Facsimiles. Reproductions.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Precise reproductions, usually in the same dimensions as the original, especially of books, documents, prints, and drawings. Today often reproduced photographically; in the past, reproduced by engraving or other printmaking process.
Found in 76 Collections and/or Records:
Facsimile of letter of Sir Walter Scott., 1819.
Item
Identifier: MS.23141, folios 44-45
Facsimile of letter of Thomas Guthrie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9199
Scope and Contents
Concerns fundraising for his Ragged School.
Dates:
1862.
Facsimile of pedigree of Swinton of that Ilk, by Captain George Swinton., 1927.
Item
Identifier: MS.350B
Facsimile of the minute-book, 1771-1792, of the Society of Civil Engineers (Smeatonian), and related papers.
Item
Identifier: MS.1843
Scope and Contents
Also included are accounts, 1771-1785 (folio 72, inverted), and the first three pages of the second minute book, 1793-1794, 1824.
This is one of several facsimile copies made in 1893 to the order of the Society, for distribution to members.
Dates:
1771-1794, 1824.
Facsimile of the original manuscript of the poem, 'The Quangle Wangle's Hat' by Edward Lear., Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1536
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Facsimile of the original manuscript of the poem, 'The Story of the Pobble, who has no toes, and the Princess Bink' by Edward Lear., Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1535
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Facsimile of the "Peroration" to the manuscript of Walter Scott`s "The Tale of Old Mortality" (1816).
Item
Identifier: Acc.12392
Dates:
circa 1816.
Facsimile, undated, of the armorial of Macleod of Macleod, 16th century., 16th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.53.3.13
Facsimile, undated, of the second Lindsay Armorial, 1603-1605., 1603-1605.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.53.3.12
Facsimiles of manuscripts made for students in Falconer Madan's classes in mediaeval palaeography at Oxford, with notes and a few transcripts by Percy Stafford Allen.
File
Identifier: MS.9739
Scope and Contents
There is an inscription by Percy Allen dated 1894 (folio i) and he is known to have attended the classes that year. Photostats of letters of Robert Turberville and Pope Leo X to Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester, 1517, undated, are inserted (folio 38).
Dates:
1517, 1894, undated.
Facsimiles of the original manuscript of two poems of Edward Lear.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1535-1536
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Facsimiles of three documents of and concerning Mary Queen of Scots.
File
Identifier: Acc.8184
Dates:
1557-? 1558.
'Four letters of Sir Walter Scott, James Hogg, Alfred Tennyson and John Gibson Lockhart. Facsimiled from the originals in the possession of James Falconer, Dundee' (Dundee: privately printed, 1897), with press cuttings, 1895-1897, concerning the discovery of the letters by Charles M Falconer, Dundee, pasted in., 1820-1843, 1895-1897.
File
Identifier: MS.2530
Scope and Contents
The dates of the letters are as follows: Scott, 1820; Hogg, 1833; Tennyson, 1834; Lockhart (incomplete), 1843.
Dates:
1820-1843, 1895-1897.
'Leaves from the Buik of the West Kirke': facsimiles made by George A Panton, of fifteen documents in the 'Buik of the West Kirk', a collection of papers of the Kirk Session of St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, with commentary by George Lorimer., ?Late 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.1953
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Dates:
?Late 17th century.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Brickdale to Brighton., 1824-1924.
File
Identifier: MS.40147
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and, where required, by date under each name. A further correspondent has been added to the end of this sequence.Brickdale, Charles, 1893-1913: folios 1-31;Brickdale, Eleanor, 1898: folios 32-36;Bridell, E.J., 1846: folios 37-38;Bridges, Frances, 1882-1889: folios 39-55;Bridges, George, 1827-c1851: folios 56-59: includes letter, [c1851], of George Bridges to...
Dates:
1824-1924.
Letters to Sir Walter Scott, [?1825]-1828, with other documents, concerning the life of Napoleon Buonaparte., 1789-1828.
File
Identifier: MS.886
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Paris describing incidents in the Revolution, 1789 and 1793 (folio 145); facsimiles and transcripts of letters and documents, 1797-1813, in the Swedish Archives relating to Bernadotte (folio 43); and accounts of Napoleon's voyage to St Helena and captivity there.
Dates:
1789-1828.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Material for the 'Life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott.
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Letters to Sir Walter Scott, with other documents, chiefly concerning the life of Napoleon Buonaparte.
Letters to Sir Walter Scott, with other documents, chiefly concerning the life of Napoleon Buonaparte., [?1825]-1828.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.885-886
Dates:
[?1825]-1828.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Material for the 'Life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott.
Manuscripts collected by Walter Biggar Blaikie, Doctor of Laws, editor of volumes concerning Jacobitism in the publications of the Scottish History Society, etc.
Series
Identifier: MSS.278-318
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
Material collected by Captain George Sitwell Campbell Swinton, Lyon King of Arms, supplementary to the work of his father, Archibald Campbell Swinton of Kimmerghame, ‘The Swintons of that Ilk and their Cadets’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.350A-B
Dates:
1814, 1883, 1927-1929.
Material relating to Sir Walter Scott and Robert Southey, written and collected by James Glen, Writer, Glasgow.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2525-2533
Dates:
1792-1843, 1921-1935, undated.
'Memoir of Andrew Lumisden.', 1746-[circa 1836], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14264
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letter, [circa 1836], of Sir Thomas A L Strange to his son, Lumisden, giving biographical details of his uncle, Andrew Lumisden. (Folio 1.)(ii) Genealogical material, 1836, undated, relating to the Strange family. (Folios 32.)(iii) Pedigree, 1798, of Andrew Lumisden in his own hand, following a letter, 1814, of J Lumisden, Bengal. (Folio 36.)(iv) Printed pamphlet, ‘Votes of the House of Commons 1746’ (London,...
Dates:
1746-[circa 1836], undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Sir Robert Strange, the engraver, and his brother-in-law, Andrew Lumisden, secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, encompassing the period from the '45 Rebellion to the early 19th century, with some earlier family documents and later genealogical material.
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Papers of the Lumisden family.
Microfilm of Industrial Revolution: a documentary history. Series 2. Papers of John Rennie, Thomas Telford and related figures. Part 2., 1769-1907.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1418-1437
Microfilm of Industrial Revolution: a documentary history. Series 2. Papers of John Rennie, Thomas Telford and related figures. Part 2., 1771-early 20th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1424
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Letters, 1809-1820, of and concerning Lieutenant William Rennie, Royal Navy, to his father John Rennie (MS.19933);
Miscellaneous material, [1784]-early 20th century, relating to the life and career of John Rennie (MS.19934);
Facsimile, 1893, of the minute book, 1771-1792, of the Society of Civil Engineers. (MS.19935).
Dates:
1771-early 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Microfilm of Industrial Revolution: a documentary history. Series 2. Papers of John Rennie, Thomas Telford and related figures, from the National Library of Scotland. Parts 1-2 (Adam Matthew, 2003).
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Microfilm of Industrial Revolution: a documentary history. Series 2. Papers of John Rennie, Thomas Telford and related figures. Part 2.