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:
Rentals of the Dundas estate, crops 1770, 1775, 1783, 1801-1802, 1805-1806., 1770-1806.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.2.51
Rentals, valuations of teinds, etc., relating to lands, mainly in West Lothian, of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 17th century-19th century
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.2.50
Scope and Contents
A few items concern the lands of families other than Dundas.
Dates:
17th century-19th century
'Repertorium Juris' of Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie, apparently a manuscript of the 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.943
Dates:
1600-1699
‘Repertory’ of Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie, Lord Justice Clerk.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.2
Dates:
17th century.
Reprint, with considerable manuscript alterations, of a political poem, 'Rab Shakeh: a historical romance' by David Scott Moncrieff., 1885.
Item
Identifier: MS.4852
`Request and suite of a true harted Englyshe man wishyng the wealth of his native contrey`; a treatise, written by William Cholmeley, a London grocer, and addressed to Edward VI, proposing that wool should be dyed in England instead of abroad.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.8
Scope and Contents
The manuscript, which was apparently presented to Edward VI, is written in a formal book-hand and contains one large initial in gold, yellow and black on a brown ground.
Dates:
1553.
Requisitions upon the storekeeper-general for field equipment (folio 1), and returns of equipment lost by neglect (inverted folio 1)., 1816-1818.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.8.3
Dates:
1816-1818.
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.
‘Rerum Scoticarum historia’ by George Buchanan (Elzevin, 1668), pages 1-368 of 750 (‘Tom. I’), interleaved and annotated in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald., 1668.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.21
‘Rerum Scoticarum historia’ by George Buchanan (Elzevin, 1668), pages 369-750 of 750 (‘Tom. II’), interleaved and annotated in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald., 1668.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.22
‘‘Rerum Scoticarum historia’ by George Buchanan (Elzevir, 1668), interleaved and annotated in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.5.21-33.5.22
Dates:
1668.
‘Rerum Scoticarum historia’ by George Buchanan, with the ‘De jure regni apud Scotos’ (Edinburgh, 1583), with marginal notes in manuscript by George Buchanan., 1583.
File
Identifier: MS.5170
Scope and Contents
The volume is incomplete, and there are added, in manuscript, the end of the ‘De jure regni apud Scotos’ with the verses contained in the printed editions (folio 1); a copy of the 'Locorum, nominum propriorum gentilitium, rerumque difficiliorum ... explicatio vernacula' by Thomas Craufurd and Christopher lrvine (folio 4 verso); and some genealogical notes on the Bruces (folio 18).
Dates:
1583.
Research file, containing press cuttings, correspondence, printed material and manuscript notes., 1974, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.10893/15
Dates:
1974, undated.
Research files of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland)., 1971-1977, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10893/237-245
Dates:
1971-1977, undated.
Research material and notes, relating to 'Curriculum Vitae', by Muriel Spark., 1949-1988, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10989/189-216
Dates:
1949-1988, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary papers of Muriel Spark, containing manuscripts, research material for critical works, and papers concerning her autobiography, 'Curriculum vitae'.
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Papers of Muriel Spark, relating to her autobiography.
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Papers of Muriel Spark, relating to autobiography, 'Curriculum vitae' (London: Constable, 1992).
Research notes, manuscripts and correspondence concerning, and proofs of, the 'Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino' (London, 1851), by James Dennistoun.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5524/1-47
Dates:
1845-1851, undated.
Research papers, manuscripts and typescript drafts for poem 'The Dark Music of the Rue du Cherche-Midi'., Circa 1993-1995.
File
Identifier: Acc.11621/148
Research papers of Dorothy Dunnett, relating to 'The house of Niccolò' novel series., 1974-2001, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12135/179-319
Dates:
1974-2001, undated.
`Resolutions of the Council of State 1745-7` (folio 1); `Secret Diplomatic Correspondence 1744-7` (folio 48); `Secret Resolutions of the States General 1744-7` (folio 62); `Documents from different sources relating to the Regiment of the Earl of Drumlanrig 1747-9` (folio 83)., 1744-1749.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.3.23
Dates:
1744-1749.
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.
`Resolutions of the Council of State 1749-65` (folio 1); `Resolutions of the States General 1735-49` (folio 38)., 1735-1765.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.3.20
Dates:
1735-1765.
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.
Reviews and readers’ letters relating to published works of Andrew Greig., Circa 2001-2010.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13460/58-59
Dates:
Circa 2001-2010.
Reviews by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of works of other authors., 1939-1957.
File
Identifier: MS.50220
Scope and Contents
The reviews are arranged chronologically. Where material concerning a particular work spans two or more years the papers are placed by the earliest date.1939.‘A Biological Approach to the Problem of Abnormal Behaviour’, by Milton Harrington.Carbon copy of a typescript, [circa 1939], of a review by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of ‘A Biological Approach to the Problem of Abnormal Behaviour’, by Milton Harrington. The review was published in the ‘Edinburgh...
Dates:
1939-1957.
Reviews by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of works of others authors., 1926-1938.
File
Identifier: MS.50219
Scope and Contents
The reviews are arranged chronologically. Where material concerning a particular work spans two or more years the papers are placed by the earliest date.1926.Assorted reviews.Extract, pages 93-94, ‘Notes on Books’, from the ‘Edinburgh Medical Journal’, 1926. The extract includes reviews by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of: ‘Old and New Viewpoints in Psychology’, by Knight Dunlop [i.e. Dunlap]; and, ‘Psychoanalysis and the Psychic Disorder of General...
Dates:
1926-1938.
Revised manuscript draft of Morley Jamieson, "Recollections of Edwin and Willa Muir".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8471
Dates:
1983.
`Riettarbætur Noregs Kónga.`
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.6.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:
1. A copy of the `Bualög` (Leges Oeconomicorum);
2. Commentary on some obscure passages of that code;
3. Glossary of old words found in the Law Code of Iceland.
Dates:
18th century.