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:
Composite volume containing works on Latin grammar and versification.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.13
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) ‘Doctrinale’ by Alexander, de Villa Dei, with the anonymous commentary ‘Aurea Grammatica’ [Nuremberg: Friedrich Creussner, ca.1482] (‘Repertorium Bibliographicum’, number 7859; ‘Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum’, number 2174), containing some, but not all, large initials supplied in red or blue, numerous interlinear and marginal additions, mostly quite brief, rubrication and other marks added to initials, and a...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Composite volume made up in or about 1819 (the date of the watermark of the binder`s blanks) from five folio notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.13
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Extracts, 1797, in the hand of the chief clerk, Robert Lemon, from the `Rotuli Scotiae` kept in the Tower of London (cf. folio 282). The extracts relate to the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. The manuscripts were published, in two volumes, in 1814 and 1819. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies by Hutton of charters of Newbattle Abbey (folio 32). The source is unidentified: they are in a different order from those of the cartulary...
Dates:
?1789-?1797.
Composite volume of 15th-century manuscripts of miscellaneous works by four hands bound together, with an incunable, in the 16th-century or earlier.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.8
Scope and Contents
The collection has been in one volume since the 16th century at least. The contents are as follows:[(i) A printed book: Johannes de Hildesheim, ‘Liber de gestis ac translatione trium regum’, etc., ([Cologne], 1478) = National Library of Scotland Inc.43 (B.M.Cat. IB 4236) (folio 1)]. Folio 56 blank.(ii) Baebius Italicus (?), `Ilias latina` (‘Poetae latini minores’ ii.3; this manuscript is not included in the list given by P Vollmer in ‘Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen...
Dates:
15th century.
Composite volume of English origin, containing works of Ovid ('Fasti') and Claudian (major poems), the former of which belonged to Leicester Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.13
Scope and Contents
In the margins of both parts (folios 26 verso, 46 verso, 63 verso, 102 recto and verso) are written English proverbs in the same 16th-century hand.Pastedowns and flyleaves from an earlier binding consist of two bifolia folded in half and used sideways, containing in a 14th-century hand part of an unidentified commentary on Isaiah, dealing at length with 19.1 to 21.5, and to be read in the order viii recto + vii verso, viii verso + vii recto, ii recto + v verso, ii verso + v...
Dates:
Late 12th century-13th century.
Composite volume, of uncertain origin, containing two manuscripts of works by St Bonaventure, the 'Breviloquium' and the 'Formula noviciorum'.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.7
Scope and Contents
A manuscript containing two works of St Bonaventure. The 'Breviloquium' is of the 13th century, and the 'Formula noviciorum', here attributed to St Bonaventure, is of the 14th century.Both works are written in double columns. The 'Breviloquium' is the work of one scribe, written in littera textualis with 39 lines to a page. The 'Formula noviciorum' is the work of a different scribe, written in a rotunda script with between 32 to 36 lines to a page.The contents are as...
Dates:
13th century, 14th century.
Conclusion of Sir John Sinclair’s Ossianic correspondence (1821-1830).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.27
Dates:
1800-1830.
Contemporary copies and translations of letters, mainly from Italy, reporting on European and Turkish affairs.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.20
Scope and Contents
Most of the documents are dated 1596. The subjects include Spanish policy in June and July of that year, leading up to the capture of Cadiz by the English (cf. ‘Calendar of State Papers, Domestic series ... 1595-1597’); a rising of janissaries in Constantinople; and events in Italy and eastern Europe. These are followed (folio 33) by miscellaneous papers, mostly concerning the siege of Montauban in 1621.
Dates:
1595-1761.
Contemporary copies of correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Smith, mostly concerning the proposed marriage of Queen Elizabeth with the Duc d`Anjou (later Henri III) and the Duc d`Alençon.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.11
Scope and Contents
Also included is some material related to Smith`s ‘De Republica Anglorum’, books 2-3 (folio 8 verso), and a report on affairs in Germany by Sir William Waad, circa 1583 (folio 99).Much of the material is known from papers in the Public Record Office (see ‘Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series’ for the reign of Elizabeth). For Smith`s Dialogue on the Queen`s marriage (folio 63), cf. ‘ The Life of ... Sir Thomas Smith’, pages 184-259. A list of material on the arraignment of the...
Dates:
1551-1572, and undated.
Contemporary copies of letters apparently written by a high-ranking member of the Army party, taking the form of a weekly newsletter from 12 December 1648 to 29 June 1649.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.15
Scope and Contents
There is no letter for 22 May, and that for 29 June is in a different hand. The author, who was strongly in favour of the execution of Charles I and of crushing the Royalist party, appears to have held a position of considerable authority. He was responsible for pardoning Laugharne and Powell, and accompanied Cromwell to suppress the mutiny in Whalley`s regiment in April 1649. It is possible that the letters were written by more than one person. They are apparently addressed to a...
Dates:
1648-1649.
