Manuscript maps. Maps.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Originals of compiled maps, drawn but not printed; loosely, any map drawn by hand.
Found in 104 Collections and/or Records:
A map of Strath Devon and the district between the Ochils and the Forth, by John Adair., Circa 1682.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.11(5)
Scope and Contents
Scale statement reads "milliaria comunia" 4 = 212 mm. Relief shown pictorially. Features include compass rose; estates and settlements; trees; lochs, rivers and tributaries; ships; bridges. Mounted on paper. Unfinished title banner.
Dates:
Circa 1682.
A Mape of the countries about Stirling, by John Adair., Circa 1682.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.11(3)
Scope and Contents
Scale statements read "scale of 4 common mylls" 4 = 152 mm. ; "scale of 6000 passus" 6 = 152 mm. Relief shown pictorially. Features include compass rose; estates and settlements; lochs, rivers and tributaries; trees. Mounted on cotton. Has gridlines.
Dates:
Circa 1682.
A mape of the wast of Scotland containing Clydsdail, Nithsdail, Ranfrew, Shyre of Ayre, [and] Galloway, by John Adair., Circa 1682.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.11(11)
Scope and Contents
Scale statement reads "A scale of 24 common myls each 1500 paces" 24 = 150 mm. Relief shown pictorially. Features include compass rose; settlements; lochs rivers and tributaries; bridges. Mounted on paper. "9" handwritten on top right corner. Has gridlines. Has watermarks.
Dates:
Circa 1682.
A Mapp of Clakmanan Shire, by John Adair., Circa 1682.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.11(6)
Scope and Contents
Scale statement reads "milliaria comunia" 4 = 212 mm. Relief shown pictorially. Features include estates and settlements; trees; lochs, rivers and tributaries; ships; bridges. Cropped at edges and mounted on paper. This is a "proof" of the same map printed from an engraved plate.
Dates:
Circa 1682.
'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, including correspondence regarding the Malay Archipelago, Hong Kong, and the attack on the stockade of a chief in New Zealand, 1845-1846., 1845-1847.
File
Identifier: MS.2414
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1845-1847.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Thomas John Cochrane as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station.
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'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station.
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'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, including correspondence regarding the Malay Archipelago, Hong Kong, and the attack on the stockade of a chief in New Zealand, 1845-1846.
Collection of notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton containing numerous brief notes, references and extracts from manuscripts and printed works of reference, together with a few sketch-maps and drawings, relating to the religious houses of Scotland., Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MSS.30.5.11-30.5.16
Scope and Contents
There appears to be no order of subject-matter or reference source.
Dates:
Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Collection of notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton containing numerous brief notes, references and extracts from manuscripts and printed works of reference, together with a few sketch-maps and drawings, relating to the religious houses of Scotland, volume 1., Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.11
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
There appears to be no order of subject-matter or reference source.
Dates:
Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks and sketchbooks compiled by, and architectural plans and drawings made by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton in his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
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Collection of notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton containing numerous brief notes, references and extracts from manuscripts and printed works of reference, together with a few sketch-maps and drawings, relating to the religious houses of Scotland.
Collection of notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton containing numerous brief notes, references and extracts from manuscripts and printed works of reference, together with a few sketch-maps and drawings, relating to the religious houses of Scotland, volume 2., Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.12
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
There appears to be no order of subject-matter or reference source.
Dates:
Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks and sketchbooks compiled by, and architectural plans and drawings made by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton in his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
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Collection of notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton containing numerous brief notes, references and extracts from manuscripts and printed works of reference, together with a few sketch-maps and drawings, relating to the religious houses of Scotland.
Collection of notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton containing numerous brief notes, references and extracts from manuscripts and printed works of reference, together with a few sketch-maps and drawings, relating to the religious houses of Scotland, volume 3., Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.13
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
There appears to be no order of subject-matter or reference source.
Dates:
Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks and sketchbooks compiled by, and architectural plans and drawings made by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton in his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
/
Collection of notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton containing numerous brief notes, references and extracts from manuscripts and printed works of reference, together with a few sketch-maps and drawings, relating to the religious houses of Scotland.
Collection of notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton containing numerous brief notes, references and extracts from manuscripts and printed works of reference, together with a few sketch-maps and drawings, relating to the religious houses of Scotland, volume 4., Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.14
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
There appears to be no order of subject-matter or reference source.
Dates:
Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks and sketchbooks compiled by, and architectural plans and drawings made by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton in his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
/
Collection of notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton containing numerous brief notes, references and extracts from manuscripts and printed works of reference, together with a few sketch-maps and drawings, relating to the religious houses of Scotland.
Collection of notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton containing numerous brief notes, references and extracts from manuscripts and printed works of reference, together with a few sketch-maps and drawings, relating to the religious houses of Scotland, volume 5., Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.15
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
There appears to be no order of subject-matter or reference source.
Dates:
Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks and sketchbooks compiled by, and architectural plans and drawings made by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton in his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
/
Collection of notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton containing numerous brief notes, references and extracts from manuscripts and printed works of reference, together with a few sketch-maps and drawings, relating to the religious houses of Scotland.
Collection of notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton containing numerous brief notes, references and extracts from manuscripts and printed works of reference, together with a few sketch-maps and drawings, relating to the religious houses of Scotland, volume 6., Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.16
Scope and Contents
At the end of this volume, written apparently in another hand, are a copy of the succession of the bishops in Scotland from the Reformation to 1676 taken from ‘An Appendix to the History [of John Spottiswoode, Archibshop of Saint Andrews] of the Church of Scotland’ (folio 1 inverted) and lists of the revenues of the bishoprics and religious houses of Scotland (folio 16 inverted), extracted from another source.
