Epitaphs.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Inscriptions on sepulchral monuments in the memory of those buried in the tomb or grave. (AAT) Collections of copies of epitaphs in general. Collections from a particular place are indexed also under the place. Epitaphs of a particular person go under the name of the person. (NLS).
Found in 56 Collections and/or Records:
Financial, legal and miscellaneous papers of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale., 1654-1697, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14487
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Inventories, 1659-1694, undated, of household and legal papers (folio 1);(ii) Legal papers, 1662, concerning the claims of the 4th Viscount Stormont against the creditors of James Murray, 2nd Earl of Annandale (folio 28);(iii) Order, 19 June 1667, for a seat in Lady Yester Kirk for the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale (folio 48);(iv) Note of pictures bought in 1691 (folio 49);(v) Inventories, 1691-1697, of...
Dates:
1654-1697, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of individual members of the family of Hay of Yester.
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Papers of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale.
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Financial, legal and miscellaneous papers of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale.
Genealogical papers concerning the Earls Marischal and the Keiths of Ravelston., [Circa 1748]-1802, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.21188
Scope and Contents
The papers include copies of ‘History of Keith Marischal of Scotland’ by Alexander Keith of Ravelston and Dunnottar (folio 7); ‘History of the family of Keith Marischal’ by Bishop Robert Keith (folio 45), and an essay and letters of Alexander Keith of Ravelston and Dunnottar concerning Bishop Keith's ‘History’ (folios 2, 52-60).Appended to the inside of the front and back covers of the volume are an English Translation, 1802, of the German inscription on Marshal Keith's Tomb in...
Dates:
[Circa 1748]-1802, 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 Keiths, Earls Marischal.
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Genealogical papers of, and concerning, the Keith family.
Genealogical papers of, and concerning, the Keith family., 1623-1927, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21187-21188
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:
1623-1927, undated.
Letter, 6 October 1784, of Dr James Currie to Miss Cropper at Manchester enclosing an epitaph, 2 October 1784, on George Bell, physician at Manchester, with the original manuscript, undated, of Currie's 'Sketch on the superstition of Scotland' and 'Story of Susanna, the mad woman' by Currie., 1784, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14835, folios 56-66
Dates:
1784, undated.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of Walter Hamilton., 1814-1830.
File
Identifier: MS.40516
Scope and Contents
Letters, 1814-1828, of Walter Hamilton to John Murray II with related letters and papers. They concern work on his publications “East India gazetteer” and “Geographical, statistical, and historical descriptions of Hindostan, and the adjacent countries”. They also refer to his own reading, and his opinions on manuscripts sent to him by Murray. The letters are arranged in chronological order.1814-1819: folios 1-29; (1)1820-1821: folios 30-54;1822-1823:...
Dates:
1814-1830.
Manuscript containing epitaph of Philip Theophrastus of Salzburg., 1541.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3591/13
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.
Dates:
1541.
Manuscript of chiefly Gaelic proverbs written by William MacMurchy.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.12
Scope and Contents
The manuscript bears a ‘coat of arms’ watermark, and was written circa 1759 (cf. page 11) by William MacMurchy (died circa 1778) of Campbeltown in Kintyre, schoolmaster, tailor, poet, musician and scribe, for whom see Conley, 'A poem in the Stewart Collection', page 26. He may have been a pupil of Hugh MacLean (schoolmaster of Kilchenzie, Kintyre, circa 1699), as his Gaelic hand, typical of its period for Irish manuscripts, bears at times a strong resemblance to that of the latter (note...
Dates:
[Circa 1759.]
Manuscript, written in England in the late 11th century, containing the satires of Persius, the fables of Avianus, and miscellaneous poetry and other works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.12
Scope and Contents
Most of the leaves are palimpsest, but the underwriting is illegible; it may be from the same manuscripts as that in Adv.MS.18.7.8 (pricking from the original manuscript survives on folios 3+6, 9, 16+23, 17+22, 26+29, 34+35, in one or both edges of the text-frame; the width of the ruled area was 172 millimetres in folios 3+6, 17+22, 26+29, 192 millimetres in folio 9.). See 'Notice et extraits d'un manuscrit d' Edinbourg', 33 and what follows.The contents of the manuscript are as...
Dates:
Late 11th century.
Microfilm of collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.458
Dates:
[?1590-?1596], 1671.
