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:
Annotated copy, drafts and notes, undated, of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, for ‘A specimen of notes on the statute law of Scotland during the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots'., Late 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.25356
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet of Hailes, (1726-1792), was the son of Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes, and Lady Christian Dalrymple, daughter of the 6th Earl of Haddington. Sir David was educated at Eton and entered the Inner Temple in 1742. From 1747-1748 he studied Civil Law at Utrecht, and in 1748 was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates. He was raised to the Bench as Lord Hailes in 1766 and appointed a Lord of Justiciary in 1776. In addition to his legal activities, Lord...
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Historical papers: Scotland and Great Britain of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Annotated copy, drafts and notes, undated, of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, for ‘A specimen of notes on the statute law of Scotland during the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots'.
Annotated copy, drafts and notes, undated, of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, for ‘A specimen of notes on the statute law of Scotland during the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots'., Late 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.25357
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet of Hailes, (1726-1792), was the son of Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes, and Lady Christian Dalrymple, daughter of the 6th Earl of Haddington. Sir David was educated at Eton and entered the Inner Temple in 1742. From 1747-1748 he studied Civil Law at Utrecht, and in 1748 was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates. He was raised to the Bench as Lord Hailes in 1766 and appointed a Lord of Justiciary in 1776. In addition to his legal activities, Lord...
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Historical papers: Scotland and Great Britain of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Annotated copy, drafts and notes, undated, of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, for ‘A specimen of notes on the statute law of Scotland during the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots'.
Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication., 1789-1885, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.4889-4891
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts have been arranged as far as possible in chronological order; those that remain undated have been placed at the end.
Some items originally regarded as anonymous have, at a later stage in the process of cataloguing, been attributed to certain authors; other attributions have been supplied as the result of the work of Professor Alan Lang Strout (see MSS.4892-4894).
Dates:
1789-1885, undated.
Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication., 1789-1821.
File
Identifier: MS.4889
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscript of a pamphlet entitled ‘Ten minutes of reflection on the late events in France. Recommended by a plain man to his fellow citizens’ (Woodbridge, 1793). (Folio 1.)(ii) Manuscript, 1803, of two apparently unpublished poetical letters, 'The new Oxford guide', which follow very closely the form and style of Christopher Anstey's ‘The new Bath guide’ (London, 1766), and therefore may possibly be by Christopher Anstey himself. (Folio...
Dates:
1789-1821.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Manuscripts and proofs of works offered for publication to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication.
Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication., 1823-1840.
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Identifier: MS.4890
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscript of two poems by Robert Brown Cunnynghame entitled “Tales o' the daft days. The mistress's tale or The hunt the gowk” and “Tale third. The boarding school Miss's tale or Bailie Blair's courtship”. These are apparently unpublished continuations of the three parts of “Tales o' the daft days” published in “Blackwood's Magazine”, November and December 1822, and March 1823. (Folio 1.)(ii) Manuscript, 1823, of an apparently...
Dates:
1823-1840.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Manuscripts and proofs of works offered for publication to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication.
Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication., 1842-1885, undated.
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Identifier: MS.4891
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscript of an apparently unpublished article describing Queen Victoria's visit to Edinburgh in 1842. (Folio 1.)(ii) Manuscript of an apparently unpublished article, 'The finances', concerning Peel's introduction of income tax in 1842, written by George Croly. (Folio 3.)(iii) Manuscript of an apparently unpublished article reviewing the portion of the final volume of Sir Archibald Alison's ‘History of Europe during the...
Dates:
1842-1885, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Manuscripts and proofs of works offered for publication to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication.
Another copy of [Map of the area about Denain]. October 22, 1816., 1816.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(120)
Scope and Contents
Scale 3 inches to 1 mile
Dates:
Other: 1816.
“Answer by Mr. Tho. Ruddiman to the Revd. Mr. Geo. Logan's '2nd Letter'.”, [Circa 1749.]
