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:
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.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22165-22168
Dates:
1856-1864, undated.
Note-book of William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern, 'Innes Papers, containing Genealogical and historical account with Pedigrees of various Innes branches, copies, Registers, inscriptions on Tombs and private remarks'., [?1850-?1855.]
Item
Identifier: MS.626
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
These papers are in continuation of MS.535.
The papers relate chiefly to claims to estates, especially that of Innes of Stow.
Dates:
[?1850-?1855.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and papers of William Strang Petrie, calling himself William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern, 'law genealogist'.
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Note-books of William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern, containing correspondence and copies of documents relating to the claimants to the estate of Innes of Stow.
Note-book of William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern, "The Innes Papers, containing inter alia Mr Strathern's remarks respecting Alexander Innes 3d son of Rora"., [?1854-?1857.]
Item
Identifier: MS.623
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
These papers are in continuation of MS.535.
The papers relate chiefly to claims to estates, especially that of Innes of Stow.
Dates:
[?1854-?1857.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and papers of William Strang Petrie, calling himself William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern, 'law genealogist'.
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Note-books of William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern, containing correspondence and copies of documents relating to the claimants to the estate of Innes of Stow.
Notebook in several hands containing culinary, household and medical recipes.
Item
Identifier: MS.24775
Scope and Contents
The volume is inscribed at folio 1 'Pastry Book Elgin 20th August 1734' and at folio 15 'Jean Robinson 23rd January 1749/50'. Later entries are largely copied from newspapers and magazines, particulary 'The Edinburgh Evening Courant' and 'The Edinburgh Advertiser'
Dates:
1734-1802, undated.
Notebook of Evelyn Stewart-Murray containing copies of songs collected by A Lamont, including songs by John MacGregor and others, of Atholl interest., 1890.
Item
Identifier: MS.14885
Scope and Contents
There is an inscription on the inside of the front cover: ‘Evelyn Stewart Murray from A. Lamont April 1890 copied by his cousin – Craigie Edinburgh’ and ‘A. Lamont died in London 1890’.The contents are as follows.(i) John MacGregor. Song of 11 double quatrains, beginning ‘Tha mo smaointean diomhair / A direadh le meamnadh’. Headed ‘Oran air Seumas Diuc Adhoill le Iain MacGriogair Bard Ghlinn-Comhuinn. Chaidh an t-oran seo a chur ann clo ann an Dun-Eidinn anns a...
Dates:
1890.
Notebook of Evelyn Stewart-Murray containing Gaelic songs and hymns copied from the McLagan collection., 1888.
Item
Identifier: MS.14884
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains an inscription on the first leaf: ‘from the Manuscripts of the late Revd James McLagan Blair Athole; and lent to P.C. [i.e. Paul Cameron?] by his grandson, the Revd L.C. MacLagan Wedderburn F.C. Madderty May 24 1888 P.C. June 26. 1888. E.S.M.’The last two folios are tipped in at the back and probably copied from a different source.The notebook contains the following.(i) James McLagan (?). ‘Failte Adhail’. 12 double quatrains, beginning “'N uair...
Dates:
1888.
Notebook of John Rennie: Wolseley bridge, Leek canal, Wilkinson, Baker, and Fisher's mill, bridge on the Dumbarton to Luss road, poem written at Tyndrum, scribbling mill at Kirkstall, Forth and Clyde canal, Leith harbour, Arbroath harbour, Cawood mill, Bramhope mill, Etherington's arsenic mill at Gainsborough, drawing of Gainsborough bridge, inscription on Lune aqueduct., 1797.
Item
Identifier: MS.19857
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Throughout his career, particularly during the 1790s, John Rennie filled many notebooks with information about the works he himself was involved with, and about others which he visited out of professional curiosity. The books are mostly narrow octavos, interleaved with blotting paper. Rennie seems to have carried them with him on his frequent travels and to have filled them in in pencil, rewriting in ink, often on top of the pencil, at some more convenient moment. Ronnie received much of his...
Dates:
1797.
Notebook of transcripts made for Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 1657-1661, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.25379
Scope and Contents
The transcripts include, 'Lieutenant General Baillie his vindication for his own part of Kilsyth and Preston', undated. Also copies of correspondence between James Sharp, Archbishop of St Andrews, and Robert Baillie, Principal of Glasgow University, 1657-1661.
Inscribed in Lord Hailes's hand 'Transcribed from the original by Mr. Aitken of Glasgow' from the Wodrow papers.
