Prefaces
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript, suppressed preface to "Missionary travels and researches in South Africa", by David Livingstone., 1857.
Item
Identifier: MS.42427
Scope and Contents
The manuscript begins : "After spending some sixteen years in teaching honesty to the Africans ... "
MS.42420, folios 81-82 would seem to refer to this alternative preface and, therefore, to supply a date of October 1857 for its creation.
Dates:
1857.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning David Livingstone.
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Manuscripts by David Livingstone in which are recorded his journeys and experiences in Africa; with related proofs, sketches, a photographic print and a printed portrait.
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Manuscript, "Missionary travels and researches in South Africa", by David Livingstone; with related proofs.
Materials for a preface to a proposed but unrealised edition of the works of George Buchanan by the genealogist James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, and others.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.4
Scope and Contents
The work was intended as a reply to the criticisms of Buchanan by Robert Freebairn in the preface and by Thomas Ruddiman in the life of Buchanan in Ruddiman`s edition of Buchanan`s ‘Opera Omnia’. The edition appears to have been proposed by the Lord Advocate, Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, of Hailes, and a society was formed under Anderson in 1719, but following the deaths shortly afterwards of some of Anderson`s principal collaborators, including Dalrymple, the project lapsed....
Dates:
1719, or after.
Materials for a preface to a proposed but unrealized edition of the works of George Buchanan by the genealogist James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, and others.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.2
Scope and Contents
The work was intended as a reply to the criticisms of Buchanan by Robert Freebairn in the preface and by Thomas Ruddiman in the life of Buchanan in Ruddiman`s edition of Buchanan`s ‘Opera Omnia’. The edition appears to have been proposed by the Lord Advocate, Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, of Hailes, and a society was formed under Anderson in 1719, but following the deaths shortly afterwards of some of Anderson`s principal collaborators, including Dalrymple, the project lapsed. ...
Dates:
1719, or after.
Materials towards a preface to a proposed, but unrealized, edition of the works of George Buchanan by the genealogist James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, and others.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.11
Scope and Contents
The work was intended as a reply to the criticisms of Buchanan by Robert Freebairn in the preface and by Thomas Ruddiman in the life of Buchanan in Ruddiman`s edition of Buchanan`s ‘Opera Omnia’. The edition appears to have been proposed by the Lord Advocate, Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, of Hailes, and a society was formed under Anderson in 1719, but following the deaths shortly afterwards of some of Anderson`s principal collaborators, including Dalrymple, the project lapsed....
Dates:
1719, or after.
`Memoriall Written by Philomathes and addressed to his Surviving friends` by James Hog, minister of Carnock. A copy of the preface and first five chapters of Hog`s autobiography.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.10
Scope and Contents
The volume originally contained theological notes in shorthand, most of which have been cut out.
Dates:
18th century.
Miscellaneous historical and topographical tracts, copied in the 17th and early 18th centuries.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.1(i)-(xv)
Scope and Contents
There is a list of contents (folio i) in the same 19th-century hand which drew up the contents list in Adv.MS.22.2.10.
Dates:
17th century-circa 1754.
Miscellaneous papers, chiefly relating to lands and families of the north-east of Scotland, collected by William Rose., 1580-18th century.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.49.7.3
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Papers concerning Rothes and Aikenway, 1684, 1689, and the 8th Earl of Rothes, 1710, and undated, with especial reference to an agreement with William Duff of Dipple (Inv. LX, Mac. 59) (folio 1).(ii) Excerpts, taken by Rose, of the household accounts of the Duke of Lennox during his residence at Holyrood and his journeys as High Commissioner, 1607 (Inv. LXI, Mac. 53) (folio 19).(iii) `Memorandum for the Laird of Monymusk,...
Dates:
1580-18th century.
Notes, mainly on geometry, by James Moor, Professor of Greek at Glasgow University.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.5.1
Scope and Contents
Moor`s interest in mathematics predated his classical studies and lasted throughout his life. The present volume contains geometrical theorems and calculations, some avowedly copied from elsewhere, many apparently original.The non-mathematical contents (apart from several invitations to funerals, written over by Moor) are: notes on manuscripts of the Greek mathematical writers (excerpted from ‘Bibliotheca bibliothecarum manuscriptorum nova’ by B de Montfaucon) (folios 1-6); a...
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Original manuscript of ‘My Life in Normandy’ by Walter Frederick Campbell of Islay, edited and illustrated by his son, John Francis Campbell., 1848.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.5.9
Scope and Contents
The manuscript volume includes two prefaces in John Francis Campbell`s hand and several letters to him from David Douglas concerning the publication of his father`s manuscript, 1862-1863. There is also a letter of John Francis Campbell to his step-mother, 1862 (folio 9). At the end of the volume are several folios of additional material ‘found after the book was published’.The manuscript appears to have been written in three different hands and corresponds more or less with the...
Dates:
1848.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
Papers of and concerning Robert Southey., 1808-1896.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42550-42559
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...
Dates:
1808-1896.
Prefatory note of James Hogg for his story, "The Adventures of Colonel Ayton".
Item
Identifier: Acc.12218
Scope and Contents
"The Adventures of Colonel Ayton" took the form of a scathing attack on Andrew Picken ("Christopher Keelivine"), Editor of "The Club-Book"
Dates:
circa 1810-1835.
Robert Gordon of Straloch`s preface to ‘History of the Church and State of Scotland’ by Archbishop John Spottiswood., 1655.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.1(iii), folios 60-64
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
There is a list of contents (folio i) in the same 19th-century hand which drew up the contents list in Adv.MS.22.2.10.
Dates:
1655.
Transcript, late 18th century, made for George Chalmers, of Thomas Innes`s ‘Civil and Ecclesiastical History of Scotland, from A.D 80 – A.D. 818’; volume 1: books 1 and 2 covering the period A.D. 80-597., 2nd quarter of 18th century.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.6
Scope and Contents
There is a chronological index and the author`s preface at the beginning of the manuscript, with the addition of a copyof a letter in Latin from Innes to David Wilkins (folio 258), dated 23 November, 1735, Paris, discussing the ancient manner of holding synods in Scotland, which was published in Wilkins`s ‘Concilia’, volume I, page xxvii. There are also copies of a letter of Innes, 1736, concerning the Sarum Liturgy used in Scotland and extracts of letters of Francis Atterbury,...
Dates:
2nd quarter of 18th century.
Transcripts, late 18th century (the paper of Adv.MS.22.2.5 being watermarked 1798), made for George Chalmers, the antiquary, of Thomas Innes`s ‘Civil and Ecclesiastical History of Scotland, from A.D 80 – A.D. 818’.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.2.5-22.2.6
Scope and Contents
The hand appears to be that of George Chalmers’s nephew, James Chalmers.
Dates:
2nd quarter of 18th century.
Translation into English of the Welsh preface in ‘Archaeologia Britannica’, volume 1, Glossography, by Edward Lhuyd.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.9
Dates:
18th century.
Two copies, early 17th century, of ‘Historie and Chronicles of Scotland’ by Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie, written circa 1565.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.35.4.10-35.4.11
Dates:
Circa 1565.