Manuscripts.
Found in 6597 Collections and/or Records:
Background notes, preliminary sketches, and the manuscript of the pageant, including a few sheets of heavily corrected typescript by Robert McLellan., 1972.
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.
Bagpipe music, consisting of both piobaireachd and more popular pieces, collected and copied by Donald Dow, Glasgow.
Donald Dow died in Glasgow in 1892, aged 56.
Bagpipe music copied by Donald Dow., 2nd half of 19th century.
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.
Bagpipe music copied by Donald Dow, apparently an incomplete fair copy of MS.3750., 2nd half of 19th century.
Donald Dow died in Glasgow in 1892, aged 56.
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.
Donald Dow died in Glasgow in 1892, aged 56.
Balcarres Papers.
Ballads of Sir Alexander Gray., 1955-[circa 1960], undated.
Sir Alexander Gray translated a number of Danish and German ballads into Scots verse.
'Balloon Tytler', a play for radio by Robert McLellan, produced in 1962., 1962.
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.
Bannatyne Manuscript: a collection of some 400 poems, mostly Scottish, compiled and written by George Bannatyne.
Bannatyne Manuscript: the draft manuscript., 1568.
Bannatyne Manuscript: the main manuscript., 1568.
'Barony of Ranfrew'., [?1636-?1652.]
Battle of Albuera May 16th 1811. W Warrington, 15 March 1820., 1820.
Ms note "Forwarded by Warrington 17/3/20".
`Beacone upon the Rock of European and Brittanick alchimie or The phisicianes philosopheres and chimist`s alchimie displayed or the minthouses defended against the grand imposture of transmutatione of mettalles by the universale cure. In a second letter to his Brittanick majestie Queen Anne of Brittaine and Irlande`; an unpublished alchemical treatise by John Leslie, written in the form of two letters to Queen Anne and one to the Duke of Queensberry.
The work is undated but was probably written sometime in the early 18th century.
‘Beginning and the end of the Lewis Chemical Works', a detailed account written by D Morison, former foreman of the plant, of its operation from 1857 to 1874.
Bhagavadgītā.
Bhagavadgītā (The Song of the Holy One), a philosophical poem, forming part of the epic poem Mahābhārata.
Bible (Oxford, 1849) of Archibald Stewart, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1853)., 1849, [after 1849].
At the beginning is one manuscript folio containing notices of the marriage of Archibald Steuart and births of his family.
Bible written in the late thirteenth century., Late 13th century-14th century.
Bibliographical material of Sir Robert Sibbald.
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.
Bills and receipts of the 1st Company of the Edinburgh Volunteer Rifle Battalion, 1859-1867, and undated (folio 1), together with lists of subscriptions and other financial papers, 1859-1866, and undated (folio 85)., 1859-1867.
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.