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:
Map of the General Prison, Perth., [Circa 1840.]
Item
Identifier: MS.354B
Scope and Contents
Scale ¼ inch to the foot.
Dates:
[Circa 1840.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount.
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Letters and papers relating chiefly to the Herring Fisheries in Scotland, and to police and prisons in Scotland, with a few maps and plans of prisons.
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.
[Map of the junction of the R Escaut and Ecallion (scale 3 inches to 1 mile) and map of the area around Maing (scale 1.5 inches to 1 mile)]. 1817., 1817.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(122)
Mapa de la Provincia y Obispado de Cuenca... [Madrid]: Thomas Lopez, 1776 [sheet 2]., 1776.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(2)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Some of the maps were acquired by General Sir George Murrary during his active service, others later for historical purposes. They are arranged as follows: Peninsula (numbers 1-88); France (numbers 89-95); uncertain locality (numbers 95-96); Canada (numbers 97-106); Flanders (numbers 107-133); various military actions, 1761-1846, and undated, especially those of 1813 (numbers 134-164). A list has been placed at the front of each volume; only the manuscript items have...
Dates:
1776.
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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Collection of maps (several in duplicate), approximately two-fifths manuscript, the remainder printed.
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Collection of maps.
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Map, over two sheets, of the Province and Bishopric of Cuenca by Thomas Lopez.
Mapa geographico de la Provincia de Palencia... Madrid: Thomas Lopez, 1782 [sheet 2]., 1782.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(5)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Some of the maps were acquired by General Sir George Murrary during his active service, others later for historical purposes. They are arranged as follows: Peninsula (numbers 1-88); France (numbers 89-95); uncertain locality (numbers 95-96); Canada (numbers 97-106); Flanders (numbers 107-133); various military actions, 1761-1846, and undated, especially those of 1813 (numbers 134-164). A list has been placed at the front of each volume; only the manuscript items have...
Dates:
1782.
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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Collection of maps (several in duplicate), approximately two-fifths manuscript, the remainder printed.
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Collection of maps.
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Map, over two sheets, of the Province of Palencia by Thomas Lopez.
Mapa geographico de la Reyno de Granada... Madrid: Thomas Lopez, 1795 [sheet 2]., 1795.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(7)
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Inset (6) : Costas de Espana y de Africa.
Dates:
1795.
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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Collection of maps (several in duplicate), approximately two-fifths manuscript, the remainder printed.
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Collection of maps.
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Geographical map, over four sheets, of the Kindom of Granada by Thomas Lopez.
Mapa geographico de la Reyno de Granada... Madrid: Thomas Lopez, 1795 [sheet 4]., 1795.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(9)
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Inset (6) : Costas de Espana y de Africa.
Dates:
1795.
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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Collection of maps (several in duplicate), approximately two-fifths manuscript, the remainder printed.
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Collection of maps.
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Geographical map, over four sheets, of the Kindom of Granada by Thomas Lopez.
Mappe of Orkney, with the harbours and islands, by John Adair., 1682.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.11(1)
Scope and Contents
Scale statement reads "scale of 10 myls" 10 = 100 mm. Features include compass rose; anchorages; ships. Mounted on cotton. Has watermarks.
Dates:
1682.
Mappe of Wast Lothian comonly called Linlithgowshire, by John Adair., Circa 1682.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.11(8)
Scope and Contents
Scale statements read "3 milliaria Ital." 9 = 220 mm.; "6 milliaria com." 6 = 220 mm. Relief shown pictorially. Features include compass rose; estates and settlements; trees; lochs, rivers and tributaries; bridges. Mounted on cotton. Has gridlines, some subdivided in red.
Dates:
Circa 1682.
Maps, chiefly printed, annotated by Robert Purves Hardie., 1st quarter of 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.5307
Scope and Contents
The maps are mostly printed, annotated by Robert Purves Hardie.
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Maps of regions of Scotland by John Adair; the 'Adair maps'.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.11 [Map Library]
Dates:
Circa 1682-1684.
Maps 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., 1595-[Circa 1682].
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.1a
Scope and Contents
List of maps originally inserted in Adv.MS.15.1.1.Folios 6-7. Printed map: ‘Britannicarum insularum typus’ (Abraham Ortelius, 1595).Folios 8-9. Printed map: ‘Insulæ Albion et Hibernia cum minoribus adjacentibus’.Folios 10-11. Printed map: ‘Scotia regnum’.Folios 12-13. Printed map: ‘Scotia regnum cum insulis adjacentibus’ (Robert Gordon of Straloch).Folios 20-21. Printed map: ‘Scotiæ provintiæ inter Taum fluvium et septentrionales...