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Identifier: MS.779
“Answer to the Revd. Mr. George Logan’s '1st Letter to Mr. Thomas Ruddiman' concerning the divine right of hereditary monarchy.”, [Circa 1749.]
Item
Identifier: MS.778
‘Antidotarium` by Nicolaus., 14th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.9(i), folios 1-48
Scope and Contents
The text is preceded by a list of medicines mentioned (folio 1). On folios 43 verso-48 are recipes in several 14th- and 15th-century hands.
Initials are in red or blue with tracery in the other colour.
Dates:
14th century.
Antiphoner containing the antiphons for Sundays and the major feast-days., 1761.
Item
Identifier: MS.8188
Scope and Contents
The antiphons on pages 278-280 (not originally paginated) appear to have been added in another hand; pages 281-292 have been ruled for plainchant but are otherwise blank; and pages vi-xiv are totally blank.
Dates:
1761.
'Antiquitates illustrium gentum, Persarum, AEgyptiorum, Atheniensium, Lacedaemoniorum, Romanorum, Gallorum ... Collecta antiquis & classicis authoribus, non dictata quidem a praeceptore sed ... viva voce collecta opera & labore studiosorum adolescentium', and extracts from various antiquities., Mid 17th century-late 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2148
Scope and Contents
The 'Antiquitates illustrium gentum...' begins on page 1. It is followed by extracts from Martin Del Rio, ‘Disquisitiones Magicae’ (page 302), Diodorus Siculus (page 310), Herodotus (page 386), and Tacitus, ‘Annals’ (page 406); all written in the same seventeenth-century hand, after 1645 (page 267), in France, probably in a religious - perhaps Jesuit - institution, to judge from the contents, and probably in the University of Paris, to judge from the praises of that university (page 269).
Dates:
Mid 17th century-late 17th century.
Aphorisms of Don Paterson., 1996, 2005.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12689/66-67
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
Don Paterson's literary papers consist mainly of notebooks and poetry files in which his meticulous planning, working and reworking of the poems is evident. The notebooks are rarely only poetry and frequently contain doodles, bars of music and set lists relating to Lammas, 'mind-maps', packing lists and other such memory-aids, and lengthy notes often relating to his teaching activities.
Dates:
1996, 2005.
Apparently incomplete collection of notarial copies of wills., 1547-1552.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.9.4
Scope and Contents
The majority of the testators, many of whom are unidentified, are not indexed.
Dates:
1547-1552.
Apparently unpublished paper by John Francis Campbell ‘written May, June, July 1879, extended 1880, 1881 and 1882’, on solar force, circular time scales and different atmospheric conditions in various parts of the world., 1879-1882.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.13
Dates:
1879-1882.
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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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
Appendices to the tour diary of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton: Burma, 17 December 1911 - 8 February 1912., 1911-1912.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.85.1.9
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.
Dates:
1911-1912.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton as Director-General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics of India.
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Typescript tour diaries of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton, with appendices.
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Tour diary of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton: Burma, 17 December 1911 - 8 February 1912; with appendices.
Appendix of letters of various Mackenzies omitted from volumes., 1683-1741, undated.
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Identifier: MS.1375
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Contains correspondence and papers of John Mackenzie, Advocate and a Principal Clerk of Session, of Cramond and later of Delvine (died 1731), his sons Alexander, Writer to the Signet and a Principal Clerk of Session (died 1737), and John, Writer to the Signet, Deputy-Keeper of the Signet (died 1778), and Alexander's grandson Sir Alexander Muir Mackenzie, 1st Baronet, Writer to the Signet (died 1835); formed a distinguished line of lawyers who were active in the affairs of their day and...
Dates:
1683-1741, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Mackenzies of Delvine and their clients.
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Letters and papers of families and individuals, the clients or correspondents of the Mackenzies of Delvine.
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Letters and papers of clients or correspondents of the Mackenzies of Delvine, with the surname Mackenzie.
