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 4488 Collections and/or Records:
Autograph manuscripts of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh; Part IV, Chapter XVI, `Privileges of Apparency` (folio 1); Chapter XVII `Service of Heirs` (folio 19); Chapter XVIII `Moveable Succession` (folio 54)(Volume V, pages 147-234)., 1786-1822.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.6.25
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Hume originally wrote out his lectures in bound notebooks, but over the years he revised, added, and deleted, and in many cases he rewrote pages or sections on separate sheets, and the original structure is usually destroyed. Sometimes the original version has survived alongside the new, sometimes it has not; some pages whose context has disappeared are collected in Adv.MS.81.6.32, which also contains a section on bankruptcy which Hume apparently later omitted (not printed in the Stair...
Dates:
1786-1822.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Autograph manuscripts, with an incomplete transcript, of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh.
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Autograph manuscripts of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh.
Autograph manuscripts of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh; Part V, Chapter I `Jurisdiction` (folio 1); Chapter II `Jurisdiction of Supreme Courts` (folio 80); Chapter III `Jurisdiction of Inferior Courts` (folio 178) (Volume V, pages 237-298)., 1786-1822.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.6.26
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Hume originally wrote out his lectures in bound notebooks, but over the years he revised, added, and deleted, and in many cases he rewrote pages or sections on separate sheets, and the original structure is usually destroyed. Sometimes the original version has survived alongside the new, sometimes it has not; some pages whose context has disappeared are collected in Adv.MS.81.6.32, which also contains a section on bankruptcy which Hume apparently later omitted (not printed in the Stair...
Dates:
1786-1822.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Autograph manuscripts, with an incomplete transcript, of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh.
/
Autograph manuscripts of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh.
Autograph manuscripts of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh; Part V, Chapter IV `Summons and Execution` (folio 1); Chapter V `Proof by Oath of Party` (folio 51); Chapter VI `Proof by Witnesses’ (folio 163) (Volume V, pages 299-352)., 1786-1822.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.6.27
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Hume originally wrote out his lectures in bound notebooks, but over the years he revised, added, and deleted, and in many cases he rewrote pages or sections on separate sheets, and the original structure is usually destroyed. Sometimes the original version has survived alongside the new, sometimes it has not; some pages whose context has disappeared are collected in Adv.MS.81.6.32, which also contains a section on bankruptcy which Hume apparently later omitted (not printed in the Stair...
Dates:
1786-1822.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Autograph manuscripts, with an incomplete transcript, of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh.
/
Autograph manuscripts of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh.
Autograph manuscripts of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh; Part V, Chapter VII `Probation by Writing` (folio 1); Chapter VIII `Decrees` (folio 98); Chapter IX `Process of Review in Court of Session` (folio 135) (Volume VI, pages 1-62)., 1786-1822.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.6.28
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Hume originally wrote out his lectures in bound notebooks, but over the years he revised, added, and deleted, and in many cases he rewrote pages or sections on separate sheets, and the original structure is usually destroyed. Sometimes the original version has survived alongside the new, sometimes it has not; some pages whose context has disappeared are collected in Adv.MS.81.6.32, which also contains a section on bankruptcy which Hume apparently later omitted (not printed in the Stair...
Dates:
1786-1822.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Autograph manuscripts, with an incomplete transcript, of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh.
/
Autograph manuscripts of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh.
Autograph manuscripts of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh; Part V, Chapter X `Inhibitions` (folio 1); Chapter XI `Poinding` (folio 49); Chapter XII `Arrestment` (folio 78) (Volume VI, pages 63-113)., 1786-1822.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.6.29
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Hume originally wrote out his lectures in bound notebooks, but over the years he revised, added, and deleted, and in many cases he rewrote pages or sections on separate sheets, and the original structure is usually destroyed. Sometimes the original version has survived alongside the new, sometimes it has not; some pages whose context has disappeared are collected in Adv.MS.81.6.32, which also contains a section on bankruptcy which Hume apparently later omitted (not printed in the Stair...
Dates:
1786-1822.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Autograph manuscripts, with an incomplete transcript, of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh.