Dates:
Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks and sketchbooks compiled by, and architectural plans and drawings made by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton in his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
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Collection of notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton containing numerous brief notes, references and extracts from manuscripts and printed works of reference, together with a few sketch-maps and drawings, relating to the religious houses of Scotland.
Coloured maps of the estate of Shirvan, Argyll, surveyed and drawn by George Buchanan.
File
Identifier: MS.5056
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) 'General plan of the estate of Shirvan belonging to John Grahame Campbell Esquire' (number 1);(ii) 'Silver Craigs and Ballimore' (number 3);(iii) 'Castleton' (number 4);(iv) 'Stronachullen and Strondour' (number 5);(v) 'Loch Head and Achachoish' East Division (number 6);(vi) 'Loch Head and Achachoish' West Division (number 7).The second and eighth maps of the original set of...
Dates:
1830-1831.
Correspondence and associated papers of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War., 1808-1814.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.46.1.22-46.3.5
Scope and Contents
The associated papers consist of intelligence reports (many of which are illustrated by sketch-maps) by British officers, letters and memoranda forwarded from Spanish and Portuguese leaders, and a few intercepted letters of French Generals.
Dates:
1808-1814.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War in which he served (except during 1812 when he was in Ireland) as quartermaster-general.
Correspondence and papers relating to General Sir George Murray`s appointment to the staff of the army in America and to his subsequent appointment to the command of the troops and civil government of Upper Canada., 1811-1815, and undated.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.46.6.5-46.6.6
Scope and Contents
The papers, many of which are undated, consist of notes, memoranda and reports on various aspects of life and of military affairs (including some sketch-maps) in Canada.
Dates:
1811-1815, and undated.
[Cover title:] Province of the Minho. 29 April 1813. "Scale of two leagues of 18 to a degree.", 1813.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(27)
Scope and Contents
From Tuy in the north to Porto in the south. Dissected for folding.
Dates:
1813.
Draft sketch map of `Kinraddie` by James Leslie Mitchell (`Lewis Grassic Gibbon`), intended for inclusion in `Sunset Song`.
Item
Identifier: Dep.185
Dates:
1932.
Drawing - Map of dristrict from Crockhuish to Karra Garrow - Crockhuish, Sutherland - surveyed by James Jeffrey and H C Otter., 1846.
Item
Identifier: MS.5846 (123)
Dates:
1846.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with C.
Drawings and maps made or collected by Robert Bruce Armstrong to illustrate the volumes of ‘The history of Liddesdale, Eskdale, Ewesdale, Wauchopedale and the Debateable Land’ and its continuation., Circa 1883.
File
Identifier: MS.6113
Dates:
Circa 1883.
East Lothian, by John Adair., 1682.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.11(10)
Scope and Contents
Scale statements read "6 milliaria comunia" 6 = 181 mm. ; "9 mille passus ... milliaria Ital" 9 = 181 mm. Relief shown pictorially. Bathymetry shown by soundings. Features include compass rose; estates and settlements; trees; rivers and tributaries; ships; bridges. Mounted on paper. Has gridlines. Has an additional set of gridlines in red ink ruled obliquely on the sheet, giving correct orientation.
Dates:
1682.
Fifteenth-century manuscript of the 'short version' of the 'Polychronicon' of Ranulph Higden.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.12
Scope and Contents
This is a copy of the original, short version ending in 1327. It contains preface (folio iii), alphabetical table (folio v; the reference-system, explained at the beginning, is to the foliation of this manuscript), map of the world (folio xiii verso), and text in seven books (folios 1, 33, 57, 92, 122 verso, 159 verso, 183), not formally divided into chapters.The presence of a map is unusual in this version (‘Universal Chronicle of Ranulf Higden’, pages 63-68, 97-98). It is...
Dates:
1327, and before.
Five manuscript hand-coloured apprentice maps prepared by Thomas H Walker.
File
Identifier: Acc.12095
Scope and Contents
Maps are of Scotland, Corsica, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the Indian subcontinent and the Loch More-Ben Stack area of Sutherland.
Dates:
1896-1902.
Four maps of parts of the Highlands relating to the estates of Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1863) and adjacent lands.
File
Identifier: MS.15199 [EMS.s.461A-D]
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) ‘Map of part of the county of Inverness, particularly the estates of Glengarry ...’, lithographed Edinburgh, 1840. Scale 1" = 2¾ miles. Some of the estates are shown in different colours: a blue wash has been added by hand to most of the lochs. The estate of Glenquoich which is recorded as 'The Property of Macdonell of Glengarry for sale' is inscribed 'bought by E. Ellice' in a contemporary hand.
Single sheet, 65 x 52.4 centimetres.
(ii) ‘Plan of the estate...
Dates:
1812, 1840, undated.
Fragment of a map showing lands owned by Spotswood and Bassinden., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Acc_13725_2
Dates:
Undated.
Further estate and family papers of the Earls and Dukes of Sutherland, 1651-1960, including titles, legal papers, financial records and maps and plans relating to the family’s Scottish estates.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13290
Scope and Contents
The papers include titles, legal papers, financial records and maps and plans relating to the family’s Scottish estates.Family papers include Elizabeth, Duchess-Countess of Sutherland’s Scottish sketchbooks and a series of Game Books recording the activities of the many shooting and fishing parties organised for the Sutherland family and their guests. The manuscript of Gilbert Gordon of Sallagh’s ‘Continuation of the Genealogy of the Family of Sutherland’, 1651, is of...
Dates:
1651-1960