Maps. Cartographic materials.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to graphic or photogrammetric representations of the Earth's surface or a part of it, including physical features and political boundaries, where each point corresponds to a geographical or celestial position according to a definite scale or projection. The term may also refer to similar depictions of other planets, suns, other heavenly bodies, or areas of the heavens. Maps are typically depicted on a flat medium, such as on paper, a wall, or a computer screen.
Found in 680 Collections and/or Records:
Maps of regions of Scotland by John Adair; the 'Adair maps'.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.11 [Map Library]
Dates:
Circa 1682-1684.
Maps of Scotland by Timothy Pont - the 'Pont maps'.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.9(1)-(14)
Dates:
[?1583-?1596]
[Maps of the Battle of Pombal, March 11, 1811, Sheet 2.], 1811.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(59)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Some of the maps were acquired by General Sir George Murrary during his active service, others later for historical purposes. They are arranged as follows: Peninsula (numbers 1-88); France (numbers 89-95); uncertain locality (numbers 95-96); Canada (numbers 97-106); Flanders (numbers 107-133); various military actions, 1761-1846, and undated, especially those of 1813 (numbers 134-164). A list has been placed at the front of each volume; only the manuscript items have...
Dates:
1811.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
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Collection of maps (several in duplicate), approximately two-fifths manuscript, the remainder printed.
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Collection of maps.
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[2 maps of the Battle of Pombal, March 11, 1811, with key.]
Maps of the lands of Stow and Stagehall.
File
Identifier: Acc.7172
Scope and Contents
With a detailed plan of Stow village, by William Hall.
Dates:
1780.
Maps originally inserted in Adv.MS.15.1.1: Manuscript of the English text of the 'Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern' by Sir Robert Sibbald., 1595-[Circa 1682].
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.1a
Scope and Contents
List of maps originally inserted in Adv.MS.15.1.1.Folios 6-7. Printed map: ‘Britannicarum insularum typus’ (Abraham Ortelius, 1595).Folios 8-9. Printed map: ‘Insulæ Albion et Hibernia cum minoribus adjacentibus’.Folios 10-11. Printed map: ‘Scotia regnum’.Folios 12-13. Printed map: ‘Scotia regnum cum insulis adjacentibus’ (Robert Gordon of Straloch).Folios 20-21. Printed map: ‘Scotiæ provintiæ inter Taum fluvium et septentrionales...
Dates:
1595-[Circa 1682].
Maps, plans and architectural drawings of the Elliot family of Minto., 1694-1909.
Series
Identifier: MSS.13421-13472
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
1694-1909.
Maps relating to the World Mission and Unity Department, Church of Scotland., 1893, 1960s.
Series
Identifier: Acc.10903/76-78
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Chiefly relating to links with Women's Guilds at home and centenary celebrations, but also with material relevant to the history of Women's Forrign Missions. There is also a large number of play scripts in this accession.
Dates:
1893, 1960s.
Maps used by Aylmer Haldane during the First World War., 1914, 1916-1919.
File
Identifier: MS.20258
Scope and Contents
Chiefly maps produced by the Ordnance Survey, together with some maps produced by the army for use in the field. A few are composite, made up from portions of adjacent sheets. Most have a few marks made apparently by Aylmer Haldane in the field.
Dates:
1914, 1916-1919.
Maps used by James Johnston in military exercise Icebreaker., 1984.
File
Identifier: Acc.13818/167
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School.
His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...
Dates:
1984.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Major-General James Johnston
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Papers relating to the military career of James Johnston.
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Papers relating to James Johnston as a staff officer and in higher command.
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Papers relating James Johnston on his posting as Deputy Chief of Staff at 4th Armoured Division, British Army of the Rhine.
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Military exercises observed by James Johnston while Deputy Chief of Staff at 4th armoured division.
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Military exercise Icebreaker instruction document retained by James Johnston.
'Marre from Kincairne Pueill to the Springis of Dee' ; 'The Draught of Dee River fra Kincarne to Durris.', [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 28)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
Material concerning George Campbell Hay collected by Angus Martin, the author of 'The ringnet fisherman' and other books on Kintyre., 1974-1987, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26751-26753
Scope and Contents
Angus Martin became a personal friend of George Campbell Hay in the 1970s.
Dates:
1974-1987, undated.
`Memoirs, of [Captain James Stirling, 42nd Royal Highlanders, of] campaigns on the Peninsula from 1st April 1812`., 1812.
