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:
Album, containing engraved plates of fashions pasted in, and French sentences illustrating the use of parts of speech., 1776-1795.
Item
Identifier: MS.3222
Alexander Carlyle's corrected autograph manuscript of "The haberdasher's New-Year gift, or Plain reasons for removing the Right Honble W---- P---- [i.e. William Pitt] Esq from His Majesty's presence and Counsels forever. By T.M. Haberdasher'., 1759.
Item
Identifier: MS.23917
Scope and Contents
This ironical work (folio i) was written in the year after the disastrous close of the St Malo expedition of 1758.
Dates:
1759.
'Alice Clifton' by Cecilia Campbell, an unpublished novel, undated., [Before 1852.]
Item
Identifier: MS.14301
Alphabetical list of charters in the Laigh Parliament House (Inv. XXVIII, Mac. 65)., Early 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.49.7.11
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many of the papers bear notes by Rose.
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Alphabetical list of medicinal ingredients, incipit `Ambra secundum quosdam est sperma ceti`., 14th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.9(iv), folios 69-80
Scope and Contents
There are later additions on folio 80.
Initials are alternately in red or blue, and the first under each letter of the alphabet has tracery in the other colour.
Dates:
14th century.
Alphabetically indexed volume containing references to members of Dumbartonshire families in printed works, manuscripts in the Advocates` Library, and manuscripts and documents kept in private repositories, compiled by James Dennistoun for a projected history of Dumbartonshire., ?1825-?1842.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.19
Scope and Contents
The references begin on folio 2, and are preceded by lists of sources inspected (folio 1). The volume is un¬dated, but an event dated 1842 is mentioned at folio 179. A number of leaves containing notes (folios 18, 25-26, 38, 202, 208-209) are bound in, and a bifolium (folios 211-212) found loosely enclosed has been tipped in at the back.
Dates:
?1825-?1842.
Amended manuscript and typescript of article by Elizabeth S Haldane on Viscount Haldane, and related papers., [After 1880-before 1938], 1973.
File
Identifier: MS.20229
Dates:
Majority of material found within [After 1880-before 1938], 1973.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks and other papers of Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane, preceded by correspondence of and papers concerning his mother, Mrs Mary E Haldane and his maternal uncle, Sir John S Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and followed by notebooks and other papers of his sister Elizabeth S Haldane.
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Papers of Elizabeth S Haldane.
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Biographical notes and passages, undated, compiled by Elizabeth S Haldane concerning her brother Viscount Haldane.
Ammunition book of the 1st Company of the Edinburgh Volunteer Rifle Battalion., [?1859.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.2.25
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Company, recruited mainly from the Faculty of Advocates, was raised in 1859, as part of the general Volunteer mobilisation in that year. The majority of the papers belong to that and the immediately following years.
Dates:
[?1859.]
An outline map of the Firth of Tay and the coast to Fife-ness., [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 46)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
An outline map of the Tay estuary round Fife Ness and on to Kirkcaldy., [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 47)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
‘Analisys de quelques passages de la Bible’ by George Eisenhauer, with a dedicatory letter to Sir Walter Scott., 1827.
File
Identifier: MS.1579
Dates:
1827.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and papers of Sir Walter Scott and his family and of John Gibson Lockhart, with those of clients and kinsmen of Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet.
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Manuscripts chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
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Manuscripts of George Eisenhauer, Fort George, East Florida, dedicated to Sir Walter Scott.
‘Ancient Scottish poems’, volume I, part I (London, 1786) by John Pinkerton, with manuscript notes by David Macpherson, editor of Wyntoun., [1786, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.337
Scope and Contents
Inserted at the beginning of the volume is a letter of David Macpherson to the Earl of Buchan about his edition of Wyntoun, 1794.
Dates:
[1786, or after.]
‘Ancient Scottish poems’, volume I, part II (London, 1786) by John Pinkerton, with manuscript notes by David Macpherson, editor of Wyntoun., [1786, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.338
‘Ancient Scottish poems’, volume II, part I (London, 1786) by John Pinkerton, with manuscript notes by David Macpherson, editor of Wyntoun., [1786, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.339
‘Ancient Scottish poems’, volume II, part II (London, 1786) by John Pinkerton, with manuscript notes by David Macpherson, editor of Wyntoun., [1786, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.340
‘Ancient Scottish Tales, traditionary, romantic, and legendary, hitherto unpublished, from the recitation of the aged Sybils in the North Countrie. By Peter Buchan’, with an engraved portrait of Buchan and a holograph letter of Robert Pitcairn, regarding the need for skilful editing. , 1838.
File
Identifier: MS.207
Dates:
1838.
‘Ane forme of the coronatioun of the Kingis of Scotland’, being a modern transcript of the 'antient forme' suggested for the coronation of Charles I., [1626, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.3158
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many of the papers are accompanied by transcripts or summaries by Alexander Macdonald.
Dates:
[1626, or before.]
‘Anecdotes’ and ‘Egotisms’ in Henry Mackenzie’s autograph., Late 18th century-early 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.645
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
'Anecdotes of the olden time, chiefly of Edinburgh', by Henry Mackenzie, including 'Egotisms'., 1824.
File
Identifier: MS.2537
Scope and Contents
Henry Mackenzie gives notes, 1824, on folio iv, explaining why he mutilated the manuscript and referring, apparently, to MS.645.
Dates:
1824.
'Anguss [sic] / R.G.', [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 41)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
"Animadversions on Mr. Logan’s 'Finishing stroke'", by Thomas Ruddiman., [Circa 1748.]
Item
Identifier: MS.775
“Animadversions on Mr. Logan’s Second Part of what he calls 'The Finishing Stroke, or, Mr. Ruddiman more self-condemned'”, by Thomas Ruddiman., [Circa 1748.]
Item
Identifier: MS.776
"Animadversions on Mr. Logan’s 'Second Treatise on Government'", by Thomas Ruddiman., [Circa 1747.]
Item
Identifier: MS.774
Animadversions, undated, on Buchanan’s History, in defence of the Hamilton family, written perhaps by William Hamilton, 3rd of Wishaw, or by his son William Hamilton, Barrister, with a note by Thomas Ruddiman on the authorship., Early 18th century-mid 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.781
Dates:
Early 18th century-mid 18th century.