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Typescripts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Typewritten documents.

Found in 3709 Collections and/or Records:

Copies, apparently by Alexander Ross, of Johannes Ferrerius "Historiae Compendium de Origine et Incremento Gordonias Familiae", 1545, and of his own "Suthirlandiae Comitum Annales", 1625.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11085
Scope and Contents

Indluding:

1. "Vera Narratio...Victoriae...quod Auinum Amen [Glenlivet]... Anno Dmi 1594", with ownership inscription of Robert Gordon and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun

2. incomplete charter, undated, of John, Earl of Sutherland

3. letters, 1605, 1623 and undated

4. two fragments of a writing excercise, undated

5. poems, undated, mostly of Robert Southwell, with a photocopy of typescript on the poems.

Dates: 16th century to 17th century.

Copies, chiefly typewritten, of letters of Sir Walter Scott, collected by Sir Herbert Grierson when he was preparing the centenary edition of Scott’s letters but rejected from printing.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.1750-1753
Scope and Contents

The copies of those letters in the National Library which are to be found in MS.863 have not been preserved. A list of the numbers of the letters in MS.863 is bound in at the beginning of MS.1750.

Dates: 1800-1832, undated.

Copies of 14 photographs of a Kirkcaldy linoleum workers` strike.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7621
Scope and Contents

With a typescript account, circa 1980, of the incident by James Bogie.

Dates: 1939-circa 1980.

Copy, early 17th century, of ‘Historie and Chronicles of Scotland’ by Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie, written circa 1565., Circa 1565-1603.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.4.10
Scope and Contents The manuscript begins with a `Briefe descriptione of England, Scotland, Waillis and Cornewaill` which is printed in the Dalyell edition of 1814. The preface and the verses to the Bishop of Caithness are omitted and the introduction merely reads `Here begineth the Chronicle of Scotland`. Pitscottie`s text ends at the year 1565 (folio 133) on the occasion of the marriage of the Earl of Bothwell to Lady Jane Gordon. The addition continues to August, 1603 and a table of contents of the volume...
Dates: Circa 1565-1603.

Copy of typescript of "With the Jocks" by Peter White, circa 1945-1960.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12887
Scope and Contents

Typescript includes text of unpublished opening to the work. Contained in a box displaying author`s own artwork. A brief memoir of Peter White by Frank Coutts accompanies the typescript.

Dates: circa 2007.