Microfilm of manuscript of Persius, Avianus, etc. from Thorney Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.486
Dates:
Late 11th century.
Microfilm of poems, epigrams, epitaphs, etc., in the hand of William Drummond of Hawthornden, chiefly of his own composition, with some copies of the work of other writers.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.80
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
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.
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 items, chiefly of and concerning members of the Halkett family., 1781-1887.
File
Identifier: MS.6507
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Epitaph in Latin, circa 1781, on Sir Peter Halkett, Baronet (succeeded 1746), and his family;(ii) 'Address by the Tenantry and Feuars on the Estate of Pitfirrane', to Sir Peter Arthur Halkett, Baronet (succeeded 1847), when he settled at Pitfirrane, 1856;(iii) Thanks and award of a medal, 1884, from the University of Edinburgh to Sir Peter Arthur Halkett as delegate of the Board of Trustees for Manufactures on the occasion...
Dates:
1781-1887.
Miscellaneous manuscripts formerly in the possession of the Reverend John Stirton.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1879-1887
Dates:
1623-19th century.
Miscellaneous manuscripts from Pitfirrane House, Fife., 1558-1897.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6503-6511
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers derive from four main sources: material relating to the Halketts of Pitfirrane, to the Wedderburns of Gosford, to Sir Patrick Murray of Saltcoats, and to John McFarlane, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1709). The last male heir in the direct line of the Halkett family, Sir James (succeeded 1697), died in 1705, ending the baronetcy created in 1671. On his death his eldest sister, Janet, succeeded to Pitfirrane. She had married Sir Peter Wedderburn, 1st Baronet of Gosford, who now...
Dates:
1558-1897.
Miscellaneous papers of John Pinkerton., Late 18th century-early 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.1711
Scope and Contents
The contents comprise materials relating to John Pinkerton's collections of poetry (folio 1), edition of Barbour (folio 29), geographical works (folio 35), mineralogy (folio 104), ‘Recollections of Paris’ (folio 129), etc.; plans for works which were not subsequently carried out (folio 153); original poems (folio 164); and miscellaneous matter (folio 173).
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Miscellaneous papers of Sir David Wilkie, including engravings and exhibition catalogues., Early 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.9837
Miscellaneous papers of the Douglas family of Springwood Park., 1790-1904, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.8114
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Certificates of registration of births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths, 1828-1864. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Masonic and military certificates, and passports, 1847-1878. These include a passport to Venezuela and a certificate issued to Sir George H Scott-Douglas on a visit to the Holy Land. (Folio 17.)
(iii) School reports of Sir George Brisbane Douglas, 1867-1872. (Folio 26.)
(iv) Recipes, chiefly for puddings, 1790, undated. (Folio 57.)
(v) Prayers,...
Dates:
1790-1904, 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 Poems’, chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott., 1681/1682-1838, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.894
Scope and Contents
The contents contain, among other material, notes and copies of poems relating to John Dryden and his age, verses in the hand of one or more of the Misses Maclean Clephane of Torloisk (folio 38), Wordsworth’s ‘Yarrow Revisited’ in Robert Southey’s autograph (folio 45), and some printed verses, etc., including Robert Surtees’ ‘Musings in Collingwood-Street’, 1817 (folio 104).
There is a small collection of poems (folios 55, 60-80) in the hand of Williamina Belsches, one of which contains...
Dates:
1681/1682-1838, 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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Material concerning literary matters, chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
Notebook containing extracts by F C Donald from the record of baptisms in the Parish of Mortlach kept at the Scottish Record followed by a transcript of the inscription on the gravestone of William Marshall, 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.15378
Scope and Contents
The greater part of the volume is blank.
Dates:
19th century.
Notebook of Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford: volume XV., 2nd half of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.9.11
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Papers from the collection of Thomas Ruddiman.
File
Identifier: MS.2918
Scope and Contents
Numbers (i), (iv)-(vi) are in Thomas Ruddiman's hand, and some of the others are doubtless copied from his drafting.(i) Epitaph on Sir George Ogilvie, 1st Baronet of Barras.(ii) 'Presbyter Reformatus ad Reginam', Latin Second Asclepiadeans, signed 'Nabothus Chamaeleon' and inscribed by the author to Sir George Lockhart of Carnwath.(iii) Printed address of the corporation and people of Kirkwall to Alexander Geddes, a bailie of that town, to accompany a...
Dates:
18th century.