Fragments.
Found in 371 Collections and/or Records:
Microfilm of fragments of manuscripts of, and letters of, to, or concerning, Sir Walter Scott., [?1807]-1832.
Microfilm of Irish and Scottish Gaelic manuscripts.
The contents are as follows:
Book of the Dean of Lismore, 16th century (Adv.MS.72.1.37);
Manuscript, ?15th century-17th century, containing verse and tale fragments in Gaelic (Adv.MS.72.1.47);
Manuscript, 17th century, of syllabic verse (Adv.MS.72.1.48);
Manuscript, 1618-1647, containing Irish bardic verse (Adv.MS.72.1.49);
Manuscript, [circa 1658], containing historical miscellany in Gaelic, written by Niall MacMhuirich (Adv.MS.72.1.50).
Microfilm of letters, chiefly of; and fragments of manuscripts of Sir Walter Scott.
Miniature from a book of hours painted in the style of Jean Bourdichon.
Minute and account book of the Perth Incorporation of Hammermen., 1518-1744.
This volume was started in 1584 and all entries of earlier date are noted to have been copied out of an "auld buik".
The contents are as follows.
(i) Admission of William Lander, book binder and parchment-maker, Perth, 1584 (folio 1);
(ii) Pious verses addressed to the Incorporation, 1584 (folio 1 verso);
(iii) Minutes and accounts, 1518-1744 (folio 2);
(iv) Fragment of early music (folio 268).
Miscellaneous correspondence and other papers of Richard Burdon Haldane., 1894-1916, undated.
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.
Miscellaneous documents apparently from the library of the Reverend A J Macdonald, Minister of Killearnan., 17th century-early 20th century.
Miscellaneous documents concerning Montrose and Angus, the Covenanters and other matters.
Miscellaneous drafts and fragments of dramatic pieces by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1939-1961, undated.
Included are notes and verse for 'Protest: an oratorio', 1939 (folio l), an early version of the beginning of ‘The Stick-up’, broadcast in 1961 and published in ‘Fifteen poems and a play’ (Edinburgh, 1969), pages 1-33 (folio 59), and notes for and the typescript of a film script, 'The Shepherd of Ettrick', undated (folio 74).
Miscellaneous fragments from the Lesmahagow missal., 13th century, 14th century, 1719, 1725.
Miscellaneous fragments in the autograph of Lady Nairne and others., 1769-1873, 1927, 1934.
Includes ‘Thoughts’, 1821, of Lady Nairne, and 'Recollections of Clevedon, etc., 1847', by Margaret Harriet Steuart; correspondence, 1927, 1934, regarding the collection and inventories.
Miscellaneous items., 1933-1950.
Including diaries, correspondence, photographs, and articles, mainly concerning natural history and piping.
Miscellaneous items relating to Jessy Harden and her family., 1801-1811, [?1945.]
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
Miscellaneous letters and documents collected by William Finlay Watson, many of which have not been identified., 1691-early 20th century.
Miscellaneous letters and other papers of the Hays of Yester., 17th century-mid 20th century.
Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.
Miscellaneous manuscript and typescript notes of William McArthur., Undated.
Miscellaneous manuscript fragments recovered from the bindings of various manuscripts and printed books.
Miscellaneous notes and articles of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., Early 20th century.
Miscellaneous notes and photographs concerning the Mayas, probably made when James Leslie Mitchell was preparing to write 'The conquest of the Maya'., 1930, 1933, undated.
The contents are as follows. (i) Part of a manuscript, not in James Leslie Mitchell's hand, of a work on the language, history and customs of the Mayas, undated (folio l); (ii) Miscellaneous notes and photographs concerning the Mayas, 1930, 1933, undated (folio 30). The versos of folios 33-42 contain manuscript fragments of a story on the theme of 'The Lovers' in 'Persian dawns, Egyptian nights'.
Miscellaneous papers chiefly of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, with two of an earlier date., 14th century-19th century.
The papers include fourteenth-century fragments of St Thomas Aquinas's ‘Summa Theologica’ (folio 1), a fragment of a roll of a [? manor] court held at Heydon, 1515 (folio 6), a letter, 1677, of Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby (folio 9), a plan, 1810, for alterations to the Cathcart road, near Glasgow (folio 34), and some political verses (folios 11, 85). Some of the papers appear to be connected with the Maxwells of Pollok.
Miscellaneous papers of and concerning members of the Keith family., 1506-1906, undated.
The papers include fragments of a Deer Abbey cartulary of 1542-1549 and rental of 1579, an account of the coronation of Charles I at Holyroodhouse in 1633, a roll of the Baron Court of Fetteresso and Dunnottar of July 1680, and papers concerning the Covenanting wars, the raising of Covenanting armies, the Revolution of 1688-1689, the Jacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745, the attainder of the Earl Marischal in 1715 and the sale of his estates in 1720.
Miscellaneous papers of, and concerning, the Keith family., 15th century-1906, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of Moultrie R Kelsall., 1953-1958, undated.
Including scripts of plays, short stories, articles, talks, broadcast scripts of radio and television documentaries, and associated correspondence.
Miscellaneous scraps of piobaireachd in various hands, and some letters., [Circa 1920]-1938.
The contents are as follows:
Miscellaneous scraps of piobaireachd, circa 1920-1930, in various hands including those of Simon Fraser, Alexander K Cameron, and Dr J D Ross Watt (folio 1);
Letters, 1930, from John L MacArthur (folio 66);
Letters, 1935-1938, to A K Cameron in connection with the recovery of his papers from the heirs of Simon Fraser (folio 69).