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:
Copy of a paper entered for the Mod competition of 1909, entitled ‘Collection of not less than twenty unpublished rhymes or proverbial expressions on Highland place-names’ by ‘Creagag’, with notes., 1909.
File
Identifier: MS.398
Dates:
1909.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay.
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Papers concerning Gaelic place names and personal names compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
Copy of ‘A rich storehouse or treasurie for the diseased’ by A T, made by Robert Fergusone in 1661., 1596.
Item
Identifier: MS.5171
Scope and Contents
The work contains detailed medicinal information.
Dates:
1596.
Copy of a work written by Alexander Dickson in support of the claims of James VI of Scotland to the crown of England in reply to ‘A Conference about the next succession to the crowne of Ingland’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.8
Scope and Contents
‘Conference about the next succession to the crowne of Ingland’ was published in 1594 under the pseudonym R Doleman by a number of authors including chiefly Sir Francis Englefield and Cardinal William Allen: Robert Parsons, Society of Jesus, to whom the work has often been ascribed, was a minor contributor (see ‘Recusant History’, volume 4, page 126). Dickson, who had been a supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots, appears to have become a servant of James VI shortly before he began this reply,...
Dates:
1598.
Copy of a work written shortly after the death in 1751 of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, to show that the principalities usually possessed by the Prince of Wales belong to the Crown.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.12
Scope and Contents
The work consists largely of copies and abstracts of charters and other formal documents relating to the Stewartry and Principality of Scotland (folio 6), the Duchy of Cornwall (folio 52 verso), the Principality of Wales and the Earldom of Chester (folio 56) , the Duchy of Normandy (folio 58 verso) and the Dauphine of France (folio 58 verso), preceded by a summary of the contents (folio 2), and followed by a conclusion (folio 62), an appendix (folio 63), a copy (folio 72 verso) of an act of...
Dates:
1751, or after.
Copy of a work written shortly after the death in 1751 of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, to show that the principalities usually possessed by the Prince of Wales belong to the Crown.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.3
Scope and Contents
The work consists largely of copies and abstracts of charters and other formal documents relating to the Stewartry and Principality of Scotland (folio 7), the Duchy of Cornwall (folio 57), the Principality of Wales and the Earldom of Chester (folio 60), the Duchy of Normandy (folio 62 verso) and the Dauphine of France (folio 62 verso), preceded by a summary of the contents (folio 2), and followed by a conclusion (folio 65 verso), an appendix (folio 66 verso), a copy (folio 75 verso) of an...
Dates:
1751, or after.
Copy, of about the end of the seventeenth century, by the antiquary Robert Mylne, of ‘Ane account of ane Embassie performed by William Steuart [Stewart], Commendator of Pittenweim, and Mr John Skeen to England, Denmark, and the Princess [Princes] of Germanie in Anno 1590'.
Item
Identifier: MS.2912
Scope and Contents
The account was written by John Skene (afterwards Lord Curriehill) (see folio 42 verso). The mission was to the Protestant princes, and its object was to bring about peace treaties between England and Spain and between France and Spain, or, failing that, an alliance of Denmark, Scotland, and the Germans which should assist the peaceful party against the obdurate. See ‘Calendar of the state papers relating to Scotland... 1547-1603’ (1898-1963), volume x, page xvi. The journal covers the...
Dates:
1590.
Copy of Adv.MS.31.3.18, documents relating to heraldry, made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.22
Scope and Contents
Translations have been provided with the material in Latin.
Dates:
1385-1661.
Copy of agreement and regulations (including some correspondence) concerning the French customs., 1816-1818.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.7.21
Dates:
1816-1818.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
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Correspondence and papers relating to General Sir George Murray`s tenure of office of chief of staff of the allied armies of occupation in France following the Congress of Vienna.
Copy of ‘An Account of the Lord`s Gracious dealing with me; and of his remarkable hearing and answering my supplications` , being the religious memoirs of Mrs Marion Veitch, wife of William Veitch, minister of Dumfries, written apparently in or about 1711, the date of the latest events recorded.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.22
Scope and Contents
This copy, one of three known, which was written in a near-contemporary hand, appears to have lost all after page 74: the remainder is supplied on different sheets written in an apparently late 18th-century hand.
Dates:
1711, or after.
Copy of `An Account of the Number of People in Scotland`, Alexander Webster`s analysis of the population arranged by counties.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.1.9
Dates:
1755.
Copy of an apparently unpublished work entitled 'Practical Tracts of Artillery', written by Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald, Fellow of the Royal Society.
File
Identifier: MS.8185
Scope and Contents
The work was written by John Macdonald when he was Captain Commanding the Artillery at Fort Marlborough, [Sumatra]. The text is preceded by a letter to the Governor and Council of the Military Department there, an introduction to the work, and a letter to the Governor-General and the Supreme Council at Fort William.
