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:
Robert Burns, "Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" (1794), with additional poems in manuscript.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9217
Dates:
1794.
Robert Gordon of Straloch`s preface to ‘History of the Church and State of Scotland’ by Archbishop John Spottiswood., 1655.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.1(iii), folios 60-64
‘Roll of all the Duckes, Marquisses, Earles, Viscounts, Barrons of Parliament, Bischopes and officiars of Estaite according to ther precedencey ... 1633`, by Sir James Balfour., 1633.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(iii)
Scope and Contents
The dates of some creations are given. A painting of a mitre precedes the section on archbishops and bishops. At the end are notes on the funerary trappings to which the different ranks were entitled.
Dates:
1633.
Roll of arms of the Scottish gentry, copied in trick by Sir James Balfour, probably from a roll compiled by Sir Robert Forman in 1562 which is now lost., ?1562.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(ii)
Scope and Contents
Sir James Balfour Paul in his ‘Heraldry in relation to Scottish history and art’, page 193, suggests that Balfour`s source was the armorial Adv.MS.31.4.2, but the material is arranged differently, and not all the arms given in the roll also occur in the armorial.
Dates:
?1562.
Roll of Scottish troops in the Swedish service, being photographs of selected pages of a manuscript volume in the Krigsarkiv in Stockholm, entitled "Militiehuvudbok över värvade trupper, 1630".
File
Identifier: MS.788
Scope and Contents
The photographs are of folios 51, 56-57, 71-72, 74-77, 79-87, 91, 93, 96, 98-101, 105-141, 209, and 241-250 of the original 'Militiehuvudbok ...', which is described in the catalogue of the Gustavus Adolphus Exhibition in Stockholm, 1932, as follows: ‘No. 444. A detailed list of all the enlisted troops, mainly of Scottish and German origin, who appear in the Swedish armies’.
Dates:
1630.
`Roll of the Magistrats of Edinburgh from Michaelmess 1583 till this present Day` by Sir Thomas Young of Rosebank, 1702, with additions in several hands up to 1804.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.14
Scope and Contents
The roll gives the names of the Provosts, Baillies, Deans of Guild and Treasurers. It is followed (folio 33) by a list of the Bailies of Leith, 1665-1804, compiled in the early 19th century.
Dates:
1702-early 19th century.
Rolls containing theological, heraldic and historical material.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(i)-(vi)
Dates:
13th century-17th century.
'Rosslyn missal', a manuscript written in Ireland probably for Down Cathedral, Downpatrick.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.19
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Ireland, probably for Down Cathedral in Downpatrick. Lawlor has dated the work as probably of the 13th or early 14th century based on palaeographic evidence. Henry and Marsh-Micheli have suggested the work could also be attributed to the 12th century based on the decoration. This manuscript is a missal of the English (pre-Sarum) type introduced into Ireland from the later 12th century, with a few archaic, possibly local, features. The missal appears to have...
Dates:
13th century.
Rough booklet of cuttings of John Francis Campbell, mainly of his own contributions to newspapers and periodicals, with related notes., 1865-1869, and undated.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.7.6d
Dates:
1865-1869, and undated.
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.
Rough preliminary draft of the first chapter of ‘Thermography’, dated July 1881, differing from the final version., 1881.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.9
Dates:
1881.
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.
Rough preliminary notes on thermography by John Francis Campbell made at an earlier date than his manuscripts of ‘Thermography’., 1881-1882.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.8
Scope and Contents
An explanatory note on the contents occurs at the beginning, dated 29 September, 1882.
Diagrams accompany the text which is mainly concerned with materials and apparatus used in Thermic experiments.
There is one letter to Campbell from Sir William H M Christie, Astronomer Royal, discussing sun-spots, 1881 (folio 26).
Dates:
1881-1882.
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.
Rough sketch of the environs of Pamplouna shewing the ground on which the actions of the 27th 28th [and] 30th July 1813 were fought., 1813.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(86)
Route-book containing routes to divisions by the assistant quartermaster-general., 1817-1818.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.8.4
Dates:
1817-1818.
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.
Rubricated copy of ‘Compendium sive Breviarium Primi Voluminis Annalium seu Historiarum’ by Johann Tritheim (Moguntiacum, 1515), containing a few insignificant corrections, but no additions to the text.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.1
Scope and Contents
Bound in at the back of the volume are copies, written in an early 16th-century hand of German provenance, of the following:(i) The Bulla Aurea of the Emperor Charles IV promulgated in 1356 (folio 1). The text appears to be almost exactly the same as that published in ‘H.G. Thulemarii de Bulla Aurea, Argentea, Plumbea et Cerea in genere nec non in specie de Aurea Bulla Caroli IV Imp. Tractatio’.(ii) The Concordat of Vienna, concluded between the Emperor Frederick III...
Dates:
1503-1515.
Ruddiman collection, consisting of manuscript-books and notes of Thomas Ruddiman, Keeper of the Advocates’ Library from 1730 to 1752, chiefly in Ruddiman’s autograph.
Series
Identifier: MSS.762-781
Dates:
1712-[circa 1754].
‘Rules and directions to read, understand and write the Exchequer Hand, practis’d in His Maj[es]ties Court of Excheq[ue]r of north Britain’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.6.16
Dates:
1726.
"Rules of the procedure of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer in North Britain"., Mid 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.5134
Scope and Contents
At the end of the volume, in a different hand, are 'Rules of Proceeding in the Exchequer Office in Edinburgh'.
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
`Saga og páttr af Sneglu-Halla`, with Danish and Latin translations, index, and notes by Finnur Magnússon.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.2.8
Dates:
1807.
`Sagaan af Halfdani Gamla og sonum hans` by Jón Espólín.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.2.7
Dates:
1807.
Samaritan manuscript of a portion of the Book of Genesis (Genesis xvii, 1 to xxvii, 22), written by ab Hasda, son of Jacob the High Priest.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.24
Dates:
1892.
Satirical account of military and court figures by "Crastinus"
Item
Identifier: Acc.10687
Dates:
circa 1718.
'Sciences Politiques, vol. I'; the fourth volume of a manuscript work probably written in the early nineteenth century., ?Early 19th century.
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Identifier: MS.6593 [L.C.2162]
'Sciences Politiques, vol. II'; the fifth volume of a manuscript work probably written in the early nineteenth century., ?Early 19th century.
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Identifier: MS.6594 [L.C.2163]