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:
Essays, letters, pamphlets, and other material concerning the 'Forty-five., 1745-1750.
File
Identifier: MS.296
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) ‘Remarks on the Exhortation of the Commission of the General Assembly the 15th of November 1745’, with a covering letter, 1745. (Folio 1.)(ii) ‘Remarks’ on a paper published in the ‘Scots Magazine’, December 1745, page 562, regarding Prince Charles Edward’s second Manifesto, 1746. (Folio 3 verso.)(iii) Letter of a Jacobite justifying his conduct, beginning, “I have been told that a good friend of mine had said concerning the...
Dates:
1745-1750.
Estate accounts of the Oliphants for the period when Gask was forfeited and being administered by a factor, James Lawson., 1740-1755.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.3.11
Dates:
1740-1755.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
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Financial and legal papers of the Oliphants of Gask.
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Estate accounts of the Oliphants for the period when Gask was forfeited and being administered by a factor, James Lawson.
Estate accounts of the Oliphants for the period when Gask was forfeited and being administered by a factor, James Lawson., 1756-1760.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.3.12
Dates:
1756-1760.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
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Financial and legal papers of the Oliphants of Gask.
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Estate accounts of the Oliphants for the period when Gask was forfeited and being administered by a factor, James Lawson.
Estate accounts of the Oliphants for the period when Gask was forfeited and being administered by a factor, James Lawson., 1761-1764.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.3.13
Dates:
1761-1764.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
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Financial and legal papers of the Oliphants of Gask.
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Estate accounts of the Oliphants for the period when Gask was forfeited and being administered by a factor, James Lawson.
Estate accounts of the Oliphants for the period when Gask was forfeited and being administered by a factor, James Lawson., 1765-1770, and undated.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.3.14
Dates:
1765-1770, and undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
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Financial and legal papers of the Oliphants of Gask.
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Estate accounts of the Oliphants for the period when Gask was forfeited and being administered by a factor, James Lawson.
Estate accounts of the Oliphants for the period when Gask was forfeited and being administered by a factor, James Lawson., 1740-1770, and undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.3.11-82.3.14
Dates:
1740-1770, and undated.
‘Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language’ (Inverness, 1896) and ‘Further Gaelic words and etymologies’ (Inverness, 1899) by Alexander Macbain, with manuscript notes on Gaelic words, etc., probably by George Henderson, Lecturer in Celtic in Glasgow.
File
Identifier: MS.2556
Dates:
1896, 1899, undated.
Excerpts of letters on Italian politics and a paper on Italian affairs, concerning Sir Ralph Abercromby, 2nd Baron Dunfermline., [Circa 1860], 1862.
File
Identifier: MS.24732
Scope and Contents
The excerpts of letters on Italian politics, were written from Genoa, Turin and Rome, 1844-1848, by the 2nd Baron, Sir Ralph Abercromby and the Baroness to their parents and parents-ln-law respectively, and copied from the originals by Mary, Lady Dunfermline, circa 1860, (folio 1); The paper is titled, 'Return of all Papers presented to Parliament on Italian Afalrs from 1846 to the Close of the Session of 1862', and was compiled in 1863 for Ralph, Lord Dunfermline, (folio 68).
Dates:
[Circa 1860], 1862.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family, political and personal correspondence and papers of the Abercromby family, chiefly of James Abercromby (1776-1858), 1st Baron Dunfermline, with some correspondence and papers of his wife Marianne (died 1874), and of their son Ralph, 2nd Baron and diplomatist (1803-1868), and his family.
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Correspondence of the Abercromby family.
Exercises in Latin translation by Patrick Anderson.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.7.4
Scope and Contents
The exercises are followed (folio 7 verso) by notes by Thomas Ruddiman on the sale of his second edition of ‘Rudiments of the Latin Tongue’, a related account, and notes of books lent out by Ruddiman.
Dates:
1709.
Exercises of William Edmondstoune Aytoun’s students., 1863-1864, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.4914
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Eight exercises by William Edmondstoune Aytoun's students, some with Aytoun's comments, 1864, undated (folio 1).
(ii) Manuscript of a poem, 'To God', with a covering letter sent to William Edmondstoune Aytoun by John Regan, 1863 (folio 33).
Dates:
1863-1864, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Letters and papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, which, on his death, came into the hands of John Blackwood as his executor.
‘Exercitationes Physicae’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.7
Scope and Contents
The work consists of an introduction and four `exercitationes` divided into chapters. Mention is made of authors such as Gerard Vossius, Descartes and Gassendi. There are a few diagrams dealing with astronomy. The work is followed (folio 131) by theological notes in English and Latin, including part of an attack on the philosophy of Descartes.
Dates:
17th century.
Exercitationes physicae, written probably at Glasgow, by James Napier., 1676.
Item
Identifier: MS.2742
Scope and Contents
From the presence of a bookplate of Napier of Ballikinrain it appears James Napier was probably the second son of Thomas Napier, 10th of Ballikinrain.
Dates:
1676.
'Expedition of Charles, Prince of Wales', being a narrative of the Forty-Five by one who 'was eyewitness of the greatest part of what happened in the field'., 1745.
Item
Identifier: MS.3548
Scope and Contents
The narrative was apparently written shortly after Charles Edward's escape and reception in Paris. There is, in a modern hand, an abstract of the more important topics dealt with.
