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 6584 Collections and/or Records:
'A Relation of Sir Walter Raleigh's Araignement at Winchester the 17th of November 1603 written (as it is supposed) by himself.', 1603.
Item
Identifier: MS.5444
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The Nisbet papers fall into four groups, belonging respectively to the Nisbets of that Ilk, the original owners of the estate; the Kers (later Carres) of Cavers and West Nisbet; who acquired the estate in 1649; the Chisholmes of that Ilk, connected by marriage to Charles St Clair, 15th Lord Sinclair, who succeeded to the estate some time before 1813; and William Molleson, probably related to the sister of Charles St Clair, de jure 13th Lord Sinclair.
Dates:
1603.
A rough sketch of the late affairs with the enemy [near S. Jean pied de Port; signed] P Wright, Lt R.Engineers. Augt 7h 1813., 1813.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(79)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Some of the maps were acquired by General Sir George Murrary during his active service, others later for historical purposes. They are arranged as follows: Peninsula (numbers 1-88); France (numbers 89-95); uncertain locality (numbers 95-96); Canada (numbers 97-106); Flanders (numbers 107-133); various military actions, 1761-1846, and undated, especially those of 1813 (numbers 134-164). A list has been placed at the front of each volume; only the manuscript items have...
Dates:
1813.
A series of notebooks containing biographical information on British poets used, or intended to be used, in the publication of a dictionary of British poets., Mid 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42592-42595
Scope and Contents
The notebooks serve more as an assortment of information - notes, press cuttings and documentary evidence, such as copies of wills - to be used in the preparation of the specific entries of the dictionary, than as a considered manuscript. In many cases only the heading of the name of the poet has been entered.
None of the volumes has an index.
Dates:
Mid 19th century.
A small map of Eskdale and Liddesdale., [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 64)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
'A Time to Keep', manuscript., June 1966-July 1966.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4835/13
Dates:
June 1966-July 1966.
'A treatise of algebra', signed 'Carre, his book', with a partially erased date, probably 1743., ?1743.
Item
Identifier: MS.5455
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The Nisbet papers fall into four groups, belonging respectively to the Nisbets of that Ilk, the original owners of the estate; the Kers (later Carres) of Cavers and West Nisbet; who acquired the estate in 1649; the Chisholmes of that Ilk, connected by marriage to Charles St Clair, 15th Lord Sinclair, who succeeded to the estate some time before 1813; and William Molleson, probably related to the sister of Charles St Clair, de jure 13th Lord Sinclair.
Dates:
?1743.
`Abbreviat of his Majesties proper and constant rent peyit be the severall ffewars for their respective Lands And be the severall Shirreffs for the blensch dueties, castellwards and others out of the respective Shyres As the same Compts by the present Rolls, With the deductiones and differences betwixt the same and former Rolls preceiding King James of blissed memorie his goeing To England In Anno 1603. Collected out of the Roll and Records of Exchequer, by Sir William Purves of Woodhouslee Knight and Baronet his Majesties Sollicitor In Anno 1667`, with an introductory essay `Of the Revenue or Patrimony of the Crown`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.16
Scope and Contents
Purves does not seem to have altered the figures of the rental after compiling his work in 1667, but he did expand the section of the introduction on the Court of Exchequer. The final form which the work took in 1681 was published by D Murray Rose as ‘Revenue of the Scottish Crown, 1681’, from a manuscript in the British Museum (Addit. MS. 33,238). The original work of 1667 is represented by this manuscript, along with a copy of it, Adv.MS.6.2.2, folios 241-273, and a copy of...
Dates:
1667.
Abbreviated version of the ‘Scotichronicon’ by Walter Bower.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.1.7
Scope and Contents
The exemplar for the manuscript was being compiled no later than 1444 under the direction of Bower himself. Richard Augustine Hay, writing in the early 18th century, at the beginning of the manuscript, states that it was written 1453-1454 by a canon of Inchcolm called Peter, and presented to Couper Abbey by William Earl of Orkney and Caithness in 1445 (probably a mistake for 1455), but he cites no evidence for this (see ‘Scotichronicon by Walter Bower in Latin and English’, ix, chapter 12,...
Dates:
Circa 1450 x 1480.
'Aberdeen, Banf [sic], Murrey [sic] [Etc.] to Inverness : [and] Fra the north water to Ross / Robertus Gordonius a Strathloch describebat 1640.' , [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 25)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
Abridgement by Patrick Russell, prior of the Charterhouse of Perth, of a work by Walter Bower known as the 'Book of Cupar Angus'.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.7
Scope and Contents
Manuscript compiled in Scotland by Patrick Russell, a prior of the Charterhouse of Perth. The manuscript is an abridged copy of the 'Book of Cupar Angus', which is itself an abbreviation of the 'Scotichronicon'.The manuscript is written in a single column, probably all by the same hand, which is becomes harder to read towards the end of the volume. The work is not complete, as two or more folios are missing between 246v and 247r.Watt suggests that the lost examplar...
Dates:
1460 - 1488
Abridgement of the ‘Chroniche’ of Giovanni Villani (died 1348) continued by his brother Matteo (died 1363) and by Matteo`s son Filippo, to the end of 1365.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.2
Scope and Contents
The abridgement breaks off, in mid-sentence, in 1363 (in the middle of Chapter 69 of Book XI of the Matteo-Filippo Chronicle), 3¾ folios at the end being blank. The manuscript was written, probably in Florence, shortly after 1500; there are two water-marks, an eagle (Briquet 87: Florence, 1495) and a hat (Briquet 3383-3393: mostly Florence, 1470-1500). It is therefore possible that it is the autograph of the author of the abridgement, who was alive in 1500 (see folio 14 verso)....
