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:
Late 15th-century manuscript containing 'Moralium dogma philosophorum' attributed to Guillaume de Conches, bound with 3 incunabula.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.5
Scope and Contents
15th-century manuscript produced in Italy containing the 'Moralium dogma philosophorum' attributed to Guillaume de Conches. The script and watermark evidence suggest that the manuscript is a work of the late 15th century, probably 1470 and after. The manuscript is the work of one scribe using an Italian humanistic script with 26 lines to a page.The contents of the volume are as follows:Pasted to the inner of the front board is a letter from J. B. Oldham, Librarian,...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Late 15th-century manuscript of 'Il Ninfale fiesolano' by Giovanni Boccaccio.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.13
Scope and Contents
Late 15th-century manuscript produced in Italy containing 'Il Ninfale', or 'The Nymph of Fiesole', of Giovanni Boccaccio, written in ottava rima.The manuscript is the work of one scribe, written in an Italian round hand.Balduino states that the manuscript is incomplete in places and not arranged in the correct order.The work starts on folio 2r and runs to folio 94r.The colophon on folio 94r reads: 'Finito ellibro chiamato ninfale'....
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Late 15th-century manuscript of 'The oryginale cronykil of Scotland', or 'Original Chronicle', of Andrew Wyntoun.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.3
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in Scotland containing 'The oryginale cronykil of Scotland', or Original Chronicle, of Andrew Wyntoun. The work is a vernacular history of Scotland and the world in the form of a metrical poem. This work is divided into 9 Books with chapters.In Amours' edition of Wyntoun's work, this manuscript is referred to as E1, or the First Edinburgh Manuscript. Scholars have generally dated it to the end of the 15th century. Amours, Laing, and Borland suggest dates of...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Late 16th-century manuscript, in Greek, on rhetoric and philosophy
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.8
Scope and Contents
(i) Aphthonius Sophista, Προγυμνάσματα. (Folio 1). (ii) Nathanael, hierodiaconus at Athens, Εἰς τὴν τοῦ Πορφυρίου εἰσαγωγὴν προλεγόμενα, beginning πρόηιται ἡμῖν εἰς ἐξήγησιν ἡ τοῦ Πορφυρίου εἰσαγωγή. Apparently not otherwise known. (Folio 29).(iii) Anonymous treatises εἶδος (folio 59, beginning τὸ ϰαὶ εἶδος λέγεται ϰαὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ ἑϰάστου μορφη̃ς ϰαθὸ εἴρηται ), διαφορά (folio 72 verso, beginning διαφορὰ δέ ἐστιν ὥστε ϰαὶ ἰδίως ), ἴδιον...
Dates:
Late 16th century.
Late 17th or early 18th-century copy of the manuscript of `Ane Account of The Ancient and present state of Orkney written about the Year of God, 1684`, by James Wallace, minister of Kirkwall.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.8
Dates:
Circa 1684.
Late seventeenth century copy of 'Ane brief treatise upon severall substantiall heads of the Scots Law ... By ... Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall'., Late 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.2764
Late seventeenth-century manuscript of Stair's ‘Institutions’, corresponding in general arrangement to the 1st edition of the work but lacking Title 31.
Item
Identifier: MS.3721
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Later draft and final manuscript version of 'George Scott Moncrieff and a few friends: a brief memoir' by Morley Jamieson., [1987.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26975-26976
Later draft of 'George Scott Moncrieff and a few friends: a brief memoir' by Morley Jamieson., [1987.]
Item
Identifier: MS.26975
Dates:
[1987.]
Later manuscript version with a different ending of an unpublished novel, 'Hyphen' by Fred Urquhart., 1932.
Item
Identifier: MS.26997
Latin translation by Robert Macfarlane, partly in his autograph, of James Macpherson`s Gaelic manuscripts of the Ossian poems., 1804, or before.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.73.4.4-73.4.6
Scope and Contents
There are `Arguments` only to `Cath Loduinn` Book III, `Caomh-mhala` and `Tighmora` Books I-II, IV-VIII.
Dates:
1804, or before.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Transcripts made by the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross (later Minister of Lochbroom) of James Macpherson`s Gaelic manuscripts of the Ossian poems, together with the Latin translation by Robert Macfarlane, made for the edition published by the Highland Society of London in 1807.
Latin translation by Robert Macfarlane, partly in his autograph, of James Macpherson`s Gaelic manuscripts of the Ossian poems, volume I., 1804, or before.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.4.4
Dates:
1804, or before.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Transcripts made by the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross (later Minister of Lochbroom) of James Macpherson`s Gaelic manuscripts of the Ossian poems, together with the Latin translation by Robert Macfarlane, made for the edition published by the Highland Society of London in 1807.
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Latin translation by Robert Macfarlane, partly in his autograph, of James Macpherson`s Gaelic manuscripts of the Ossian poems.