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Letters and papers of various Mackenzies.
'Arrivals and Sailings', from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station.., 1842-1847.
File
Identifier: MS.2474
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:
1842-1847.
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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Various logbooks, order-books, returns, and other material concerning the naval careers of Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, and of his son Sir Thomas John Cochrane.
Articles and a lecture of James Leslie Mitchell, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’., 1932-1935, undated.
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Identifier: MS.26061
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Printed copies of miscellaneous articles, 1932-1935 (folio l);
(ii) Manuscript draft of a review of Agnes Mure Mackenzie, ‘Robert Bruce’, 1934 (folio l2);
(iii) Typescript and printed version of 'A Novelist looks at the cinema', published in ‘Cinema Quarterly’, Winter 1935, pages 81-85 (folio l3);
(iv) Typescript of an article on the anthropologist, Sir Grafton Elliot Smith, undated (folio 22). It was published by Douglas F Young in ‘Beyond the sunset’...
Dates:
1932-1935, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the novelist James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), the author 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', and of his wife Rebecca ('Ray') Mitchell.
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Papers chiefly typescripts of the publications of James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'.
Articles and poems of Violet Jacobs., 1910-1941, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27413
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follow. (i) Typescripts of articles, 1910-1920, undated (folio 1). The first three, 'The Church and the country-side', 'A Manor House in Brittany' and 'The Day before yesterday' were published in ‘Country Life’, 2 July 1910, 22 May 1920, and 28 August and 11 September 1920. (ii) Manuscript of a sermon, 1941 (folio 44); (iii) Manuscript and typescript poems, ?1914, undated (folio 51).
Dates:
1910-1941, undated.
Articles and short pieces of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1927-1978, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27055-27068
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
As well as writing books, Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’ was a prolific author of essays and articles and was frequently asked to speak on literary or other topics. He was in the habit of re-using parts of his writings on different occasions, so it is not unusual to find substantial identical passages occurring in different works. Due to the fragmentary nature of some of the material, it is not always evident whether a manuscript was intended for publication or for a talk;...
Dates:
1927-1978, undated.
Articles and speeches and miscellaneous papers of Margaret M Morrison, 'March Cost'., 1938-1956, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27407
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts and typescripts of articles and speeches, 1938-1956, undated, begin on folio 1. The miscellaneous papers, 1938-1954, undated, begin on folio 127. They include a few notes for 'A woman of letters' (folio 144).
Dates:
1938-1956, undated.
Articles by L Graham H Horton-Smith based on Alexander Dundas Ogilvy Wedderburn's notes, together with related transcripts and papers., 1666-1918, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3566
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:Articles contributed by L Graham H Horton-Smith to ‘Notes and queries’ (1945), based on Alexander Dundas Ogilvy Wedderburn's notes: 'The Grahams or Grahames of Claverhouse' and 'Grahams, Burgesses and Town Councillors of Dundee' (folio 1);Typed transcripts of various records relating to persons named Graham, including the baptismal register of Mr Robert Norie, Episcopalian Minister at Dundee, 1722-1726 (folio 19);A notebook of...
Dates:
1666-1918, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript notes of Alexander Dundas Ogilvy Wedderburn, King’s Counsel, 'directed in the main to the correction and completion of the pedigree of the Grahams of Claverhouse' as set forth in the writer's ‘The Wedderburn Book’.
Articles, notes, and fragments in Thomas Carlyle’s autograph., 1767, 1832-[?1871], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1798
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Article on "A narrative of a nine months’ residence in New Zealand" (London, 1832) by Augustus Earle (folio 1);(ii) ‘Gropings about Montrose’, 1839 (folio 4);(iii) Remarks on publication of Bulwer Lytton’s Works 1854, and likeness of constitutional government to sawing a plank on which you are sitting, 1855 (folio 5);(iv) Remarks on liberty, [?1865] (folio 7);(v) Corrected proof of his inaugural...
Dates:
1767, 1832-[?1871], undated.