Illustrations. Layout features.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to pictures or diagrams that clarify or provide an example or visualization. They usually accompany a text; the term is most often used to refer to pictures in books or published journal. For works that explore a subject or are preliminary to a separate, more finalized work, use ""studies (visual works)""For paintings in manuscripts, use ""illuminations"" or ""miniatures (paintings)"" .
Found in 167 Collections and/or Records:
'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', volume iii, (London, 1830) by Allan Cunningham., 1830.
Item
Identifier: MS.828
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This material was collected by the author, Allan Cunningham, and his son with a view to a new edition. Loose papers have been pasted into the interleaved volumes or collected in a separate volume (MS.832).
Dates:
1830.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', by Allan Cunningham, various editions, (London, 1830-1839), 6 volumes, interleaved, with original letters to the author and others (1829-1837), copies of letters (1710-1830) and notes in the autograph of his son Francis, printed cuttings, and portraits.
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'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', 6 volumes, various editions, (London, 1830-1839) by Allan Cunningham
'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', volume iv, (London, 1831) by Allan Cunningham., 1831.
Item
Identifier: MS.829
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This material was collected by the author, Allan Cunningham, and his son with a view to a new edition. Loose papers have been pasted into the interleaved volumes or collected in a separate volume (MS.832).
Dates:
1831.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', by Allan Cunningham, various editions, (London, 1830-1839), 6 volumes, interleaved, with original letters to the author and others (1829-1837), copies of letters (1710-1830) and notes in the autograph of his son Francis, printed cuttings, and portraits.
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'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', 6 volumes, various editions, (London, 1830-1839) by Allan Cunningham
'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', volume v, 3rd edition (London, 1839) by Allan Cunningham., 1839.
Item
Identifier: MS.830
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This material was collected by the author, Allan Cunningham, and his son with a view to a new edition. Loose papers have been pasted into the interleaved volumes or collected in a separate volume (MS.832).
Dates:
1839.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', by Allan Cunningham, various editions, (London, 1830-1839), 6 volumes, interleaved, with original letters to the author and others (1829-1837), copies of letters (1710-1830) and notes in the autograph of his son Francis, printed cuttings, and portraits.
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'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', 6 volumes, various editions, (London, 1830-1839) by Allan Cunningham
'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', volume vi, (London, 1833) by Allan Cunningham., 1833.
Item
Identifier: MS.831
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This material was collected by the author, Allan Cunningham, and his son with a view to a new edition. Loose papers have been pasted into the interleaved volumes or collected in a separate volume (MS.832).
Dates:
1833.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', by Allan Cunningham, various editions, (London, 1830-1839), 6 volumes, interleaved, with original letters to the author and others (1829-1837), copies of letters (1710-1830) and notes in the autograph of his son Francis, printed cuttings, and portraits.
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'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', 6 volumes, various editions, (London, 1830-1839) by Allan Cunningham
‘Magnum Opus’ of Sir Walter Scott, volume 40: ‘Introductions and notes and illustrations to the novels, tales and romances of the author of Waverley [Sir Walter Scott]. Volume I. Waverley – The Abbot’ (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833)., 1833.
File
Identifier: MS.23040
Dates:
1833.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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‘Magnum Opus’ of the ‘Waverley novels’ of Sir Walter Scott, chiefly the ‘Interleaved Waverley novels’.
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‘Magnum Opus’ of Sir Walter Scott, volumes 33-41: additional volumes.
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‘Magnum Opus’ of Sir Walter Scott, volumes 40-41: ‘Introductions and notes and illustrations to the novels, tales and romances of the author of Waverley’ [Sir Walter Scott]. Volumes I-II (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833).
‘Magnum Opus’ of Sir Walter Scott, volume 41: ‘Introductions and notes and illustrations to the novels, tales and romances of the author of Waverley [Sir Walter Scott]. Volume II. Kenilworth - The surgeon's daughter' (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833)., 1833.
File
Identifier: MS.23041
Dates:
1833.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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‘Magnum Opus’ of the ‘Waverley novels’ of Sir Walter Scott, chiefly the ‘Interleaved Waverley novels’.
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‘Magnum Opus’ of Sir Walter Scott, volumes 33-41: additional volumes.
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‘Magnum Opus’ of Sir Walter Scott, volumes 40-41: ‘Introductions and notes and illustrations to the novels, tales and romances of the author of Waverley’ [Sir Walter Scott]. Volumes I-II (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833).
‘Magnum Opus’ of Sir Walter Scott, volumes 33-41: additional volumes., 1833.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.23033-23041
‘Magnum Opus’ of Sir Walter Scott, volumes 40-41: ‘Introductions and notes and illustrations to the novels, tales and romances of the author of Waverley’ [Sir Walter Scott]. Volumes I-II (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833)., 1833.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.23040-23041
Manuscript and typescript drafts of a poem sequence of Duncan Glen "Out to the Calf of Man".
File
Identifier: Acc.10156
Scope and Contents
Includes associated artwork.
