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 454 Collections and/or Records:
Research file, containing transcripts of articles, photocopies and text from an exhibition on the history of Coats Patons., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.10893/117
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes material concerning productions, administration and publicity.
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Papers and productions of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Production files of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Production files of 'Screw the bobbin' , by 7:84 and Chris Hannon [and Alan Clews].
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Research files for 'Screw the bobbin'.
Scripts and notes on ‘Burke and Hare’ for ‘Living Legends’., 1979.
File
Identifier: Acc.13542/252
Scope and Contents
File contains transcripts of interviews with experts on William Burke and William Hare.
Dates:
1979.
Scripts and research materials for 'Living Legends'., 1979-1981.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/251-257
Scope and Contents
Living Legends was a BBC television series that ran for one series in 1979 that focused on key individuals from British history.
Dates:
1979-1981.
Single letters and documents., 1510-19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2208
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letter, attributed to circa 1590, of John Gordoun to Patrick Bruce, Leith, with a modem transcript. ‘Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’, volume v, page 11. (Folio 1.)(ii) Eighteenth-century copy of Sir Thomas Wortley's inscription at Wharncliffe, 1510. (Folio 4.)(iii) Letter, 31 August 1582, signed by several of the Ruthven Raiders, to John Erskine of Dun, summoning him to Stirling. Smellie, William,...
Dates:
1510-19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Miscellaneous smaller manuscripts, single letters, small collections, etc., now made up into volumes, the property of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
'Sketch of the character of Mr. [David] Hume, by an author of the nineteenth century' (the Reverend John Home, author of ‘Douglas’); with a transcript of the same., 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3993-3994
Scope and Contents
The work is apparently unpublished.
Dates:
19th century.
Small collections of letters and papers., 1647-1862, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2207
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Miscellaneous papers, 1647-1781, consisting chiefly of letters and orders addressed to William Farquharson of Inverey by Middleton and others, in connection with the Royalist campaign in Scotland, 1647-1656. 'Archaeologia Scotia', volume v, appendix, page 57. (Folio 1.)(ii) Orders of General Monck relating to Sir Robert Campbell of Glenorchy and the McNabs, 1654-1655, with modern transcripts, and a chaplain's commission given to...
Dates:
1647-1862, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Miscellaneous smaller manuscripts, single letters, small collections, etc., now made up into volumes, the property of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Songs of and collected by Ethel Bassin., 1909-1960, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7040 Box 8(1)-(5)
Speeches, articles, transcripts and related writings of Robert Boothby., 1935-1982.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12929/34-41
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
This collection contains the correspondence, papers, literary manuscripts, political writings, news clippings, and miscellaneous items, ca. 1881-1999, of Baron Robert “Bob” John Graham Boothby (1900-1986), with a few items having belonged to his father Sir Robert Tuite Boothby (1871–1941), and some collected by his wife, the Lady Wanda Boothby (1933?- ). The bulk of this collection spans from 1924, when Baron Boothby was first elected to Parliament as a representative for East Aberdeenshire,...
Dates:
1935-1982.
Speeches concerning the Douglas Cause made in the House of Lords, February 1769., 1769.
File
Identifier: MS.5361
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Speech made by John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (folio 1); a slightly different version follows (folio 59);(ii) Speech made by Charles Pratt, Earl Camden (folio 91);(iii) Part of a speech made by William Murray, Earl of Mansfield (folio 138), with a fragment of an unidentified speech, possibly another portion of Lord Mansfield's speech (folio 161).With the exception of the first version of Lord Sandwich's...
Dates:
1769.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause.
Summaries of estate accounts., 1861-1879.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.15160-15162
Scope and Contents
Leaves have been torn out between folios 5 and 6, and 18 and 19.
Dates:
1861-1879.
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.
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Estate finance books.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS’, a collection of copies of Scottish historical documents, originally labelled ‘Kirk manuscripts C’., 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.20
Scope and Contents
A volume of miscellaneous collections consisting among others of:
(i) A copy of instructions and letters, 1539-1543, of Sir Ralph Sadler;
(ii) A bulky and ill arranged collection of copies of charters to Scotch religious houses and Bishopricks (namely: Aberdeen, St. Andrews, Cambuskenneth, Melrose, Dunfermline, Coldingham, Trinity College of Edinburgh, Dunbar, Lindores, Haddington and Corstorphine), taken from the Chartularies of Aberdeen, St. Andrews (then in hands of H. Maule and formerly...
Dates:
17th century.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of Scottish historical documents, for the most part copies from the Cotton Library, originally labelled ‘Kirk manuscripts B’., 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.19
Scope and Contents
A collection copied by various hands without sufficient accuracy, possibly for Matthew Crawford.The contents are as follows:
(i) Letter, 3 May 1582, of Sir John Foster to Secretary Walsingham.
(ii) Advertisement out of Scotland, 22 June 1582.
