Fragments.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Portions of something that are torn, broken off from, or dislocated from their original whole.
Found in 371 Collections and/or Records:
21 letters and fragments of and to Scottish clergymen.
File
Identifier: Acc.8670
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Charles Cowan, Alexander Duff, Robert H Lundie, Thomas Guthrie and George S Duncan.
Dates:
1822-1948 and undated.
26 manuscript fragments of paper and vellum, recovered from bindings.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8732
Dates:
15th century.
32 letters and fragments of letters of or to the Kerr family, Dalry, Ayrshire and their Kerr, Currie, Boyle and Glen relatives in the United States.
File
Identifier: Acc.11416
Dates:
1820-1883.
Additional related material acquired with MS.16495: Lesmahagow missal, being fragments of the missal and correspondence and notes of Sir Sydney Cockerell concerning it., 13th century-1953, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.16495A-16496
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
File
Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents
The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates:
1696-1891, undated.
Articles and fragments about Hugh MacDiarmid., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.11750/100
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Including correspondence, notebooks, autobiographical and editorial papers.
Dates:
Undated.
Articles, notes, and fragments in Thomas Carlyle’s autograph., 1767, 1832-[?1871], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1798
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Article on "A narrative of a nine months’ residence in New Zealand" (London, 1832) by Augustus Earle (folio 1);(ii) ‘Gropings about Montrose’, 1839 (folio 4);(iii) Remarks on publication of Bulwer Lytton’s Works 1854, and likeness of constitutional government to sawing a plank on which you are sitting, 1855 (folio 5);(iv) Remarks on liberty, [?1865] (folio 7);(v) Corrected proof of his inaugural...
Dates:
1767, 1832-[?1871], undated.
Articles, speeches and essays of David Young Cameron., 1932-1945, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.8950/26-29
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
Papers of Sir David Young Cameron including sketches, manuscripts and typescripts of lectures and addresses, and correspondence.
Papers of Katherine Cameron Kay include sketches, notes on paintings and etchings, and correspondence.
Dates:
1932-1945, undated.
Autobiographical fragment, 1899, and 'Memorandum of events between 1906-1915', April 1916, by Richard Burdon Haldane., 1899, 1916.
File
Identifier: MS.6109(ii)
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers include correspondence of other members of the family of Haldane of Cloan covering a period of almost a century and a half from the beginning of the 19th century, especially rich for the period 1875-1937.
Dates:
1899, 1916.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane of Cloan (1856-1928), the statesman, lawyer and philosopher, and of his sister, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane (1862-1937), philanthropist and author.
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Correspondence of various members of the families of Haldane and Burdon Sanderson, and other miscellaneous papers.
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Miscellaneous correspondence and other papers of Richard Burdon Haldane.
Autobiographical reminiscences drafts and fragments of Ruthven Todd., 1963, 1966, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26863
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Autobiographical reminiscences, written in the form of letters to Anne McGuire, 1963, undated (folio 1); (ii) Autobiographical drafts and fragments, 1966, undated (folio 53).
Dates:
1963, 1966, undated.
Book of hours., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.5765
Scope and Contents
Contains the following:(i) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of the Cross, according to the Use of Sarum (folio 1);
(ii) Prayers, part of the Office of the Dead (apparently not of Sarum Use), psalms and suffrages of saints (folio 50);
(iii) Penitential Psalms (folio 89);
(iv) Psalms 132-134 (folio 99);
(v) The Litany, which does not include any English saints (folio 102);
(vi) 'Ave Maria' and the Creed (folio 111 verso);
(vii) Fragment of a fourteenth-century glossed text of...
Dates:
15th century.
Book of hours and devotions., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7135
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Hours of the Holy Ghost (folio 1);
(ii) Prayers and devotional exercises (folio 33);
(iii) Suffrages of the saints (folio 55);
(iv) Hours of the Cross (folio 65 verso).The volume would appear to be no more than a fragment, as there are leaves missing after folio 32, containing the conclusion of (i), and folios 1 and 62-65 are replacements in another hand for missing originals. (The leaves missing after folios 48, 49, and 64 do not...
Dates:
15th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh; together with a list of the full collection.
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh.
Book of hours, possibly according to the Use of Utrecht., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7133
Scope and Contents
The volume may be incomplete or may consist of fragments of two separate books (folios 110-141 are in a different hand from the rest of the volume); it is in any case in some confusion, having been incorrectly rebound.The contents are as follows:(i) Hours of the Cross (folio 2);
(ii) Hours of the Eternal Wisdom (folio 28);
(iii) Hours of the Holy Ghost (folios 53-68 as far as Sext; the remainder is at folios 143-150);
(iv) Vigils of the Nine Lessons (folios 92-107, as...
Dates:
15th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh; together with a list of the full collection.
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh.
