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:
Extracts from published sources and some notes and other writings compiled by John Young, volume 3., 1822-1828.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.5.8
Scope and Contents
Young`s book-label is pasted inside the front cover.
Dates:
1822-1828.
Extracts from published sources and some notes and other writings compiled by John Young, volume 4, with later additions by Charles Baxter., 1828-circa 1833, circa 1855.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.5.9
Scope and Contents
Charles Baxter, who acquired the papers after Young’s death, added notes and extracts of his own especially from kirk session and other records (folios 49 verso-74 verso ; folios 49 verso-58 verso derive ultimately from MS.Wod.Fol.XXXII, folios 290-293), and (folios 97-146) from sections 31 and 32 (xxxvi-xxxvii) of the Auchinleck Manuscript (Adv.MS.19.2.1, folios 263-277). Baxter was responsible for having this volume bound in covers similar to those of Adv.MSS.31.5.6-31.5.8.Many...
Dates:
1828-circa 1833, circa 1855.
Extracts from published sources and some notes and other writings compiled by John Young, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1786).
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Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.5.6-31.5.9
Scope and Contents
The extracts are taken from periodical publications, especially the ‘Caledonian Mercury’ and the ‘Edinburgh Courant’, largely recording English legal cases, and from books on a wide variety of topics, especially history, medicine, law, literature, husbandry, travel, science, theology and biography.The notes and other writings relate to various topics and include a few examples of letters of and to Young.The earliest extract is dated 13 December 1794 (Adv.MS.31.5.6,...
Dates:
1794-circa 1855.
Extracts from the manuscript lute-book of Robert Gordon of Straloch, 1627-1629 (now lost), made by George Farquhar Graham, 1845.
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Identifier: MS.349
Scope and Contents
Inserted is a letter of John Muir Wood, 1884 (folio 4), correcting Graham’s scale in Adv.MS. 5.2.18.
Dates:
1627-1629.
Extracts from the proceedings of the Althing of Iceland.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.21.7.2-21.7.4
Dates:
1631-1700.
Extracts from the proceedings of the Althing of Iceland: volume 1., 1631-1700.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.21.7.2
Scope and Contents
Note by F Magnusson: `No. 23. Exscripta et Extracta Actorum Islandiæ Magistratuum ac Judicum in Comitiis Insulæ [nempe Islandiæ] Generalibus (1631-1700) vol 1`.
Dates:
1631-1700.
Extracts from the proceedings of the Althing of Iceland: volume 2., 1631-1700
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Identifier: Adv.MS.21.7.3
Scope and Contents
Note by F Magnusson: `No. 24. Excerpta et Extracta Actorum Islandiæ Magistratuum and Judicum in Comitiis Insulæ Generalibus. Vol 2.`
Dates:
1631-1700
Extracts from the proceedings of the Althing of Iceland: volume 3., 1631-1700.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.21.7.4
Scope and Contents
Note by F Magnusson: `No. 25. Excerpta et Extracta Actorum Islandiæ Magistratuum andc. Vol 3.`
Dates:
1631-1700.
Extracts made from a copy of the Lyon Register belonging to Andrew Plummer of Middle Steed and Sunderland Hall., 1672-1822.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.16
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Notes of dues for matriculation of arms, 1768, 1798, and undated (folio ii).(ii) Arms of the nobility copied, with some additions, directly from the Lyon Register. Engravings of the arms are pasted on the facing pages (folio 3).(iii) Arms of knights and baronets copied from the Sunderland Hall manuscript (folio 56).(iv) Funeral escutcheons engraved by David Deuchar, with blanks left for...
Dates:
1672-1822.
Fables from the `Novus Aesopus` of Alexander Neckam., Before 1218.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.9(v), folios 57 verso-59 verso
Scope and Contents
The fables are numbers 31-32, 34, 38-39, 41-42, 19, 8, 6, 1, 9-10, 13-16, 20-25 in ‘Les Fabulistes latins’, ii, pages 392-416. An additional fable, not printed in ‘Les Fabulistes latins’, is given between numbers 19 and 8 (folio 58 verso, column b), beginning `Arboris in patula mel reperit ursa caverna`. The last fable breaks off after line 5. It is followed by a partially erased colophon, `Explicit liber...`.
