Notes.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Brief statements of a fact or experience, written down for review, or as an aid to memory, or to inform someone else; also includes short, informal letters.
Found in 1168 Collections and/or Records:
Hutton transcripts. A collection of transcripts of the cartularies of Aberdeen Cathedral (Adv.MS.20.3.1) and Newbattle Abbey (Adv.MS.20.3.3) and of charters and other formal documents, many of which are extracts from other cartularies, of and concerning several of the medieval dioceses and religious houses of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.3.1-20.3.9
Scope and Contents
Most of these transcripts and extracts, which were made between circa 1794 and circa 1824, are in the hand of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton: most of the rest are in the same hand as Adv.MS.9A.1.4. Many of the transcripts were made from originals and copies in possession of William Maule of Panmure, who was created Baron Panmure in 1831: many of the rest were copied from documents in possession of Thomas Thomson and at the Scottish Record Office, General Register House.
Dates:
12th century-1661.
Incomplete copy of a descriptive and historical account of the public records of Scotland, followed (folio 14 verso) by observations, possibly unfinished, on the account.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.15
Scope and Contents
Further versions of the account, both datable to 1760, each complementing the other, are at Adv.MS.16.2.14 and Adv.MS.33.5.6, which former is ascribed by a later owner, James Maidment, to William Tytler. In comparison with Adv.MS.33.5.6, which appears to be William Tytler`s original report, this copy lacks words and sentences at folio 6 verso, and a paragraph at each of folio 1 verso and folio 13 verso and breaks off at folio 14, where there is the beginning of a paragraph not present in...
Dates:
1760, or after.
Incomplete copy of an apparently rejected version, entitled `The King, and Parliament`, of Chapter II of Volume II of ‘Caledonia’ by George Chalmers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.2.10
Scope and Contents
The text is printed on paper watermarked 1807, and contains many additions and corrections in the margins and on slips of paper pasted in, in his hand and in the hand of his nephew James Chalmers. The chapter as originally printed apparently consisted of a total of 64 pages in 8 gatherings, containing not more than 8 pages of introductory matter (gathering A, pages i-?viii) and not more than 56 pages of text, with footnotes (gatherings B to H, pages 1-?56); this copy lacks gatherings A, G...
Dates:
?1807-?1819.
‘Inscriptiones quae A.D. 1746 extant in Collegio Graecorum de urbe Roma.` Transcripts, followed (folio 10) by a brief bibliographical note about the College.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.12
Dates:
1746.
‘Institutions of the law of Scotland’, 5th and 6th editions (Edinburgh, 1723) by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, with manuscript notes and observations.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.6
Dates:
[1723, or after.]
Interleaved and annotated copy of ’Hamlet … by William Shakespeare … printed from the acting copy, with remarks and critical, by D G … as performed at the Theatre Royal, London’ (London, [?1826-?1847]), used as a prompt book for the 1849 production at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh with Thomas Powrie in the leading role.
Item
Identifier: MS.15942
Scope and Contents
There are notes, instructions and sketches throughout by Thomas Powrie and by the stage manager, J H Smith.
Dates:
[?1826-?1847], 1849.
Interleaved copies of ‘Treatise on the laws concerning the election of the different representatives sent from Scotland to the Parliament of Great Britain’, 2 volumes,(Edinburgh, 1773) by Alexander Wight, with manuscript notes apparently by the author.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.6.3(i)-(ii)
Dates:
[1773, or after.]
Interleaved copy of Robert Estienne`s edition of Juvenal and Persius (Paris, 1544), with manuscript notes on the interleaved sheets and in the margins of the printed pages.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.13
Scope and Contents
The notes are in a 17th-century hand and consist of exegetical material, mostly of a fairly elementary nature. The words in the text on which there are notes are underlined. There is no indication of the identity of the annotator.
Dates:
17th century.
Interleaved copy of Sir Arthur Mitchell, "List of Travels, Tours, etc, Relating to Scotland" (from "Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland", XXXV, 1902), with manuscript and typed notes of James McKinlay.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5620
Dates:
1902.
Interleaved copy of ‘The Laws and Customs of Scotland in Matters Criminal’ by Sir George Mackenzie, containing many lengthy notes by his son-in-law, Sir James Mackenzie, 1st Baronet, Lord Royston, mostly on the interleaves.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.15
Dates:
1699-Early 18th century.
Interleaved copy, with numerous manuscript annotations, of ‘Fundamentum Logica vel, Introductio in terminorum cognitionem, in libros Logicorum Aristotelis’ by Jodocus Clichtoveus.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.8
Dates:
2nd half of 16th century.
Introductory and textual notes by George Chalmers on mediaeval Scottish poetry, being materials towards his ‘The Poetic Remains of some of the Scotish Kings’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.28
Scope and Contents
The notes, many of which are in the hand of George Chalmers’ nephew, James, appear to have been written in or about 1802; apparently the latest date quoted. The sheets are watermarked 1801.
Several leaves are tipped or pasted in at various places throughout the volume. A bifolium (folios 162-163) found loosely enclosed at folio 30 has been tipped in after most of the notes. Folios 164-188 and several other single and small groups of leaves are blank.
Dates:
?1802.
Inventory of jewellery belonging to Queen Anne of Denmark.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.10
Scope and Contents
The pieces of jewellery are described, with their weight, on the rectos of the folios; on the versos are notes in two different hands, 1606-1611, concerning items taken away for repair, sent to the goldsmiths for use in other pieces, or removed for other reasons.The inventory is not signed but was probably compiled under the supervision of Francis Goffin. See `Anne of Denmark`s Jewellery: The Old and the New`, pages 228-236.A copy of a letter, 1618, to one of the...
Dates:
Circa 1606-1611, 1618.
Jacobite papers collected by Sir Henry Steuart, 1st Baronet, of Allanton.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1694-1696
Scope and Contents
These papers are part of the collection which was formed by Sir Henry Steuart with a view to composing a ‘History of the Efforts in behalf of the House of Stuart from the Revolution onwards’, together with papers on the Stuarts and the rebellions which were acquired by Robert Chambers, and notes on persons and events of the period by him.The papers consist of originals and copies; most of them have been incorporated in Robert Chambers’ books or in articles written by him for...
Dates:
1623-1869, undated.
Jacobite songs written chiefly by Charles Stuart Davidson; with related notes and press cuttings.
File
Identifier: MS.21834
Scope and Contents
The volume contains songs written ‘in Ceylon in 1866’ (folio ii) by Charles Stuart Davidson and further songs added until 1899 (folio 262). These are followed by notes (folio 268) on several of the songs. A number of related press cuttings found loosely enclosed have been tipped in after the notes (folio 316) and other press cuttings are pasted in among the notes.It is not clear whether the compiler is the C S Davidson who is described as clerk in the Edinburgh Directory from...
Dates:
1866-1899.
John Mackay Piobaireachd manuscript.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9231
Scope and Contents
With associated notes.
Dates:
circa 1849.
John of Fordun`s "Scotichronicon", edited by W Goodall (Edinburgh, 1759), with notes by Professor D E R Watt preparatory to his edition.
File
Identifier: Acc.12579
Dates:
1759.
John Philp Wood’s frequently annotated copy of ‘A view of the political state of Scotland at the late General Election’ (Edinburgh, 1790), containing his signature dated 1790 at the half-title page, amendments and notes, mainly of deaths of electors, and names of later electors added in the margins and on the endpapers, with various dates from 1790 to 1804.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.2.12
Scope and Contents
Marginal notes in Wood’s hand at page 41, and what follows, denote those who were freeholders in 1811, and some of the notes (for example at pages 2 and 3) appear to have been added between 1824 and 1829. No significant marks have been added to the pages of either the Advertisement or the Introductory Treatise.
Dates:
1790.
Journal, 1729, of George Skene, containing ‘An Account of a Journey to London, with the particular rout by Thomas Burnett of Kirkhill, George Skene of that ilk, and David Skene his brother german'.
Item
Identifier: MS.3806
Scope and Contents
In addition to George Skene's journal there are notes of expenditure on the journey and of the mileage of part of the route (folio 1 verso); part of an anti-Hanoverian parody of the ‘Te Deum’, ?1742 (folio 34); and part of a diary, probably of Joseph Mackie, 1837 (folio 35).At the end of the volume, inverted, are detailed accounts of expenditure on the journey of 1729 (folio 1 inverted) and recipes, medical and other (folio 3 inverted), including directions for the treatment of...
Dates:
1729-19th century.
Journal of Lieutenant David Aytoun, Royal Navy, on H.M.S. Dragon in the Mediterranean, with various notes, observations and copies of correspondence.
File
Identifier: MS.13598
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes descriptions of Lisbon, Gibraltar and Minorca, the dimensions of the masts and yards of H.M.S. Dragon, religious notes, verses, copies of David Aytoun's letters and memorials requesting promotion, and Aytoun's curriculum vitae, which includes a list of the ships on which he served. Aytoun, a younger brother of the laird of Kinnaldie, joined the Royal Navy on 12 May 1729, as a Midshipman, and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 13 October 1738. He went on...
Dates:
1743-1746.
Journal of tours in Scotland and England made in 1830 and 1832 by Eliza Grieg.
Item
Identifier: MS.9938
Scope and Contents
The first tour, in August and September 1830, was from Edinburgh to Aberfeldy, St Fillans and Glasgow, returning through New Lanark where the party visited Robert Owen's school. The journal records the tour party as consisting of 'Mrs Bruce, Mr & Mrs Murray and two Misses Murray' [John Murray II and his family].The second tour (folio 17 verso) lasted from August to October 1832, when Miss Greig and her friends travelled to the Lake District, Chester, and Malvern, returning...
Dates:
1830, 1832.
Journal of Warren Hastings, 1793, with a transcript and related material, 1929-1938, by Dr Sophia Weitzman, author of ‘Warren Hastings and Philip Francis’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19200-19203
Dates:
1793, 1929-1938.
Journal, unsigned, but, from internal evidence, of Major Patrick Henderson, 42nd Madras Native Infantry.
Item
Identifier: MS.7183
Scope and Contents
The journal includes a description of a journey from India to England through Arabia, Egypt, Italy, and France, from February to August 1836, some notes on the French Army, and an account of Patrick Henderson's experiences in India from July 1839 to June, 1843.
Dates:
1836, 1839-1843.
Journals and correspondence of and concerning David Roberts.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7723
Scope and Contents
Comprising:1. Eastern journal, 1838-1839, of Roberts, in two volumes ("Egypt" and "Syria"), in the hand of his daughter, Christine Bicknell2. "The Roberts Festival", 1842, album containing press cuttings, reports and correspondence with or concerning Roberts3. Family correspondence, 1836-1863, of Roberts, including 60 letters to Christine and Henry Bicknell4. Draft essay, 1851, on the Royal Academy of Arts, and a page of notes, 1862, on...
Dates:
1836-1863 and undated.
Journals and other papers of David Wilson Bogie.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13267
Scope and Contents
The papers include a memoir of David Bogie`s time at George Watson`s College, an account of the Law Faculty at Edinburgh University and memorials of: the Faculty of Advocates; the Court of Session in the 1970s, and also of the Shrieval Bench in Aberdeen. The papers are accompanied by notes by Alan Bell, Bogie`s unofficial literary executor.
Dates:
1960-1999.