Portraits.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Representations of real individuals that are intended to capture a known or supposed likeness.
Found in 154 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence of various members of the Brown family., 1862-1880, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3262
Scope and Contents
At the end of the volume are cuttings from the ‘West India Committee Circular’, 1927 and 1933, relating to Major-General John Brown, and portraits and photographs of members of the Brown family. Also included is a lock of horse hair from the tail of 'Alma', the horse ridden by George Brown in to the Battle of Alma, 21 September 1854.
Dates:
1862-1880, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and papers of the Brown family, Linkwood, with some of the family of William Leslie, Minister of Lhanbryde.
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Correspondence, chiefly of George Brown, Provost of Elgin, Major-General John Brown, Regional Support Command, General Sir George Brown, and Peter Brown, Linkwood.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20510-20533
Scope and Contents
Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.
Dates:
1884-1936, undated.
Engraved portraits of governors of the Dutch East Indies, with historical notes.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.1
Dates:
18th century.
Fifteen letters from Sir Walter Scott to Mrs Pascoe, thanking her for gifts and discussing her novel, ‘Coquetry’, which was published anonymously. , 1811-1822.
File
Identifier: MS.5317 (i), folios 1-30
Scope and Contents
There is a photograph of a portrait of Mrs Pascoe by an anonymous artist on folio 30 (folio 1).
Dates:
1811-1822.
Five leaves from an illuminated copy, dated 1665, of the diploma awarded by the University of Padua in 1658 to Jacobus Pasquali on his graduation as Doctor of Laws., 1658, 1665.
Item
Identifier: MS.7148
Scope and Contents
The diploma is signed by Antonius Paulutius, Vicar General to the Bishop of Padua, and attested, 1665, by Aloysius Baratti, Protonotary Apostolic and chancellor of the diocese. The designer's name is in the bottom margin of folio 5. At folio 1 verso is a portrait of the recipient in his nineteenth year, enclosed in an oval frame and surrounded by drawings in full colour of flowers and leaves and of a peacock. The surviving parts of the text are enclosed by wide borders containing ribbons,...
Dates:
1658, 1665.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh; together with a list of the full collection.
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh.
Four letters, 1828-1829, 1832, of Thomas Campbell, bound with a copy of his ‘Inaugural discourse ... on being installed Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow’ (Glasgow, 1827).
File
Identifier: MS.3363
Scope and Contents
There are also two portraits of Thomas Campbell.
Dates:
1828-1829, 1832.
‘Gem selection: Scottish songs’ edited by Alfred W Tomlyn, 7th edition (Edinburgh, undated); signed, with an autograph portrait sketch, Perth, 1928, of himself by Sir Harry Lauder; with other signatures inside the front cover.
Item
Identifier: MS.21833
Dates:
1928.
Genealogical papers on the different branches of the Bruce family collected by Major William Bruce Armstrong for his work ‘The Bruces of Airth and their cadets’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15982-15988
Scope and Contents
Most of the material is printed, with annotations by William Brue Armstrong.
Dates:
Mid 19th century-[before 1892.]
Grangerized copy of R H Cromek’s 'Reliques of Robert Burns', 4th edition, (London, 1817), part I (pages [i]-186)., 1st quarter of 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.1654
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, chiefly relating to the publication of James Currie’s 'Works of Robert Burns, with an account of his life', 1st-8th editions.
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Grangerized copy of R H Cromek’s 'Reliques of Robert Burns', 4th edition (London, 1817), with correspondence of Cadell & Davies, James Currie, John McCreery, Gilbert Burns, R H Cromek, William Roscoe, and others.
Grangerized copy of ‘Scottish men of letters of the eighteenth century’ (London, 1901) by Henry Grey Graham, volume I, bound in with which are proofs of David Hume’s ‘History of England’, volume ii, pages 49-64, with autograph corrections by Hume. , [1759, circa 1770], 1901.
Item
Identifier: MS.1703A
Dates:
[1759, circa 1770], 1901.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Grangerized copy of ‘Scottish men of letters of the eighteenth century’ (London, 1901) by Henry Grey Graham, bound in the first volume of which are proofs of David Hume’s ‘History of England’, volume ii, pages 49-64, with autograph corrections by Hume.
Grangerized copy of 'Scottish men of letters of the eighteenth century’ (London, 1901) by Henry Grey Graham, volume II., 1901.
Item
Identifier: MS.1703B
Dates:
1901.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Grangerized copy of ‘Scottish men of letters of the eighteenth century’ (London, 1901) by Henry Grey Graham, bound in the first volume of which are proofs of David Hume’s ‘History of England’, volume ii, pages 49-64, with autograph corrections by Hume.
‘Innes of Drumgask, Balnacraig, and Ballogie’, Aberdeenshire, 'a family history', by the Reverend John Stirton., 1942.
