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:
Inventories of lands and revenues of the sees of Skálholt and Hólar.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.3.18
Dates:
18th century.
Inventories of writs, extracts from and copies of deeds (many from published transcripts) and memoranda concerning legal topics, chiefly from the 18th and 19th centuries., 18th century-19th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.20
Scope and Contents
The papers are in a variety of hands, some by John Riddell.
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
Inventories of writs of the estates of Lee and Carnwath., 1613-1895, 1928, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27534
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1613-1895, 1928, undated.
Inventory of jewellery belonging to Queen Anne of Denmark.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.10
Scope and Contents
The pieces of jewellery are described, with their weight, on the rectos of the folios; on the versos are notes in two different hands, 1606-1611, concerning items taken away for repair, sent to the goldsmiths for use in other pieces, or removed for other reasons.The inventory is not signed but was probably compiled under the supervision of Francis Goffin. See `Anne of Denmark`s Jewellery: The Old and the New`, pages 228-236.A copy of a letter, 1618, to one of the...
Dates:
Circa 1606-1611, 1618.
'Inventory of Papers at Pitfirrane. Prepared by W. Whytock'., [?1834.]
Item
Identifier: MS.6485
Scope and Contents
The preface of the published inventory gives the date as 1834.
Dates:
[?1834.]
“Inventory of the late William Rose`s Manuscripts”, by his son Patrick Rose., 1819.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.49.7.7
Inventory of the letter-books and other records compiled by the quartermaster-general`s department during the Peninsular War., 1851, or after.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.6.4
Scope and Contents
The inventory was compiled probably in or about 1851 (the date of the watermark in the leaves), but it is not known by whom, or for what purpose.
Dates:
1851, or after.
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.
`Inventory of writs belonging to the Earl of Hyndford, 1757`, with additions to 1765., 1497, 1567, 1757-1765.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.9.16
Scope and Contents
Tipped-in at the front of the volume are a bond, 1497, of the Lordship of Abernethy by George Douglas, Master of Angus, in favour of James Carmichael of Folkartoun (folio i), and a fragment of a document, 1567, concerning John Carmichael of Meadowflat (folio 11).
Dates:
1497, 1567, 1757-1765.
Inventory of writs of the family of Lamont of Lamont, from 1309 to 1739.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.8
Scope and Contents
The second and third sections, beginning on folio 51, are in a different hand from the first. According to Hector McKechnie in ‘The Lamont Clan’, page 291, it was prepared in 1739 on the orders of Archibald Lamont of Lamont. It was on this inventory that Sir Norman Lamont of Knockdow based his ‘An Inventory of Lamont Papers’ (Scottish Record Society, 1914), where a list of the contents is given on pages x-xi.Some pencil annotations appear to be in the hand of the...
Dates:
1739.
Italian manuscript of Books 1-5 of 'De consolatione philosophiae' by Boethius.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.14
Scope and Contents
The text ends on folio 105 verso; on folios 106-107 recto in the same hand is a note 'Ad sciendum de vita et morte Boetii Notandum ...'; folios 107 verso and 108 are blank.The text is written in a round Italian gothic hand. There are initials in red and blue, infilled and framed with red and green, at the beginning of each book (folios 1, 15 verso, 35, 63 verso, 87 verso). There are plain initials (some shaded) at the beginning of each section, alternately red and blue; within...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Italian manuscript of some of the 'Capitoli' and Sonnets, selections from 'Orlando Innamorato', and the 'Carmina', by Francesco Berni., Late 16th century-early 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.2812
Italian or, more correctly, Tuscan version of the commentary on the 1745 Rebellion entitled ‘Caroli Odoardi Stuardii Walliae Principis Expeditio in Scotiam’ written in four books by Giulio Cesare Cordara, Society of Jesus.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.4.18
Scope and Contents
According to the title page (folio 2) this version was made "by the ex-Jesuit NN", but the dedicatory espistle to Francesco Caetani, Duke of Sermoneta, which is dated 1804, is signed presumably by the translator (folio 7) whose name cannot be read with certainty. It is suggested by Sir Bruce Gordon Seton, 9th Baronet, of Abercorn, who published an English translation from this manuscript by Lacy Colleson-Morley for the Scottish History Society in ‘Miscellany of the Scottish History Society’,...
Dates:
1751.
Jacobite and Episcopalian document condemning the Revolution and attacking the Act of Union, titled 'Reasons for appointing and Observing a day of Solemn Fasting and Humiliation, to be read from the pulpit after the end of Divine Service'., [?1715.]
Item
Identifier: MS.1012
Scope and Contents
The writer has added notes stating that it was in great part drafted by Dr James Garden and that he (the writer) read it in the New Church, Aberdeen.
Dates:
[?1715.]
Jacobite papers collected by Sir Henry Steuart., 1715-1850, 1926, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1694
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1715-1850, 1926, undated.
Jacobite papers collected by Sir Henry Steuart, 1st Baronet, of Allanton.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1694-1696
Scope and Contents
These papers are part of the collection which was formed by Sir Henry Steuart with a view to composing a ‘History of the Efforts in behalf of the House of Stuart from the Revolution onwards’, together with papers on the Stuarts and the rebellions which were acquired by Robert Chambers, and notes on persons and events of the period by him.The papers consist of originals and copies; most of them have been incorporated in Robert Chambers’ books or in articles written by him for...
Dates:
1623-1869, undated.
Jacobite papers collected by Sir Henry Steuart, titled, 'M.S.S. Jacobite I'., 1623-1744, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1695
Dates:
1623-1744, undated.
Jacobite papers collected by Sir Henry Steuart, titled, 'M.S.S. Jacobite II'., 1700-1869, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1696
Dates:
1700-1869, undated.
Jacobite papers deriving from W B Blaikie`s collection.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.6849
Scope and Contents
Including:
manuscript draft report, circa 1745, on Sir John Cope`s military operations
manuscript verses, 1745, on Gladsmuir
"A Chronological Table of Military Operations in Great Britain, 1745-1746".
Dates:
circa 1745-1746.
"Jamieson's dictionary of the Scottish language", revised edition (Paisley, 1912) with notes in the hand of William Soutar., 1912-[Before 1944.]
File
Identifier: MS.8768
John Mackay Piobaireachd manuscript.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9231
Scope and Contents
With associated notes.
Dates:
circa 1849.
John Sawers` Armorial, containing the arms of the Scottish nobility, mostly painted on engraved outlines.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.4
Scope and Contents
The later entries are unfinished and some are merely pencil sketches. The manuscript was shown in the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1891 (see ‘Memorial Catalogue’, number 60).The armorial is preceded by a printed form of charge concerning the right to bear arms, 1675 (folio ii verso) and a list of Scottish peers (folio iv). It is followed by an index and, on inverted pages 1-47, by a copy of a list of Scottish families and their arms by Thomas Craufurd,...
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.