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:
Scripts relating to 'Little red hen'., Undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10893/33-35
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Papers and productions of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Production files of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Production files of 'Little red hen' by John McGrath.
Seaforth Manuscript of Piobaireachd, written for K W S Mackenzie of Seaforth in 1854 by Angus Mackay.
Item
Identifier: MS.3744
Scope and Contents
The tunes were selected, according to Angus Mackay's own note (folio ii), 'from the original manuscript in his possession as noted down by him [in staff notation] from the Canntaireachd of John Mackay his father from the year 1826 to 1840'. These 'original MSS' are the first two of the six described in 'The history and art of Angus Mackay', numbers 5-7; see MSS.3753-3754.
Dates:
1826-1854.
Second corrected proofs of ‘Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile’ by John Hanning Speke, including the conclusion and appendices. , [1863, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.4874
Scope and Contents
The proofs have been heavily corrected by John Hanning Speke and by John Hill Burton, the editor of the work.Also included are further proofs of pages 1-15, 20-54, 56-62, 74-81, 155, and 597-658 (folios 24, 47, 67, 83, 136, 394, 412, and 441); the manuscripts of part of the conclusion, in Burton's hand, and Appendix E, in Speke's hand (folios 410 verso, 476); and two leaves of the ‘Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society’, volume iv (1860), containing a printed letter of...
Dates:
[1863, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Manuscripts and proofs of works offered for publication to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Manuscript and proofs of ‘Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile’ by John Hanning Speke.
Second manuscript draft, under the title 'The White Flag' by James Allan Ford., [1961, or before], 1987.
File
Identifier: MS.27486
Scope and Contents
There is a note by the author, James Allan Ford, 1987, that the first draft was destroyed (folio i).
Dates:
[1961, or before], 1987.
"Section 7. Fourth Objection", a fragment of a philosophical manuscript of David Hume.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10805
Scope and Contents
Part of a previously unknown early work analysing the problem of evil, possibly a portion of a sequel to the "Treatise of Human Nature", and also anticipating arguments advanced in the "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion".
Dates:
circa 1739-1740.
Sederunt book of the purchasers of Gask., 1753-1761.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.4.10
'Select collection of the ancient music of Caledonia, called Piobaireachd, set to music as performed on the Great Highland Bagpipe, by Donald MacDonald, Pipemaker to the Highland Society of London, etc., Edinburgh : 1826.', 1826.
Item
Identifier: MS.1680
Scope and Contents
Donald MacDonald was one of the first pipers to attempt to write down this music in ordinary musical notation. He published one volume and promised another, never published, of which this is the manuscript. The manuscript was ultimately bequeathed to Major-General C S Thomason, and was utilized by him and to a certain extent incorporated into his 'Ceol Mor' (1900), in which its history is given. At the beginning is a printed history of the airs in the volume, with manuscript...
Dates:
1826.
‘Select remains of the ancient popular poetry of Scotland’ (London, 1822) by David Laing, interleaved, with considerable manuscript alterations in the author's hand., 1822.
Item
Identifier: MS.4812
Series of distribution-books containing copies of letters, reports, returns and other memoranda chiefly by General Sir George Murray as quartermaster-general, relating to the composition and location of various divisions, brigades and companies of the British and Portuguese Armies., 1809-1814.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.46.4.10-46.4.23
Dates:
1809-1814.
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 of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War in which he served (except during 1812 when he was in Ireland) as quartermaster-general.
Series of dramatisations by Robert McLellan of episodes from novels by Sir Walter Scott., 1962-1963.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26398-26401
Series of drawing books of Nancy Brysson Morrison with manuscript and typescript notes for 'Haworth harvest: the lives of the Brontës' pasted in., [1969, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27335-27340
Dates:
[1969, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary papers and correspondence of the novelist and biographer, Nancy Brysson Morrison (1903-1986).
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Literary papers of Nancy Brysson Morrison.
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Notes for and manuscript of 'Haworth harvest: the lives of the Brontës' by Nancy Brysson Morrison.
Series of drawing books of Nancy Brysson Morrison with manuscript and typescript notes for 'The private life of Henry VIII' pasted in., [1964, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27312-27329
Dates:
[1964, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary papers and correspondence of the novelist and biographer, Nancy Brysson Morrison (1903-1986).
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Literary papers of Nancy Brysson Morrison.
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Notes for and manuscript of ‘The private life of Henry VIII’ by Nancy Brysson Morrison.
