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:
`Hrokkinskinna`: histories of the Kings of Norway, 11th century-18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.21.5.4-21.5.5
Dates:
Early 19th century.
`Hrokkinskinna`: histories of the Kings of Norway, 11th century-18th century: 1., Early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.5.4
Dates:
Early 19th century.
`Hrokkinskinna`: histories of the Kings of Norway, 11th century-18th century: 2., Early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.5.5
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Hutton transcripts. A collection of transcripts of the cartularies of Aberdeen Cathedral (Adv.MS.20.3.1) and Newbattle Abbey (Adv.MS.20.3.3) and of charters and other formal documents, many of which are extracts from other cartularies, of and concerning several of the medieval dioceses and religious houses of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.3.1-20.3.9
Scope and Contents
Most of these transcripts and extracts, which were made between circa 1794 and circa 1824, are in the hand of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton: most of the rest are in the same hand as Adv.MS.9A.1.4. Many of the transcripts were made from originals and copies in possession of William Maule of Panmure, who was created Baron Panmure in 1831: many of the rest were copied from documents in possession of Thomas Thomson and at the Scottish Record Office, General Register House.
Dates:
12th century-1661.
'Hypocrite' by Robert McLellan, a play first performed in 1967., 1966-1967.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26376-26380
'Icarus', manuscript draft in notebook which also contains 'The Power of Poetry', together with a cutting from 'The Glasgow Herald'., November 1959.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4835/2
Icelandic and Danish legal and antiquarian miscellany.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.3.12
Dates:
18th century.
Icelandic law of public assemblies, compiled by Thorsteinn Magnússon, and other legal papers.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.3.11
Dates:
18th century.
Icelandic translation (through the German) of `Horae succisivae` by Joseph Henshaw.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.7.10
Dates:
18th century.
“Idées d’une réforme général de la moral et politique” by George Eisenhauer, with a dedicatory letter to Sir Walter Scott., 1827.
File
Identifier: MS.1580
Dates:
1827.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and papers of Sir Walter Scott and his family and of John Gibson Lockhart, with those of clients and kinsmen of Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet.
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Manuscripts chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
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Manuscripts of George Eisenhauer, Fort George, East Florida, dedicated to Sir Walter Scott.
Illustrated diary of a tour of Scotland.
File
Identifier: Acc.14084
Scope and Contents
Journal of a tour of Scotland from 21 September to 1 October 1885. The unidentified author is a Scot living in Sunderland and travels to Scotland to visit his brothers and mother in Dundee. He visits places in and around Dundee including Newport-on-Tay and Howe of Strathmore, and then takes an excursion into the Highlands. He travels by train, steamer, coach, sail boat and on foot. The journal, written in the form of a daily diary, includes several painted illustrations including train...
Dates:
1885
Illustrated manuscript on palm leaves of a poem ‘Śrῑ - liṅgarāja - devasya prāsādāni’ by Madhusudana Miśra., [Circa 1925.]
Item
Identifier: MS.19617
Dates:
[Circa 1925.]
Illustrations of heraldic terms.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.20
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes the ordinaries and sub-ordinaries with some of their variations, and a few other charges. The beginning is missing. A later hand has added examples of the colours and metals in trick (folio 46).
Dates:
17th century.
'Imago mundi' by Honorius of Autun, 'Speculum regum' by Godfrey of Viterbo, and an anonymous poem 'De laude civitatis Laudae'. A manuscript written in Italy in the late 13th or early 14th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The `Imago mundi` of Honorius (folio 1), here entitled `Mappa mundi`, and attributed in both the title and the colophon to Isidore of Seville.(ii) `Speculum regum` by Godfrey of Viterbo (folio 23 verso). It contains the preface, list of chapters, and list of popes, but not the poem itself.(iii) ‘De laude civitatis Laudae’ (folio 38). An anonymous poem. Written in an Italian littera textualis...
Dates:
Late 13th century-early 14th century.
'Impavidi Progrediamur' by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’, intended as the second volume of 'Mature Art'., 1956, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27025
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Fragmentary manuscripts and typescripts, undated (folio 1); (ii) Incomplete corrected typescript, 1956 (folio 56). The different sections of the poem (which incorporates poems already published in ‘Lucky poet’ (London, 1943), and elsewhere, as well as new material) are linked by passages of prose.
Dates:
1956, 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’.
Imperfect copy in a 17th-century hand of John Bellenden`s translation of the ‘Scotorum Historiae’ of Hector Boece.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.15
Scope and Contents
This copy lacks folios 2, 3 and 163 (the last), which are supplied in a hand apparently of the 2nd quarter of the 18th century. It appears to have been copied from an earlier manuscript, rather than from the edition which was printed about 1536 in Edinburgh, from which it diverges in a number of places. It is not known who made this copy nor who owned it: what may be `Rob: Innes` has been written in a 17th-century hand at folios 1 and 14 but has been subsequently deleted. The upper corner of...
Dates:
Early 16th century.
Imperfect copy in several hands, lacking both beginning and end, of ‘Staggering State of Scottish Statesmen’ by Sir John Scot., Circa 1754.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.1(i), folios 1-47
Scope and Contents
The text was published from another manuscript by Walter Goodall. The correct order should be folios 1-3, 5, 4, 7, 6.
Dates:
Circa 1754.
Incomplete and anonymous history of lighthouses entitled 'Life among the Lighthouses'., [Circa 1880.]
Item
Identifier: MS.19989, folios 135-186
Dates:
[Circa 1880.]
Incomplete collection (lacking original pages 1-2) of fair copies, with frequent calligraphic embellishments, of royal decreets and other formal documents relating to the administration of teinds (tithes) in Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.21
Scope and Contents
The documents are copies of originals mostly from the period 1626 to 1643, but they include a commission, January 1678, granted by Charles II, and the copyist`s hand is characteristic of the late 17th century.
Dates:
1626-1643, 1678
Incomplete copy in the author`s hand of ‘The Rudiments of the Latin Tongue …’ by Thomas Ruddiman.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.2
Scope and Contents
The manuscript appears to be a copy, not of the text as published, but of an earlier version. The arrangement is largely the same, but the text is not as full, it is in English only, and much of the text in this copy appears in footnote form in the printed book; in addition, the preface is not present. Although apparently a fair copy, there are a number of deletions, the most substantial of which are at folios 2 verso, 16, 28 verso , 29 verso and 30, and portions of the text are written on...
Dates:
Before 1714.