Glossaries. Reference sources.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Alphabetical lists of terms related to a particular subject or area of interest, including definitions or explanations of usage. Glossaries are typically part of a larger work and generally exclude pronunciation and etymological information.
Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:
Administrative papers and correspondence relating to the 'Stair memorial encyclopedia'., 1982-1995, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11261/1-51
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes minutes, correspondence, administrative papers and drafts of the 'Stair memorial encyclopedia'. Note that no attempt has been made 'to weed' the various drafts; this is to allow researchers to compare draft against draft and so follow each expert’s 'train of thought' in particular fields. For any particular area of interest, all the folders/files relating to the subject should be consulted. In items 322-366, particularly, there are extensive drafts and re-drafts of titles with...
Dates:
1982-1995, undated.
Early eighteenth century copy of 'Archaismus Graphicus', an unpublished glossary of Latin abbreviations, compiled by Sir Henry Spelman in 1606 for the use of his sons., 1606.
Item
Identifier: MS.2774
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many of the manuscripts contain notes, indexes, etc., by George Neilson.
Dates:
1606.
English-Gaelic dictionary from A-Combat on slips compiled by Henry Comyn Maitland: part 1., 1939-1951.
File
Identifier: MS.14959
Scope and Contents
With list of contractions. Includes classified list of 24 words for ‘bog’ (2 folios) referred to by Henry Comyn Maitland in ‘An Gaidheal’, volume 39, page 118.
Dates:
1939-1951.
English-Gaelic dictionary from Come-For on slips compiled by Henry Comyn Maitland: part 2., 1939-1951.
File
Identifier: MS.14960
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death.
The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...
Dates:
1939-1951.
English-Gaelic dictionary from Forage-Lewd on slips compiled by Henry Comyn Maitland: part 3., 1939-1951.
File
Identifier: MS.14961
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death.
The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...
Dates:
1939-1951.
English-Gaelic dictionary from Liable-Pre-eminent on slips compiled by Henry Comyn Maitland: part 4., 1939-1951.
File
Identifier: MS.14962
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death.
The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...
Dates:
1939-1951.
English-Gaelic dictionary from Prefer-Stranded on slips compiled by Henry Comyn Maitland: part 5., 1939-1951.
File
Identifier: MS.14963
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death.
The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...
Dates:
1939-1951.
English-Gaelic dictionary from Strange-Zodiac on slips compiled by Henry Comyn Maitland: part 6., 1939-1951.
File
Identifier: MS.14964
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death.
The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...
Dates:
1939-1951.
English-Gaelic dictionary on slips compiled by Henry Comyn Maitland (1885-1951), son of Provost Andrew Maitland of Tain.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14959-14964
Scope and Contents
Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death.
The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...
Dates:
1939-1951.
Glossary of Gaelic terms connected with ‘music, poetry, dancing and oratory’ compiled by Angus Fraser., [1855, or after.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.5
Scope and Contents
The volume was made in Cork as a military “Defaulter’s Book”, and obtained by a Sergeant Gardner, from whose father-in-law, James Beaton, Castle Street, Inverness, Angus Fraser purchased it from to use for his glossary (page ii). A number of leaves are excised at the beginning. Pages i-x consist of a variety of additional leaves. The contents are as follows.(i) List of works referred to. (Page i.)(ii) Note on purchase of book. (Page ii.)(iii)...
Dates:
[1855, or after.]
Glossary of Gaelic terms connected with ‘music, poetry, dancing and oratory’ compiled by Angus Fraser., [1855, or after.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.6
Scope and Contents
The volume was made in Glasgow as an account book. A number of leaves are excised at the beginning. Folio 90 is additional. The contents are as follows.(i) Additional notes. (Folio 1 recto.)(ii) Glossary Mi-Fhonnmhor – Ur-Theagasg. (Folio 4 recto.)(iii) Specimens of Gaelic verse scanned according to music. (Folio 75 recto.)(iv) Duncan MacDougall. “Nis o’n thainig na h-eoin as na seomraichean balbh”, 12 quatrains. With note. (Folio...
Dates:
[1855, or after.]
Glossary of Lord Reay's Country by the Reverend Adam Gunn, from the poems of Rob Donn Mackay, supplemented from the 'Celtic Monthly', volume vi (January-April 1898)., [1898, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.427
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:
[1898, or after.]
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 dialects and phonetics compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
Glossary of Scots words by Lord Hailes, printed on one side of the leaf, with corrections and additions in the author's hand.
Item
Identifier: MS.3565
Dates:
18th century.
‘Glossary of Scottish Words' by Robert Lochore, in an exercise-book., 1830.
Item
Identifier: MS.3588
Scope and Contents
At the end is a typed copy of a note, 1830, of Robert Lochore.
Dates:
1830.
‘Glossary of Shetland words’, prepared for John Jamieson by the Reverend Thomas Barclay, principal of Glasgow University.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.5.2
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Glossary relating to Norman and Viking version of current place names., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.12135/115
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes research notes, typescripts and proofs of novels, correspondence, and papers concerning her involvement in cultural and business organisations.This archive includes papers relating to the following published works:'Games of kings' (1961)"Queens' play" (1964)'The disorderly knights' (1966)'Dolly and the singing bird' (1968)'Pawn in frankincense' (1969)'Dolly and the cookie bird' (1970)'The...
