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Illustrated typescript of "My Bit in the South African War, 1899-1900-1901" by Captain Cecil C Daniel, the Royal Scots.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12396
Dates:
circa 1901.
Illustrated typescript travel journal of a visit to the Dolomites by Carl Marsh, Keyhaven, Hampshire.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12983
Dates:
1938.
Illustrations of heraldic terms.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.20
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes the ordinaries and sub-ordinaries with some of their variations, and a few other charges. The beginning is missing. A later hand has added examples of the colours and metals in trick (folio 46).
Dates:
17th century.
"Journal of a few days from home in the summer of 1856 with selected poetry and songs".
Item
Identifier: MS.9233
Scope and Contents
The author was born near Dover, and describes himself as a 'middle class man engaged in the business of life', possibly a doctor or lawyer. After a brief stay in Edinburgh, he visited Perth, Bannockburn, Callander, Inversnaid, Glasgow, Oban, Inveraray, and Rothesay, and returned again to Glasgow. The text is interspersed with poetry and songs, and is profusely illustrated with floral cut-outs, small prints, and water-colours, mainly of views. Three pages and some of the illustrations have...
Dates:
1856.
Journal of an Irish couple's Scottish tour, with illustrations and detailed accounts.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12615
Scope and Contents
Journal describing a two month tour of Scotland by Frederick and Nannie. They begin their journey from Dublin in August 1849. They cross by boat from Derry to Greenock. Places visited include: Luss, Tarbet, Loch Tay, Crieff, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
The journal is illustrated with pen sketches by Nannie.
Dates:
1849.
Journal of Nicolas Servant, Chevalier de Romainval.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.1
Scope and Contents
The author was serving as a lieutenant on board the `Pontchartrain`, a 56-gun vessel of the Compagnie Royale des Indes Orientales, bound from Lorient to Surat in Bombay, and on board the `Aurore` on his return to France. He kept the journal for the entertainment of an unnamed French lady, and although he recorded the distances covered, wind directions, etc., most of the journal concerns life on board, with lively descriptions of the passengers and of local customs in Africa and especially in...
Dates:
1698-1700.
Journal of travels in the Near East and Greece of
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10121
Scope and Contents
With an illustrated narrative of his residence in Cairo and Jerusalem and additional papers.
Dates:
1844-1845.
Koran, written in the North West Frontier district of India.
Item
Identifier: MS.2563
Scope and Contents
The Koran is written in Naskhi script, inelegant but clear, with crude illuminations to the first and second Surahs. Chapter-headings, marginal indications of the various sections, and some of the vowel-signs are in red ink.
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Lauder transcript of the Cromarty manuscript on tartans in the Royal Library at Windsor.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5094
Dates:
19th century.
‘Lays and lyrics’ by Charles Gray (Edinburgh, 1841) with pencil and wash illustrations, 1846, of A A Ritchie.
File
Identifier: MS.15947
Scope and Contents
At the back of the volume, “A familiar Epistle, addressed to Peter M'Leod, Esq., of Polbeth” by Charles Gray (Edinburgh, 1845) has been bound in.
There are also manuscript verses by A A Ritchie (folio 1), class certificates, 1833-1834, of Charles Gray's son, Charles E Gray, from St Andrews University (folio 3) and a newspaper article, 1845, on Gray's poetry (folio 9).
Dates:
1833-1846.
Literary papers, correspondence and artwork of Alasdair Gray.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13289/1-109
Scope and Contents
This collection includes personal and working papers of Alasdair Gray, with the great majority of the papers concerning 'A Gray play book' (Luath, 2009) and 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2009).The 'play book' papers include typescripts from throughout Gray's life of many of the plays which made up the book, as well as annotated proofs, and correspondence concerning the book's production.There are extensive visual materials collated by Gray for the production of 'A...
Dates:
1951-2011.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of a poem sequence of Duncan Glen "Out to the Calf of Man".
File
Identifier: Acc.10156
Scope and Contents
Includes associated artwork.
Dates:
1990.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of 'Something leather', by Alasdair Gray, with proofs, illustrations and related correspondence.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10371/1-32
Scope and Contents
Includes nine manuscript and typescript drafts of the novel, drafts of individual chapters, and related notes, correspondence and illustrations. Post-publication material includes copies of the US hardback edition, revised paperback edition, and cuttings of UK press coverage of the book.Alasdair Gray's descriptions have been retained in the scope and contents notes for each file, and include insights into his working process, comments on how the novel progressed, and how...
Dates:
1968-1991.
Manuscript and typescript drafts, research materials, proofs and correspondence concerning 'The book of prefaces', by Alasdair Gray.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11769/1-70
Dates:
1985-2000.
Manuscript copy, with art-work, of Andrew Winton`s "Twenty most Favourite Songs of Burns: with Music, Words and Notes on the Lasses to whom they were Written" (London, 1998).
Item
Identifier: Acc.12138
Dates:
1998.
Manuscript drafts and printed copy of "Robin`s Christmas Song", original lyrics attributed to Robert Burns.
File
Identifier: Acc.10680
Dates:
circa 1850-1900.
Manuscript entitled ‘Traite du Blazon’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.19
Scope and Contents
The treatise is in thirty-five chapters and is followed (folio 105) by explanatory notes to the illustrations, and (folio 127) by the illustrations themselves, which are in trick. It is preceded (folio 1 verso) by a diagram of the divisions of a field.Three folios which probably contained the title page and dedication have been removed from between folios 2 and 3. Offsets of the dedication survive, from which it appears that the author`s name was Bonin, and that he presented his...
Dates:
1678.
Manuscript narrative poem, "Days of Chivalry, or Adelaide and Ethelbert" by John Clark.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11766
Scope and Contents
Illustrated with watercolours.
Dates:
circa 1830-1840.
Manuscript of “Gaël Albanich” by William Forbes Skene (1809-1892), containing a history of the Highland clans.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14896-14897
Scope and Contents
The manuscript, dated 1st March 1834, was the winning entry in a competition of the Highland Society of London for the best essay on the history of the Highland Clans. It is illustrated in pen and ink and in watercolours.
Dates:
1834.
Manuscript of ‘The people of the palace’, a satirical novel by Marryat Ross Dobie, former Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: MS.6304
Scope and Contents
The novel is greatly influenced, and its subject was probably suggested, by the discoveries in Crete of Sir Arthur Evans and others, 1899-1911; authentic characteristics of the Cretan civilisation of the period appear in drawings and are described in the text. The volume is illustrated and bound by the author himself. A note, dated 1955 (folio i verso), by Sir John Spencer Muirhead explains that 'The people of the palace' was ‘one of a series of stories written on holiday on the island of...
Dates:
1912.
Manuscripts and typescripts of 'Poor things', 'Ten tales tall and true' and 'Why Scots should rule Scotland', by Alasdair Gray, with some related correspondence and source materials.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10749/1-89
Scope and Contents
Includes corrected manuscript and typescript drafts and revised versions of 'Poor things', 'Ten tales tall and true', and 'Why Scots should rule Scotland', along with finished copies of all three books. There are some files of correspondence concerning the publication of 'Poor things' and 'Ten tales tall and true', as well as some material concerning 'Something leather'.Most files have an A4 sheet inserted at the beginning by Alasdair Gray with a brief summary of the file's...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1896, 1972-1993.
Manuscripts from Perth Academy containing notes and exercises in mathematics, astronomy and physics.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14294-14296
Scope and Contents
All three volumes are illustrated with pen and wash diagrams and sketches.
MS.14296 is initialled ‘I M’ by the compiler (folio 91).
Dates:
1783, 1786-1787.
Manuscripts of illustrated books and travel journals of Doris Ann Goodchild.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11801
Dates:
1955-1996.
Microfilm of heraldic material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.27
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Collection of illuminate arms’, 1794, by Etherington Martyn, in 2 volumes, containing watercolour paintings of Scottish, English and a few foreign arms. (Adv.MS.31.4.1-2);
‘Original institutions of the princely orders of collars’ by Sir William Segar, 1603, or after (Adv.MS.31.4.5);Copies by John Wither, 1623, of English rolls of arms, mostly from ‘an auntient booke of Armes which Mr Glover Somerset the Harald had of Mr Joseph Holland in...
Dates:
1st half of 16th century-1794.
Microfilm of manuscript of 'Regole della fortificatione' by Giulio Savorgnano, with many illustrations.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1383
Dates:
16th century.