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 61 Collections and/or Records:
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
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.
Typescript, undated, of 'Indian diary' by Violet Jacobs., 1922-1923.
Item
Identifier: MS.27415
Scope and Contents
Diary of a second visit to India when Violet Jacob and her husband returned to some of the places they had known in 1895-1900. It describes their journey from Port Said to Bhopal and travels to Agra, Mhow, Dhar, and other places. There are lively descriptions of social visits, especially to Sultan Jehan Begum, the ruler of Bhopal, local life, archaeological remains, scenery and plants.
Dates:
1922-1923.
Various manuscripts and fragments, almost all undated, in the autograph of Hugh Miller., 1819-[1852, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.7518
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Two 'Descriptive Letters' probably intended for publication and signed 'M--r', concerning a visit to Edinburgh in 1824 (folio 1);(ii) Fragmentary notebooks, 1819-1820, undated, mainly containing poems, some of which were published with many alterations in ‘Poems written in the leisure hours of a journeyman mason’ (Edinburgh, 1829) (folio 10);(iii) Description of the parish of Cromarty: basically the text of the description...
Dates:
1819-[1852, or before.]
Various papers of the Mackenzies of Delvine., 1683-1770.
File
Identifier: MS.1493
Scope and Contents
Contains the following papers: Advocates, affairs of the Faculty and their Library, 1683-1770; Abroath and affairs of local merchants, 1702-1707; Bank of England, note of staff and salaries, 1756; Caputh Church, 1721-1770 (see also MSS.1237, 1294); Carron Company, 1768 (see also MSS.1241-1244); Plan and description of a coalseam, undated.
Dates:
1683-1770.
Volume of miscellaneous papers, bearing the name Goodsir., 1780-1885.
File
Identifier: MS.170
Scope and Contents
The author or authors may have some connexion with Professor John Goodsir, who came from Anstruther (cf. folios 1-47) and attended Dr Robert Knox’s anatomy classes (cf. folio 48).The contents are as follows.(i) ‘Linked memories’, being reminiscences of Anstruther and Pittenweem, written in 1884. They contain information about local events and personalities of the early 19th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Letters of James Sanson, seaman aboard H M S Alfred,...
Dates:
1780-1885.