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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 454 Collections and/or Records:

Notes on, transcripts of, and excerpts from documents in English repositories examined for genealogical purposes by Andrew Stuart., 1790-1797.

 File
Identifier: MS.8301
Scope and Contents

The notes and transcripts are from documents in repositories including the British Museum (the notes being mainly from the Harleian Manuscripts), the Chapter House at Westminster, the Tower of London, and Caius College, Cambridge.

Notes were also taken from Thomas Astle's private collection, now forming part of the Stowe Manuscripts of the British Museum.

Dates: 1790-1797.

Notes on, transcripts of, and excerpts from documents in French repositories examined for genealogical purposes by Andrew Stuart., 1789.

 File
Identifier: MS.8302
Scope and Contents

The notes and transcripts are from documents in repositories including the Bibliothèque du Roi, the Chambre des Comptes, the Trésor des Chartes, and other places in Paris. Notes were also taken from sources in Orleans and Tours, and from private collections.

Dates: 1789.

Orchestral, vocal and other music scores of Ian Whyte., 1947-1951, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.22082-22093
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Apart from the film music, which is datable to 1947-1948 from the accompanying correspondence and papers (MSS.22085-22086), almost all the music is undated; but from the ink used, some of it may be dated to about the same period.

Except where otherwise stated the music is written as for keyboard.

Dates: 1947-1951, undated.

'Our own correspondent'., Undated.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6226/2
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.

Papers and notebooks of David Thomson, relating to published works., 1920s, 1953-1987.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13259/1-23
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: Majority of material found within 1920s, 1953-1987.

Papers, autograph and typescript, of Edmund Crosby Quiggin, chiefly relating to the Book of the Dean of Lismore (Adv.MS.72.1.37)., Early 20th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.14870(i)-(iv)
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of Professor W J Watson to Dr Edmund Crosby Quiggin, dated 29 November 1919, (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Professor John Fraser to Mrs Quiggin, dated 25 May 1937, (folio 2);(iii) ‘Truagh mo dal re deichlaithibh’, 9 stanzas, (folio 4 recto);(iv) Lists of poems from various sources, (folio 4 verso);(v) Index to the Book of the Dean of Lismore, with transcripts of many minor and miscellaneous items,...
Dates: Early 20th century.

Papers, autograph and typescript, of Edmund Crosby Quiggin, chiefly relating to the Book of the Dean of Lismore (Adv.MS.72.1.37)., Early 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.14870(i)
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of Professor W J Watson to Dr Edmund Crosby Quiggin, dated 29 November 1919, (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Professor John Fraser to Mrs Quiggin, dated 25 May 1937, (folio 2);(iii) ‘Truagh mo dal re deichlaithibh’, 9 stanzas, (folio 4 recto);(iv) Lists of poems from various sources, (folio 4 verso);(v) Index to the Book of the Dean of Lismore, with transcripts of many minor and miscellaneous items,...
Dates: Early 20th century.

Papers, autograph and typescript, of Edmund Crosby Quiggin, chiefly relating to the Book of the Dean of Lismore (Adv.MS.72.1.37)., Early 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.14870(ii)
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of Professor W J Watson to Dr Edmund Crosby Quiggin, dated 29 November 1919, (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Professor John Fraser to Mrs Quiggin, dated 25 May 1937, (folio 2);(iii) ‘Truagh mo dal re deichlaithibh’, 9 stanzas, (folio 4 recto);(iv) Lists of poems from various sources, (folio 4 verso);(v) Index to the Book of the Dean of Lismore, with transcripts of many minor and miscellaneous items,...
Dates: Early 20th century.

