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:
Transcript of parts of volumes xxxiv-xxxv of the diary of Archibald Johnston of Warriston., June-October 1659.
File
Identifier: MS.6255
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The transcript, though incomplete, contains, in addition to the material used in the printed text, prayers, religious meditations, and particulars of the health and establishment of Archibald Johnston's family.
Dates:
June-October 1659.
Transcript of parts of volumes xxxix-xl of the diary of Archibald Johnston of Warriston., January-February 1660.
File
Identifier: MS.6257
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The transcript, though incomplete, contains, in addition to the material used in the printed text, prayers, religious meditations, and particulars of the health and establishment of Archibald Johnston's family.
Dates:
January-February 1660.
Transcript of parts of volumes xxxvi-xxxviii of the diary of Archibald Johnston of Warriston., October 1659-January 1660.
File
Identifier: MS.6256
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The transcript, though incomplete, contains, in addition to the material used in the printed text, prayers, religious meditations, and particulars of the health and establishment of Archibald Johnston's family.
Dates:
October 1659-January 1660.
Transcript of Radio 3 programme ‘Rewriting Man’s Prehistory: Revolution – or illusion?’, 1971.
File
Identifier: Acc.13542/383
Scope and Contents
Programme chaired by Magnusson.
Dates:
1971.
Transcript of Sir Walter Scott’s journal, copied in the handwriting of his daughter Sophia and at least one other person., 1825-1827.
Item
Identifier: MS.1569
Scope and Contents
The transcript begins at the beginning (20 November 1825) and ends in the middle of a sentence under 2 November 1827.
Dates:
1825-1827.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and papers of Sir Walter Scott and his family and of John Gibson Lockhart, with those of clients and kinsmen of Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet.
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Writings of Sir Walter Scott and papers closely associated with him.
Transcript of the court book of the Barony of Calder Comitis., 1584-1601.
Item
Identifier: MS.3725
Transcript of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Gaelic-English-Latin Dictionary containing words beginning with ‘C’., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.13
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
These thick manuscript volumes were written by three clerks (James Connell, Evander McLeod and another) under the supervision of the Reverend Dr John MacLeod of Dundonald. They were part of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Dictionary, and were transcribed between June 1822 and June 1823 from materials prepared by MacLeod and Ewen MacLachlan (see below). Corrections appear in MacLeod’s hand; he complained that it took him two days to correct what his clerks wrote in four...
Dates:
19th century.
Transcript of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Gaelic-English-Latin Dictionary containing words beginning with ‘P’-‘Subhailceachd’., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.16
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
These thick manuscript volumes were written by three clerks (James Connell, Evander McLeod and another) under the supervision of the Reverend Dr John MacLeod of Dundonald. They were part of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Dictionary, and were transcribed between June 1822 and June 1823 from materials prepared by MacLeod and Ewen MacLachlan (see below). Corrections appear in MacLeod’s hand; he complained that it took him two days to correct what his clerks wrote in four...
Dates:
19th century.
Transcript of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Gaelic-English-Latin Dictionary containing words beginning with ‘Subhaltach’-‘U’., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.17
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
These thick manuscript volumes were written by three clerks (James Connell, Evander McLeod and another) under the supervision of the Reverend Dr John MacLeod of Dundonald. They were part of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Dictionary, and were transcribed between June 1822 and June 1823 from materials prepared by MacLeod and Ewen MacLachlan (see below). Corrections appear in MacLeod’s hand; he complained that it took him two days to correct what his clerks wrote in four...
Dates:
19th century.
Transcript of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Gaelic-English-Latin Dictionary containing words beginning with‘D’-‘F’., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.14
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
These thick manuscript volumes were written by three clerks (James Connell, Evander McLeod and another) under the supervision of the Reverend Dr John MacLeod of Dundonald. They were part of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Dictionary, and were transcribed between June 1822 and June 1823 from materials prepared by MacLeod and Ewen MacLachlan (see below). Corrections appear in MacLeod’s hand; he complained that it took him two days to correct what his clerks wrote in four...
Dates:
19th century.
Transcript of the journal, 1793, of Warren Hastings by Dr Sophia Weitzman, with a diary of a similar journey made by her in 1938 on the versos., 1793, 1938.
Item
Identifier: MS.19202
Transcript of the Minutes of the Kirk Session of Kiltearn., 1697-1705, 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.19404
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Thomas Traill was born in Orkney in 1781 of the family of Traill of Tirlot and the collection includes miscellaneous genealogical, legal and historial material relating to Orkney. He graduated in medicine in the University of Edinburgh in 1802 and by 1803 had settled in practice in Liverpool where he became a prominent figure being prime mover in the foundation of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool of which he was first Secretary, and assisting in the foundation of the Royal...
Dates:
1697-1705, 19th century.
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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Miscellaneous papers of and concerning Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, and his family.
Transcript of the proceedings at James Stuart's court-martial, 12 December 1780, on a charge of having 'joined in Mutiny in . . . causing to be imprisoned by Military Force . . . The Person of George Lord Pigot, then President and Governor of Fort St. George...’., 1780.
Item
Identifier: MS.8421
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The transcript was attested a true copy by R J Sulivan, Judge Advocate.
Dates:
1780.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Correspondence and papers of Major-General James Stuart, younger brother of Andrew Stuart.
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Papers of James Stuart concerning the Pigot Affair.
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Transcripts of the proceedings at James Stuart's court-martial, 12 December 1780, on a charge of having 'joined in Mutiny in . . . causing to be imprisoned by Military Force . . . The Person of George Lord Pigot, then President and Governor of Fort St. George...’.
