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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 618 Collections and/or Records:

Autograph letters of Charles I and Charles II, with transcripts., [1643], 1663.

 File
Identifier: MS.573, folios 74-80
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.An autograph letter of Charles I to William, 8th Earl of Glencairn, [1643], assuring him ‘upon the word of a Prince that I shall neuer retract any thing I have graunted either in religion or liberty to my subiects in Scotland’, with transcript. (Folio 74.)An autograph letter of Charles II to ‘My Lord Chancelour of Scotland’ (William, 8th Earl of Glencairn), 1663. The bearer, ‘my Lord St. Andrews’, will acquaint him with the reasons and...
Dates: [1643], 1663.

BBC scripts and related papers of David Thomson., Circa 1945-1975.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13259/24-31a
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

As well as correspondence, and manuscripts and typescripts of published works, the collection includes a huge number of David Thomson’s notebooks and diaries.

Dates: Circa 1945-1975.

'Bernadine'., Undated.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6226/4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Including typescript of novel, "Bernardine", typescripts of articles, transcripts of press reviews and a letter concerning the novel, "The Last Spring" (1931).

Dates: Undated.

'Brief sketch of a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott, commencing in the year 1814', by Joseph Train.

 File
Identifier: MS.3277
Scope and Contents According to an 'introductory letter' to John Gibson Lockhart, 1833, Joseph Train wrote these recollections for the benefit of his children and sent them to Lockhart for use in his ‘Life of Sir Walter Scott’. The work, which includes transcripts of letters of Sir Walter Scott, some not printed in the Centenary Edition, gives an account of Train's relations with Scott, of his antiquarian researches and the objects which he presented to Scott, of Galloway traditions, some of which provided...
Dates: 1814-1841.

Carbon copies of typed transcripts of poems of Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1941-1952, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26188, folios 8-61
Scope and Contents

A few of the poems were intended for publication in 'Figs and thistles' (Edinburgh, 1959).

Dates: 1941-1952, undated.

Chartulary of Paisley Abbey, 16th century, containing material covering the years 1163-1530.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.14
Scope and Contents Chartulary produced in Scotland containing documents and charters concerning Paisley Abbey. The contents are arranged according to subject matter, and in part topographically. The volume includes copies of royal, papal and episcopal charters, with a contemporary table of contents at the front.Davis has dated the manuscript to the 1520s. Scott suggests that part of the manuscript may have been started around 1505, but that the presence of a group of texts dated to 1522 supports...
Dates: 1520-1530.

Chartulary of the bishopric of Moray, 16th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.9
Scope and Contents Chartulary compiled in Scotland containing a selection of transcripts of charters, deeds, and acts of the Bishopric of Moray, covering the 13th to the 16th centuries. The manuscript is also known as the 'Red Book of the Church of Moray'. Davis dates the manuscript to the 16th century. Borland suggests that the manuscript can be dated to circa 1540, with later 16th-century additions. This suggestion is certaninly true of the later portion of the chartulary, but the first 94 folios were...
Dates: 16th century.

‘Collection of charters, evidents and antiquities collected by E. Hadinton’, the title in the hand of Sir James Balfour prefaced to the collection from original charters, public records & chartularies made by Sir Thomas Hamilton, Clerk of Register and First Lord of Haddington.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.1a-b
Scope and Contents

There is no method preserved in the arrangement of the charters nor any index to the contents of the volumes but along the margins, especially of the first volume are notes in the hand of Sir James Balfour, which though imperfect are convenient.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.4.16.

Dates: ?Early 17th century.

‘Collection of charters, evidents and antiquities collected by E. Hadinton, vol. I’., ?Early 17th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.1a
Scope and Contents From the Series:

There is no method preserved in the arrangement of the charters nor any index to the contents of the volumes but along the margins, especially of the first volume are notes in the hand of Sir James Balfour, which though imperfect are convenient.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.4.16.

Dates: ?Early 17th century.

