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:
Three documents concerning the family of Boyd of Knockson and to the farm of Knockson, near Ayr.
File
Identifier: Acc.5275
Dates:
1845, 1859-1860.
Three drawing books of Nancy Brysson Morrison, with manuscript notes for "King's quiver: the last three Tudors" pasted in., [1972, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27345-27347
Scope and Contents
The drawing books are arranged in chronological order.
Dates:
[1972, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary papers and correspondence of the novelist and biographer, Nancy Brysson Morrison (1903-1986).
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Literary papers of Nancy Brysson Morrison.
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Notes for and manuscript of "King's quiver: the last three Tudors" by Nancy Brysson Morrison.
Three English rolls of arms, copied in trick by Sir James Balfour., 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(v)
Scope and Contents
The first roll contains 136 coats, beginning `De Bouhn [sic] comes de Hereford, S[?] Roger de Mortuomari, Edmundus de Mortuomari` and ends `De Gray de Lancastaria, Ayton de Lancasteria, De Brune`. It does not appear in ‘A Catalogue of English mediaeval rolls of arms’.The second, `Thir cotts of armes follouing wes borne by such Knights and gentelmen as Ed. I planted in Scotland`, contains 47 coats, beginning `S[?] Villiam Basset, S[?] Richard Le Walleyes, S[?] Jhone Constabill,...
Dates:
17th century.
Three journals of Sir Patrick Walker describing a `Tour to the West of Scotland from Edinburgh to Arran by Glasgow, Kilmarnock and Saltcoats and Return to Edinburgh by Greenock. From July 24th to 13 Sept. 1797 inclusive`, volume 1., 1798.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.5.1
Scope and Contents
This volume describes the tour from 24 July to 10 August, with particular reference to his visit to Glasgow and of his stay on Arran.
Dates:
1798.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Three journals of Sir Patrick Walker, Advocate, describing a `Tour to the West of Scotland from Edinburgh to Arran by Glasgow, Kilmarnock and Saltcoats and Return to Edinburgh by Greenock. From July 24th to 13 Sept. 1797 inclusive`.
Three journals of Sir Patrick Walker describing a `Tour to the West of Scotland from Edinburgh to Arran by Glasgow, Kilmarnock and Saltcoats and Return to Edinburgh by Greenock. From July 24th to 13 Sept. 1797 inclusive`, volume 2., 1798.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.5.2
Scope and Contents
This volume continues the account of Walker’s activities on Arran from 11 August. The return journey is then recounted with lengthy descriptions of Bute, Rothesay and Greenock.
Dates:
1798.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Three journals of Sir Patrick Walker, Advocate, describing a `Tour to the West of Scotland from Edinburgh to Arran by Glasgow, Kilmarnock and Saltcoats and Return to Edinburgh by Greenock. From July 24th to 13 Sept. 1797 inclusive`.
Three journals of Sir Patrick Walker describing a `Tour to the West of Scotland from Edinburgh to Arran by Glasgow, Kilmarnock and Saltcoats and Return to Edinburgh by Greenock. From July 24th to 13 Sept. 1797 inclusive`, volume 3., 1798.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.5.3
Scope and Contents
This volume begins on 13 September, describing the last stage of the journey, his visit to Paisley in particular. The remainder of the volume contains as an Appendix, a `General Description of the Island of Arran` (folio 45), covering all aspects of Island life.
Dates:
1798.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Three journals of Sir Patrick Walker, Advocate, describing a `Tour to the West of Scotland from Edinburgh to Arran by Glasgow, Kilmarnock and Saltcoats and Return to Edinburgh by Greenock. From July 24th to 13 Sept. 1797 inclusive`.
Three manuscripts relating to Field-Marshal George Wade, bound in one volume, apparently that formerly in the Junior United Service Club.
File
Identifier: MS.3076
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Poem by a Scottish author, describing the roads, bridges, etc., built by Wade in the Highlands and referring to the manners and resources of the country, 1737. It is followed by notes on allusions and meanings of words, and preceded by a preface in which the author discusses the difficulty which a Scottish writer finds in composing English poetry. It is quoted by J B Salmond, ‘Wade in Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1938), page 204. (Folio 1.)...
Dates:
1737-1744.
Three notebooks of Elspeth Davie including manuscript drafts for short stories., Undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10631/18-20
Three papers and a genealogical table by John Riddell, concerning the relation of General James Durham of Largo to the title of Lord Rutherford., 1824-1825.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.22
Three papers, apparently read to unidentified learned societies.
File
Identifier: MS.8889
Scope and Contents
The papers are as follows:(i) 'Observations on the ancient and modern analysis' (incomplete), January, 1768 (folio 1), with an unsigned report on the paper (folio 25).(ii) A copy 'read 7th Septʳ, and 5th Octʳ, 1784' of the 'History of the parishes of Monivaird and Strowan copied from the Mss of the late Mr [James] Porteous' of Dalvich, minister of Monzievaird and Strowan (folio 29), followed by fragments in a different hand (folio 81). For a more legible and...
Dates:
1768, 1784, 1786.
Three poems in manuscript and a note in Efik., N.d.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4886/12
Three sets of proofs, with manuscript corrections by Sir Walter Scott and others, of his Introduction to ‘Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald, for the murder of Arthur Davis’., [1831, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.3168
Scope and Contents
The printed work is mainly based on the second set of proofs, all the corrections to which are in Sir Walter Scott's hand, although a few of the alterations made by him to the third set are included.
Dates:
[1831, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.
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Material extracted from the papers placed in MS.3134 (xi): Letters of Sir Walter Scott to Thomas Thomson and other material relating to Scott.
Three South Asian manuscripts written on palm leaves.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.7-Adv.MS.81.1.9
Dates:
Undated.
Three versions (the third incomplete) of a memorandum on the genealogy of the family of Buchanan, 1826 (folios 1, 15, 43), followed by some apparently unrelated leaves containing parts of a draft of John Riddell`s ‘Reply to ... Dr Hamilton of Bardowie’ (folio 55)., 1826, 1828.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.1
Three volumes, containing much of David Macbeth Moir's poetry, and the last part of John Galt's novel ‘The last of the lairds’, with related material.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6520-6522
Dates:
1822-1849.
Three volumes of poems of Alexander Ross, Schoolmaster at Lochlee in Angus, and author of ‘Helinore: the Fortunate Shepherdess’ (Aberdeen, 1768).
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.18A-C
Scope and Contents
The poems are mainly of a religious nature and written in English, with the exception of ‘The Fortunate Shepherd or the Orphan’, which is in Scots.
Dates:
?1753-1782.
Three works of Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton in a late seventeenth-century hand., [Before 1609.]
File
Identifier: MS.2706
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'De Hominio Disputatio Adversus eos Qui Scotiam Feudum Ligium Angliae, Regemque Scotorum eo nomine Hominium Anglo debere asserunt' (folio 1), dated 1697 (folio 121). The first and only publication of the work was the English translation by George Ridpath (London, 1695).(ii) 'De Jure Successionis Regni Angliae', dated 1697 (folio 127). The first and only publication of the work was the English translation by James Gatherer (London,...
Dates:
[Before 1609.]
"Tibbie Flint's history" by Elizabeth Bell., [1808-1828], 1890.
Item
Identifier: MS.9379A
Dates:
Majority of material found within [1808-1828], 1890.
"Tibbie Flint's history" by Elizabeth Bell., [1808-1828.]
Item
Identifier: MS.9379B
"Tibbie Flint's history", sketches in letter and anecdote form, written by Elizabeth Bell of Coldstream (1787-1876) in the character of Tibbie Flint.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9379A-9379B
Scope and Contents
The material contained in the two volumes was apparently written between 1808 and 1828, and describes amusing events in the life of 'Tibbie Flint' in Roxburghshire, Edinburgh, and London. Authorship and other details are given in a note at the beginning of the manuscript, dated 24 December 1890, in the hand of William, 3rd Earl of Minto, which reveals that Elizabeth Bell used to dress up and act the part of Tibbie Flint at Minto House. Her connection with the family was through friendship...
Dates:
Majority of material found within [1808-1828], 1890.
'Timūr-nāmah' of Hātifī., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3181
Scope and Contents
Decorated heading on folio 1 verso.
Dates:
18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.
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Persian manuscripts, most of which are undated, but seem to be chiefly of the eighteenth century, and to have been acquired in India.
'Tom tell troth or a free discourse touching the rumour of the tymes. Directed to his Ma[jes]tie by way of humble Advertisement ... 1621', a description of popular discontent. , 1621.
Item
Identifier: MS.5445
Topographical and other works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.22
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Scotia illustrata sive Theatrum Urbium, Arcium, Monasteriorum et aedium quarundam illustrium in Scotia`, circa 1692. The Latin text by Sibbald intended for John Slezer`s ‘Theatrum Scotiae’. It is very different from the published text which Slezer had had translated without Sibbald`s authority. The preface is in Slezer`s hand, and each entry is signed by both Sibbald and Slezer. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copy of William Harvey`s...
Dates:
Circa 1692-1709, and undated.
Topographical dictionary of Scotland, recording the various localities of the country and the parishes in which they are contained, together with the rivers of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.1.1-20.1.5
Scope and Contents
The localities are listed alphabetically within each county: the counties are arranged topographically. The work appears to have been compiled from the map of Scotland by John Ainslie which was published in 1789 (Adv.MS.20.1.5, folio 94): the list of place-names in Norway is taken from Pontoppidan`s map of 1781. It is in a number of unidentified hands, with numerous deletions and alterations throughout. It is not known for whom it was compiled: it may have been for George...
Dates:
Circa 1794-1801.