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:
Two poems, "Her Birthday" and "Reid Reid Rose", by Sydney Goodsir Smith.
File
Identifier: Acc.12358
Dates:
1952.
Two religious manuscripts., 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.5771
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) A translation of Epictetus' ‘Encheiridion’, Sections 1-33 (folio 2);
(ii) The first part of a Christian apologetic entitled 'New light', in which the nature of God and man is considered. A second part, dealing with 'the rules and practise of vertue', was intended to follow this (folio 10).
Dates:
17th century.
Two rough manuscript drafts and two printed copies of a report ‘to the General Board of Health’ by the Commissioners appointed to inquire into warming and ventilation of Dwellings’, with a small amount of related correspondence., 1857.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.51.2.1
Scope and Contents
At the beginning of the volume Campbell has recorded several experiments he made concerning movements of air.
The letters, mainly to and from Sir Henry S Roscoe and Sir George W Dasent, give reactions to the report.
Dates:
1857.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Correspondence, notes and printed material relating to the Heating and Ventilation Commission, of which Campbell was secretary.
Two separate and apparently independent fragments of manuscript in Gaelic bearing different portions of the same text, the commentary on the Aphorisms of Damascenus.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.17
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.Folio 1: (John Mackenchie’s ‘B’).The text is written by an undistinguished and rather variable hand, small to average in size.On Isidore’s commentary on Aphorisms of Johannes Damascenus, cf. Adv.MS.72.1.13, folio 1 recto, column a, line 1. Beginning ‘(I)lla non debet nos commovere [et] [c]eter[a]’ = Adv.MS.72.1.13, folio 2 recto, column b, line 35. Ends incomplete ‘mar at[a] reubarbarum ar meid as cosm[ail]’ = Adv.MS.72.1.13,...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Two small fragments of the manuscript of ‘The siege of Malta’ by Sir Walter Scott., 1831-1832.
File
Identifier: MS.9609, folios 1-2
Two volumes on secular antiquities, being the second and third parts of a work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical and secular antiquities of Scotland., 1700-1707, or after.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.9(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
The two volumes, known and frequently cited as `Hay`s Memoirs`, contain accounts of varying lengths and detail of titled, landed and other Scottish families, preceded by contents lists, and followed by indexes of names and, in 34.1.9(i), lists of books relating to the subject by Scottish writers (folio 347 verso), Irish writers (folio 360), and English writers (folio 361 verso), and by accounts of Scotsmen who died abroad (folio 365). In addition to four architectural drawings of (the...
Dates:
1700-1707, or after.
Two works on Islamic theology, copied, 19th century, in a coarse West African script, with interlinear and marginal notes., 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.1896-1897
Dates:
19th century.
Typed manuscript of autobiography by Janet Adam Smith, containing drafts of chapters 1-5., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.13861/73
Typescript, 1952, with manuscript additions and corrections, of 'Colickie Meg' written 1949-1950, by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1949-1950, 1952.
File
Identifier: MS.26131
Typescript abstract of the Lyon Register by William Rae Macdonald, with manuscript corrections and annotations., 1898-1902.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.53.3.1-53.3.6
Typescript abstract of the Lyon Register by William Rae Macdonald, with manuscript corrections and annotations; index., 1898-1902.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.53.3.5
Dates:
1898-1902.
Typescript abstract of the Lyon Register by William Rae Macdonald, with manuscript corrections and annotations; volume I, part 1: 1672-1804., 1898-1902.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.53.3.1
Dates:
1898-1902.
Typescript abstract of the Lyon Register by William Rae Macdonald, with manuscript corrections and annotations; volume I, part 2: 1672-1804., 1898-1902.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.53.3.2
Dates:
1898-1902.
Typescript abstract of the Lyon Register by William Rae Macdonald, with manuscript corrections and annotations; volumes II-VII: 1804-1868., 1898-1902.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.53.3.3
Dates:
1898-1902.
Typescript abstract of the Lyon Register by William Rae Macdonald, with manuscript corrections and annotations; volumes VIII-XVI: 1868-1902., 1898-1902.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.53.3.4
Dates:
1898-1902.
Typescript and corrected proofs of '100 little poems' by Lady Margaret Sackville., [1928, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.27481
Scope and Contents
The dedication (folio 3) and first poem (folio 7) are in manuscript. The typescript has manuscript corrections by both Lady Margaret Sackville and Charles Graves.
Dates:
[1928, or before.]
Typescript and manuscript of ‘Brief words’ by William Soutar., [1935, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8578-8579
Typescript and manuscript of ‘In the time of tyrants’ by William Soutar., [1939.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8585-8586
Typescript and manuscript of poetry relating to 'Broadsheet' edition fourteen., May 1972.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/39
Typescript and manuscript of "Sheep's tails from Shakespeare" by Richard Dark., 1st half of 20th century.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3617/7-8
Dates:
1st half of 20th century.
Typescript and manuscript war diary of the Reverend David Cairns, padre with 131 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery; with associated military maps, and a paper on the state of the reformed churches in Germany.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5932/1-8
Dates:
1943-1945.
Typescript and pasted-up magazine cuttings of parts of ‘Cleg Kelly' by Samuel Rutherford Crockett, with extensive manuscript corrections by the author.
File
Identifier: MS.6517
Scope and Contents
The typescript covers chapters I-II (folios 1-7), X-XV (folios 23-45) and part of chapter XLVI to the end of the book (folios 55-119). The two former sections were mounted on large sheets of paper, and the last section has now been similarly treated to facilitate binding. The printed cuttings cover chapters III-IX (folios 7-22) and chapters XVI-XIX (folios 46-54). The printed text is taken from an earlier appearance of parts of the novel in the 'Sunday School' during 1894. The typescript...
Dates:
[1896, or before.]
Typescript, biography of Francis Head by Sydney Anfield-Jackman : "Galloping Head : a Short Life of the Right Honourable Sir Francis Bond Head, Bart., P.C., K.C.H., etc. 1793-1875 Late Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada"., 1952-1953.
File
Identifier: MS.42284
Scope and Contents
With the typescript is a letter, 1 July 1953, of ?May Morris-Davies to John Murray V concerning the biography.
Dates:
1952-1953.
Typescript 'Calendar of MSS. belonging to Colonel G. O. P. Campbell of Stonefield deposited on loan in Record Office, H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh', 1948.
File
Identifier: MS.3737
Scope and Contents
The documents cover the period 1638-1826, and relate to the rising of 1745 and to the administration of Argyll. The writers are the Earls and Dukes of Argyll and the Campbells of Stonefield.
Dates:
1638-1826.
Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice from 1532 to 1920, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie (born 1849, died 1920), and Jessie E Macdonald.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.2.13-20.2.17
Scope and Contents
The contents consist of 4 volumes of lists, and miscellaneous papers.
The manuscripts were compiled by Lord Guthrie as material for a book projected by him.
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.