Dates:
After 1500.
'Abridgement of the Scottish History', a list of the succession of the Kings of Scotland from Fergus I to James VI by Sir James Balfour, in his hand.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.29
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.7.14.
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Abstracts and facsimiles of Scottish armorials by William Rae Macdonald, Albany Herald (1843-1923).
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.53.3.1-53.3.13
Dates:
16th century-1902.
Abstracts by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of his own articles and papers., 1935-1939, 1953.
File
Identifier: MS.50215
Scope and Contents
The abstracts are arranged chronologically.1935.‘The Sociological Significance of Communism in the Light of Psycho-Analysis’.Typescript, 1935, of an abstract by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of ‘The Sociological Significance of Communism in the Light of Psycho-Analysis’, by Fairbairn. The abstract would appear not to have been published. Folios 1-2. 1938.‘The Ultimate Basis of Aesthetic Experience’.Typescript, 1938, of...
Dates:
1935-1939, 1953.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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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Abstracts by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of his own writings and those of other authors.
Abyssinian manuscripts, acquired by General Sir William Knox, Knight Commander of the Bath, probably during the Abyssinian campaign of 1867-1868.
Series
Identifier: MSS.94-95
Dates:
Late 16th century-18th century.
Academic and literary papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun., 17th century-1843.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17784-17806
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
17th century-1843.
"Accomptt of each Heretores frie Rent with in the Shyre of", Fife.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6197
Dates:
1695.
Account, 1669-1670, of the Fleming family to James Crichton for the demolition and repair of buildings at Boghall, with a transcription, 19th century, of pages 1-3., 1669-1670.
File
Identifier: MS.20785
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The family estates of Cumbernauld and Lenzie in East Dunbartonshire extended into the neighbouring parishes of Monkland in Lanarkshire and Dunipace in Stirlingshire. That of Biggar in Lanarkshire included also some lands in Peeblesshire, where the Flemings were in conflict with the Tweedies of Drumelzier. Members of the family were prominent in public affairs in the 16th and 17th centuries, but the later Earls took little part in them. The male line failed in 1747, and the estates passed to...
Dates:
1669-1670.
Account, apparently by John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, of his period of office as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with extracts from his correspondence., 1777-1780.
File
Identifier: MS.5749
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:
1777-1780.
Account book kept by James Traill of Woodwick and his nephew John Traill of Westness, of rents paid by their tenants in the mainland of Orkney and the island of North Ronaldsay.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.10
Scope and Contents
James Traill`s accounts (folio 1) cover the crop years 1728-1731, and those of his successor, 1746-1747 (folio 128). There is also an inventory of goods belonging to James Traill left in North Ronaldsay (folio 175).
Dates:
1728-1747.
Account book of Archibald Hamilton, merchant in Edinburgh, and brother of Lord Presmennan.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.2
Scope and Contents
There is a gap in the accounts between 1667 and 1671. Hamilton appears to have dealt in general merchandise, and to have had shares in several ships trading to Holland, France and Spain.
On folio 1, Hamilton has written the dates of his marriages and of the births of his children.
Dates:
1657-1679.
Account book of Laurence Oliphant of Gask as Treasurer of the Jacobite army at Perth from October 1745 to February 1746., 1745-1746.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.4.2
Dates:
1745-1746.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
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Financial and legal papers of the Oliphants of Gask.
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Accounts of Laurence Oliphant of Gask as Treasurer of the Jacobite army at Perth from October 1745 to February 1746.
Account book of pay to the militia men in Queensferry., 1715.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.7.10
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers, with some exceptions, have been arranged in the following categories:Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.1.18: Correspondence.80.2.1-80.2.66: Financial papers.80.3.1-80.3.57: Account books.80.4.1-80.4.16: Miscellaneous estate papers.80.5.1-80.5.6: Legal papers.80.6.1-80.6.14: Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, Advocate.80.7.1-80.7.14: Miscellaneous papers and books.The main exceptions are...
Dates:
1715.
Account book of the family of Dundas of Dundas: account of `the whole acres lying about the Queensferry’: a list of lands with notes of tenants, etc., 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.3.4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers, with some exceptions, have been arranged in the following categories:Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.1.18: Correspondence.80.2.1-80.2.66: Financial papers.80.3.1-80.3.57: Account books.80.4.1-80.4.16: Miscellaneous estate papers.80.5.1-80.5.6: Legal papers.80.6.1-80.6.14: Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, Advocate.80.7.1-80.7.14: Miscellaneous papers and books.The main exceptions are...
Dates:
17th century.
Account book of the family of Dundas of Dundas: notes concerning lands in Duntarvie., 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.3.5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers, with some exceptions, have been arranged in the following categories:Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.1.18: Correspondence.80.2.1-80.2.66: Financial papers.80.3.1-80.3.57: Account books.80.4.1-80.4.16: Miscellaneous estate papers.80.5.1-80.5.6: Legal papers.80.6.1-80.6.14: Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, Advocate.80.7.1-80.7.14: Miscellaneous papers and books.The main exceptions are...
Dates:
17th century.