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:
Copies of the opinions given by John Inglis, some conjointly with other advocates., March 1848-December 1849.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.14
Copies of the opinions given by John Inglis, some conjointly with other advocates., January 1850-May 1853.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.15
Copies of the opinions given by John Inglis, some conjointly with other advocates., May 1853-December 1854.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.16
Copies of the opinions given by John Inglis, some conjointly with other advocates., December 1854-November 1856.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.17
Copies of the opinions given by John Inglis, some conjointly with other advocates., November 1856-June 1858.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.18
Copies of the piping manuscripts of Angus F Cannon, piper in the 9th Battalion, Royal Scots.
File
Identifier: Acc.9950
Dates:
circa 1910-1916.
Copy, 17th century, of a journal kept by a member of Sir Robert Cecil`s suite during the period of his embassy to France, February-April 1598, before the signing of the Treaty of Vervins.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.10
Scope and Contents
The entries for each day are brief, and much of the manuscript consists of copies of official correspondence sent and received by Cecil, some of which was published in ‘An Historical View of the Negotiations between the courts of England, France and Brussels’, pages 100-157.
Dates:
1598.
Copy, 17th century, of a letter of James VI to Sir Walter Dundas, 1600, in a calligraphic frame dated 1755., 1600.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.80.1.18
Copy, 17th century, of David Hume’s ‘Vindiciæ Buchanani contra Camdenum’ in the hand of Sir James Balfour.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.13
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.5.5.
Dates:
16th century.
Copy, 17th century, of ‘Humii vindiciæ Buchanani contra Camdenum’ or ‘Camdenea; id est examen nonnullorum a G. Camdeno in Britannia sua positorum, præcipuē quæ ad irrisionem Scoticæ Gentis et eorum et Pictorum falsam originem’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.9
Scope and Contents
At the end is a copy of a Latin letter, 7 Cal. May 1604, of Andrew Melville to David Hume.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.5.16.
Dates:
16th century, 1604.
Copy, 17th century, of `Prince Henry his Life, Death and Funeralles`, the life of the Prince of Wales, which was published in 1641 attributed to Sir Charles Cornwallis.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.14
Scope and Contents
The author`s name is not given, and, as in the other manuscripts, the introduction to the printed edition is replaced by a preface `To the Reader`. On folio 2 is a dedication by John Woodward to James Douglas, `one of his Majesties Seacretaries for the Kingdome of Scotland`, stating that the author was dead (Cornwallis died in 1629). For possible identifications of Douglas, see Adv.MS.19.3.3.A trimmed engraved portrait of Prince Henry by Francis Delaram taken from ‘Baziliwlogia’...
Dates:
1641.
Copy, 17th century, of the `Account of the Affairs of Scotland relating to the Revolution in 1688’ by Colin, Earl of Balcarres., After 1688.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.12
Copy, 17th century, of the `Account of the Affairs of Scotland relating to the Revolution in 1688’ by Colin, Earl of Balcarres., After 1688.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.13
Copy, 17th century, of ‘The History and Life of James the Sixt’, attributed to John Colville, Scottish divine and politician, written in the late 16th century and covering the period from 1566 to 1582.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.10
Dates:
Late 16th-century.
Copy, 17th century, of `The Life, Araignment, and Death of the famous and learned Sir Thomas More Knight, sometimes Lord Chauncellor of England. Together with his Vision`.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.16
Scope and Contents
The text is closely related to the life by William Roper, but there are interpolations and the dialogues are in the third person. Roper`s preface is replaced by a dedicatory letter to Captain Marmaduke Rawdon from John Hawkins, stating that Hawkins had originally intended to publish the text (Roper`s biography was first published in 1626). The life is followed by a poem `Sir Thomas More his Vision` (folio 80) which has been published by Constance Smith in ‘Moreana’, number 37 (1973), pages...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Copy, 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., Circa 1665.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.1
Dates:
Circa 1665.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
Copy, 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., Circa 1665.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.2
Scope and Contents
This copy includes a `List of the Officers of State` from the earliest times to the Restoration, written in a different hand (folio 50).
Dates:
Circa 1665.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
Copy, 17th century, of the statutes of Christ`s College, Cambridge, 1506.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.4
Scope and Contents
The text is followed (folio 28) by an additional chapter in the form of question and answer: `Dubia quaedam per socios Collegij Christi ... suo visitatori proposita et per eundem declarata`. On folio 29, in another hand, are copies of a declaration by the Vice-Chancellor,Andrew Perne, 1581, a memorandum of Thomas Osborne`s admission to the college, 1581, and the finding of Lord Burghley in a dispute between Osborne and the college, 1584.The initial on folio 1 is...
Dates:
1506.
Copy, 17th century, of ‘The Theatre of the Scotish Kings’ by Alexander Garden, written circa 1625.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.7
Dates:
Circa 1625.
Copy, 18th century, of an account, descriptive and historical, of the Chanonry of Old Aberdeen and connected institutions, by Thomas (rectius William) Drem, Bailie of Aberdeen, written 1725.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.23
Scope and Contents
Originally part (Inv. XII) of the Rose Collection, Adv.MSS.49.7.1-49.7.20; William Rose has added some marginal notes.
Dates:
1725.
Copy, 18th century, of ‘Ane Account of the Origine and Succession of the Familie of Innes’ by Duncan Forbes of Culloden, 1698; and a treatise on the patronage of schools and churches, ecclesiastical goods and revenues, parish schools, and universities, with special reference to Turriff, 1731., 1698, 1731.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.49.7.1
Scope and Contents
The ‘Account of the Origine and Succession of the Familie of Innes’ (Inv. IV, Mac. 47) is followed on folio 24 verso by notes in William Rose`s hand on the destruction of the house of Innes by storm and fire in 1736 and 1739.
The treatise (Inv. XXII, Mac. 48) begins on folio 47.
Dates:
1698, 1731.
Copy, 18th century, of ‘Ane Essay upon Tiends`, an anonymous essay in six chapters.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.3
Scope and Contents
Internal evidence suggests that the original essay was written circa 1732. It begins on folio 1, and is followed by a discussion on `patronage` (folio 28 verso), apparently a memorial by C Talbot for an unnamed litigant; and a copy ‘Memorial for Mr Thomas Linning, Min[?]. at Walstoun` (folio 30). The original of this memorial must have been written before Linning`s death in 1731.
Dates:
Circa 1732.
Copy, 18th century, of ‘Staggering State of the Scots Statesmen’, from 1550 to 1650, by Sir John Scot of Scotstarvet, written circa 1665.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.8
Dates:
Circa 1665.
Copy, 18th century, of ‘The Life and Death of ... James Renwick’ by Alexander Shields, Minister of St. Andrews, written in the late 17th century.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.3
Scope and Contents
The manuscript version corresponds more or less with the first printed version but excludes the `Epistle to the Reader` at the beginning and Renwick`s ‘Admission of Elders’ and several of his letters which are added at the end. The present manuscript breaks off abruptly near the end of the text and is left incomplete. There is no title page.
Dates:
Late 17th century.