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:
Collections of papers of General Sir George Murray concerning campaigns in wars against France., 1793-1806.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.1.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Orders and papers concerning service in the 3rd Foot Guards in the Netherlands, 1793-1795 (folio 1).(ii) Orders and copies of memoranda concerning service in the quartermaster-general`s department in Egypt, 1801-1802 (folio 16).(iii) Statistical returns and memoranda concerning the various islands of the West Indies where he served as adjutant-general, 1802-1803 (folio 43).(iv) Letters and reports...
Dates:
1793-1806.
Collections of poems by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’., [Circa 1940]-1967.
File
Identifier: MS.27029
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Part of a manuscript collection of poems intended for publication, circa l940 (folio 1); (ii) Incomplete manuscript and typescripts of the second and third appendices to a larger work. The 'Second Appendix' (folio 21) consists of a poem on Glasgow, parts of which were published in ‘Collected poems’ and ‘Lucky poet’. The "Third Appendix' (folio 52) is 'Once in a Cornish garden' from ‘A lap of honour’ (London, 1967).
Dates:
[Circa 1940]-1967.
Collections of Tales for the ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’ project, with related correspondence and other papers.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.1.14-50.2.4
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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Manuscripts, proofs and editorial commentary, with some associated correspondence, papers and notes, of John Francis Campbell and his team of collectors for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 1859-1862, and of the later tale collection fieldwork by Campbell himself, 1870-1871.
`Collections of the most remarkable accounts that relate to the families of Scotland drawn from ther own charters and other authentick writts ... with ane account of ther armes’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.19
Scope and Contents
The authorship is here attributed to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, but an 18th-century footnote added to the title page states that the collection was originally compiled by Sir Patrick Lyon of Carse, and that his manuscript was copied by Mackenzie and others who made their own additions to it.The original compilation was probably made in 1672 (see Adv.MSS.32.6.1, folio 154 and 34.3.14, folio 42). This copy, which is in several hands, appears to have been made after July...
Dates:
?1672.
`Coloquy betwixt Philander and Silvia` and other Scottish poems, mainly satirical.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.16
Scope and Contents
All the poems are apparently unpublished.
Dates:
Circa 1760.
`Commentarii juridico-archeologici` by Páll Jónsson Vídalín.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.4.3
Dates:
18th century.
Commentary on ‘Isagoge’ on Galen’s 'Tegni', by Johannicius (Honein ben Ishak); and, commentary on the 'Aphorisms' of Hippocrates by Oribasius, both written by the same scribe in the 12th century and bound together at least from the 15th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.13
Scope and Contents
(i) Commentary on ‘Isagoge’ on Galen’s ‘Tegni`, by Johannicius (Honein ben Ishak), incipit `Cum inter omnia animalia humanum corpus` (Thorndike-Kibre, col. 311). Frequent quotations from the text of Johannicius are included, incipit `Medicina diuiditur in duas partes idest in theoriam and practicam` (folio 1). Folio 49 verso blank.(ii) Commentary on Hippocrates, `Aphorisms’, by Oribasius, incipit ‘Afforismorum Ypocratis huius noue editionis ea causa extitit`...
Dates:
12th century.
Commonplace-book of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe., 1647-1841.
Item
Identifier: MS.2510
Scope and Contents
Commonplace book (formerly a rental-book, 1785-1786), dated 1817 and 1841 (see inside front cover and folio 96), containing sketches of Hawthornden and Roslin, a manuscript copy of the Reverend John Frazer, ‘Δεντεροσκοπία’ (Edinburgh, 1707), extracts from Humbie Kirk Session Book, 1647-1676, in Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's autograph, letters, etc.
Dates:
1647-1841.
Commonplace book of James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.3
Scope and Contents
Composite manuscript produced in Scotland and compiled in the late 15th century, probably circa 1500, by James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane and secretary to William Scheves, Archbishop of St Andrews. The manuscript is a commonplace book and consists of a variety of religious, historical, legal, and literary material. There are several hands evident throughout the manuscript. Anderson states that folios 1r-24v are written by very similar hands, and could...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Commonplace book of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 1753-1765, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.25426
Scope and Contents
Included in the volume are 'Memorials concerning myself, my friends and native country, 1759' (folio 32), a copy of Lieutenant Colonel James Dalrymple's account of the capture of Quebec, a list of Lord Hailes' publications up to 1766 and notes on his literary activities, Horatio Walpole, and James MacPherson (folio 140), and 'Hints for the Public Good', undated, being suggestions for amending the legal, military, and religious establishments in Scotland (folio 169).
Dates:
1753-1765, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Miscellaneous papers of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Notebooks and commonplace books of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Commonplace book of the Earl of Buchan.
Item
Identifier: MS.963
Scope and Contents
The comonplace book contains drafts of letters to the ‘Bee’, an inventory of the Earl of Buchan’s property, lists of Scottish portraits, an ode, ‘To the Shepherd of the Cot’, and notes and drafts of papers on the Scottish Peerage and other subjects. Included is a manuscript copy of ‘The New Order of Gooding and Manuring all sorts of Field Land with Common Salts’, by Archibald, afterwards 1st Lord Napier (said to have been printed by Robert Waldegrave), referring to the right to issue...
