Descriptions. Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Written, digital, spoken, or signed representations of the attributes or qualities of something or someone.
Found in 79 Collections and/or Records:
Account of Corstorphine Parish, with its buildings and the local families, with extracts from registers, etc., collected by John Philp Wood., [1795, or after.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.1872-1873
Dates:
[1795, or after.]
Account of Corstorphine Parish, with its buildings and the local families, with extracts from registers, etc., collected by John Philp Wood., [1795, or after.]
File
Identifier: MS.1872
Account of Corstorphine Parish, with its buildings and the local families, with extracts from registers, etc., collected by John Philp Wood., [1795, or after.]
File
Identifier: MS.1873
Account of Dalmeny Parish, with its buildings and the local families, with extracts from registers, etc., collected by John Philp Wood., 1st quarter of 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.1874
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Account of England in ‘Memorie novelle de' viaggi per l'Europa cristiana’ by Giovanni Battista Pacichelli., [?1940-?1959.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15749
Dates:
[?1940-?1959.]
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Archives and Manuscripts
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks of John Purves concerning Italian literature.
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Notebooks, undated, possibly belonging to the period 1940-1959.
Account of Kirkliston Parish, with its buildings and the local families, with extracts from registers, etc., collected by John Philp Wood., 1st quarter of 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.1875
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Account of the execution of Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, [?1747], written by his agent, William Fraser, junior, Writer to the Signet, on the fly-leaves of a printed volume of ‘Heures’ (Paris, 1710).
Item
Identifier: MS.110
Scope and Contents
The book had belonged to Lord Lovat, and was given by him to William Fraser on the 8 April 1747, the day before his execution, which the latter witnessed.
Dates:
[?1747.]
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Archives and Manuscripts
Al-faraj ba‘d al-shiddah, a Turkish manuscript, probably of the eighteenth century, written in a current, fairly readable Naskhi hand, with Persian titles in red., 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2753
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is a copy of the Turkish collection of tales which was based closely on a medieval Persian collection. The full complement of 42 tales is present, but not in the traditional order; there are four additional tales from other sources.The words 'Persian Tales in Turkish Translated by me into English' followed by an erased and now indecipherable signature, appear on folio 178 verso.A fuller description, by C S Mundy of the School of Oriental and African...
Dates:
18th century.
Anonymous description of a proposed route from Port Patrick, Wigtonshire, to Edinburgh for Sir Edward Baker, formely Littlehales, 1st Baronet of Ashcombe, Surrey, with maps and mileage tables.
Item
Identifier: MS.17958
Scope and Contents
This is a carefully planned tour. The writer states his reasons for the selection of the route and for rejecting the alternatives, and comments on the history and contemporary situations of the major settlements en route.
Dates:
1819.
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Archives and Manuscripts
'Calicut - account of Mootee Pudam or the Way of Heaven and other games of Malabar' by Alexander Walker., [Circa 1800.]
Item
Identifier: MS.13822
Copies of letters, 1802-1806, of Charlotte Edgeworth to her brother and sisters, and of a description by Henry Edgeworth of a journey to Edinburgh, October 1803., 1802-1806.
File
Identifier: MS.2722
Scope and Contents
Two family letters, notes, and copies of poems in various hands have been inserted on folios 20-46.
Dates:
1802-1806.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Manuscripts collected by George Neilson, Glasgow, author of ‘Trial by combat’ (Glasgow, 1890) and joint-editor of the ‘Acta Dominorum Concilii, 1496-1501’ (Edinburgh, 1918).
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Commonplace-books, etc., of Richard Lovell Edgeworth of Edgeworthstown and his family, with some notes in pencil ascribing names, dates, etc., to poems.
Copy, 18th century of Latin poem, 1595, on Charlemagne by Matthew Brobon Caesar, Professor of Greek at Leipzig; with excerpt, 1399, from 14th century manuscript describing an 'idol of the Teutons'., 14th century, 1595.
File
Identifier: Acc.3591/11
Correspondence and newspaper-cuttings relating to the restoration of St Margaret’s Chapel, the Argyll Tower, and the Banqueting Hall of Edinburgh Castle., 1891-1893, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1738
'Descripción del Golfo è Isthmo del Darién, año de 1761', by Antonio de Arebalo., 1761.
Item
Identifier: MS.1001, folios 31-60
Dates:
1761.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Miscellaneous papers.
