Biographies.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Written accounts of the lives of individuals.
Found in 213 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscripts of biographical articles for the 8th edition of the `Encyclopaedia Britannica` by Lord Macaulay.
File
Identifier: Acc.11868
Scope and Contents
Essays on Atterbury, Bunyan, Goldsmith, Johnson, and William Pitt
Dates:
circa 1852-1859.
Marguerite Wood, "The Lord Provosts of Edinburgh 1296-1932", with author`s annotations.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6840
Dates:
circa 1932.
Material for Sir Robert Sibbald`s projected `Bibliotheca Scotica`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) An alphabetical index of Scottish authors and their works, circa 1700 (folio 1). The beginning is probably missing (the pagination commences with page 11). Most of the entries are copied from ‘Historia ecclesiastica gentis Scotorum lib.XIX’. It is followed by an appendix (folio 137 verso) in which the entries are more detailed.(ii) `De Scriptoris Scoticis`, circa 1702 (folio 150). A bibliography of works, including...
Dates:
Circa 1700, circa 1702.
Materials for a Baronetage of Scotland, collected by Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.17
Scope and Contents
Thirty-nine of the baronetcies created by Charles I are covered; for each is given a brief account of the origin of the family, a fuller account of the holders of the baronetcy, and a description of the coat-of-arms. The paper of the manuscript is watermarked 1811. It is probable, therefore, that Samuel Bridges was working on this subject at the same time as, or shortly after, he re-edited Collins` ‘Peerage of England’ (London, 1812). However, he did not publish the work and it...
Dates:
1811, or after.
Memoranda of a son, probably Andrew, of Andrew Massie, Regent of Philosophy at Edinburgh University and Advocate, recording important events in his own life and those of his family from 1672 to 1712, including all births and deaths.
Item
Identifier: MS.3077
Scope and Contents
The writer’s mother was Margaret, daughter of James Cheape, 1st of Rossie, and he married his cousin Isabella, daughter of Henry Cheape, 2nd of Rossie.
At folio 2 is an account of the last words, mainly biographical, of a dying lady, following a leaf inscribed 'Memoria D. Annae Lesleae'. There is a list of ladies' garments at folio 17. At the end the writer speaks of his conduct in the matter of private religion (inverted folio 1).
Dates:
1672-1712.
'Memorial' of Margaret Constable, written by one of her brothers or sisters, consisting of an account of her last days and death, with copies of related family correspondence.
Series
Identifier: MSS.23235-23236
Dates:
1838, 1878, 1901-[1902.]
Microfilm of 16th-century manuscript containing the 'Vie de saint Louis' of Jean de Joinville.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.352
Dates:
[Circa 1550.]
Microfilm of biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1024-1025
Dates:
Late 19th century-?1956.
Microfilm of copy, 17th century, of ‘The Life, Araignment, and Death of the famous and learned Sir Thomas More Knight, sometimes Lord Chauncellor of England. Together with his Vision’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.215
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Microfilm of Gaelic manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.658
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Fragment of a Gaelic manuscript, 15th century, containing scholastic texts (Adv.MS.72.1.7);Manuscript, ?14th-?19th century, containing a commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates in Gaelic and Latin (Adv.MS.72.1.10);Medical manuscript, ?16th century, in Gaelic written by Feargus Ó Caiside (Adv.MS.72.1.11);Medical manuscript, 16th century, in Gaelic, consisting chiefly of a treatise on diets and matters ancillary to medicine,...
Dates:
?14th century-?19th century.
Microfilm of heraldic and genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.26
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Breviat of the genealogie of the honourable surname of the Lesleyes, Earls of Rothes, sinc ther first arrivall in Scotland to thir dayes, collected out of ancient evidences, manuscripts and histories of the tymes, togither with some of ther cadents’, 17th century, attributed to Sir James Balfour of Denmill, Lyon (Adv.MS.17.2.4); Gordons of Craichlaw (Adv.MS.27.5.28);Letters, 1618-1712, to members of the Oswald family of Fingaltoun. Some...
Dates:
Late 16th century- early 19th century.
Microfilm of 'Historical Account of the Comyns, Earls of Buchan’ by James Mitchell.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.834
Dates:
19th century.
Microfilm of manuscript of ‘Life of Beattie’ by Sir William Forbes.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.324
Dates:
18th century.
Microfilm of manuscript of Persius, Avianus, etc. from Thorney Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.486
Dates:
Late 11th century.
Microfilm of manuscript, possibly from Mount Athos, of St Dorotheus and sermons of Isaias, with an account of the miracle performed by the Virgin at Blachernae.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.459
Dates:
Late 10th century-early 11th century.
Microfilm of Nicholas Love, "Myrrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesus Christ".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10929- is now Mf.MSS.532
Dates:
15th century.
Microfilm of papers chiefly of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2033-2037
Dates:
1797-[circa 1825].
Microfilm of papers of James Augustus Grant and his family.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.928
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Legal, financial and other papers, [?1827-?1913], concerning James Augustus Grant (MS.17933);'Private Copy' of 'Memoranda' (no publisher, undated) by James Augustus Grant, [1880, or after] (MS.17940);Pedigrees of James Augustus Grant's family and others (Chisholm, Cuthbert, Fraser, Mackintosh, etc.) connected to it by marriage, written in an unidentified hand, with notes by Grant himself, ?19th century (MS.17941);...
Dates:
19th century-[?1913].
Microfilm of part of a proof-sheet of ‘Frederick the Great’ by Thomas Carlyle, with his corrections.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.320
Dates:
?1864.
Microfilm of ‘Parte of the life of Lady Margaret Cunning…’ ; and, a book of French maxims.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1176
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Book of French maxims, 1629 (MS.5786);
‘Parte of the life of Lady Margaret Cunningham, Daughter to the Earle of Glencairn yt she had wt her first husband the master of Evandale. The just and true account yrof as it was first written wt her oun hand’, 1608, with letters and her will, 1607, 1622 (MS.906).
Dates:
1608-1629.
Microfilm of proof-sheets, [1827, or before], of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott; and, letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.54
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Proof-sheets of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott, volume v, pages 225-240, with autograph corrections by Scott, [1827, or before] (MS.496);
Letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland (MS.2991).
Dates:
[1548-1550, 1827, or before].
Microfilm of psalters and chartulary, 13th-15th century, of Scottish religious houses; and, 'Lives of the bishops of Dunkeld' by Alexander Myln, 16th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.470
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Culross psalter, [circa 1470], made for Richard Marshall, Cistercian abbot of Culross (Adv.MS.18.8.11);
Aberdeen psalter and hours, 15th century (Adv.MS.18.8.14);
Ramsay psalter, late 13th century, written for use at Saint Omer (Adv.MS.18.8.8);
15th century manuscript, Chartulary of Scone Abbey (Adv.MS.34.3.28);
'Lives of the bishops of Dunkeld' by Alexander Myln, 16th century (Adv.MS.34.5.4).
Dates:
13th century-16th century.
Microfilm of schoolbook, transcribed in the early 12th century, containing notes and glosses (in Latin and German) on authors studied in schools and other texts which could be used in teaching.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.221
Dates:
Early 12th century.
Microfilm of schoolbook, transcribed in the early 12th century, containing notes and glosses (in Latin and German) on authors studied in schools and other texts which could be used in teaching.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.703
Dates:
Early 12th century.