Signatures. Names.
Found in 133 Collections and/or Records:
Scottish armorial, probably produced in England in the late 16th century.
This armorial is closely related to MS.10338; the text in both manuscripts is the same, but the names of some of the Scottish queens are omitted in MS.19610 (folios 2-3) and the reference to James VI as king of England (folio 4 verso) is added in the margin. The coats of arms were originally in trick and have been painted.
Scrap-book offered to the Countess of Minto, containing signatures of ladies in India, and watercolours of scenes there., 1910.
Scrapbook of Margaret Anna Dalrymple, Lady Newhailes., 1899-1903.
Scrapbook of Margaret Anna Dalrymple, Lady Newhailes., 1903-1906.
Scroll bearing an appreciative address, signed by 207 members of the House of Commons and presented to Richard Burdon Haldane on the occasion of his exclusion from the Coalition Government in 1915., 1915.
The papers include correspondence of other members of the family of Haldane of Cloan covering a period of almost a century and a half from the beginning of the 19th century, especially rich for the period 1875-1937.
Sermons, 26 February-29 December 1650, on topical subjects, by William Hamilton, Minister of Glassford., 1650.
William Hamilton’s signature occurs twice on folio i, with short inscriptions in the same hand as the rest of the manuscript.
Signature of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, afterwards Her Majesty the Queen., 25 October 1934.
Signature of Robert Louis Stevenson., 1887.
Signatures of celebrities collected by William Scott., 1660-1838.
Also included are some letters concerning the Scotts of Raeburn, 1660-1838 (folios 2 verso-7, 30), and a few other letters, with indexes of writers (folios 53-60).
Signed copy of Annie S Swan, ‘My life: an autobiography’ (London, 1934), with two letters to Helen Cruickshank from the author inserted., 1934.
There is also a newspaper article dated 1st October 1934 inserted at the back of the book.
Signed copy of Norman MacCaig, ‘Riding lights’ (London, 1955), with a letter, 1954, of the poet to Helen Cruickshank inserted., 1954-1955.
Signed statements by George Leslie, Burgess of Edinburgh, that he has subscribed the National Covenant (1638), Solemn League and Covenant (1643), and renewed Solemn League and Covenant (1648).
The signed statements are written at the end of the printed Covenants, which are bound in one volume bearing the initials G L on the binding.
Single letters and documents., 1510-19th century.
Small collections of letters and papers., 1647-1862, undated.
Style-book of Scots Law forms, written in several hands.
Style book, possibly of James Weir, Writer to the Signet.
A collection of Scots conveyancing styles compiled about the end of 16th century. On folio 79 verso is the signature of James Weir, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1668; died 1687).
'System of water-colour painting', 17th edition (London, 1858), by Aaron Penley, used by James Augustus Grant on his African expedition., 1858.
On the front cover are James Augustus Grant's signature and the note 'This book was my guide through Africa. J.A. Grant'; on a leaf tipped in after page [ii] are pencil and watercolour sketches; on page 64 is a pencil sketch; and on pages 7 and 10 of the advertisements at the back are pencil notes.
'The Arms of Noblemen, Knights, and others who have been Recorded in the Books of the Lyon Office at Edinburgh. [Compiled, over a period of years at the end of the seventeenth century, by] Henry Frazer, Ross Herauld & Painter'.
Henry Frazer’s signature is on page 710.
There are additions throughout in various hands including that of David Deuchar, Seal Engraver, Edinburgh, who also compiled the indexes (cf. Adv.MSS.35.6.15-35.6.16). There are thirteen coats crudely emblazoned and a sketch of the seal of office of the Lyon King of Arms.
'Tigranes', a Latin tragedy in five acts, written in a seventeenth-century hand., 17th century.
In the margins are stage directions, sources from classical authors, and metrical indications. On folio i are the initials 'W.B.' and on the inside back cover the signature of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, the patriot.
Transcript, eighteenth century, of ‘The rival modes’ by James Moore Smythe., 1727.
The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.
Transcriptions from Irish manuscripts into Roman script made by Dr Donald Smith.
Translation by Archibald Fletcher, Lord Milton's son, of Virgil, ‘Aeneid’, book 1, verses 401-756., 18th century.
The translation is headed 'The Continuation of the first book of the Aenieds [sic]'. The translator's signature is on folio 1. The translation is on each recto, with occasional vocabulary notes on the facing verso.
Treatises on Oriental languages, chiefly in the hand of Robert Melvill., 17th century.
Two albums, titled 'Autographs and Portraits', and labelled 1 and 3, of a collection apparently formed by Thomas Thompson, Liverpool, to whom several of the letters are addressed, from about 1820 to about 1840.
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.