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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 6584 Collections and/or Records:

Writings of Janet Wills, sister of William and Robert Chambers and wife of William Henry Wills.

 File
Identifier: MS.3652
Scope and Contents

The papers comprise accounts of a visit to Glasgow Blind Asylum (folio 1) and of experiences, real or fictitious, in Argyll (folio 5), Epping Forest (folio 10), France (folio 20), and the Rhineland (folio 28), and stories (folio 47), undated.

Dates: Late 19th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Writings of Robert Lochore, cordiner, poet, and miscellaneous writer.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3585-3588
Dates: Late 18th century-1851, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Writings of Savonarola, translated into English, in the hand of Alexander Falconar, Advocate, who added some comments in the margins, late seventeenth or early eighteenth century.

 File
Identifier: MS.3859
Scope and Contents

Contains: ‘De Simplicitate Christianae Vitae’, preceded by the ‘Epistola’, as in the Cologne edition (1550), and followed by a sermon on John, iv, I, preached on 9 June 1495 (folio 101).

There are notes on the manuscript and its writer on folios i and iii.

Dates: Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Writings of William Winter Hamilton., 1971-1992, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.10951/58-74
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Correspondence and papers, 1936-1992, of William Winter Hamilton (b.1917), writer politician, Labour MP for West Fife, 1950-1974 and for Central Fife, 1974-1987.

Dates: 1971-1992, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of William Winter Hamilton.

Writings on various subjects of Alexander Carlyle., 1752-1803, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.23917-23920
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Alexander Carlyle's papers consist chiefly of journals, sermons, lectures, autobiographical writings, writings on various topics, poetry and papers on church and other affairs. The later papers (MSS.23927-23930) consist of a list of his books, excerpts from his writings and excerpts of proceedings in the action against him by the Presbytery of Dalkeith.

Dates: 1752-1803, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of Alexander 'Jupiter' Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk, and of his trustees and later relations. / Other writings of Alexander Carlyle.

Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.3134-3185
Scope and Contents

Many of the papers are accompanied by transcripts or summaries by Alexander Macdonald.

Dates: 1552-19th century
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

'ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΟΝ ΔΩΡΟΝ [BASILIKON DORON], ò Instruciones, compuestos por ... Jaymes ... Rey de Ingalaterra ... Traduzidado de Ingles en Romance vulgar, y dirigido a la misma Magestad por su ... vassallo Juan Pemberton, gentilhombre, natural de la insigne Ciudad de Londres.'

 Item
Identifier: MS.3855
Scope and Contents

According to a note inside the end cover, the translator may have been a citizen and grocer who was a brother of Sir James Pemberton, Lord Mayor of London, 1611.

Dates: Early 17th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

`Πρόνοια. Providentia. Divina Providentia in Rebus Humanis. Divine Providence in humane affaires. A Collection of Providential Passages Antient and Modern Foreign and Domestick by Master James Fraser Minister At Kirkhill. Written Anno 1678.`

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.7
Scope and Contents

Originally part (Inv.XI) of the Rose Collection, Adv. MSS.49.7.1-49.7.20.

Dates: 1678.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

‘Συναγωγή’ iii-vi, viii, by Pappus of Alexandria.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.1.3
Scope and Contents The manuscript was probably written in Italy in the mid-16th century. One scribe wrote from the beginning to folio 94 verso, line 26; another from there to the end. The latter writes a more upright hand, with fewer ligatures, than the former. According to A P Treweek in `The Manuscript Tradition of the Collectio Mathematica’, 195, and what follows, the first scribe, possibly Camillus Venetus, also wrote Naples, Bibl. Naz.IIIc14 and Chicago, Newberry Libr.MS. 110, and copied this...
Dates: Mid 16th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

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