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:
The ridge of Busaco., Circa 1810.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(45)
'The Sherifdome of Etricke Forrest with the adjoyning provinces'., [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 57)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
'The Story Teller', manuscript with draft notes., June 1965.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4835/11
'The Union Jack rambler', number 1 (June 1881)-volume II, number 6 (November 1881)., 1881.
File
Identifier: Acc.3532/1
'The Union Jack rambler', volume II, number 7 (December 1881)-volume II, number 8 (Christmas 1881)., 1881
File
Identifier: Acc.3532/2
'The Union Jack rambler', volume III, number 10 (February 1882)-volume III, number 13 (May 1882)., 1882.
File
Identifier: Acc.3532/3
'The Union Jack rambler', volume III, number 14 (June 1882)-summer edition, August 1882., 1882.
File
Identifier: Acc.3532/4
'The Union Jack rambler', volume III, number 18 (October 1882), volume IV, number 21 (January 1883)., 1882-1883.
File
Identifier: Acc.3532/5
‘The War, 1914-1918’ (London, 1929) a booklist compiled by Edmund Blunden, Cyril Falls, H.M. Tomlinson and R. Wright, with notes in the hand of William Soutar., 1929-[Before 1944.]
File
Identifier: MS.8769
"The Warriston Monthly".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9241
Scope and Contents
Illustrated magazine circulating in manuscript amonst the employees of McLagan and Cumming.
Dates:
1897.
'The Whaler's Return', two manuscripts., January 1966.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4835/12
'The Wireless Set', two manuscripts., Circa November 1958.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4835/1
Dates:
Circa November 1958.
‘The works of Robert Burns’ edited by W Scott Douglas (Edinburgh, 1877-1879); originally in seven volumes, it has been expanded to thirteen by the insertion of letters, manuscripts, engravings, etchings and drawings relating to Robert Burns and his work., 1796-1809, 1877-1879.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.15955-15967
Scope and Contents
The insertions include poems and letters in the poet's hand (MS.15957, folio 13; MS.15958, folios ii, 19; MS.15959, folio 18; MS.15960, folio 5; MS.15967, folios 9, 13, 14); letters, 1796-1809, from his brother Gilbert about the family; and correspondence, 1798-1800 of James Currie about an edition of the poems.
Dates:
1796-1809, 1877-1879.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Cowie collection of manuscripts of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Allan Ramsay and others, made by Charles R Cowie of Glasgow.
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‘The works of Robert Burns’ edited by W Scott Douglas (Edinburgh, 1877-1879); with index to the manuscript insertions.
‘The works of Robert Burns’ edited by W Scott Douglas (Edinburgh, 1877-1879); with index to the manuscript insertions., 1877-1879, 1914.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15955-15968
'Theatre of the Scotishe Kings, by Mr. Alexander Garden. Boreo-Britaine.’
Item
Identifier: MS.3856
Scope and Contents
The dates 1613 on folio 1 and 1612 on folio 55 verso appear to have been altered from 1611. This manuscript is thus earlier than Adv.MS.19.3.7, dated 1625, on which the earliest printed edition (Edinburgh, 1709; reprinted by the Abbotsford Club in 1845), is based.The present manuscript does not contain the poems to the Author or the lines on Prince Henry, and the poems on Robert II and III, James II and III, and Mary are shorter by one stanza; on the other hand, it gives an...
Dates:
?1611-?1613.
Theological works of Saints Jerome, Augustine, and others, written in the 12th century., 12th century.
File
Identifier: MS.6121
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Commentary on St Mark's Gospel by the pseudo-Jerome (folio 1). See ‘Repertorium Biblicum medii aevi’, number 3436. The commentary is printed in, J P Migne, ‘Patrologiae Cursus Completus ... Latina’, volume xxx, 589-644.(ii) 'Continuatio veteris et novi testamenti', a rhymed version of pseudo-Hegesippus, 'De bello iudaico' (folio 18); beginning 'Contion of pseudo-Hegesippus, 'De bello iudaico' (folio 18); beginning 'Continuare volumus...
Dates:
12th century.
Theological writings and letters of James Tayes, written chiefly at Bo'ness.
Item
Identifier: MS.5165
Scope and Contents
Internal evidence suggests that James Tayes, if not actually a Quaker, subscribed to some Quaker doctrines; a summary of this evidence will be found on folio i.
There are copies of correspondence with John Brand, minister of Bo'ness (page 94); and with James Aird, minister of Torryburn (page 160).
Dates:
1688-1703.
Thirteen poems of David Gray, six in manuscript and seven in print., 1858-1861, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.8465
Scope and Contents
The leaves on which the poems appear have been tipped into an unbound book of blank sheets by an unidentified contemporary.
Dates:
1858-1861, undated.
Thirty letters and papers addressed to John Mure of Rowallan by Mary of Guise, Mary Queen of Scots, the Earls of Arran, Argyll, Lennox, Mar, and Morton, and others., 1548-1593.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.54.1.7
Thirty letters and papers addressed to John Mure of Rowallan by Mary of Guise, Mary Queen of Scots, the Earls of Arran, Argyll, Lennox, Mar, and Morton, and others; with a transcript thereof.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.54.1.7-54.1.8
Dates:
1548-1593.
Thirty-seven letters, 1811-1830, and fragments of manuscript, ?1831-1832, by Sir Walter Scott, with seventy-three letters, 1830-1832, written to or about Scott.
Series
Identifier: MS.5317
Dates:
1811-1832.
'This Book contains The Characters of All the Princes Dukes Noblemen & others in publick & private offices Both in Scotland & England in the year 1705.', ?1739.
Item
Identifier: MS.2702
Scope and Contents
The book was probably written by one William Mouatt in 1739 (page 79).
Dates:
?1739.
[This number is no longer used. See MS.42355.] Manuscript, "Discoveries in the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon", by Austen Henry Layard. The manuscript is annotated "Part II". , 1847-1853
File
Identifier: MS.42356
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes some proofs of illustrations.
Dates:
1847-1853
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning Austen Henry Layard.
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Manuscripts and proofs of various works by Austen Henry Layard.
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Manuscripts and proofs of the works of Austen Henry Layard concerning his journeys through, and his archaeological excavations and diplomatic missions in, the Ottoman Empire.
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Manuscript and marked proofs, "Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon", by Austen Henry Layard.
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Manuscript, "Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon", by Austen Henry Layard.
Three documents, 1674, 1708, letters and notes, 1827, and undated, concerning the family of Laurie of Maxwelton., 1674, 1708, 1827, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.6
Dates:
1674, 1708, 1827, and undated.
Three documents concerning electioneering in Scotland in the 1830s.
File
Identifier: Acc.6204
Dates:
circa 1830-circa 1839.