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Transcripts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Written, printed, or typed copies of an original text or of words originally spoken, such as of court proceedings, broadcasts, or oral histories. Transcripts are extremely accurate copies with any editorial explanations or notations clearly distinguished from the original, including indications of misspellings or editorial omissions. For less formal copying, or for short documents or single words such as in a vocabulary, use "transcriptions."

Found in 618 Collections and/or Records:

Transcripts of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Gaelic-English-Latin Dictionary.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.72.3.13-14, 72.3.16-72.3.17
Scope and Contents These thick manuscript volumes were written by three clerks (James Connell, Evander McLeod and another) under the supervision of the Reverend Dr John MacLeod of Dundonald. They were part of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Dictionary, and were transcribed between June 1822 and June 1823 from materials prepared by MacLeod and Ewen MacLachlan (see below). Corrections appear in MacLeod’s hand; he complained that it took him two days to correct what his clerks wrote in four...
Dates: 19th century.

Transcripts of various letters and papers of and concerning the Marquesses of Tweeddale, the Duke of Lauderdale, and others, made chiefly by Alexander Macdonald, with a few by Thomas Thomson., [1616]-1669.

 File
Identifier: MS.3177
Scope and Contents The transcripts are of the following items:MS.3134 (ii): Letters of Thomas, Lord Binning, later Earl of Melrose and Earl of Haddington;MS.3134 (iv): Papers of the 2nd Earl of Tweeddale, afterwards 1st Marquess;MS.3134 (vi): Letters of Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, Lord Advocate;MS.3136 (ii): Letters of Lady Margaret Kennedy, afterwards Burnet, to John, 2nd Earl, afterwards Duke, of Lauderdale;MS.3136 (iii): Copies of...
Dates: [1616]-1669.

Transcripts, possibly by Harie Maule, of a total of 111 pieces for bass viol by Jean de Ste Colombe., 4th quarter of the 17th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9468-9469
Scope and Contents

Some of the music consists of versions for a single instrument of de Ste Colombe's 'Concerts’ for two bass viols. The remaining pieces are otherwise unknown.

Dates: 4th quarter of the 17th century.

Transcripts written on behalf of Robert Purves Hardie., 1st quarter of 20th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5304-5306
Scope and Contents

The transcripts were made by various writers for Robert Purves Hardie, and are generally prefaced by his instructions.

Dates: 1st quarter of 20th century.

Two letters signed by James III., 1477, 1479.

 File
Identifier: MS.6138, folios 3-6
Scope and Contents

The first letter, 1477, is also countersigned by William Schevez, Archbishop of St Andrews, to the sheriff of Edinburgh, ordering him to proclaim that no remissions for murder will in future be granted (folio 3); the second letter, 1479, is to John Haldane of Gleneagles, sheriff of Edinburgh, ordering him to apprehend certain murderers, and endorsed by Haldane as executed (folio 6). With the former letter is a nineteenth-century transcript.

Dates: 1477, 1479.

Two manuscripts concerning the concept of parliament., 17th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.5743
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) A transcript of ‘The several opinions of sundry learned Antiquaries: viz. Mr Justice Doddridge, Mr Agar [sic], Francis Tate, William Canden [sic] and Joseph Holland. Touching the High Court of Parliament in England’, published by Doddridge’s nephew (folio 1);(ii) ‘A Dialogue betweene Philoleutheros [sic] a Lover of Libertie or a Parliament Man: and Philopolites a Lover of his Countrie, or motives to induce an Annuall P[ar]liam[en]t'...
Dates: 17th century.