Dates:
1657-1661, undated.
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.
Notebook of weekly notes made by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes on sermons heard chiefly at Inveresk Church and the Tron Kirk, Edinburgh., 1750, 1771-1775.
Item
Identifier: MS.25412
Scope and Contents
The book was previously used for historical notes and is inscribed 'David Dalrymple June 14th 1750'.
Some pages have been torn out.
Dates:
1750, 1771-1775.
‘Notice of Andrew Lumisden, Esqr., successively private Secretary to the Son and Grandson of James II[d]’, a copy of a memoir, written in the form of a letter from Lumisden’s nephew, Sir Thomas A L Strange, Recorder of Madras, to his daughter Louisa Strange, 1 January 1827., 1827, 1892.
Item
Identifier: MS.281
Scope and Contents
Folios 1-5 verso were copied by Louisa Strange (Mrs J S Mure), and folios 6-14 verso by Admiral Newburgh. From folio 15 to the end is in the handwriting or Sir Thomas Strange himself (see note headed 1892 on folio 24 verso).
Dates:
1827, 1892.
'Ocean, Stella, and other poems', 2nd edition (Edinburgh, 1830) by John Mackenzie, minister of Portpatrick, inscribed 'from the author', with an anonymous poem, 'The charming woman', tipped in at the end.
File
Identifier: MS.9227
Scope and Contents
The poem, 'The charming woman', is addressed to Miss Agnes Mackenzie, probably by John Mackenzie to his daughter.
Dates:
1830.
Official military returns, orders and correspondence concerning the War of the Austrian Succession., 1748.
Item
Identifier: MS.25703
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The main interest of the papers lies in the military and diplomatic material relating to General St Clair's career in the British army over thirty years.
The 2nd son of the 10th Lord Sinclair, James St Clair succeeded as titular 12th Lord Sinclair in 1750 on the death of his brother, who was attainted in 1715. In 1747 he married Janet, daughter of Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet of Hailes, and widow of Sir John Baird, 2nd Baronet of Newbyth. He served with the Foot Guards in Gibraltar in...
Dates:
1748.
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 General the Honourable James St Clair of Sinclair and Balblair (1688-1762).
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Military papers of and concerning General James St Clair.
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Bound volumes of official military returns, orders and correspondence concerning the War of the Austrian Succession.
Official military returns, orders and correspondence concerning the War of the Austrian Succession: Italian negotiations, volume 1., 1746-1747.
Item
Identifier: MS.25699
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The main interest of the papers lies in the military and diplomatic material relating to General St Clair's career in the British army over thirty years.
The 2nd son of the 10th Lord Sinclair, James St Clair succeeded as titular 12th Lord Sinclair in 1750 on the death of his brother, who was attainted in 1715. In 1747 he married Janet, daughter of Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet of Hailes, and widow of Sir John Baird, 2nd Baronet of Newbyth. He served with the Foot Guards in Gibraltar in...
Dates:
1746-1747.
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 General the Honourable James St Clair of Sinclair and Balblair (1688-1762).
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Military papers of and concerning General James St Clair.
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Bound volumes of official military returns, orders and correspondence concerning the War of the Austrian Succession.
Official military returns, orders and correspondence concerning the War of the Austrian Succession: Italian negotiations, volume 2., 1747.
Item
Identifier: MS.25700
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The main interest of the papers lies in the military and diplomatic material relating to General St Clair's career in the British army over thirty years.
The 2nd son of the 10th Lord Sinclair, James St Clair succeeded as titular 12th Lord Sinclair in 1750 on the death of his brother, who was attainted in 1715. In 1747 he married Janet, daughter of Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet of Hailes, and widow of Sir John Baird, 2nd Baronet of Newbyth. He served with the Foot Guards in Gibraltar in...
Dates:
1747.
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 General the Honourable James St Clair of Sinclair and Balblair (1688-1762).
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Military papers of and concerning General James St Clair.
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Bound volumes of official military returns, orders and correspondence concerning the War of the Austrian Succession.
Official military returns, orders and correspondence concerning the War of the Austrian Succession: Italian negotiations, volume 3., 1747.
Item
Identifier: MS.25701
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The main interest of the papers lies in the military and diplomatic material relating to General St Clair's career in the British army over thirty years.
The 2nd son of the 10th Lord Sinclair, James St Clair succeeded as titular 12th Lord Sinclair in 1750 on the death of his brother, who was attainted in 1715. In 1747 he married Janet, daughter of Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet of Hailes, and widow of Sir John Baird, 2nd Baronet of Newbyth. He served with the Foot Guards in Gibraltar in...
Dates:
1747.
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 General the Honourable James St Clair of Sinclair and Balblair (1688-1762).
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Military papers of and concerning General James St Clair.
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Bound volumes of official military returns, orders and correspondence concerning the War of the Austrian Succession.
Official military returns, orders and correspondence concerning the War of the Austrian Succession: Italian negotiations, volume 4., 1747.
Item
Identifier: MS.25702
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The main interest of the papers lies in the military and diplomatic material relating to General St Clair's career in the British army over thirty years.
The 2nd son of the 10th Lord Sinclair, James St Clair succeeded as titular 12th Lord Sinclair in 1750 on the death of his brother, who was attainted in 1715. In 1747 he married Janet, daughter of Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet of Hailes, and widow of Sir John Baird, 2nd Baronet of Newbyth. He served with the Foot Guards in Gibraltar in...
Dates:
1747.
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 General the Honourable James St Clair of Sinclair and Balblair (1688-1762).
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Military papers of and concerning General James St Clair.
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Bound volumes of official military returns, orders and correspondence concerning the War of the Austrian Succession.
Original manuscript of "The Ship o' the Fiend", a ballad for Orchestra, Opus 5, composed by Hamish MacCunn.
File
Identifier: MS.3365
Scope and Contents
The ballad is preceded by a version, in Hamish MacCunn's hand, of the verse ballad that inspired the music, i.e., 'The Daemon Lover', number 243 of ‘The English and Scottish popular ballads’. A pencilled note records two performances in 1888.
Dates:
[1888, or before.]
Papers concerning Tom Gallacher and Moray McLaren.
File
Identifier: Acc.12216
Dates:
1969, 1984-1993.
Papers from the collection of Thomas Ruddiman.
File
Identifier: MS.2918
Scope and Contents
Numbers (i), (iv)-(vi) are in Thomas Ruddiman's hand, and some of the others are doubtless copied from his drafting.(i) Epitaph on Sir George Ogilvie, 1st Baronet of Barras.(ii) 'Presbyter Reformatus ad Reginam', Latin Second Asclepiadeans, signed 'Nabothus Chamaeleon' and inscribed by the author to Sir George Lockhart of Carnwath.(iii) Printed address of the corporation and people of Kirkwall to Alexander Geddes, a bailie of that town, to accompany a...
Dates:
18th century.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents
Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Papers of Callum Macdonald.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9476
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscripts, corrected typescripts and proofs of publications, together with associated correspondence and printed items.
Dates:
1953-1986.
Papers relating to Ritchie Calder`s work with the Political Warfare Executive during the Second World War.
File
Identifier: Acc.12799
Dates:
circa 1942-2005.
Pen and nib in leather case belonging to Sir Walter Scott, given by him to Maria Edgeworth., 1823, 1825.
Item
Identifier: MS.23132
Scope and Contents
The pen is inscribed ‘Sir Walter Scott's pen given to Maria Edgeworth, August 14th 1825’.
There is also a small framed portrait of Sir Walter Scott's daughter, Sophia Lockhart, by Watson, 1823, also given to Maria Edgeworth, at Abbotsford.
Dates:
1823, 1825.
Perth Psalter, containing calendar, psalter, canticles, and litany.
Item
Identifier: MS.652
Scope and Contents
Referred to as the Perth Psalter from the entry in the calendar on 3rd September, ‘Dedicacio ecclesie de Perth’.The calendar and the litany are based on the use of Sarum, with additional entries for Scottish Saints. There are several illuminated capitals, four of the larger of these are accompanied by full-page borders of conventional foliage. Accompanying the manuscript is a list of additions to the calendar in a later cursive hand which were brought out by chemical action by F...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Photograph album chiefly of Sir Charles Dalrymple's contemporaries at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge., 1862-1863.
Item
Identifier: MS.25668
Scope and Contents
The album is inscribed 'Charles Dalrymple from HDF, CF, and MDF, October 15th 1862'.
Dates:
1862-1863.
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 Sir Charles Dalrymple, 1st Baronet of Newhailes.
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Photograph albums of Sir Charles Dalrymple.
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Photograph albums chiefly of Sir Charles Dalrymple's contemporaries at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge.