Inscriptions.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Lettering marked on something, especially for documentation or commemoration. On prints, the specific information lettered on the print, not usually part of a larger text. Regarding material from the ancient period, includes most preserved written matter of any length, other than papyri. For standardized symbols or notations on objects that convey official information, use ""marks (symbols)""(AAT) .
Found in 182 Collections and/or Records:
List of monumental inscriptions in the burial grounds in Dundee, Inveresk and Elie, compiled by Sidney Cramer.
File
Identifier: Acc.3627
Dates:
circa 1964-circa 1980.
Manuscript book, containing psalm-tunes, philosophical notes, notes of sermons, etc.
Item
Identifier: MS.784
Scope and Contents
The manuscript book is inscribed on the fly-leaf 'Rogerus Kirkpatrick...1697, 1698', and contains some entries of later date.
Dates:
1697-1698.
Manuscript, "Catalogue of Ancient Charters in Bibliotheca Advocatienis Edinburghiensis", 19th century.
File
Identifier: Acc.4420
Scope and Contents
With "Inscriptions", 1789-1800, by John Ramsay.
Dates:
1789-circa 1899.
Manuscript copy, early 17th century, in an unknown hand, of Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton's 'De Unione Regnorum Britanniae Tractatus'., [Circa 1604.]
Item
Identifier: MS.25388
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is inscribed (folio 1) 'David Dalrymple, Hailes, 1771'. There are numerous marginal notes and annotations in several hands including that of Lord Hailes.
This work was Sir Thomas Craig's statement of the arguments in favour of the Union of the Crowns in 1603. Like many of his works it was not published during his lifetime. However, an edition was produced in 1909 by C Stanford Terry for the 'Scottish History Society' from Adv.MS.25.4.3., probably a later manuscript, but the...
Dates:
[Circa 1604.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Historical papers: Scotland and Great Britain of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Transcripts of historical documents made for Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Manuscript in Gaelic containing short religious, historical and mythological texts.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.5
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text and notes, folios 1 verso-10 verso. A hand of a type more characteristic of medical manuscripts, cf. Adv.MS.72.1.12. Distinctive uncial 'r' and v-shaped 'u'. No decoration save some red on capitals, folios 5-10. From various additions in a similar hand, especially that at folio 6 verso, column b, line 41, it appears as if the scribe returned to annotate his work at a later point in time. Possibly in fact more than one hand:...
Dates:
?15th century.
Manuscript of a treatise, 1579 on the reform of the Calendar, dedicated to "Marc'ant[oni]o Justiniano" and signed 'M.M.', and a discussion of the dangers of a Turkish attack on Venice, ?1564-1576., ?1564-1576, 1579.
File
Identifier: MS.5734
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.
Dates:
?1564-1576, 1579.
Manuscript of the ‘Chronicles of the Canongate’, 1st and 2nd series, by Sir Walter Scott., [Before 1829.]
Item
Identifier: MS.23048
Manuscript of 'William and Helen' by Sir Walter Scott.
File
Identifier: MS.5278
Scope and Contents
There is an inscription to Lady Charlotte Home and Miss Haldane on folio 1.
Dates:
1796.
Manuscript, seventeenth century, of 'Diurnal of occurrents, 1513-1572', based, perhaps indirectly, on the same original as the Pollok Manuscript, published as ‘A diurnal of remarkable occurrents’.
Item
Identifier: MS.3805
Scope and Contents
The manuscript differs considerably from the Pollok Manuscript; in parts it is fuller, but it ends in 1572 (page 299 of the Bannatyne volume).
A note of the donor (folio ii) suggests it is one of the Demnilne Manuscripts.
Dates:
Late 16th century.
Manuscript transcriptions of Akkadian cuneiform inscriptions from artefacts found during the excavations of Austen Henry Layard excavations at "Nimroud"., 1845-1847.
File
Identifier: MS.42353
Scope and Contents
These transcriptions were taken from two artifacts found during the excavations undertaken by Austen Henry Layard - a winged bull and a slab. For a brief description of the winged bulls at the centre of the mound see “Nineveh and its Remains”, volume 1, page 47. For “Plan 2” mentioned in the annotation on transcription of the text on the slab see “Nineveh and its Remains”, volume 1, facing page 34.There are annotations by Layard at the head of the transcriptions. Writing in...
Dates:
1845-1847.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning Austen Henry Layard.
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Manuscripts and proofs of various works by Austen Henry Layard.
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Manuscripts and proofs of the works of Austen Henry Layard concerning his journeys through, and his archaeological excavations and diplomatic missions in, the Ottoman Empire.
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Manuscript, with marked proofs, of "Nineveh and its Remains" by Austen Henry Layard.
Manuscripts and typescripts of 27 poems of Joe Corrie.
File
Identifier: Acc.10040
Scope and Contents
With four inscribed copies of published collections of Corrie`s poems and short stories.
Dates:
1927-1928 and undated.
Manuscripts and typescripts of, with correspondence relating to, 'A cluster of clerihews' by Gavin Ewart; with a signed copy.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11326/1-2
Dates:
1981-1985.
Manuscripts of 'Relatione del Turco riscrita per il Clarmo. Marin Cavalli doppo la sua legatione in Senato Veneto', [1560], and an untitled speech, undated, apparently addressed to the Venetian Senate., 16th century.
File
Identifier: MS.5731
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.
Dates:
16th century.
Margaret Sinkler's music-book, containing a collection of chiefly Scottish airs., 1710.
Item
Identifier: MS.3296 [Glen.143(i)]
Medical treatise, titled ‘An enquiry into the principal cause of the wide destruction of mankind in time of war, and of the slow ineffectual progress and permanency of military and naval operations in general’, exemplified by reference to various campaigns, long voyages and colonizations.
Item
Identifier: MS.3718
Scope and Contents
The author, who describes himself in an inscription to Henry Dundas, 1789, as a citizen of Edinburgh, was apparently Alexander Bruce whose son William was a major commanding the 24th Battalion in the Carnatic in 1787-1788 (page 204), and he may have been that Alexander Bruce, leather merchant, at the West Bow, to whom is ascribed, in an unknown hand in a copy of the work in this Library, 'An inquiry into the cause of the pestilence'.Accompanying the volume are two letters of...
Dates:
[1789, or before.]
'Memoir of Andrew Lumisden, Esqr., successively secretary to the son & grandson of James the IInd. In a letter by his nephew, Sir Thomas Andrew William Lumisden Strange, to his son, Lumisden Strange’., 1836.
Item
Identifier: MS.2898
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is in various hands. It is inscribed (folio 1), 'To James Dennistoun of Dennistoun from Sir Thomas A. Lumisden Strange ... 1836', and this date, which also occurs on folio xiii, appears to be that of composition. Entries referring to later dates have been inserted subsequently (some by James Dennistoun). This 'Memoir' differs considerably from the 'Notice' of Lumisden addressed by Strange to his daughter Louisa (MS.281). It includes genealogical accounts of the Strangs of...
Dates:
1836.
Miniature portrait of Marjory Fleming, inscribed on a label on the back of the case 'Pet Marjory, from her sister Miss Fleming, 1880'., 1880.
Item
Identifier: MS.1096
Dates:
1880.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, including that of William Forbes Skene.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.15
Dates:
19th century.
Miscellaneous papers., 1737-1821, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10229/125-132
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
Correspondence and papers, literary manuscripts and journals of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie (1744-1823) and of earlier members of the Douglas family, mainly his great-grandfather, Robert Douglas (1625-1716), Bishop of Brechin, 1682-1684, and the last Bishop of Dunblane (1684-1689) in the pre-Revolution episcopal establishment of the Church of Scotland; and his father, John Douglas of Fechil in the parish of Ellon, Aberdeenshire (1714-1762).
Dates:
1737-1821, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, notebooks, journals and other papers of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, Bishop Robert Douglas, and of the Douglas family and estates.
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Personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, journals and other papers of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie.
Miscellaneous papers, chiefly relating to families of the north-east of Scotland, collected by William Rose., 1644-early 19th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.49.7.13
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Biography and pedigree of Gavin Douglas, 18th century. (Inv. XXX, Mac. 65.) (Folio 1.)(ii) Account of the Caldees of Loch Leven, `taken from the Cartulary of St. Andrews, Folios 50, 51 and 52.` (Inv. XXXI. Mac. 65.) (Folio 17.)(iii) `Abstract of the History of the Parish of Aberchirder alias Marnach` from 1057 to 1795, circa 1800. (Inv. XLVI, Mac. 67.) (Folio 19.)(iv) Papers concerning the death...
Dates:
1644-early 19th century.
Miscellaneous papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 1660-1792.
File
Identifier: MS.25453
Scope and Contents
The papers include ‘The Earl of Gowrie's Conspiracie against the King;s Majesty of Scotland, At Saint Johnstoun upon Tuesday the 5th of August, 1600’, 1751, with annotations by Lord Hailes. The work is inscribed 'This is the narrative printed by authority a few weeks after the death of Gowrie, there are only 24 copies of this impression. Dav. Dalrymple.' For another copy see RB.s.305 (folio 1). Also ‘The City Cleaned and Country Improven’ (Edinburgh, 1760), inscribed to Sir David Dalrymple...
Dates:
1660-1792.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Miscellaneous papers of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Miscellaneous papers of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Miscellaneous papers of the Elliot family of Minto., 1815-1880.
Series
Identifier: MSS.13470-13472
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
1815-1880.
Miscellaneous printed documents of the Minto family, chiefly relating to India., 1792-1812.
File
Identifier: MS.19575
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Copy of a private Act of Parliament for vesting the entailed estates of Melgund and Kynynmound in Trustees, 1792 (folio 1);(ii) A cutting from the ‘Calcutta Gazette Extraordinary’, 13 August 1807, reporting the investiture of Sir George Barlow as a Knight Companion of the Bath (folio 11);(iii) 'Regulations Proposed by the Court of Directors to the General Court for the most advantageous Management of the Company's Affairs...
Dates:
1792-1812.
Monumental inscriptions., Undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.8924/31-33
Music book containing songs, November 1856-January 1857, in French and English., 1856-1857.
Item
Identifier: MS.22166
Scope and Contents
The title page (folio i) is inscribed 'B Sanderson Ootacamund 1856'.
The lower half of folio 10, which is blank, has been cut off.
Dates:
1856-1857.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Music books belonging to a member, or members, of the family of James Sanderson, a surgeon in the Madras Army; with a song setting and verses, undated, written on sheets formerly loosely inserted in MS.22167.
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Music books belonging to a member, or members, of the family of James Sanderson.