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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:

Material relating to Sir Walter Scott.

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Identifier: MS.3248
Scope and Contents

The material includes transcripts of letters of Sir Walter Scott not printed in the Centenary Edition; transcripts of letters of his family and other correspondents; and extracts, correspondence, and notes on his ancestry and on various episodes in his life.

Dates: 18th century-2nd quarter of 20th century.

Memoranda on the Revolution Settlement in Scotland., 1690, undated.

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Identifier: MS.573, folios 12-30
Scope and Contents The memoranda include: ‘Reasons for establishing of Presbyterie in Scotland’ (folio 12); Memorandum on Bishops and the Church of Scotland, with modern transcript (folio 14); ‘Reasons for passing of the act restoring presbyterian government’ (folio 19); ‘Reasons for passing a General Act for reducing the forfaultures’ (folio 21); Memorandum on the state of affairs in the Scottish Parliament especially the activities of the ‘Club’, 1690 (folio 25); Memorandum on the Act for Personal Liberty...
Dates: 1690, undated.

Microfilm of assorted 13th-17th century manuscripts.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.465
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Fair copy, 1686-1689, of ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio’, being Richard Augustine Hay’s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh, volume 1. (Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)); Register of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, written, circa 1537, by John Lambert, prebendary of the Chapel, containing copies of papal bulls and other documents, 1501-1537...
Dates: 13th century-1689.

Microfilm of Elizabethan letters and transcripts of the register of Arbroath Abbey.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.175
Scope and Contents

Elizabethan letters (Adv.MS.1.2.2);

Transcripts, 1815, by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, of the register, 13th century-16th century, of the abbey of Arbroath and of various charters, 1213-1246. (Adv.MS.9A.1.18).

Dates: 13th century-16th century.