/
Autograph manuscripts of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh.
Autograph manuscripts of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh; Part V, Chapter XIII `Confirmation Qua Creditor` (folio 1); Chapter XIV `Personal Diligence` (folio 17); Chapter XV `Meditatio Fugae: Liberation` (folio 33); Chapter XVI `Cessio Bonorum` (folio 89) (Volume VI, pages 114-157)., 1786-1822.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.6.30
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Hume originally wrote out his lectures in bound notebooks, but over the years he revised, added, and deleted, and in many cases he rewrote pages or sections on separate sheets, and the original structure is usually destroyed. Sometimes the original version has survived alongside the new, sometimes it has not; some pages whose context has disappeared are collected in Adv.MS.81.6.32, which also contains a section on bankruptcy which Hume apparently later omitted (not printed in the Stair...
Dates:
1786-1822.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Autograph manuscripts, with an incomplete transcript, of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh.
/
Autograph manuscripts of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh.
Autograph manuscripts of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh; Superseded pages whose context has disappeared, and a section on bankruptcy; the subjects are: Third Party Bonds (folio 1); Payment of Bills (folio 3); Limitations (folio 6); Feudal Investiture (folio 14); Vassal`s Duties (folio 35); Vassal`s Rights (folio 41); Resignation (folio 50); Tailzies (folio 52); Debt (folio 62); Church-lands (folio 76); Bankruptcy (folio 89)., 1786-1822.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.6.32
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Hume originally wrote out his lectures in bound notebooks, but over the years he revised, added, and deleted, and in many cases he rewrote pages or sections on separate sheets, and the original structure is usually destroyed. Sometimes the original version has survived alongside the new, sometimes it has not; some pages whose context has disappeared are collected in Adv.MS.81.6.32, which also contains a section on bankruptcy which Hume apparently later omitted (not printed in the Stair...
Dates:
1786-1822.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Autograph manuscripts, with an incomplete transcript, of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh.
/
Autograph manuscripts of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh.
Autograph manuscripts, undated, of Francis R Oliphant., Late 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.23206-23207
Scope and Contents
All the manuscripts are undated: some are incomplete.
Dates:
Late 19th century.
Autograph manuscripts, undated, of Francis R Oliphant., Late 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.23206
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
All the manuscripts are undated: some are incomplete.
Dates:
Late 19th century.
Autograph manuscripts, undated, of Francis R Oliphant., Late 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.23207
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
All the manuscripts are undated: some are incomplete.
Dates:
Late 19th century.
Autograph music manuscripts., 1898-1931.
Series
Identifier: Acc.6211/1-12
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
Comprising manuscript scores of musical compositions, including the opera "Nubia", concert programmes, press notices, and letters and copies of letters to Henschel from correspondents including: Princess Louise, A J Balfour, Gordon Bottomley, and Sir D Y Cameron.
Dates:
1898-1931.
'B. Relation de Peru. Relacion de Indias de Tierra firme', undated., ?18th century-?19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3961
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Among the papers of the Robertsons the chief correspondents are Principal William Robertson, the historian, and his son William, a Senator of the College of Justice. The correspondence of the Principal includes letters of scholars, British and foreign (Voltaire among others), about his works, information on the American Indians, 1774-1777, and threats regarding his attitude to Roman Catholics, 1778-1779. That of Lord Robertson deals with his legal and political activities and the publication...
Dates:
?18th century-?19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
Background notes, preliminary sketches, and the manuscript of the pageant, including a few sheets of heavily corrected typescript by Robert McLellan., 1972.
File
Identifier: MS.26386
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Robert McLellan's early plays were intended for the stage, but he later wrote for both radio and television. Not all were published, and many circulated in typescript copies.
Dates:
1972.
Bagpipe music copied by Donald Dow., 2nd half of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3750
Scope and Contents
According to a note on Dow and his manuscripts (folio i) by Archibald Campbell, Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society, the piobaireachd in this volume were apparently copied, like those in Skinner's Manuscript (MS.3746 above), from Duncan Campbell's Manuscript. Between them these two manuscripts (MSS.3746 and 3750) contain all but four of the piobaireachd in Duncan Campbell's Manuscript.
