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:
Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1540-1549, 1570-1593, collected, late 17th century, by Alexander Colvill, and John or Henry Sinclair.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.5
Scope and Contents
‘Sinclair’s practiques’.
The volume consists of the same collection as in Adv.MS.24.1.4 in part. From the beginning to page 314 of this volume corresponding with the Pitmedden manuscript (Adv.MS.24.1.4(iii)), and from the beginning to page 272 of the third series of paging. After which the collection continues down to 1591.
Imperfect at the beginning.
Dates:
1540-1549, 1570-1593.
Diaries of Thomas Stewart Traill of trips to Orkney for the Parliamentary election of 1852, and to Argyll., 1852.
Item
Identifier: MS.19377
Scope and Contents
The volume includes notes on the lectures Professor Thomas Stewart Traill gave on Natural History at Edinburgh University during Professor Jamieson's illness, with transcripts of related correspondence (folio 81).
Dates:
1852.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, and literary papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, and of his family.
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Diaries of trips made by Professor Thomas Stewart Traill; with one of Robert Omond.
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Diaries of trips made by Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, usually in the late summer while on holiday with his family in Britain but also in France, Germany, and Switzerland.
Diary of Elizabeth S Haldane.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20240-20244
Scope and Contents
The diary was written at intervals of varying length, ranging from a few days to some months, but most entries cover the period following the previous one.
The whereabouts of the first volume of the original diary are not known.
Dates:
1887-1937.
Diary of Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, including details of his proposed application for the chair of Natural History at Edinburgh and transcripts of related correspondence., 1853-1854.
Item
Identifier: MS.19378
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Many of the diaries are illustrated with sketches of architecture and scenery. The diaries show Traill to have been a sensitive tourist giving detailed accounts of scenery, geology, history, local customs and industry.
Dates:
1853-1854.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, and literary papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, and of his family.
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Diaries of trips made by Professor Thomas Stewart Traill; with one of Robert Omond.
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Diaries of trips made by Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, usually in the late summer while on holiday with his family in Britain but also in France, Germany, and Switzerland.
Documents, chiefly copies, and papers in the claim to the ancient earldom of Levenax, or Lennox, drawn up about 1772-1774 (but not brought to the House of Lords) by George Cockburn Haldane of Gleneagles.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20001-20003
Dates:
?1195-1844, undated.
Drafts of letters, miscellaneous notes and part of a diary of John Hill Burton, and transcripts of letters of David Hume and Dr Alexander Carlyle., 1770-1881, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.9427
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Drafts, circa 1840-1880, undated, of letters of John Hill Burton to various people, including Lord Brougham and Sir James Gibson Craig. These also include transcripts of three letters of David Hume, 1770-1776, and one of Dr Alexander Carlyle, 1805 (folios 23-25, 70). (Folio 1.)(ii) Miscellaneous undated notes, including probably some of Burton's last written words; notes for ‘The book hunter’ (London, 1860) and ‘Queen Anne’ (London,...
Dates:
1770-1881, undated.
Drama works of Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1974, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10397/7-8
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes corrected typescripts of articles, reviews and broadcast talks, together with 55 letters from various correspondents.
Dates:
1974, undated.
Early 16th-century transcript of selected parts of the chartulary of Lindores Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.1
Scope and Contents
Chartulary produced in Scotland containing copies of royal, papal, episcopal, and other charters, as well as some grants of the abbey of Lindores.The work is written in a small cursive hand and was probably written in the early 16th century. According to Davis it certainly dates from after 1502. Dickson also suggests that the manuscript may have been written as late as the reign of James IV (d. 1513). The work contains 25 documents concerning the abbey of Lindores and...
Dates:
Early 16th century.
Early 17th-century manuscript of copies of various historical and legal papers made for Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington, with material covering the years 1400-1626.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.16
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Scotland in the early 17th century, before 1637, for Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington. The volume consists of copies and extracts of various historical and legal works.The full contents are listed below, primarily taken from Dolezalek's census and the 'Historical Catalogue' record. Any gaps in the foliation refer to blank sheets or sheets used for titles and headings.Extracts of the rental book of the Abbey of Dunfermline. This is printed...
Dates:
Early 17th century, before 1637.
‘Edinburgh burgeschip and gildrie’: Extract ‘de libro consilii burgi de Edinbrugh, per me Gulielmum Stewart Iuniorem scribam dicti burgi deputatum’., 12 December 1572.
Item
Identifier: MS.189
Scope and Contents
The manuscript records a meeting of the baillies, councillors, and deacons (named) in the ‘clerks chalmer’, which ratified an act of 8 November 1564 (quoted), prescribing the admission-dues of burgess-ship and guildry.
The records for 1572 are missing.
The modern transcript bound with the manuscript is inaccurate.
Dates:
12 December 1572.
Estate books, being a number of partly printed bound volumes relating in various ways to the Ellices’ estates in Glengarry and Glenquoich., 1834-1921, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15152-15169
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.
Dates:
1834-1921, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
Estate finance books., 1861-1931.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.15160-15163
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.
Dates:
1861-1931.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
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Estate books, being a number of partly printed bound volumes relating in various ways to the Ellices’ estates in Glengarry and Glenquoich.