Dates:
1778-1791.
Commonplace book, probably English, mostly compiled from classical authors and church fathers.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.8
Scope and Contents
Later authors include Bishop Stillingfleet (folio 197), Thomas Hooker (folio 92) and John Paul Marana, author of ‘The Turkish Spye’ (1686) (folio 178).
The date of the volume is no earlier than 1686.
Dates:
1686-early 18th century.
Comparative topography of South Britain, North Britain, and Ireland, undated, by George Chalmers., Early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.2097
Dates:
Early 19th century.
`Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi` by Peter of Poitiers, Chancellor of Paris., 13th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(i)
Scope and Contents
This manuscript was not known to Philip S Moore (‘The Works of Peter of Poitiers’, pages 97-117). It is imperfect, beginning with Manasses and Alexander of Macedon, and ending with Saints Paul and Barnabas. The second section of the roll contains part of Richard of Wedinghausen’s treatise on the canon of the Mass (‘Patrologia latina’ 177, column 455 and what follows, where it is attributed to John of Cornwall). The manuscript attributes it to Innocent III. The text breaks off in...
Dates:
13th century.
Compendium of medical treatises in Gaelic written by Angus Beaton.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.10
Scope and Contents
The compendium of medical treatises was written 1611-1614 by Angus Beaton. He gives only his patronymic, Aonghus mac Fearchair mhic Aonghuis (pages 126, 192, 260), but this is sufficient to identify him as of the Beatons of Husabost in Skye. Apart from one visit to Skye (Trumpan, page 66), and a meeting or consultation with Cameron of Lochiel at a place called Dunán Eachain (page 106), Angus’ line-fillers and other notes indicate that the manuscript was written on circuit in the contiguous...
Dates:
1611-1614.
‘Compendium physiologicae’, being works on logic and natural and moral philosophy by George Sibbald of Rankeillour.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.7
Scope and Contents
At the end are a number of verses addressed by different persons.
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Compilations on precious stones by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) A work in six chapters or `casketts`. The first five each deal with thirteen kinds of stone, and the sixth with ten. Each stone is described, with its names, places of origin and medical uses. The compilation is based on the chapter `De Gemmis` in the ‘Aromatum Historiae’, and on the works of Nicolas Monard, Antoine Mizauld, Pietro Andrea Mattioli and other authors. (Folio 1.)(ii) `Gemmarum Fraudes, seu Variae Homines...
Dates:
17th century.
Complaint made to Henry VI by the Duke of Gloucester, and ‘A fulle lamentable cronicle of the dethe and fals murder of James Steward [James I]’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.22
Dates:
16th century.
‘Complete cellar-book’ (Edinburgh, 1817) with manuscript entries for 1822., 1817, 1822.
Item
Identifier: MS.9972
Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.15
Scope and Contents
Each volume has a contents list (folios 1, 77) and the second volume has its own foliation added in an apparently later hand.The first volume (folios 1-74) consists of copies (in the same hand), made apparently in or about 1585, of the following:(i) ‘Discorso del Priore d`Inghilterra a Papa Pio V circa la Riduttione di quel Regno’ (folio 2), being an account by Sir Richard Shelley, Grand Prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, written apparently early in 1570,...
Dates:
1537-1606.
Composite manuscript containing a short treatise intended for the guidance of kings, and a short account of Ḥaleb.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.3(i)- Adv.MS.18.7.3 (ii)
Dates:
1581, 1584.
Composite manuscript of miscellaneous Gaelic texts.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.8
Scope and Contents
A composite ('mangeral', page 194) manuscript of 3 sections, the first probably from Ulster, the others from Munster.Section 1: Pages 13-182. ‘Foolscap’ watermark typical of latter half of 17th century. The hand at pages 13-120 is otherwise unknown, but the date ‘1709’ (page 44, margin) may be an indication of the year of writing. That at pages 121-180 is Hand X of the Antrim Manuscript, National Museum of Scotland MCR 40.Section 2: Pages 182a-272. ‘Coat of arms’...
Dates:
18th century.
Composite volume consisting of several commonplace books of William Thoirs of Muiresk, born 1666, covering the years 1705-1724, but also containing earlier material.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.4.14
Scope and Contents
The commonplace books were bound together but not in chronological order. Some are made up from old legal style books (folios 161, 197, 248, 331, 479), one (circa 1697) belonging to a James Strachan (folio 199). The contents of the volumes are predominantly Episcopalian and Jacobite in sympathies, covering a range of theology, drama, poetry, polemic and ephemera. There is a copy of Dr Archibald Pitcairne`s Anti-Presbyterian play ‘The Assembly’ (folio 162) and also several pages of elaborate...
Dates:
1705, and before-1724.
Composite volume containing four fragmentary manuscripts of the 12th and 13th centuries, all of uncertain origin.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) `Synonyma` by Pseudo-Cicero, beginning in the middle of the article `Domuit`. This manuscript differs considerably, both in number of articles and verbally, from the printed texts. On folios 10-11 is an 18th-century note on the bibliography of this work. (Folio 2.)(ii) Fragment of a mediaeval work on logic, listing types of argument (intrinsecus: a comparatione, a parte, a nota; extrinsecus: a coniugatis, a genere, a...
Dates:
12th century-13th century.