‘Collection of charters, evidents and antiquities collected by E. Hadinton, vol. II’, ?Early 17th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.1b
Scope and Contents From the Series:

There is no method preserved in the arrangement of the charters nor any index to the contents of the volumes but along the margins, especially of the first volume are notes in the hand of Sir James Balfour, which though imperfect are convenient.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.4.16.

Dates: ?Early 17th century.

Collection of manuscripts, apparently belonging to William Edmondstoune Aytoun., 1653-1746.

 File
Identifier: MS.4932
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Contemporary copy of a 'Report of the committee from the commissioners of Shyres, 20 July 1653', concerning shire valuation and taxation in Scotland. (Folio 1.)(ii) Manuscript of the first part of 'A journall of the siege and the taking of Buda, begun in June in the year 1686' (folio 2). To this is added a transcript in William Edmondstoune Aytoun's hand, apparently of the whole manuscript, in which he inaccurately dates the siege 1684,...
Dates: 1653-1746.

Collection of papers of the Warden family.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.50259-50262
Content Description

The collection comprises correspondence of the Warden family, with transcripts of most of the correspondence, a travel journal written by Alexander Warden and a publication, 'Letters from St. Helena' (1816), by William Warden.

Dates: 1816; 1819-1857.

Collection of thirty-nine seventeenth-century sermons, many of them transcribed in 1624., 17th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.5767
Scope and Contents Eight of the items are published sermons by John Donne (folios 11-56); one has been attributed to Donne and extracts from it are published in ‘The sermons of John Donne’, volume x, (folio 1); the other sermons, many of them in the form of jottings, are unidentified.Among notes on the manuscript by former owners (folios i-iv) is a statement by Augustus Jessopp that it is 'undoubtedly, written by the hand of Dr Donne', but in the view of modern scholars it is undoubtedly not in...
Dates: 17th century.

Common-place book containing a collection of verse transcripts and reminiscences relating chiefly to Frasers and Roses, with some of the writings or compositions of Forbes and Culloden and John Roy Stewart, written by Peter Rose.

 Item
Identifier: MS.14898
Scope and Contents The manuscript, watermarked 1827, was written by Peter Rose who lived circa 1764-1841, a cadet of a family which had a lease of Ardachy, Abertarff, 1726-1770. He spent his working life in the West Indies, retiring to Scotland 1824 or 1825. A cloth label on the inside front cover is inscribed ‘P. ROSE OF ROSE HALL’, and pencilled note on the flyleaf reads “Bd. At B’pool 1 Sep /36” (i.e. 1836?). The contents are as follows.(i) Contents list (folio ii);(ii)...
Dates: [1827 or after.]

Commonplace book of James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.3
Scope and Contents Composite manuscript produced in Scotland and compiled in the late 15th century, probably circa 1500, by James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane and secretary to William Scheves, Archbishop of St Andrews. The manuscript is a commonplace book and consists of a variety of religious, historical, legal, and literary material. There are several hands evident throughout the manuscript. Anderson states that folios 1r-24v are written by very similar hands, and could...
Dates: Late 15th century.

Commonplace book of Mrs C E R Drummond-Hay, of Seggieden, containing religious verses and transcripts of letters from her son, Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel) James Adam Gordon Richardson Drummond-Hay while on active service.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8907
Scope and Contents

The thirteen letters, written between February and April 1885, are addressed by James Drummond-Hay to his parents and other members of his family, and recount in diary form his experiences as a member of the Coldstream Guards contingent both on the voyage to the Sudan and on arrival there. There is much detailed description of military activity in the Suakin region.

Dates: 1868-1885.

Contemporary transcript of ‘The Ancient Method and Manner of holding of Parliaments in England’, attributed to Henry Elsynge, Younger, Clerk of the House of Lords., [1660, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.5744
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.

Dates: [1660, or before.]

Copies, 1707, from manuscripts in the British Museum of state papers and letters concerning Scotch affairs and the interference of the English government in them from about the period of Queen Mary’s arrival in Scotland to the time of her execution.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.1.1 (i)-(iii)
Scope and Contents

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.3.28-30.

The manuscript is in a neat hand, with a few unimportant notes by the transcriber.

Dates: 2nd half of 16th century.