Item
Identifier: MS.23630
Scope and Contents
The volume contains an account of the Battle of Salamanca, 22 July 1812, and a detailed description of 42nd Royal Highlanders stationing in Valladolid.Contained at the start of the memoirs is a map of Spain and Portugal highlighting geographical regions, and an engraving of the Duke of Wellington.There are four pages of sketches contained in the volume depicting the native Spaniards and their dress. Included at the back of the volume is a list of the...
Dates:
1812.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Memoirs of Captain James Stirling, 42nd Royal Highlanders, of campaigns in Spain, 1808, Netherlands, 1809, and the Peninsular War, 1812-1813.
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Memoirs of Captain James Stirling, 42nd Royal Highlanders, of campaigns on the Peninsula.
`Memoirs of [Captain James Stirling, 42nd Royal Highlanders, of the] campaigns of 1808 in Spain under Lieut General Sir John Moore, and of 1809, in the Islands of Zealand. Holland.`, 1808-1811.
Item
Identifier: MS.23629
Scope and Contents
James Stirling served during the 1808 Spanish campaign under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore, culminating in the battle of Coruña, 1809. The memoirs start on 12 August 1808 and end on 23 January 1811 when the army returns to Spithead, England.The memoirs also contain an account of Stirling`s deployment to the Islands of Zeeland, Netherlands, during the Walcheren campaign which begins in June 1809 and ends in 1810 when the 42nd Royal Highlanders were brought home...
Dates:
1808-1811.
'Memoranda on Native States in India, Volume II: maps' (Calcutta, 1909)., 1909.
File
Identifier: MS.12626
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845- 1914), who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1859 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1891. He served in the army in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877, in Afghanistan, 1879, and in Egypt, 1882; from 1883 to 1886 he was Military Secretary to the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, from 1898 to 1904 he was himself Governor-General of Canada, and from 1905 to 1910 he was Viceroy of India. He was also much involved in local affairs,...
Dates:
1909.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845-1914), 4th Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to India.
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Printed summaries of the 4th Earl of Minto's administration.
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Printed summaries of the 4th Earl of Minto's administration: Home Department and related topics.
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Printed memoranda on Native States in India.
'Mernis' [i.e. Mearns]. , [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 45)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
Microfilm of diaries of Sir Douglas Haig. First World War transcripts, Map Reel, maps supplementary to diaries volumes 1-38., [?1914-?1919.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1711
Dates:
[?1914-?1919.]
Microfilm of papers of and concerning James Augustus Grant.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.556-558
Dates:
[?1765]-1918.
Microfilm of sketches, maps, and various other papers of, or concerning, James Augustus Grant., 1850-[1872, or after].
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.557
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Album of sketches, 1860-1863, chiefly watercolour, some pencil or pen and ink, of James Augustus Grant, made on his African expedition with John Hanning Speke. (MS.17919);Album of sketches, 1860-1863, chiefly watercolour, some pencil or pen and ink, and lithographs of James Augustus Grant, made on his African expedition with John Hanning Speke (MS.17920);Unmounted sketches, 1860-1863, of James Augustus Grant, made on his African expedition...
Dates:
1850-[1872, or after].
Military papers of Douglas Neil Wimberley, containing correspondence, speeches and some maps, translations and other related papers., 1903-1983, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.8681/1-223
Military papers of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale as Quartermaster-General to the army in the Spanish Peninsula, including financial papers, ration vouchers and campaign maps., [Circa 1811]-1813.
File
Identifier: MS.14556
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Accounts, April-July 1812, of Lieutenant Collet Barker, 39th Foot, and Lieutenant Benjamin Hobhouse, 57th Foot, employed on special service (folio 1);
(ii) Ration vouchers, 1812-1813 (folio 29);
(iii) Receipts, 1812, for horse-shoes and nails (folio 174);
(iv) Campaign maps, circa 1812-1813 (folio 198);
(v) Miscellaneous military papers, circa 1811-1813 (folio 214).
Dates:
[Circa 1811]-1813.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of the Hays of Yester on special subjects.
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Official military papers of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale as Quartermaster-General to the army in the Spanish Peninsula.
Miscellaneous documents retained by James Johnston from 7 field workshop posting. , 1974-1976
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13818/79-83
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School.
His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...
Dates:
1974-1976
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Major-General James Johnston
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Papers relating to the military career of James Johnston.
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Papers relating to James Johnston as a staff officer and in higher command.
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Papers relating to James Johnston on his posting to 7 field workshop, British Army of the Rhine.