Dates:
1745.
Extensive manuscript additions and amendments to ‘Vindication of the ministers ... who have taken the abjuration’ (Edinburgh, 1712) by Alexander Lauder., 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.6611 [L.C.3326(5)]
Extensively amended copy of a speech of John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, in the House of Lords, 16 July 1830, in the case raised by Frederick Campbell Stewart of Ascog against Stewart Murray Fullarton of Fullarton, and others.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.16
Scope and Contents
According to an undated note signed `G Webster` (folio 1) the copy is written from shorthand notes by `Mr Gurney` (doubtless William B Gurney) and the extensive deletions and numerous alterations are in Eldon`s hand. A note in another hand at folio 1 reads `This as corrected and altered should be fair copied and the fair copy read by Lord E_ before it is printed if printing is intended’. It is not known if a fair copy was made: the speech is included in the report of the case in ‘Cases...
Dates:
1830.
Extensively amended manuscript, undated, of a work entitled ‘The philosophy of the particular' by Richard Haldane., [1926, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.20057
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains two versions of the preface, both different from that printed.
Dates:
[1926, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Mrs Mary E Haldane, her parents Richard and Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, her sister Jane, and her son Richard B Haldane, later Viscount Haldane.
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Correspondence and papers of, and concerning, Richard Burdon Haldane, who was created Viscount Haldane in 1911.
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Correspondence and papers chiefly of Richard Burden Haldane.
Extracts, 1556, from chartularies of the Archbishopric of Glasgow which were deposited in the Scots College in Paris; followed by a short history, in Scots, of the Hamilton family entitled 'Frier Mark Hamiltonis historie'
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.5
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of transcripts of the chartularies and original charters of the Archbishopric of Glasgow which were deposited in the Scots College in Paris. The material in the manuscript covers the 12th to the 16th centuries.The work is written in one hand and contains frequent additions, erasures, and corrections. The additions to the work, both in the margins and interlineal, are partly in Latin and partly in Scots.As well as charters, the volume contains extracts of...
Dates:
1556
Extracts and copies of historical works, collected by Sir James Balfour, 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.7
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Epitome Codicis Sconensis ... ex libro M.S. Magni Mackculloche` (folio 1). Material in Latin and English, taken from the `Scotichronicon` for 1057 to 1436, with a supplement (folio 34) for 1199-1263. This was the basis of the early part of Balfour`s ‘Annales of Scotland’. ‘The Scottish historical library’, pages 92-93, refers to this manuscript.(ii) Extracts from ‘Scotorum historiae’ by Hector Boece (folio 39)....
Dates:
1440-1642.
Extracts by Lieutenant-General George Henry Hutton from a manuscript compiled mainly by John Smyth, a monk at Kinloss Abbey (folio 1), followed by a copy by Hutton of the description (in fact a list of contents) of the original (Harl.MS.2363) from ‘A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum’, volume II (folio 28).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.6
Scope and Contents
Smyth`s manuscript appears to have been compiled from 1532 until his death in 1557 (several of the entries are undated): Hutton made his extracts about 1809, the date of the watermark of the leaves, and had them bound about 1824, the date of the watermark in the (blank) endpapers, Smyth`s manuscript appears to have consisted of fifteen items: Hutton appears to have copied the first seven and to have made extracts, some quite brief, from some of the remainder.
Dates:
1532-1557.
Extracts, early 19th century, made from a copy of the Lyon Register belonging to Andrew Plummer of Middle Steed and Sunderland Hall.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.35.6.15-35.6.16
Scope and Contents
There are additions up to 1822 by the copyists David Deuchar, and his son Alexander, the seal-engravers.
The volumes are interleaved with pages engraved with blank shields, some of which have been completed in watercolours or in trick to illustrate the text.
Dates:
1672-1822.
`Extracts from Act Books of the Council of State 1742-5`., 1742-1745.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.3.21
Dates:
1742-1745.
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.
Extracts from printed sources and a transcript, made by James Dennistoun for a projected history of Dumbartonshire, bound with two printed items., 1639-1640, 1825-1840.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.24
Scope and Contents
The extracts concern John Corbet, minister of Bonhill (folio 3), and the transcript is of David Laing`s copy, which had been discovered shortly before and was the only one known to Dennistoun, of Sir William Moore`s pseudonymously published ‘A counter-buff to Lysimachus Nicanor’, by Philopatris ([Edinburgh], 1640) (folio 11). Bound in between folios 8 and 9 are printed copies of Corbet`s ‘The ungirding of the Scottish Armour’ (Dublin, 1639) and his ‘The epistle congratulatorie of Lysimachus...
Dates:
1639-1640, 1825-1840.
Extracts from published sources and some notes and other writings compiled by John Young, volume 1., 1794-1814.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.5.6
Scope and Contents
Young`s book-label is pasted inside the front cover.
Dates:
1794-1814.
Extracts from published sources and some notes and other writings compiled by John Young, volume 2., 1814-1822.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.5.7
Scope and Contents
A letter, 1821, of John Black to Young is bound in at Adv.MS.31.5.7, folio 184.
Young`s book-label is pasted inside the front cover.
Dates:
1814-1822.