(iii) Letter, 20 August 1582, of the Queen of England to the King of Scotland.
(iv) Depositions of George Douglas sent the 14 September from Stirling, and received the 20 September at Windsor. ‘Septr. 28 1582’.
(v) The heads whereof George...
Dates:
17th century.
Tales of my Grandfather., 1998-1999.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/374-380
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This section contains scripts and research undertaken by Magnusson for a variety of television and radio programmes running from 1961 until 2006. There are a significant number of scripts for the BBC archaeology programme 'Chronicle' which Magnusson presented from 1966. There are individual scripts and research materials on various programmes that Magnusson presented throughout his televsion career. There are a number of scripts and interviews for Magnusson's radio series "Tales...
Dates:
1998-1999.
Teinds and rental records of Coldingham., 16th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2949
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) 'The Raid off the kirks off Coldingham', 1582, i.e., the teinds assigned to them (folio 1);
(ii) 'Ane old Rentall of the Abbacy of Coldinghame' (folio 20). An eighteenth-century transcript of 'The Rentall of Coldinghame as eftir followis, maid be Sir Androw Strethchenry, then Chamerlane for the tyme'. In a note the transcriber places the rental in the sixteenth century.
Dates:
16th century.
The Radio work of Magnus Magnusson. , 1960-2006.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/374-394
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This section contains scripts and research undertaken by Magnusson for a variety of television and radio programmes running from 1961 until 2006. There are a significant number of scripts for the BBC archaeology programme 'Chronicle' which Magnusson presented from 1966. There are individual scripts and research materials on various programmes that Magnusson presented throughout his televsion career. There are a number of scripts and interviews for Magnusson's radio series "Tales...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1960-2006.
The Television and Radio work of Magnus Magnusson., 1961-2006.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/186-400
Scope and Contents
This section contains scripts and research undertaken by Magnusson for a variety of television and radio programmes running from 1961 until 2006. There are a significant number of scripts for the BBC archaeology programme 'Chronicle' which Magnusson presented from 1966. There are individual scripts and research materials on various programmes that Magnusson presented throughout his televsion career. There are a number of scripts and interviews for Magnusson's radio series "Tales...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1961-2006.
Three letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to his parents, with notes by George S Hellman., 1881-1884.
File
Identifier: MS.3792
Scope and Contents
The letters are written from Davos, 1881; Vichy, 1883; and Bournemouth, 1884 (the last printed in 'The letters of Robert Louis Stevenson', volume iii, page 7).
Dates:
1881-1884.
Transcript and tape recording and editing report for 'Everest South West', produced by John Arnott., 1973.
File
Identifier: Acc.5825/3
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Concerning the British Everest expedition, 1972.
Dates:
1973.
Transcript by Charles Sharpe of 'The full and impertiall account of the whole transactions of Simon [Fraser, 11th] Lord Lovat' by Major James Fraser of Castle-Leathers, in a volume ruled for cash accounts., [?1732-?1737.]
Item
Identifier: MS.16492
Scope and Contents
James Fraser's narrative appears to have been written between about 1732 and about 1737 (see “Major Fraser’s manuscript”, volume i, pages 97-98).
The original manuscript had been loaned to Charles Sharpe by J T Gibson Craig (folio i): its subsequent history is unknown.
The paper is watermarked 1818.
Dates:
[?1732-?1737.]
Transcript by Charles Sharpe of ‘XII. mery jests, of the wyddow Edyth’ by Walter Smith., 1573.
File
Identifier: MS.16491
Scope and Contents
This is a transcript of the 1573 edition (STC 22870). The earlier edition (STC 22869.7), also extremely rare, was published in 1523.The transcript, which is careful to the point of copying the printer’s ornaments, is written on sheets watermarked 1824.Tipped in (folio iii) is a letter, 1841, to Charles Sharpe from a firm agreeing to undertake the production of work, but this does not appear to have taken place.A note by David Laing written on a fragment of...
Dates:
1573.
Transcript, [circa 1879], of ‘Cantus, songs and fancies to three, four or five parts’ by John Forbes, including an original sheet of part of the 'Epistle dedicatory'., 1682.
File
Identifier: MS.21745
Transcript, [circa 1886], of selections from ‘Caledonian pocket companion’, volume II, by James Oswald, possibly made by Frank Kidson., 1743.
Item
Identifier: MS.21747
Transcript, early 20th century, of a pamphlet, [?1745], titled ‘An impartial and genuine list of the ladys on the Whig or Jacobite Partie. Taken in hand merely to show that the common accusation and slander, rashly thrown on the Female Sex, as to their being all Jacobites is false and groundless, as upon a calculation the Whigs are far superior in number and not inferior either in rank, beauty, or sollidity’., [?1745.]
File
Identifier: MS.293
Scope and Contents
The ladies included on the list either are resident in or near Edinburgh or have frequented it for some time.
Dates:
[?1745.]