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 Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in or about 1662.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.14
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the text is generally shorter and illustrated with references to earlier case-decisions, and most of the titles are divided into fewer paragraphs. According to a note inside the front cover, dated Perth, 4th August 1731, this copy was written by Sir Alexander Falconer, Lord Halkerton, in his own hand.The lists of paragraphs have been omitted...
Dates:
Circa 1662.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in or about 1666.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.13
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the text is generally shorter and is illustrated by references to earlier case-decisions and most of the titles are divided into fewer paragraphs.At folio i are a variety of jottings in a contemporary hand, or hands, and at folio i verso the style of an obligation. The name William Hay in an early 18th-century hand appears also at folio i...
Dates:
Circa 1666.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Laws of Scotland’, written apparently in a number of hands.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.2.10
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the text of each title is shorter, generally divided into fewer chapters, and illustrated with fewer references to case-decisions. The chapter-headings appear to have been written in after the copying of the text, and in Title 7 most of them have been omitted. Blank leaves at folios 17, 25, 31 and 35 verso. At the end (folios 195-204) are accounts of...
Dates:
Circa 1662.
Copy of ‘Table Talk: The Discourse of John Selden Esq., or his sense of various matters of weight and high consequence, Relating especially to Religion and State.’
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.13
Scope and Contents
The first edition of this work appeared in 1689, 35 years after Selden`s death and 9 years after the death of Richard Milward who had collected the material for the work and arranged it for publication. Milward was Rector of Great Braxted in Essex from 1643 and had also acted as Secretary to Selden for twenty years.
Dates:
17th century.
Copy of the chronicles of the Civil War in Scotland compiled by Henry Guthrie, Bishop of Dunkeld, subsequently printed as ‘The memoirs of Henry Guthrie’ (London, 1702)., 1697, [1702, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.17806
Scope and Contents
The copy of the chronicles is followed (folio 115) by 'Digitus Dei or Gods [[judgement]] Justice upon Treacherie and Treason & c.', a polemic against the 1st Duke of Hamilton. The signature 'W.Sanders' dated 1697 is on folio 1.
Dates:
1697, [1702, or before.]
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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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Academic and literary papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Copy of the first part of a history of the houses of the Lords and Earls of Douglas (the Black Douglases) and of the Earls of Angus (the Red Douglases) by David Hume of Godscroft.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.21
Scope and Contents
This copy, which is entitled ‘THE ORIGINE And Descent of the most noble and jllustre familie, and name of Douglas: (etc.)`, is a fair copy made in another hand from a manuscript of the author`s, and deals only with the Black Douglases. From internal evidence, Hume`s manuscript was written before the death of James VI in 1625: this copy was made after 1621. It is written in an anglicized and inconsistent Scots, but the text has been heavily edited, with numerous alterations...
Dates:
Before 1625.
Copy of the Gulistān of Sa‘dī, probably of the early eighteenth century., 1258
Item
Identifier: MS.2734
Copy of ‘The Life of Sir Robert Sibbald, M.D.’, made by William Gibb, writer, for the Advocates` Library, 1805, from the original manuscript, 1695, which has apparently been lost.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.1
Dates:
1695.
Copy of the ‘Memoirs’ of Walter Pringle of Greenknowe, the covenanter, with two genealogical manuscripts, concerning respectively the Clan Chattan and the Drummond family in Madeira.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) A copy, in a hand of the late 17th century, of the `Memoirs` of Walter Pringle (folio 1). These were first published in 1723 from a copy of the original manuscript by James Pringle of Greenknowe, 1684. The relationship of the present manuscript to that copy is unknown.(ii) A detached leaf, headed Section XIX and paginated 81-82, concerning the history of Clan Chattan (folio 35). Written in a small late 17th-century...
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century.
Copy of the 'Recollections' of Alexander Carlyle, in an unknown hand, with notes and additions in the hand of the Very Reverend John Lee., 1805.
Item
Identifier: MS.3463
Scope and Contents
On the first page of the manuscript is a note by John Lee to the effect that 'The following is a literal copy of a Manuscript of Dr Carlyle written a few months before his death in the year 1805'. From the notes in the 1910 edition of the ‘Autobiography’, it appears that John Hill Burton used this or an identical copy. The manuscript records in rambling fashion various events in Alexander Carlyle's life between the years 1723 and 1737. On page 71 there is a supplement to the original...
Dates:
1805.
Copy of the statutes of the Order of the Garter in English, written probably in 1558, containing the statutes of Henry VIII, and of Mary and Philip, and a further statute, dated 12th of January in the first year of Elizabeth, added in another hand.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.18
Scope and Contents
The title, and the statutes of Henry VIII, are introduced by small gold initials within blue and brown parti-coloured squares. Many of the statutes of Henry VIII, and most of those of Mary and Philip have a title or a summary in red in the margin, written in the same hand as the text; several have marginal annotations in another hand of the late 16th or early 17th century. All the statutes, except that of Elizabeth, have been numbered, and at folios i-ii is a list of contents, written in a...
Dates:
1558.
