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 618 Collections and/or Records:
Miscellaneous papers of the Camerons of Fassiefern., 20th century, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11137/50-51
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Correspondence and papers of the family of Cameron of Fassiefern, collected and preserved by Brodrick Haldane Esq, Edinburgh.
The letters are mostly to members of the Fassiefern family, especially to John Cameron of Fassiefern and his son Sir Ewen, 1st Baronet. Also containing some legal documents and business papers. There are also papers pertaining to the Cameron chiefs Sir Ewen and Donald Locheil.
Dates:
20th century, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of the Dunlop family., 1797-mid 20th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9301-9307
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Much of the collection concerns William Dunlop, Principal of Glasgow University, his son Alexander, Professor of Greek at Glasgow, and his grandson John, Tide Surveyor at Greenock. The papers of William Dunlop include material on the colony of South Carolina, the Darien Scheme, and the affairs of the Church of Scotland, while those of Alexander chiefly concern the University of Glasgow. The collection also includes diaries and literary works of John Dunlop of Gairbraid, the temperance...
Dates:
1797-mid 20th century.
Miscellaneous papers of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance., 1683-early 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8222-8249
Miscellaneous transcripts, chiefly copies of letters to Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk, from Viscount Townshend, Professor Hugh Blair, John Douglas, Bishop of Salisbury, Professor Adam Ferguson, and Tobias Smollett., 1747-1806, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3464
Scope and Contents
The transcripts were probably intended to be included by Alexander Carlyle in his ‘Autobiography’. A comparison of the characters of Professor Blair and Principal Robertson and some unpublished letters of Alexander Carlyle on the militia are also included.
Dates:
1747-1806, undated.
Miscellaneous writings of Robert Louis Stevenson., 1883-1894, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.9893
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of: (i) Extracts from magazines of articles by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1884, undated (folio 1); (ii) Transcripts and printed texts, 1883-1894, undated, of miscellaneous writings of Stevenson (folio 44).
Dates:
1883-1894, undated.
Modern transcript of the minute-book of the Board of Green Cloth of Scotland, 8 July 1650-7 July 1651., 1650-1651.
Item
Identifier: MS.977
Modern transcript of the Register of the Consultations of the Ministers of Edinburgh and some other brethren of the ministry.
Series
Identifier: MSS.636-637
Dates:
1652-1661.
Modern transcript of the Register of the Consultations of the Ministers of Edinburgh and some other brethren of the ministry., 1652-1654.
File
Identifier: MS.636A
Modern transcript of the Register of the Consultations of the Ministers of Edinburgh and some other brethren of the ministry., 15 August 1657-1658.
Item
Identifier: MS.637A
Modern transcript of the Register of the Consultations of the Ministers of Edinburgh and some other brethren of the ministry., May 1654-October 1656.
File
Identifier: MS.636B
Modern transcript of the Register of the Consultations of the Ministers of Edinburgh and some other brethren of the ministry., October 1656-14 February 1657.
File
Identifier: MS.636C
Dates:
October 1656-14 February 1657.
Modern transcript of the Register of the Consultations of the Ministers of Edinburgh and some other brethren of the ministry., 17 February-15 August 1657.
File
Identifier: MS.636D
Dates:
17 February-15 August 1657.
Modern transcript of the Register of the Consultations of the Ministers of Edinburgh and some other brethren of the ministry., 1659-5 April 1660.
File
Identifier: MS.637B
Modern transcript of the Register of the Consultations of the Ministers of Edinburgh and some other brethren of the ministry., 5 April 1660-1661.
File
Identifier: MS.637C
'MS. airs from various sources, Vol. I', being transcripts of William Thomson's ‘Orpheus Caledonius’, and music from other sources, with notes, etc., by John Muir Wood., 1876.
File
Identifier: MS.3301 [Glen.209a]
Scope and Contents
Begun in 1876. Notes, etc., found loose in the volume have been pasted in at the end.
Dates:
1876.
'MS. airs from various sources, Vol. II', being a transcript of Alexander Stuart's "Musick for Allan Ramsay's collection of songs"., 1877.
Item
Identifier: MS.3302 [Glen.209]
Scope and Contents
With notes and lists of the contents of this and other volumes, by John Muir Wood. Begun in 1877. A sheet of music found loose in the volume has been pasted in at the end.
Dates:
1877.
Negative microfilm of manuscripts, commonplace book and transcript of journal of Sir Walter Scott., 1792-1827.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.577
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Original manuscript, [1818, or before], of 'The heart of Midlothian' by Sir Walter Scott (MS.1548);Commonplace book, 1792-1803, bearing the name Gualterus Scott, containing notes and extracts on Italian poetry, Scottish history, Northern antiquities, ballads, romances, witchcraft, etc., in Sir Walter Scott’s autograph, with a few passages in other hands (MS.1568);Transcript of Sir Walter Scott’s journal, 1825-1827, copied in the...
Dates:
1792-1827.
Nether Lorn, or Campbell, Canntaireachd; with a transcript of Angus Mackay's 'Specimens of Canntaireachd', and a note by Archibald Campbell, Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3714-3716
Dates:
1797-1950.
Notebook containing extracts by F C Donald from the record of baptisms in the Parish of Mortlach kept at the Scottish Record followed by a transcript of the inscription on the gravestone of William Marshall, 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.15378
Scope and Contents
The greater part of the volume is blank.
Dates:
19th century.
Notebook containing transcripts of specifications and articles by various authors relating to a wide variety of small engineering undertakings, owned and chiefly compiled by R Blackadder.
Item
Identifier: MS.19981
Scope and Contents
R Blackadder worked in Dundee, and appears to have been a member of the family of mapmakers and civil engineers from Berwickshire. He was part estate management consultant and part engineer. His interests ranged from manure and drainage, to the construction of damheads, ice houses, bridges, and railway curves. He also made notes on landlord tenant relations, on crop rotation, and on the organisation of various large estates. His work was primarily in Angus, but he spent some time in...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Notebook entitled 'A Missellany or Collection of severall things, 1625', containing transcripts, presumably derived from printed editions or, since many were printed after 1625, from manuscript copies., 1625.
File
Identifier: MS.5831
Scope and Contents
The works transcribed are as follows.(i) Anne Boleyn's last letter to Henry VIII. See the 'Harleian Miscellany', volume iii, page 61. (Folio 6.)(ii) The 1st Earl of Salisbury's ‘The state and dignity of a secretary of state's place’. See the 'Harleian Miscellany', volume ii, page 265. (Folio 10.)(iii) Francis Bacon's 'An advertisement, touching the controversies of the Church of England'. See William Rawley, ‘Resuscitatio, or bringing into publick light...
Dates:
1625.
Notebook entitled 'the Question of the Presbytery. Stated February the 2nd 1644', and in another hand 'Minutes of the Westminster Assembly', by Mr George Gillespie for Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 1644, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.25387
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet of Hailes, (1726-1792), was the son of Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes, and Lady Christian Dalrymple, daughter of the 6th Earl of Haddington. Sir David was educated at Eton and entered the Inner Temple in 1742. From 1747-1748 he studied Civil Law at Utrecht, and in 1748 was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates. He was raised to the Bench as Lord Hailes in 1766 and appointed a Lord of Justiciary in 1776. In addition to his legal activities, Lord...
Dates:
1644, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Historical papers: Scotland and Great Britain of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Transcripts of historical documents made for Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Notebook of Dr Edmund Crosby Quiggin containing transcripts of many of the unpublished portions of the Book of the Dean of Lismore (Adv.MS.72.1.37)., 1st quarter of 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.14871
Scope and Contents
The transcripts by Dr Edmund Crosby Quiggin amounting to almost half the original manuscripts, but leaning heavily on Ewen MacLachlan’s work in Adv.MS.72.3.3. With notes, transliterations or versions from other manuscripts on the facing page. The transcripts are not in correct order, so a complete concordance with the original is provided below. At folios 137 verso-140 recto, following a number of blank leaves, are some quotations (partly used for the “Prolegomena”) and a list of poems....
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Notebook of Dr Edmund Crosby Quiggin containing transcripts of poems from the Duanaire in the Yellow Book of Lecan (Trinity College Dublin MS.1318)., 1st quarter of 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.14872
Scope and Contents
Also included are extracts from Adv.MS.72.1.29, Adv.MS.72.1.39, and other manuscripts. With notes, variant readings and sometimes complete alternative versions, mostly on facing page. References are given below to the translations and revised texts in MS.14870.The contents are as follows.(i) Lists of poems from various sources (folio 1 recto);(ii) Donnachadh Mór. “Eist ream fhaoisdin a ĺosa”, 22 quatrains (folio 15 recto);(iii)...
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Notebook of transcripts in several hands, made for Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes of documents concerning British political, religious, and military history., 1600-1741, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.25380
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Many are copies of papers in the Wodrow, Auchinleck, and Pepys manuscripts. With some annotations by Lord Hailes.
Dates:
1600-1741, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Historical papers: Scotland and Great Britain of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Transcripts of historical documents made for Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Transcripts, and miscellaneous notebooks of transcripts in several hands, made for Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, of documents concerning British political, religious, and military history.