Biographies.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Written accounts of the lives of individuals.
Found in 213 Collections and/or Records:
16th-century manuscript containing the 'Vie de saint Louis' of Jean de Joinville.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.16
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in France containing the Life of Saint Louis by Jean de Joinville. The work was probably written circa 1550, certainly after 1547. It appears to be a presentation copy, with the text corresponding to the 1547 edition by Antoine Pierre de Rieux. As in the printed edition, the main text of the manuscript is introduced by prefaces by Antoine Pierre de Rieux and Guillaume de La Perrière.The text is the work of one hand, written in a gothic littera bastarda script...
Dates:
Circa 1550.
16th-century manuscript of the 'Lives of the bishops of Dunkeld' by Alexander Myln.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.4
Scope and Contents
Myln was a canon of Dunkeld who served as Official of the diocese from 1513 to 1519 when he was appointed Abbot of Cambuskenneth. R K Hannay, in his introduction to ‘Rentale Dunkeldense’, page xii, suggests that the manuscript was revised, if not written by Thomas Brown, who succeeded Myln as Clerk of accounts in Dunkeld in 1511. The text includes events which took place late in 1516, but was composed before Myln succeeded to Cambuskenneth.The opening pages are...
Dates:
16th century.
141 letters of Neil Gunn to John B Pick and eight letters of Gunn to Gene Pick.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10548
Scope and Contents
With typescript of Francis Russell Hart and John B Pick, "The Essential Neil Gunn: a Conversation".
Dates:
1946-1972.
Abbreviated version of Patrick Fraser Tytler, "Life of... the Admirable Crichton" (1819).
Item
Identifier: Acc.6319
Dates:
1819.
`Account of the Scotish Poets either printed or manuscript which I have seen, from Ancient tymes to the year 1701` compiled by Sir Robert Sibbald, being the preface and drafts of two books consisting respectively of lists of poems in Latin or Greek, and lists of vernacular poems.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.24
Scope and Contents
The poems are arranged under their authors and there are a few biographical notes.
Dates:
1701, and before.
`Adversaria`, being miscellaneous notes and copies of correspondence of Sir Robert Sibbald, with scholars such as William Nicolson, Edward Lhuyd and John Smith of Durham on Scottish history and antiquities.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.19
Scope and Contents
Smith`s letters (folios 47-61), some of which are originals, concern the records of Scottish history surviving at Durham. Other contents are as follows:(i) Notes on historical manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library (folio 2).(ii) The life of Robert Morison copied from his ‘Plantarum Historiae Universalis Oxoniensis’, part 3, with notes on the same volume (folio 4 verso).(iii) `A list of Gold Scotch Coyns` (folios 13 verso, 18).(iv) `The...
Dates:
Circa 1682-1706, and undated.
Airs of songs and ballads collected, chiefly in Buchan, with a few from Angus and elsewhere, by George Riddell, Rosehearty (died 1942).
Series
Identifier: MSS.3041-3043
Scope and Contents
Accounts of George Riddel's life will be found in MS.3042, inside the front cover.
Dates:
Late 19th century-early 20th century.
"Alan Reiach, OBE, RSA, RSW, RIBA, FRIAS: a Memoir" by Robert Scott Morton.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10013
Dates:
1989.
Albums of caricatures by John A Hipkins, wood-engraver, with scrap-books containing material collected by or associated with him.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2919-2931
Scope and Contents
The volumes, which have been arranged and provided with biographical notes and lists of contents by John A Hipkins's sister, Miss Edith J Hipkins, the painter, illustrate the cultivated life of London in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. Since Hipkins himself was deaf, there is much material relating to the artistic and other activities of the deaf.
Dates:
Late 19th century-early 20th century.
"Alexander Barclay (1785-1864): Spokesman for the Jamaican Plantocracy", a study by Ruth Jennings.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12084
Dates:
2002.
Annotated copy of [John Philp Wood] "Sketch of the Life and Projects of John Law of Lauriston" (Edinburgh, 1791).
Item
Identifier: Acc.13036
Scope and Contents
The volume has letters tipped in from: Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, 1791; Elizabeth, Duchess-Countess of Sutherland, 1792; Louis Law Lauriston, 1802.
Dates:
1791-1802.
Anonymous Italian work entitled “La giusta statera de` porporati doue s`intende la Vita, Nascità, Costumi, discendenza, ricchezze, possibilità, inclinationi, Virtù, e Vitij di tutti li Cardinali che uiuono in quest`An̄o i646”.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.5.2
Scope and Contents
The work is a collection of biographical accounts of the Cardinals, preceded by a dedicatory epistle, signed N N, to an unnamed prince or nobleman, and followed by a concluding address signed H H. It is apparently compiled in chronological order of appointment, with accounts of those appointed in 1647 (folios 40-59, written in the same hand) added to the volume. Printed portraits, to most of which red has been added, have been pasted in at the beginning of almost every account, and a...
Dates:
1646-1647.
Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15369-15378
Scope and Contents
William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.
Dates:
1778-1961, undated.
Audio cassette of a sound recording of a BBC broadcast, "Men of Mark: Francis George Scott", written and introduced by Maurice Lindsay, produced by George Bruce.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8098
Scope and Contents
Description from the information on the insert.
Dates:
1957.
Audio cassette of, and publicity information concerning, a review copy of a radio broadcast produced by BBC Radio Scotland, "The hireling", written by Patrick Malahide, concerning the life of General Patrick Gordon.
Series
Identifier: Acc.8783/1-2
Dates:
1983.
Autograph manuscript of a French biography of Sir David Wilkie by the art historian, Baron Félix Sébastien Feuillet de Conches (1798-1887).
Item
Identifier: MS.9937
Scope and Contents
The work is undated and apparently unpublished.
Dates:
19th century.
Autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.5.1.16-5.1.21
Scope and Contents
The majority of the works are unpublished, and those which are published present considerable divergences. All the plays were written for the stage, and in some cases the names of the actors appear in the list of dramatis personae. Adv.MS.5.1.16, (i) and (ii) seem to be unconnected with the remainder of the collection.
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Biographical account of William Cowper, Bishop of Galloway, who died in 1619.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.3.12
Scope and Contents
The account is headed "Life of William Cowper, Bishop of Galloway and Dean of the Chapel Royal of Holyrood." A note at folio 1 refers to the "Address of Principal Lee to the students of the University of Edinburgh at the opening of the session 1846" and this date is added in pencil at folio 1; but the present text is the work of a different author. Neither the hand nor the subject-matter of this account seems to resemble either in Lee`s discourses in MS.3452; it is not in the selection...
Dates:
19th century.
Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Barons of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood (died 1838), Auditor of Excise, Scottish antiquary and biographer.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.37.2.1-37.2.11
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Biographical and genealogical notes, mostly extracts or cuttings from books and newspapers, compiled by William B D D Turnbull.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.18
Scope and Contents
Almost all of the notes are undated, but the press-cuttings are dated 1855.
Dates:
Circa 1855
Biographical anecdotes and typescript of an essay "Dhow Harbours and the Sabi-Lundi River Junction" of H E Sumner.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10422
Dates:
1981-1991.
Biographical essay on John MacDiarmid, land and temperance reform campaigner, by Alison Macleod.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11934
Dates:
1999.
Biographical memoir and notes on Charles Hodge Mackie, compiled by Anne Mackie.
File
Identifier: Acc.9177
Scope and Contents
Includes an account of their visits to France, 1892-1893, and meetings with Gauguin, Sérusier and Vuillard.
Dates:
1st half of 20th century.
Biographical notes concerning Scotsmen settled in Sweden, compiled from the archives of Swedish noble families by C D Arfwedson for Sir George Webbe Dasent.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.2.14
Dates:
1845.