Contemporary copies of state papers, concerning the negotiations between Charles I and the Covenanters, which led up to the Pacification of Berwick and the Covenanters` protestation of 1 July.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.17
Scope and Contents
Also included are the petition of the Scots living in Ireland to the Lord Deputy and Council of Ireland, 1639 (folio 9), and an incomplete treatise `A distinction betweene the Ecclesiasticall Lawe and the Common Lawe`, undated (folio 18).
Dates:
May-June 1639.
Contemporary copy of a document concerning the expenses of the French royal household, entitled `Estat et menu général de la dépense ordinaire bouche de la chambre aux deniers du Roy’, the Prince de Condé`s authorisation of the year`s expenditure.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.32
Scope and Contents
The document includes a list of persons entitled to eat at the King`s table; food, wine and other commodities required throughout the year, with special allowances for feast days and other occasions; and expenses for the dukes of Burgundy, Anjou and Berry. It is followed (folio 119) by a similar authorisation for the household of the Dauphin.
Dates:
1689.
Contemporary copy of answers of John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, to certain interrogatories put to him concerning his negotiations in Spain for the marriage of Charles I., 1624.
Item
Identifier: MS.1747
Dates:
1624.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts: part of a Gaelic grammatical treatise, a chronicle of the Kings of Scotland, and answers of John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, to certain interrogatories put to him concerning his negotiations with Spain for the marriage of Charles I.
Contemporary copy of `Discoverie and Historie of the gold mynes in Scotland` by Stephen Atkinson.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.6
Dates:
1619.
Contemporary copy of Sir Ralph Sadler`s correspondence during his embassies to Scotland in 1539-1540 and 1543.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.10
Dates:
1539-1543.
Contemporary copy of the Apology of Humphrey Chambers, rector of Claverton to the Church of England, for omitting to read the king`s declaration concerning the use of lawful sports on Sundays; Chambers was consequently imprisoned, but later became rector of Pewsey.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.4.7
Scope and Contents
On folio v verso is the inscription `Edinr Febr 1739 a + l + n + o`.
Dates:
1633.
Contemporary manuscript draft or copy of a pamphlet concerning the Darien scheme., [?1699.]
Item
Identifier: MS.14494
Scope and Contents
The manuscript begins: 'Sir, you were pleased by your last to tell me, that the face of things being so much changed in England by yor late Revolution you thought there might now be opportunity to promote that affair which wee have been see long upon'.
Dates:
[?1699.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of individual members of the family of Hay of Yester.
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Papers of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale.
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Papers of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale concerning public affairs.
Contemporary manuscript of 'The Arraignement of Mervin, Lord Audley, Earle of Castlehauen at the Kinges Benche Barr, in Westminster Hall'., 25 April 1631.
Item
Identifier: MS.2744
"Contents of Mr. Dundas's letters to the Marquis Wellesley ... Governor-General of India"., 1798-1800.
File
Identifier: MS.1062
Dates:
1798-1800.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount.
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Papers relating to India and the East received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville.
`Continuation of Hector Boeth his Historie, since the death of King James the first, until the year 1642`, an unpublished history of Scotland in 3 volumes by Patrick Anderson, physician to Charles I, probably written around 1642.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.3(i)-(iii)
Dates:
1642, or after.
`Continuation of Hector Boeth his Historie, since the death of King James the first, until the year 1642` by Patrick Anderson, volume 1: containing the life and times of James II, 1437 to the death of James V in 1542., 1642, or after.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.3(i)
Dates:
1642, or after.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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`Continuation of Hector Boeth his Historie, since the death of King James the first, until the year 1642`, an unpublished history of Scotland in 3 volumes by Patrick Anderson, physician to Charles I, probably written around 1642.
`Continuation of Hector Boeth his Historie, since the death of King James the first, until the year 1642` by Patrick Anderson, volume 2: dealing with the period 1543-1560, principally with the regency of Mary of Guise., 1642, or after.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.3(ii)
Dates:
1642, or after.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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`Continuation of Hector Boeth his Historie, since the death of King James the first, until the year 1642`, an unpublished history of Scotland in 3 volumes by Patrick Anderson, physician to Charles I, probably written around 1642.
`Continuation of Hector Boeth his Historie, since the death of King James the first, until the year 1642` by Patrick Anderson, volume 3: concerning the reigns of Mary Queen of Scots and James VI of Scotland and concluding in the year 1598., 1642, or after.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.3(iii)
Dates:
1642, or after.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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`Continuation of Hector Boeth his Historie, since the death of King James the first, until the year 1642`, an unpublished history of Scotland in 3 volumes by Patrick Anderson, physician to Charles I, probably written around 1642.
Contribution to a Liber Amicorum by William Macdowell, the diplomatist., 1624.
Item
Identifier: MS.3278, folio 3
Dates:
1624.
Copies, 17th and 18th century, of English and Scottish state papers, 1558-1641.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.10
Scope and Contents
The papers include correspondence relating to the Earl of Essex, 1599, and material on the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland, 1638-1640.
Dates:
1558-1641.
Copies, 17th century, of correspondence, 1586-1623, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.19
Scope and Contents
The topics are very miscellaneous and include the Spanish match (1620), appeals for royal clemency, voyages of exploration and political events.
Dates:
1586-1623.