Dedications. Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Authors' notes prefixed to works, offering them to friends or patrons as marks of esteem, affection, or gratitude, or as pleas for patronage.
Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:
Marked proof of David Livingstone`s dedication of his "Missionary travels and researches in South Africa" to Sir Roderick Murchison., 1857.
Item
Identifier: MS.42431
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...
Dates:
1857.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning David Livingstone.
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Manuscripts by David Livingstone in which are recorded his journeys and experiences in Africa; with related proofs, sketches, a photographic print and a printed portrait.
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Manuscript, "Missionary travels and researches in South Africa", by David Livingstone; with related proofs.
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Assorted proofs for "Missionary travels and researches in South Africa" by David Livingstone.
Microfilm of Glenriddell Manuscripts: copies of poems, letters, etc., of Robert Burns, compiled by the poet, 1791-1793, for presentation to Robert Riddell of Glenriddell.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.900
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Poems, 4th quarter of 18th century, of Robert Burns, including "Tam o’ Shanter" and "Holy Willie’s Prayer", with a copy of a letter, 1787, to Dr Moore, and a dedicatory letter, 1791 (MS.86);
Letters, 4th quarter of 18th century, of Robert Burns (MS.87).
Dates:
4th quarter of 18th century.
Microfilm of miscellaneous historical and topographical items, copied in the 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.488
Dates:
1471, 1618, 1670, 18th century.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, including that of William Forbes Skene.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.15
Dates:
19th century.
Miscellaneous historical and topographical items, copied in the 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `A Chronological Sketch of the History of the Orkneys ... 875 to ... 1500’, possibly by George Low, minister of Birsay. It consists of fairly brief entries of historical events, followed (folio 9) by a copy of an Act of Parliament, 1471. (folio 1).(ii) Copy of `A Description of Zetland` by Thomas Gifford of Busta, 1733 (folio 11).(iii) Copy of an incomplete address to the Lord Provost on the name and...
Dates:
1471, 1618, 1670, 18th century.
Photostats of parts of 'Adversaria', a commonplace-book of Sir Walter Scott., 1796.
File
Identifier: MS.2232
Scope and Contents
The following sections of the book are reproduced:(i) Poem on Cater Thun, beginning, 'Cold the wild blast that chills thy brow', 5 May 1796 (folio 1);(ii) 'To a Lady', lines beginning, 'For thee from Time's slow mouldering hold' (folio 3);(iii) Lines beginning, 'Farewell my dear Jamie, ah take my farewell', with the refrain, 'Lochaber no more' (folio 4);(iv) 'Elegy on Shenstone', beginning, 'Listless laid beneath a willow' (folio 5);...
Dates:
1796.
Poem entitled 'The acts and lyf of the most wictorious conqueroure Robert Bruce, King of Scotland; wherin also ar contained the martiall deeds of the valiant princes Eduard Bruce, Sir James Douglas, Earle Thomas Randell, Walter Steuart, and dyverse other'., 1616-1625.
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Identifier: MS.2069
Scope and Contents
The poem, written by a Scottish writer between 1616 and 1625, is in three books, in heroic couplets, dedicated to the Prince of Wales (afterwards Charles I).
Dates:
1616-1625.
Poems and other works, chiefly of William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort to James IV., Late 16th century-mid 17th century.
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Identifier: MS.2065
Scope and Contents
The volume contains 'Verces writen by sundrie hands' according to a note, 1655, of Sir William Drummond (folio 1). In addition to the poems of William Fowler, which are the majority, and some addressed to him, which are printed with his ‘Works’ (1914), the volume contains “Earle of Ancram's Psalmes”, in the poet William Drummond's hand (folio 50); Fowler's translation of Machiavelli's dedication of the Prince, with a draft of Fowler's dedication to the Laird of Buccleuch (folio 147); and...
Dates:
Late 16th century-mid 17th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Hawthornden Manuscripts: original papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort of James VI.
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Manuscripts of William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort of James VI.
Poems of Robert Burns, including "Tam o’ Shanter" and "Holy Willie’s Prayer", with a copy of a letter, 1787, to Dr Moore, and a dedicatory letter, 1791., 4th quarter of 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.86
Scope and Contents
Contains 156 poems: folios 2-15 recto, 42 verso-49, 59-79 are in the poet’s handwriting; the rest are written by an amanuensis, with notes or corrections by Robert Burns.
Dates:
4th quarter of 18th century.
Political tract titled "Non Nobis Domine. My Help is onelie in God. My heart trusted & I am helped. A Conference betwixt Orthodoxus and Sophronus, concerning the contents of Buchanan's tractate entituled de jure Regni apud Scotos, and that other entitled Vindiciae contra Tyrannos".
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Identifier: MS.2567
Scope and Contents
The work, apparently not known in print, is in a hand of the early eighteenth century, with a dedication to the Marquess of Huntly and a preface, both signed 'Aretophilus'.
Dates:
Early 18th century.
‘Royall genealogie of the Antient High Borne, and most famous Kings of Scotland, which was formerly called Albion, their descendance and Successione’, written by Frederick Van Bossen, a Dane, and dedicated to the Officers of the State and others.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.5
Scope and Contents
Volume titled ‘Van Bossen’s genealogie’. The pedigree commences with Gathelus, and comes down to the birth of James, son to King James II, giving some of the chief cadent families of Stewart at the end.
Dates:
12 June 1688.
Scrap-book, containing caricatures, some dated 1813, and other drawings, chiefly by John Gibson Lockhart, engravings, etchings, lithographs, etc., 1813-1857, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.1626
Scope and Contents
The scrap-book includes the drawing of Fenella dancing before Charles II (? by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe) (number 78), that of John Gibson Lockhart and others riding to Selkirk, 1823 (number 80), and the portrait of Charles Scott, 1820 (number 82), all reproduced in Andrew Lang’s ‘Life and Letters of ... Lockhart’, and a portrait of Tom Purdie, 1822 (number 79). The album also contains ‘Select Sonnets’ by George Huntly Gordon (printed, undated), with an autograph dedication by the author to...
Dates:
1813-1857, undated.
Transcript, 1929, of the dedication of ‘Oenone and Paris’, from the unique copy in the possession of Dr Abraham Rosenbach, by J Denham Parsons, with notes.
Item
Identifier: MS.347
Dates:
1594.
Transcript, [circa 1879], of ‘Cantus, songs and fancies to three, four or five parts’ by John Forbes, including an original sheet of part of the 'Epistle dedicatory'., 1682.
File
Identifier: MS.21745
Typescript and corrected proofs of '100 little poems' by Lady Margaret Sackville., [1928, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.27481
Scope and Contents
The dedication (folio 3) and first poem (folio 7) are in manuscript. The typescript has manuscript corrections by both Lady Margaret Sackville and Charles Graves.
Dates:
[1928, or before.]
Volume of embroidery patterns with a dedication on the flyleaf 'Charlotte Scott from Sarah Eliza Jessop. Dec. 8th 1831'., 1831.
File
Identifier: MS.10388
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains knitting patterns, several anecdotes, recipes and a few rough pencil sketches.
Dates:
1831.