Ewen MacLachlan’s ‘Leabhar Caol’, containing transcripts (with occasional notes) from nine manuscripts sent to him for examination by the Highland Society of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.5
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts were sent to Ewen MacLachlan by the Highland Society of Scotland in 1812. Dated passim. MacLachlan generally called the volume ‘An Leabhar Caol’, but on the title pages added as alternatives ‘An Diabhol Caol’, ‘The Celtic Repository’. Binding inscribed ‘Ancient Celtic Tales’, ‘The Tales of Other Times’.The contents (text) as follows.(i) Contents list. (Page ii.)(ii) Note on 8th-century learning. (Page iii.)(iii)...
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Excerpts from the diary of John Smith, sculptor and builder in Darnick, near Melrose, Roxburghshire; with a typed transcript of the diary.
File
Identifier: MSS.8499-8499A
Dates:
1812-1854.
Excerpts made in 1748 from the 14th-century register of the Abbey of Holme Cultram, Cumbria.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.4
Scope and Contents
A transcript of 56 charters of the Abbey of Holme Cultram, a Cistercian monastery founded by monks from Melrose in 1150, in what was at the time Scottish territory. The charters selected for transcription concern Scottish lands or were granted by Scottish persons. Further charters are calendared at the back of the volume. The original chartulary of the late 13th century is held in the Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle.The transcriber, who signs his name on the title page and on...
Dates:
1748.
Extracts, 1556, from chartularies of the Archbishopric of Glasgow which were deposited in the Scots College in Paris; followed by a short history, in Scots, of the Hamilton family entitled 'Frier Mark Hamiltonis historie'
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.5
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of transcripts of the chartularies and original charters of the Archbishopric of Glasgow which were deposited in the Scots College in Paris. The material in the manuscript covers the 12th to the 16th centuries.The work is written in one hand and contains frequent additions, erasures, and corrections. The additions to the work, both in the margins and interlineal, are partly in Latin and partly in Scots.As well as charters, the volume contains extracts of...
Dates:
1556
Facsimiles of manuscripts made for students in Falconer Madan's classes in mediaeval palaeography at Oxford, with notes and a few transcripts by Percy Stafford Allen.
File
Identifier: MS.9739
Scope and Contents
There is an inscription by Percy Allen dated 1894 (folio i) and he is known to have attended the classes that year. Photostats of letters of Robert Turberville and Pope Leo X to Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester, 1517, undated, are inserted (folio 38).
Dates:
1517, 1894, undated.
Fair transcript, 18th century, of the first ten books of ‘Rerum Britannicarum historia auctore Roberto Johnstono‘.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.1.2
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.V.2.1.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1572-1603.
Family tree of the Melvill(e) family and transcripts of letters from Wellington to James A Melville., 1841.
File
Identifier: Acc.9260/49
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers of Michael Moncrieff Staurt, CIE OBE concerning his career in India and East Pakistan, 1927-1950, and his research into the Scottish Nabobs and other matters concerning the history of India, circa 1950-1986.
Dates:
1841.
Forged letters and manuscripts of Lord Byron; with correspondence and notes relating to the forgeries and to George Gordon Du Luna Byron., 1841-2004, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.43542
Scope and Contents
The forged letters and manuscripts of Lord Byron, with accompanying notes, have been placed at the start of the sequence. Correspondence relating to the forgeries has then been ordered chronologically, with two copies of transcriptions of the forgeries placed at the end of the sequence.Forged letters and manuscripts and copies of the same of Lord Byron, with accompanying notes and memos of John Murray [V] and Virginia Murray placed after their corresponding letters, undated and...
Dates:
1841-2004, undated.
Fragments of verse by Robert Louis Stevenson, addressed to his wife, Fanny Stevenson, titled, 'What can I wish, what can I promise, dear', with notes by Everard Meynell., 1887.
Item
Identifier: MS.3790
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
All, except the poems in MS.3791, are accompanied by transcripts.
Dates:
1887.
Gaelic Ossianic verse of James Macpherson and John Smith written out in a neat Gaelic script by John Sinclair of 70 Bell Street, Glasgow.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.8
Scope and Contents
The scribe, John Sinclair, extended the James Macpherson material, notably by translating from Macpherson’s English what was missing from his Gaelic. He explains his editorial principles in a foreword addressed to his namesake Sir John Sinclair (folios i-ii). He had borrowed Adv.MS.72.2.4 and Adv.MS.72.2.6 from Peter Turner at some time between 1802 and 1809, and includes brief transcripts from these; that with which the manuscript begins is cut short, as he was obliged to return the...
Dates:
1812-1813.
Genealogical papers of Andrew Stuart., 1767-1804, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8290-8324
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, notes, drafts and memoranda concerning the genealogical researches of Andrew Stuart for his ‘Genealogical history of the Stewarts’, and other works.
Dates:
1767-1804, undated.
Genealogical papers of the Dunlop family., [Circa 1650]-1952, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9274-9300
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Much of the collection concerns William Dunlop, Principal of Glasgow University, his son Alexander, Professor of Greek at Glasgow, and his grandson John, Tide Surveyor at Greenock. The papers of William Dunlop include material on the colony of South Carolina, the Darien Scheme, and the affairs of the Church of Scotland, while those of Alexander chiefly concern the University of Glasgow. The collection also includes diaries and literary works of John Dunlop of Gairbraid, the temperance...
Dates:
[Circa 1650]-1952, undated.