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:
'Collection of papers in the Process of Reduction of the Service of Archibald Douglas'., 1761-1764.
File
Identifier: MS.8273
Scope and Contents
A series of printed documents concerning the Douglas Cause.
Dates:
1761-1764.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, Writer to the Signet, of Craigthorn and Castlemilk, second son of Archibald Stuart of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning his legal clients.
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Legal papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Dukes of Hamilton, and the Douglas Cause.
Collection of papers relating to the teinds of Barony Parish, Glasgow, 1815-1816 (folio 1); the King`s Park, Glasgow, 1832 (folio 104); and the Parish of Coldstream, 1832 (folio 114), and a note for the Town Clerk of the Canongate, 1851 (folio 116)., 1815-1816, 1832, 1851.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.9.23
"Collection of piobaireachd or pipe tunes as verbally taught by the M'Crummen Pipers" by Neil MacLeod (Edinburgh, 1880), with manuscript corrections by Simon Fraser, and other notes by Alexander K Cameron., 1880.
File
Identifier: MS.9615
Collection of prayers to the Virgin and various saints, including Takla Hāymānōt., Late 16th century-early 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.95
Dates:
Late 16th century-early 17th century.
Collection of printed and manuscript papers bound together concerning the submission between Robert Cranston, proprietor of the Waverley Hotel, Glasgow, and the Glasgow City and District Railway Company., 1883-1884.
File
Identifier: Acc.6444/13
Collection of printed legal papers 1805-1820 (several of them bearing marginalia by John Riddell) and a few memoranda and copies of documents, 1819, and undated, relating to the genealogy of Major-General Walter Ker of Littledean in his claim to the Roxburghe estates following the death of the fourth Duke., 1805-1820, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.5
Dates:
1805-1820, and undated.
'Collection of proper Expressions & Phrases for Prayer', compiled by Alexander Carlyle and partly written in his hand, 1744., 1744, 1775.
File
Identifier: MS.3465
Scope and Contents
There is an index to the contents on folio 41 verso, and various other indexes to material not contained in the volume are found on folios 36 verso-39 verso. Leaves found loose in the volume (folios 42-48) have been attached at the end. The date 1775 occurs on folio 47.
Dates:
1744, 1775.
Collection of quarto volumes of transcripts by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1st quarter of 19th century, of several of the surviving cartularies and other registers, and of some collections of charters and other deeds, of the medieval dioceses, churches and religious houses of Scotland, 1164-1639.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.9A.1.1-9A.1.20
Scope and Contents
Many of the transcripts are undated: apart from those in Adv.MS.9A.1.17, which were made in 1800, few appear from the watermarks in the leaves to have been made before 1813. From the watermarks of the endpapers the volumes appear to have been bound about 1818 or later.Several of the transcripts were made from original manuscripts or eighteenth-century copies then in possession of the Honourable William Maule of Panmure, who was created Baron Panmure in 1831: others were made from...
Dates:
1164-1639.
Collection of romances and religious material, mostly in verse, written in the North Midlands by Richard Heeg with some items by James Hawghton and additions in other hands.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘The Hunting of the Hare` (‘The Index of Middle English Verse’, 973) (folio 1), followed by a mock sermon in prose (folio 7 verso) and nonsense verses (folio 10 verso) (the latter ‘The Index of Middle English Verse’, 3425, both printed in ‘Reliquiae Antiquae’, volume 1, pages 82-84). See ‘The “Hunting of the Hare” in the Heege Manuscript’. Written by Richard Heeg.(ii) `Sir Gowther` (‘The Index of Middle English Verse’,...
Dates:
Circa 1480.
Collection of rough notes or memoranda on various legal topics in the hand of Francis Jeffrey.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.18
Scope and Contents
The notes, which are written on various gatherings of leaves, vary considerably in length, and some have additions of varying length in the margins, also in Jeffrey`s hand. Some of the notes appear to be incomplete.
Dates:
1821.
Collection of Scottish pasquils in the hand of Sir James Balfour of Denmilne.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.8
Dates:
1637-1647.
Collection of Scottish poems and Jacobite songs.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.44
Scope and Contents
The majority of the poems are anonymous but there are two by Allan Ramsay, one by Jonathan Swift, and one attributed to Colley Cibber. Several of the other poems have been printed and some appear in ‘First Line Index of English Poetry’. A list of these poems is inserted at the beginning of the volume.
