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:
Accounts concerning the building of Dundas Castle, and of a farm at Craigbrae in the parish of Dalmeny., 1818-1820.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.2.57
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:
(i) Accounts concerning the building of Dundas Castle, omitted from or preparatory to the account in final form: vouchers, mostly for wood sawing, plastering, digging and quarrying, 1818-1820 (folio 1); miscellaneous accounts, 1818-1820 (folio 79).
(ii) Account and vouchers concerning building a farm at Craigbrae in the parish of Dalmeny, 1819 (folio 126).
Dates:
1818-1820.
Accounts concerning the shipping and trading activities of George Dundas of Dundas (died 1792) in the service of the East India Company., 1778-1790, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.2.63
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The greater part of the series concerns in detail the administration of the Dundas estate, and consists of accounts and discharges or vouchers relating to public burdens and feu-duty, annualrent, annuities, and other regular payments, and a wide variety of transactions with merchants, tradesmen, and estate tenants and servants. More personal accounts are also represented in considerable quantity, though until the 18th century they are not clearly distinguished from the estate accounts. There...
Dates:
1778-1790, and undated.
Accounts concerning wages on the Dundas estate., 1812-1814.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.2.58
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The greater part of the series concerns in detail the administration of the Dundas estate, and consists of accounts and discharges or vouchers relating to public burdens and feu-duty, annualrent, annuities, and other regular payments, and a wide variety of transactions with merchants, tradesmen, and estate tenants and servants. More personal accounts are also represented in considerable quantity, though until the 18th century they are not clearly distinguished from the estate accounts. There...
Dates:
1812-1814.
Accounts, letters and other papers, 1803-1897, of and relating to Andrew Wilson, the painter, his son Charles Heath Wilson, and others of his family, with a printed obituary, 1820, of Robert Ker, commissioner of Cuttack., 1803-1897.
File
Identifier: MS.3836, folios 41-62
Dates:
1803-1897.
Accounts of Laurence Oliphant of Gask as Treasurer of the Jacobite army at Perth from October 1745 to February 1746., 1745-1746.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.4.1-82.4.2
Accounts of the burning of towns and villages by the Jacobite army in 1716., 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3141
Scope and Contents
Accounts of the burning of Blackford (folio 1), Auchterarder (folio 5), Dunning (folio 13), Dalreoch (folio 15 verso), Muthill (folio 19), and Crieff (folio 20 verso).
Dates:
18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.
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Correspondence and papers relating to the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745.
Accounts of the estate of Maria de Jonge for 1732-1733, rendered by Petrus van Weenegem, living in Flanders., 1732-1733.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.5
Dates:
1732-1733.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Accounts concerning the estate of Maria de Jonge (wife of Cornelis de Jonge of Ellemeet, Receiver-General of the United Provinces),bequeathed, in 1732 to her daughter, Maria Margaretta, Baroness North and Gray, later Lady Elibank.
Accounts of the estate of Maria de Jonge, rendered in 1744 by Gerard van Assendelft, Delft., 1744.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.6
Dates:
1744.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Accounts concerning the estate of Maria de Jonge (wife of Cornelis de Jonge of Ellemeet, Receiver-General of the United Provinces),bequeathed, in 1732 to her daughter, Maria Margaretta, Baroness North and Gray, later Lady Elibank.
Acts of the Althing of Iceland, partly manuscript and partly printed: Tome I., 1631-1669.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.6.2
Acts of the Althing of Iceland, partly manuscript and partly printed: Tome II., 1670-1700.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.21.6.3
Acts of the Althing of Iceland, partly manuscript and partly printed: Tome III., 1701-1730.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.21.6.4
Acts of the Althing of Iceland, partly manuscript and partly printed: Tome IV., 1731-1749.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.21.6.5
Acts of the Althing of Iceland, partly manuscript and partly printed: Tome V., 1750-1770.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.6.6
Acts of the Bailiery Court of Inchaffray, 1532-1537 (folio 1); of the Baron Court of Gask, 1627-1649 (folio 9); of the Baron Court of Aberdalgie, 1611-1624 (folio 32); and of an unknown court, undated (folio 44)., 1532-1649, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.2.8
Dates:
1532-1649, and undated.