File
Identifier: MS.3068
‘Innes of Drumgask, Balnacraig, and Ballogie’, Aberdeenshire, 'a family history', by the Reverend John Stirton., 1942.
File
Identifier: MS.3069
Jâmi‘ al-Kamâlât, being a short treatise intended for the guidance of kings., 1584.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.3(i)
Scope and Contents
The manuscript written in good Nasta‘lîq is on tinted paper. The frontispiece is illuminated with gold, and throughout the manuscript there are gold ornaments and gold lining around the columns. It is also illustrated with portraits on folios 7b and 28a. The manuscript is dated, and was compiled in Constantinople, A.H.992 (A.D.1584) according to a chronogram, during the reign of Sulṭân Murâd III, (A.H.982-1003, A.D.1574-1595), upon whom numerous praises have been lavished. It is divided into...
Dates:
1584.
Leaves found loose in MSS.1836-1841: 'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, bound together., [1783-1797.]
File
Identifier: MS.1842
Scope and Contents
References have been made from the loose leaf to the place where it was found and vice versa.
Included is a printed memoir of Colonel Drinkwater (folio 1).
Dates:
[1783-1797.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Autobiographical writings of Colonel John Drinkwater, afterwards Bethune.
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'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, covering the years 1783-1797.
Lectures on Aristotle delivered by Robert Balfour at the College of Guyenne, Bordeaux.
File
Identifier: MS.2236
Scope and Contents
The lectures, which are not the same in form as Robert Balfour's printed works, were delivered 'in Gimnasio Aquitanico' (folio 307 verso), and deal with Aristotle's logic in general, and particularly with Porphyry's 'Introduction' (folio 2); 'Categories' (folio 42); 'De Interpretatione' (folio 87); 'Prior Analytics' (folio 109 verso); 'Posterior Analytics' (folio 128); 'Topics' (folio 158); 'Sophistici Elenchi' (folio 176); 'Physics', I-V (folio 185); 'De Coelo', I-II, IV (folio 245); De...
Dates:
1587-1590.
Letter, 1829, of David Macbeth Moir to Robert Macnish, the surgeon, concerning the latter's work on dreams, with a transcript, a portrait of Moir, and printed matter., 1829.
File
Identifier: MS.3399
Letter, 1846, of Thomas Carlyle to William Nichol, mounted on card, along with a pencil portrait, 1843, of Carlyle by Bessie Fletcher., 1843, 1846.
File
Identifier: MS.23167, folios 42-44
Dates:
1843, 1846.
Letter of Lieutenant-General David Baird at Copenhagen to Lieutenant-Colonel James Willoughby Gordon concerning the invasion of Denmark, with a printed engraved portrait of Baird., 22 September 1807.
Item
Identifier: MS.14835, folios 131-133
Dates:
22 September 1807.
Letter of Sir Walter Scott to James Gibson Craig., 1831.
Item
Identifier: MS.23141, folios 6-8
Scope and Contents
Includes two portraits of Sir Walter Scott (folios 7-8).
Dates:
1831.
Letters and a holograph manuscript of Thomas Campbell, with transcripts and portraits., [1806, or before], 1829, 1844.
File
Identifier: MS.3398
Scope and Contents
Contains a letter to Jeffrey, 1829, recommending Miss Crumpe, the novelist; another letter, 1844; and holograph manuscript of 'Ye Mariners of England', differing slightly from the earliest and final versions.
Dates:
[1806, or before], 1829, 1844.
Letters and other papers, some of which are printed, originally found inside MS.21248: ‘The Ogilvies of Boyne’ by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler, but now kept separately., 1719, 1929-1933, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.21249
Letters and papers collected from 'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', 6 volumes, various editions, (London, 1830-1839) by Allan Cunningham., 1830-1839.
File
Identifier: MS.832
Dates:
1830-1839.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', by Allan Cunningham, various editions, (London, 1830-1839), 6 volumes, interleaved, with original letters to the author and others (1829-1837), copies of letters (1710-1830) and notes in the autograph of his son Francis, printed cuttings, and portraits.
Letters and papers, some printed, including a few photographs, formerly loosely enclosed throughout MSS.20087-20205 which could not be pasted or tipped in where they were found., 1901-1929, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.20207
Scope and Contents
A list of the volumes where the various items were formerly located is placed at the beginning (folio i).
Dates:
1901-1929, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Diaries, a few notebooks and some miscellaneous papers chiefly of Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson, with some of her parents, brother and sisters, her husband and daughter.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Haldane and Burdon-Sanderson families.
Letters and portraits of friends and other contemporaries of Sir Walter Scott, collected by Wilfred Partington for a grangerized copy of his ‘Private letter-books of Sir Walter Scott’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2255-2256
Dates:
1799-1884, undated.