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:
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 2., 1686-1689.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.10(ii)
Scope and Contents
The volume contains transcripts of the cartulary of the Abbey of St Thomas the Martyr, Arbroath (Adv.MS.34.4.2), in a different arrangement (folio 17); a Calendar of Saints` days observed in Scotland before the Reformation (folio 267), and a list of feasts formerly held in Scotland (folio 286 verso).
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.
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 3., 1686-1689.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.10(iii)
Scope and Contents
The volume contains a transcript of the cartulary of Paisley (Adv.MS.34.4.14) (folio 13); an account of the Stewarts, as far as the death of King James II (folio 277); and a history of the Trinitarian monks (folio 295).
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.
Fair copy of the article, ‘The Highland Dress’ by John Francis Campbell, not in his hand, with several sketches and cuttings added to the end (folios 35-99)., 1871.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.3.7
Scope and Contents
A letter of Sir Alexander Campbell of Barcaldine, 1874, has been bound into the volume (folio 40).
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 'The Historie of the Lives and Raignes of five Kinges of Scotland' by William Drummond of Hawthornden., [1655, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2056-2057
Scope and Contents
Only the account of the reign of James IV is in William Drummond's own hand; but Drummond's hand appears elsewhere in corrections and additions.
Dates:
[1655, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Hawthornden Manuscripts: original papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort of James VI.
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Manuscripts of William Drummond of Hawthornden.
Fair copy of 'The Historie of the Lives and Raignes of five Kinges of Scotland' by William Drummond of Hawthornden, James I-III., [1655, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.2056
Dates:
[1655, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Hawthornden Manuscripts: original papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort of James VI.
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Manuscripts of William Drummond of Hawthornden.
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Fair copy of 'The Historie of the Lives and Raignes of five Kinges of Scotland' by William Drummond of Hawthornden.
Fair copy of 'The Historie of the Lives and Raignes of five Kinges of Scotland' by William Drummond of Hawthornden, James IV-V., [1655, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.2057
Dates:
[1655, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Hawthornden Manuscripts: original papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort of James VI.
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Manuscripts of William Drummond of Hawthornden.
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Fair copy of 'The Historie of the Lives and Raignes of five Kinges of Scotland' by William Drummond of Hawthornden.
Fair copy with the title 'Gerry - a Ganymede' of an unpublished novel, 'Gilded Ganymede: letters to the Devil' by Fred Urquhart, written under the pseudonym 'Fred Valdred'., 1929-1930.
Item
Identifier: MS.26994
Dates:
1929-1930.
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, 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., 1818-1822.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.26.3.12-26.3.14
Dates:
1818-1822.
Fair manuscript copy, with a few pages of typescript, with the title 'A Scottish Poet and his Friends' by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’., [1966, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.27044
Scope and Contents
All of Chapter 2 except the first page is missing.
Dates:
[1966, or before.]
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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Books of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of 'The company I've kept’ by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’.
Family and estate papers of the Maxwells of Monreith, including correspondence, financial papers and bound estate papers.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.231- is now Acc.7043.
Scope and Contents
Also included are general and literary correspondence, 1863-1933, and some literary manuscripts of Sir Herbert Maxwell, seventh baronet.
Dates:
1673-circa 1947.
Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.1.1-82.9.16
Dates:
1509-19th century.
Family bible of the Murrays of Woodend, consisting of ‘The Holy Bible’ (London, 1616) and an unidentified copy of the Psalms (circa 1620; wanting title page, pages 1-2, and 79 onward), which went with Janet Murray on her marriage to James Oliphant; with manuscript additions., 1616, circa 1620.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.9.12
Scope and Contents
The manuscript additions consist of: (1) notes on the book by T L Kington Oliphant, 1889 (front flyleaf); (2) notes of births and deaths in the Murray family and of some other events, 1614-1633 (verso of title page); (3) notes of births and deaths in the Murray family, 1668-1672, and in the Oliphant family, 1690-1774 (blank leaf between the Apocrypha and the New Testament).
Dates:
1616, circa 1620.
Family magazine, 'The Blue Bell', written by various members of the Gibb family of Carnwath., 1855.
File
Identifier: MS.9169
Family magazine, 'The Blue Bell', written by various members of the Gibb family of Carnwath., 1856.
File
Identifier: MS.9170
Family magazine 'The Blue Bell', written by various members of the Gibb family of Carnwath.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9169-9170
Scope and Contents
The twelve issues cover intermittently the period October 1855-December 1856, and are written in various hands. The contents include stories, local news, a few photographs and drawings, and other 'newspaper' features.
Dates:
1855-1856.
Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3942-3988
Scope and Contents
Among the papers of the Robertsons the chief correspondents are Principal William Robertson, the historian, and his son William, a Senator of the College of Justice. The correspondence of the Principal includes letters of scholars, British and foreign (Voltaire among others), about his works, information on the American Indians, 1774-1777, and threats regarding his attitude to Roman Catholics, 1778-1779. That of Lord Robertson deals with his legal and political activities and the publication...
Dates:
1608-1913, undated.
'Famous Tippermallochs System of Physick’, being a manuscript, written in 1710, of the collection of medical recipes compiled by John Moncrieff of Tippermalloch.
Item
Identifier: MS.3772
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement of this manuscript corresponds fairly closely with that found in the printed editions, but the manuscript contains several recipes which do not appear in them, and vice versa; there are also differences in the details of recipes. The manuscript contains some additional material at the end.The contents are as follows. Tippermalloch's Recipes (pages 1-181); The following note by the writer of the manuscript: 'The End Of the Famous...
Dates:
1710.
Fifteenth century copy of the Summa Casuum of Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio (or Pisanus), an alphabetical handbook of canon law., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.2799
Scope and Contents
The preface begins 'Quoniam, ut ait Gregorius super Ezechiel, nullum omnipotenti Deo'; the text 'Abbas in suo monasterio'.
The text is written in different hands. In double columns. Initials in red and blue; a few marginal flourishes.
Dates:
15th century.
Fifteenth-century manuscript of the 'short version' of the 'Polychronicon' of Ranulph Higden.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.12
Scope and Contents
This is a copy of the original, short version ending in 1327. It contains preface (folio iii), alphabetical table (folio v; the reference-system, explained at the beginning, is to the foliation of this manuscript), map of the world (folio xiii verso), and text in seven books (folios 1, 33, 57, 92, 122 verso, 159 verso, 183), not formally divided into chapters.The presence of a map is unusual in this version (‘Universal Chronicle of Ranulf Higden’, pages 63-68, 97-98). It is...
Dates:
1327, and before.
File, 'A fashionable host', containing manuscripts of William McIlvanney., [?1966-?2015].
File
Identifier: Acc.14097 Box 5(7)
File, 'A gift from Nessus manuscript', containing the manuscript of William McIlvanney., [?1966-?2015].
File
Identifier: Acc.14097 Box 1(6)
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is contained in a series of notebooks.
Dates:
[?1966-?2015].
File, 'Articles and notes', containing assorted manuscript notes and typescripts of William McIlvanney; with some photocopies and electrostatic prints of newspaper articles., [?1966-?2015].
File
Identifier: Acc.14097 Box 5(24)
File, 'Columns/travel manuscripts', containing assorted manuscript drafts and notes of William McIvanney on travel, politics and other subjects., [?1966-?2015].
File
Identifier: Acc.14097 Box 4(18)
File containing assorted manuscripts and typescripts of William McIlvanney., [?1966-?2015].
File
Identifier: Acc.14097 Box 5(37)