Manuscripts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to handwritten documents, and may also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.
Found in 6601 Collections and/or Records:
Typescripts of sequence of poems titled 'Love Cycle' and manuscripts/typescripts of several, mostly unpublished early poems., 1931-1946.
File
Identifier: Acc.11621/139
Dates:
1931-1946.
Typescripts of short stories by Robert McLellan., 1947-1972.
File
Identifier: MS.26416
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) 'The Cat', published in ‘No Scottish Twilight’, edited by M Lindsay and F Urquhart, (Glasgow, 1947), pages 149-154 (folio 1). This had been included in the Linmill series, but Robert McLellan withdrew it.
(ii) Early versions of three Linmill stories, 1948-1949 (folio 7);
(iii) Manuscript synopsis of a series of stories set in Milngavie, with corrected typescripts of one of them, 1965 (folio l5);
(iv) Typescript of 'The Trap', a Linmill story submitted to the...
Dates:
1947-1972.
Typescripts of speeches by Sir Hugh McPherson., 1930-1931.
File
Identifier: MS.19615
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Typescript, with manuscript corrections, of 'A journey through Bihar', a broadcast talk to schools by Sir Hugh McPherson, with related correspondence, 1930-1931 (folio 1);
(ii) Typescript, with manuscript corrections, of 'The Aboriginal races of the Chota Nagpur plateau', an address to the Royal Anthropological Institute, Edinburgh, 1931 (folio 13).
Dates:
1930-1931.
Typescripts of the article ‘The Nature of Aesthetic Experience’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn., 1938.
File
Identifier: MS.50184
Scope and Contents
The article ‘The Ultimate Basis of Aesthetic Experience’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn, developed from Fairbairn’s papers, ‘The ultimate nature of aesthetic experience’ and ‘The nature of aesthetic experience’. The article was published in the ‘British Journal of Psychology’. The typescripts have been arranged in the order in which they appear to have been created and revised. Carbon copy, mostly, of a typescript draft, [1938] of the article ‘The ultimate basis...
Dates:
1938.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Papers of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
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Lectures and articles of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn.
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Articles and lectures of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn.
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Typescripts of an article, `The ultimate basis of aesthetic experience’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn, with related papers.
Typescripts of the preliminary report on the proposed Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1919-1920 and manuscripts and typescripts of verse and verse letters by Patrick Geddes and others, 1922-1930, undated., 1919-1930, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10613-10614
Typescripts of the short novel 'Doors Open' by Ian Rankin; with related working papers., 2006-2007.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.50425-50427
Dates:
2006-2007.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Ian Rankin archive.
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Papers relating to the professional activities of Ian Rankin.
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Papers relating to the literary and other creative works of Ian Rankin.
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Manuscripts, typescripts, working papers, and published extracts of the novels of Ian Rankin.
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Manuscripts, typescripts, and working papers of the novels of Ian Rankin.
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Manuscripts, typescripts and working papers of the thriller novels of Ian Rankin.
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Typescripts of 'Doors Open' by Ian Rankin; with related working papers.
Typescripts of two papers, ‘The Ultimate Basis of Aesthetic Experience’ and ‘The Nature of Aesthetic Experience’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn; with press cuttings of reviews of each of the meetings at which the papers were read., 1938.
File
Identifier: MS.50183
Scope and Contents
The paper ‘The ultimate basis of aesthetic experience’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn, was read by Fairbairn at a meeting of the Scottish Branch of the British Psychological Society, 29 January 1938. Fairbairn read a slightly revised version of the paper, under the title ‘The nature of aesthetic experience’, to a meeting of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, 2 March 1938. The papers formed the basis of Fairbairn’s subsequent article, published in the ‘British Journal of...
Dates:
1938.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Papers of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
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Lectures and articles of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn.
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Articles and lectures of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn.
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Typescripts of an article, `The ultimate basis of aesthetic experience’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn, with related papers.
Typescripts, script and manuscript of 'Muriel Spark on Emily Brontë' on BBC series, Bookstand., 1961, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10989/165-166
Dates:
1961, undated.
