Biographies.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Written accounts of the lives of individuals.
Found in 213 Collections and/or Records:
Microfilm of sermons of Adam of Dryburgh, and other works.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.446
Dates:
Early 15th century.
Microfilm of the correspondence and literary manuscripts of Margaret Oliphant (Adam Matthew, 1999).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1209-1234
Scope and Contents
The content descriptions for each microfilm are taken from the catalogue descriptions of the original items and as such there may be variations between the contents of the microfilms and the descriptions provided.
The dates are taken from the accession records for the original documents and might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.
Dates:
?19th century-[?1921].
Microfilm of two 11th century manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.9
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, late 11th century, of Persius, Avianus, etc. from Thorney Abbey (Adv.MS.18.6.12);
Palimpsest, made up of at least five English manuscripts of the 8th to 11th centuries, overwritten in England in the late 11th century and belonging to Thorney Abbey (Adv.MS.18.7.8).
Dates:
8th century to 11th century.
Microfilm of typescript of an unpublished work of James A Roy, ‘Lieutenant-General Simon Fraser’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2053
Dates:
[Circa 1966.]
Microfilm of Nineteenth Century Literary Manuscripts. Part 4. The correspondence and papers of J G Lockhart from the National Library of Scotland. Reels 1-18 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1294-1311
Dates:
[?1812-?1854.]
Microfilms of manuscript of the 'Life of Henry Dundas, Lord Melville' by John Philp Wood, in the author’s hand.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1572
Dates:
[1830, or after.]
Miscellany of letters and documents of African explorers, missionaries, and administrators.
Series
Identifier: MS.20311
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
Notebook of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10650
Scope and Contents
Includes biographical notes on Jean Cavalier and drafts of "The Spaewife" and other poems.
Dates:
circa 1881.
Notebook, presumably of the late nineteenth century, containing an epic poem in Gaelic, and related material.
Item
Identifier: MS.3280
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains:(i) 'Craobh sgaoilidh nan Gaedheal' (The expansions of the Gaels), being five parts and the argument of a sixth part of an epic, which begins with the migration of the Celts from Asia to Europe (folio 1);(ii) Material, mainly biographical and genealogical, copied from printed sources, especially from Alexander Cameron's ‘The history and traditions of the Isle of Skye’ (folio 50).On folio 1 verso is a note, 'The following are original...
Dates:
Late 19th century.
Notes and drafts of articles by David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Sketch of the character of John, Earl of Hopetoun`, 1781. The correct order of folios should be 1, 3 verso, 4, 2 (folio 1).(ii) List of contributions by Buchan to ‘The Bee’, 1791-1793 (folio 3).(iii) Biographical sketches of James Anderson, economist and editor of ‘The Bee’, 1790 (folio 8).(iv) Biography of Walter Minto, the mathematician, 1801. This was intended for the ‘Edinburgh Magazine’,...
Dates:
1781-1801.
Notes, circa 1840-circa 1865, of Peter Cunningham, on English actresses.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5583
Scope and Contents
With corrected proofs, 1833, of Cunningham`s "Life of William Drummond of Hawthornden".
Dates:
1833, circa 1840-circa 1865.
Notes on the life of Archibald Prentice, journalist.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10640
Dates:
20th century.
Obituaries, funeral orations and biographical notes of and concerning James Francis Edward, the Old Pretender, his wife and sons, and of Charlotte, Duchess of Albany, daughter of Prince Charles Edward.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11952
Scope and Contents
Includes modern historical notes.
Dates:
18th century.
Open reel sound recording of a broadcast by the BBC, 'Tribute to Robert Garioch'; with production notes.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7957/1-2
Dates:
1981.
'Opiscula theologica', a manuscript of uncertain origin, written in Greek in the 16th-century, containing various works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.14
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) St Ephraem Syrus, on Joseph (‘Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca’ 2200; ‘Opera omnia Graece et Latine’, ii.21) (folio 1).(ii) St John Chrysostom, on pity (‘Codices Chrysostomici Graeci’, Appendix 7) (folio 21).(iii) Extract from ‘Chronicon’, iv.229, by Georgios Hamartolos, (‘Patrologia Graeca’, cx.836) (folio 28 verso).(iv) On an unworthy priest (‘Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca’ 1449e, with...
Dates:
16th century.
Original manuscript of the 'Life of Robert Macnish' by David Macbeth Moir.
Item
Identifier: MS.3525
Dates:
[1838, or before.]
Papers, 1704-1733, relating to the dealings of William Law, goldsmith and burgess of Edinburgh, with John Mackenzie of Delvine, advocate, his sons George and Alexander, and Colin Mackenzie of Rossend, with a modern biographical note, undated, on Law.
Series
Identifier: Ch.1632-1641
Dates:
1704-1733, undated.
Papers concerning Trevor Royle, "James and Jim: a Biography of James Kennaway" (1983).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8551
Scope and Contents
Includes drafts, proofs, notes and correspondence.
Dates:
circa 1980-1983.
Papers of and concerning O H Mavor, pseudonym James Bridie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11309
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of plays, articles, broadcast talks and biography.
Dates:
1904-1988.
Papers of and concerning the Rev Dr Murdoch Mackenzie, missionary in China.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12056
Scope and Contents
Includes photocopies of letters, tributes and biographical note and photographs.
Dates:
1918-1939.
Papers of and concerning the Reverend George Murray Reith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3564
Scope and Contents
Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.
Dates:
[?1885]-?1st half of 19th century.
Papers of Dr George Pratt Insh, mostly concerning his unpublished biography of Thomas Muir of Huntershill.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.344
Dates:
Circa 1948-1951.
Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.9.1-81.9.12
Dates:
Late 17th century-?1829.
Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary, comprising drafts and notes for `The History of the Life and Reign of James the Third, the King of Scots, 1460-1488`; and, ‘An Historical Account of Printing in Scotland from 1507 to 1707.`
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.16.2.20-16.2.22
Dates:
?1st quarter of 19th century.