Stats. Copies.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Reproductions, usually of documents, made with the Photostat (TM) machine or similar machines.
Found in 186 Collections and/or Records:
Photostat of scroll, 1787, by St Andrews University awarding the degree of Doctor of Laws to Grimur Jonsson Thorkelin., 1787.
Item
Identifier: MS.20768, folio 191
Dates:
1787.
Photostat of Sir Walter Scott's Journal: volume I., 1826-1827.
Item
Identifier: MS.1532
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The original manuscript is in two volumes. Opposite the title page of the first volume are the signatures of Queen Victoria and others of her party who visited Abbotsford on 22 August 1867 (see the Queen's 'More leaves from the journal of a life in the Highlands', 1884, page 81).
Dates:
1826-1827.
Photostat of 'The Art of Music collecit out of all Ancient Doctouris of Music', and four photographs of the music of Scots Duty, the old drum and fife calls of Scottish regiments in the eighteenth century.
File
Identifier: MS.7196
Dates:
[1635, or before], 18th century.
Photostat of 'The Art of Music collecit out of all Ancient Doctouris of Music' [by a Scotsman], taken from the British Library, Addit. MS.4911., [1635, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.7196, folios 1-257
Scope and Contents
The treatise is divided into three parts.(a) Fifteen chapters with the title 'Quhat is mensural music', containing examples of twenty-five canons with resolutions. This section is called 'the secund part of Music', and it may therefore be presumed that an earlier volume was written by the same author. (Folio 1.)(b) 'Music Mensurall', beginning with five chapters on counterpoint and followed by examples of harmony in three, four and five parts. (Folio 90.)...
Dates:
[1635, or before.]
Photostat of 'The Carte of Scotland', an anonymous sea chart showing coastal names and features in some little detail., Late 16th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.8494, folio 115
Dates:
Late 16th century.
Photostat of 'The case of Mary Fenner', widow of William Fenner, printer to Cambridge University., 1735.
Item
Identifier: MS.8494, folios 200-209
Scope and Contents
The document relates to, among other things, the financial difficulties arising from the partnership between William Fenner and William Ged, the Edinburgh printer who invented stereotyping.
Dates:
1735.
Photostat of the last will and testament of Colonel George Mathesoune in the Czar's service., 1633.
Item
Identifier: MS.3112, folios 2-4
Scope and Contents
Includes a list of Colonel George Mathesoune’s clothes.
Dates:
1633.
Photostat of the Order Book of the Stewart of Appin Clan Regiment, from 11 October 1745 to 18 January 1746, containing the orders for the whole of Prince Charles Edward's army during that period.
Item
Identifier: MS.3787
Scope and Contents
The orders are followed by a list of killed and wounded of the Regiment, accounts for pay, November 1745, and a return of the strength of the companies.
Dates:
1745-1746.
Photostat of the poem, ‘Epistle from Mavis Bank to a friend at Edr. 1748’, in the autograph of Allan Ramsay.
Item
Identifier: MS.644
Dates:
1748.
Photostat of ‘The Testament of Criseide’ by Robert Henryson.
Item
Identifier: MS.822
Dates:
16th century.
Photostat of 'The Wards', a translation of August Wilhelm Iffland's ‘Die Mündel’ by Sir Walter Scott., 1796.
Item
Identifier: MS.2229
Photostat of 'The wills of John Armstrong, poet, essayist and doctor of physic', 1779, and of Patrick Murdoch, Doctor of Divinity, rector of Stradishall and vicar of Great Thurlow, Suffolk, mathematician and geographer, 1773., 1773, 1779.
File
Identifier: MS.8494, folios 210-215
Scope and Contents
A certificate, authenticating the will of Patrick Murdoch is also included.
Dates:
1773, 1779.
Photostat of 'Wolfred of Stromberg. A Drama of Chivalry', a translation of Jakob Maier's ‘Fust von Stromberg’ by Sir Walter Scott., 1797.
Item
Identifier: MS.2231
Photostat - Second order triple flash apparatus - North Cape - surveyed by Chance Brothers., 1912.
Item
Identifier: MS.5885 (59)
Dates:
1912.
Photostat, undated - General elevation of lighthouse - Kahurangi Point., [?1901.]
Item
Identifier: MS.5885 (56)
Dates:
[?1901.]
Photostat, undated - Profile of prisms - Kahurangi Point., [?1901.]
Item
Identifier: MS.5885 (57)
Dates:
[?1901.]
Photostats and carbon copies of works., 1947-?1954, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9343/44-47
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Contains correspondence and papers concerning radar in World War II, the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, 1951, and other activities and interests.
Includes photographs, articles and printed books.
Dates:
1947-?1954, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Robert A Watson-Watt, including his collection of printed material concerning the history of radar.
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Books and copies of works relating to radar, science, military history and other interests of Sir Robert Watson-Watt.
Photostats and original manuscripts of Scottish music.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1781-1784
Dates:
17th century-1900.
Photostats of a letter of Alexander Nasmyth, the artist, concerning Robert Burns, 1829, and of excise returns for Dumfries, 1793, with Burns' signatures., 1793, 1829.
File
Identifier: MS.7198, folios 49-54
Dates:
1793, 1829.
Photostats of a letter of Sir Walter Scott to Robert Johnston, regarding building work at Abbotsford, and of part of his autograph manuscript of the 'Introductory Epistle' to ‘The fortunes of Nigel’, showing some differences from the first edition., 1817, [1822, or before].
File
Identifier: MS.3109, folios 96-101
Dates:
1817, [1822, or before].
Photostats of a manuscript, undated, containing Gaelic poetry in the hand of William MacMurchy found at Inverneill House in 1949 by Colonel Duncan Campbell of Inverneill.
Item
Identifier: MS.14951
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists of versions of four poems which also appear in Adv.MS.73.2.2.
The contents are as follows.
(i) ‘Tuirseach andiu crioch Gaoidhioll’, 152 lines (page 1);
(ii) ‘Do bheath Ghiolleasbuig gad dhuthchus’, 32 lines (page 5);
(iii) “Ghillasbuig mo bheannachd re m’bheo”, 7 stanzas (page 6);
(iv) “‘Ghillasbuig mo mholachd rem’ bheo”, 8½ stanzas (page 7).
Dates:
18th century.
Photostats of a series of catches, apparently collected by John Forbes, the younger, music publisher., [1682, or after.]
File
Identifier: MS.8494, folios 166-197
Dates:
[1682, or after.]
Photostats of a small portion of the original manuscript of ‘The Antiquary’ by Sir Walter Scott, in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York., [1816, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.2248
Scope and Contents
The photostat is of leaves corresponding to the first edition (1816), volume i, pages 24-34.
Dates:
[1816, or before.]
Photostats of 'An Inventary of missive letters and others underwritten, gifted to the Faculty of Advocates by ... Coline, Earl of Balcarres', receipted by Thomas Ruddiman, and of an extract from the minutes acknowledging the gift., 1712.
File
Identifier: MS.3581, folios 6-8
Dates:
1712.
Photostats of correspondence, 1768-1774, of Andrew and Hugh Simm, weavers in Paisley, while the latter was in America; and of other documents, 1748-1810, concerning them, including an obituary of Hugh Simm., 1748-1810.
File
Identifier: MS.20768, folios 135-189
Dates:
1748-1810.