Transcripts
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 232 Collections and/or Records:
"Singapore and Afterwards", manuscript account of the fall of Singapore in 1942, by W D Brown.
File
Identifier: Acc.9948
Scope and Contents
With typed transcript, 1989.
Dates:
circa 1943.
`Sir Lodovick Steuart of Kirkhill Advocat his Collectiones ... with Several Valuable Additions of charters andc ... out of the valuable Collectiones of Mr Richard Hay ... Ex Manuscriptis Roberti Mylne scribae ...`, a transcript of parts of Sir Lewis Stewart`s collections, compiled early in the 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.12
Scope and Contents
The volume, almost entirely in the hand of Mylne, begins (folio i verso) with an index (extra entries have been added later; those for the letters B, C, D, K and M continue on folio v verso, those for P on folio vi verso); there follows (page 1) a transcript of Stewart`s historical collections as in Stewart`s own manuscript (Adv.MS.22.1.14) with most of the additions found also in the transcript Adv.MS.34.3.11, and further additions, some not by Mylne; finally (page 352) come the transcripts...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Six diaries of Arthur Birnie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11018
Scope and Contents
Includes transcript and notes.
Dates:
1906-1909, 1934-1936.
Six letters of Captain Thomas Henry Montgomery, Black Watch, from the Crimea.
File
Identifier: Acc.11640
Scope and Contents
Includes typed transcripts of nine others.
Dates:
1854-1856.
Sound recording, with transcript, of a BBC television programme, 'Spectrum: Kenneth White - Nomad -'.
Series
Identifier: Acc.8606/1-3
Dates:
1983.
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 33: copies of lists of the records removed from Scotland on the orders of Edward I and of material in the chapterhouse of Westminster Abbey.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.30 [33]
Scope and Contents
Also included are transcripts of some formal documents, 1189-1299.
Dates:
1189-1299, 17th century.
Stewart genealogies: papers on various families of Stewart collected by, and with some notes of, George Chalmers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.12
Scope and Contents
(i) `Inventar of the papers and chartours of the Stewarts of Hallrig and Raice and thair Genealogy proceeding from Stewart of Darnly who are descended from Robert Stewart Lord Tarboltone second son to Walter the 2ᵈ High Stewart of Scotland.` Seventeenth century (folio 1).(ii) Papers, in three late-eighteenth-century hands, on the Stewarts of Allanton and their cadets, all mostly derived from an account of the family written by Sir Archibald Steuart Denham of Westshield. In 1842...
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Tapes (master and working copies) and transcripts of interviews with Scots involved in the process of decolonisation throughout the British Empire.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10809 -is now MSS.22631-22998C
Dates:
1986-1991.
"The 1878-1880 Royal Geographical Society Expedition to East Africa: the Diary of Keith Johnston", transcribed with explanatory notes by James McCarthy.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11937
Dates:
2000.
"The Humble Complaint of Geo[rge] Eglisham Doctor of Physicke" addressed to Charles I.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11944
Scope and Contents
Includes typescript transcription.
Dates:
1626.
"The Testament Dative and Inventory of the debts and sums of money which were justly owing to umquhile Robert Burns, Officer of Excise in Dumfries, at the time of his decease, viz. the [21st] day of July last, faithfully made out and given up by Jean Armour, Widow of the said defunct, and executrix qua relict decerned to him by decreet dative of the Commissary of Dumfries dated the 16th day of September last," Dumfries.
Item
Identifier: Ch.666
Dates:
6 October 1796.
Thirty letters and papers addressed to John Mure of Rowallan by Mary of Guise, Mary Queen of Scots, the Earls of Arran, Argyll, Lennox, Mar, and Morton, and others; with a transcript thereof.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.54.1.7-54.1.8
Dates:
1548-1593.
Topographical extracts by Lieutenant-General George Henry Hutton from ‘A topographical dictionary of Scotland’ by Nicholas Carlisle, and from other works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.5.6
Scope and Contents
The extracts from Carlisle, which are in alphabetical order, are at folios 1-24 verso, 95-109. At 25-94 verso are extracts concerning places (and a few concerning individuals) from a variety of published sources including especially ‘Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum in Archivis Publicis asservatum, MCCCVI-MCCCCXXIV’, and ‘Peerage of Scotland’. These are written not in alphabetical or topographical order but apparently as they were discovered by Hutton in the course of reading or...
Dates:
Circa 1813.
Transcript, 1893, of the manuscript journal, 1736-1737, of Dr Alexander Cunyngham, later Sir Alexander Dick of Prestonfield, made on his Italian journey with Allan Ramsay, painter.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12078
Scope and Contents
Includes material not printed in "Curiosities of a Scots Charta Chest" (1897).
Dates:
1893.
Transcript, 1993, of letter of John Rennie to Robert Stevenson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10757
Dates:
1807.
Transcript and audiocassette copy of BBC radio broadcast, "MacDiarmid at 85".
File
Identifier: Acc.7060
Scope and Contents
On the occasion of Hugh MacDiarmid`s 85th birthday, including an interview between MacDiarmid and George Bruce.
Dates:
1977.
Transcript by Pier Asdentz of an Italian translation of the philosophical work by the Reverend Father Pier Maria Ferrari: ‘"Introduzione d`Alcinoo Filosofo agli Insegnamenti di Platone". Tradotta dalla Greca favella nella nostra Italiana dal R.P. Pier Maria Ferrari, Genovese delle Scuole Pie, trascritta dall`originale da me. Pier Maria Asdentz, Genova: 1737’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.2
Scope and Contents
Bound with the transcript is the Greek text ‘Alkinoou Philosophou Eis Ta Ton Platonos Dogmata Eisagoge/Alcinoi Philosophi ad Platonis Dogmata Introductio’, printed in Venice by Aldus, 1521 (folios 56-83 verso). Alcinous, 2nd century AD Middle Platonist philosopher (long misidentified with another Middle Platonist philosopher, Albinus), wrote a handbook of Platonism entitled ‘Didaskalikos ton Platonos dogmaton’ (cf. ‘Alcinoos, Enseignement des Doctrines de Platon’ and ‘Alcinous,...
Dates:
1737.
Transcript, circa 1982, by Arthur H C Hope, of Adv.MS.25.1.10 (Stair`s Institutions).
Item
Identifier: Acc.11481
Dates:
circa 1982.
Transcript, circa 2007, of a diary kept by Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel) Gavin R V Hume-Gore, 1st Gordon Highlanders, 1914.
File
Identifier: Acc.12782
Scope and Contents
Includes transcripts of related documents, 1914-1918, and a copy of a photograph of Hume-Gore.
Dates:
circa 2007.
Transcript, early 19th-century, of 'The Passioun of Crist' by Walter Kennedy, from British Library Arundel MS 285, folios 6-46.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.2
Scope and Contents
The transcript has been corrected in another contemporary hand.
Dates:
16th century.
Transcript of a BBC radio programme on Archibald Campbell of Kilberry.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5818
Dates:
1973.
Transcript of a BBC radio talk by Thomas Wilson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5834
Scope and Contents
Concerning his "Sequentiae Passionis", a cantata for chorus and orchestra commissioned by the Scottish National Orchestra.
Dates:
1973.
Transcript of a BBC television programme, "Gale Force Disaster".
Item
Identifier: Acc.5754
Scope and Contents
On the sinking of the "Princess Victoria" on 31 January 1953.
Dates:
1973.
Transcript of a BBC television programme, "Orpheus with his Lute: a Portrait of Sir Hugh S Robertson".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6817
Dates:
1976.