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:
General Correspondence of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1648-1717.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.80.1.2
General Correspondence of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1718-1738.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.80.1.3
General Correspondence of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1739-1743.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.80.1.4
General Correspondence of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1744-1774.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.80.1.5
General Correspondence of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1775-1778.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.80.1.6
General Correspondence of the family of Dundas of Dundas., January-22 September 1779.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.80.1.7
Dates:
January-22 September 1779.
General Correspondence of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 23 September-December 1779.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.80.1.8
Dates:
23 September-December 1779.
General Correspondence of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1780-1787.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.80.1.9
General Correspondence of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1788-1800.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.80.1.10
General Correspondence of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1801-1878.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.80.1.11
General Correspondence of the family of Dundas of Dundas, undated., [?1582-?1878].
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Identifier: Adv.MS.80.1.12
General Order Book of the Fife Regiment of Militia containing printed and manuscript War Office circulars addressed to the commanding officer of the regiment.
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Identifier: MS.9364
Scope and Contents
Several of the circulars are signed by Viscount Palmerston as Secretary-at-War, and Viscount Sidmouth as Home Secretary.
Dates:
1811-1814.
General orders relating to the Peninsular War: Portugal, 21 August-18 November 1808., 1808.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.46.3.7
Dates:
1808.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War in which he served (except during 1812 when he was in Ireland) as quartermaster-general.
General orders relating to the Peninsular War: various officers., 1807-1809.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.46.3.6
Scope and Contents
The volume contains the orders of:
Sir Brent Spencer, 1807-1808 (folio 1);
Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1808 (folio 5);
Sir Harry Burrard, 1808 (folio 15);
Sir John Moore, 1808-1809 (folio 17);
Sir David Baird, 1808 (folio 25);
and returns of troops under Sir John F Cradock, 1808 (folio 41).
Dates:
1807-1809.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War in which he served (except during 1812 when he was in Ireland) as quartermaster-general.
General papers, chiefly concerning English affairs., ?Circa 1784-1810, 1818-1820, 1861, undated.
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Identifier: MS.1041
Scope and Contents
The papers concern politics, the crops, sedition, and all matters not covered by the other volumes in the series. On folio 131 is a note, undated, in the 1st Lord Melville’s hand, apparently referring to persons intriguing with the French Revolution.
Dates:
?Circa 1784-1810, 1818-1820, 1861, undated.
General papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on history and government., 1776-[1786, or after], undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.24528-24529
Dates:
1776-[1786, or after], undated.
General papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on history and government., 1779-[1786, or after], undated.
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Identifier: MS.24528
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) 'Introduction to the history of Man', undated. Folio 1.) Monboddo number 70.
(ii) 'A sketch of the history of Man', written as a New Year's gift to an unnamed correspondent, undated. (Folio 3.) Monboddo number 71.
(iii) 'Of the similarity of language, religion and customs in different nations'. (Folio 13.) A discussion of the interrelationships of different peoples and the movement of population. The paper is undated, but a note added on folio 36 refers to a...
Dates:
1779-[1786, or after], undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714-1799) and his family.
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Literary and philosophical papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo.
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on History.
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General papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on history and government.
General papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on history and government., 1776-1781, undated.
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Identifier: MS.24529
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) ‘Of the polity of Sparta and general reflections upon government and the increase and decrease of mankind', 1781. (Folio 1.) Monboddo number 196.
(ii) Part of a paper on Machiavelli and the effects of religion on the state, undated. (Folio 76.) Monboddo number 254.
(iii) 'Of the nature, origin and progress of the feudal government in Europe', 1776. (Folio 80.) Monboddo number 201.
(iv) 'Of the Jewish government', undated. (Folio 91.) Monboddo number 73.
(v)...
Dates:
1776-1781, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714-1799) and his family.
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Literary and philosophical papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo.
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on History.
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General papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on history and government.
General papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on language., [Circa 1735]-1796, undated.
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Identifier: MS.24505
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) 'Of the Chinese language, written in Holland,' circa 1735. (Folio 1.) Monboddo number 250.
(ii) Chapters on the origin of language, 1766. (Folio 9.)Monboddo number 144.
(iii) Chapters on grammar and derivation of language, 1766. (Folio 40.) This is apparently a continuation from Lord Monboddo's Folio Volume 12, now lost. Monboddo number 142.
(iv) Chapters on 'a language of art', undated. (Folio 83.) Includes Monboddo number 140.
(v) 'Observations on the...
Dates:
[Circa 1735]-1796, undated.
‘Genology of Cunninghame Es. of Glencairne, with the whole cadets of the said familie'.
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Identifier: MS.3033
Scope and Contents
Pages 9-57 of a seventeenth-century manuscript.
The following branches of the family are represented: Cunningham, Cuninghame, etc., of Belton (folio 11), Barns (folio 11 verso), Glengarnock (folio 12), Drumquhassie (folio 14), Caprington (folio 15), Aiket (folio 17), Cunninghamehead (folio 17), Auchenharvie (folio 19 verso), Craigends (folio 20), Robertland (folio 22), Corsehill (folio 23), Bar (folio 23 verso), and Wattiestoun (folio 24 verso).
Dates:
17th century.
`Geographical Description of the Parish of Killin` by Adam Fergusson., 1732.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.1(xi), folios 153-166
Geographical notes of Arthur Geddes on the Montpellier region of France., 1928-1934.
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Identifier: MS.19281
Geological notes and diagrams, mainly relating to Iceland, which, according to explanatory notes at the beginning, were to be used in a second edition of ‘Frost and Fire’ but remained unpublished., 1861-1867.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.2
Scope and Contents
A small amount of correspondence is inserted (folios 135-145), principally letters of Sir Kenneth S Mackenzie, 6th Baronet of Gairloch, to Campbell, 1862, concerning geological matters.
Dates:
1861-1867.
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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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
Geological sketchbook of John Francis Campbell for the most part containing annotated rock rubbings made on his travels in Great Britain, along with various other geological notes and sketches., 1862-1864.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.50.3.23
Scope and Contents
The volume begins by describing several visits Campbell made to mines in Wales and the South of England while he was involved in collecting information and witnesses for the Mines` Commission, of which he was Secretary, in 1863 (folios 3-17). There are also a few watercolours made on a visit to Ireland in 1863 (folios 19 verso-30).One or two letters have been inserted in the volume, mainly from Sir Kenneth S Mackenzie of Gairloch and his gamekeeper, 1863-1864, and a few press...
Dates:
1862-1864.
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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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
Geometry textbook., 1685.
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Identifier: MS.14798