Transcripts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Written, printed, or typed copies of an original text or of words originally spoken, such as of court proceedings, broadcasts, or oral histories. Transcripts are extremely accurate copies with any editorial explanations or notations clearly distinguished from the original, including indications of misspellings or editorial omissions. For less formal copying, or for short documents or single words such as in a vocabulary, use "transcriptions."
Found in 619 Collections and/or Records:
15th-century manuscript of the chartulary of Scone Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.28
Scope and Contents
Chartulary produced in Scotland containing documents relating to the Augustinian Abbey of Scone, covering the 12th to the 15th centuries. The chartulary is incomplete, but does contain copies of 148 royal, papal, episcopal and other charters and documents.The documents are written in a variety of hands which appear to be contemporary, or near-contemporary, with one another, with 29 lines to a page. Davis has dated the manuscript to the 15th and 16th centuries. Borland and Innes...
Dates:
15th century.
17th-century extracts and transcripts, in the hand of Sir James Balfour, of chartularies and other historical works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.9
Scope and Contents
17th-century manuscript written and compiled by Sir James Balfour containing the following works:1. Copy by Sir James Balfour of George Marjorybanks, 'Annals of Scotland, 1514-94'. Folios 6r-23r.A history of Scotland in the form of annals written in Scots, originally written in the late 16th century by George Marjoribanks, burgess of Edinburgh. The location of the original manuscript from which Balfour made his copy is unknown. The work is separated into...
Dates:
17th century.
17th-century transcripts of foundation charters of religious houses in Scotland made by Sir James Balfour; and a transcript, probably late 16th-century, of the Chartulary of Balmerino Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.5
Scope and Contents
A volume containing transcripts of foundation charters of religious houses in Scotland in the hand of Sir James Balfour, and a late 16th-century transcript of the Chartulary of Balmerino Abbey.The two sets of transcripts were probably brought together in the mid-17th century, and were certainly together before the death of Charles Fairfax in 1673. The volume is interleaved, which was probably done in the late 18th century, with insertions also added at the end.Folios...
Dates:
Late 16th century and 1st half of 17th century.
Account-book, containing particulars of the expenditure of Prince Charles (afterwards Charles I), the Duke of Buckingham, and Sir Francis Cottington, on their visit to Spain, April-September 1623., 1623.
Item
Identifier: MS.1879
Scope and Contents
The keeper of the accounts refers to 'my brother Richard Wyche'.
At the end of the volume are specimens of various kinds of warrant and passport.
A typed transcript has been placed with the manuscript.
Dates:
1623.
Administrative and financial papers of the Scottish Council for Civil Liberties., 1971-1997.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12971/3-91
Dates:
1971-1997.
Administrative papers, publicity materials, photographs and other papers relating to 7:84, theatre company., 1940-1988, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11615/80-85
Dates:
1940-1988, undated.
Album containing correspondence, chiefly relating to Mary, Queen of Scots, with transcripts (not wholly accurate), portraits, and views.
File
Identifier: MS.3657
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Letter of Lethington to Mary, Queen of Scots, describing an interview with Elizabeth, 1562 (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Lethington to Dudley, on Mary's attitude to negotiations, apparently for her marriage with Dudley, Stirling, 1563 (folio 5);(iii) Letter of Throckmorton to Lethington, on the prospects of the marriage, London, 1565 (folio 8);(iv) Letter of Randolph to Leicester, on the same subject, Edinburgh, 1565...
Dates:
1562-1586, undated.
Album containing eight letters, 1833-1837, from Hugh Miller to Sir Thomas Dick-Lauder; and a transcript of a letter from Miller to Miss Dunbar of Boath, and of one from Miss Dunbar to Dick-Lauder, both of 1829.
Item
Identifier: MS.9654
Scope and Contents
The album contains (folios 13-18) a printed octavo prospectus for ‘The traditional history of Cromarty (Inverness, 1834).
Dates:
1829, 1833-1837.
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.
File
Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents
The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates:
1696-1891, undated.
‘Ane forme of the coronatioun of the Kingis of Scotland’, being a modern transcript of the 'antient forme' suggested for the coronation of Charles I., [1626, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.3158
Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from "Apollo's Banquet", 1669, and ‘The dancing master’ by Playford, 1718-1728., 1669, 1718-1728.
File
Identifier: MS.21686
Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from collections by Isaac Cooper, 1783, 1806; Donald Dow, 1773; Robert Petrie, 1790; Simon Fraser, 1795; and Malcolm Macdonald, 1788., 1783-1806.
File
Identifier: MS.21690
Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from miscellaneous 19th-century printed collections of music., 1784-1855, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21691-21692
Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from miscellaneous printed collections of music., 1784-[?1821].
File
Identifier: MS.21691
Dates:
1784-[?1821].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.
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Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from various published sources.
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Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from miscellaneous 19th-century printed collections of music.
Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from miscellaneous printed collections of music., [Circa 1789]-1855, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.21692
Dates:
[Circa 1789]-1855, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.
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Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from various published sources.
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Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from miscellaneous 19th-century printed collections of music.
Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from ‘The Scots musical museum’., 1789.
File
Identifier: MS.21689
Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from ‘Twenty minuets’ by Daniel Dow, [circa 1773], and ‘A second collection of Scots reels’ by Robert Bremner, 1768., 1768, [circa 1773].
File
Identifier: MS.21687
Annotated transcripts of music made by John Murdoch Henderson from various published sources., 1669-1855, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21686-21692
Dates:
1669-1855, undated.
Antiquarian and genealogical papers and correspondence of the Chalmers family of Auldbar., 18th century-19th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15471-15481
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
Antiquarian papers of Patrick Chalmers (died 1854)., 1st quarter of 19th century-3rd quarter of 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.15471
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Papers on field antiquities, especially sculptured stones. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Papers concerning documentary research. The papers are chiefly transcripts of charters and writs concerning Angus. Included in this section is an essay by Patrick Chalmers entitled 'Remarks on the law of the burghs' (folio 26); a list of churches within the Deanery of Angus and the Diocese of St Andrews (folio 40); a note on the public library in Montrose (folio 78); transcripts of...
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century-3rd quarter of 19th century.
Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15369-15378
Scope and Contents
William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.
Dates:
1778-1961, undated.
Articles by L Graham H Horton-Smith based on Alexander Dundas Ogilvy Wedderburn's notes, together with related transcripts and papers., 1666-1918, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3566
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:Articles contributed by L Graham H Horton-Smith to ‘Notes and queries’ (1945), based on Alexander Dundas Ogilvy Wedderburn's notes: 'The Grahams or Grahames of Claverhouse' and 'Grahams, Burgesses and Town Councillors of Dundee' (folio 1);Typed transcripts of various records relating to persons named Graham, including the baptismal register of Mr Robert Norie, Episcopalian Minister at Dundee, 1722-1726 (folio 19);A notebook of...
Dates:
1666-1918, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript notes of Alexander Dundas Ogilvy Wedderburn, King’s Counsel, 'directed in the main to the correction and completion of the pedigree of the Grahams of Claverhouse' as set forth in the writer's ‘The Wedderburn Book’.
Articles, talks and broadcasts by Eric Linklater and by other others., 1940-1968, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.10155/40-66
Dates:
1940-1968, undated.
Assorted papers of Janet Paisley, including examples of her poetry, plays and television drama scripts; with papers relating to her interest in the Scots language, and the history of Scotland., 1987-2011.
Series
Identifier: Acc.14151 Box 3(1)-(11)
Dates:
1987-2011.