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:
'Strath Done' [i.e. Strathdon]. , [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 27)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
Strathbogie and Aenzie. , [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 26)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
'Street songs and ballads' by G Foxton Ferguson containing printed and manuscript keyboard settings in various hands tipped and pasted in with a number of settings written on some of the original leaves, chiefly undated., 1911-1918, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22135
Scope and Contents
The title is taken from folio 1.
The manuscript settings are dated between 1911 (folio 17 verso) and 1918 (folio 20), but most, and all the printed settings, are undated.
The settings at folios i verso and 25 are pasted inside the front and back covers respectively.
Dates:
1911-1918, undated.
Student notes of the ‘Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres’ of Hugh Blair.
File
Identifier: MS.850
Scope and Contents
The lectures contain (folios 51 verso, 59 verso, 76 verso) the criticisms of Dr Johnson omitted from the published ‘Lectures’, and in particular the rendering of a passage of Addison in the style of Johnson (folio 83) quoted in part by Boswell in his ‘Life’ (edited by Birkbeck Hill, 1934, etc., volume iii, page 172).
Dates:
18th century.
`Sturlunga saga`, written by Thorsteinn Kaetilsson.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.3.17
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.
'Succinct account of the Grants', written at Birkenbush, near Keith, in 1782; inscribed to Mr Lud. Grant, Edinburgh, 1783, 1782-1783.
Item
Identifier: MS.3568
Dates:
1782-1783.
Suggestion book of members of the Faculty of Advocates.
Item
Identifier: F.R.141
Scope and Contents
Chiefly regarding books requested to be purchased by the Library.
Dates:
1820-1838.
'Sulway fyrth [i.e. Solway Firth] Liddesdale Es[kdale...]'., [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 63)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
`Summa magistri Walteri de Agelon facta de dosis medicinarum`, and a list of symptoms., 14th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.9(iii), folios 59-68
Scope and Contents
`Summa magistri Walteri de Agelon facta de dosis medicinarum`, incipit `Medicinarum uero quedam sunt simplices quedam composite` (‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column 860) (folio 59).A list of symptoms, incipit `Significat solutionem se acute mediante fluxu sanguinis a naribus’ (folio 65 verso).Vacant spaces are filled in by different hands of the 14th and 15th centuries with recipes (folios 65, 68 verso, some of the latter in...
Dates:
14th century.
Summaries and extracts 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., 1901, or before.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.3.24-81.3.26
Scope and Contents
These were originally in small notebooks, but have now been gathered into volumes, the title-pages of the notebooks being preserved and reproduced in the catalogue records for the individual volumes.
Dates:
1901, or before.
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).
Summaries and extracts 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., 1901, or before.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.3.24
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) ‘Resolutions Holland I’ (folio 1).(ii) ‘Resolutions Holland II’ (folio 21).(iii) ‘Resolutions Holland III’ (folio 38).(iv) ‘Resolutions of Councilors in Committee Holland’ (folio 51).(v) ‘Resolutions Council of State 1793-1795’ (folio 73).(vi) ‘Resolutions Council of State Scottish Reg[iments] 3’ (folio 102).(vii) ‘Resolutions Council of State Scottish Brigade 4’...
Dates:
1901, or before.
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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Summaries and extracts 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.
Summaries and extracts 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., 1901, or before.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.3.25
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) ‘Holland 1573-1590’ (folio 1).(ii) ‘Council of State Commission book I’ (folio 8).(iii) ‘Council of State Commission book II’ (folio 29).(iv) ‘Commission Books Council of State H.11-H.13’’ (folio 50).(v) ‘Commission Books Council of State H.13 (continued)’ (folio 71).(vi) ‘Commission Books Council of State H.13-H.14’ (folio 94).(vii) ‘Commission Books C. of State...
Dates:
1901, or before.
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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Summaries and extracts 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.
Summaries and extracts 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., 1901, or before.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.3.26
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:
(i) ‘Council of State States of War II’ (folio 1).
(ii) ‘War Estimates 1766-1795 II’ (folio 8).
(iii) ’War Estimates 1766-1795 III’ (folio 18).
(iv) ‘Commanding Officers and Sundries’ (folio 43).
(v) ‘D 46-120’ (folio 62).
(vi) ‘Companies’ (folio 72).
(vii) ‘Oath book I’ (folio 103).
(viii) ‘Oath book II’ (folio 128).
Dates:
1901, or before.
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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Summaries and extracts 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.
Summaries of the correspondence of the family of Dundas of Dundas made by the Reverend Walter MacLeod and his amanuenses., Late 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.1.16-80.1.17
Scope and Contents
Not all the letters are dealt with, and the treatment becomes more cursory as the series progresses.
Dates:
Late 19th century.
Summaries of the correspondence of the family of Dundas of Dundas made by the Reverend Walter MacLeod and his amanuenses: summaries of letters in Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.1.3., Late 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.1.16
Dates:
Late 19th century.
Summaries of the correspondence of the family of Dundas of Dundas made by the Reverend Walter MacLeod and his amanuenses: summaries of letters in Adv.MSS.80.1.4-80.1.10., Late 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.1.17
Dates:
Late 19th century.
Supplement and additions to the ‘Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language’ by John Jamieson.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.1.1-22.1.12
Dates:
1st half of 19th century.
Supplement to the ‘Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language’ by John Jamieson., [1825, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.1.1-22.1.9
Supplement to the ‘Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language’ by John Jamieson., [1825, or before.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.1
Supplement to the ‘Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language’ by John Jamieson., [1825, or before.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.2
Supplement to the ‘Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language’ by John Jamieson., [1825, or before.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.3
Supplement to the ‘Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language’ by John Jamieson., [1825, or before.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.4
Supplement to the ‘Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language’ by John Jamieson., [1825, or before.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.5
Supplement to the ‘Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language’ by John Jamieson., [1825, or before.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.6
Supplement to the ‘Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language’ by John Jamieson., [1825, or before.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.7