Additional material for volumes 1-10 (chapters II-LXXV) of ‘History of Europe during the French Revolution’ by Sir Archibald Alison., [?1829-?1842.]
File
Identifier: MS.9581
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Additional paragraphs added to the text in this manuscript would appear to have been incorporated in the first edition, and there appear to have been only minor changes, chiefly in vocabulary, added at the proof stage. The manuscript shows throughout a fair degree of amendment, largely changes of vocabulary or excisions for greater brevity.
Dates:
[?1829-?1842.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts, with additions and amendments as sent to the printer, of two major works and part of a third work of Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet, historian, Sheriff of Lanarkshire and writer on legal and social questions; with mathematical notes of his son, General Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet.
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Manuscript of ‘History of Europe during the French Revolution’ by Sir Archibald Alison.
Additional material of John Francis Campbell on folklore, written in 1870, several years after the publication of ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, and entitled `Oral mythology`., 1870.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.3.2
Scope and Contents
The work was apparently intended for publication but for various reasons this did not take place. A letter to Campbell from the publishers, Smith, Elder and Company, 1870, is pasted at the beginning, rejecting his manuscript.He discusses folklore in general, with particular reference to Gaelic and Indian mythology and includes examples of various tales from several different countries.The text is written partly in Campbell`s own hand and partly a more formal...
Dates:
1870.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Collections of Gaelic tales, folklore and proverbs, mainly written by John Dewar; material relating to folklore in general; papers concerning Highland dress; and several volumes relating to Irish language and folklore.
Additions to the 'Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language' by John Jamieson, made after the publication of the two supplementary volumes., 2nd quarter of 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.1.10-22.1.12
Dates:
2nd quarter of 19th century.
Additions to the 'Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language' by John Jamieson, volume I., 2nd quarter of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.10
Dates:
2nd quarter of 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Supplement and additions to the ‘Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language’ by John Jamieson.
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Additions to the 'Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language' by John Jamieson, made after the publication of the two supplementary volumes.
Additions to the 'Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language' by John Jamieson, volume II., 2nd quarter of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.11
Scope and Contents
Contains 'Catalogus Bibl. Joannis Jamieson, A.D.1812'.
Dates:
2nd quarter of 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Supplement and additions to the ‘Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language’ by John Jamieson.
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Additions to the 'Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language' by John Jamieson, made after the publication of the two supplementary volumes.
Additions to the 'Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language' by John Jamieson, volume III., 2nd quarter of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.12
Scope and Contents
The contents include letters relating to the proposed publication of these additions.
Dates:
2nd quarter of 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Supplement and additions to the ‘Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language’ by John Jamieson.
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Additions to the 'Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language' by John Jamieson, made after the publication of the two supplementary volumes.
'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station., 1844-1847.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2413-2414A
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1844-1847.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Thomas John Cochrane as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station.
'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, including correspondence regarding the Malay Archipelago., 1844-1845.
File
Identifier: MS.2413
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1844-1845.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Thomas John Cochrane as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station.
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'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station.
'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, including correspondence regarding the Malay Archipelago, Hong Kong, and the attack on the stockade of a chief in New Zealand, 1845-1846., 1845-1847.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2414-2414A
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1845-1847.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Thomas John Cochrane as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station.
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'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station.
'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, including correspondence regarding the Malay Archipelago, Hong Kong, and the attack on the stockade of a chief in New Zealand, 1845-1846., 1845-1847.
File
Identifier: MS.2414
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1845-1847.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Thomas John Cochrane as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station.
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'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station.
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'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, including correspondence regarding the Malay Archipelago, Hong Kong, and the attack on the stockade of a chief in New Zealand, 1845-1846.
Al-faraj ba‘d al-shiddah, a Turkish manuscript, probably of the eighteenth century, written in a current, fairly readable Naskhi hand, with Persian titles in red., 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2753
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is a copy of the Turkish collection of tales which was based closely on a medieval Persian collection. The full complement of 42 tales is present, but not in the traditional order; there are four additional tales from other sources.The words 'Persian Tales in Turkish Translated by me into English' followed by an erased and now indecipherable signature, appear on folio 178 verso.A fuller description, by C S Mundy of the School of Oriental and African...
Dates:
18th century.