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:
Dundas estate accounts: vouchers for crops 1798-1800., 1798-1800.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.2.34
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:
(i) Vouchers for crops 1798-9 (folio 1).
(ii) Vouchers for crop 1800 (folio 156).
Dates:
1798-1800.
Dundas estate accounts: vouchers for crops 1801-1804., 1801-1804.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.2.35
Dundas estate accounts: vouchers for crops 1801-1804., 1801-1804.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.2.36
Dundas estate accounts: vouchers for crops 1801-1804., 1801-1804.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.2.35-80.2.36
Dundas estate, household, and personal accounts, mostly merchants` and tradesmans` accounts for supplies and services., 1617-1668.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.2.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:
(i) Cloth, Clothing, etc., 1634-1668 (folio 1).
(ii) Physicians` and apothecaries` accounts, 1617-1647 (folio 172).
(iii) Smiths` and saddlers` accounts, 1638-60 (folio 185).
Dates:
1617-1668.
Duplicated manuscript copies of 'The Moofussul Magazine', numbers 1-6., June-December 1811.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11734-11739
Dates:
June-December 1811.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto as Governor-General of India.
Dyson Perrins Collection: material relating to affairs, chiefly Scottish and military, of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3738-3742
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Early 12th-century manuscript of the church history of Hegesippus
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.9
Scope and Contents
From verse 53.1 ‘armis’ (page 411, 12 Usani) to the end is lost.The manuscript has an inscription (overwritten) of the Rochester type at the foot of folio 2, ‘… H.de Hoo[?] [*]’, and is written in the Rochester variety of the Christ Church script (cf. ‘Medieval libraries of Great Britain’, pages 161, 298; ‘English manuscripts in the century after the Norman Conquest’, page 25 and what follows).Headings are in red or red and purple. The first two words of the text of...
Dates:
Early 12th century.
Early 15th-century manuscript containing copies of English law statutes, including the 'Magna Carta' and the 'Statuta Lincolni'; 'Prerogativa regis'; 'Consuetudines Londoni'.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.7.5
Scope and Contents
Early 15th-century manuscript produced in England, containing a collection of English law statutes. The work is written by a number of contemporary hands in a bastarda script, normally with 23 lines to a page.The contents are as follows:Paper and vellum flyleaves with ownership and shelfmark inscriptions. Folios i-iv.Table of contents, in a 15th-century hand. Folio 1rv.Later insertions of various statutes, in a 15th-century hand. Folios...
Dates:
Early 15th century.
Early 15th-century manuscript containing short prayers, followed by conversion tables for calculating the price of merchandise.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.6
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in Scotland, primarily for the use of converting the prices of commodities between Scotland and the Low Countries. The commodities listed include wool, skins, hides, cloth, canvas, iron, wax and wine. The monetary units used are a mixture of Flemish and English money. The volume also contains a small portion of religious material. Hanham believes that the commercial part of the volume is likely to be a copy of a work which was possibly originally composed in...
Dates:
Early 15th century.
Early 16th-century manuscript copy of the work known as 'Liber Pluscardensis', a chronicle of the history of Scotland founded mainly on the 'Chronica gentis Scotorum' of John of Fordun, and the 'Scotichronicon' of Walter Bower.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.2
Scope and Contents
The manuscript begins with five books closely following the first five books of Fordun as given in Bower, followed by 15 chapters of Book VI, somewhat abridged from Bower, Book VI, chapters 9-23 nearly as compiled by Fordun. This is followed by the rest of Book VI and by five more books, being an abridgement of Scotichronicon, though at variance with it on some points, and introducing much original matter.The manuscript is a copy, made probably in the early 16th century, of MS...
Dates:
1461.
Early 16th-century manuscript, 'Extracta ex variis cronicis Scotiae'.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.13
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in Scotland containing extracts from Scottish chronicles, primarily drawing upon the works of Fordun and Bower, but also including independent entries. The main text is the work of one scribe, and written in a cursive script with 22 lines to a page. Additions and insertions are in another hand of the 16th century.The manuscript has been dated to the end of the 15th century by the folio catalogue, which was probably compiled by Cosmo Innes. Borland...
Dates:
Early 16th century.
Early 16th-century manuscript of the accounts of the Bishopric of Dunkeld, covering the years 1506-1517.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.1
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Scotland containing the accounts of the Bishopric of Dunkeld for the years 1506-1517. The manuscript is the work of one hand and was probably written contemporaneously with the record.The work is not complete and there are leaves wanting at the end of the volume, as well as in places throughout. Many of the folios are damaged with loss of text, particularly at the beginning and end of the volume, and these have been repaired and mounted on paper. The...
Dates:
Early 16th century.
