Fragments.
Found in 371 Collections and/or Records:
Fragmentary manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of ‘The company I've kept’ by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’., [1966, or before.]
The papers include draft lists of contents (folio 1), an unpublished introduction (folio 5), the text of most of chapter 7, apparently intended as an article entitled 'Ezra Pound and the Curse of Usury' (folio 13), pages of a notebook on 'A.E.', the author George William Russell (folio 25), a corrected typescript of chapters 1-4 (folio 41), and proofs of the preliminary pages (folio 205).
Fragmentary typescript of 'Niger: the life of Mungo Park' by James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'., [1934, or before.]
James Leslie Mitchell usually wrote at a typewriter, and few manuscripts survive. For the sake of economy, he frequently used the blank versos of his typescripts for another work at a later date.
Fragments, drafts and notes in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald, mainly on Scottish antiquities and topography.
Fragments formerly part of the cover of Adv.MS.72.1.14., Late 12th century, ?14th century.
Fragments of a collection of decisions in a seventeenth-century hand found loose in MS.3170., 16th century.
The latest date mentioned is 1592.
Fragments of a [?diary] and letter., Undated.
Includes notebooks, sketchbooks, diaries, literary fragments and personal documents.
Fragments of a Latin commentary on Aristotle's ‘Categoriae', including parts of the 'Liber predicabilium' and 'Liber predicamentorum'.
The commentary is followed by a fragment of a manuscript in English (folio 34) and part of a vellum leaf from a 13th-century noted service book (folio 36).
Fragments of a life of Sir William Wallace (folio 1) and of notes (folios 17, 19) relating to another, unidentified life, possibly an edition of Blind Harry`s ‘Wallace’, by Richard Augustine Hay.
The manuscript is undated, but from a reference to ‘the late Mr Lockhart of Carnwath’ (folio 29 verso), it seems that the notes at least were written probably in 1732; the life may have been written about the same time.
Fragments of a list of Melville papers down to 1799, giving numbers of bundles., Late 18th century.
Volumes entitled 'Individuals' contain correspondence regarding patronage and other matters of personal interest (requests for employment, promotion, and pensions, complaints of unjust treatment, etc.). These papers frequently give information of a more general kind.
Fragments of a work on the existence and attributes of God, by Abū 'Abd Allāh Muḣammad ibn Yūsuf al-Ḣasanī al-Sanūsī, who lived as a Sufi at Tlemcen and died 892 A.H. (1486 A.D.)., [Before 1487.]
At the end (folio 22) are some unidentified fragments.
Fragments of an antiphoner, Italy, includes antiphons for Vespers on Sunday, and for the Office of the Dead.
Fragments of articles and books of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., [Circa 1936]-1966, undated.
Some of these are quite substantial, but others are single pages only. Most have not been identified.
Fragments of deeds., 1613-1707.
Fragments of diaries and a letter to Ruth Ziegler of Ruthven Todd., 1960-1977, undated.
The contents are as follows. (i) Fragments of diaries, 1960-1974, undated (folio 1); (ii) Letter to Ruth Ziegler, 1976-1977 (folio 9). Ruthven Todd began this as a letter, but it developed into a long document, partly a detailed record of his daily activities for two months, and partly rambling reminiscences. Folios 44-48 and 57-60 are photocopies.
Fragments of diaries and manuscripts of Alasdair Gray., 1944-1977.
Includes notebooks, sketchbooks, diaries, literary fragments and personal documents.
Fragments of letters of William and John Wardrop., 1705-1706.
Papers, nearly all formal documents, mostly relating to the lands of Foulshields and the families associated with them. The papers are principally those of the Wardrops and their heirs, the Scotts, but also include documents relating to Shaw, Kinloch, Baillie, Weir, and Carmichael families.
Fragments of liturgical and other medieval manuscripts.
Fragments of manuscript and typescript of ‘Fotheringhay’ by George Scott Moncrieff, with two printed items concerning the production in 1953., 1951, 1953.
Fragments of speeches given by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., ?1954-1965, undated.
While some are the final texts, others are in the form of notes or drafts. MSS.27072-27076 contain material on literature, art, nationalism, Scottish independence, and other topics.
Fragments of the Greek poets, collected by John Callander of Craigforth., 1750, 1755.
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.
Fragments of the Greek poets, collected by John Callander of Craigforth, volume I, titled 'Collectanea seu Παρέκβολαι ad Σύλλογην fragmentorum poætarum Græcorum illustrandam.', [?1750-?1755.]
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.
Fragments of the journal kept by Sir John Erskine, 3rd Baronet, of Alva, when sent to France by the Old Pretender and the Earl of Mar, 1716; and part of a narrative describing the Old Pretender's attempt to regain his throne in 1715, and giving reasons for his failure., 1715-1716.
The papers are chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
For a genealogical tree of the Erskine family, see MS.5115.