Descriptions. Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Written, digital, spoken, or signed representations of the attributes or qualities of something or someone.
Found in 79 Collections and/or Records:
Miscellaneous papers relating to various Scottish families., 17th century-1760, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.976-979
Dates:
17th century-1760, undated.
'North of England & Scotland. Journall, 1704.'
Item
Identifier: MS.2506
Scope and Contents
Starting from London, the writer journeys by the eastern counties to Edinburgh, thence to Glasgow, and south by Hamilton, Crawfordjohn, and Moffat, a tract of country which he describes as the 'Western Highlands', to Lockerbie. The author notes customs and manners which he finds remarkable, and describes most of the important or interesting buildings.Tim Griffiths suggests that the unnamed author was a young man, possibly a university student, travelling with his tutor and a...
Dates:
1704.
Notebook, compiled in 1804 by a military or civilian official of the Irish Government, containing lists, with biographical details and comments, of Irishmen implicated in Emmett's Rebellion., 1804.
Item
Identifier: MS.12926
Scope and Contents
The biographical details and comments sometimes include physical descriptions, and the most substantial entry (folios 80-84) concerns Michael Quigley, a bricklayer and native of County Kildare.
This volume has also been used in the late 19th century for notes concerning the Minto estate.
Dates:
1804.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers chiefly of William Nassau Elliot of Wells (?1736-1775), Barrister (Inner Temple), and of his son, William Elliot of Wells (1766-1818), Member of Parliament.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning William Elliot of Wells.
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Correspondence and papers of William Elliot of Wells as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1806-1807.
Notebook containing a description by John Baine of Loch Broom and Ullapool as a harbour., 1793.
Item
Identifier: MS.19805
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains detailed notes on the economic possibilities of Loch Broom and Ullapool for fishing, forestry, commercial peat production etc., as well as reports on the possibilities of improvement for the water supply and harbour of Ullapool. This report appears to have been compiled for the 'British Society for Extending the Fisheries', but is in the form of a letter to John Rennie.
Dates:
1793.
Notebook containing descriptions with many rough diagrams of mills, bridges etc., visited by John Rennie in the course of a journey through the south of Scotland and England as far south as Birmingham., 1784.
Item
Identifier: MS.19831
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Throughout his career, particularly during the 1790s, John Rennie filled many notebooks with information about the works he himself was involved with, and about others which he visited out of professional curiosity. The books are mostly narrow octavos, interleaved with blotting paper. Rennie seems to have carried them with him on his frequent travels and to have filled them in in pencil, rewriting in ink, often on top of the pencil, at some more convenient moment. Ronnie received much of his...
Dates:
1784.
Notebook of James B Burnett., 1817-1832.
Item
Identifier: MS.24603
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains descriptions of Macao and Canton in 1817, drafts of letters, 1826-1827, a commentary on ship's discipline and miscellaneous notes.
Dates:
1817-1832.
Notebook of John Rennie: Agreement with Goodey, brickmaker in Ipswich, Aylesford bridge, Caine cornmill, Caton silk combing mill, flaxmill possibly at Tatham, Blackhill inclined plane for coal wagons, description of a journey from Oban to Fort William., 1792.
Item
Identifier: MS.19843
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Throughout his career, particularly during the 1790s, John Rennie filled many notebooks with information about the works he himself was involved with, and about others which he visited out of professional curiosity. The books are mostly narrow octavos, interleaved with blotting paper. Rennie seems to have carried them with him on his frequent travels and to have filled them in in pencil, rewriting in ink, often on top of the pencil, at some more convenient moment. Ronnie received much of his...
Dates:
1792.
Notebook of John Rennie containing detailed description of second engine for Albion Mill., 1787.
Item
Identifier: MS.19810
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Though John Rennie's reputation is based on his civil engineering works, he continued throughout his life to be interested in and to construct mill machinery, both for mills powered by water, wind, and horses, and for those powered by steam. He had been briefly employed by Boulton and Watt in 1784, and it is thought agreed then not to construct steam engines himself. As a quid pro quo, Boulton and Watt regularly gave Rennie the task of providing the machinery to go with their engines. Thus...
Dates:
1787.
Notebook of John Rennie: Fielding's mill on the Calder, Robright's mill at Bromley, note of a contract with Pinkerton and Murray for part of the Lancaster canal, description of an exceptional thunderstorm near Lockerbie, Crinan canal, Kelvin aqueduct, Kennet and Avon canal, mills at Merton and Isleworth, Tamar canal, notes on Morwellham harbour and barges., 1795.
Item
Identifier: MS.19853
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Throughout his career, particularly during the 1790s, John Rennie filled many notebooks with information about the works he himself was involved with, and about others which he visited out of professional curiosity. The books are mostly narrow octavos, interleaved with blotting paper. Rennie seems to have carried them with him on his frequent travels and to have filled them in in pencil, rewriting in ink, often on top of the pencil, at some more convenient moment. Ronnie received much of his...
Dates:
1795.
Notes and other material on historical and other subjects, titled ‘Miscellanies’; some notes, etc., are in Sir Walter Scott’s hand., 12th century-1830, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.912
Scope and Contents
The papers include:German poem on the death of the terrier Camp, apparently by Henry Weber [?1809] (folio 14);James Hogg's ‘Glen-Avin’, in his autograph (folio 16);Prologue in Sir Walter Scott’s hand and apparently composed by him to ‘Helga’, probably the tragedy produced in Edinburgh in 1812 (folio 24);Drawing of the Torrs Mask presented to Scott by Train, with a description of it by Joseph Train (folio 80);Poem ‘To Time. By a...
Dates:
12th century-1830, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Miscellaneous material, literary, antiquarian, topical, etc., chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
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Miscellaneous material, chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
Papers of John Rennie concerning mills., 1786-1821.
File
Identifier: MS.19807
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i)-(ix) Cornmills.
(i) Albion Mill, street plans, circa 1795, circa 1814, showing the position of the mill, and the letter, 1786, in which John Rennie described to his brother George the first starting of the mill, with miscellaneous notes and calculations relating to the mill, and to corn-milling in London, 1796-1798 (folio 1);
(ii) Cork, letters, 1816-1820 (folio 16);
(iii) Barsloisnoch in Kilmartin, letter, 1797 (folio 49);
(iv) Lingard and Sadler's Mill,...
Dates:
1786-1821.
Papers of John Rennie concerning steam engines., 1778-1811, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19825
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Letters and estimate concerning the purchase by the government, for the use of the dockyard at Deptford, of the engine belonging to the Honourable George Villiers at Aldenham, 1811-1813 (folio 1);
(ii) Reports, possibly by William Murdock, on the engines at Ale and Cakes, and Dolcoath copper mines near Redruth in Cornwall, 1782 (folio 9);
(iii) Description of a Boulton and Watt engine made for Mark Bell, Battersea, undated (folio 13);
(iv) Letters concerning...
Dates:
1778-1811, undated.
Papers of the 10th Earl of Angus, the 1st and 2nd Marquesses of Douglas, the Duke of Douglas, and their families., 1592-1759.
File
Identifier: MS.973
Scope and Contents
The papers include bills for food, liquor, clothes, lodging, etc., (passim); a description of the tumult in Edinburgh of 1596 (folio 7); letters of Sir John Campbell of Lawers, afterwards Earl of Loudoun, 1620 (folio 17), and of James Law, Archbishop of Glasgow, 1630 (folio 39); drafts of a letter of Archibald, Lord Douglas, apparently to a French Cardinal, 1653 (folio 43); a memorial regarding a roup of whales at Dundee, with reference to the Duke of Douglas' rights to such fish (folio 60);...
Dates:
1592-1759.
Photographs of the inside cover, titlepage, and first leaves of, 'Bασιλικόν Δῶρον, ὸ, Instruciones, compuestos por ... Jaymes ... Rey de Ingalaterra ... Traduzidado de Ingles en Romance vulgar ... por su muy humilde vassallo Juan Pemberton, gentilhombre, natural de la insigne Ciudad de Londres', preceded by a description of the work., 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.2980, folios 1-5
Dates:
17th century.
Pocketbook 15 of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, containing a description of the societies and languages of India, China, the Arctic and elsewhere., 1789.
Item
Identifier: MS.24560
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
A series of small notebooks. There was originally at least 41, but numbers 7, 19 and 20 are now missing.
Dates:
1789.
Pocketbook 17, undated, of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo., Late 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.24562
Scope and Contents
The pocketbook contains a description of Egypt, in continuation of MS.24560, page 2 (folio 5); additions to MS.24557 (folio 44 verso); 'Of the numbering of men' (folio 68) 'Of the excellency of the antient arts and sciences' (folio 105).
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Poems and copies of poems in various hands, and historical notes in the hand of Robert Mylne., [1688, or after]-early 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2093
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'The Mysterie of Iniquitie, or the Revolution, deduced to the time of K.J. his being forced . . . to retire from England. Written by one whose head is as full of thoughts as the kingdom's of distractions'. A poem in dramatic form, introducing William and Mary, James VII, and various symbolical characters. It seems to have been written by a native of Scotland about the time of the Revolution. At the beginning is a modern description. From the same...
Dates:
[1688, or after]-early 19th century.
'Short Cronography or description of the tymes of the Estate of the Church from the Birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ till Martin Luther', by Michael Dalton., 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.2680
Scope and Contents
The main work begins at folio 17. It is preceded by a summary (folio 1) entitled, 'The Contents of the severall Centuryes in this Booke concerning (especially) the state of the Roman Church and Empire, the decay of true Religion and rysing of the Papacy brieffely sett down and more fully shewed in the Booke following'. On folio 401 is a commentary on the Revelation of St John.At the end (folio 413) there is the beginning of another copy in the same hand. Throughout the complete...
Dates:
17th century.
Small collections of letters and papers., 1647-1862, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2207
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Miscellaneous papers, 1647-1781, consisting chiefly of letters and orders addressed to William Farquharson of Inverey by Middleton and others, in connection with the Royalist campaign in Scotland, 1647-1656. 'Archaeologia Scotia', volume v, appendix, page 57. (Folio 1.)(ii) Orders of General Monck relating to Sir Robert Campbell of Glenorchy and the McNabs, 1654-1655, with modern transcripts, and a chaplain's commission given to...
Dates:
1647-1862, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Miscellaneous smaller manuscripts, single letters, small collections, etc., now made up into volumes, the property of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Small collections of letters and papers concerning people with surnames from A-D., 1784-1879, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1808
'Some terrible letters from Scotland communicated by The Ettrick Shepherd.’
File
Identifier: MS.3810
Scope and Contents
Descriptions, in the hand of James Hogg, of real or imaginary incidents of the cholera plague of 1832 in Lothian, on the West Coast, and in Fisherrow, in letters purporting to have been written to him by Andrew Ker, alias Clapperton, Alexander McAlister, mate of the ‘Jane Hamilton’ of Port Glasgow, and James McL-- respectively.
Also printed proofs of an article by James Douglas, titled, 'The three plagues of Bombay' (folio 11).
Dates:
1832, 1899.
Topographical description of Glenlyon (possibly from an 18th-century source), with notes., ?18th century-[Before 1928].
File
Identifier: MS.474
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
“An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates:
?18th century-[Before 1928].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay.
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Papers concerning folklore, traditions etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
'Tracts on Projectiles', being printed tracts in English on fire-arms, armour, etc., collected by John Sobieski Stuart., 1852-1866, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2177
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Dates:
1852-1866, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Unpublished treatises of John Sobieski Stuart (John Hay Allan), calling himself Count d'Albanie, with materials collected for them.
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Manuscript of the treatise, 'The History of Hand Fire-arms', by John Sobieski Stuart; with realted material.
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'Tracts on Projectiles', being printed tracts on fire-arms, armour, etc., collected by John Sobieski Stuart.
Typescript drafts of ‘Olympus’, dated 1948-1949, being a reconstruction of a series of lectures by Patrick Geddes on the sociological meaning of Greek Mythology intended for the Yale University Press in 1912., 1946-1949.
File
Identifier: MS.19271
Scope and Contents
Arthur Geddes gives a brief description of the work, 1946 (folio 1), and there is a copy of his letter to the Reverend J A C Murray concerning the manuscript, 1949 (folio 3).
Dates:
1946-1949.