Stats. Copies.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Reproductions, usually of documents, made with the Photostat (TM) machine or similar machines.
Found in 186 Collections and/or Records:
Photostat - Lantern - Cape Campbell - surveyed by D and C Stevenson., 1902.
Item
Identifier: MS.5885 (13)
Dates:
1902.
Photostat of a Chaucerian poem of 49 lines, beginning 'Devise prowes and eke humylitee', together with a note in the same hand of the date of birth of James IV, which could only have been written after his accession in 1488., [1488, or after.]
File
Identifier: MS.8494, folio 37
Scope and Contents
The scribe was probably James Gray, priest and notary in Dunkeld. See “The Scribe of the King's Quair” by G Neilson, in ‘The Athenaeum’ (1899), pages 835-836.
Dates:
[1488, or after.]
Photostat of a contemporary copy of 'Ung livret et traicte pour entendre quel ordre et train ung prince ou chef de guerre doibt tenir pour conquester ung pays ou passer on traverser le pays des ennemys. Compose par Messire Berault Stuart', i.e., Bernard Stuart, 3rd Seigneur d'Aubigny.
Item
Identifier: MS.1802
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is illustrated with seven miniatures.
Dates:
Late 15th century-early 16th century.
Photostat of a copy of a letter of James VI to the Prefect of the Faroe Islands, concerning fishing off the islands., 1591.
Item
Identifier: MS.6138, folio 16
Dates:
1591.
Photostat of a fragment of a letter of Sir Walter Scott, with a note of Miss Anne Scott, to Hector Macdonald Buchanan., 1826.
File
Identifier: MS.3836, folios 92-95
Dates:
1826.
Photostat of a genealogical table of the Boswell family tracing the descent of the various branches from 1066 to the early 20th century., Early 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.8494, folio 270
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Photostat of 'A hymn for divine music for soprano and continuo' by William Croft, with realization of figured bass by Celia Bizony, as performed in the National Library of Scotland during the Edinburgh Festival of 1958., [1958, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8494, folios 273-275
Dates:
[1958, or before.]
Photostat of a letter of Alexander Robertson of Strowan to the Earl of Mar, Lyons., 15 October 1716.
Item
Identifier: MS.3581, folios 10-13
Dates:
15 October 1716.
Photostat of a letter of Alexander Smith, the poet., 1857.
Item
Identifier: MS.5406 (xi), folios 56-57
Photostat of a letter of C M Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid', to Charles Lahr, a London bookseller., 1943.
Item
Identifier: MS.8494, folios 271-272
Photostat of a letter of Sir Walter Scott to Lord Bloomfield, then ambassador to Sweden, concerning materials, later to be supplied through Bernadotte, for Scott's ‘Life of Napoleon’., 1827.
Item
Identifier: MS.8494, folios 266-268
Photostat of a letter, undated, of Robert Burns to a lady in Dumfries., Late 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7198, folios 2-3
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Photostat of a manuscript of the poem, 'The Telegraph'., 1796.
Item
Identifier: MS.3824
Photostat of a plan of Burntisland, with sailing-directions, by John Elphinstone, Master of Elphinstone, Practitioner Engineer, in the British Museum., 1745.
File
Identifier: MS.2975, folios 116-120
Scope and Contents
Accompanied by notes by the donor and Harry R G Inglis on John Elphinstone and his map, to which the date 1745 is given.
Dates:
1745.
Photostat of a short Scottish prose chronicle to 1482 entitled 'Heir is assignyt ye cause quhy oure natioun vas callyt fyrst ye Scottis'., [1482, or after]-circa 1500.
File
Identifier: MS.8494, folios 17-36
Scope and Contents
In the original manuscript in the British Library (Royal MS.17.D.XX) the work forms a continuation of Wyntoun's Chronicle.
The chronicle is followed by a Scottish text, circa 1500, based on a fourteenth-century Latin original, of the supposed letter of Prester John to the Emperor Frederick I (folio 28). A typescript of the latter is also included (folio 32).
Dates:
[1482, or after]-circa 1500.
Photostat of Admiralty plan - Approach to River - Clyde, River - surveyed by Lieutenant Commander Turner., 1932.
Item
Identifier: MS.5846 (67)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A group of about 2500 plans, chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson. Their business was concerned chiefly with sea-works, lighthouses, harbours, canals and river courses, and the plans reflect this interest, although there are some items relating to railways and bridges.
Dates:
1932.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with C.
Photostat of an apparently unpublished letter of Rob Roy to an unknown correspondent., 1719.
Item
Identifier: MS.8494, 198-199
Scope and Contents
The letter seems to have been written by a scribe, but was almost certainly signed by Rob Roy himself (cf. MS.1314, folios 1-3).
Dates:
1719.
Photostat of an autograph letter of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, signed ‘Charles R’, to Mr Walker, President General of the English Benedictines at Paris., 1778.
Item
Identifier: MS.622(i), folio 4
Photostat of an autograph letter of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, signed ‘Charles. R’, to Mr Welsh, late Prior of the English Benedictines at Paris., 1775.
Item
Identifier: MS.622(i), folio 3
Photostat of 'De Coniugio Sacerdotum', a treatise by John MacAlpine (Maccabeus), Prior of the Dominicans at Perth and afterwards Professor of Theology at Copenhagen., 16th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.485
Dates:
16th century.
Photostat of deed of trust, 1914, of John Gribbel, Philadelphia by which he gave the Glenriddell Manuscripts of Robert Burns (now MSS.86-87) in trust to the Scottish Nation., 1914.
Item
Identifier: MS.20768, folios 100-108
Dates:
1914.
Photostat of letter, 1804, of Jean Burns, née Armour, regarding her children., 1804.
Item
Identifier: MS.3581, folio 130
Dates:
1804.
Photostat of letter of Ann Smollett, widow of the novelist, giving thanks for financial help., 1783.
Item
Identifier: MS.3835, folio 40
Dates:
1783.
Photostat of 'Otho of Wittelsbach, a Tragedy', a translation of Ritter von Steinsberg's adaptation of Joseph Marius Babo's ‘Otto von Wittelsbach’ by Sir Walter Scott., 1796-1797.
Item
Identifier: MS.2230
Photostat of part of original survey. 2 copies - Survey from Inverawe to Bridge of Awe - Awe River, Argyll - surveyed by D and T Stevenson., 1868.
File
Identifier: MS.5844 (144)-(145)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A group of about 2500 plans, chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson. Their business was concerned chiefly with sea-works, lighthouses, harbours, canals and river courses, and the plans reflect this interest, although there are some items relating to railways and bridges.
Dates:
1868.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with A.