Plans. Maps.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to maps depicting a relatively small district or region, such as a town or city, drawn on a large scale and with considerable detail. For maps of larger regions, use "topographic maps" or "chorographic maps." For depictions of smaller plots of land, particularly as related to the planning of architecture, use "site plans." For representations of buildings or objects depicted on a horizontal plane, use "plans (orthographic projections)."
Found in 108 Collections and/or Records:
Hand-drawn map of Bogmiln Farm., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/991
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Estate Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis Families.
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Estate Management Papers.
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Maps, plans and drawings.
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Plans and drawings.
Interloquitur, 1805, fixing the boundaries of Chirnside Commonty; report, 1836, on a dispute with regard to the boundaries; and two plans, undated, of the Conmonty, one endorsed 'Bishop's Plan', at scales of 10 and 5 inches to the mile.
File
Identifier: MS.20992
Dates:
1805-1836, undated.
"L’indicateur fidele ou guide des voyages" (1772)., 1772.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/968
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
1772.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Estate Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis Families.
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Estate Management Papers.
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Maps, plans and drawings.
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Maps.
Manuscript of the English text of the `Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern` by Sir Robert Sibbald; with maps.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.15.1.1-15.1.1a
Dates:
1595-[Circa 1682.]
Manuscript volume entitled "The Journey Rout[e] of Her Imperial Majesty from Charcoff thro' the Government of Kursk to Moscow ... By the Governments Geometrician & Land Measurer Basshiloff 1787", consisting of descriptions of the different sections of the route through Kursk with illustrative maps.
Item
Identifier: MS.19419
Scope and Contents
The title of the main text is on folio 2. It is followed by a 'Short Delineation' (folio 17) and a map (folio 22) of the district. It is presumably a contemporary translation of part of the route of the return journey of Catherine II from her visit to the south and the then recently acquired territories in the Crimea.
Dates:
1787.
Maps., 1772-1904.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13827/968-987
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
1772-1904.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Estate Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis Families.
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Estate Management Papers.
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Maps, plans and drawings.
Maps and plans., 1824-1875, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.8287/143-148
Maps and plans of Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman., 1867-1936.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9893/74-90
Maps and plans of Ochtertyre estate., 1828-1914, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21166-21172 [Map Library]
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Murray papers concern chiefly their estates in Perthshire, but there is also some family correspondence, household accounts and inventories, and letters and papers of Jacobite interest. Of particular interest is the fine series of letters of General Sir George Murray written during his campaigns in the Peninsula and elsewhere.The papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal came to the Murrays of Ochtertyre following the marriage of Helen, heiress of Sir Alexander Keith of Dunnottar...
Dates:
1828-1914, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, legal, miscellaneous, and estate papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre, Baronets, and their relations by marriage the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
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Papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre.
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Estate papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre.
Maps originally inserted in Adv.MS.15.1.1: Manuscript of the English text of the 'Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern' by Sir Robert Sibbald., 1595-[Circa 1682].
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.1a
Scope and Contents
List of maps originally inserted in Adv.MS.15.1.1.Folios 6-7. Printed map: ‘Britannicarum insularum typus’ (Abraham Ortelius, 1595).Folios 8-9. Printed map: ‘Insulæ Albion et Hibernia cum minoribus adjacentibus’.Folios 10-11. Printed map: ‘Scotia regnum’.Folios 12-13. Printed map: ‘Scotia regnum cum insulis adjacentibus’ (Robert Gordon of Straloch).Folios 20-21. Printed map: ‘Scotiæ provintiæ inter Taum fluvium et septentrionales...
Dates:
1595-[Circa 1682].
Maps, plans and architectural drawings of the Elliot family of Minto., 1694-1909.
Series
Identifier: MSS.13421-13472
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
1694-1909.
Maps, plans and drawings., 1772-1904.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13827/968-993
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
1772-1904.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Estate Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis Families.
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Estate Management Papers.
"Memorandum concerning the disposal of Lady Charlotte Erskine's Estate", and other papers., 1785-1786, 1812.
File
Identifier: MS.3626
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
"Memorandum concerning the disposal of Lady Charlotte Erskine's Estate", 1786;
Sketch plan of land in Redgorton parish, 1785;
Copy of a letter of the Honourable Charles M Cathcart, 1812, the original of which is in MS.3610.
Dates:
1785-1786, 1812.
Microfilm of two Nisbet estate plans of the Ker family.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.244
Dates:
1784, 1807.
Microfilm of volume of 16 coloured plans of farms in Assynt parish, surveyed in 1774 by John Hume and planned 1775.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.706
Dates:
1775.
Miscellaneous documents of the Hays of Yester including copies and typescripts., Early 17th century-[mid 20th century], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14826
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) 'Ane soverane and precious balm for the healing of all the distempers of all the reformed churches in Christen[dom] especially in thir nationes both in spiritualls & temporalles', early 17th century (folio 1);(ii) Notes, 1659, for the funeral sermon of Mr. Justice John Puleston (folio 3);(iii) A history of Drummond in Strathearn, 17th century (folio 39);(iv) ‘An advice for the educating of youth’, 17th...
Dates:
Early 17th century-[mid 20th century], undated.
Miscellaneous papers of the Hays of Yester., 1509-mid 20th century, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14778-14827
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates:
1509-mid 20th century, undated.
Miscellaneous reports, maps and other papers concerning various estates and lands in Scotland., 1781-1864.
File
Identifier: MS.3273
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Report, 1813, by George Brown on damage caused to the lands of Easter and Wester Bonar by the construction of the Bonar bridge and road;(ii) Papers relating to the sale or lease of estates of Letterfourie, Corriedown, and Walkerdales, Banffshire, 1781;(iii) Plan, 1795, of ground in Muirtown, Elgin, leased to the New Thread Company;(iv) Particulars of sale, and abstract of the contents and rental of the lands of...
Dates:
1781-1864.
Miscellany of official and private letters, native letters, and memoranda chiefly concerned with Malabar affairs., 1792-1801, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.13607
Scope and Contents
Bound in with this volume are Dutch plans, undated, showing the state of land-use in or near Colombo.
Dates:
1792-1801, undated.
Papers concerning lands in Berwickshire and Roxburghshire., 1664-1891, 1912. undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14758-14760
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates:
1664-1891, 1912. undated.
Papers, concerning the estates of Avoncrook, containing legal papers, plans, correspondence and other related material., 1712, 1851-1854, 1886-1940.
Series
Identifier: Acc.6275/124-133
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1712, 1851-1854, 1886-1940.
Papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal., 15th century-1927, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21174-21191
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Murray papers concern chiefly their estates in Perthshire, but there is also some family correspondence, household accounts and inventories, and letters and papers of Jacobite interest. Of particular interest is the fine series of letters of General Sir George Murray written during his campaigns in the Peninsula and elsewhere.The papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal came to the Murrays of Ochtertyre following the marriage of Helen, heiress of Sir Alexander Keith of Dunnottar...
Dates:
15th century-1927, undated.
Papers of the 'office' of Extinction Rebellion (XR) Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14120/1-3
Scope and Contents
The papers were created for an exhibition by Extinction Rebellion (XR) at Summerhall during the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and represent the group's activities and organised events during 2019 in the form of an ironic 'office'-style map, calendar, and Kanban board.
Dates:
2019.
Papers relating to the Outlook Tower project, Castlehill, Edinburgh., 1928-1964, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19275-19279