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 73 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.
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.
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.
Fragment of a map showing lands owned by Spotswood and Bassinden., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Acc_13725_2
Dates:
Undated.
Hand-drawn map of Middleton Farm., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/993
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Estate Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis Families.
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Estate Management Papers.
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Maps, plans and drawings.
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Plans and drawings.
Hand-drawn map of Village land of Kirkhold., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/992
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Estate Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis Families.
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Estate Management Papers.
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Maps, plans and drawings.
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Plans and drawings.
Journal of Mrs Beecroft, describing a tour by her daughter and herself through France and Switzerland, setting out from Norwich., 1822.
Item
Identifier: MS.6338
Scope and Contents
The journal is illustrated by water-colour drawings of national costume (folios iv verso-v verso) and scenery (folios 93-94 verso, 143, 152 verso), pen-and-ink sketches of the ladies with their guides and mules (folios 60, 82 verso), maps and plans of mountain ranges (folios vi verso, 57, 138, 153), and an engraving of Dover Castle (folio 7). According to an index of illustrations (folio x verso) some drawings are missing. There are also lists of places visited in chronological order (folio...
Dates:
1822.
Journal of William Thomson, Deputy Commissary-General of Stores to the Forces, during a tour in France and Holland, apparently on a pleasure trip., 1818.
Item
Identifier: MS.6334
Scope and Contents
The journal shows an interest in social conditions after the Restoration, in interior decoration and furnishing, and in paintings; he gives descriptions and lists of pictures in the Louvre and elsewhere, and has made sketch copies of a few (folios 30 verso-31, 82 verso). This volume is in two parts, consisting of Thomson's visit to Paris, and his tour in Holland; they are connected by the account of a journey through Belgium which includes a long description of the country surrounding...
Dates:
1818.
Legal and financial papers of the Gibson family, concerning the sale and purchase of property in the province of Buenos Aires, together with sketch maps, powers of attorney and other miscellaneous papers., 1825-1893.
File
Identifier: MS.10328
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Berens, L. to Berfield., 1815-1906.
File
Identifier: MS.40089
Scope and Contents
This manuscript includes letters, 1895-1903, of Lewis Berens to John Murray IV. Some of the letters concern his work “Some unrecognised laws of nature”, co-written with Ignatius Singer. There is mention also of his plans to write “Toward the light” and “The digger movement…”. All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Berens, Lewis, 1895-1903: folios 1-55;Berenson, Bernhard, 1893-1902: folios 56-62;Berenson,...
Dates:
1815-1906.