Signatures. Names.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Persons' names written in their own hand.
Found in 133 Collections and/or Records:
Account of charge and discharge between John, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun, and William Robertson, writer in Edinburgh, in respect of the Earl's estate.
File
Identifier: MS.988
Scope and Contents
With account of final balance signed in 1780.
Dates:
1769-1777, 1780.
Accounts of the Treasurer of the Faculty of Advocates concerning charges and discharges., 1696-1702.
File
Identifier: F.R.41
Scope and Contents
Includes an inventory of bonds for the current Dean of Faculty and Mr John Fairholm, Treasurer. Signed by John Mackaile.
Dates:
1696-1702.
‘Act of the Associate Presbytery for Renewing the National Covenant’ (Edinburgh, 1748), bound with blank pages for subscriptions, issued to the Congregation at Muckhart.
Item
Identifier: MS.3923
Scope and Contents
The blank pages are filled with: (i) copies, made in 1763, of the sets of signatures for seven years from 1745 to 1758; (ii) original signatures, and the names of those who could not write, for 1769, 1776, and 1781. A Communion Roll of the United Presbyterian Congregation at Muckhart, 1886, is inserted at folio 29.There are on the fly-leaf a modern inscription in shorthand, with the name James Duncan (possibly a relative of the United Presbyterian Church Presbytery Clerk whose...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1745-1781, 1886.
Album entitled 'Military autographs', containing fourteen photographs of British and French generals and two signatures pasted in., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.15351
Dates:
19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Album entitled 'Military autographs', containing fourteen photographs of British and French generals and two signatures pasted in; together with a collection of autographs chiefly concerning the 1st Duke of Wellington, which were tipped in or loosely enclosed in the album, but have now been removed and are kept separately.
Album entitled 'Military autographs', containing fourteen photographs of British and French generals and two signatures pasted in; together with a collection of autographs chiefly concerning the 1st Duke of Wellington, which were tipped in or loosely enclosed in the album, but have now been removed and are kept separately.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15351-15352
Dates:
19th century.
Album of John Horseman containing franks and other signatures, with a few letters., 1779-1850.
Item
Identifier: MS.844
Album of Thomas Constable, publisher, containing the names of subscribers to ‘Memorial of the Royal Progress in Scotland’ by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, among which are signatures, 1842, of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort.
Item
Identifier: MS.3052
Dates:
1842-1843.
Album titled 'Autograph and Portraits', and labelled 1, of a collection apparently formed by Thomas Thompson, Liverpool., 1820-1840.
Item
Identifier: MS.967
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The autographs are of botanists, evangelical divines, and others, many being addressed to the Reverend Thomas Raffles, Liverpool, and to John Shepherd, Botanical Garden, Liverpool.
Dates:
1820-1840.
Album titled 'Autograph and Portraits', and labelled 3, of a collection apparently formed by Thomas Thompson, Liverpool., 1820-1840.
Item
Identifier: MS.968
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The autographs are of botanists, evangelical divines, and others, many being addressed to the Reverend Thomas Raffles, Liverpool, and to John Shepherd, Botanical Garden, Liverpool.
Dates:
1820-1840.
Article entitled 'A summer night's dream', published in three parts in the ‘United service magazine’, 1890, bound for Lieutenant Douglas Haig of the 7th Hussars (afterwards Field-Marshal Earl Haig) whose signature dated Secunderabad, 1890 is inside the front cover, and whose book-plate (when Earl Haig) is pasted to the flyleaf.
Item
Identifier: MS.9498
Scope and Contents
The article was published in ‘United Service magazine’, June, July and August, 1890, pages 205-229, 357-376 and 385-402.
Dates:
1890.
Article on romance by Sir Walter Scott for the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica'., 1824.
Item
Identifier: MS.23050
Scope and Contents
Includes a portrait of Sir Walter Scott.
Dates:
1824.
Autograph album of Florence Marian McNeill containing signatures cut from letters and other documents., 1907-1946, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.26258
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.
Dates:
1907-1946, undated.
Autograph collection of John Horseman, Rector of Heydon, containing letters of celebrities of the early nineteenth century, chiefly addressed to Horseman, and many franks and other signatures.
