Signatures. Names.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Persons' names written in their own hand.
Found in 133 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of autographs, made circa 1840, consisting chiefly of franked envelopes and signatures., [Before 1840.]
File
Identifier: MS.15975
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Cowie manuscripts include the final version of ‘The gentle shepherd, a Scots pastorall comedy’ by Allan Ramsay (MS.15972).
Dates:
[Before 1840.]
Collection of letters and signatures, with many of the letters addressed to Dr David Maclagan and members of his family.
File
Identifier: MS.10695
Dates:
[Circa 1798]-1906.
Compendium containing copies of several treatises on Scots Law., 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1951
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) 'Institution of the Colledge of Justice', describing the foundation of the College, its procedure and personnel (page i), preceded by an index (folio ii); it appears to have been written after 1613;(ii) Hope's ‘Minor practicks’ (page 45), preceded by an index (page 41);(iii) 'Practiques observed befor The Lords of Sessione Collected alphabeticallie be (?)rj from 1627 to 1637' (page 141), preceded by an index (page 133);...
Dates:
17th century.
Confessions of Margaret Duchall and others, accused of witchcraft, and their delations against other persons, with the signatures of those who heard them, Alloa., 1658.
File
Identifier: MS.1909
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Dates:
1658.
Copy of 'Scottish scene' (London, 1934) by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, signed by him, Hugh McDiarmid, and Helen B Cruickshank., 1935.
Item
Identifier: MS.26108
Copy of the chronicles of the Civil War in Scotland compiled by Henry Guthrie, Bishop of Dunkeld, subsequently printed as ‘The memoirs of Henry Guthrie’ (London, 1702)., 1697, [1702, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.17806
Scope and Contents
The copy of the chronicles is followed (folio 115) by 'Digitus Dei or Gods [[judgement]] Justice upon Treacherie and Treason & c.', a polemic against the 1st Duke of Hamilton. The signature 'W.Sanders' dated 1697 is on folio 1.
Dates:
1697, [1702, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Academic and literary papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Correspondence and financial papers., 1810-1852.
File
Identifier: MS.573, folios 31-55
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: forged One Pound Note of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, 1810 (folio 31); petition of Nathaniel Gow for a pension, with correspondence, 1826 (folio 32); letter signed by four Principal Clerks of Session (including Thomas Thomson) relating to the accounts for office room, etc., 1848 (folio 48); letter of Duncan McNeill, afterwards 1st Baron Colonsay, 1848 (folio 50); letter of Charles Neaves, Solicitor-General, to William Edmonstoune Aytoun, Sheriff of Orkney,...
Dates:
1810-1852.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Thomas and J A Carlyle.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20752-20753
Dates:
1833-1883, undated.
Document relating to James Colville, Laird of East Wemyss (afterwards Lord Colville), Captain of 50 men-at-arms of Henry IV's ordonnance, signed, "Destveimes [d' East Wemyss]"., 1594.
Item
Identifier: MS.98, folios 36-38
Scope and Contents
Included is a note by the Reverend Henry Paton.
Dates:
1594.
‘Gem selection: Scottish songs’ edited by Alfred W Tomlyn, 7th edition (Edinburgh, undated); signed, with an autograph portrait sketch, Perth, 1928, of himself by Sir Harry Lauder; with other signatures inside the front cover.
Item
Identifier: MS.21833
Dates:
1928.
Imperfect copy, lacking the title page, of the libretto of ‘La Traviata’ by Verdi (Paris, 1865).
File
Identifier: MS.21855
Scope and Contents
The copy contains two printed summaries of the plot tipped in at the front (folios i-ii) and numerous stage directions written on leaves tipped in throughout the volume and in the margins of the printed pages, as well as alterations to the text, for an unidentified apparently late nineteenth-century French production.The volume is signed by Ernest Marchand (deleted) and Francois Runaio on the upper cover which is inscribed 'Travrata mise en Scène n[o]. 2', and by Marchand on page...
Dates:
1865, late 19th century.
Inventory of the Crown jewels and plate of England, made on 20 May 1559, and subscribed by John Astley, Master of the Jewel House., 1559.
Item
Identifier: MS.2825
Scope and Contents
A note (folio 104) signed by Burghley, Sir Walter Mildmay, and Sir Ralph Sadleir, as commissioners of the Crown, states that a new inventory has been made on 14 March 1575, and that the present one is to be accounted as void.
Dates:
1559.
Letter, 1790, and memorial, undated, signed by James Bruce of Kinnaird.
File
Identifier: MS.2917
Scope and Contents
James Bruce requests a reward for his services in giving advice on the possibility of an attack on Ferrol or Gascony and in exploring Barbary and the Nile, and describes his interviews with the authorities in London.
From the handwriting of the endorsement, the letter appears to have been addressed to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.
