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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Translated versions of a text.

Found in 546 Collections and/or Records:

Microfilm of proof-sheets, [1827, or before], of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott; and, letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.54
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Proof-sheets of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott, volume v, pages 225-240, with autograph corrections by Scott, [1827, or before] (MS.496);

Letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland (MS.2991).

Dates: [1548-1550, 1827, or before].

Microfilm of Sermones de Tempore, a homiliary, early 12th century; and, medical manuscripts, 13th century.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.423
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Sermones de Tempore, a homiliary written in the early 12th century for Rochester Cathedral Priory (Adv.MS.18.2.4).

Two English medical manuscripts, each written by two scribes of the thirteenth century, bound together from an early date (Adv.MS.18.2.5).

Dates: Early 12th century, 13th century.

Microfilm of three Gaelic manuscripts., [1574, or before]-1709.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.565
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Manuscript, 1692-1698, of “Táin Bó Cuailnge” and other tales, written by Eoghan Mac Gilleoin (MS.14873);

Genealogical manuscript, 1709, titled ‘An Leabhar Muimhneach’ written by Diarmuid Ó Conchubhair (MS.14874);

Translation into Gaelic, in an early seventeenth-century hand, of 'Lilium medicinæ' of Bernard de Gordon of Montpellier, [1574, or before] (MS.2076).

Dates: [1574, or before]-1709.

Microfilm of two books, 1692, 1697, of household recipes of Katherin Smith and correspondence and papers, 1818-1831, undated, of Sir John Sinclair on agriculture.

 Item
Identifier: MS.15553 [Mf.MSS.41]
Scope and Contents

The correspondence and papers of Sir John Sinclair includes translations and copies of letters on his ‘Code of agriculture’ and letters of him to Sir Patrick Murray Threipland.

Dates: 1692, 1697, 1818-1831, undated.

Miscellaneous articles and lecture notes of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., [Circa 1895]-1947, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.9321
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript lecture notes, undated, on the subject of 'Lesser Elizabethan Dramatists, Beaumont and Fletcher' (folio 1);(ii) Manuscript notes for a lecture entitled 'Pope and Tennyson', delivered to the Aberdeen Clerical Society, circa 1895; dated by Sir Herbert Grierson in 1944 (folio 13);(iii) Manuscript notes, undated, on Charles Dickens; possibly material gathered for a lecture or article (folio 76);(iv)...
Dates: [Circa 1895]-1947, undated.

Miscellaneous law tracts.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.4
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows.(i) Copies of various Royal patents, gifts, and commissions, 1642-1669 (the majority from the early 1660s). Most are in a 17th-century hand; an early 18th-century hand has added two, on pages 125 and 532. A detailed list is given on pages 536-540, and they have been fully indexed. (Page 1.)(ii)-(xiii) are copies, in an 18th-century hand, of sections of Adv.MS.6.2.2.(ii) = Adv. MS. 6.2.2(xii): `The Retour ... of the...
Dates: 16th century-17th century.

Miscellaneous letters and documents.

 Series
Identifier: MS.13500

Miscellaneous manuscript items of Eric Linklater., 1944-1977, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.10282/42-53
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of plays, novels and poems, with over 500 letters of and to various correspondents.

Dates: 1944-1977, undated.

Miscellaneous manuscripts from Pitfirrane House, Fife., 1558-1897.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.6503-6511
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers derive from four main sources: material relating to the Halketts of Pitfirrane, to the Wedderburns of Gosford, to Sir Patrick Murray of Saltcoats, and to John McFarlane, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1709). The last male heir in the direct line of the Halkett family, Sir James (succeeded 1697), died in 1705, ending the baronetcy created in 1671. On his death his eldest sister, Janet, succeeded to Pitfirrane. She had married Sir Peter Wedderburn, 1st Baronet of Gosford, who now...
Dates: 1558-1897.

Miscellaneous material concerning poetry, genealogy, and other matters., 1558-1885.

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Identifier: MS.6503
Scope and Contents One of the most important sections is that on poetry (folios 1-18). Included here (folio 1) is an anonymous translation into English made in ?1710 of George Buchanan's ‘Francisci Valesii et Mariae Stuartae regum Franciae et Scotiae, epithalamium’. An interesting and anonymous ballad (folio 8) is called 'The Westland Letany', being a satire on the misgovernment of Scotland by Lauderdale, written circa 1673. There is also a copy of 'Hardyknute' (folios 14-16), a ballad attributed to Lady...
Dates: 1558-1885.

Miscellaneous notes, letters and other items.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.17
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Notes of decisions of the Court of Session, 1714-1721. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies, early 18th century, of letters of and to George Buchanan, 1573-1581, and undated, with notes on others of his letters, mostly in Thomas Ruddiman`s hand; these are Epistolae XXVII, XV, XII, XXXI, XXIV, XL, XXXVII in Ruddiman`s edition of Buchanan`s Works, and Ruddiman`s introductory notes to Epistolae XI, XVI, VIII, XII, XX, XXVIII, XXXI, XXXIV,...
Dates: 17th century-1912.

Miscellaneous Ossianic papers.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.3.1

Miscellaneous papers.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.10
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Translation, 17th century, of Jan de Laet`s edition of ‘Lexicon Vitruvianum’. The beginning is missing; the text starts at `Abstantia` and breaks off at `Mataxa`. (Folio 1.)(ii) Article attacking the service-book, circa 1638. (Folio 51.)(iii) Manuscript, 1709, of ‘A Letter directed thus, for Mr James Lyon in Kirkwal’ by James Sands. (Folio 72.)(iv) Copy, late 17th century, of George Buchanan`s...
Dates: ?1595-18th century.

Miscellaneous papers of the Dunlop family., 1635-20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.9303
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Birth-brieve, 1635, of Isabel Hay, daughter of Francis, 9th Earl of Erroll (folio 1);(ii) Part of 'A memorial of the most rare and wonderful thingis in Scotland', 17th century, concerning Orkney (folio 12);(iii) Letters, circa 1641-1642, to Charles I on political matters (folio 14);(iv) Translations, 20th century, of documents concerning William More, a preacher, 1648 (folio 18);(v) Keys to ciphers,...
Dates: 1635-20th century.

"Mr Van Rheed's Report on the State of Malabar written in March 1677", with further observations in 1681-1682, and subsequently translated from the Dutch in 1791., 1791.

 Item
Identifier: MS.13832
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates: 1791.