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 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:

Photostats of manuscripts in Paris, of reports on two missions of Jacques de la Brosse or la Brousse in Scotland., 1543, 1560.

 File
Identifier: MS.3109, folios 1-43
Scope and Contents

The two reports are as follows:

'Discours des affaires du royaume descosse' by Jacques de la Brosse and Jacques Ménage, 1543, from Bibliothèque Nationale, manuscripts fonds français, number 17890, folios 29-34 (folio 1);

Journal of the Siege of Leith, by an unidentified writer, 1560, from the French Foreign Office, Mémoires et documents, Angleterre, rég. 15, folios 154-182 (folio 15).

Dates: 1543, 1560.

Photostats of manuscripts of Edmund Castell, the Semitic scholar.

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Identifier: MS.3589
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Photostats of manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge, illustrating Edmund Castell's use of shorthand, namely, Dd.xi.39, page 5 and odd scraps; Dd.vi.4, pages 2-3, 30-45, 52-53, 60-63, 66-87, 90-101, 114-115, 118-121, 130-131, 136-145, 148-157, 164-169, 172-173, 176-181, 206-207, 366-367, 370-377, 382-421, 424-429, 431-432, 436-461. The pages after page 206 are with some exceptions inverted in the original, and the photostats have been...
Dates: 1651-1672.

Photostats of parts of 'Adversaria', a commonplace-book of Sir Walter Scott., 1796.

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Identifier: MS.2232
Scope and Contents The following sections of the book are reproduced:(i) Poem on Cater Thun, beginning, 'Cold the wild blast that chills thy brow', 5 May 1796 (folio 1);(ii) 'To a Lady', lines beginning, 'For thee from Time's slow mouldering hold' (folio 3);(iii) Lines beginning, 'Farewell my dear Jamie, ah take my farewell', with the refrain, 'Lochaber no more' (folio 4);(iv) 'Elegy on Shenstone', beginning, 'Listless laid beneath a willow' (folio 5);...
Dates: 1796.

Photostats of poems of James VI.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8495
Dates: 4th quarter of 16th century-1st quarter of 17th century

Photostats of Scottish music made from the originals in the British Museum., 17th century.

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Identifier: MS.1781
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) ‘A Scotch Tune by Mr. Purcell’, for violin or flute (circa 1694-1697) (Add.MS.35043);(ii) ‘A Scotch Tune’, for violin or flute (circa 1694-1697) (Add.MS.35043);(iii) ‘A New Scotch Tune’, for violin or flute (circa 1694-1697) (Add.MS.35043);(iv) ‘A Scottes Jigge’, for treble viol (?) (17th century) (Add.MS.15118);(v) ‘Scotch Aire’, for harpsichord (late 17th century) (Add.MS.17855);(vi) ‘A...
Dates: 17th century.

Photostats of Sir Walter Scott's Journal.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.1531-1534
Scope and Contents

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: 1825-1832.

Photostats of Sir Walter Scott's Journal: volume I., 1825-1827.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.1531-1532
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: 1825-1827.

Photostats of Sir Walter Scott's Journal: volume I., 1825-1826.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1531
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: 1825-1826.

Photostats of Sir Walter Scott's Journal: volume II., 1828-1832.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.1533-1534
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: 1828-1832.

Photostats of Sir Walter Scott's Journal: volume II., 1828-1829.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1533
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: 1828-1829.

Photostats of Sir Walter Scott's Journal: volume II., 1829-1832.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1534
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: 1829-1832.

Photostats of some Latin verses, together with a letter, 1574, of Nicholas Langlois, master of the French School in Edinburgh, to David Lindsay, minister of South Leith, later Bishop of Ross., 1574.

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Identifier: MS.8494, folios 113-114
Scope and Contents

The letters and verses alike were transcribed by Marie Presot, wife of Nicholas Langlois and mother of Esther Inglis, the calligrapher. They are interesting for the quality and variety of the hands used.

Dates: 1574.

Photostats of the correspondence of Cardinal York, regarding the relations of Prince Charles Edward and Pope Clement XIII., 1765.

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Identifier: MS.486
Scope and Contents

There are two letters of Prince Charles Edward, one of Cardinal Gian Francesco Albani, and two of Cardinal York.

Dates: 1765.

Photostats of ‘The Kings Quair’, the unique fifteenth-century manuscript in the Bodleian Library (MS. Arch. Selden B.24) prepared for William Mackay Mackenzie's edition of the poem, 1939.

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Identifier: MS.2882
Scope and Contents

The copies consist of folios 191 verso-211, 231 verso of the original manuscript. There are also photostats of the Gaelic quatrain of Donald Gorm (probably Donald Gormsson, sixth chief of Sleat), sixteenth century, in the same volume.

Dates: 15th century-16th century.

Photostats of three sermons delivered by Thomas Livingstone, Abbot of Dundrennan, before the Council of Basle., [?1433], 1435.

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Identifier: MS.484
Scope and Contents

The manuscript of the third sermon has the heading '... per reverendum patrem dominum Nicolaum, Abbatem de Scocia, sacre theologie professorem'.

Dates: [?1433], 1435.

Photostats of twenty-four letters of Sir Walter Scott, chiefly to Charles Robert Maturin.

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Identifier: MS.5277
Scope and Contents

Twenty-two of the letters are to Charles Robert Maturin and his wife. The other two letters are addressed to Archibald Campbell-Colquhoun and to James Ballantyne.

Dates: 1808-1826, undated.