Description and transcription, 19th century, of a manuscript of the German translation of the romance of 'Pontus and Sidonia', 1465, in the Landesbibliothek Gotha.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.14
Scope and Contents
The volume contains a 19th-century description and transcription of manuscript Chart. A 590, held in the Forschungsbibliothek Gotha. Chart. A 590 contains the German translation of the French romance 'Pontus and Sidonia', and according to a scribal colophon was written in 1465 by Nicolaus Huber, presbyter in Brixen. The German translation has been attributed to Eleanor of Austria (1433-1480), daughter of King James I of Scotland and wife of Sigismund, Archduke of Austria. The...
Dates:
1465, 19th century, probably early 1820s.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Description of Tahiti by Gregory Warner, surgeon, employed by the London Missionary Society on the island., June 1811.
Item
Identifier: MS.11725
Dates:
June 1811.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto as Governor-General of India.
Description of the armorial bearings of Scottish families, some bearings being shown in colour., Late 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.979
Scope and Contents
On folio 4 verso is a note, “This Copie I had from the originall written by Sr. Patrick Lyon Lord Carse and lent to me by him selfe all wrñ with his own hand, which he had lent before to Sr. George McKenzie the king's advocate, who copied itt & made severall additions therto, as every one may doe from ther own experience as I myselfe have done in seāll places. Facile est inventis addere. W A".
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Description of the documents in MSS.3824-3829, with letters of the donor, John W Earnshaw, to Dr H W Meikle, regarding these and other sources of information about Thomas Muir., 1948-1949.
File
Identifier: MS.3829
Dates:
1948-1949.
Descriptions and drawings, by David Donald, a mechanic from Glasgow, of machinery in Holland, France, and Belgium., 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2147
Scope and Contents
Included is a letter of David Donald to his patron, Lord Sinclair, copied by a contemporary from the originals in Lord Sinclair's possession, and preceded by an account, by the copyist, of Donald's career. At the end are some descriptions of machines in Great Britain.
Dates:
18th century.
'Descriptions [by Henry Gough] of certain Manuscripts which belonged to John Patrick, third Marquess of Bute’, at Mountstuart., 1848-1900.
File
Identifier: MS.2767
Descriptions of travels by Duncan H McPherson., 1937-1944.
File
Identifier: MS.19618
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Typescript copies of Duncan McPherson's letters to his parents describing a journey by train and car from New York to San Francisco and back, 1937. (Folio 1.)(ii) Typescript description by Duncan McPherson and his companions of a trek in the hills of South India, 1940. (Folio 111.)(iii) Typescript description of a trek in Kashmir, 1941. (Folio 128.)(iv) Typescript copies of Duncan McPherson's letters written on...
Dates:
1937-1944.
Devotional work in a hand of the fourteenth century., 14th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3055
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Devotions relating to the Passion of Christ, consisting of a meditation on an episode of the Passion, with an appropriate prayer, for each of the canonical hours, namely, matins, from the betrayal of Christ to the mocking before Herod; prime, His appearance before Pilate, the flagellation, etc.; terce, the cry of 'Crucify Him'; sext, the Crucifixion; nones, His death; vespers, the descent from the Cross; compline, the entombment. These are preceded...
Dates:
14th century.
'Etat des fonctions et Recette de la Charge d'Exemps des Gardes du Corps pour les Cérémonies dont j'ai été revetu le 23. Octobre 1751', being a copy of the record of ceremonies attended by Joseph Morin de Romainvilliers in his official capacity., 1751-1775.
File
Identifier: MS.25174
Scope and Contents
Most of these were church services and they include descriptions of the funeral ceremonies for Marie Leczinska and Louis XV, 1768, 1774, and the coronation of Louis XVI, 1775. Morin de Romainvilliers was succeeded in the post of Exempt des gardes du corps by Charles Grant in 1777. The document is followed (folio 32) by notes on the duties of the different corps of guards at court.
Dates:
1751-1775.
Harsh description, undated, of the Reverend Edward Irving's matter and manner, communicated, according to a note, by Sir John Carr to Charles Mathews., Early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3112, folio 282
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Illustrated description in German verse of a walking tour made by Edwin and Willa Muir and three friends, from Hellerau bei Dresden to Bad Elster, titled 'Familie "Pierrie Pig's" Ausflug'., 1923.
File
Identifier: MS.19672
Scope and Contents
Gerda Krapp, one of the three friends, wrote this account of the tour.
Dates:
1923.