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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:

Literary papers of Wendy Wood.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8197
Scope and Contents

Including corrected manuscripts and typescripts of autobiographical work and stories.

Dates: circa 1930-1980.

Literary papers of William McIlvanney.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14097 Box 1(1)-Box 5(40)

Literary version of Thomas Stewart Traill's tour in Spain of 1814., 1814.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.19389
Scope and Contents

The account commences with the voyage from Falmouth to Corunna, and then to Cadiz and Gibraltar, and then proceeds to a more detailed version of Thomas Stewart Traill’s visits to Malaga, Granada, and Ronda as described in MS 19388. Before returning to Britain Traill visited Tangiers in Africa and Seville. (Folio 1.) With related papers including passports, Spanish romantic poetry, and two letters of 1814 of William Kirkpatrick, the American Resident in Malaga. (Folio 353.)

Dates: 1814.

Lives of the bishops of Skálholt and Hólar by Jón Haldórsson, minister in Hitardal, Iceland, 1692-1736.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.21.4.8-21.4.9
Scope and Contents

Note by F Magnusson: `No. 33. Jonæ Halthorii Vitæ Episcoporum Islandiæ Tom. I and No. 34 Tom. II.`

Dates: 18th century.

`Livre intitule L`Ordre de chevalerie`, a French translation of a work by Ramon Lull, written by Thomas Wall, Windsor Herald, for Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.9
Scope and Contents J H Stevenson in his introduction to ‘Gilbert of the Haye’s Prose Manuscript’, volume ii, pages ix-xi, puts this manuscript in his class B with other later manuscripts and the Lyons edition of 1510.The title (folio 1 verso) attributes the work to Symphorien Champier, `conseillier et premier medicin` to Antoine, Duc de Lorraine, for whom he is said to have written it. The date 1534 has been added at the end in another hand, but the manuscript was probably written earlier. In his...
Dates: Before 1534.