Latin translation by Robert Macfarlane, partly in his autograph, of James Macpherson`s Gaelic manuscripts of the Ossian poems, volume II., 1804, or before.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.4.5
Dates:
1804, or before.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Transcripts made by the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross (later Minister of Lochbroom) of James Macpherson`s Gaelic manuscripts of the Ossian poems, together with the Latin translation by Robert Macfarlane, made for the edition published by the Highland Society of London in 1807.
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Latin translation by Robert Macfarlane, partly in his autograph, of James Macpherson`s Gaelic manuscripts of the Ossian poems.
Latin translation by Robert Macfarlane, partly in his autograph, of James Macpherson`s Gaelic manuscripts of the Ossian poems, volume III., 1804, or before.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.4.6
Dates:
1804, or before.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Transcripts made by the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross (later Minister of Lochbroom) of James Macpherson`s Gaelic manuscripts of the Ossian poems, together with the Latin translation by Robert Macfarlane, made for the edition published by the Highland Society of London in 1807.
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Latin translation by Robert Macfarlane, partly in his autograph, of James Macpherson`s Gaelic manuscripts of the Ossian poems.
Law cases of Lord President Duncan Forbes of Culloden.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.48.1.21
Dates:
18th century.
Lawrence Crawford, "A Brief Recollection of Passages in My Lord of Manchester`s Army", circa 1643, with annotated transcript, circa 1840-circa 1845, of Thomas Carlyle.
File
Identifier: Acc.5002
Dates:
circa 1643, circa 1840-circa 1845.
'Le blason des armoiries’ ([Lyons], 1581), by Hierome de Bara., 1581, [circa 1804].
Item
Identifier: MS.6132
Dates:
1581, [circa 1804].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of mediaeval manuscripts and two printed books with manuscript notes, formerly in the possession of the family of Borthwick of Crookston.
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Printed works on heraldry, with manuscript notes chiefly concerning the genealogy of the Borthwick family, probably by John Borthwick of Borthwick and Crookston, circa 1804.
Leaf from a sermon on angels., 14th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.21099
Scope and Contents
The first part of the text is a passage from the ‘Gregorianum’ of Garnerus of St Victor, book 1, chapter 2 (J P Migne, ‘Patrologia latina’ CXCIII, columns 26-27).
The leaf was used in a binding.
Dates:
14th century.
Leaves found loose in MSS.1836-1841: 'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, bound together., [1783-1797.]
File
Identifier: MS.1842
Scope and Contents
References have been made from the loose leaf to the place where it was found and vice versa.
Included is a printed memoir of Colonel Drinkwater (folio 1).
Dates:
[1783-1797.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Autobiographical writings of Colonel John Drinkwater, afterwards Bethune.
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'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, covering the years 1783-1797.
Lecture notes, 1725, of James A Maxwell, taken at the Catholic College at Douai; with a manuscript genealogy, 19th century, of the Maxwell family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.3872/1-4
Dates:
1725, 19th century.
Lecture notes taken by Thomas Dickson from lectures by Andrew Sinclair, Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh, on the section dealing with physiology in Herman Boerhaave`s `Institutions medicae`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.9
Scope and Contents
The dates 1743 and 1745 appear on the front flyleaves. Dickson graduated at Leyden in 1746.
Dates:
1743-1745.
Lectures and notes by James Moor, Professor of Greek at Glasgow University.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.5.8
Scope and Contents
The principal contents are:(i) A lecture on ‘Tabula’ by `Cebes`, delivered to the Glasgow Literary Society on 1 March, 1754, and printed in ‘Essays’, pages 33-123. There is a short gap (corresponding to pages 39-40) between folios 2 and 3. (Folios 1-20.)(ii) A lecture on historical composition, delivered to the Glasgow Literary Society on 6 February, 1752, and printed in ‘Essays’, pages 125-178. The beginning (corresponding to pages 127-132) is missing. (Folios...
Dates:
1749-1765.
Lectures and seminars written and given by Ian Rankin on creative writing and literary works; Speeches and addresses written and given by Ian Rankin at events, or printed., 1985-2009, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.50526
Scope and Contents
Lectures and seminars written and given by Ian Rankin on creative writing and literary works. Folios 1-88.Materials include typescripts and related developmental notes. Lectures are arranged alphabetically by title.‘Creative Writing’. Folios 1-26.
This lecture was given by Rankin in Japan.
Typescripts, 1996-1997, of Ian Rankin’s lecture 'Creative Writing', three drafts, early and revised; with author’s annotations. 'Reading the Reader: Reader-Response...
Dates:
1985-2009, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Ian Rankin archive.
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Papers relating to the professional activities of Ian Rankin.
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Papers relating to the literary and other creative works of Ian Rankin.
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Typescripts and working notes of lectures and speeches of Ian Rankin.
Lectures and speeches by David Ainslie Thin and by James Thin., 1969-2003, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12384/159-161