: MS.3109, folios 78-79
Dates:
[Circa 1799.]
Photostats of portions of the original manuscripts of the Waverley Novels by Sir Walter Scott, in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2247-2248
Dates:
[1814, or before; 1816, or before.]
Photostats of ‘The Kings Quair’, the unique fifteenth-century manuscript in the Bodleian Library (MS. Arch. Selden B.24) prepared for William Mackay Mackenzie's edition of the poem, 1939.
File
Identifier: MS.2882
Scope and Contents
The copies consist of folios 191 verso-211, 231 verso of the original manuscript. There are also photostats of the Gaelic quatrain of Donald Gorm (probably Donald Gormsson, sixth chief of Sleat), sixteenth century, in the same volume.
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Photostats of the whole portion of ‘Waverley’ by Sir Walter Scott, in the Pierpont Morgan Library, partly completing the portion in the National Library (Adv.MS.1.1.0)., [1814, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.2247
Scope and Contents
The leaves reproduced correspond to the following pages of the first edition (1814): volume i, pages 62-64; volume ii, pages 361-370; volume iii, pages 333-339.
Dates:
[1814, or before.]
'Pilgrim', manuscript., N.d.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4835/18
Piobaireachd manuscript attributed to Donald MacDonald.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11600
Dates:
early 19th century.