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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 164 Collections and/or Records:

Transcripts of Gaelic manuscripts written by the Reverend Donald Mackintosh.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.11
Scope and Contents The transcripts were written by the Reverend Donald Mackintosh, who was ‘Keeper of the Records and Translator of the Gaelic Language’ to the Highland Society of Scotland from January 1801 until his death in 1808. These are transcripts from 2 of the 5 manuscripts which Mackintosh obtained on loan from Ewen MacLachlan of Kilbride in July 1801. He dates the completion of the last of the major items of his transcript 3rd August 1804 (page 201); on 25th May of that year he had in fact requested a...
Dates: 1801-1804.

Transcripts of letters in the possession of Mrs Clephan, the Cottage, Monkseaton, Northumberland.

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Identifier: MS.811
Scope and Contents The letters are arranged as follows.From a volume entitled ‘A Collection of Autographs, etc., Newcastle-upon-Tyne 9th September, 1832. G. H. Gilchrist': letters of John Ross, the explorer, 1833, James Hogg, 1834, and James Montgomery, the poet, 1836.From a volume entitled ‘Letters from Kirkpatrick Sharpe, James Hogg and others to Robert Surtees. From 1804 to 1833’: letters of Hogg to Surtees, 1817, of Thomas Thomson to Sir Walter Scott, undated, and of Charles...
Dates: 1804-1834, undated.

Transcripts of letters of or concerning John Leyden.

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Identifier: MS.939
Scope and Contents

The letters are chiefly addressed to Richard Heber, and include some written by William Erskine regarding the collection and preservation of John Leyden's writings, 1812-[1817].

Dates: 1800-[1817.]

Transcripts of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Gaelic-English-Latin Dictionary.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.72.3.13-14, 72.3.16-72.3.17
Scope and Contents These thick manuscript volumes were written by three clerks (James Connell, Evander McLeod and another) under the supervision of the Reverend Dr John MacLeod of Dundonald. They were part of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Dictionary, and were transcribed between June 1822 and June 1823 from materials prepared by MacLeod and Ewen MacLachlan (see below). Corrections appear in MacLeod’s hand; he complained that it took him two days to correct what his clerks wrote in four...
Dates: 19th century.

Typed transcripts, 1956-1957, concerning the Burghs of the Chanonry of Ross, Rosemarkie and Fortrose in the period 1455-1710.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.3566/1-2
Scope and Contents

Comprising typed transcripts of the town council minutes and burgh count books of the Burgh of the Chanonry of Ross, 1647-1658, and the Burgh of Fortrose, 1674-1710, and of charters and other deeds concerning the Burghs of the Chanonry of Ross, Rosemarkie and Fortrose, 1455-1661.

Dates: 1956, 1957.

Typescript copies, 1964, of correspondence of Major-General Kenneth Mackenzie.

 File
Identifier: MS.8028
Scope and Contents

The letters are chiefly of Sir John Moore and Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, to Kenneth Mackenzie. The correspondence refers to service in the Peninsular War and in the Netherlands campaign of 1813-1814.

The typescript was taken from a transcript, made circa 1912 from the original letters, which now seem to have disappeared.

Dates: 1798-1827, undated.

Typescript transcripts of correspondence of the descendants of James Lundie, Minister of North Leith, who died in 1696, principally that of his great-grandson, Robert, Minister of Kelso.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.1675-1676
Scope and Contents

The letters fall into three divisions. The first (MS.1675, folio 1) contains letters to James Lundie at Leyden and Amsterdam, chiefly from his brother Archibald, Minister of Saltoun, 1708-1710; the second (MS.1675, folio 47), general family correspondence, 1745-1770; the third (MS.1675, folio 80, and MS. 1676), the correspondence of Robert Lundie, Minister of Kelso, and others. The writers include many eminent authors and theologians of the time.

Dates: 1708-1840, undated.

Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.3134-3185
Scope and Contents

Many of the papers are accompanied by transcripts or summaries by Alexander Macdonald.

Dates: 1552-19th century