Dates:
Undated.
Glossary to Icelandic laws, and treatise on Icelandic topography.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.4.6
Dates:
18th century.
Manuscript containing scholastic texts in Gaelic.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.7
Scope and Contents
There are only two or three hands in this singularly well-preserved and rather beautiful portion of manuscript, and only one non-scribal marginalium. The chief hand or style of the text (folios 1-5, 8-11) uses some fine decorative initials (partly zoomorphic) and red, yellow, green and brown colouring. The other (folios 6-7) is unembellished. The marginalium, “Ní bí amuigh aonduini ón ég”, 2 lines (folio 7 recto) is in a large formal script recalling a hand of the Annals of Ulster in...
Dates:
?15th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh and guild laws, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, a few in Scots, mostly written by John Bannatyne in 1520, with some later additions.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Regiam Maiestatem` in four books of 209 continuously numbered chapters (34, 72, 34, and 69 in each book), with table at the beginning (folio 2). This is preceded (folio 1 verso) by a couplet beginning `Me legat antiquas qui vult proferre loquelas` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xxvi) and 11 verses beginning `Hoc trahit ad lumen antiqua statuta volumen` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xv). ‘Acts of...
Dates:
14th century-16th century.
Microfilm of manuscripts chiefly concerned with Orkney and Shetland.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.484
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Notebook, 2nd half of 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century, of Sir Robert Sibbald containing geological and topographical material (Adv.MS.13.2.8);‘Glossary of Shetland words’, Early 19th century, prepared for John Jamieson by the Reverend Thomas Barclay, principal of Glasgow University (Adv.MS.22.5.2);Original manuscript, 1776, of ‘Fauna Orcadensis’ by George Low, Minister of Birsay (Adv.MS.32.4.1);Manuscripts, 1770-1772,...
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century-early 19th century.
Microfilm of two-volume glossary of Gaelic terms connected with ‘music, poetry, dancing and oratory’ compiled by Angus Fraser, son of Captain Simon Fraser of Knockie.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.524
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Glossary of Gaelic terms connected with ‘music, poetry, dancing and oratory’ (Adv.MS.73.1.5);
Glossary of Gaelic terms connected with ‘music, poetry, dancing and oratory’ (Adv.MS.73.1.6).
Dates:
[1855, or before.]
Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.19
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Printed prospectus of the Sanitary Protection Association of Edinburgh, late 19th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Printed list of members, with subscriptions, of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries (Konungliga Norraena Fornfraeda-Felag), 1849, in Icelandic. There are also an extract from the constitution of the Society (in French), a note on the subscriptions (in Danish), and a list of the books published by the Society....
Dates:
1561, 17th century-late 19th century.
`M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. III`, mostly containing material for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 2, in continuation of Adv.MS.50.1.2, but also including scripts, notes or proofs for tales bound out of series and published in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 1 and the earlier part of volume 2., 1859-1860.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.1.3(Part 1-Part 2)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The terms, `Gaelic version` or `English version` refer to the original manuscript texts produced by (`transcribed by` or `told to`) one of his team of collectors or by Campbell. Unless stated otherwise, all English versions of the tales and textual notes are the work of Campbell.
Dates:
1859-1860.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Manuscripts, proofs and editorial commentary, with some associated correspondence, papers and notes, of John Francis Campbell and his team of collectors for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 1859-1862, and of the later tale collection fieldwork by Campbell himself, 1870-1871.
‘M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. III`, mostly containing material for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 2, in continuation of Adv.MS.50.1.2, but also including scripts, notes or proofs for tales bound out of series and published in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 1 and the earlier part of volume 2., 1859-1860.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.1.3(Part 2)
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(xvi) Continued from Adv.MS.50.1.3(Part 1). `The Fair Gruagach, Son of the King of Eirinn`, English version and notes. ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 2, pages 410-425, 434-435. For other scripts, see section (xxv), below. (Folio 240.)(xvii) `The Slim Swarthy Champion` or `An Ceathairneach Caol Riabhach`: English version with extensive internal notes on the text (folio 251), and Gaelic version by Hector MacLean from...
Dates:
1859-1860.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Manuscripts, proofs and editorial commentary, with some associated correspondence, papers and notes, of John Francis Campbell and his team of collectors for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 1859-1862, and of the later tale collection fieldwork by Campbell himself, 1870-1871.
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`M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. III`, mostly containing material for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 2, in continuation of Adv.MS.50.1.2, but also including scripts, notes or proofs for tales bound out of series and published in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 1 and the earlier part of volume 2.
Notebook containing a glossary to "Love's labours lost", not in John Dover Wilson's hand., Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.14334
Dates:
Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and correspondence of Professor John Dover Wilson (1881-1969), the Shakespearean scholar.
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Papers concerning the literary and scholarly activities and interests of John Dover Wilson.
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Shakespeare papers of John Dover Wilson.
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Notebooks, undated, chiefly of John Dover Wilson, containing notes on the works of William Shakespeare.