Series
Identifier: MSS.844-845
Dates:
19th century.
Autograph of Queen Mary on the fly-leaf of 'Buckingham Palace: its furniture, decoration and history (London, 1930), by Harold Clifford Smith.
Item
Identifier: MS.1094
Scope and Contents
This copy of the book was made specially for Their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary.
Dates:
1931.
Autographs of 'Divines and Judges' collected by William Finlay Watson., 16th century-19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.588-589
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of letters and documents in the autograph of literary, political, social, artistic, naval, military, and legal celebrities, chiefly covering the period from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth.
The first 2,300 items bear numbers given in the National Galleries. Certain letters, etc., have been retained for exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery; the series is therefore not continuous (see MS.595).
Dates:
16th century-19th century.
Bibles and a book of common prayer belonging to the Steuart family, with manuscript notes.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3642
Dates:
1726-[after 1849].
Book containing election tickets autographed by members of the Bannatyne Club., 1826-1834.
Item
Identifier: MS.9358
Book of autographs begun by Catherine E Moir, wife of David Macbeth Moir, 1829, and continued by her daughter Anne Mary Milligan, 1853, and her grandson, George Milligan, biblical scholar, 1872.
Item
Identifier: MS.10256
Scope and Contents
The album for the most part contains cut-out signatures of well-known nineteenth-century figures but there are also several letters notably of Charles Dickens, Fanny Kemble, Henry Siddons, Samuel Warren and Baroness Wentworth. Also included are autograph poems by Thomas Campbell and James Hogg. The poems of Hogg (folios 64-66) are "Lenochan's farewell", 'The Stuarts of Appin' and 'The poor man', all published in ‘The works of the Ettrick Shepherd' (London, 1873). The verses of Thomas...
Dates:
1829-1872.
'Book of common prayer... according to the use of the Church of England...' (Oxford, 1784), with signature of Charles Steuart, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1786)., 1784.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3642/5
Booklet of facsimiles of autographs of the 'Arts Class', 1908-1912, Aberdeen University, with a few notes in the hand of Agnes Mure Mackenzie., [1912, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.9224
Dates:
[1912, or after.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts and typescripts of, and notes for, historical and literary works, speeches, and broadcasts, together with correspondence, of Agnes Mure Mackenzie, Commander of the British Empire, Master of Arts, Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Laws (1891-1955).
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Miscellaneous papers of Agnes Mure Mackenzie.
'Catalogue of Books', of a library of the Kerr family, Marquesses of Lothian., 1666-1671.
Item
Identifier: MS.5818
Scope and Contents
The catalogue is signed by the 3rd Earl of Lothian and contains some additions in his hand.
Dates:
1666-1671.
Catalogue of the Abbotsford Library, 1838, signed and docqueted by Sir Walter Scott, 2nd Baronet, 1839., 1838-1839.
Item
Identifier: F.R.39
Catalogue of the Abbotsford Library, 1838, signed and docqueted by Sir Walter Scott, 2nd Baronet, 1839; with two duplicate copies.
Series
Identifier: F.R.39-F.R.39c
Dates:
1838-1839.
Catechism, 17th century, on the contents of 'Regiam majestatem'., 17th century-1705.
File
Identifier: MS.1949
Scope and Contents
The work is in the handwriting of J Skene (apparently Sir James Skene, Lord President Curriehill), whose signature occurs on folio 6.It is preceded by an extract from ‘An historical essay showing that the crown and kingdom of Scotland is imperial and independent' (Edinburgh, 1705) by James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, in a hand of the eighteenth century (folio i); and short biographies of Scottish authors of the sixteenth century, partly taken from Thomas Dempster's 'Historia...
Dates:
17th century-1705.
Charms and spells etc., including notes on witchcraft and astrology., Late 18th century, 1818.
Item
Identifier: MS.2716
Scope and Contents
A late eighteenth-century manuscript bearing the signatures 'John Blakey' (page 15) and 'Thomas Wyld' (pages 30, 72), with some additional matter (page i), dated 1818, written perhaps by the James Lomax whose signature is on page 3.
Dates:
Late 18th century, 1818.