Excerpts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Portions of a larger work, such as a literary work or motion picture, reproduced or excised without further change from their original context.
Found in 686 Collections and/or Records:
Sermons preached by John Gray., 1705-1707.
File
Identifier: MS.16464
Scope and Contents
The volume contains excerpts by John Gray from printed books at folios 83 verso.
There are the remains of a clasp.
Dates:
1705-1707.
Shān magico religious work, containing many references to the 'Vessantara-jātaka', and probably intended to instruct people how to gain victory over enemies - hatred, passion, illness, and evil spirits., ?19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1898
Scope and Contents
The work is composed in the metrical style called by the Shāns 'Līk Haw'. It is written in a character resembling the scripts used for the Norā and Khāmtī dialects of Shān, but is not identical with either. It is illustrated with several drawings.
The date of the manuscript is uncertain; it is unlikely to be earlier than 1800.
An extract from notes made on the manuscript by Captain H J Inman has been placed with the manuscript.
Dates:
?19th century.
'Sibbaldi Fragmenta Historica.'
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.25
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Transcript of the 'Chronicon de Melross';
(ii) Relationes Arnaldi Blair;
(iii) 'Extracta de MS. D. Gul. Cunninghaim de rebus gestis Gul. Vallæ', 1296;
(iv) Dr. Jamieson’s notes upon the ‘Chronicon de Melross’;
(v) Three letters of Queen Mary extracted from a Roman Manuscript;
(vi) Dr Jamieson’s observations on Melville’s Memoirs and on Bede;
(vii) Off the revenue or patrimony of the Crown;
(viii) Bull of Pope Urban Vth Contra Magnqs Societates;
(ix) A Charter...
Dates:
Late 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century.
Sketchbook of John Francis Campbell containing watercolours mostly executed on his visit to Sweden in 1850 (folios 27-108) and to Avranches in Normandy, 1848-1851., 1848-1851.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.3.17
Scope and Contents
There is also a series of pencil sketches at the back of the volume of various people Campbell encountered during court cases he attended while studying law. In some cases, he gives a brief note on the proceedings.
A printed extract from Campbell’s pamphlet, ‘Notes on the Stature of the Lapps’ is inserted between folios 64 and 65.
Dates:
1848-1851.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
Small quantities of leaves from accounts of travels, with some letters, of Jane C Burdon-Sanderson., 1874-1889.
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Identifier: MS.20194
Scope and Contents
The contents consist of:
(i) Leaves from a journal of Jane C Burdon-Sanderson of a voyage to Egypt and letters, September-October 1874, to her sister Elizabeth (folio 1);
(ii) Parts of a diary, apparently in the form of letters to her niece Elizabeth S Haldane, of a tour in Italy, November 1881-January 1882 (folio 36);
(iii) Extracts, in a later hand, of an account of her first voyage to India, November-December 1885, of her diaries 1887-1888, and of her last voyage to India, December 1888...
Dates:
1874-1889.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Diaries, a few notebooks and some miscellaneous papers chiefly of Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson, with some of her parents, brother and sisters, her husband and daughter.
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Travel journals and letters of Jane C Burdon-Sanderson, sister of Mary E Haldane.
'Some aspects of the Italian genius in the 19th century' by John Purves., [?1920-?1940.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15708
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The notes dated from the appointment of John Purves as lecturer in Italian at Edinburgh University in 1920.
Dates:
[?1920-?1940.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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, of John Purves, probably belonging to the period 1920-1940.
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 7: letters and papers, 1615-1616, 1622 (chiefly 1616)., 1615-1616, 1622.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 [vii]
Scope and Contents
The volume is entitled ‘Staite Bussines for the yeir 1616. Reg. Jacobo 6’, and is marked ‘A.2.44’ and ’39 Denmilne’.Many letters are to John Murray, and a number concern James Haig of Bemersyde`s indictment of his brother.The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of Oliphant to John Murray of Lochmaben on the private business of the former. Dated Edinburgh, 6 January 1616.(ii) Holograph letter of Sir Gideon Murray to John Murray of Lochmaben...
Dates:
1615-1616, 1622.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
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State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 1-13: letters and papers on various topics.
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 32: miscellaneous papers, including material on the Scots Guard in France., 1561-1621, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.15 [xxxii]
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Dates:
1561-1621, undated.
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 1-13: letters and papers on various topics., 1560-1641, undated.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 (i)-(xiii)
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Dates:
1560-1641, undated.