Dates:
1990.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of 'Something leather', by Alasdair Gray, with proofs, illustrations and related correspondence.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10371/1-32
Scope and Contents
Includes nine manuscript and typescript drafts of the novel, drafts of individual chapters, and related notes, correspondence and illustrations. Post-publication material includes copies of the US hardback edition, revised paperback edition, and cuttings of UK press coverage of the book.Alasdair Gray's descriptions have been retained in the scope and contents notes for each file, and include insights into his working process, comments on how the novel progressed, and how...
Dates:
1968-1991.
Manuscript and typescript drafts, research materials, proofs and correspondence concerning 'The book of prefaces', by Alasdair Gray.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11769/1-70
Dates:
1985-2000.
Manuscript copy, with art-work, of Andrew Winton`s "Twenty most Favourite Songs of Burns: with Music, Words and Notes on the Lasses to whom they were Written" (London, 1998).
Item
Identifier: Acc.12138
Dates:
1998.
Manuscript drafts and printed copy of "Robin`s Christmas Song", original lyrics attributed to Robert Burns.
File
Identifier: Acc.10680
Dates:
circa 1850-1900.
Manuscript entitled ‘Traite du Blazon’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.19
Scope and Contents
The treatise is in thirty-five chapters and is followed (folio 105) by explanatory notes to the illustrations, and (folio 127) by the illustrations themselves, which are in trick. It is preceded (folio 1 verso) by a diagram of the divisions of a field.Three folios which probably contained the title page and dedication have been removed from between folios 2 and 3. Offsets of the dedication survive, from which it appears that the author`s name was Bonin, and that he presented his...
Dates:
1678.
Manuscript from Perth Academy containing material on hydrostatics, pneumatics and optics., 1787.
Item
Identifier: MS.14296
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
All three volumes are illustrated with pen and wash diagrams and sketches.
MS.14296 is initialled ‘I M’ by the compiler (folio 91).
Dates:
1787.
Manuscript from Perth Academy containing notes and exercises on astronomy., 1783, 1786-1787.
Item
Identifier: MS.14295
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
All three volumes are illustrated with pen and wash diagrams and sketches.
MS.14296 is initialled ‘I M’ by the compiler (folio 91).
Dates:
1783, 1786-1787.
Manuscript from Perth Academy containing notes and exercises on spherical geometry and trigonometry, and algebra., 1787.
Item
Identifier: MS.14294
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
All three volumes are illustrated with pen and wash diagrams and sketches.
MS.14296 is initialled ‘I M’ by the compiler (folio 91).
Dates:
1787.
Manuscript narrative poem, "Days of Chivalry, or Adelaide and Ethelbert" by John Clark.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11766
Scope and Contents
Illustrated with watercolours.
Dates:
circa 1830-1840.
Manuscript of “Gaël Albanich” by William Forbes Skene (1809-1892), containing a history of the Highland clans.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14896-14897
Scope and Contents
The manuscript, dated 1st March 1834, was the winning entry in a competition of the Highland Society of London for the best essay on the history of the Highland Clans. It is illustrated in pen and ink and in watercolours.
Dates:
1834.
Manuscript of “Gaël Albanich” by William Forbes Skene, volume 1: General survey., 1834.
Item
Identifier: MS.14896
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The manuscript, dated 1st March 1834, was the winning entry in a competition of the Highland Society of London for the best essay on the history of the Highland Clans. It is illustrated in pen and ink and in watercolours.
Dates:
1834.
Manuscript of “Gaël Albanich” by William Forbes Skene, volume 2: History of individual clans., 1834.
Item
Identifier: MS.14897
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The manuscript, dated 1st March 1834, was the winning entry in a competition of the Highland Society of London for the best essay on the history of the Highland Clans. It is illustrated in pen and ink and in watercolours.
Dates:
1834.
Manuscript of part I of an apparently unpublished poem, 'Nature and art' by Alexander Peterkin., Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.4862
Scope and Contents
Included in the manuscript are 'Notes and illustrations' to the verses and a prefatory note.
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Manuscript of 'Regole della fortificatione' by Giulio Savorgnano, with many illustrations., 16th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.5735
Scope and Contents
The main work ends with the signature 'Neubattell’, and folio 25 contains notes in English on the use of the ruler.
Giulio Savorgnano was responsible for Venetian fortifications in Cyprus and elsewhere.
Dates:
16th century.
Manuscript of ‘The people of the palace’, a satirical novel by Marryat Ross Dobie, former Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: MS.6304
Scope and Contents
The novel is greatly influenced, and its subject was probably suggested, by the discoveries in Crete of Sir Arthur Evans and others, 1899-1911; authentic characteristics of the Cretan civilisation of the period appear in drawings and are described in the text. The volume is illustrated and bound by the author himself. A note, dated 1955 (folio i verso), by Sir John Spencer Muirhead explains that 'The people of the palace' was ‘one of a series of stories written on holiday on the island of...
Dates:
1912.
Manuscript of the treatise, 'The History of Hand Fire-arms, from their origin to the present time, with relative illustrations of mediaeval artillery until the invention of the rifle in the XVth century . . . London, 1866 . . . Vol.1. The Origin and Progress of Fire-arms in the East', by John Sobieski Stuart., 1866.
Item
Identifier: MS.2175
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:
1866.
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.