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:
Fragmentary manuscript of Agnes Mure Mackenzie entitled 'The making of Mediaeval Scotland', corresponding to the preface, pages 3-4, and pages 273-293 of ‘The foundations of Scotland’., 1937.
Item
Identifier: MS.9179
Dates:
1937.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts and typescripts of, and notes for, historical and literary works, speeches, and broadcasts, together with correspondence, of Agnes Mure Mackenzie, Commander of the British Empire, Master of Arts, Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Laws (1891-1955).
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Manuscripts and typescripts of, and notes for, historical works of Agnes Mure Mackenzie.
Fragmentary manuscripts and typescripts of individual poems in and sections of 'Mature Art' by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’., 1938, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27021
Scope and Contents
Included are typescripts (folios 52-74) closely related to ‘In memoriam James Joyce’ but addressed to the 16th-century Italian poet, Teofilo Folengo.
Dates:
1938, 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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Poetry of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of 'Mature Art' by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’.
Fragmentary manuscripts and typescripts, undated, of ‘In memoriam James Joyce’ by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’., [?1937-?1938.]
File
Identifier: MS.27024
Scope and Contents
The papers include two versions of the author's preface (folios 8-25) and several longer sections of the poem (folios 94-187).
Dates:
[?1937-?1938.]
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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Poetry of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of 'Mature Art' by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’.
Fragmentary manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of ‘The company I've kept’ by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’., [1966, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.27046
Scope and Contents
The papers include draft lists of contents (folio 1), an unpublished introduction (folio 5), the text of most of chapter 7, apparently intended as an article entitled 'Ezra Pound and the Curse of Usury' (folio 13), pages of a notebook on 'A.E.', the author George William Russell (folio 25), a corrected typescript of chapters 1-4 (folio 41), and proofs of the preliminary pages (folio 205).
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’.
Fragments, drafts and notes in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald, mainly on Scottish antiquities and topography.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.21
Dates:
[?Late 17th century-?1722.]
Fragments of a Latin commentary on Aristotle's ‘Categoriae', including parts of the 'Liber predicabilium' and 'Liber predicamentorum'.
File
Identifier: MS.25239
Scope and Contents
The commentary is followed by a fragment of a manuscript in English (folio 34) and part of a vellum leaf from a 13th-century noted service book (folio 36).
Dates:
13th century, 15th century.
Fragments of a life of Sir William Wallace (folio 1) and of notes (folios 17, 19) relating to another, unidentified life, possibly an edition of Blind Harry`s ‘Wallace’, by Richard Augustine Hay.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.18
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is undated, but from a reference to ‘the late Mr Lockhart of Carnwath’ (folio 29 verso), it seems that the notes at least were written probably in 1732; the life may have been written about the same time.
Dates:
Circa 1732.
Fragments of a work on the existence and attributes of God, by Abū 'Abd Allāh Muḣammad ibn Yūsuf al-Ḣasanī al-Sanūsī, who lived as a Sufi at Tlemcen and died 892 A.H. (1486 A.D.)., [Before 1487.]
Item
Identifier: MS.1897
Scope and Contents
At the end (folio 22) are some unidentified fragments.
Dates:
[Before 1487.]
Fragments of at least 7 and perhaps 8 manuscripts on medicine and astrology, some, if not all, English.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.11A-H; (former binding)
Scope and Contents
A and E may be in the same hand and from the same manuscript.
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Fragments of diaries and manuscripts of Alasdair Gray., 1944-1977.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9417/65-72
Dates:
1944-1977.
Fragments of liturgical and other medieval manuscripts.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21097-21100
Dates:
13th century-15th century.
Fragments of manuscript and typescript of ‘Fotheringhay’ by George Scott Moncrieff, with two printed items concerning the production in 1953., 1951, 1953.
File
Identifier: MS.19630
Fragments of manuscript written by Sir Walter Scott in a very unsteady hand, comprising an inscription to the 4th Earl of Hopetoun, slightly longer than that used for the monument erected in St Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1834., [?1831-1832.]
File
Identifier: MS.5317 (iv), folios 79-86
Scope and Contents
Included are instructions for copying a manuscript, possibly one in the Royal Library, Naples; one leaf of manuscript concerning Rhodes and the knights of Malta; and unfinished lines entitled 'A dream of midsummer'. (folio 79).
Dates:
[?1831-1832.]
Fragments of printed works, with extracts and notes of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton., 1717, 1734, 1784.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.27
Scope and Contents
The volume consists of pages i-xxiv, 1-38 of ‘A Summary of all the Religious Houses in England and Wales’ (folio 1) bearing Lieutenant-General G H Hutton`s signature on the title page, but no other marks, together with page 411, and what follows, of ‘Minor Practicks’ containing, as Appendix I, the `Account of all the Religious Houses that were in Scotland at the time of the Reformation` by John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, Keeper of the Advocates` Library (folio 32). Interspersed with these...
Dates:
1717, 1734, 1784.
Fragments of ‘Secretum secretorum’ by pseudo-Aristotle., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.11F, folios 50-65
Scope and Contents
(i) A paragraph from ‘Secretum secretorum’ by pseudo-Aristotle, incipit `Reges sunt quatuor: Rex largus sibi` (‘Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Bacon’, fascicle v, pages 42-43) (folio 50).(ii) The medical and physical sections of ‘Secretum secretorum’ by pseudo-Aristotle, incipit `Nunc vero plus [sic] tradere volo doctrinam medicinalem` (‘Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Bacon’, fascicle v, pages 64-99, 123-140) (folio 51). There is a gap after folio 58, corresponding to ‘Opera...