Series of general abstracts of military events in Portugal from 27 September 1810 to 31 July 1811., 1810-1811.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.6.1
Scope and Contents
The abstracts begin on folio 4 and are illustrated by maps (folios 77-78, 103, 189), statistical returns of troops (folios 155-159) and extracts of letters (folios 161, 163, 175). They are preceded by a memorandum in reply to observations by Colonel (later Lieutenant-General Sir) Henry W Bunbury, 7th Baronet, 1811 (folio 1), and there are notes in red ink in the margins of several of the pages by Bunbury (according to a note at folio 15 verso). A leaf is cut out between folios 105 and...
Dates:
1810-1811.
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 of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War in which he served (except during 1812 when he was in Ireland) as quartermaster-general.
Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.28.1.2-28.1.7
Dates:
1705-1773.
Series of manuscript and typescript notes, undated, of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson on Chaucer., ?Early 20th century
File
Identifier: MS.9323
Scope and Contents
The notes include biographical material, notes on his sources (especially the influence on him of mediaeval French poetry and of Boccaccio), and notes on his various works, including several of ‘The Canterbury tales’, ‘Troilus and Cressyde’, and the ‘Boke of the Duchess’.The notes do not form a complete series, as some of the sections are fragmentary. It seems likely that they are part of 'a historical course on English Literature which began with Anglo-Saxon Poetry and went on...
Dates:
?Early 20th century
Series of reports and notes of political and other events, compiled by the Burnett family of Monboddo, chiefly taken from newspapers, and cover foreign and national news as well as including a few items of social and local interest., 1810-1817.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.24615-24620
Scope and Contents
The reports and notes may have been compiled for someone who was abroad at the time, possibly James B Burnett. A number of pages are missing.
Dates:
1810-1817.
Sermons, 1615, undated, in the hand of Archbishop Spottiswoode, and miscellaneous papers, 1695-1723, undated, of John Spottiswoode, Keeper of the Advocates' Library., 1615-1723, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2934
Scope and Contents
The sermons begin on folio 1, the papers of John Spottiswoode on folio 87. There is also a paper relating to the Episcopal Church in Scotland, in the same hand as MS.2933, folio 125 (folio 187).John Spottiswoode's papers consist largely of a variety of proposals - for his own studies, for an infirmary in Edinburgh, for a Scottish historical society, for a trade society with a professorship of trade, and for publications on law and other subjects. Some of the projects relating to...
Dates:
1615-1723, undated.
Sermons of Adam of Dryburgh and other works.
File
Identifier: MS.9999
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Sermons of Adam of Dryburgh. Some of these were printed from another manuscript in W de Gray Birch, ‘Sermoties fratris Adae’ (Edinburgh, 1901) and J P Migne, ‘Patrologiae curvus complettis ... latina’, volume cxcviii. For details, see N R Ker, ‘Medieval manuscripts in British libraries’, volume i. A sermon of Thomas à Kempis, written in a sixteenth-century hand, has been inserted (folios 81-83). It is printed in Thomas à Kempis, ‘Opera omnia’...
Dates:
Early 15th century.
Sermons, prayers, and other devotional writings, probably by Thomas Masson, Minister of Dunnichen., Late 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3467
Seven corrected manuscript and typescript drafts of poem of W Price Turner, "Fable for Love".
File
Identifier: Acc.4797
Dates:
1968.
Seven notebooks and a manuscript of Morley Jamieson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8004
Scope and Contents
Containing drafts of a memoir and associated short story.
Dates:
1980.
Seven works on medical subjects., 14th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.9(ii), folios 49-58
Scope and Contents
End of an unidentified work, explicit `ad attrahendum hunc (?) sine scarificatione` (folio 49).Matthaeus Salernus, `Tractatus pulsuum`, incipit `Pulsus ut dicit Philaretus est motio cordis` (‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column 1151), headed `De pulsibus` without author (folio 49).`De diebus creticis`, incipit `De criticis diebus tractaturi uideamus` (‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column 370)....
Dates:
14th century.
Seven works on medical subjects., 13th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.1(iv), folios 32-151
Scope and Contents
`Practica’ by Bartolomaeus Salernitanus; printed in ‘Collectio Salernitana’, volume 4, page 321). Author and title are not given. (Folio 32.)`Practica` by Joannes Platearius. (Folio 68.) At the end are added a series of recipes (14th century, folios 111-112). There are notes, 15th century, in the lower margins of folios 72, 75 verso, 86, and 111 verso.`Exceptiones de disputatione phisicorum et arte medicorum`. (Folio 112 verso.)`Liber aureus` by Joannes...
Dates:
13th century.