Transcript of the typescript transcripts of the diaries of John M Reid, with manuscript corrections by Reid, who also cut out some passages (MSS.26271-26272), omitting the poems., 1954-1956.
Item
Identifier: MS.26275
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
MS.26275 is a transcript of MSS.26271-26272, omitting the poems. The correspondence in these transcripts has not been indexed.
Dates:
1954-1956.
Transcript of tunes found in John Playford's ‘Dancing Master’, and in William Christie's 'Collection of Strathspeys'., [1820], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3300 [Glen.185]
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Transcripts of tunes found in various editions of John Playford's 'Dancing master, including those for the treble violin (folio 32), and of tunes in William Christie's ‘Collection of Strathspeys' (folio iv verso); with notes and index by John Muir Wood (initials on folio 48 verso).
Dates:
[1820], undated.
Transcript, received bound, of MS.14547, folios 1-8: 'Relatione of the wrongs done to Ladie Yester’, an account of Lauderdale-Tweeddale relations., 1683.
Item
Identifier: MS.14546
Scope and Contents
Included is a note by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe on page 1: "copied from a manuscript in the first Marquis of Tweeddale's handwriting", and an inscription by Sharpe on the verso of the front cover: 'This manuscript of the Tweeddale family formerly belonged to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, with his handwriting on the first page and corrected throughout. The tract at the end is entirely in his handwriting'. The additional tract referred to (page 47) is "An observable exercise of a dying...
Dates:
1683.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of the Hays of Yester on special subjects.
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Papers of transactions and lawsuits between the Tweeddale and Lauderdale families, deriving chiefly from the marriage between the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale and Lady Mary Maitland, daughter of the Duke of Lauderdale.
Transcript, undated, by Philip Heseltine ('Peter Warlock'), with indications for an orchestral rescoring, of a setting for keyboard, 1924, by Delius of ‘A late lark’ by W E Henley, undated., 1924.
Item
Identifier: MS.21862, folios 3-4
Dates:
1924.
Transcription of An Cath Cathardha: volume 1., 1698.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.27
Scope and Contents
An Cath Cathardha. Beginning ‘Ceithre hiosdadha Flaitheasa attarastair Flaitheas & Forlamhus for Chriochaibh ⁊Chinneadhchuibh na Cruinne domhanda isin aimsir anull’. On versos the scribe adds relevant quotations from Latin texts, notably books I-VII of Lucan’s ‘Pharsalia’, from which the tale derives.
The text is written on rectos only, with footnotes.
Dates:
1698.
Transcription of An Cath Cathardha: volume 2., 1698.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.28
Scope and Contents
An Cath Cathardha. Beginning “Oighidh Aip. / Ro choimhead an toice go cudroma na dáThaoiseach”. Subscribed (page 697) ‘Ego autem hoc Exemplar finivi pridie Calendas Iunii 1797. D.S.’ under this, in the Reverend Dr John Smith’s hand, is “Transcribed from a copy in the possession of the Revd. J. Kelly at Hall’s Miln near Banbridge. (Ireland) Letters to &c. p.275”.
Dates:
1698.
Transcripts, 19th century, in an unknown hand, of Richard Hurd's letters to Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 1773-1792, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.25298
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Lord Hailes corresponded over a number of years with several leading literary and antiquarian figures of the time.
Dates:
1773-1792, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Correspondence of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Correspondence of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes with various named individuals.
Transcripts, 19th century, of letters of and to Henry Mackenzie., 1774-1825, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.648
Scope and Contents
The transcripts are of the following:(i) Excerpts from 17 letters of Henry Mackenzie to William Craig (appointed a Senator of the College of Justice in 1792), 1774-1806, undated, dealing with Bath, travel, London, politics, the stage, and the ‘Mirror’ (folio 1);(ii) Three letters of Samuel Rogers, the poet, to Henry Mackenzie, 1804-1805, containing the verses beginning ‘Sleep on and dream of heaven awhile’, for George Thomson’s collections, and literary news (folio...
Dates:
1774-1825, undated.
Transcripts, 19th century, of official letters and papers, 1643, 1648-1649, of the 3rd Earl of Lothian., 1643, 1648-1649.
File
Identifier: MS.5742
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Letters and papers concerning the work of the Scottish Commissioners appointed in 1648 to protest against the trial of the King, printed in ‘Correspondence of Sir Robert Kerr, 1st Earl of Ancram, and his son, William, 3rd Earl of Lothian’ (folio 2);
(ii) An account by the 3rd Earl of Lothian of his mission to France in 1643 (folio 15).
Dates:
1643, 1648-1649.
Transcripts, 20th century, of the letters, 1848-1911, to Sir George Reid in MS.10996., 1848-1911.
File
Identifier: MS.10996A
Scope and Contents
The transcripts include explanatory and bibliographical notes for each letter.
Dates:
1848-1911.
Transcripts, 1727-1728, of autobiography, letters, and biographical notes by John Livingstone, minister of Ancrum; and of the autobiography of Gabriel Semple, minister of Jedburgh., 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.5746
Scope and Contents
The volume was transcribed by the same copyist as MS.5745.
Dates:
17th century.
Transcripts, 1727, of the autobiography of Robert Blair, minister of St Andrews, and of a biography of William Leitch, minister of Dumfries., 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.5745
Scope and Contents
The volume was transcribed by the same copyist as MS.5746.
Dates:
17th century.