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:
Piobaireachd Manuscript of Colin Cameron, piper to the Duke of Fife, and son of Donald Cameron, piper to Seaforth.
Item
Identifier: MS.3745
Scope and Contents
The volume, that is, the blank volume, was presented to Donald Cameron by Alexander Corbit, 5 May 1859; and Donald may have written the first few pages. But most of the volume, according to a note (folio i) by Archibald Campbell, Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society, appears to have been written by Colin Cameron; the last piobaireachd is described as having been 'noted by Colin Cameron, Nov. 22nd 1869' (folio 77 verso).The sources of the first 46 tunes are...
Dates:
1859-1869.
Plan de Gaete et de ses Environs., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(161)
Scope and Contents
French military plan, perhaps relating to strong fortification by Bourbons.
Dates:
Other: Undated.
Plan de la Bataille de Talavera de la Reyna: mouvements du 28 juillet 1809. Fait par [? ? ] Verdilhac, Lieut. …27 Leger. 13 aout 1810., 1810.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(44)
Plan du Passage du lac Burelos a la Mer., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(142)
Plan No.1: the right of the position leans on the Tagus and comprises the forts and fortifications of Alhandra, Arruda and Mont Agrace and extends to Sobral;surveyed and drawn by William Unger, Lieut, R.G.Artillery, December 1810., 1810.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(51)
Plan of the Battle of Albuera gained by the Allied Army under the command of Marshal Sir William Bersford, K.B., 16th May 1811. Sketched [and] engraved by Capt C C Michell. With References., Circa 1811.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(62)-(64)
'Plano geografico y hidrografico del Distrito de la Real Audiencia de Quito ... Delineado y descripto ... 1766 por Dr. Dionisio de Alsedo [Alcedo] y Herrera', etc., 1766.
Item
Identifier: MS.3963
Dates:
1766.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
Plano topografico de los Pyrineos Baxos desde la casa Real de Roncesvalles hasta el valle de Roncal. J M Baier, Itsassou 21 d'Enero 1814., 1814.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(78)
Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with F., 19th century-mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.5850 (1)-(88)
Dates:
19th century-mid 20th century.
Plans, sketches and literary manuscripts belonging to Sir Robert Liston., Late 18th century-19th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5713-5721A
Dates:
Late 18th century-19th century.
Plays of Moultrie R Kelsall., 1946-1953, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7716/7-35
Dates:
1946-1953, undated.
Plays written by Robert McLellan., 1934-1970, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26331-26391
Scope and Contents
Robert McLellan's early plays were intended for the stage, but he later wrote for both radio and television. Not all were published, and many circulated in typescript copies.
Dates:
1934-1970, undated.
Pocket-book made up to gatherings of leaves from various sources containing personal and other accounts of General Sir George Murray., 1815-1819.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.8.5
Scope and Contents
A list of contents is bound in at the front (folio i).
Dates:
1815-1819.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
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Correspondence and papers relating to General Sir George Murray`s tenure of office of chief of staff of the allied armies of occupation in France following the Congress of Vienna.
Poem, 1956, of Joseph Macleod.
File
Identifier: Acc.8647
Scope and Contents
With letter, 1983, of Macleod to George Bruce, enclosing a typescript poem.
Dates:
1956-1983.
Poem of Joseph Macleod, "A Handshake at Kinnaird Head Lighthouse".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9023
Dates:
1950.
Poem of Robert Burns, "It was the Charming Month of May", in pencil inked over (possibly by another hand), with variants from published text.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9649
Dates:
1794.
Poem of unknown authorship entitled `The Valiant Christian` written in six chapters in rhyming pentameter couplets.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.8
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in a formal italic hand: whether this is the original poem or a contemporary or near-contemporary copy is unclear. It is incomplete, lacking leaves after folios 4 and 9 (containing the end of chapter 1 and the beginning of chapter 2, and the end of chapter 2 and the beginning of chapter 3); and it ends, or breaks off, in the middle of folio 36 verso.The subject of the poem is George Gordon, 6th Earl (later 1st Marquess) of Huntly, and his part in the...
Dates:
Late 16th century-early 17th century.
Poem of Walter Chisholm, with a copy of his "Poems" (1879).
Collection
Identifier: Acc.7749
Dates:
1876-1879.
Poems and correspondence of Robert Crombie Saunders (born 1914).
File
Identifier: MS.26799
Scope and Contents
Robert Crombie Saunders, was the editor of ‘Scottish Arts and Letters' and the 'Scots Independent’. Many of his poems appeared in literary magazines.The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscripts and typescript drafts of poems, (circa 1940-1969, undated (folio 1). There are several versions of each poem.
(ii) Letters to Saunders from Christopher Murray Grieve, Sydney Goodsir Smith, and others, 1943-1961, undated (folio 70);
(iii) Fair copies of poems, 1969, undated...
Dates:
[Circa1940]-1970, undated.
Poems and manuscript notes, undated, some in the hand of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, in a bound volume of chap-books., Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.6604 [L.C.6604]
Dates:
Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
‘Poems’ by Allan Ramsay, 2 volumes (Edinburgh, 1721, 1728), with manuscript additions.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9749-9750
Dates:
1721, 1728, undated.
‘Poems’ by Allan Ramsay, volume 1 (Edinburgh, 1721), with, inserted at the front, a manuscript of two poems in Ramsay's hand, and two pen sketches of heads., 1721, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.9749
Scope and Contents
Tipped in to page 269 is a press cutting (folio 2) concerning the song ‘Polwart on the green’. On page xxviii is a contemporary note of the numbers of subscribers to the ‘Poems’.
Dates:
1721, undated.