Dates:
1595-[Circa 1682].
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].
Military exercises observed by James Johnston while Deputy Chief of Staff at 4th armoured division. , 1984.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13818/166-168
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School.
His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...
Dates:
1984.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Major-General James Johnston
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Papers relating to the military career of James Johnston.
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Papers relating to James Johnston as a staff officer and in higher command.
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Papers relating James Johnston on his posting as Deputy Chief of Staff at 4th Armoured Division, British Army of the Rhine.
Miscellaneous Corsican papers concerning the 1st Earl of Minto., 1793-1798, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.11214
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The papers contain nearly all of the 1st Earl of Minto's papers concerning Toulon, many concerning Corsica. MSS.11215-11217 contain a substantial amount of material relating to émigrees from Toulon as well as Corsica
Dates:
1793-1798, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Diplomatic correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto.
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Diplomatic correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto concerning Toulon and Corsica.
Miscellaneous letters and papers of the Bannatyne Club, chiefly relating to club publications., 1820-1837, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.9356
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Correspondence, 1835, between Robert Pitcairn, Thomas Thomson and David Laing, on the publication by Pitcairn of ‘Memorials of transactions in Scotland’ by Richard Bannatyne. (Folio 1.)(ii) Manuscript drafts, with minor corrections, of parts of ‘Davidis Buchanani de scriptoribus Scotis’. The manuscript folios 24-38 equal the printed pages 17-28, and folios 40-66 equal pages 31-39. (Folios 24.)(iii) 'Articles agt. Mr...
Dates:
1820-1837, undated.
Miscellaneous military papers of Thomas Graham., 1794-1843.
File
Identifier: MS.16197
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) An ink and wash sketch map probably showing positions of Austrian and French forces in the Isonzo valley of North Italy near Gorlzia during the Austrian retreat from Napoleon's Armée d'Italie in the spring of 1797 (folio 1);
(ii) An ink sketch, undated, but circa 1798, of the coastal area behind Aboukir [Abu Qîr] Bay near Alexandria, Egypt, (folio 2);
(ill) Extract of a letter, 7 Mar, 1811, of Captain William Milne, at Isla de Leon, near Cadiz describing the...
Dates:
1794-1843.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Military papers of Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch.
Miscellaneous papers of Robert Kirk Dickson chiefly associated with his military career., [Circa 1914]-1939.
File
Identifier: MS.13586
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) Photograph of H.M.S. Canopus leaving Valetta, [?December 1914] (folio 1);(ii) Sketch map of naval action in the North Sea, 24 January 1915 (folio 8);(iii) 'Account of the Engagement with the German High Seas Fleet off the Jutland Bank May 31st 1916', by Midshipman Robert Kirk Dickson, dated H.M.S. Benbow, 18 June 1916, with a typescript carbon copy of the same (folio 3);(iv) Unsigned typescript 'Report of...
Dates:
[Circa 1914]-1939.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Rear-Admiral Robert Kirk Dickson (1898-1952) and of his younger brother, Midshipman Archibald Kirk Dickson (died 1916), with some papers of their father, William Kirk Dickson (1860-1949), first Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.
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Papers of Rear-Admiral Robert Kirk Dickson.
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Personal and naval papers of Robert Kirk Dickson.
Miscellaneous portraits and prints of the Faculty of Advocates., ?19th century-?20th century.
File
Identifier: F.R.500
Dates:
?19th century-?20th century.
Notebooks of Major-General John Brown, containing surveys, sketch-maps, notes on fortifications, and personal notes made in Ireland., 1792-1800.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3266-3268
Notes, observations and letters made by Robert Graham during an extensive tour in Ireland., 1835-1836.
File
Identifier: MS.16049
Scope and Contents
A complete map of his route with lists of principal places visited is pasted into the volume (folios 2-5). Also bound into the book are a timetable of mail coaches in Leinster, Munster and Connaught (folio 14), some press cuttings and printed ephemera.
Dates:
1835-1836.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Travel diaries, journal letters and papers chiefly of Robert Graham.
Notes of the characters and major scenes, sketch map of Kinraddie, and a manuscript draft of some of the scenes by Bill Craig, of the BBC television production of 'Sunset song', by James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'., 1970.
File
Identifier: MS.26110
Dates:
1970.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts, correspondence, and other papers of and concerning James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'.
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Manuscript and typescript drafts, 1970, by Bill Craig of the script of the BBC television production of 'Sunset song', by James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', transmitted in 1971.