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:
Journal of Morley Jamieson and manuscript of his "Echoes and Eccentrics: a Personal Account of Bookselling 1942-1966"
File
Identifier: Acc.8878
Dates:
1961-1984.
Journal of Sir Walter Scott, with letters and other papers.
Item
Identifier: MS.3389
Scope and Contents
The journal, printed, as in MS.1570, but covering the period from 20 November 1825 to 13 April 1831, and other material collected by John Gibson Lockhart for the ‘Life’, all printed on one side of the page, with manuscript corrections of the text, chiefly typographical.The material other than the journal consists of Mrs John Davy's Malta journal, 1831 (folio 437); letters of Sir Walter Scott to Mrs Scott of Harden, 1832 (folio 444 verso), and others, 1828-1830 (folio 448 verso);...
Dates:
1825-1832.
Journal of the actions of the Government forces in Scotland., 13-18 January 1746.
Item
Identifier: MS.1030, folios 10-11
Dates:
13-18 January 1746.
Journal of the siege of Bergen-op-Zoom by the French under Maurice de Saxe, July-September 1747, written by an officer of the garrison.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.4.19
Dates:
1747.
Journal, probably of George Joseph Bell, the son of the advocate of that name.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.7.3
Scope and Contents
The journal describes a journey from London through Holland to Berlin, Dresden and Vienna, during the first three months of 1844. Bell comments on the architecture and customs of the places he passed through, and on the difficulties of travel. He was keenly interested in paintings and visited several collections, but his primary interest was in medical matters, particularly in Vienna, where he describes the hospitals and criticises their practices. There are a few small sketches and plans,...
Dates:
1844.
Journal recording John Francis Campbell`s travels between April 1848 and July 1851, describing, in the main, three Scandinavian tours: to Norway and Sweden in 1849, to Sweden in 1850, and to Norway in 1851., 1849-1851.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.3.16
Scope and Contents
A page from ‘Le Messager’, 21 Avril 1848, has been inserted at the beginning of the journal, which has been left incomplete.
Dates:
1849-1851.
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.
Journals of the Reverend William Anderson., 1831-1853.
File
Identifier: MS.2982
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: 'Journal from 1831 to 1835', 'Journal from 1836' to 1840, and a loose leaf recording events from 27 February to 1 March 1853.
Dates:
1831-1853.
Juridical collection, chiefly concerning the Laws of Iceland., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.3.3
Dates:
18th century.
Juridical collection, concerning the Laws of Iceland., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.3.4
Scope and Contents
The text is written partly in Roman and partly in German characters, in various hands.
Note by F Magnusson: `No. 27. Varia Juridica. Controversiæ celeberrimi Gudmundi Andreæ.`
Dates:
18th century.
Juridico-politico-economical collection, concerning the Laws of Iceland., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.3.2
Scope and Contents
Note by F Magnusson: `No. 12. Biörnonis de Skardsá et variorum aliorum auctorum Disquisitiones Juridico-Oeconomico-Politicæ. In fine Buamanna Lög sive Leges Oeconomicorum (Rusticorum). Exemplar accuratiss.`
Dates:
18th century.
‘Jus feudale’ and ‘Tractatus in libros de feudis’ by Sir Thomas Craig.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.1
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (A.2.17).
Dates:
[Before 1609.]
‘Jus feudale’ by Sir Thomas Craig.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.2
Scope and Contents
A copy of 'Jus feudale' without the tractatus. At the end is an imperfect index of matters.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.3.24).
Dates:
[1603, or before.]
`Just complaint on Mankind for Injuiring [sic] killing and eating animals`; the author`s name `John Williamson, Brachman ` [i.e. Brahmin] has been added in another hand.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.3
Scope and Contents
The author, a sheep farmer, was a friend of James Boswell (see ‘James Boswell, the earlier years, 1740-1769’, pages 4, 33-34).
Dates:
18th century.
'K̇ābūs-nāmah' of Kai-kā'ūs., ?18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3179
Scope and Contents
Written in a somewhat cramped Persian hand. Illuminated heading on folio 1 verso.
Dates:
?18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.
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Persian manuscripts, most of which are undated, but seem to be chiefly of the eighteenth century, and to have been acquired in India.
'Keanrosse-shyre descrybed / be Ja. Gordon, at Keanrosse.', 1642.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 52)
Scope and Contents
Imprint: Oct. 25 1642.
Dates:
1642.
Kilberry book of piobaireachd, compiled by Archibald Campbell, numbers 1-8., 1911-1936, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22098
Dates:
1911-1936, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Kilberry book of piobaireachd: papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus.
Kilberry book of piobaireachd, compiled by Archibald Campbell, numbers 9-18., 1922-1939, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22099
Dates:
1922-1939, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Kilberry book of piobaireachd: papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus.
Kilberry book of piobaireachd, compiled by Archibald Campbell, numbers 19-28., 1903-1958, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22100
Dates:
1903-1958, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Kilberry book of piobaireachd: papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus.
Kilberry book of piobaireachd, compiled by Archibald Campbell, numbers 29-37., 1911-1951, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22101
Dates:
1911-1951, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Kilberry book of piobaireachd: papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus.
Kilberry book of piobaireachd, compiled by Archibald Campbell, numbers 38-47., 1925-1957, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22102
Dates:
1925-1957, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Kilberry book of piobaireachd: papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus.
Kilberry book of piobaireachd, compiled by Archibald Campbell, numbers 48-54., 1910-1957, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22103
Dates:
1910-1957, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Kilberry book of piobaireachd: papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus.
Kilberry book of piobaireachd, compiled by Archibald Campbell, numbers 55-64., 1911-1938, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22104
Dates:
1911-1938, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Kilberry book of piobaireachd: papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus.
Kilberry book of piobaireachd, compiled by Archibald Campbell, numbers 65-74., 1911-1958, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22105
Dates:
1911-1958, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Kilberry book of piobaireachd: papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus.
Kilberry book of piobaireachd, compiled by Archibald Campbell, numbers 75-86., 1911-1937, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22106
Dates:
1911-1937, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Kilberry book of piobaireachd: papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus.