Transcripts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Written, printed, or typed copies of an original text or of words originally spoken, such as of court proceedings, broadcasts, or oral histories. Transcripts are extremely accurate copies with any editorial explanations or notations clearly distinguished from the original, including indications of misspellings or editorial omissions. For less formal copying, or for short documents or single words such as in a vocabulary, use "transcriptions."
Found in 454 Collections and/or Records:
Account-book, containing particulars of the expenditure of Prince Charles (afterwards Charles I), the Duke of Buckingham, and Sir Francis Cottington, on their visit to Spain, April-September 1623., 1623.
Item
Identifier: MS.1879
Scope and Contents
The keeper of the accounts refers to 'my brother Richard Wyche'.
At the end of the volume are specimens of various kinds of warrant and passport.
A typed transcript has been placed with the manuscript.
Dates:
1623.
Administrative and financial papers of the Scottish Council for Civil Liberties., 1971-1997.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12971/3-91
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers of the Scottish Council for Civil Liberties including administrative and financial papers of the executive committee and various sub committees, local groups, annual reports and publications.
Dates:
1971-1997.
Administrative papers, publicity materials, photographs and other papers relating to 7:84, theatre company., 1940-1988, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11615/80-85
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
The bulk of the material dates from ca.1979-1990, though there are some earlier and later items. Much of it concerns McGrath’s work outside 7:84, the theatre company which he and others established in 1971.
Dates:
1940-1988, undated.
‘Ane forme of the coronatioun of the Kingis of Scotland’, being a modern transcript of the 'antient forme' suggested for the coronation of Charles I., [1626, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.3158
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many of the papers are accompanied by transcripts or summaries by Alexander Macdonald.
Dates:
[1626, or before.]
Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from "Apollo's Banquet", 1669, and ‘The dancing master’ by Playford, 1718-1728., 1669, 1718-1728.
File
Identifier: MS.21686
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
1669, 1718-1728.
Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from collections by Isaac Cooper, 1783, 1806; Donald Dow, 1773; Robert Petrie, 1790; Simon Fraser, 1795; and Malcolm Macdonald, 1788., 1783-1806.
File
Identifier: MS.21690
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
1783-1806.
Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from miscellaneous 19th-century printed collections of music., 1784-1855, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21691-21692
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
1784-1855, undated.
Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from miscellaneous printed collections of music., 1784-[?1821].
File
Identifier: MS.21691
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
1784-[?1821].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.
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Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from various published sources.
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Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from miscellaneous 19th-century printed collections of music.
Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from miscellaneous printed collections of music., [Circa 1789]-1855, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.21692
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
[Circa 1789]-1855, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.
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Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from various published sources.
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Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from miscellaneous 19th-century printed collections of music.
Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from ‘The Scots musical museum’., 1789.
File
Identifier: MS.21689
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
1789.
Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from ‘Twenty minuets’ by Daniel Dow, [circa 1773], and ‘A second collection of Scots reels’ by Robert Bremner, 1768., 1768, [circa 1773].
File
Identifier: MS.21687
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
1768, [circa 1773].
Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from various collections, including those by Robert Bremner, Neil Stewart, John Riddell, Daniel Dow, Joshua Campbell, Angus Cumming, Robert Ross, Alexander McGlashan, William Marshall, Robert Mackintosh, and Isaac Cooper., 1757-1793.
File
Identifier: MS.21688
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
1757-1793.
Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from various published sources., 1669-1855, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21686-21692
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
1669-1855, undated.
Antiquarian and genealogical papers and correspondence of the Chalmers family of Auldbar., 18th century-19th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15471-15481
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
Antiquarian papers of Patrick Chalmers (died 1854)., 1st quarter of 19th century-3rd quarter of 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.15471
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Papers on field antiquities, especially sculptured stones. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Papers concerning documentary research. The papers are chiefly transcripts of charters and writs concerning Angus. Included in this section is an essay by Patrick Chalmers entitled 'Remarks on the law of the burghs' (folio 26); a list of churches within the Deanery of Angus and the Diocese of St Andrews (folio 40); a note on the public library in Montrose (folio 78); transcripts of...
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century-3rd quarter of 19th century.
Articles by L Graham H Horton-Smith based on Alexander Dundas Ogilvy Wedderburn's notes, together with related transcripts and papers., 1666-1918, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3566
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:Articles contributed by L Graham H Horton-Smith to ‘Notes and queries’ (1945), based on Alexander Dundas Ogilvy Wedderburn's notes: 'The Grahams or Grahames of Claverhouse' and 'Grahams, Burgesses and Town Councillors of Dundee' (folio 1);Typed transcripts of various records relating to persons named Graham, including the baptismal register of Mr Robert Norie, Episcopalian Minister at Dundee, 1722-1726 (folio 19);A notebook of...
Dates:
1666-1918, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript notes of Alexander Dundas Ogilvy Wedderburn, King’s Counsel, 'directed in the main to the correction and completion of the pedigree of the Grahams of Claverhouse' as set forth in the writer's ‘The Wedderburn Book’.
Articles, talks and broadcasts by Eric Linklater and by other others., 1940-1968, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.10155/40-66
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of addresses, articles, broadcast talks and poems, with correspondence.
Dates:
1940-1968, undated.
Assorted papers of Janet Paisley, including examples of her poetry, plays and television drama scripts; with papers relating to her interest in the Scots language, and the history of Scotland., 1987-2011.
Series
Identifier: Acc.14151 Box 3(1)-(11)
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
This is a box list of the papers of Janet Paisley, as received by the Library. No attempt has been made currently to review the order of the papers, to date them or to otherwise interpret them. The aim of the box list is to facilitate access in advance of any fuller arrangement and description.
Dates:
1987-2011.
Autograph letters of Charles I and Charles II, with transcripts., [1643], 1663.
File
Identifier: MS.573, folios 74-80
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.An autograph letter of Charles I to William, 8th Earl of Glencairn, [1643], assuring him ‘upon the word of a Prince that I shall neuer retract any thing I have graunted either in religion or liberty to my subiects in Scotland’, with transcript. (Folio 74.)An autograph letter of Charles II to ‘My Lord Chancelour of Scotland’ (William, 8th Earl of Glencairn), 1663. The bearer, ‘my Lord St. Andrews’, will acquaint him with the reasons and...
Dates:
[1643], 1663.
BBC scripts and related papers of David Thomson., Circa 1945-1975.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13259/24-31a
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
As well as correspondence, and manuscripts and typescripts of published works, the collection includes a huge number of David Thomson’s notebooks and diaries.
Dates:
Circa 1945-1975.
'Bernadine'., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6226/4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Including typescript of novel, "Bernardine", typescripts of articles, transcripts of press reviews and a letter concerning the novel, "The Last Spring" (1931).
Dates:
Undated.
Carbon copies of typed transcripts of poems of Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1941-1952, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26188, folios 8-61
Scope and Contents
A few of the poems were intended for publication in 'Figs and thistles' (Edinburgh, 1959).
Dates:
1941-1952, undated.
Chronicon Angliæ, 400-1327, being a nineteenth century transcript of Barberini MS.2689, which was written at Sempryngham in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries., 13th century-14th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.2728
Scope and Contents
According to a note (folio iv), dated 1823, by Luigi Maria Rezzi, Librarian of the Barberini Library, the transcript was made by him for Benjamin Heywood Bright.
Dates:
13th century-14th century.
Collection entitled 'Glengarry notes' compiled probably in the late nineteenth century consisting chiefly of extracts from printed sources together with some transcripts of documents in the Public Record Office, illustrating the history of Glengarry and some other parts of the Highlands from early times until the mid-nineteenth century., 1st half of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.15169
Scope and Contents
Almost all of the material is typewritten, with numerous manuscript additions and corrections.
Dates:
1st half of 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
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Estate books, being a number of partly printed bound volumes relating in various ways to the Ellices’ estates in Glengarry and Glenquoich.
‘Collection of charters, evidents and antiquities collected by E. Hadinton, vol. I’., ?Early 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.1a
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
There is no method preserved in the arrangement of the charters nor any index to the contents of the volumes but along the margins, especially of the first volume are notes in the hand of Sir James Balfour, which though imperfect are convenient.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.4.16.
Dates:
?Early 17th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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‘Collection of charters, evidents and antiquities collected by E. Hadinton’, the title in the hand of Sir James Balfour prefaced to the collection from original charters, public records & chartularies made by Sir Thomas Hamilton, Clerk of Register and First Lord of Haddington.