Dates:
Before 1218.
Facsimile of the "Peroration" to the manuscript of Walter Scott`s "The Tale of Old Mortality" (1816).
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Identifier: Acc.12392
Dates:
circa 1816.
Facsimiles of manuscripts made for students in Falconer Madan's classes in mediaeval palaeography at Oxford, with notes and a few transcripts by Percy Stafford Allen.
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Identifier: MS.9739
Scope and Contents
There is an inscription by Percy Allen dated 1894 (folio i) and he is known to have attended the classes that year. Photostats of letters of Robert Turberville and Pope Leo X to Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester, 1517, undated, are inserted (folio 38).
Dates:
1517, 1894, undated.
Fair copy, in a contemporary hand, of `De Hominio Disputatio` by Sir Thomas Craig.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.25
Scope and Contents
Sir Thomas Craig wrote this work in 1603 to show that Scotland had never done homage to England, in reply to strenuous claims to the contrary in the 1587 edition of Holinshead`s ‘Chronicles’ (`in manibus hominum his sexdecim annis`- page 2). Like many of Craig`s works this was not published in his lifetime; but an English translation, almost certainly from another copy (pages xxxvii-xxxviii), was produced at London under the title `Scotland`s Soveraignty asserted ...` by George Ridpath in...
Dates:
1603.
Fair copy in a contemporary hand of `De Hominio Disputatio` by Sir Thomas Craig.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.2
Scope and Contents
Craig wrote this work in 1603 to show that Scotland had never done homage to England, in reply to strenuous claims to the contrary in the 1587 edition of Holinshead`s ‘Chronicles’ (`in manibus hominum his sexdecim annis` - folio i verso).
Dates:
1603.
Fair copy in a contemporary hand of ‘De jure successionis andc regni Angliae Libri duo’ by Sir Thomas Craig.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.1
Scope and Contents
This was one of several works written in reply to ‘A Conference abovt the next svccession to the crowne of Ingland’ written in 1594 by `N. Doleman` (a pseudonym for a group of Recusant exiles led by Sir Francis Englefield, but then and long afterwards thought to be of Robert Parsons, Society of Jesus).The dedication of the work, to King James VI of Scotland, is dated 1 January 1603: the peaceful accession of James to the throne of England later that year was probably deemed by...
Dates:
Circa 1603.
Fair copy in an unidentified hand of apparently early 18th-century provenance of `Buchanan Revis`d [:] Annotations or Animadversions on Buchanan`s Historie and his Dialogue, etc.` by Sir James Turner, along with the rest of the contents of Adv.MS.31.1.14.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.15
Scope and Contents
The transcript of Turner`s `observations` on O`Flaherty`s ‘Ogygia’ is written in the same hand but on slightly smaller leaves.
The copy may have been made for Sir Robert Sibbald who appears to have made a few brief additions at various places.
The volume appears to have been re-bound early in the 19th century.
Dates:
1643-1679.
Fair copy in an unknown hand of `De Unione Regnorum Britanniae Tractatus` by Sir Thomas Craig.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.3
Scope and Contents
There are many words and passages left blank, and corrections and additions have been made in the original hand and others. Some omissions have been supplied and marginal notes added, by William Aikman of Carnie, Advocate, in 1690, from a copy then in the possession of Christopher Irvine, Doctor of Medicine, for which see folio 132 verso.Sir Thomas Craig was one of the Scottish Commissioners appointed to discuss closer political links with England following James VI`s accession...
Dates:
Circa 1604.
Fair copy in the hand of Mary Shelley of 'Don Juan', cantos 6, 7 and 8, by Lord Byron, with manuscript annotations and notes by Lord Byron., 1822.
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Identifier: MS.43333
Scope and Contents
Title page, folio 1.
Preface in Byron's hand dated 1822, folios 2-4.
Fair copy of 'Don Juan' canto 6 in the hand on Mary Shelley with corrections by Byron, dated 1822, folios 5-21.
Fair copy of 'Don Juan' canto 7 in the hand on Mary Shelley with corrections by Byron, dated 1822, folios 22-32.
Fair copy of 'Don Juan' canto 8 in the hand on Mary Shelley with corrections by Byron, undated, folios 33-48.
