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:
`Sir Lodovick Steuart of Kirkhill Advocat his Collectiones ... with Several Valuable Additions of charters andc ... out of the valuable Collectiones of Mr Richard Hay ... Ex Manuscriptis Roberti Mylne scribae ...`, a transcript of parts of Sir Lewis Stewart`s collections, compiled early in the 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.12
Scope and Contents
The volume, almost entirely in the hand of Mylne, begins (folio i verso) with an index (extra entries have been added later; those for the letters B, C, D, K and M continue on folio v verso, those for P on folio vi verso); there follows (page 1) a transcript of Stewart`s historical collections as in Stewart`s own manuscript (Adv.MS.22.1.14) with most of the additions found also in the transcript Adv.MS.34.3.11, and further additions, some not by Mylne; finally (page 352) come the transcripts...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Six disassociated pieces of parchment, four with writing, but all apparently from the same manuscript., ?14th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.3
Six letters of Robert Hamilton and three of Richard Wilson, managers of theatrical companies.
File
Identifier: Acc.7510
Scope and Contents
Concerning applications for licences to perform at Perth.
With two associated manuscript petitions, a printed proposal, and two playbills.
Dates:
1793-1794.
Six unrelated Scottish historical documents.
File
Identifier: Acc.11955
Scope and Contents
Contents:1 Copy of document setting up the Christian League, 1585 (with 19th century transcript)2 Losses of Aberdeen in the Civil War period, presented at the Convention of Royal Burghs, 16953 Reply to the Western Remonstrance, 1650, Perth4 Protest of the Supplicants against the Privy Council, 16375 Account of the Scots Corporation, ca.16956 Account of celebrations in Edinburgh on the anniversaries of the King`s birthday...
Dates:
circa 1585-1695.
Six volumes of a manuscript work, probably written in the early nineteenth century., ?Early 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.6590-6595
Dates:
?Early 19th century.
Six volumes of Wodrow Manuscripts; and two volumes of biographies of ministers entitled "Wodrow`s Collections".
Series
Identifier: Dep.90- is now Acc.4277.
Scope and Contents
The Wodrow manuscripts are numbers XXV-XXVI and XXVIII-XXXI.
Dates:
17th century.
Sixty-five letters and documents from the collection of William Finlay Watson, including the autographs of celebrities in many spheres.
File
Identifier: MS.5308
Dates:
15th century-19th century.
[Sketch map of area near San Pe, c.1813?; signed] C R Forrest, DAQMG., n.d.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(77)
[Sketch map of Arroyo del Molino and Alcuescar, with view] of Arroyo Del Molino from the westward…position of the allies on the night of 27 and 28 October [1811]., Circa 1811.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(69)
[Sketch map of Rio Agueda, from Ciudad Rodgrigo to Robleda]., n.d.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(67)
Scope and Contents
Ms note "Sketch from Lord Hill".
Dates:
n.d.
[Sketch map of River Alagon, from Puerto de Banos to Calastia]., n.d.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(68)
Sketch [map] of the action near Orthes 27th. Feby. 1814., 1814.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(91)
[Sketch map of the area near San Juan de pie Port]., n.d.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(75)
Sketch [map] of the ground near Bayonne., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(89)
Scope and Contents
Includes "Biarits"
Dates:
Undated.
[Sketch map of uncertain locality]., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(96)
Sketch of part of the ground about Fuentes and Villa Formosa occupied by the Allied Army on the 5th and 6th May 1811. Signed J R Colleton, Royal Staff Corps., 1811.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(61)
Scope and Contents
Coloured manuscript on tracing paper.
Dates:
1811.
Sketch of part of the position of the Battle of Busacco when attacked by the French Army under Marshall Massena… Septm. 27th, 1810 an defeated by the combined British and Portuguese troops . Signed John Westmacott, Lt, Royal Staff Corps, 6 December 1811., 1811.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(46)
Scope and Contents
Note states "The Honble Lt Genl G.L. Cole"
Dates:
1811.
Sketch of the action near Pamplona on the 27th, 28th and 30 July 1813., 1813.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(84)
'Sketch of the character of Mr. [David] Hume, by an author of the nineteenth century' (the Reverend John Home, author of ‘Douglas’); not in Home's own hand, save for several corrections and additions., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3993
Dates:
19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts collected by William Kirk Dickson, Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.
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'Sketch of the character of Mr. [David] Hume, by an author of the nineteenth century' (the Reverend John Home, author of ‘Douglas’); with a transcript of the same.
'Sketch of the character of Mr. [David] Hume, by an author of the nineteenth century' (the Reverend John Home, author of ‘Douglas’); with a transcript of the same., 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3993-3994
Scope and Contents
The work is apparently unpublished.
Dates:
19th century.
Sketch of the country between the Coa [and] Agueda., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(34)
Scope and Contents
MS note on verso "by Bell".
Dates:
Undated.
Sketch of the origins of the family of Corsane of Meikleknox, which is identified with the Corsini of Florence., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.2.9
Dates:
19th century.
Sketch of the River St John from its mouth to Lake Tamasquata and from thence to River des Capes including the portage., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(100)
Sketchbook and rough journal of John Francis Campbell combined for 1868 and early 1869., 1868-1869.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.4.4
Scope and Contents
The first part of the volume deals with a visit Campbell made to Norway from July to September 1868 (folios 14-145) and travels in Scotland and England made from October to December of the same year.
There is also a section on the Kildonan goldrush of 1869 with press cuttings and related correspondence, and at the end of the volume are several pages of notes concerning coal-mining and the Coal Commission.
Dates:
1868-1869.
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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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
Slips containing the material from which Patrick Rose made his inventory of William Rose`s Manuscripts (Adv.MS.49.7.7)., 1819.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.49.7.20
Scope and Contents
Collected here are the slips for items XVI-XXI, XXIII-XXIV, XXVI-XXVII, XXIX-XXXII, XXXIV-XLIII, XLV-XLVII, L-LXXIV, LXXVI-LXXIX, LXXXI, LXXXIV; others are bound into Adv.MSS.49.7.1-49.7.7.
Dates:
1819.