Dates:
1787.
Copy of 'An eccelent arithmetick book, being a plain and Familiar method suitable to the meanest Capacity ... composed by eduard cocker.'
Item
Identifier: MS.8186
Scope and Contents
The copy was made in Edinburgh by James Burgess in the first half of the eighteenth century, of "Cocker's Arithmetick", edited by John Hawkins. The edition used was probably that of 1694 or 1697.
The manuscript contains a few verses unrelated to the text, and is decorated with numerous pen flourishes, calligraphic birds, and other figures.
Dates:
?1694 or ?1697.
'Copy of An explanatory Introduction [by Samuel Hart] to the Journal of the Process of Bleaching as carried on at The British Linen Comp[ys]. Bleachfield [at Saltoun, 29 Dec.] 1752 For the Hon[ble]. The Board of Trustees.' , 1752.
Item
Identifier: MS.17571
Dates:
1752.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
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Papers concerning the Commissioners and Trustees for improving Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland (later, for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland), appointed in 1727.
Copy of an ode by Antoinette Thérèse de la Fon de Boisguérin Deshoulières, with a lengthy criticism of it by Dr Cairon, a Huguenot refugee., 1687.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.2(vi), folios 114-162
Scope and Contents
The criticism is followed (folio 160) by two sonnets of Cairon, one on the ode, and the other on the departure of the Marquis de Ruvigny for Ireland, ?1691.
Dates:
1687.
Copy of Arts Council exhibition catalogue, "Charles Cameron, c 1740-1812".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7942
Scope and Contents
With associated manuscript notes.
Dates:
1967.
Copy of autograph manuscript of poem, "Highland Laddie" by James Hogg.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11775
Dates:
1818.
Copy of "Ballads of the Bench and Bar", with manuscript annotations.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5780
Dates:
1882.
Copy of `Collections of the most remarkable accounts that relate to the families of Scotland drawn from ther own charters and other authentick writts ... with ane account of ther armes’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.4
Scope and Contents
The authorship is attributed to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, but an 18th-century footnote added to the title page of Adv.MS.34.3.19 states that the collection was originally compiled by Sir Patrick Lyon of Carse, and that his manuscript was copied by Mackenzie and others who made their own additions to it. One such copy by William Aikman of Cairnie, advocate, is now MS.979; another is in Edinburgh University Library; five more are Adv.MSS.13.2.10, 32.6.1, 34.3.14, 34.3.19 and 34.6.8....
Dates:
Circa 1672.
Copy of David Hume's original manuscript account of the quarrel between himself and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with additions and corrections in Hume's own hand.
File
Identifier: MS.5722
Scope and Contents
Included are copies of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s letters and three of David Hume's, 1763-1766. The statement itself is undated, but was the original version of the ‘Exposé succinct de la contestation qui s'est élevée entre Mr. Hume et M. Rousseau, avec les piéces justificatives’, translated by J B A Suard; and of the ‘Concise and genuine account of the dispute between Mr Hume and Mr Rousseau (London, 1766), which was mainly re-translated from the French. The text of the...
Dates:
1763-1766.
Copy of David Hume’s ‘Vindiciæ Buchanani contra Camdenum’ and ‘De unione insulæ Britanniæ vincula unionis siue scita Britannica liber seu tractatus secundus’, in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.12
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Rob.III.2.6.
Dates:
16th century.
Copy of ‘Discourse of coin and coinage’ by Rice Vaughan.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.4
Scope and Contents
The dedication by Henry Vaughan and the tables and additional material at the end of the published text are omitted.
On folio iv are two inscriptions `for the right honourable the Lord Roberts Lord Privie Seale of England`, and, in another hand, notes about waste land in Ireland with a reference to Sir William Petty.
Dates:
17th century.
Copy of "Fabularum Aesopicarum Delectus" (Edinburgh, 1710), with manuscript notes of James Maule, possibly 4th Earl of Panmure.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3933
Dates:
1710.
Copy of ‘Herod and Pilate reconciled’ by David Owen., After 1610.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.2(ii), folios 31-66
Dates:
After 1610.
Copy of ‘Hope`s Major Practicks’, containing an abridged version of the text as printed in ‘Hope`s Major Practicks, 1608-33’., 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.7.9
Copy of James Hog, minister of Carnock’s autobiography, `Memorial written by Philomathes and addressed to his surviving Friends`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.8
Scope and Contents
The work is written in the third person in eleven chapters, most of which concern Hog’s spiritual life.
The hand is probably the same as that of Adv.MS.32.3.9(i).
Dates:
18th century.