Skip to main content

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:

Photocopied typescript of a fragment of an unidentified play, scenes 1-6., Undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11443/126
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes prompt scripts, scripts of unperformed plays, production photography and press cuttings.

Dates: Undated.

Photocopies of corrected manuscripts and proofs of fragments, undated, of Thomas Carlyle, "History of Friedrich II of Prussia".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8022
Scope and Contents

With a letter, 1839, of Carlyle to James Aitken, and a letter, 1920, of Margaret Carlyle Aitken to Mary Walker.

Dates: 1839-1920 and undated.

Photocopies of letters, 1859-1860, to Kenneth Morrison, from relatives in Barvas and North Tolsta, Isle of Lewis.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6879
Scope and Contents

With later family letter, 1874, fragments of letters, and press cuttings.

Dates: 1859-1874.

Photocopy of an autobiographical fragment of John Saunders.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6277
Scope and Contents

Describing country life in Perthshire.

Dates: circa 1875.

Photocopy of part of the journal of Sir James Hall.

 File
Identifier: Acc.4616
Scope and Contents

Covering the period 7th - 15th April 1781.

Dates: 1781.

Poem and fragments of verse, undated, by Robert Louis Stevenson., Late 19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.3791
Scope and Contents

Includes: 'I knew you by your pallid face'; 'You of the pale face and cloven feet'; 'I, whom Apollo sometime visited' (‘Collected poems’, page 320); 'Let now your soul in this substantial world' (‘Collected poems’, page 281); 'The angler rose, he took his rod' (‘Collected poems’, page 354); 'In the highlands in the country places' (‘Collected poems’, page 255); 'As with heaped bees at hiving time' (‘Collected poems’, page 321).

Dates: Late 19th century.

Poems of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’, chiefly in his autograph.

 File
Identifier: MS.569
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) ‘On the laying the Foundation of the High School of Edinburgh, 24th June, 1777’ (folio i);(ii) ‘Winter Hymn’ with a note, 26 January 1829 (folio 2);(iii) ‘Morning Hymn’, endorsed, ‘Written out 1825, composed chiefly in a dream at Canaan Lodge [Edinburgh] one beautiful morning in August, 1825’; two copies (folio 4);(iv) ‘Ink loquitur’, endorsed, ‘(Impromptu) to Steuart of Allantoun, the translator of Sallust, who...
Dates: 1777-1829, undated.

"Section 7. Fourth Objection", a fragment of a philosophical manuscript of David Hume.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10805
Scope and Contents

Part of a previously unknown early work analysing the problem of evil, possibly a portion of a sequel to the "Treatise of Human Nature", and also anticipating arguments advanced in the "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion".

Dates: circa 1739-1740.

Sermons of Alexander Carlyle., 1746-1803, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.23786-23909
Scope and Contents They consist of sermons preached before and after the Sacrament (MSS.23786-23805), series of sermons on the Sermon on the Mount (MSS.23806-23816), on the Lord's Prayer (MSS.23817-23825) and on righteousness (MSS.23826-23834), sermons on death (MSS.23835-23840), sermons preached on public occasions (MSS.23841—23863), some of which were, printed subsequently, and sermons preached on various topics (MSS.23864-23906), followed by drafts, fragments and summaries of sermons and schemes of services...
Dates: 1746-1803, undated.

Seven bifolia, possibly a fragment from a bound volume, containing a series of drawings depicting different stages in the construction of a church., 164?4.

 Item
Identifier: MS.7149
Scope and Contents At folio 1 verso is a dedication in Latin to Fathers Andreas and Antonius Losson, founders of a college at Ypres, and to Maria van Breusegen and Maria Losson, co-founders, to whom the drawings were apparently presented by the college. The year 1644 (or possibly 1646), is given underneath the dedication in a rebus to which the date 24 April has been added in a contemporary hand. The dedication is enclosed in a border of thick ropes in blue, ending in orifices in red from which ears of corn...
Dates: 164?4.

Six small discontiguous fragments of vellum, apparently all from what appears to be a theological work of French provenance, one of the fragments containing a description or a definition of adoration., 14th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.25
Scope and Contents

The text is written possibly in double columns in folio, with each sentence introduced by a rubric. The fragments are difficult to read, and two of them are damaged.

The fragments were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark NE.775.h.14) of ‘Tomus I (II) Paraphraseon D. Erasmi in Nouum Testamentum’ (Basileae, 1556), where they had been used to strengthen the spine.

Dates: 14th century.

Society of Writers to Her Majesty`s Signet manuscripts.

 File
Identifier: Acc.4245
Scope and Contents

Including mediaeval vellum fragments, facsimiles of letters and documents (with some original manuscripts), and annotated printed items.

Dates: circa 1200-circa 1900.