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:
Treatise in three volumes on a union between Great Britain and Ireland.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.5.1(i)-31.5.1(iii)
Scope and Contents
The work was written apparently in October 1798 (Adv.MSS.31.5.1(ii), folio 11, 31.5.1(iii), folio 4). The writer does not identify himself, but, as a pencil note inside the front cover of Adv.MS.31.5.1(i) makes clear, was Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbarvie.A plan of the proposed work is given at Adv.MS.31.5.1(i), folios 1-4, but the author does not adhere rigorously to it.The leaves are written on the rectos, the versos being used as necessary for additions and...
Dates:
1798.
Treatise in three volumes on a union between Great Britain and Ireland, volume 1., 1798.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.5.1(i)
Treatise in three volumes on a union between Great Britain and Ireland, volume 2., 1798.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.5.1(ii)
Scope and Contents
Leaves are cut or torn out after folios 107 and 151, and a bifolium (folio 226), formerly tipped in, has been placed inside a pocket inside the back cover.
Dates:
1798.
Treatise in three volumes on a union between Great Britain and Ireland, volume 3., 1798.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.5.1(iii)
Scope and Contents
Leaves are cut or torn out after folios 239 and 243.
Dates:
1798.
`Treatise on the Provincial Dialect of Scotland`, a work in two volumes by Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.23.7.18-23.7.19
Scope and Contents
The two volumes contain Book I, Chapters 1-4: it is not known if the work proceeded any further. It is a didactic work, intended not only to describe the ways in which Scottish usage and pronunciation differ from English but also to recommend adherence to English usage, and it draws upon French and Italian as well as English authors. It is undated: the latest datable reference in the text appears to be to Thomas Sheridan`s ‘Lectures on the Art of Reading’ which was published in 1775, and...
Dates:
After 1775.
`Treatise on the Provincial Dialect of Scotland` by Sylvester Douglas: volume 1., After 1775.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.18
`Treatise on the Provincial Dialect of Scotland` by Sylvester Douglas: volume 2., After 1775.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.19
Treatises on alchemy.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.8.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) 'Conpositum de Conpositis abstractis a philosophis'. See 'Catalogue of Latin and vernacular alchemical manuscripts', number 290, which ascribes the work to 'magistri Parisii'. For a summary of the contents and discussion of possible authorship, see ‘History of magic and experimental science’ (London, 1923-1958), volume iii, page 133-135. A colophon gives the place and date of compilation of the treatise as Paris, May, 1331, and...
Dates:
14th century.
Trial of Christian Ross Malcolmson, Agnes Roy (folio 25 verso) and Gredoch Malcolmson (folio 27 verso) alleged co-conspirators with Katherine Ross, Lady Foullis (wife of Robert Mor Munro, 15th Baron Foullis) against Robert Munro, appearand of Foullis and Marjorie Campbell, young Lady Balnagowan., 1577.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.9.7(ii), folios 20-29
Scope and Contents
The trial was held in the Cathedral church of Ross in Fortrose on 27th November 1577, by Walter Urquhart sheriff of Cromarty and Robert Munro of Foullis. The document appears to be the earliest surviving example of a local witchcraft trial held under a royal commission.Katherine Ross was later tried and acquitted in 1590 for her part in the attempted murder of the young lady and laird and the actual murder of the nurse who accidentally tasted the poison. Her trial is printed in...
Dates:
1577.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.
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Manuscripts from the Riddell Collection.
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Small miscellany of legal papers, arranged as far as possible in a single chronological sequence.
'Triptych. A story', manuscript., January 1963-September 1966.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4835/6
Dates:
January 1963-September 1966.
Twenty-five letters, 1926-1977, of C M Grieve to James K Annand, mostly on literary matters; manuscripts of seven poems, undated, of C M Grieve; and a manuscript of an appreciation, 1967, by C M Grieve of George Ogilvie.
File
Identifier: Dep.283- is now part of Acc.9624.
Dates:
1926-1977.
Twenty songs and choruses of George Frideric Handel, composer.
Item
Identifier: MS.6301 [BH.Add.48]
Scope and Contents
The works are from the oratorios "Alexander's Feast", 'Samson', 'Deborah', 'Occasional Oratorio', 'Saul', 'Susanna', 'Judas Maccabaeus', and the "Ode for St Cecilia's Day", in vocal score; with two marches, from the 'Occasional Oratorio', and 'Judas Maccabaeus', arranged for keyboard. They are written in a professional hand, and most of them include a note of performance time.
The music begins on folio 7, the preceding folios containing a contents list.
Dates:
1733-1749.
Two 13th-century English medical manuscripts, bound together from an early date, each in the hands of two scribes.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.5
Scope and Contents
(i) Serapion (ibn Sarābī). `Liber aggeratus in medicinis simplicibus`, translated by Simon of Genoa and Abraham Tortuosiensis, incipit `Postquam vidi librum Dyascoridis et librum Galeni in medicinis` (folio 1).(ii) Alī ibn al-`Abbās al-Mağūsī. `Pantegni`, translated by Constantinus Africanus (folio 123). The text is sometimes attributed to Isaac (Isḥāq ibn Sulaiman al-Isrāeli) and was printed in his ‘Opera’. This is the earliest version of Constantinus` translation; it contains...
