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:
Incomplete manuscript of the unpublished continuation of ‘The history of Liddesdale, Eskdale, Ewesdale, Wauchopedale and the Debateable Land’ by Robert Bruce Armstrong., [1883, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.6111
Scope and Contents
The manuscript describes the history of the region from 1530 to 1629 in a chronological narrative. The portion from 1553 to 1572 is missing or was never written, and the narrative for the period after 1603 is broken and fragmentary. There is a rewritten portion for the year 1552 (folio 99a).
Dates:
[1883, or after.]
Incomplete manuscript of 'Waverley'.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.0
Scope and Contents
The manuscript comprises the greater part of `Waverley`. Of the parts not included in the manuscript some exist as fragments in the Library`s manuscript collection, fifteen folios are in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, and others are missing.
The first fifty folios of the manuscript are on quarto paper, watermarked 1805, the rest on folio paper, watermarked 1813.
Dates:
?1805-1814.
Incomplete manuscript, "The Book of the Church", by Robert Southey., 1824, or before.
File
Identifier: MS.42557
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is of the preface and of chapters I-IV, not all complete, of Southey`s work. It represents, therefore, only a small part of the published two volume work. The manuscript is arranged as follows : (i) [preface] : "The Book of the Church";(ii) "Chapter 1. Religion of the Ancient Britons";(iii) "Chapter 2. Religion and philosophy of the Romans. First introduction of Christianity. Persecution. First establishment of Christianity. ...
Dates:
1824, or before.
Incomplete manuscript, "The Threshold of Life, or Friendly Counsels to Youth In a series of Familiar Letters", by ?D.J. Coulton., Circa 1853.
File
Identifier: MS.42599
Scope and Contents
Preface; letters 8-22; appendix.
Dates:
Circa 1853.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Manuscripts by unidentified authors.
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Incomplete manuscript, "The Threshold of Life, or Friendly Counsels to Youth In a series of Familiar Letters", by ?D.J. Coulton; with related proofs.
Incomplete manuscript, "The Threshold of Life, or Friendly Counsels to Youth In a series of Familiar Letters", by ?D.J. Coulton; with related proofs., Circa 1853.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42599-42600
Scope and Contents
The name of the author has been supplied from an entry in the letterbook of John Murray for 28 June 1853.
Dates:
Circa 1853.
Incomplete manuscript, typescript, and proofs of volume I of ‘The life of George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen’, by Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot, with copies of the illustrations and lists of reviews of the work., [1911, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.19566
Dates:
[1911, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family.
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Papers and correspondence of Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot.
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Political, literary, and miscellaneous papers of Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot.
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Literary papers of Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot.
Incomplete manuscript, undated, of a play, probably in three acts, set in a castle in the Highlands by George Moncrieff-Scott., Mid 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.26962
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains Act I and part of Act II.
Dates:
Mid 20th century.
Incomplete manuscript, undated, of an untitled novel by Cecilia Combe., Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7457
Dates:
Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist, and his household.
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Miscellaneous personal papers, lecture notes and phrenological reports of George Combe; and papers of Cecilia Combe.
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Incomplete manuscript of a novel, and a manuscript of a play, by Cecilia Combe.
Incomplete manuscript, "Versailles", by John Wilson Croker : an article for the "Quarterly Review"., ? 1837-? 1838.
Item
Identifier: MS.42149
Scope and Contents
Croker`s review was published in the "Quarterly Review" of January 1838.
Dates:
? 1837-? 1838.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning John Wilson Croker.
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Manuscripts of reviews for the "Quarterly Review" by John Wilson Croker; with pages from "Letters to and from Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk, and her second husband, the Hon. George Berkeley", edited by Croker.
Incomplete sections of books by Christopher Murray Grieve 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1938-[1971, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27051-27054
Dates:
1938-[1971, 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'.
[Incomplete sketch map of] Movements on the 30th [July 1813]., 1813.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(85)
Incomplete translation, late sixteenth or early seventeenth century, of Adam Blackwood's ‘Martyre de Marie Stuart’, being the manuscript edited for the Maitland Club as ‘History of Mary, Queen of Scots’, by Alexander Macdonald., Late 16th century-early 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3148
Scope and Contents
At the end are copies of an instrument of sasine following on a charter of Queen Mary to William Livingstone of Kilsyth, 1564 (folio 66), and of papers relating to Susanna Bruce and Barbara Livingstone, sister-in-law and daughter of William Livingstone of Easter Greenyards, 1629 (folios 67-67 verso), besides another fragmentary legal note, 1629 (folio 68 verso).
Dates:
Late 16th century-early 17th century.
Incomplete typescript of the section ‘Theme and variation’ of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar., [Before 1944.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8596
Dates:
[Before 1944.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Scots poet William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of poems of William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and signed typescripts of published poems of William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and incomplete typescripts of sections of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar.
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Manuscript and incomplete typescript of the section ‘Theme and Variation’ of ‘Collected Poems’ by William Soutar.
Index slips for the papers of the Oliphants of Gask, giving references to persons whom it has been decided not to include in the general index.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.9.16
Scope and Contents
The majority of those referenced are tenants of Gask and local craftsmen and tradesmen of the 2nd half of the 18th and the early 19th centuries.
Index slips for the papers of the Oliphants of Gask, giving references to persons whom it has been decided not to include in the general index; A-L.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.9.16(A-L)
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Oliphants of Gask.
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Index slips for the papers of the Oliphants of Gask, giving references to persons whom it has been decided not to include in the general index.
Index slips for the papers of the Oliphants of Gask, giving references to persons whom it has been decided not to include in the general index; M-Z.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.9.16(M-Z)
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Oliphants of Gask.
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Index slips for the papers of the Oliphants of Gask, giving references to persons whom it has been decided not to include in the general index.
Index to the Register of the Great Seal to Book 59, compiled for Walter Macfarlane.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.1.8(I)-(V)
Scope and Contents
The index is of beneficiaries only, and each roll and book is indexed separately.
Dates:
1757-1763.
Index to the Register of the Great Seal, volume I: 12 rolls and books 1-25., 1757.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.1.8(I)
Index to the Register of the Great Seal, volume II: books 26-35., 1760.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.1.8(II)
Index to the Register of the Great Seal, volume III: books 36-43., 1761.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.1.8(III)
Index to the Register of the Great Seal, volume IV: books 44-50., 1762.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.1.8(IV)
Index to the Register of the Great Seal, volume V: books 51-59., 1763.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.1.8(V)
Index to the tour diaries of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton., [?1913, or after.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.85.1.14
Indexes and transcripts by Robert Mylne, the antiquary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.9
Scope and Contents
Mylne`s pagination and the size of paper show that the volume is composed of seven separate parts: section (i), section (ii), section (iii), sections (iv) and (v), section (vi), sections (vii)-(xiii), section (xiv). None are exactly dated, but (v) must be later than 1705, (xiv) later than 1700; and probably all were compiled in the early 18th century.The contents are as follows:(i) `Ane Alphabeticall Index [A-C only] To the Book of Collections of Notes of Charters...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Indexes of retours, 1701-1823, compiled by John Riddell probably in 1823., ?1823.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.13
Scope and Contents
The entries in the first index (folio 1) are arranged chronologically within an alphabetical order of the initial letters of the names concerned; the entries in the second index (folio 88) are arranged by county within an alphabetical order of the names concerned.
Dates:
?1823.