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Bagpipe music copied by Donald Dow, apparently an incomplete fair copy of MS.3750., 2nd half of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3751
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Donald Dow died in Glasgow in 1892, aged 56.
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Bagpipe music copied by Donald Dow, the piobaireachd corresponding, according to Archibald Campbell, to settings recorded and played by the sons of Donald Cameron, piper to Seaforth, and by J MacDougall Gillies., 2nd half of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3752
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Donald Dow died in Glasgow in 1892, aged 56.
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Ballads of Sir Alexander Gray., 1955-[circa 1960], undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26009-26013
Scope and Contents
Sir Alexander Gray translated a number of Danish and German ballads into Scots verse.
Dates:
1955-[circa 1960], undated.
'Balloon Tytler', a play for radio by Robert McLellan, produced in 1962., 1962.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26365-26366
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Robert McLellan's early plays were intended for the stage, but he later wrote for both radio and television. Not all were published, and many circulated in typescript copies.
Dates:
1962.
Bannatyne Manuscript: the draft manuscript., 1568.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.6 (1 of 2)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
George Bannatyne, a student at St Andrews, and a merchant burgess of Edinburgh, wrote the manuscript in the last three months of 1568, when an outbreak of plague in Edinburgh compelled him to refrain from work; see his colophon on folio 375. The year is also given on page 1 and folios 97, 290, and 298; on folio 290 it was originally written 1565 and on folio 298 1566, but these must be slips of the pen.Some forty authors are represented; those with most poems are William Dunbar,...
Dates:
1568.
Bannatyne Manuscript: the main manuscript., 1568.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.6 (2 of 2)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
George Bannatyne, a student at St Andrews, and a merchant burgess of Edinburgh, wrote the manuscript in the last three months of 1568, when an outbreak of plague in Edinburgh compelled him to refrain from work; see his colophon on folio 375. The year is also given on page 1 and folios 97, 290, and 298; on folio 290 it was originally written 1565 and on folio 298 1566, but these must be slips of the pen.Some forty authors are represented; those with most poems are William Dunbar,...
Dates:
1568.
'Barony of Ranfrew'., [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 55)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
Battle of Albuera May 16th 1811. W Warrington, 15 March 1820., 1820.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(65)
Scope and Contents
Ms note "Forwarded by Warrington 17/3/20".
Dates:
1820.
Bible (Oxford, 1849) of Archibald Stewart, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1853)., 1849, [after 1849].
Item
Identifier: Acc.3642/4
Scope and Contents
At the beginning is one manuscript folio containing notices of the marriage of Archibald Steuart and births of his family.
Dates:
1849, [after 1849].
Bible written in the late thirteenth century., Late 13th century-14th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1901
Scope and Contents
The books of the Old Testament follow the usual Vulgate order, with the addition of III Esdras, beginning 'Et fecit Josias Pascha in Jerosolimis Domino' (folio 165). The books of the New Testament are arranged as follows: Gospels, Pauline Epistles, Acts, Catholic Epistles, Apocalypse. At the end (folio 406) are Interpretationes Nominum Hebraicorum, beginning 'Aad testificans'. Many leaves are torn or missing, especially at the beginnings and ends of books. The books of Obadiah to Malachi, in...
Dates:
Late 13th century-14th century.
Bibliographies and offprint distribution lists relating to the published papers of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn; with press cuttings, some relating to Fairbairn’s papers, others to psychoanalysis generally., 1929-1958.
File
Identifier: MS.50226
Scope and Contents
The items are arranged by genre and by date within each genre.Bibliographies.Addition to a bibliography, [?1953], of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn: ‘Publications by W. Ronald D. Fairbairn bearing the imprint 1953’. Folio 1.Typescript bibliography, [1956 or after], of the published papers, 1928-1956, of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. Folios 2-5.Carbon copy of a typescript bibliography, [1956 or after], of the published papers, 1928-1956, of...
Dates:
1929-1958.