Dates:
1790, undated.
Letter of Catherine Carswell to Edwin Muir in a copy of ‘The green ship’ (London, 1936) by Patrick Miller.
Item
Identifier: MS.19704
Scope and Contents
Catherine Carswell identifies Patrick Miller as her brother, Gordon Macfarlane, and writes about her work and other activities. The book is signed by Miller and the artist Eric Gill.
Dates:
1936.
Letter of Henry Wellesley, scholar and antiquary, to Sir Walter Scott, enclosing a signature of Dean Swift., 1811.
Item
Identifier: MS.3109, folios 90-92
Dates:
1811.
Letter of Lord John Russell, proposing the appointment of Lord Gillies as Judge of the Exchequer and of Lord Cockburn as Justiciary Judge, with the King's signature approving., 1837.
Item
Identifier: MS.3649, folios 225-226
Dates:
1837.
Letter signed by Robert Louis Stevenson to W E Adams, of the ‘Newcastle Weekly Chronicle’, requesting to be enrolled in Uncle Toby's Dicky Bird Society., 1894.
Item
Identifier: MS.3278, folios 199-201
Dates:
1894.
Letters, accounts and other papers of, to, or concerning, Thomas and J A Carlyle., 1833-1880, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.20752
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Two letters, 1868, to Thomas Carlyle concerning Thomas Erskine of Linlathen, one with a note by Thomas on the back, and eight letters, 1869-1871, undated, of Dr John Brown to J A Carlyle (folio 1);
(ii) The end-paper of a book with Thomas Carlyle's signature, dated 1865, and bookplate (folio 29);
(iii) Letters and accounts, 1859-1868, concerning the farm of Craigenputtoch, and receipts, 1878-1880, for taxes and other expenses for it (folio 30);
(iv) Financial...
Dates:
1833-1880, undated.
Letters addressed to or collected by members of the Bliss family (Dr J Bliss, Hampstead and Bath; Reverend William Bliss, Newnton and Bath; Reverend James Bliss, editor of Laud; William H Bliss).
File
Identifier: MS.962
Scope and Contents
The correspondents of the Blisses are literary, antiquarian, and clerical celebrities, chiefly English, of the early 19th century. In addition, at least one of the family collected autographs and several of his own time and of the 18th century are included. A number of letters are addressed to Thomas Park, the antiquary, and others are written by members of the Athenaeum to the Secretary, Edward Magrath.
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
Letters and papers relating chiefly to the City of Edinburgh., 1773, 1790-1837, 1849.
File
Identifier: MS.351
Scope and Contents
The correspondents and subjects dealt with include: Contract of Professor William Cullen, 1773;
Professor John Playfair, 1790;
Sir William Forbes and the proposed regulations regarding Bills of Exchange and Notes, 1790;
Sir John Sinclair and Scottish wool, 1791;
Mutiny of Highland troops at Linlithgow, 1794;
Report on the Friends of the People and on J Gerrald, 1794;
Printed circular letter to the Faculty of Advocates regarding the Deanship and Henry Erskine, with...
Dates:
1773, 1790-1837, 1849.
Letters of celebrities collected by John Horseman., 1794-1843, 1880.
File
Identifier: MS.845
Lieutenant-General George Henry Hutton’s copy of ‘A large new historical Catalogue of the Bishops of the Several Sees within the Kingdom of Scotland Down to the Year 1688’ by Bishop Robert Keith (Edinburgh, 1755)., 1755.
Item
Identifier: MS.21197
Scope and Contents
This is one of two annotated copies of ‘A large new historical Catalogue of the Bishops of the Several Sees within the Kingdom of Scotland Down to the Year 1688’ by Bishop Robert Keith owned by Lieutenant-General George Henry Hutton (the other is BL.Add.MSS.8143-4).
Dates:
1755.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
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Two copies of ‘A large new historical Catalogue of the Bishops of the Several Sees within the Kingdom of Scotland Down to the Year 1688’ by Bishop Robert Keith (Edinburgh, 1755) with manuscript annotations.
Loose autographed election tickets and postal covers of the Bannatyne Club., 1829-1839.
File
Identifier: MS.9359
Manuscript containing various legal works, compiled in 1704.
File
Identifier: MS.9248
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Abridgement of ‘Jus Feudale’ by Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton. The text is in a considerably shorter form than the usual epitomes (for which see MS.1950 and Adv.MSS.25.6.1-2, 28.3.14), and omits book i, 11 and 13, book ii, 5 and 15, and book iii, 4 and 7. (Folio 1.)(ii) "Inventory of ane Burges's airship moveables". (Folio 88.) (iii) Latin mottoes. (Folio 90.)(iv) Notes on land measures in Scotland and weights...
Dates:
[1704, or before.]