Dates:
15th century.
Fragments of the manuscript of, and other material concerning ‘The Parisians’ by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer, 1st Baron Lytton., [1872, or before-1874, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.4844
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Two fragments of the manuscript of 'The Parisians' (folios 1, 3);
(ii) Part of an apparently unpublished introduction to the novel (folio 13);
(iii) The author's notes for the novel (folio 29).
Dates:
[1872, or before-1874, or before.]
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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Manuscripts and proofs of works offered for publication to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Part of the manuscript of ‘The Parisians’ by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer, 1st Baron Lytton.
Fragments of the manuscript of Henry Cockburn, "Memorials of His Time", with many unpublished and variant passages.
File
Identifier: Acc.6522
Dates:
circa 1830-circa 1854.
Fragments of three manuscripts of the legal works of Justinian bound together., 13th century-14th century.
File
Identifier: MS.7141
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) A copy written in a fourteenth-century English hand of the 'Institutions', as far as Book III, Title 11 (folio 1). The text is accompanied by a full gloss and further annotations in different hands. It contains Lombardic initials in red in both text and gloss, and underlinings in red in the gloss. The leaf following folio 1 (containing Title 2, Section 3 to Title 5, Section 3) and the bifolium following folio 16 (containing Title 11, Section 1 to...
Dates:
13th century-14th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh; together with a list of the full collection.
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh.
Fragments of unidentified prose pieces of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1940-1950, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27084
Dates:
1940-1950, 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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Miscellaneous prose of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
Framed items relating to 'Broadsheet' edition eighteen, containing typescript and manuscript., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/49
Scope and Contents
Containing:
(i) Typescript of 'Funland', by Neil Jordan [cat. no.133].
(ii) Manuscript of 'The hill', by Benedict Ryan [cat. no.134].
Dates:
Undated.
Framed items relating to 'Broadsheet' edition fifteen, containing press cutting, manuscript, typescripts and correspondence, September 1972., 1972.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/41
Scope and Contents
Containing:(i) Press cutting from The Irish Times, 7 October 1972 [cat. no.114].(ii) Manuscript of Kawabata by Diarmid ÓSuilleabháin dated and signed 'Priósún Mountjoy (Cell 19), 17 Aibréan 1972' [cat. no.116].(iii) Typescript of 'Auburnia', by Paul Durcan, containing accompanying letter, 10 June 1972 [cat. no.117].(iv) Signed typescript of 'Two love poems: the rope makers, dark glasses', by Michael Longley, containing accompanying letter, 4...
Dates:
1972.
Framed items relating to 'Broadsheet' edition five, containing press cutting, correspondence, manuscript and typescript., 1967, 1969, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/12
Scope and Contents
Containing:
(i) Press cutting from The Irish Times, July 1969 [cat. no.44]
(ii) Letter of Desmond O'Grady, 28 March 1969 [cat. no.46]
(iii) Manuscript of 'Island of the Sun', by Desmond O'Grady, translated from the Arabic of Redwan Abushwesha [cat. no.47]
(iv) Letter of Denise Levertov, June 1967 [cat. no.48]
(v) Typescript of 'Liebestodt', by Denise Levertov [cat. no.49]
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1967, 1969, undated.
Framed items relating to 'Broadsheet' edition four, containing press cuttings, correspondence, typescripts and manuscript., 1968-1968.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/10
Scope and Contents
Containing:(i) Press cutting from The Irish Times, 22 May 1968 [cat. no.35](ii) Press cutting from Trinity News, May 1968 [cat. no.36](iii) Letter from Julien Blaine, 19 March 1968 [cat. no.37](iv) Signed typescript of 'A drama', by Brendan Kennelly, containing manuscript corrections [cat. no.38](v) Typescript of 'Last look', by Seamus Heaney, containing letter, 11 December 1967 [cat. no.39](vi) Manuscript of...
Dates:
1968-1968.
Framed items relating to 'Broadsheet' edition seven, containing typescripts, manuscripts and correspondence., 1969, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/19
Scope and Contents
Containing:
(i) Signed amended typescript of 'Dream of the trenches', by Seamus Heaney [cat. no.56]
(ii) Manuscript of 'Compulsory retirement', by John Jordan [cat. no.57]
(iii) Manuscript of 'Sólas na Céirde' and letter of Máirtin Ó Direáin, 22 November 1969 [cat. no.58]
(iv) Signed typescript of 'Forms of mutilation' and letter of John Montague, 17 November 1969 [cat. no.59]
Dates:
1969, undated.
Framed items relating to 'Broadsheet' edition seventeen, containing press cuttings, manuscripts, typescripts and correspondence, March 1973., 1973, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/44
Scope and Contents
Containing:(i) Press cutting from The Irish Independent, 15 May 1973 [cat. no.124].(ii) Press cutting from The Sunday Independent, 22 April 1973 [cat.no.124].(iii) Manuscript of 'Exhibitionist', by William Peskett [cat. no.128].(iv) Typescript of 'I am her outlaw wife', by Rupert Strong with accompanying letter, undated [cat. no.129].(v) Signed typescript of 'The road to excess' and 'The wreckers', by James Simmons, containing...
Dates:
1973, undated.