Dates:
1822.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Manuscripts of poems, plays and prose of or relating to Lord Byron and his circle.
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Manuscripts and fair copies mainly of the narrative poetry of Lord Byron.
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Manuscripts of 'Don Juan', a poem by Lord Byron; with a fair copy of cantos VI, VII and VIII in the hand of Mary Shelley.
Fair copy, not in his hand, of an unpublished paper, `Note as to various MacDwyne, Macarthus, Mac O Diunne or Campbell Tartans` by John Francis Campbell, with annotations and comments in his own hand on opposite pages., 1871.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.50.3.10
Scope and Contents
A letter of John Sobieski Stuart, 1871, has been inserted at the end of the volume.
Dates:
1871.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Collections of Gaelic tales, folklore and proverbs, mainly written by John Dewar; material relating to folklore in general; papers concerning Highland dress; and several volumes relating to Irish language and folklore.
Fair copy of a collection of extracts mostly from mediaeval registers of religious houses, with some from current printed reference books, concerning the ancestors of the family of Stirling of Keir: volume 1., 1818-1822.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.12
Dates:
1818-1822.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Notebooks from the Riddell Collection.
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Large notebooks from the Riddell Collection, containing genealogical and other notes relating to Scottish families.
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Fair copy, written on paper watermarked 1825, of a collection of extracts mostly from mediaeval registers of religious houses, with some from current printed reference books, made apparently between 1818 and 1822, concerning the ancestors of the family of Stirling of Keir.
Fair copy of a collection of extracts mostly from mediaeval registers of religious houses, with some from current printed reference books, concerning the ancestors of the family of Stirling of Keir: volume 2., 1818-1822.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.13
Dates:
1818-1822.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Notebooks from the Riddell Collection.
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Large notebooks from the Riddell Collection, containing genealogical and other notes relating to Scottish families.
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Fair copy, written on paper watermarked 1825, of a collection of extracts mostly from mediaeval registers of religious houses, with some from current printed reference books, made apparently between 1818 and 1822, concerning the ancestors of the family of Stirling of Keir.
Fair copy of a collection of extracts mostly from mediaeval registers of religious houses, with some from current printed reference books, concerning the ancestors of the family of Stirling of Keir: volume 3., 1818-1822.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.14
Dates:
1818-1822.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Notebooks from the Riddell Collection.
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Large notebooks from the Riddell Collection, containing genealogical and other notes relating to Scottish families.
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Fair copy, written on paper watermarked 1825, of a collection of extracts mostly from mediaeval registers of religious houses, with some from current printed reference books, made apparently between 1818 and 1822, concerning the ancestors of the family of Stirling of Keir.
Fair copy of an unpublished novel, 'Gilded Ganymede: letters to the Devil' by Fred Urquhart, written under the pseudonym 'Fred Valdred'., 1930-1931.
File
Identifier: MS.26995
Scope and Contents
The copy is preceded (folio i) by three letters from Aldous Huxley, 1931, advising Fred Urquhart against publication.
Dates:
1930-1931.
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.
Fair copy of `Diplomatum veterum collectio`, being Richard Augustine Hay`s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)-(iii)
Scope and Contents
The copy was probably begun in 1696 (the date quoted on the title page) and not completed until 1701 or later (34.1.10(iii), folio 294 verso), made apparently by a copyist from the transcripts made by Hay when he was in Scotland between 1686 and 1689.
Dates:
1686-1689.
Fair copy of `Diplomatum veterum collectio`, being Richard Augustine Hay`s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh, volume 1., 1686-1689.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)
Scope and Contents
The volume contains transcripts of documents from various sources, including: the cartulary of St Mary`s Abbey, Newbattle (Adv.MS.34.4.13), in a different arrangement (folio 15); charters of Holyroodhouse, apparently from an unknown source (folio 152); these transcripts were used in ‘Liber Cartarum Sancte Crucis’, those at folios 154 verso-162 verso being printed (in a different order) at pages xvi-xli (passim) of the preface. Some (folios 158-159) are also printed in...
Dates:
1686-1689.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Fair copy of `Diplomatum veterum collectio`, being Richard Augustine Hay`s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh.