Manuscripts.
Found in 6597 Collections and/or Records:
'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, including correspondence regarding the Malay Archipelago, Hong Kong, and the attack on the stockade of a chief in New Zealand, 1845-1846., 1845-1847.
'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, including correspondence regarding the Malay Archipelago, Hong Kong, and the attack on the stockade of a chief in New Zealand, 1845-1846., 1845-1847.
`Adversaria`, being miscellaneous notes and copies of correspondence of Sir Robert Sibbald, with scholars such as William Nicolson, Edward Lhuyd and John Smith of Durham on Scottish history and antiquities.
Al-faraj ba‘d al-shiddah, a Turkish manuscript, probably of the eighteenth century, written in a current, fairly readable Naskhi hand, with Persian titles in red., 18th century.
Al-Shuẕûr al-Ẕahabiyyah, a grammar and a vocabulary of the Uṣmānlī Turkî language explained in Arabic.
Album, compiled by a member of the Erskine family, containing sundry papers including one in hand of David Hume and papers of John Ramsay of Ochtertyre.
Album containing copies of religious tracts, at least one of which is of John Livingstone, Minister of Ancrum, in the same hand as the 'Life' of Livingstone in Adv. MS.34.5.19.
Album, containing engraved plates of fashions pasted in, and French sentences illustrating the use of parts of speech., 1776-1795.
Album containing portraits of Sir Walter Scott, with papers of and concerning him.
Album, containing 'Universal grammar...' written by James Trail, Minister of St Cyrus, and lecture notes on logic by his brother David Trail, Minister of Panbride.
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
Album of miscellaneous printed and manuscript matter.
The printed items are mostly newspaper cuttings, from the period circa 1780-circa 1830; they have not been indexed. The manuscript items, a list of which has been added at the beginning of the volume, are mostly Scottish, several relating to Bo`ness and Linlithgow, and date from 1562 to 1826. On folio 44 is a note signed `A.E.N.`
Album of Walter Bowman.
Contains manuscript letters, prints, drawings and watercolours.
Albums of letters and documents, almost entirely of Scottish interest, written by or relating to historical celebrities, and dealing with public and private affairs.
Alexander Carlyle's corrected autograph manuscript of "The haberdasher's New-Year gift, or Plain reasons for removing the Right Honble W---- P---- [i.e. William Pitt] Esq from His Majesty's presence and Counsels forever. By T.M. Haberdasher'., 1759.
This ironical work (folio i) was written in the year after the disastrous close of the St Malo expedition of 1758.
Alexander Nimmo`s copy of his account of the survey made by him in the summer of 1806 of the northern, eastern and southern boundaries of Inverness-shire, which he undertook on Telford`s recommendation, whilst rector of Inverness Academy, for the parliamentary commission appointed to fix the county boundaries of Scotland.
Alexander Skinner's Manuscript of Piobaireachd, so-called from the inscription 'Presented to Mr. Duncan Campbell, Piper to Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., of Newe, by Alex. Skinner, Teacher of Dancing ... London, June 15, 1855'.
`Alexandri Magni saga og Machabea sögur` by Brandr Jónsson.
'Alice Clifton' by Cecilia Campbell, an unpublished novel, undated., [Before 1852.]
`Alphabet of Honnor: or The Succession and Armes of the Kinges, Princes, Dukes, Marquesses, Earles, Barons, and Gentry of England since the Conquest’.
Alphabetical index to obituary notices in ‘Gentleman`s Magazine’, 1791-1855, written in a notebook, the paper of which is watermarked 1855.
Alphabetical list of charters in the Laigh Parliament House (Inv. XXVIII, Mac. 65)., Early 18th century.
Many of the papers bear notes by Rose.
Alphabetical list of medicinal ingredients, incipit `Ambra secundum quosdam est sperma ceti`., 14th century.
There are later additions on folio 80.
Initials are alternately in red or blue, and the first under each letter of the alphabet has tracery in the other colour.
Alphabetically indexed volume containing references to members of Dumbartonshire families in printed works, manuscripts in the Advocates` Library, and manuscripts and documents kept in private repositories, compiled by James Dennistoun for a projected history of Dumbartonshire., ?1825-?1842.
The references begin on folio 2, and are preceded by lists of sources inspected (folio 1). The volume is un¬dated, but an event dated 1842 is mentioned at folio 179. A number of leaves containing notes (folios 18, 25-26, 38, 202, 208-209) are bound in, and a bifolium (folios 211-212) found loosely enclosed has been tipped in at the back.