Copy of the `Velitatio in Georgium Buchananum` of Ninian Winzet, which was published as part of his ‘Flagellum Sectarioram’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.8
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is a copy of the complete text preceded by the dedicatory epistle but without the marginal summaries and the Synopsis.Together with Adv.MS.33.7.20 it was made at the Benedictine Abbey of St. James, Ratisbon, in or about 1684, for the Abbot, Thomas (Dom Placid) Fleming by Andrew Cook, one of the monks (who subsequently became Prior), as a present to Christopher Irvine, physician and philologist.The text is followed by copies of documents relating to the...
Dates:
1582.
Copy of "Traditions of Edinburgh" (1825), by Robert Chambers, with double pages replacing cancelled leaves and the original text (concerning Hugo Arnot) supplied in manuscript.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12417
Scope and Contents
Includes tipped in notes of Arnot`s son, and an anecdote, of Walter Scott to Robert Chambers which was incorporated into "Traditions of Edinburgh".
Dates:
circa 1825.
Copy of ‘Vox Populi, or Newes from Spayne’ by Thomas Scott., After 1620.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.2(iii), folios 67-88
Dates:
After 1620.
Copy of William Maitland, "History of Edinburgh" (Edinburgh, 1753), with additional papers bound in to the book.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9932
Scope and Contents
Additional papers include:
printed proposals for the work
printed and manuscript papers concerning alterations to the text
papers concerning defamation of James Coutts and Mrs Little of Liberton.
Dates:
1753 and undated.
Copy used for the publication in book form of ‘Life of Mansie Wauch’ by David Macbeth Moir, with other writings.
Item
Identifier: MS.3054
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Printed pages of “Blackwood's Magazine”, containing the articles corresponding to the 1828 edition, chapters iii-v, viii-x, xii, xvi-xxiii (folios 119-157);(ii) Manuscript of all the matter in the 1828 edition not contained in (i) above, except 'The Curate of Suverdsio' in chapter xi (folios 1-32, 41-55, 75-80, 83-84);(iii) Manuscript of 'The June Jaunt', “Blackwood's Magazine”, December 1828; this forms chapter xxii of the...
Dates:
[1822, or after-1839, or before.]
Copy, with manuscript additions and corrections, of Alexander MacBain, "An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language" (first edition, Inverness, 1896).
Item
Identifier: Acc.9854
Dates:
1896.
Copy, written probably in a mid eighteenth-century hand, of two documents of Major-General (later Field-Marshal) George Wade., 1724-1725.
File
Identifier: MS.7118
Scope and Contents
The two documents are: the 'Report &ca relating to the Highlands 1724' submitted to George I (folio 1), and the 'Scheme delivered to the King in April 1725' (folio 21). George Wade.
Dates:
1724-1725.
'Cornucopia manuscriptorum codicum qui reperiuntur in Anglia. Londini. MDCLXXXIV': catalogues of manuscripts, possibly in the hand of Adrian Beverland, author of ‘De stolatae virginitatis jure’, inserted at the end of 'Nova Bibliotheca MSS. Librorum’ by Philippe Labbé (Paris, 1653).
Item
Identifier: MS.6134
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'Catalogus Codicum Manuscriptorum integrioris notae et exactioris curae Viri incomparabilis Domini Isaaci Vossii ab Hadriano Beverlando conscriptus et concinnatus. In arce Vindesoriensi X Febr. MDCXXCIV'. (Folio 4.)(ii) 'Praecipui Codices Manuscripti in Eicosarchio Regis Britanniae in palatio Ducis Eboracensis vulgo S. Jacobi'. (Folio 39.) There are no entries under this heading.(iii) 'MSS Lambaethani in Sacrario...
Dates:
1684.
Corrected autograph manuscript of an untitled work by Alexander Carlyle, written at 'Airshire January 1760' by 'A Freeholder'., 1760.
Item
Identifier: MS.23918
Dates:
1760.
Corrected autograph score of Edward McGuire, "Euphoria - a Sense of Well-Being", for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion.
File
Identifier: Acc.10795
Scope and Contents
Includes copy of the final version of the work and tape recording of its first performance, Edinburgh.
Dates:
1980.
Corrected full score of 'Thomas the Rhymer', an opera in four acts by David Johnson.
File
Identifier: MS.22152
Scope and Contents
The opera is based on the Border ballad collected by Sir Walter Scott (folio 1).Of the many corrections the most substantial are the additional leaves at folios 11, 21, 35, 38 (formerly stapled to folio 39), 45 (formerly stapled to folio 44) 46, 53-54, 57 and 100 (formerly stapled to folio 101). Leaves are cut out after folio 80 and 108.The score is preceded by a typed press release (folio i) and a printed programme (folio iii) of the premiere, which was performed in...
Dates:
1974-1976.
Corrected manuscript account of Robert Inglis of his ascent of Monte Rosa.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5463
Dates:
1858.
Corrected manuscript and printed version of poem of David Morrison, "Sterk Vision".
File
Identifier: Acc.5005
Dates:
1970.
Corrected manuscript and typescript drafts of 19 poems of Roderick Watson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7643
Dates:
circa 1966-circa 1976.