Box of notebooks, notes and related papers, possible for the 'Alpine journal'., 1923-1953.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.4338/205(1-16)
Scope and Contents
Containing:(1) note concerning J V E Ryan and other topics(2) notes concerning records of ascents and various climbing notes(3) incomplete climbing account with unrelated papers(4) fragment (possibly of beginning) of climbing account(5) notes of alpine books and articles(6) notes and incomplete alpine descriptions(7) binding instructions written on empty envelopes(8) copy of list of CWN’s Alpine...
Dates:
1923-1953.
Brief fragment of the journal of John Harden., 1802.
Item
Identifier: MS.8865
Scope and Contents
This fragment of a much longer diary describes the first part (from Dublin to Dunmail Raise) of John Harden's journey to Scotland to marry Jessy Allan. It is essentially a series of word-pictures of a succession of landscapes, each perceived with an artist's eye.
Dates:
1802.
Charters and related writs of the Rutherford family of Edgerston.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.7750/1-72
Scope and Contents
Contains 71 writs and three detached seals, with Cairncross Charters of the Regality of Melrose (listed in "Selections from the Regality of Melrose", volume III, (1917), pp 373-382).Please note that the Rutherford name is represented variously throughout the charters, including Ruderfurde, Ruthirfurde, and Rutherfurde.This collection consists of material transferred from the Scottish Record Office to the National Library, and is supplementary to the main body of...
Dates:
Circa 1320-1566, undated.
Children`s rhymes and other scraps of Scottish poetry, possibly collected by Abijah Murray.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9319
Dates:
circa 1870.
`Chronicle of Perth`, 1210-1668, also known as Mercer`s Chronicle and Fleming`s Chronicle, with other documents relating to the burgh of Perth.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.4.4
Scope and Contents
The `Chronicle` was compiled probably between 1600 and 1668 by more than one person. Though attributed to John Mercer, town clerk of Perth, only the latter part appears to be his work. From 1660 it is almost entirely a register of burials.
Other items in the volume are a fragment of a legal memorial, circa 1597, concerning the foundation of the King James VI Hospital in Perth (folio 1), and a group of letters concerning Royal Burgh affairs (1614-1628), all copies (folio 20).
Dates:
?1600-1688.
'Clubfuit', by Tom Scott, and two fragments of plays., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.11750/87
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Including correspondence, notebooks, autobiographical and editorial papers.
Dates:
Undated.
Collection of illuminated manuscripts and fragments, chiefly Italian, acquired by the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art from 1868 to 1895.
Series
Identifier: MSS.25241-25251
Dates:
14th century-18th century.
Collection of manuscript fragments containing classical verse in Gaelic.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.2
Scope and Contents
A collection of bardic fragments varying considerably in size, condition and legibility.In John Sinclair's ‘The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’, and William Forbes Skene's scroll catalogue of the Advocates' Gaelic manuscripts (1861), the contents are described as follows (present circumstances indicated):Number 16 (a) ‘The conclusion of a Gaelic chronicle of the kings of Scotland down to King Robert III’ (missing).(b) ‘A Fingalian tale,...
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Collection of music by Hector Berlioz., Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3428 [HB.MS.1-9]
Scope and Contents
The following is based on the fuller description in Cecil Hopkinson, ‘A bibliography of the musical and literary works of Hector Berlioz’.HB.MS.1. 'Romance de Nina, ou la folle par amour.' Full score of the song from Dalayrac's opera 'Nina', copied by Hector Berlioz. (Folio 1.)HB.MS.2. "Air de Cellini, transposé pour voix de Basse par l'auteur." Full score of No. 15 from the opera 'Benvenuto Cellini'. This transposition is unpublished. (Folio 2.)HB.MS.3....
Dates:
Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
Commentary on Justinian's ‘Institutiones’ iv. 18 and fragments of one on ‘Institutiones’ i, written by Lord Milton., Early 18th century-mid 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.17808
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
Early 18th century-mid 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning law .
Copies and manuscript fragments of "Howard's revenge", by Donald Campbell., [1995].
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11443/12-14
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Arranged alphabetically by title. The date in square brackets is that of the Fifth Estate production, where this has been possible to establish.
Dates:
[1995].
Copies, apparently by Alexander Ross, of Johannes Ferrerius "Historiae Compendium de Origine et Incremento Gordonias Familiae", 1545, and of his own "Suthirlandiae Comitum Annales", 1625.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11085
Scope and Contents
Indluding:
1. "Vera Narratio...Victoriae...quod Auinum Amen [Glenlivet]... Anno Dmi 1594", with ownership inscription of Robert Gordon and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
2. incomplete charter, undated, of John, Earl of Sutherland
3. letters, 1605, 1623 and undated
4. two fragments of a writing excercise, undated
5. poems, undated, mostly of Robert Southwell, with a photocopy of typescript on the poems.
Dates:
16th century to 17th century.