Maps. Cartographic materials.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to graphic or photogrammetric representations of the Earth's surface or a part of it, including physical features and political boundaries, where each point corresponds to a geographical or celestial position according to a definite scale or projection. The term may also refer to similar depictions of other planets, suns, other heavenly bodies, or areas of the heavens. Maps are typically depicted on a flat medium, such as on paper, a wall, or a computer screen.
Found in 680 Collections and/or Records:
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers., 16th century-19th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.4.1-80.4.16
Dates:
16th century-19th century.
Miscellaneous foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches., 1822-1931.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8012-8022
Scope and Contents
The papers are arranged as follows: MS.8012-8014. Scottish Missionary Society; MS.8015-8016. East Africa Scottish Mission; MS.8017. Madras Christian College; MS.8018-8019. Scottish Churches Mission Board. MS.8020. Arouca. MS.8021-8022. Printed papers.
Dates:
1822-1931.
Miscellaneous papers and letters concerning the 1st Earl of Minto., 1807-1813, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.11722
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Papers, 1807, relating to the surveys of Mysore (folio 1);
(ii) Thomas Marshall, Bombay Medical Service, 'Memoir of a Route from Mandavee in Kutch to Hyderabad in Sind', 1808 (folio 11);
(iii) Papers from Francis Hamilton Buchanan, Bengal Medical Service, 1808, on his survey of the district of Dinajpur (folio 31);
(iv) Letters of Major William Lambton, 1809-1811, concerning his survey of the Malabar and Coromandel coasts (folio 47);
(v) Letters of Mounstuart...
Dates:
1807-1813, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous papers and letters concerning the 1st Earl of Minto.
Miscellaneous papers concerning Roxburghshire., 1743-1912.
File
Identifier: MS.13403
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Miscellaneous valuations of lands in Roxburghshire, 1750, 1778-1780 (folio 1); (ii) Miscellaneous election papers, principally relating to the creation of votes, 1743-circa 1860 (folio 36); (iii) Miscellaneous papers, 1743-1912, concerning inter alia Jedforest Coal, Stobie's map of Roxburghshire, pauper lunatics, and cholera (folio 140).
Dates:
1743-1912.
Miscellaneous papers concerning the ‘Murray’s Handbooks for Travellers’ series., 1899-1924, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.42615
Scope and Contents
The papers in this folder have been divided into four sections: letters, manuscripts, proofs and notes relating to producing the ‘Handbook for Travellers’ series; advertisements for the series; papers relating to the history of the series; and other related material.Letters, manuscripts, proofs and notes:Partial letter, undated, of John Murray III relating to ‘Handbook for Travellers to Syria and Palestine’: folios 1-2;Circular letter, 1889, of John Murray...
Dates:
1899-1924, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of Robert Kirk Dickson chiefly associated with his military career., [Circa 1914]-1939.
File
Identifier: MS.13586
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) Photograph of H.M.S. Canopus leaving Valetta, [?December 1914] (folio 1);(ii) Sketch map of naval action in the North Sea, 24 January 1915 (folio 8);(iii) 'Account of the Engagement with the German High Seas Fleet off the Jutland Bank May 31st 1916', by Midshipman Robert Kirk Dickson, dated H.M.S. Benbow, 18 June 1916, with a typescript carbon copy of the same (folio 3);(iv) Unsigned typescript 'Report of...
Dates:
[Circa 1914]-1939.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Rear-Admiral Robert Kirk Dickson (1898-1952) and of his younger brother, Midshipman Archibald Kirk Dickson (died 1916), with some papers of their father, William Kirk Dickson (1860-1949), first Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.
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Papers of Rear-Admiral Robert Kirk Dickson.
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Personal and naval papers of Robert Kirk Dickson.
‘Miscellaneous Papers’ of Sir Walter Scott, on history, folk-lore, etc., 1792-1850.
File
Identifier: MS.910
Scope and Contents
The papers include:Part of Sir Walter Scott’s ‘Life of Napoleon Buonaparte’, chapter iii, in the hand of an amanuensis, with corrections in Scott’s autograph (folio 9);Statement of the sales of the ‘Letters of Malachi Malagrowther’, 1826-1827 (folio 23);Note by James Ballantyne of John Murray’s proposals regarding the publication of Scott’s works (folio 35);Letter, apparently to John Gibson Lockhart criticising his ‘History of Napoleon’, 1830...
Dates:
1792-1850.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Miscellaneous material, literary, antiquarian, topical, etc., chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
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Miscellaneous material, chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
Miscellaneous papers relating to and concerning Council reforms., 1906-1910.
File
Identifier: MS.12621
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Miscellaneous items relating to councils reforms, chiefly official, but including a note of a conversation of Lord Minto with G K Gokhale, 1908, Lord Sinha's speech on entering the Viceroy's Executive Council, 1909, and a plan for the new council chamber in Goverment House, Calcutta, 1910 (folio 1); (ii) Miscellaneous papers concerning the Council of Native Princes, 1906-1907 (folio 117).
Dates:
1906-1910.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845-1914), 4th Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to India.
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Printed summaries of the 4th Earl of Minto's administration.
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Printed summaries of the 4th Earl of Minto's administration: Home Department and related topics.
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Printed summaries of reports, correspondence, and other papers relating to Indian Council reforms.
Miscellaneous papers relating to the First and Second World Wars., 1917, 1941, 1943, 1945.
File
Identifier: Acc.11628/170
Scope and Contents
Containing; an issue of 'Eighth Army news', 5 January 1945; War: Army Bureau of Current Affairs 'Battle reports', nos.39 and 41, March-April 1943; Army 'Current affairs' pamphlets nos.38-39 on Spain, the Middle East and Turkey, February-March, 1943; and two Italian Front maps of the districts of Campbasso and South Bartolomeno in Saldo, sheets 162, 163, showing troop dispositions, and a trench map of Oosttaverne, 1917. Report on Eighth Army problems after D Day; and photo, 1941.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1917, 1941, 1943, 1945.
Miscellaneous prose works or drafts by William Sharp and 'Fiona MacLeod', largely unpublished., [Before 1906.]
File
Identifier: MS.8777
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Five apparently unpublished stories by William Sharp (folio 1);(ii) Six apparently unpublished stories by 'Fiona MacLeod' (folio 46);(iii) Part of an apparently unpublished article by William Sharp on 'Pélleas et Mélisande' by Maurice Maeterlinck (folio 64);iv) Reviews by 'Fiona MacLeod' of ‘The Cuchullin saga’ (London, 1898); of 'A field for modern verse' by Stephen Phiilips, in ‘The Dome’, February 1899; and of...
Dates:
[Before 1906.]
Miscellaneous publications and reference material., Circa 1964-1984, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12598/43-49
Miscellaneous reports, maps and other papers concerning various estates and lands in Scotland., 1781-1864.
File
Identifier: MS.3273
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Report, 1813, by George Brown on damage caused to the lands of Easter and Wester Bonar by the construction of the Bonar bridge and road;(ii) Papers relating to the sale or lease of estates of Letterfourie, Corriedown, and Walkerdales, Banffshire, 1781;(iii) Plan, 1795, of ground in Muirtown, Elgin, leased to the New Thread Company;(iv) Particulars of sale, and abstract of the contents and rental of the lands of...
Dates:
1781-1864.
Movements of the two armies after the repulse of Marshall Massena's Attack upon the position of Busaco. From the original survey [and] drawing by Major Sir T.L. Mitchell, Kt. London: J Wyld [Sheet 1]., Circa 1810.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(47)
Scope and Contents
On zinc by A.R. Grive. "Printed by Day [and] Hagh, Lthr to the Queen."
Dates:
Circa 1810.
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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Collection of maps (several in duplicate), approximately two-fifths manuscript, the remainder printed.
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Collection of maps.
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Map, over two sheets, of the movements of the two armies after the repulse of Marshall Massena's Attack upon the position of Busaco. From the original survey & drawing by Major Sir T.L. Mitchell, Kt.
Movements of the two armies after the repulse of Marshall Massena's Attack upon the position of Busaco. From the original survey [and] drawing by Major Sir T.L. Mitchell, Kt. London: J Wyld [Sheet 2]., Circa 1810.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(48)
Dates:
Circa 1810.
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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Collection of maps (several in duplicate), approximately two-fifths manuscript, the remainder printed.
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Collection of maps.
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Map, over two sheets, of the movements of the two armies after the repulse of Marshall Massena's Attack upon the position of Busaco. From the original survey & drawing by Major Sir T.L. Mitchell, Kt.
Nine drawings and a map for 'A reed shaken by the wind', by Gavin Maxwell., 1957.
File
Identifier: Acc.10555/17
'Nithsdail descryved according to Mr. Timothe Pont his papers / be R. Gordon.', 1644.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 62)
Scope and Contents
Imprint: 1644, Mense Mai.
Dates:
1644.
'Note on the Military Policy of India' (revised), by H E Lord Kitchener (Simla, 1906)., 1906.
Item
Identifier: MS.12602
Dates:
1906.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845-1914), 4th Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to India.
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Printed summaries of Lord Curzon's administration.
Notebooks and a sectional map concerning the village of Newarthill, compiled by Hiram Sturdy.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.279
Dates:
Circa 1948-1960.
Notes on history by Patrick Geddes., [Circa 1901.]
File
Identifier: MS.10621
Dates:
[Circa 1901.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, lectures, notes and other papers of and concerning Sir Patrick Geddes (1854-1932).
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Miscellaneous papers of and concerning Patrick Geddes.
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Miscellaneous notes by Patrick Geddes and others, chiefly for lectures.
Nouvelle Carte des Departements de Hollande et des departemens circonvoisins de l'Empire Francaise … Nieuwe kaart der departementen van Holland. Amsterdam: E Maaskamp., n.d.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(143)
Scope and Contents
Coloured map.
Dates:
Other: n.d.
Official military papers of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale as Quartermaster-General to the army in the Spanish Peninsula., [Circa 1811]-1813.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14555-14557
Official papers, being chiefly copies, of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale as Governor of Madras and Commander-in-Chief at Madras., 1832-1849.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14558-14563
Official papers of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale as Governor of Madras and Commander-in-Chief at Madras., 1842-1849.
File
Identifier: MS.14559
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Statistics of crime in the Madras Army, 1842-1847 (folio 1);
(ii) Papers, including a map, undated, concerning the battle of Aliwal (folio 87);
(iii) Plan, 1849, of the position of the British and Sikh armies (folio 93);
(iv) Papers, 1849, concerning the mutiny of the 6th Light Cavalry (folio 93).
Dates:
1842-1849.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of the Hays of Yester on special subjects.
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Official papers, being chiefly copies, of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale as Governor of Madras and Commander-in-Chief at Madras.
Ordnance Survey map, undated - Approaches and shoals - Liverpool., ?19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.5875 (17)
Dates:
?19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in England and overseas.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in England and overseas beginning with L.
Ordnance Survey maps of South Knapdale and East Kintyre with manuscript annotations., [?1974-1987.]
File
Identifier: MS.26751A