Manuscripts.
Found in 6567 Collections and/or Records:
Texts 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., 1701-1788.
"The Assemblie or Scotch Reforma[ti]on, a Comedie, the Third Edition Corrected and Enlarged by the Authors", by Archibald Pitcairne.
Apparently the earliest surviving manuscript of the text.
'The Bright Spade', two manuscript drafts and a corrected typescript., January 1963.
'The Carver Choirbook', a sixteenth-century manuscript also known as the 'Scone Antiphonary'.
"The Course of Hannibal over the Alps Ascertained" (London, 1794) by John Whitaker and annotated by Alexander Fraser Tytler.
Includes manuscript [laid in] of "Hannibals [sic] Passage thro` the Alps, According to, Gen[era]l Melville", watermarked 1801-1802 and endorsed by A F Tytler. Not in the hand of General Robert Melville.
'The descent probative, branches, and relations of R.M., engr. in Edr.', i.e., Robert Mylne, son of the antiquary, 'by the mother ... Collected from a great many . . . authentick documents in my own custody', with additions and corrections by the father., 1728.
The families chiefly described are those of Govean or Govan (page 1), Forrester of Denovan (page 29), Rind (page 37), Row (the reformer and his descendants) (page 43), Geddie (page 57), and Avery (page 101); detailed accounts are given of some individuals, with extracts from their correspondence. At the beginning (folio ii) is a fragment of an account of Mr John Govean, Minister of Campsie, followed by a list of contents. At the end are miscellaneous notes.
'The draught of Edera Cheules, lying betuix Strath-Navern and Assin, gathered out of Mr. Timothee Pont his papers, who travayled and descryved the same - by R. Gordon.' , 1636.
'The draught of the Birs wt. the nixt parts of the river Dee.' , [?1636-?1652.]
'The draught of ye river of Charron whiche falleth into the head of the firth of Tayne in Ros. from Mr. T. Pont's papers.', [?1636-?1652.]
Part of this area is described in the Pont texts: pages 122-123, and page 132.
‘The Earl of Gowrie: a tragedy’ (London, 1845) by James White; with considerable manuscript alterations, circa 1846, by the author., 1845, circa 1846.
The volume is described in a manuscript note by the author as 'adapted for representation'.
`The evill troubles of the Lewes and how the Mackleoid of the Lewes was with his whol trybe destroyed and put from the possesion of the Lewes`, an account of the last anarchic years of the family of Macleod of Lewis, the abortive attempts of a company of adventurers from Fife to colonise the island, and the eventual conquest of the island by Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Lord of Kintail, circa 1540-1626.
The manuscript, probably a contemporary account written circa 1630, is almost identical with the narrative of Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun in his ‘Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland’, pages 267-276, which was written originally circa 1630.
Several lines at the foot of some folios are illegible and a short part of the text is missing between folios 16 and 17. The miscellaneous notes dated 1670 (folio 3) are in a later hand.
'The Eye of the Hurricane', manuscript draft., N.d.
'The Five of Shades', two manuscript drafts., January 1964.
`The Historie of Scotland from the year 1660` by Sir George Mackenzie. The only known manuscript, in the hand of a transcriber but with corrections in the hand of Sir George Mackenzie himself.
'The Inn Keeper', manuscript draft., December 1967.
The MacNicol collection, comprising Gaelic songs and other papers collected by the Reverend Donald MacNicol, minister of Lismore, and his son Dugald MacNicol, with some added papers and listings of later owners and users of the collection.
'The memoirs [and] reflections of Hr McNiell [of the Harp], written by himself', a manuscript copy of the first volume of the memoirs of Hector MacNeill.
'The navy officer, or true blue will never stain', manuscript of a novel written for Elizabeth Mackenzie Menzies of Culdares, later Mrs John Beresford.
'The Navy officer, or true blue will never stain' [volume] 1, manuscript of a novel written for Elizabeth Mackenzie Menzies of Culdares., Late 18th century.
Included is a history of the Douglas Cause (folio 77 verso).
'The Navy officer, or true blue will never stain' [volume] 2, manuscript of a novel written for Elizabeth Mackenzie Menzies of Culdares., Late 18th century
'The Old Byre at Clashmore', a play for radio by Robert McLellan., 1965.
The part of Nessie was written for the actress Effie Morrison.
The only known autograph manuscript of the poem "Fragment - Epistle from Esopus to Maria" by Robert Burns (Kinsley number 486).
"The Poet`s Journal" of George Crabbe., 1779-1780.
Title taken from the `Index of English Literary Manuscripts`, volume 3, part 1, page 296 (London : Mansell, 1986), which has a full description of the contents of the notebook.
`The Proceiding of the Generall Assemblye of the Kirk of Scotland indictid by the King`s Mtye and convennd at Glasgow the xxi of Nov the year of god 1638`: a full contemporary account of proceedings (Inv. LXXV, Mac. 60)., 1638.
Leaves are missing after folios 5, 11, 19 and 24; references to the printed report in ‘Records of the Kirk of Scotland’, volume i, have been written on the leaves flanking these gaps.