Early 16th-century manuscript of 'The oryginale cronykil of Scotland' by Andrew Wyntoun, with part of the anonymous 'Brevis Cronica' appended.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.4
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in Scotland containing 'The oryginale cronykil of Scotland', or 'Original Chronicle', of Andrew Wyntoun. The work is a vernacular history of Scotland and the world in the form of a metrical poem. In Amours' edition, this manuscript is referred to as E2, or the Second Edinburgh Manuscript. Borland, Amours, and Laing have dated the manuscript to the early 16th century.Amours notes that the manuscript is almost complete with only a few folios wanting...
Dates:
Early 16th century.
Early 16th-century transcript of selected parts of the chartulary of Lindores Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.1
Scope and Contents
Chartulary produced in Scotland containing copies of royal, papal, episcopal, and other charters, as well as some grants of the abbey of Lindores.The work is written in a small cursive hand and was probably written in the early 16th century. According to Davis it certainly dates from after 1502. Dickson also suggests that the manuscript may have been written as late as the reign of James IV (d. 1513). The work contains 25 documents concerning the abbey of Lindores and...
Dates:
Early 16th century.
Early 17th-century manuscript of copies of various historical and legal papers made for Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington, with material covering the years 1400-1626.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.16
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Scotland in the early 17th century, before 1637, for Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington. The volume consists of copies and extracts of various historical and legal works.The full contents are listed below, primarily taken from Dolezalek's census and the 'Historical Catalogue' record. Any gaps in the foliation refer to blank sheets or sheets used for titles and headings.Extracts of the rental book of the Abbey of Dunfermline. This is printed...
Dates:
Early 17th century, before 1637.
Early 18th-century manuscript of Icelandic laws, 'Lögbók Islendinga'.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.8.4
Scope and Contents
Early 18th-century manuscript containing Icelandic laws, probably written in Iceland. The work is neatly written with broad margins and occasional marginal annotations in contemporary hands. The decoration consists of large plain penwork initials.The title on folio 1r reads: 'Lögbók Islendinga sem Magnus Kóngr Hákonar son liet samanskrifa enn Egrekur Kóngur sonur hans sende inn í landed og baud fyri Lög'.Most of the material in the volume has been copied from a book...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Early 19th-century copies of late 18th-century papers in the unsuccessful claim to the Earldom of Dunbar by Sir John Home of Renton, and seven letters, 1820-1822, of James Home concerning his own claim thereto., Late 18th century, 1820-1822.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.10
Dates:
Late 18th century, 1820-1822.
Early draft and the first fair version of an unpublished novel, 'Gilded Ganymede: letters to the Devil' by Fred Urquhart, written under the pseudonym 'Fred Valdred'., 1929.
File
Identifier: MS.26993
Dates:
1929.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript and typescripts of short stories and novels by Fred Urquhart (1912-1995).
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Manuscripts of an unpublished novel, 'Gilded Ganymede: letters to the Devil' by Fred Urquhart, written under the pseudonym 'Fred Valdred', 1929-1930.
Early draft, notes, and part of the manuscript, undated, of an early unpublished novel, 'Peter Potter' by Robert Garioch Sutherland., Mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.26608
Early draft of 'Mary Stewart' by Robert McLellan, consisting of both manuscript and heavily re-worked typescript., ?1950.
File
Identifier: MS.26347
Early, heavily revised manuscript of "King's quiver: the last three Tudors" by Nancy Brysson Morrison., [1972, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.27349
Scope and Contents
The text is followed (folio 160) by fragments of later versions, all with numerous alterations and additions.
Dates:
[1972, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary papers and correspondence of the novelist and biographer, Nancy Brysson Morrison (1903-1986).
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Literary papers of Nancy Brysson Morrison.
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Notes for and manuscript of "King's quiver: the last three Tudors" by Nancy Brysson Morrison.
Early manuscript draft of chapter one of 'Watling Street', with related loose-leaf research notes., 1975-1976.
File
Identifier: Acc.11621/47
Dates:
1975-1976.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary papers of Muriel Spark.
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Papers concerning the creation and publication of the novel 'Reality and Dreams' by Muriel Spark.
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Papers relating to Muriel Spark's novel 'Reality and Dreams'.
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Manuscript drafts and notes of Muriel Spark for 'Reality and Dreams', with typescripts and other associated papers.
Early manuscript drafts of the ‘Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail., 1767, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.5356
Scope and Contents
This volume contains the two earliest drafts of the 'Case for the respondents'; the first (folio 1), is dated December 1767, and is written by Andrew Stuart; the second (folio 59), is undated, and is written by Professor Hugh Blair.
Dates:
1767, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause.
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Manuscript drafts of the ‘Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail.