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Fragments.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Portions of something that are torn, broken off from, or dislocated from their original whole.

Found in 259 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscripts and typescripts of the story 'The lum hat' by Violet Jacobs., [Circa 1945.]

 File
Identifier: MS.27411
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript notes and fragments of the text (folio 1); (ii) Miscellaneous pages of a typescript version (folio 16). They include (folio 25) a fragment of the section missing from the beginning of chapter IV in the published text. (iii) Typescript with manuscript corrections (folio 42). Two leaves are missing between folios 49 and 50 and three between folios 64 and 65.

Dates: [Circa 1945.]

Manuscripts and typescripts of various literary works by Sydney Goodsir Smith., [Circa 1938.]

 File
Identifier: MS.26143
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript and typescripts of the introduction and opening chapter of 'Aubrey Beardsley: a study in the grotesque', 1937 (folio l); (ii) Manuscript of part of an autobiographical novel, 1938 (folio 22). It includes a title-page for 'The wilderness' (folio 25), but the text is not related to MS.26144. (iii) Manuscript fragment of a fictional description of a visit to Venice, circa l938 (folio 61).

Dates: [Circa 1938.]

Manuscripts of the lectures on Civil Law delivered by John Wilde; the introductory lecture, in three versions (as delivered in 1792, 1793, and 1794), with fragments of other versions., 1792-?1799.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.8.3
Scope and Contents

So much has been lost that an accurate arrangement of the fragments is impossible.

The folder also contains isolated folios whose proper position could not be found, together with some which, although in Wilde`s hand, do not seem to belong to these lectures (folio 116).

Dates: 1792-?1799.

Manuscripts, typescripts and photocopies of poems of James Hyman Singer, ‘Burns Singer’., 1956-1964, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.27430
Scope and Contents

Some of the poems are written on scrap paper and the backs of envelopes. There are a few typed transcripts and notes by Marie Singer, who has also dated some of the poems. (i) Poems published in 'The collected poems of Burns Singer' edited by W A S Keir (London, 1970), and 'Five centuries of Polish poetry', an anthology by J Peterkiewicz and Burns Singer (London, 1960) (folio 1); (ii) Poems and fragments apparently unpublished (folio 72).

Dates: 1956-1964, undated.

Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of introductions and prefaces by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid' to some of his own works, as well as to works by other writers., 1936-1978, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.27067
Scope and Contents

The papers include fragments of the introduction to Hugh MacDiarmid's proposed biography of John Maclean, 1936 (folio 1), the introduction to his unpublished long poem 'Impavidi Progrediamur', 1956 (folio 58), and a partial typescript of the introductory essay to an anthology of work by contemporary Scottish poets, undated (folio 212).

Dates: 1936-1978, undated.

Manuscripts written by Sir Walter Scott. , [1813, or after]-1844.

 File
Identifier: MS.4940
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) A version of 'The battle of Sempach', written on paper watermarked 1813, with a prose introduction (folio 1);(ii) Manuscript of an article, 'Phantasmagoria no. I', published in "Blackwood's Magazine" (May 1818) (folio 7);(iii) Fragment of manuscript of ‘The fortunes of Nigel’, corresponding to volume iii (first edition), page 323, to the end of the novel; see Gillian Dyson’s, "The manuscripts and proof sheets of Scott's...
Dates: [1813, or after]-1844.

Material concerning ‘Bothwell’ by William Edmondstoune Aytoun., [1856, or before.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.4921-4922
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers consist mainly of letters written by authors to Blackwood as their publisher, and by others in search of publication, but they also include some manuscripts and proofs of works considered for publication, together with some papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun and John Wilson ('Christopher North'). Broadly, this is the incoming correspondence of the firm during the nineteenth century. The outgoing correspondence, so far as it is represented by copies in letter-books, etc.,...
Dates: [1856, or before.]

Microfilm of a fragment of a protocol-book of James Young, notary public in the Canongate, Edinburgh., 1519-1520.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.9.2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Manuscripts, including collections of formal documents (but not single documents, for which see Ch.A245-A251), owned by Riddell, arranged as far as possible in chronological order.

