Essays.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Short literary compositions on single subjects, often presenting the personal view of the author.
Found in 173 Collections and/or Records:
15th century Italian manuscript of works by Cicero
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.15
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:'Laelius de amicitia' (folio 1); 'Cato Maior de senectute' (folio 25); and,'Paradoxa Stoicorum' (folio 47) (49 'infinite'-end is lost). The text shows a great many variants, especially changes of order and small omissions, from that of the older manuscripts. On folio 1 is a gold initial with white vine-stem decoration, filled with green and lilac and surrounded with blue. Other initials...
Dates:
15th century.
115 letters to W R Aitken and his family of Hugh MacDiarmid, and four from Valda Grieve.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.10488
Scope and Contents
With manuscripts of a short story and essay of MacDiarmid, proof copy of "Sanschaw" and typescript copy of a thesis on MacDiarmid by Claude Henry.
Dates:
1934-1978.
A copy of Alexander Monro's 'Essay on female conduct' (MS.6658), incorporating the corrections and containing most of the additional material, made by Margaret Monro, in accordance with her father's intentions.
Item
Identifier: MS.6659
Dates:
1738.
`Abbreviat of his Majesties proper and constant rent peyit be the severall ffewars for their respective Lands And be the severall Shirreffs for the blensch dueties, castellwards and others out of the respective Shyres As the same Compts by the present Rolls, With the deductiones and differences betwixt the same and former Rolls preceiding King James of blissed memorie his goeing To England In Anno 1603. Collected out of the Roll and Records of Exchequer, by Sir William Purves of Woodhouslee Knight and Baronet his Majesties Sollicitor In Anno 1667`, with an introductory essay `Of the Revenue or Patrimony of the Crown`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.16
Scope and Contents
Purves does not seem to have altered the figures of the rental after compiling his work in 1667, but he did expand the section of the introduction on the Court of Exchequer. The final form which the work took in 1681 was published by D Murray Rose as ‘Revenue of the Scottish Crown, 1681’, from a manuscript in the British Museum (Addit. MS. 33,238). The original work of 1667 is represented by this manuscript, along with a copy of it, Adv.MS.6.2.2, folios 241-273, and a copy of...
Dates:
1667.
Account of a students` meeting and class excursion by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9690
Dates:
? 1871.
Album compiled by Major J Stewart Reakes containing "Law and Orders relating to Defascism and Epuration" issued by the Allied Military Government, British-United States Zone, Free Territory of Trieste.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10445
Dates:
circa 1945-1950.
Archives of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, consisting of incoming correspondence, lectures and papers read to the Society; including the original manuscript, 1871, of the essay of Robert Louis Stevenson, 'Intermittent Lights'.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4534/1-183
Scope and Contents
The papers comprise two distinct yet related groups, giving in all quite a comprehensive account of the Society's history, and spanning more than a century of rapid scientific and technological achievement.
Dates:
1819-1940, 1946, undated.
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.
Books of undergraduate notes, and drafts of essays on logic and metaphysics, with notes, of Sir James Matthew Barrie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6648-6651
Dates:
1878-1881.
Copies made by James Keay of Snaigow, circa 1722-1730, of legal works.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.5.9-81.5.11
Dates:
1715, circa 1722-1730.
Copies of ‘Ane essay on the office of notary’.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.7.7-25.7.8
Scope and Contents
The authors name is not known.
Dates:
18th century.
Copies of papers entitled "Tobacco Smoke" and "Women`s Lib", by Wilfrid E J Trask.
File
Identifier: Acc.11711
Dates:
circa 1991.
Copies of three appreciations of Wallace, Burns and Stevenson by Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11786
Scope and Contents
Re-published in 1905 by Aeneas Mackay, Stirling, being the publisher`s own copies including original letters of Lord Rosebery, 1905, tipped in.
Dates:
1905.
Copy, 18th century, of ‘Ane Essay upon Tiends`, an anonymous essay in six chapters.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.3
Scope and Contents
Internal evidence suggests that the original essay was written circa 1732. It begins on folio 1, and is followed by a discussion on `patronage` (folio 28 verso), apparently a memorial by C Talbot for an unnamed litigant; and a copy ‘Memorial for Mr Thomas Linning, Min[?]. at Walstoun` (folio 30). The original of this memorial must have been written before Linning`s death in 1731.
Dates:
Circa 1732.
Copy of "An Essay on Ways and Means for Inclosing, Fallowing, Planting, etc. Scotland" (Edinburgh 1729), with notes on the end fly-leaf by Naomi Mitchison in connection with her book, "The Bull Calves".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9242
Dates:
1729.
Copy of George Cheyne, "An Essay of Health and Long Life" (London, 1724), with frequent overlinings and annotations by John Elphinstone, 4th Lord Balmerino.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9345
Dates:
1724.
Copy of "Inquiry into the Causes of the Prescription of the Clan Gregor, 1603", by Donald Gregory.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11652
Dates:
1830.
Copy of "The Bruce and Wallace; Published from Two Ancient Manuscripts... in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates", with annotations by Patrick Fraser Tytler.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10398
Dates:
1820.
Copy, written in the 2nd half of the 17th century, probably in Holland, of essays against Georgios Plethon by Matthaeus Camariota, 15th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.1.4
Scope and Contents
The manuscript gives the author`s name as Μακαριώτης and the title as πρὸς Πλήθωνα κατὰ (for περὶ) εἱμαρμένης.
Dates:
15th century.
Corrected manuscripts of three essays and two broadcast talks of Compton Mackenzie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7911
Dates:
1928, 1961 and undated.
Corrected manuscripts of three essays of William Sharp, "The Cuckoo", "The Heralds of March", and "Mäya", with parts of two other essays.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7479
Dates:
circa 1880-circa 1900.