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 31 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Draft sketch map of `Kinraddie` by James Leslie Mitchell (`Lewis Grassic Gibbon`), intended for inclusion in `Sunset Song`.
Item
Identifier: Dep.185
Dates:
1932.
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.
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
'Imago mundi' by Honorius of Autun, 'Speculum regum' by Godfrey of Viterbo, and an anonymous poem 'De laude civitatis Laudae'. A manuscript written in Italy in the late 13th or early 14th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The `Imago mundi` of Honorius (folio 1), here entitled `Mappa mundi`, and attributed in both the title and the colophon to Isidore of Seville.(ii) `Speculum regum` by Godfrey of Viterbo (folio 23 verso). It contains the preface, list of chapters, and list of popes, but not the poem itself.(iii) ‘De laude civitatis Laudae’ (folio 38). An anonymous poem. Written in an Italian littera textualis...
Dates:
Late 13th century-early 14th century.
Manuscript draft of map of Berwickshire of John Blackadder, published in 1797.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7115
Dates:
circa 1797.
Manuscript map by Clement Lemprière entitled, "A Description of the Highlands of Scotland, the Situation of the Severeal Clans and the Number of Men able to Bear Arms, as also ye Forts Lately Erected and Roads of Communication, or Military Ways carried on by His Majesty`s Command..."
Item
Identifier: Acc.11104
Scope and Contents
Scale: circa five miles to one inch.
Dates:
1731.
Manuscript map of Antarctica, prepared by T Grindlay for W and A K Johnston, Edinburgh, but apparently not published.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8056
Dates:
circa 1890.
Manuscript maps and statistics concerning districts of northern Russia, presented to John Rogerson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8180
Dates:
1811.
Manuscript of the English text of the `Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern` by Sir Robert Sibbald; with maps.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.15.1.1-15.1.1a
Dates:
1595-[Circa 1682.]
Manuscripts of works by Ronald Stevenson mostly for piano.
File
Identifier: Acc.12336
Scope and Contents
Includes "Barra Flytin Toccata" and "Beltane Bonfire" for piano and "Variations and Theme (The Bonnie Earl of Moray)" for cello and piano.
Dates:
1973-1974, 1980, 1989.
Map of David Livingstone.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10496
Scope and Contents
Details Livingstone`s explorations south and west of Lake Malawi.
Dates:
circa 1859-1863.
Map of Orkney showing the lands of Sir Lawrence Dundas, surveyed by William Aberdeen.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10541
Scope and Contents
[Scale - 1: circa 65000].
Dates:
? 1769.
Map of the Inner and Outer Hebrides and of the mainland coast from Cape Wrath to the Mull of Kintyre, by Mark Tiddeman.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.20
Dates:
1730.
Maps of regions of Scotland by John Adair; the 'Adair maps'.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.11 [Map Library]
Dates:
Circa 1682-1684.
Microfilm of ‘Imago mundi’ by Honorius of Autun; ‘Speculum regum’ by Godfrey of Viterbo; and, an anonymous poem ‘De laude civitatis Laudae’. A manuscript written in Italy in the late 13th or early 14th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.883
Dates:
Late 13th century-early 14th century.
Microfilm of manuscript of English text of 'Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern' by Sir Robert Sibbald, with originally inserted maps, and two versions of a treatise, by Sibbald.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.330
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, [circa 1682], of the English text of the 'Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern' by Sir Robert Sibbald (Adv.MS.15.1.1);Maps, 1595-[circa 1682], originally inserted in Adv.MS.15.1.1: Manuscript of the English text of the 'Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern' by Sir Robert Sibbald. (Adv.MS.15.1.2);‘A Defence or Vindication of the Scottish History and of the Scottish Historians...
Dates:
1595-[circa 1682].
Papers of the Reverend Robert Kilgour, missionary of the Church of Scotland in Darjeeling, India from 1889 to 1909, and thereafter Editorial Superintendent of the British and Foreign Bible Society.
File
Identifier: MS.20487
Dates:
[Circa 1897], undated.
Plan "for Mr Radelif in Rheims... March 1746..." of battles of Preston, Clifton and Falkirk.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10091
Dates:
1746.
Printed and manuscript maps and plans of estates and other land areas in Scotland and Canada.
File
Identifier: Acc.10085
Dates:
19th century to 20th century.