Manuscripts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to handwritten documents, and may also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.
Found in 4489 Collections and/or Records:
(1) Manuscript draft by Alexander Burnes of an ?advertisement for his work, "Travels into Bokhara"; and, (2) receipt for a payment of £840 made to Alexander Burnes by John Murray II in respect of the entire copyright of "Travels into Bokhara"., 1834.
Item
Identifier: MS.42050
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Sir Alexander Burnes was a British political officer in India and an explorer. He travelled in India, Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. He was assassinated on a mission to Kabul in 1841.Burnes wrote 'Travels into Bokhara', which was published by John Murray in 1834 and sold 900 copies on the first day of publication. The letters in this subseries are of Burnes to John Murray [II] and mainly relate to the production and publication of his book, although there is also some focus on...
Dates:
1834.
[2 maps of the Battle of Pombal, March 11, 1811, with key.], Circa 1811.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(57)-(59)
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:
Circa 1811.
9th-century French manuscript containing all of the epigrams of Martial., 9th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.1
Scope and Contents
The script is Caroline minuscule, with headings in rustic capitals, and also square capitals on a display page, folio 80 verso (beginning of book xi). Written by several hands in a French scriptorium north of the Loire in the second half of the 9th century. There are a few later marginal notes. On the lower side of the front pastedown is French writing in a 16th-century cursive hand.
Dates:
9th century.
19 letters of Sir Andrew Ramsay, Lord Abbotshall: 17 of them to John, Duke of Lauderdale, 1663-1667, and undated; 1 to the Duke of Rothes, 1666; and 1 to the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, 1670., 1663-1670.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.14
Scope and Contents
Of the letters to Lauderdale, 9 are published in ‘Letters from Archibald, Earl of Argyll, to John, Duke of Lauderdale’ by George Sinclair and C K Sharpe (Bannatyne Club, 1829), pages 103-124, to which page-references have been added in the manuscript.
Dates:
1663-1670.
63 letters of the 9th Earl of Argyll to John, Duke of Lauderdale, 1663-1670 (folio 3), preceded by a letter of Alexander Macdonald, the Antiquary, to David Irving, Keeper of the Advocates` Library, ?1829, concerning the letters (folio 1)., 1663-1670, ?1829.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.13
Dates:
1663-1670, ?1829.
'A Carrier of Stones', three manuscript drafts and a corrected typescript with manuscript additions., August 1963.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4835/8
A description of the East coast of Scotland drawn out of Wagoner and sumqt corrected, but it not fully perfyt [and] yet hath many errors.', [?1636-?1652.]
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 7)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
'A description of the province of the Merche'., [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 58)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
A detailed map including Glenmore, Lochs Arkaig and Garry, the basins of the Nairn, Findhorn, and Spey, Lochs Ericht and Laggan, and the River Spean; also in outline Lochs Garry, Rannoch, and Tummel., [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 5)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
'A draught of the Firths of Tayne, Cromartie, [and] Inverness, wt ye true distances as yey do ly.' , [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 16)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
A map of Eastern Scotland, including basins of Rivers Don, Dee, Tay, Forth, and Tweed., [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 6)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
A map of Loch Synn, or, "Shinn", and, Assyin. M.T.P. [i.e. Loch Shin, and Assynt, Sutherland]., [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 12)
Scope and Contents
2 manuscript maps on one sheet.
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
A map of Scotland, north of Glenmore in detail, and outline of the east coast to Dunbar, showing the courses of the chief rivers, and the positions of a few places., [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 2)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
A map of Scotland, north of Loch Linnhe and the River Dee and west of the River Deveron., [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 3)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
A map of the basin of the River Forth, down to the widening of the estuary near Alloa., [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 51)
Scope and Contents
Part of this area is described in the Pont texts: page 131, and pages 155-6.
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
A map of the Clyde and Tweed basins., [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 56)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
A map of the coast from Loch Ryan nearly to the head of Solway. , [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 61)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
A map of the coast from the River Ythan to Inverugie., [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 35)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
A map of the district along the north side of the River Dee near Crathes and Durres, showing 'Ye Lyne of Leys possession' and 'Lyne of Leys clayme'. , [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 31)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
A map of the district from Loch Monar to Beauly and Strath Bran., [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 21)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
A map of the mainland of Shetland, and Fair Isle. , [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 8)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
A Ptolemy style map of Roman England, including part of Ireland, and showing the eastward direction of the east coast of Scotland., [?1636-?1652].
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 1)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652].
'A Relation of Sir Walter Raleigh's Araignement at Winchester the 17th of November 1603 written (as it is supposed) by himself.', 1603.
Item
Identifier: MS.5444
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The Nisbet papers fall into four groups, belonging respectively to the Nisbets of that Ilk, the original owners of the estate; the Kers (later Carres) of Cavers and West Nisbet; who acquired the estate in 1649; the Chisholmes of that Ilk, connected by marriage to Charles St Clair, 15th Lord Sinclair, who succeeded to the estate some time before 1813; and William Molleson, probably related to the sister of Charles St Clair, de jure 13th Lord Sinclair.
Dates:
1603.
A rough sketch of the late affairs with the enemy [near S. Jean pied de Port; signed] P Wright, Lt R.Engineers. Augt 7h 1813., 1813.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(79)
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:
1813.
A series of notebooks containing biographical information on British poets used, or intended to be used, in the publication of a dictionary of British poets., Mid 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42592-42595
Scope and Contents
The notebooks serve more as an assortment of information - notes, press cuttings and documentary evidence, such as copies of wills - to be used in the preparation of the specific entries of the dictionary, than as a considered manuscript. In many cases only the heading of the name of the poet has been entered.
None of the volumes has an index.
Dates:
Mid 19th century.