Papers, autograph and typescript, of Edmund Crosby Quiggin, chiefly relating to the Book of the Dean of Lismore (Adv.MS.72.1.37)., Early 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.14870(iii)
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of Professor W J Watson to Dr Edmund Crosby Quiggin, dated 29 November 1919, (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Professor John Fraser to Mrs Quiggin, dated 25 May 1937, (folio 2);(iii) ‘Truagh mo dal re deichlaithibh’, 9 stanzas, (folio 4 recto);(iv) Lists of poems from various sources, (folio 4 verso);(v) Index to the Book of the Dean of Lismore, with transcripts of many minor and miscellaneous items,...
Dates: Early 20th century.

Papers, autograph and typescript, of Edmund Crosby Quiggin, chiefly relating to the Book of the Dean of Lismore (Adv.MS.72.1.37)., Early 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.14870(iv)
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of Professor W J Watson to Dr Edmund Crosby Quiggin, dated 29 November 1919, (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Professor John Fraser to Mrs Quiggin, dated 25 May 1937, (folio 2);(iii) ‘Truagh mo dal re deichlaithibh’, 9 stanzas, (folio 4 recto);(iv) Lists of poems from various sources, (folio 4 verso);(v) Index to the Book of the Dean of Lismore, with transcripts of many minor and miscellaneous items,...
Dates: Early 20th century.

Papers of and concerning Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet., 1742-1775.

 File
Identifier: MS.11036
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Memorial for the ministers of the Church of Scotland on the window tax, 1757 (folio 1). See also MS.11017, folios 64-65. (ii) Notes and printed bill concerning the writ of Habeas Corpus, [1758] (folio 3); (iii) Drafts of speeches to be delivered in the House of Commons on the conduct of the war, with notes on bribery at elections and the swearing of oaths, [1759] (folio 11); (iv) Memorial for John Forbes of Culloden, 1762 (folio 22); (v) Notes relating...
Dates: 1742-1775.

Papers of Graham Brown, relating to 'The first ascent of Mont Blanc', containing various related material., 1839, 1957, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.4338/163(1-15)
Scope and Contents Containing:(1) Possible rejected manuscript version of Chapter 13(2) Possible rejected manuscript version of unidentified part(3) Photograph of drawing by Baron Gersdorf of view of Mont Blanc from Chamonix(4) Photocopy of letter of G Balmat, 1839(5) Photographs of pages from a notebook written in German(6) Correspondence and amendments relating to the book 1957(7) Various notes relating to the book...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1839, 1957, undated.

Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on Scottish, English and Irish history., 1765-?1794, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.24532
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Two papers on the ancient history of Scotland, 1765, undated. (Folio 1.) The second ends with the royal pedigree in Gaelic which occurs in Adv.MS.72.1.1, folio 1 recto. Monboddo numbers 171, 173. (ii) 'Of the succession in the kingdom of Scotland', undated. (Folio 41.) Monboddo number 174. (iii) Transcripts, undated of charters and formal documents. (Folio 47.) (iv) 'Observations upon Lord Lyttelton's History, and the constitution of the antient Parliaments...
Dates: 1765-?1794, undated.

Papers of James Maidment concerning the peerages of Glencairn and Buchan., Early 18th century, 19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.5266
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Transcript, undated, with commentary by James Maidment, of ‘A genealogical account of the family of Glencairn’, a manuscript assigned by Maidment to the early 18th century and possibly to Robert Mylne. (folio 1);

(ii) Notes, apparently by Maidment, on baronies within the earldom of Buchan (folio 40); with one leaf (folio 85) describing the peerage, published in ‘Collectanea genealogica’.

Dates: Early 18th century, 19th century.

Papers of James Stuart concerning the Pigot Affair., 1776-1780.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8413-8424
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The papers chiefly refer to James Stuart's stay in India as an officer (later Commander-in-Chief) of the forces of the East India Company based at Fort St George (Madras). The most detailed portions of the papers cover the year immediately prior to Stuart's dismissal from the Company's service in 1783. Stuart appears to have retained these papers as justification of his actions and as a defence against accusations of inefficiency. He made different sets of copies of much of his...
Dates: 1776-1780.