Apart from the poems there are several pages written in a cypher and folios 71-73 contain dressmaking accounts, dated 1722-1729, in a different hand.
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Collection of Scottish poems and satirical verse.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.13
Scope and Contents
The first 70 folios are in manuscript while the latter half of the volume consists of a collection of printed broadsides of the 18th century. Several of the manuscript items appear in print and a list of them is inserted at the beginning of the volume.
Dates:
?Early 18th century.
‘Collection of the principal officers of state & others in the Kingdom of Scotland, the erection of Abbacies & other such, & the genealogy of the nobility’, in the handwriting of Walter Goodall.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.17
Dates:
18th century.
Collection of theological works by or attributed to Saint Augustine, with a number of letters, chiefly of Saints Augustine and Jerome, written, probably in North Italy, in the fifteenth century., 15th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3056
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Pelagius, Liber de vita Christiana ('Patrologia Latina', xl, 1031-1046; E Dekkers and A Gaar, ‘Clavis Patrum Latinorum’, number 730), here attributed to Saint Augustine. (Folio 1.)(ii) Augustine, Sermo de contemptu temporalium return (‘Patrologia Latina’, xlvi, 971-980). (Folio 17.)(iii) Augustine, De bono conjugali (‘Patrologia Latina’, xxxii, 639-640, xl, 373-396). (Folio 21.)(iv) Augustine, Enchiridion ad...
Dates:
15th century.
Collection of words and phrases in a North American Indian language, with their English equivalents, made by John Ballanden, York Factory., 1785.
Item
Identifier: MS.24510
Collection of works, mainly theological, written in Germany in the early fifteenth century., Early 15th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2739
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) An exposition of the Canon of the Mass, beginning 'Videte quomodo caute ambuletis. . . . Ita scribitur ad Ephesios'; ends 'cuius nomen in secula sit benedictum. Amen. Explicit hoc dictum’. For a work with a similar ‘initium’, from the library of the Benedictines at Erfurt, see Bodleian Library, MS.Hamilton 17, folio 227. (Folio 3 verso.)(ii) Sermons, from Advent to the first Sunday after Easter, beginning 'Emitte manum tuam de alto,...
Dates:
Early 15th century.
'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'., 1830-1831, [1836, or before].
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2129-2139
Dates:
1830-1831, [1836, or before].
‘Collections’ made by Robert Beatson, Doctor of Laws, containing a number of genealogical papers and copies of military documents which he probably used when engaged on compiling ‘Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain from 1727 to 1783’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.21
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume include:(i) Genealogical accounts in a variety of hands of a number of British peers, collected while Beatson was gathering material for his work on the English Peerage. (See also Adv.MSS.33.5.9-33.5.10). For another copy of the account of the family of Calder (folio 29), see MS.9982.(ii) An account, in Beatson`s hand, of the Parish of Dysart, his birthplace, undated (folio 57).(iii) Description of a Tour of Scotland made by...
Dates:
1785-1803, and undated.
Collections of Gaelic tales, folklore and proverbs, mainly written by John Dewar; material relating to folklore in general; papers concerning Highland dress; and several volumes relating to Irish language and folklore.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.2.19-50.3.13
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.
Collections of letters and papers, mostly genealogical, relating to various baronetcies and landed families arranged in alphabetical order of the family concerned., 1821-1859, and undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.11(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
A contents list is on folio i.
Dates:
1821-1859, and undated.
Collections of letters and papers, mostly genealogical, relating to various baronetcies and landed families: part 1., 1821-1859, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.11(i), folios i, 1-188
Dates:
1821-1859, and undated.
Collections of letters and papers, mostly genealogical, relating to various baronetcies and landed families: part 2., 1821-1859, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.11(ii), folios 189-339
Dates:
1821-1859, and undated.
Collections of letters and papers relating to various peerages (mostly to claims thereto), arranged in alphabetical order of the peerage concerned., 1822-1859, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.28
Scope and Contents
A contents list has been provided (folio i).
Dates:
1822-1859, and undated.
`Collections of papers and informations in order to the description of Scotland` by Sir Robert Sibbald.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.15
Dates:
Circa 1682.