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 6597 Collections and/or Records:
Background notes, preliminary sketches, and the manuscript of the pageant, including a few sheets of heavily corrected typescript by Robert McLellan., 1972.
File
Identifier: MS.26386
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Robert McLellan's early plays were intended for the stage, but he later wrote for both radio and television. Not all were published, and many circulated in typescript copies.
Dates:
1972.
Bagpipe music, consisting of both piobaireachd and more popular pieces, collected and copied by Donald Dow, Glasgow.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3750-3752
Scope and Contents
Donald Dow died in Glasgow in 1892, aged 56.
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Bagpipe music copied by Donald Dow., 2nd half of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3750
Scope and Contents
According to a note on Dow and his manuscripts (folio i) by Archibald Campbell, Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society, the piobaireachd in this volume were apparently copied, like those in Skinner's Manuscript (MS.3746 above), from Duncan Campbell's Manuscript. Between them these two manuscripts (MSS.3746 and 3750) contain all but four of the piobaireachd in Duncan Campbell's Manuscript.
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Bagpipe music copied by Donald Dow, apparently an incomplete fair copy of MS.3750., 2nd half of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3751
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Donald Dow died in Glasgow in 1892, aged 56.
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Bagpipe music copied by Donald Dow, the piobaireachd corresponding, according to Archibald Campbell, to settings recorded and played by the sons of Donald Cameron, piper to Seaforth, and by J MacDougall Gillies., 2nd half of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3752
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Donald Dow died in Glasgow in 1892, aged 56.
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Balcarres Papers.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.29.2.1-29.2.9a
Scope and Contents
In the original inventory (a copy of which is at MS.3581, folios 6-7) signed by Thomas Ruddiman, then Underkeeper of the Library, the papers are listed in thirty-eight bundles. Most of these were arranged and bound during the period 1820-1849. Of the remainder, Adv.MSS.19.1.24 and 29.2.9a were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that Adv.MS.19.1.24 belonged to the collection. Adv.MS.16.2.3, now a small quarto volume, had also become separated from the rest of the papers, but can be...
Dates:
1231-1686, and undated.
Ballads of Sir Alexander Gray., 1955-[circa 1960], undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26009-26013
Scope and Contents
Sir Alexander Gray translated a number of Danish and German ballads into Scots verse.
Dates:
1955-[circa 1960], undated.
'Balloon Tytler', a play for radio by Robert McLellan, produced in 1962., 1962.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26365-26366
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Robert McLellan's early plays were intended for the stage, but he later wrote for both radio and television. Not all were published, and many circulated in typescript copies.
Dates:
1962.
Bannatyne Manuscript: a collection of some 400 poems, mostly Scottish, compiled and written by George Bannatyne.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.6
Scope and Contents
George Bannatyne, a student at St Andrews, and a merchant burgess of Edinburgh, wrote the manuscript in the last three months of 1568, when an outbreak of plague in Edinburgh compelled him to refrain from work; see his colophon on folio 375. The year is also given on page 1 and folios 97, 290, and 298; on folio 290 it was originally written 1565 and on folio 298 1566, but these must be slips of the pen.Some forty authors are represented; those with most poems are William Dunbar,...
Dates:
1568.
Bannatyne Manuscript: the draft manuscript., 1568.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.6 (1 of 2)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
George Bannatyne, a student at St Andrews, and a merchant burgess of Edinburgh, wrote the manuscript in the last three months of 1568, when an outbreak of plague in Edinburgh compelled him to refrain from work; see his colophon on folio 375. The year is also given on page 1 and folios 97, 290, and 298; on folio 290 it was originally written 1565 and on folio 298 1566, but these must be slips of the pen.Some forty authors are represented; those with most poems are William Dunbar,...
Dates:
1568.
Bannatyne Manuscript: the main manuscript., 1568.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.6 (2 of 2)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
George Bannatyne, a student at St Andrews, and a merchant burgess of Edinburgh, wrote the manuscript in the last three months of 1568, when an outbreak of plague in Edinburgh compelled him to refrain from work; see his colophon on folio 375. The year is also given on page 1 and folios 97, 290, and 298; on folio 290 it was originally written 1565 and on folio 298 1566, but these must be slips of the pen.Some forty authors are represented; those with most poems are William Dunbar,...
Dates:
1568.
'Barony of Ranfrew'., [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 55)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
Battle of Albuera May 16th 1811. W Warrington, 15 March 1820., 1820.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(65)
Scope and Contents
Ms note "Forwarded by Warrington 17/3/20".
Dates:
1820.
`Beacone upon the Rock of European and Brittanick alchimie or The phisicianes philosopheres and chimist`s alchimie displayed or the minthouses defended against the grand imposture of transmutatione of mettalles by the universale cure. In a second letter to his Brittanick majestie Queen Anne of Brittaine and Irlande`; an unpublished alchemical treatise by John Leslie, written in the form of two letters to Queen Anne and one to the Duke of Queensberry.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.14
Scope and Contents
The work is undated but was probably written sometime in the early 18th century.
Dates:
?Early 18th century.
‘Beginning and the end of the Lewis Chemical Works', a detailed account written by D Morison, former foreman of the plant, of its operation from 1857 to 1874.
Item
Identifier: MS.9586
Scope and Contents
The Lewis Chemical Works was established by Sir James Matheson, proprietor of Lewis, to distil tar and paraffin oils from the abundant local peat. Sited above the south side of the River Creed, near Stornoway, it suffered, according to Morison's account, from incompetent management, lack of expert supervision, and peculation by imported employees, accumulating financial losses which led to closure in 1874. Seven line drawings and plans (folios 2, 39, 40, 43, 47, 50, 61) are...
