Transcriptions. Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Written versions of oral language or music, or written copies made of other written documents, either in longhand or on a machine.
Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:
Microfilm of typescript transcripts of the literary correspondence of John Galt, transcribed by Ian A Gordon.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1185
Dates:
1807-1839.
Microfilm of typescripts of poems, [1922-1929],; and, synopses, [1932-1934], of intended publications of James Leslie Mitchell, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1121
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: Typescripts of poems, [1922-1929], of James Leslie Mitchell, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’ (MS.26058); Synopses, [1932-1934], of intended publications of James Leslie Mitchell, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’ (MS.26060).
Dates:
[1922-1934.]
Microfilm of volume containing a transcript of the diary, 18 June 1913-25 October 1914, of William McKinlay, entitled ‘The drift of the Karluk’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1163
Dates:
1913-1914.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1312-1328
Dates:
Mid 17th century-1937.
Notes upon Buchanan's history of Scotland, transcript of charters of David II and Robert III to the Laird of Edmonstoun.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.3
Dates:
Undated.
‘Nye Eventyr’ by Hans Christian Anderson (Copenhagen, 1845), with verses, 1845, written by the author for Mrs Charlotte Cowan, Glasgow, on the flyleaf; with a photographic copy, a typed transcription, and a translation into English verse.
File
Identifier: MS.3921
Dates:
1845.
Papers from the John Mabon Warden Collection of shorthand books.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.5706/1-67
Scope and Contents
The collection of shorthand books was formed by John Mabon Warden of Edinburgh (1856-1933). Warden was an actuary for the Scottish Equitable Insurance Company. He started work at the company in 1874 as a junior clerk and gradually worked his way up to secretary of the Company, retiring in 1926. He had a wide range of private interests, such as mathematical problems, genealogy, Esperanto (becoming a leading scholar of the language) and stenography.He built up a comprehensive...
Dates:
1661-1930, undated.
Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21669-21713
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
17th century-1972.
Papers of the Guild family, including correspondence, business copy letters and bound illustrated transcriptions.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14531/1-29
Scope and Contents
The papers here relate to James Guild (1774-1839) and his descendants.There is a wealth of correspondence among members of the family across generations. The first series of correspondence has a particular focus on the son, also James Guild (1810-1893), grandson, James Lyon Guild (1852-1925) and great-granddaughter, Agatha Mary Guild (1896-1980) of the elder James Guild. The second series of correspondence is between James Harrower [Harry] Guild (1872-1951) and...
Dates:
1830-2022.
“Relation de ce qui s’est passé de plus considerable dans les mouvemens de citoyens et bourgeois de Geneve l’anneé 1707 par Michel Covelle Regent de la neuviéme classe.”
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.5
Dates:
1707-1730.
‘State papers collected by Walsingham, Burleigh &ce’, copies of English state papers, from the reign of Elizabeth I, concerning relations with France, Spain, the Netherlands and Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.11
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Papers concerning the matters passed between England, France & Spain, and the Netherlands, of which a table is given at folio 91 verso.
(ii) Papers concerning matters that have passed between England and Scotland during the reign of Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, of which a table is placed at the end of the volume.The tops of the leaves are considerably damaged by damp and two leaves are wanting before folio 5.The description of...
Dates:
2nd half of 16th century.
Transcript of “Discourse en forme de lettres sur le gouvernement de Geneve et sur l’affire du sieur Micheli du Crest copié a Lyon en 1734.”
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.1
Scope and Contents
Copies of papers concerning the judgement of the Council of Two Hundred of Geneva against Jacques-Barthélemi Micheli du Crest.
At the end is a printed notice, 1736, of the “consultations” of the Parliament of Paris on the same subject.
Dates:
1734, 1736.
Transcript of part of Adv.MS. 35.6.6: Lists of religious houses and parishes in Scotland; with numerous additions by Walter Macfarlane, in his own hand.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.11
Dates:
[?1684-?1689.]
Transcripts, 18th century, of journals, 1547-1553, of the House of Lords for the reign of Edward VI; with a collection of songs and airs, 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.31
Dates:
1547-1553, 18th century.