Summaries and extracts of documents not inserted into the manuscript (Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.14) of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson., 1901, or before.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.3.24-81.3.26
Scope and Contents
These were originally in small notebooks, but have now been gathered into volumes, the title-pages of the notebooks being preserved and reproduced in the catalogue records for the individual volumes.
Dates:
1901, or before.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
Summaries and extracts of documents not inserted into the manuscript (Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.14) of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson., 1901, or before.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.3.24
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) ‘Resolutions Holland I’ (folio 1).(ii) ‘Resolutions Holland II’ (folio 21).(iii) ‘Resolutions Holland III’ (folio 38).(iv) ‘Resolutions of Councilors in Committee Holland’ (folio 51).(v) ‘Resolutions Council of State 1793-1795’ (folio 73).(vi) ‘Resolutions Council of State Scottish Reg[iments] 3’ (folio 102).(vii) ‘Resolutions Council of State Scottish Brigade 4’...
Dates:
1901, or before.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
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Summaries and extracts of documents not inserted into the manuscript (Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.14) of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson.
Summaries and extracts of documents not inserted into the manuscript (Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.14) of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson., 1901, or before.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.3.25
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) ‘Holland 1573-1590’ (folio 1).(ii) ‘Council of State Commission book I’ (folio 8).(iii) ‘Council of State Commission book II’ (folio 29).(iv) ‘Commission Books Council of State H.11-H.13’’ (folio 50).(v) ‘Commission Books Council of State H.13 (continued)’ (folio 71).(vi) ‘Commission Books Council of State H.13-H.14’ (folio 94).(vii) ‘Commission Books C. of State...
Dates:
1901, or before.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
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Summaries and extracts of documents not inserted into the manuscript (Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.14) of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson.
Summaries and extracts of documents not inserted into the manuscript (Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.14) of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson., 1901, or before.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.3.26
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:
(i) ‘Council of State States of War II’ (folio 1).
(ii) ‘War Estimates 1766-1795 II’ (folio 8).
(iii) ’War Estimates 1766-1795 III’ (folio 18).
(iv) ‘Commanding Officers and Sundries’ (folio 43).
(v) ‘D 46-120’ (folio 62).
(vi) ‘Companies’ (folio 72).
(vii) ‘Oath book I’ (folio 103).
(viii) ‘Oath book II’ (folio 128).
Dates:
1901, or before.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
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Summaries and extracts of documents not inserted into the manuscript (Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.14) of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS’, a collection of copies of Scottish historical documents, originally labelled ‘Kirk manuscripts C’., 17th century.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.20
Scope and Contents
A volume of miscellaneous collections consisting among others of:
(i) A copy of instructions and letters, 1539-1543, of Sir Ralph Sadler;
(ii) A bulky and ill arranged collection of copies of charters to Scotch religious houses and Bishopricks (namely: Aberdeen, St. Andrews, Cambuskenneth, Melrose, Dunfermline, Coldingham, Trinity College of Edinburgh, Dunbar, Lindores, Haddington and Corstorphine), taken from the Chartularies of Aberdeen, St. Andrews (then in hands of H. Maule and formerly...
Dates:
17th century.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Dates:
17th century.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of Scottish historical documents, for the most part copies from the Cotton Library, originally labelled ‘Kirk manuscripts B’., 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.19
Scope and Contents
A collection copied by various hands without sufficient accuracy, possibly for Matthew Crawford.The contents are as follows:
(i) Letter, 3 May 1582, of Sir John Foster to Secretary Walsingham.
(ii) Advertisement out of Scotland, 22 June 1582.
(iii) Letter, 20 August 1582, of the Queen of England to the King of Scotland.
(iv) Depositions of George Douglas sent the 14 September from Stirling, and received the 20 September at Windsor. ‘Septr. 28 1582’.
(v) The heads whereof George...
Dates:
17th century.
Texts of documents not inserted into the manuscript (Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.14) of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson., 1701-1788.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.3.15-81.3.23
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
It was originally Ferguson`s intention to print Dutch text and English translation of all Dutch documents quoted, but this scheme had to be abandoned for reasons of space, and only the English translations were ultimately printed (Volume I, page xxxiii). Before this change of plan, the Dutch texts had been inserted into the appropriate places of the manuscript of Volume I and part of Volume II; the rest are preserved separately, Adv.MSS.81.3.15-81.3.23.Summaries and extracts of...
Dates:
1701-1788.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
'The Conduct from April to July, 1783, ... respecting the Operations of the Southern Force', a memorandum, including extracts from correspondence, prepared by James Stuart., 1783.
