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:
‘George and the dragon’ by G W Crawford, a comic opera in three acts with a libretto by James N McLaurin., [?1905.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21937-21939
Scope and Contents
The work was written in or about 1905 (MS.21937, folio 32 verso; cf. MS.21939, folio 45).
Dates:
[?1905.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own.
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Music of G W Crawford for stage works.
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Operas of G W Crawford.
George Home of Wedderburn`s copy of "The Mirror", with manuscript notes and essay drafts inserted.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7665
Dates:
1779-1780.
'Glen Yla, Glen Ardle, Glen Shye [i.e. Glen Isla, Glen Ardle, Glen Shee], out of Mr. T. Pont's papers yey ar very imperfyt'. , [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 43)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
Glenmasan manuscript (Ulster cycle).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.3
Scope and Contents
It may be said in summary that the manuscript appears to be a product of a school conducted by An Giolla Riabhach Ó Cléirigh and Dubhthach Ó Duibhgeannáin, and that it circulated for a hundred years and more in Cowall. The Reverend William Campbell’s formalised note at page ii, giving the place Glenmasan and the date 1268, has provided the name by which it is generally known. In view of the difficulty Campbell experienced in the 1760s or 1770s in writing the date at page 29, one is entitled...
Dates:
ca. 1500.
Glenriddell Manuscripts: copies of poems, letters, etc., of Robert Burns, compiled by the poet, 1791-1793, for presentation to Robert Riddell of Glenriddell.
Series
Identifier: MSS.86-87
Dates:
4th quarter of 18th century.
Glossary to Icelandic laws, and treatise on Icelandic topography.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.4.6
Dates:
18th century.
Glossed manuscript of German provenance, written in or about 1508, of the first part (Epp. 1-88) of Seneca's 'Epistulae Morales'., [Circa 1508.]
Item
Identifier: MS.7142
Scope and Contents
The text does not seem to belong to any of the better-known groups of manuscripts and contains numerous differences from modern editions. Ep. 53 is placed after 37, 58 after 82, and 59 after 56. Ep. 48 is divided in two at paragraph 6. (This serves to correct the numeration, which is faulty following Ep. 4.) Throughout the text is considerably shortened, and there are numerous variants of vocabulary and word-order. Each letter is preceded by a summary. Ep. 88 is followed by a summary of Ep....
Dates:
[Circa 1508.]
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.
Gospel lectionary; with a typescript of an unpublished article concerning the lectionary.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9000-9000A
Dates:
11th century, 1968.
‘[Gospel Sonnets] or Spiritual Songs’, in the autograph of the Reverend Ralph Erskine, preceded and followed by matter in shorthand.
File
Identifier: MS.1015
Scope and Contents
Two versions of part vi, chapter v, section 1, ‘In heavenly quires a question rose’, are given (folios 119, 122).
Dates:
Early 18th century-mid 18th century.
Gradual containing parts of the Proper of the Mass, with plainchant, for most of the Sundays from the First in Advent to Whitsunday, and most of the major feast-days., 1762.
Item
Identifier: MS.8189
Scope and Contents
The contents of pages 200-209 (not originally paginated) appear to have been added in another hand.
Dates:
1762.
‘Grant manuscript.’
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.2 (1)-(2)
Scope and Contents
The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. III. History” (F.R.186).
Dates:
1494-1593, 17th century.
‘Grant manuscript’, volume 1., 1494-1577.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.2 (1)
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.A few notes of accounts, 1494-1499, between the Burgh of Hadington and their fermorars. Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), December 1550 – October 1577, collected chronologically by Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington. Numbered up to 254 and continued to about 200 more.Extracts from the Books of Sederunt of the Court of Session, 1532-1568, imperfect at the beginning.'Tables of the kings of Scotland,...
Dates:
1494-1577.
Greek and Latin vocabulary, probably by Archibald Fletcher, Lord Milton’s son., 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.17789
Scope and Contents
Greek words form the majority of the vocabulary. Explanations are in both Latin and English.
Dates:
18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Academic and literary papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Half a leaf from a missal., Late 12th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.21098
Scope and Contents
It consists of the outer columns of the leaf, containing part of the Gospel for Tuesday in Holy Week (Mark xiv, 22-52). The text is rubricated for reading or singing by three lectors. The fragment was used in a binding.
Dates:
Late 12th century.
Handwritten and typescript `wartime memories` presented by visitors to the National Library of Scotland summer exhibition, 2005, "Scotland`s Secret War: Hidden Stiries of World War II".
File
Identifier: Acc.12567
Dates:
2005.
Hannay-MacAuslan Piobaireachd Manuscript, attributed to Donald MacDonald.
Item
Identifier: Dep.201- is now Acc.11600.
Dates:
1811, or after.
Hawthornden Manuscripts: original papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort of James VI., Late 16th century-early 18th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2053-2067
Dates:
Late 16th century-early 18th century.
Heavily corrected manuscript of chapters I-XVII of Thomas Reid, "Treatise on Clock and Watchmaking" (1826).
File
Identifier: Acc.8787
Scope and Contents
With printed text and plates (with corrections) for Reid`s entry on horology in the "Edinburgh Encyclopedia".
Dates:
circa 1826.
Heavily corrected manuscript of ‘Haworth harvest: the lives of the Brontës’ by Nancy Brysson Morrison., [1969, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.27343
Scope and Contents
There are also parts of book I, chapter 5 and book III, chapter 1 of an earlier manuscript (folios 1-7).
Dates:
[1969, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary papers and correspondence of the novelist and biographer, Nancy Brysson Morrison (1903-1986).
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Literary papers of Nancy Brysson Morrison.
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Notes for and manuscript of 'Haworth harvest: the lives of the Brontës' by Nancy Brysson Morrison.
Heavily re-worked manuscript of ‘Invitation from Minerva’ by Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost'., [1954, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27388-27389
Scope and Contents
Parts of the manuscript are early drafts which vary considerably from the published version. The first 49 folios (corresponding to pages 1-33 of the published text) are missing. There are two versions of the chapter 'Invitation to December' and of most of the final two chapters.
Dates:
[1954, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Margaret M Morrison, the novelist (died 1973), who wrote under the pseudonym 'March Cost'.
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Notes for and manuscripts and typescripts of literary works of Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost'.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of 'Invitation from Minerva' by Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost'.
Heavily re-worked manuscript of ‘Invitation from Minerva’ by Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost'., [1954, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.27388
Dates:
[1954, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Margaret M Morrison, the novelist (died 1973), who wrote under the pseudonym 'March Cost'.
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Notes for and manuscripts and typescripts of literary works of Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost'.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of 'Invitation from Minerva' by Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost'.
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Heavily re-worked manuscript of ‘Invitation from Minerva’ by Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost'.