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:
Correspondence, papers, and poetry of the Oliphants of Gask, mostly concerning the Jacobite risings of 1715, 1719, and 1745., 1715-1763, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.9.2
Dates:
1715-1763, and undated.
Correspondence, poems and other papers of the Reverend William Anderson., 1833-1895, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2981
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence, 1833, 1839-1849, 1866-1877, 1888, 1895, undated (folio 1); poems, 1832-1842, undated (folio 82); writings in the language of Old Calabar, and miscellaneous papers, undated (folio 110).
Dates:
1833-1895, undated.
Correspondence, sketches, notebooks and other papers of and concerning Sir David Young Cameron, Katharine Cameron Kay, and her husband Arthur Kay.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.8950/1-41
Scope and Contents
Papers of Sir David Young Cameron including sketches, manuscripts and typescripts of lectures and addresses, and correspondence.
Papers of Katherine Cameron Kay include sketches, notes on paintings and etchings, and correspondence.
Dates:
1895-1965, undated.
Correspondence (some copies) of John Riddell concerning the unsuccessful claim of James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford, to the title of Duke of Montrose., 1848, 1850, 1852-1857, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.2.5
Dates:
1848, 1850, 1852-1857, and undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.
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Correspondence and papers of John Riddell concerning the unsuccessful claim of James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford, to the title of Duke of Montrose (created 1488).
Correspondence, teaching materials and papers of Tom Gourdie, mostly concerning the teaching and promotion of handwriting.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12817/1-94
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1783, [1930]-2004, undated.
'Cosmographiae Principia, ubi Explicantur, varia Mundi Systemata, & verum stabilitur'.
Item
Identifier: MS.9249
Dates:
18th century.
`Council of State Military Affairs 1701-88`, with English translation (folio 40)., 1701-1788.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.3.19
Dates:
1701-1788.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
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Texts of documents not inserted into the manuscript (Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.14) of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson.
'Cours de Philosophie: 1. Psycologie'; the first volume of a manuscript work probably written in the early nineteenth century., ?Early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.6590 [L.C.2159]
'Cours de Philosophie: 3. Logique'; the third volume of a manuscript work probably written in the early nineteenth century., ?Early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.6592 [L.C.2161]
Court book of the Barony of Calder Comitis., 1584-1601.
Item
Identifier: MS.3724
Scope and Contents
Pages 1-15 are occupied by the records of the 'curia prima productionum infeofamentorum terrarum baronie ... XIX Aprilis 1586' and of the 'curia tertia ... quinto Octobris 1586'. Pages 16-22 are blank. On page 23 begin the records of the court held on 10 February 1584. Thereafter the entries run in chronological order to that for the court held on 24 November 1601 (page 189). There is clearly a gap between the entry for 2 May 1592 and that for 26 November 1594, which begins a section of...
Dates:
1584-1601.
Court book of the Barony of Calder Comitis, 1584-1601; with a modern transcript.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3724-3725
Dates:
1584-1601.
[Cover title:] Province of the Minho. 29 April 1813. "Scale of two leagues of 18 to a degree.", 1813.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(27)
Scope and Contents
From Tuy in the north to Porto in the south. Dissected for folding.
Dates:
1813.
Cowie collection of manuscripts of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Allan Ramsay and others, made by Charles R Cowie of Glasgow.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.15951-15975
Scope and Contents
The Cowie manuscripts include the final version of ‘The gentle shepherd, a Scots pastorall comedy’ by Allan Ramsay (MS.15972).
Dates:
1720-1914, undated.
'Coygach and Loch Breyn drawn out of many imperfyt papers of M.T. Pont.' , [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 14)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
`Crests, Mottos and Supporters of Scots Duckes, Marquises, Earles, Wiscounts and Barrons of Parliament`: descriptions by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.35
Scope and Contents
The last section has not been completed, and the names of some of the barons are given without their crests and mottoes.
Dates:
1631.
Critical works of Muriel Spark., 1943-1993, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.10989/105-189
Critical works relating to 'The Brontës', edited by Muriel Spark., Circa 1949-1993, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10989/144-189
Criticisms, translations, etc., of Sir Walter Scott’s works., Late 18th century-early 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.900
Scope and Contents
The contents include the following:(i) Copy of a manuscript which was attached to a proof of the ‘Field of Waterloo’ containing criticisms by James Ballantyne and replies by Sir Walter Scott, 1815 (folio 1);(ii) Translations into German of portions of the ‘Bride of Lammermoor’, the ‘Pirate’, and the ‘Legend of Montrose’, by Henriette de Montenglaut, 1825 (folio 7); See her letter, MS.870, folio 90;(iii) Notes on historical errors in ‘Quentin Durward’...
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Miscellaneous material, literary, antiquarian, topical, etc., chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
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Material concerning literary matters, chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
Croques de la paroisse de Bidarray., n.d.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(76)
Cuming musical manuscript, being the first known collection of Scottish music for the violin.
Item
Identifier: MS.1667
Dates:
1723.
'Cuningham' [i.e. Cunningham]. , [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 59)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
'Cuningham' [i.e. Cunningham]. , [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 60)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
Curricula vitae of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn., Circa 1940-circa 1955.
File
Identifier: MS.50170
Scope and Contents
The curricula vitae are arranged chronologically.Typescript, [circa 1940], ‘Application for grant in aid of research’ by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. The application, for funding into research for devising personality tests for the selection of officers in the British Army, is effectively Fairbairn’s curriculum vitae. Folios 1-2.Typescript, [circa 1946], curriculum vitae of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. Folios 3-4.Typescript, [circa 1955], curriculum...
Dates:
Circa 1940-circa 1955.
'Cursory Remarks' by Theophilus Swift and other material, supplied by Matthew Weld Hartstonge and others, concerning Sir Walter Scott’s ‘Life and works of Jonathan Swift’., 1808-1817.
File
Identifier: MS.882
Dates:
1808-1817.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Materials for works written or edited by Sir Walter Scott.
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Letters and documents concerning Sir Walter Scott's 'The works of Jonathan Swift’.