Dates: 1519-1520.

Microfilm of fragments of manuscripts of, and letters of, to, or concerning, Sir Walter Scott., [?1807]-1832.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.678
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Thirty-seven letters, 1811-1830, and fragments of manuscript, ?1831-1832, by Sir Walter Scott, with seventy-three letters, 1830-1832, written to or about Scott (MS.5317);Manuscript fragments, 1831-1832, of, and letters, 1807-1830, of and to, Sir Walter Scott (MS.9609);Two letters, 1822-1823 of Sir Walter Scott to James Ballantyne (MS.15970);Letters, [?1807-?1830], of Sir Walter Scott to Robert Southey, Charles Erskine and other...
Dates: [?1807]-1832.

Minute and account book of the Perth Incorporation of Hammermen., 1518-1744.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19239
Scope and Contents

This volume was started in 1584 and all entries of earlier date are noted to have been copied out of an "auld buik".

The contents are as follows.

(i) Admission of William Lander, book binder and parchment-maker, Perth, 1584 (folio 1);

(ii) Pious verses addressed to the Incorporation, 1584 (folio 1 verso);

(iii) Minutes and accounts, 1518-1744 (folio 2);

(iv) Fragment of early music (folio 268).

Dates: 1518-1744.

Miscellaneous correspondence and other papers of Richard Burdon Haldane., 1894-1916, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.6109(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The papers include correspondence of other members of the family of Haldane of Cloan covering a period of almost a century and a half from the beginning of the 19th century, especially rich for the period 1875-1937.

Dates: 1894-1916, undated.

Miscellaneous documents apparently from the library of the Reverend A J Macdonald, Minister of Killearnan., 17th century-early 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.3784
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Gaelic texts of a tale and two songs (folio 1);(ii) Letters, notes, and texts of Gaelic poems from the Lochaber area, sent by the Reverend John Walker Macintyre, Minister of Kilmonivaig, to the Reverend A J Macdonald in 1911 (folio 6);(iii) Copies, made in 1897, of seventeenth-century papers belonging to the Earls of Antrim (folio 29);(iv) A letter and two documents relating to the Macdonalds of Sleat,...
Dates: 17th century-early 20th century.

Miscellaneous drafts and fragments of dramatic pieces by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1939-1961, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26141
Scope and Contents

Included are notes and verse for 'Protest: an oratorio', 1939 (folio l), an early version of the beginning of ‘The Stick-up’, broadcast in 1961 and published in ‘Fifteen poems and a play’ (Edinburgh, 1969), pages 1-33 (folio 59), and notes for and the typescript of a film script, 'The Shepherd of Ettrick', undated (folio 74).

Dates: 1939-1961, undated.

Miscellaneous fragments from the Lesmahagow missal., 13th century, 14th century, 1719, 1725.

 File
Identifier: MS.16495A
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Three vellum leaves containing readings from Matthew I, 1-15 and Mark I, 2-8, and part of an office for St Thomas the Apostle, 13th century. (Folio 1.) The readings in the office appear to be from an Acta Thomae but are not the text published by J A Fabricius in ‘Codex apocryphus Novi Testamenti’. There are some notes on biblical chronology in a 14th-century cursive hand on folio 3 verso. The leaves were formerly loosely inserted in the Missal. (ii) Vellum...
Dates: 13th century, 14th century, 1719, 1725.

Miscellaneous fragments in the autograph of Lady Nairne and others., 1769-1873, 1927, 1934.

 File
Identifier: MS.986
Scope and Contents

Includes ‘Thoughts’, 1821, of Lady Nairne, and 'Recollections of Clevedon, etc., 1847', by Margaret Harriet Steuart; correspondence, 1927, 1934, regarding the collection and inventories.

Dates: 1769-1873, 1927, 1934.

Miscellaneous items., 1933-1950.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.7451 Box 28(1)-(3)
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Including diaries, correspondence, photographs, and articles, mainly concerning natural history and piping.

Dates: 1933-1950.

Miscellaneous items relating to Jessy Harden and her family., 1801-1811, [?1945.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.8870 (1)-(3)
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.

Dates: 1801-1811, [?1945.]

Miscellaneous letters and documents collected by William Finlay Watson, many of which have not been identified., 1691-early 20th century.

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Identifier: MS.599
Scope and Contents The contents include letters to the Master of Stair, 1691 (folios 13-17); cuttings from the Register of the Tolbooth Prison, Edinburgh, 1736 (folios 39-40); copy of a letter of the Earl of Hertford, Ambassador in France, to the Earl of Halifax, 1763, in the handwriting of David Hume, then acting as secretary to Hertford (folios 44-45); letter of John Witherspoon acknowledging receipts, 1790 (folio 52); letter of Bishop Percy regarding Macpherson’s ‘Ossian’, 1805 (folio 61); fragments of an...
Dates: 1691-early 20th century.

Miscellaneous letters and other papers of the Hays of Yester., 17th century-mid 20th century.

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Identifier: MS.14827
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Miscellaneous letters and other papers, 1602-1922, undated, chiefly collected for their autographs interest, and including eight letters to Hermann Schlagenweit (folio 1);(ii) Miscellaneous papers, 17th century-20th century (folio 130);(iii) Seven manuscript items, 17th century-19th century, including a fragment of a letter to the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale in 1704, a letter concerning the 1715 rebellion, and accounts and...
Dates: 17th century-mid 20th century.

Miscellaneous notes and articles of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., Early 20th century.

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Identifier: MS.9322
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript, undated, entitled 'On teaching poetry', being the text of a lecture delivered to a group of teachers at some time during Sir Herbert Grierson's tenure (1894-1915) of the Chair of English at Aberdeen (folio 1);(ii) Manuscript, undated of part of a bibliography of the works of Thomas Hardy compiled by R B H Thomson and presumably in his hand (folio 27);(iii) Manuscript, 1916, entitled 'Shakespeare Centenary...
Dates: Early 20th century.

Miscellaneous notes and photographs concerning the Mayas, probably made when James Leslie Mitchell was preparing to write 'The conquest of the Maya'., 1930, 1933, undated.

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Identifier: MS.26049
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Part of a manuscript, not in James Leslie Mitchell's hand, of a work on the language, history and customs of the Mayas, undated (folio l); (ii) Miscellaneous notes and photographs concerning the Mayas, 1930, 1933, undated (folio 30). The versos of folios 33-42 contain manuscript fragments of a story on the theme of 'The Lovers' in 'Persian dawns, Egyptian nights'.

Dates: 1930, 1933, undated.

Miscellaneous papers chiefly of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, with two of an earlier date., 14th century-19th century.

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Identifier: MS.2669
Scope and Contents

The papers include fourteenth-century fragments of St Thomas Aquinas's ‘Summa Theologica’ (folio 1), a fragment of a roll of a [? manor] court held at Heydon, 1515 (folio 6), a letter, 1677, of Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby (folio 9), a plan, 1810, for alterations to the Cathcart road, near Glasgow (folio 34), and some political verses (folios 11, 85). Some of the papers appear to be connected with the Maxwells of Pollok.

Dates: 14th century-19th century.

Miscellaneous papers of and concerning members of the Keith family., 1506-1906, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21183-21184
Scope and Contents

The papers include fragments of a Deer Abbey cartulary of 1542-1549 and rental of 1579, an account of the coronation of Charles I at Holyroodhouse in 1633, a roll of the Baron Court of Fetteresso and Dunnottar of July 1680, and papers concerning the Covenanting wars, the raising of Covenanting armies, the Revolution of 1688-1689, the Jacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745, the attainder of the Earl Marischal in 1715 and the sale of his estates in 1720.

Dates: 1506-1906, undated.

Miscellaneous papers of, and concerning, the Keith family., 15th century-1906, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21182-21186
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-1906, undated.