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:
Early manuscript with numerous corrections of an unpublished novel, 'Hyphen' by Fred Urquhart., 1932.
Item
Identifier: MS.26996
Early writing of Dorothy Dunnett., 1946-1950, 1961-1964, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12135/1-19
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1946-1950, 1961-1964, undated.
'Eastwood militia society. Minutes 1810-1867.' 'Minutes Continued from Vol. 2d.', 1810-1867.
Item
Identifier: MS.2693
Scope and Contents
The object of the Society was to provide substitutes for its members balloted for the militia. It cooperated with similar societies in the West of Scotland. From 1831 it was virtually defunct and in 1867 it was wound up. The volume contains several independent sheets: letters, printed forms with manuscript notes, and other papers.
Dates:
1810-1867.
"Edinburgh Almanack" (1766), with manuscript diary and notes of James Camichael.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5775
Dates:
1766.
Editorial papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’ for ‘Voice of Scotland’., 1938-1959, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27080
Scope and Contents
The magazine was published in 1938-1939 and again from 1945 to 1958, under Hugh MacDiarmid's editorship. The papers, which consist chiefly of MacDiarmid's own contributions, contain manuscripts typescripts, and a few proofs.
Dates:
1938-1959, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Literary papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Prose works of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Broadcasts and speeches of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Editorial work of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
Editorial work of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1938-[circa 1975], undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27077-27082
Dates:
1938-[circa 1975], undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Literary papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Prose works of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Broadcasts and speeches of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
Edwin Muir's records of and reflections on dreams., 1957-1958.
File
Identifier: MS.19669
“Een seer schoon ende deuoet boexken inhoudende vele schoon ghebekens vvaer mede een Christen mensche hem sal oeffenen om die eeuvvighe salicheyt te vervverue ... Anno 1575.”
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.12
Scope and Contents
A prayer book from the Low Countries written in 1575. The work contains various prayers in Dutch, as well as the seven penitential psalms and the litany.The work is written in cursive hands in black ink with rubrics and some initials in red. There appear to be four different hands present in the volume.The main body of the work is written in the same cursive hand, while two decorative elements are accompanied by a different bookhand. Folios 154v-158v are written in a...
Dates:
1575.
Eight letters and postcards of Agnes Miller Parker to Ernest Rasdall.
File
Identifier: Acc.7288
Scope and Contents
With a manuscript list of books illustrated by Miller Parker.
Dates:
1961-1962.
Eighteenth century manuscript of 'Death-bed [and other] Testimonies to the Truths ... of Jesus Christ'., 1653-1749.
Item
Identifier: MS.2832
Electrostatic copy of 'Observations on the election law of Scotland dictated to me by my Father at Auchinieck in Autumn 1771 James Boswell'., 1771.
Item
Identifier: MS.9860 [Electrostatic copy]
Dates:
1771.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript and electrostatic copies of 'Observations on the election law of Scotland dictated to me by my Father at Auchinieck in Autumn 1771 James Boswell', a detailed historical and legal analysis of the law governing elections to Parliament in Scotland, by Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, Senator of the College of Justice, in the hand of his son James, the biographer.
Eleven monthly parts of the family magazine, 'The Star', written by the Bigg family of Carnwath.
File
Identifier: MS.9171
Scope and Contents
The issues contain stories, verse, news of family affairs, and a few drawings, in the handwriting of the various contributors. The May issue is missing.
Dates:
1866.
End of an unidentified medical work and notes on physiognomy., 15th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.11A, folios 1-4, 12-15
Scope and Contents
(i) End of an unidentified medical work, explicit ‘quare in isto morbo mora trahit periculum’ (possibly folio 1 recto is a different work, and this begins on folio 1 verso, incipit `Galienus in libro dicit quod nullam corruptionem patitur`) (folio 1). Folios 3 verso, 4 are blank.(ii) Notes on physiognomy (folio 12; a much shortened version of a section of ‘Secretum secretorum’ by pseudo-Aristotle (‘Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Bacon’, fascicle v, pages 167-171)), weather (folio...
Dates:
15th century.
End of an unidentified work on the degrees of medicine, explicit 'et passionario et protinus aliis libris ut modicam pararet ualitatem'., 13th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.1(v)
Scope and Contents
There is no ornament.
At the end are added recipes in French (15th century, folio 156 verso).
Dates:
13th century.
English translation of ‘Petri Gyllii de Topographia Constantinopoleos et illius Antiquitatibus’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.2
Scope and Contents
It would appear to be a draft translation, and two stages can be discerned in its text. Books I-II (folios 1-31) are a first draft, written in a hand that is rather difficult to read, and extensively disfigured by large numbers of deletions and insertions; Book I Chapter 1 is misplaced at folio 21. Books III-IV (folios 32-67) are a later draft, written in a clearer hand, and bear fewer amendments. Apart from Book I Chapter 1, which is incomplete and in some confusion, the translation is...
Dates:
18th century.
Engraved and manuscript Jacobite keepsake.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11736
Scope and Contents
Features a portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart and an emblematic design, possibly for a medal. Includes verses, all within a frame with the stars of British orders.
Dates:
Late 18th century.
"Enquiry into the situation and circumstances of Horace's Sabine Villa, written during travels through Italy in the years 1775, 1776, 1777", by Allan Ramsay, the painter, with drawings.
Item
Identifier: MS.730
Scope and Contents
The title and most of the manuscript are in Allan Ramsay's autograph.
Dates:
1775-1777.
Entries in a competition held in conjunction with the publication of “Herrin' Jennie” by Edward Albert in 1931., 1931.
File
Identifier: MS.9152
Dates:
1931.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Edward Albert (1890-1944), who graduated Master of Arts in English at Edinburgh University, 1908, and spent his professional life as English master at George Watson's College, Edinburgh.
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Miscellaneous papers, chiefly notebooks, of Edward and Mrs Annie Albert.
Entries in a poetry competition in honour of Christopher Murray Grieve’s “Hugh MacDiarmid's” 80th birthday., 1972.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27215-27216
Scope and Contents
The entries include work by several well-known poets such as Sydney Goodsir Smith and George Campbell Hay.
Dates:
1972.
Epilogue by Henry Mackenzie, with corrections in his hand, to ‘The family legend’ by Joanna Baillie., Circa 1810.
File
Identifier: MS.5406 (i), folios 1-2
Dates:
Circa 1810.
Essay, circa 1760, of James Buchanan, on self-love, with manuscript notes, 1782, of the 11th Earl of Buchan.
File
Identifier: Acc.6778
Dates:
circa 1760-1782.
Essay, notes, and extracts from other works, on teinds and other ecclesiastical matters.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.11
Scope and Contents
According to a pencil note on page i, `This Book is in handwriting of Commissary John Goldie [of Craigmuie]`.The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Note on reason for parsons being addressed as `Sir’. (Page i.)(ii) `Ane Essay on Teinds.’ This is basically the same text as in Adv.MS.81.1.3. (Page 1.)(iii) `Extracts from [White] Kennets Parochiall antiquitys of Ambrosden andc [Oxford, 1695]`. (Page 88.)(iv) `Extracts from a...
Dates:
18th century.
`Essay sur le gouvernement des Turcs, leurs moeurs et leurs usages, par le baron de Tott’; copy of an unpublished work by François, Baron de Tott, the diplomatist, who published his ‘Mémoires’ in 1784.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.2
Scope and Contents
Small water-colour sketches of Turkish scenes and figures have been pasted in before each chapter-heading.
Dates:
1763.
Essay, written (or possibly copied) in a formal hand, entitled `Observations On the Improvements of Highland Estates on the North West Coast of Scotland`, dated London 7 November 1782.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.5.5
Scope and Contents
The identity of the author is not recorded, and the circumstances of the writing are unknown, but the hand, if not the authorship, may be that of Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet of Ulbster, who was in London in 1782 and was interested in agricultural and estate improvement from an early age.
Dates:
1782.
Essays (historical and other), biographies, reminiscences, and other works by John Ramsay of Ochtertyre, Advocate.
File
Identifier: MSS.1635-1644
Scope and Contents
The works are for the most part descriptive of the eighteenth century in Scotland, and are contained in 10 folio volumes, each bearing the title assigned to it by John Ramsay, showing his grouping and division of his manuscript. Subjects treated in one volume, however, are apt to occur again in others.
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.