File
Identifier: MS.8412
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The papers chiefly refer to James Stuart's stay in India as an officer (later Commander-in-Chief) of the forces of the East India Company based at Fort St George (Madras). The most detailed portions of the papers cover the year immediately prior to Stuart's dismissal from the Company's service in 1783. Stuart appears to have retained these papers as justification of his actions and as a defence against accusations of inefficiency. He made different sets of copies of much of his...
Dates:
1783.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Correspondence and papers of Major-General James Stuart, younger brother of Andrew Stuart.
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Copies of correspondence, chiefly compiled for James Stuart, probably as part of his defence against accusations of inefficiency.
Topographical and other works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.22
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Scotia illustrata sive Theatrum Urbium, Arcium, Monasteriorum et aedium quarundam illustrium in Scotia`, circa 1692. The Latin text by Sibbald intended for John Slezer`s ‘Theatrum Scotiae’. It is very different from the published text which Slezer had had translated without Sibbald`s authority. The preface is in Slezer`s hand, and each entry is signed by both Sibbald and Slezer. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copy of William Harvey`s...
Dates:
Circa 1692-1709, and undated.
Tour diary of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton: Amritsar, Karachi, Bombay, Kanpur, 17 October - 5 November 1911., 1911.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.85.1.7
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.
Dates:
1911.
Transcript in a contemporary hand, of the ‘Autobiography’ of Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk.
File
Identifier: MS.3732
Scope and Contents
This version of the ‘Autobiography’, the same as that found in MS.3462 (folios 1-371), contains also the opening pages which are missing in that manuscript. Included (as far as folio 34 verso) are numerous excerpts from Thomas Carlyle's 'Recollections', some of which were printed for the first time, perhaps from MS.3463, in the form of footnotes in the 1910 edition of the ‘Autobiography’. Thereafter, apart from minor variations in arrangement and the omission of several paragraphs, the text...
Dates:
1765, 1800, 1819.
Transcripts, 19th century, of letters of and to Henry Mackenzie., 1774-1825, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.648
Scope and Contents
The transcripts are of the following:(i) Excerpts from 17 letters of Henry Mackenzie to William Craig (appointed a Senator of the College of Justice in 1792), 1774-1806, undated, dealing with Bath, travel, London, politics, the stage, and the ‘Mirror’ (folio 1);(ii) Three letters of Samuel Rogers, the poet, to Henry Mackenzie, 1804-1805, containing the verses beginning ‘Sleep on and dream of heaven awhile’, for George Thomson’s collections, and literary news (folio...
Dates:
1774-1825, undated.
Transcripts, 1774-?1788, of ecclesiastical records of Perth, 1560-1668, made by the Reverend James Scott, minister of the East Church, Perth, and a copy in his possession, 1784, of the ‘History of the united Parishes of Monivaird and Strowan’ compiled, circa 1774, by James Porteous of Dalvich, Minister of Monzievaird and Strowan.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.1.1-31.1.6
Scope and Contents
This is part ii of Scott`s transcripts and translations.
Dates:
1560-1668, circa 1774.
Transcripts and notes, I, early 20th century, partly typewritten, concerning the ‘Forty-five., 1685-1700, 1745-1747, 1802.
File
Identifier: MS.298
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Memorandum in the handwriting of Murray of Dollerie regarding the fate of his son Anthony, present at the battle of Culloden, 1746. (Folio 1.)(ii) ‘Memorial for the Lord Braco to the Lord Advocate’, 1747. (Folio 4.)(iii) Correspondence of Lord Lewis Gordon and others with Mr Harry Milne, factor to Duff, the Laird of Drummuir, and other documents relating to the payment of levy-money to Prince Charles Edward, 1745-1746....
Dates:
1685-1700, 1745-1747, 1802.
Transcripts and notes, II, early 20th century, all typed, concerning the 'Forty-five., 1740-1748.
File
Identifier: MS.299
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) "Mr. McLourin’s Journall of what passed relating to the defence of Edinburgh from Monday Septemr. 2d. till Monday Septemr. 16th 1745", journal of Professor Colin Maclaurin. (Folio 1.)(ii) ‘A succinct genealogical account of the Grosett family, and a narrative of services performed for the Government by Walter Grosett of Logie, Esqr., during the Rebellion in 1745. Lisbon, January 1764’, with a further account of the family at folio 53....
Dates:
1740-1748.