Dates:
1895.
Bhagavadgītā.
Item
Identifier: MS.3014
Scope and Contents
Complete Sanskrit text, preceded by a set of mālāmantras (folio 1 verso) and nine devotional stanzas (folios 3-5 verso). The adhyāyas end as follows: i, folio 14; ii, folio 27 verso; iii, folio 35; iv, folio 42; v, folio 47 verso; vi, folio 56; vii, folio 61; viii, folio 66 verso; ix, folio 72 verso; x, folio 80; xi, folio 91 verso; xii, folio 95; xiii, folio 101; xiv, folio 105 verso; xv, folio 109 verso; xvi, folio 114; xvii, folio 118 verso; xviii, folios 132, 132 verso.The...
Dates:
?Early 18th century.
Bhagavadgītā (The Song of the Holy One), a philosophical poem, forming part of the epic poem Mahābhārata.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.12
Scope and Contents
The manuscript, on European watermarked paper, is in Devanāgarī script.Colophon (folio 140 recto): hariḥ oṃ tat sad iti śrībhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṃvāde mokṣasanyāsayogo nāma aṣṭādaśādhyāyaḥ śrhī ॥ [that is, the standard colophon to chapter 18 (and so to the whole text), but there is no information about the scribe, owner or date of writing].On folio 140 verso: iti bhagavadgītā samāptā [‘Here ends the...
Dates:
Undated.
Bible (Oxford, 1849) of Archibald Stewart, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1853)., 1849, [after 1849].
Item
Identifier: Acc.3642/4
Scope and Contents
At the beginning is one manuscript folio containing notices of the marriage of Archibald Steuart and births of his family.
Dates:
1849, [after 1849].
Bible written in the late thirteenth century., Late 13th century-14th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1901
Scope and Contents
The books of the Old Testament follow the usual Vulgate order, with the addition of III Esdras, beginning 'Et fecit Josias Pascha in Jerosolimis Domino' (folio 165). The books of the New Testament are arranged as follows: Gospels, Pauline Epistles, Acts, Catholic Epistles, Apocalypse. At the end (folio 406) are Interpretationes Nominum Hebraicorum, beginning 'Aad testificans'. Many leaves are torn or missing, especially at the beginnings and ends of books. The books of Obadiah to Malachi, in...
Dates:
Late 13th century-14th century.
Bibliographical material of Sir Robert Sibbald.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.18
Scope and Contents
(i) `Catalogus Scriptorura Historicorum, Geographicorum et Politicorura qui de rebus Scoticis scripsere` (folio 1). This lists both manuscript and printed material and includes Sibbald`s ‘Memoria Balfouriana’. There are 224 entries arranged on a roughly chronological basis. It is followed (folio 12 verso) by other titles, mostly of works on Scottish history.(ii) `Catalogus poetarum Scotorum qui Latine scripsere pro compositione Corporis poetarum Scotorura` (folio 21). For a...
Dates:
Circa 1700.
Bibliographies and offprint distribution lists relating to the published papers of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn; with press cuttings, some relating to Fairbairn’s papers, others to psychoanalysis generally., 1929-1958.
File
Identifier: MS.50226
Scope and Contents
The items are arranged by genre and by date within each genre.Bibliographies.Addition to a bibliography, [?1953], of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn: ‘Publications by W. Ronald D. Fairbairn bearing the imprint 1953’. Folio 1.Typescript bibliography, [1956 or after], of the published papers, 1928-1956, of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. Folios 2-5.Carbon copy of a typescript bibliography, [1956 or after], of the published papers, 1928-1956, of...
Dates:
1929-1958.
Bills and receipts of the 1st Company of the Edinburgh Volunteer Rifle Battalion, 1859-1867, and undated (folio 1), together with lists of subscriptions and other financial papers, 1859-1866, and undated (folio 85)., 1859-1867.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.2.19
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Company, recruited mainly from the Faculty of Advocates, was raised in 1859, as part of the general Volunteer mobilisation in that year. The majority of the papers belong to that and the immediately following years.
Dates:
1859-1867.
Biographical account of William Cowper, Bishop of Galloway, who died in 1619.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.3.12
Scope and Contents
The account is headed "Life of William Cowper, Bishop of Galloway and Dean of the Chapel Royal of Holyrood." A note at folio 1 refers to the "Address of Principal Lee to the students of the University of Edinburgh at the opening of the session 1846" and this date is added in pencil at folio 1; but the present text is the work of a different author. Neither the hand nor the subject-matter of this account seems to resemble either in Lee`s discourses in MS.3452; it is not in the selection...
Dates:
19th century.
Biographical and memorial material relating to Alasdair Geddes., 1919-1969, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19267
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Biographical notes of Alasdair Geddes written by his brother Arthur, undated (folio 1);(ii) Typescript of epitaph to Alasdair Geddes carved on his tombstone by his brother, Arthur, in 1919 (folio 6);(iii) Typescript of ‘To One is not and Yet is’, by Rachel Annand Taylor, undated (folio 10);(iv) Correspondence, 1969, of Jeannie Geddes with the Scottish National Institute for the War Blinded concerning the medals...
Dates:
1919-1969, undated.
Biographical notes and passages, undated, compiled by Elizabeth S Haldane concerning her brother Viscount Haldane., [After 1880]-1937, 1973.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20227-20229
Dates:
Majority of material found within [After 1880]-1937, 1973.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks and other papers of Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane, preceded by correspondence of and papers concerning his mother, Mrs Mary E Haldane and his maternal uncle, Sir John S Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and followed by notebooks and other papers of his sister Elizabeth S Haldane.
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Papers of Elizabeth S Haldane.