Typescripts, with a few manuscripts of poems in English, by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1930-1939, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26121
Scope and Contents
There are several copies of some of the poems, and a number of title-pages, which suggest that Sydney Goodsir Smith was arranging the poems for publication.
Dates:
1930-1939, undated.
Typescripts, with a few manuscripts, of radio programmes written by Hector MacIver., 1937-1961, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26289-26290
Scope and Contents
Many of these radio programmes were for the BBC's schools broadcasts and Scottish Children's Hour, but Hector MacIver also contributed to 'Arts Review' and more general programmes. Some correspondence and other material is included, notably in connection with his programme 'Leith ships at war' in 1947 (MS.26289, folio 57).
Dates:
1937-1961, undated.
Typescripts, with a few manuscripts, of radio programmes written by Hector MacIver., 1937-1948.
File
Identifier: MS.26289
Typescripts, with a few manuscripts, of radio programmes written by Hector MacIver., 1949-1961, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26290
Ultra-violet photographs of leaves removed from, and of a defaced page of the 'Auchinleck Manuscript' (Adv.MS.19.2.1).
File
Identifier: MS.8894
Scope and Contents
With the exception of folio 5, the photographs are of leaves which were originally part of the 'Auckinleck Manuscript' but were removed at an early date and have remained seperate. They were discovered in use as the covers of notebooks and in bindings.The contents are as follows.Two leaves containing part of ‘The Life of Adam and Eve’; originally gathering 3, folios 4-5, item 3(viii). (Folio 1.)Part of ‘Þe Wenche þat loved a king’; gathering 36, folio 256...
Dates:
[Circa 1335.]
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
`Um arfatokur` by Magnús Jónsson.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.4.5
Dates:
18th century.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
`Um religionen og geistligheden`; Icelandic text, with Danish translation.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.5.1
Dates:
1729.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
"Unbound Notebook" of George Crabbe., 1822-1827.
Item
Identifier: MS.42077
Scope and Contents
Title taken from the "Index of English Literary Manuscripts", volume 3, part 1, page 297 (London : Mansell, 1986), which has a full description of the contents of the notebook.
Dates:
1822-1827.
Uncompleted account of living Scottish gentry, in alphabetical order, with names from A to D, by John Philp Wood., [1795, or after.]
File
Identifier: MS.1876
Dates:
[1795, or after.]
Unfinished and unpublished book, entitled 'Cactus and Columbine', relating to the United States, containing manuscript and typescript notes and drafts., Undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13220/33-35
Unfinished and untitled novel, undated, by George Combe, dealing with the childhood and early manhood of a boy who was anxious to go to sea., [1805-1858.]
Item
Identifier: MS.7438
Dates:
[1805-1858.]
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist, and his household.
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Miscellaneous personal papers, lecture notes and phrenological reports of George Combe; and papers of Cecilia Combe.
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Unfinished and untitled novel by George Combe; and lecture notes of Combe.
Unfinished manuscript of Edward Albert entitled 'The horns of the mine'., 1943.
Item
Identifier: MS.9115
Dates:
1943.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Papers of Edward Albert (1890-1944), who graduated Master of Arts in English at Edinburgh University, 1908, and spent his professional life as English master at George Watson's College, Edinburgh.
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Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of, and notebooks containing material collected for, the fictional works of Edward Albert.
Unfinished romance entitled 'The History of Adelaida de Matignon', in the hand of the 6th Marquess of Lothian., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.5759
Scope and Contents
The manuscript lacks two leaves between folios 8 and 9.
Dates:
18th century.
[Unfinished sketch map of uncertain locality; possibly Angouleme]., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(95)
Scope and Contents
Accompanying text "Sketches by Major Pierrepont [?]"
Dates:
Undated.
[Unfinished sketch plan of fortifications, place unknown]., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(164)
Unfinished untitled romance, in the hand of Henrietta, Marchioness of Lothian, set in the time of the Crusades., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.5760
Dates:
18th century.
Unidentified manuscript, apparently South Indian.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.9
Dates:
Undated
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts