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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Reproductions, usually of documents, made with the Photostat (TM) machine or similar machines.

Found in 186 Collections and/or Records:

Photostat of a Chaucerian poem of 49 lines, beginning 'Devise prowes and eke humylitee', together with a note in the same hand of the date of birth of James IV, which could only have been written after his accession in 1488., [1488, or after.]

 File
Identifier: MS.8494, folio 37
Scope and Contents

The scribe was probably James Gray, priest and notary in Dunkeld. See “The Scribe of the King's Quair” by G Neilson, in ‘The Athenaeum’ (1899), pages 835-836.

Dates: [1488, or after.]

Photostat of a plan of Burntisland, with sailing-directions, by John Elphinstone, Master of Elphinstone, Practitioner Engineer, in the British Museum., 1745.

 File
Identifier: MS.2975, folios 116-120
Scope and Contents

Accompanied by notes by the donor and Harry R G Inglis on John Elphinstone and his map, to which the date 1745 is given.

Dates: 1745.

Photostat of a short Scottish prose chronicle to 1482 entitled 'Heir is assignyt ye cause quhy oure natioun vas callyt fyrst ye Scottis'., [1482, or after]-circa 1500.

 File
Identifier: MS.8494, folios 17-36
Scope and Contents

In the original manuscript in the British Library (Royal MS.17.D.XX) the work forms a continuation of Wyntoun's Chronicle.

The chronicle is followed by a Scottish text, circa 1500, based on a fourteenth-century Latin original, of the supposed letter of Prester John to the Emperor Frederick I (folio 28). A typescript of the latter is also included (folio 32).

Dates: [1482, or after]-circa 1500.

Photostat of an apparently unpublished letter of Rob Roy to an unknown correspondent., 1719.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8494, 198-199
Scope and Contents

The letter seems to have been written by a scribe, but was almost certainly signed by Rob Roy himself (cf. MS.1314, folios 1-3).

Dates: 1719.