Dates:
13th century.
Two apparently unrelated parchment fragments recovered from the binding of the same work., Late 14th century or early 15th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.6
Scope and Contents
The fragments were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark Jac.I.3.1) of ‘Illustrium Maioris Britanniae Scriptorum ... Summarium, in quinque partes divisum’ (1548), by John Bale, in which they had been used as pastedowns.The fragment recovered from the front pastedown is part of a leaf possibly from a work on moral theology, but not one recorded in ‘Patrologia Latina’. The text is written in double columns in a hand of the late 14th or early 15th century. On the side...
Dates:
Late 14th century or early 15th century.
Two articles on James Boswell and Samuel Johnson by Whitwell Elwin, each extracted from the "Quarterly Review"., ? 1857-? 1900.
File
Identifier: MS.42210
Scope and Contents
Elwin`s articles on Boswell and Johnson were published in the "Quarterly Review" in March 1854 and January 1859. The articles have been bound together in cloth covers and interleaved. Many of the pages have been marked with corrections and alterations. Certain passages have been re-worked on the interleaves. The articles were republished in Elwin`s, "Some XVIII century men of letters", under the following introduction :"Dr. Johnson was Whitwell Elwin`s...
Dates:
? 1857-? 1900.
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 Whitwell Elwin.
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Manuscript, notebooks, proofs and copies of published articles by Whitwell Elwin, and relating to his work as an editor.
Two collections of writings of Allan Ramsay, in his hand.
File
Identifier: MS.2233
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Drafts of poems, of a prose treatise in defence of the theatre (fragmentary, but not ‘Some Few Hints in Defence of Dramatic Entertainments’), and of a letter to a lady, containing a poem. Some of the poems appear to be unpublished; others differ greatly from the printed version. On folio 10 there are marginal references, apparently contemporary, to the pages of ‘Poems by Allan Ramsay’ (Edinburgh, 1728), volume ii. Some of the leaves are paginated,...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Two copies, 17th century, of the `Account of the Affairs of Scotland relating to the Revolution in 1688’ by Colin, Earl of Balcarres.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.7.12-33.7.13
Dates:
After 1688.
Two copies, 17th century, of ‘The Staggering State of the Scottish Statesmen this last 100 years bygone viz. from the year 1550 to the year 1650’ by Sir John Scot of Scotstarvet, Senator of the College of Justice, written circa 1665.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.3.1-34.3.2
Dates:
Circa 1665.
Two copies, early 17th century, of ‘Historie and Chronicles of Scotland’ by Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie, written circa 1565.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.35.4.10-35.4.11
Dates:
Circa 1565.
Two copies of a manuscript entitled 'Memoranda and Observations on the Operations of the Allied Armies in the Crimea, etc., 1854-5', by Sir George Brown., 1857.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.1860-1861
Dates:
1857.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence of the family of Brown, chiefly of Sir George Brown, Knight Commander of the Bath, and of his nephews, George, John and Francis William Brown, sons of Peter Brown (residing at Linkwood, Elgin), all three of whom served in the Army in India.
Two copies of a proposal by Robert Hay to ?John Murray, publishers, that a book be undertaken on decisive naval engagements., 1859.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42276-42277
Scope and Contents
Robert William Hay of the Colonial Office (1786-1861) contributed many articles to the 'Quarterly Review' and through that made a connection with the Murray publishing house. The items here consist of two copies of a proposal of Hay relating to a book about naval engagements. The first of these is in the hand of Hay, the second is in the hand of a copyist with annotations by Hay.
Dates:
1859.
Two copies of part II of ‘Mock poem, or Whiggs supplication’ by Samuel Colvil.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.3.9-19.3.10
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Two copies of script, 'The baby and the bathwater', by John McGrath, containing manuscript notes., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.10893/161
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Papers and productions of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Production files of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Production files of 'The baby and the bathwater', by John McGrath, originally 'Imperial policeman'.
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Scripts of 'The baby and the bathwater' by John McGrath.
Two copper plates, early 19th century, engraved in Hanover for George Graeme, and a lock of hair, circa 1854, probably that of George Graeme, wrapped in an account of tidal phenomena at Campbeltown., Early 19th century-[circa 1854.]
File
Identifier: MS.19599
Dates:
Early 19th century-[circa 1854.]
Two documents concerning Scottish history., 1666-1700.
File
Identifier: MS.2206
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Account, probably original, by a Covenanter, of his examination and imprisonment in 1666 and 1667. He seems to have been associated with Ayrshire and Dumfriesshire. (Folio 1.)
(ii) 'A sermon preached by Mr. James Webster in the Tolbooth Church of Edr. Febry. 11 ... 1700 ... on the occasion of that terrible conflagration that happened in the Parliament Close upon ... Febry. 4th . . . 1700.' Eighteenth-century copy. (Folio 15.)
Dates:
1666-1700.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Miscellaneous smaller manuscripts, single letters, small collections, etc., now made up into volumes, the property of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.