Translations. Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Translated versions of a text.
Found in 546 Collections and/or Records:
Photostat of 'The Wards', a translation of August Wilhelm Iffland's ‘Die Mündel’ by Sir Walter Scott., 1796.
Item
Identifier: MS.2229
Photostat of 'Wolfred of Stromberg. A Drama of Chivalry', a translation of Jakob Maier's ‘Fust von Stromberg’ by Sir Walter Scott., 1797.
Item
Identifier: MS.2231
Photostats of manuscripts held in the Abbotsford Library, all in the hand of Sir Walter Scott.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2229-2232
Dates:
1796-1797.
Poems and other works, chiefly of William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort to James IV., Late 16th century-mid 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2065
Scope and Contents
The volume contains 'Verces writen by sundrie hands' according to a note, 1655, of Sir William Drummond (folio 1). In addition to the poems of William Fowler, which are the majority, and some addressed to him, which are printed with his ‘Works’ (1914), the volume contains “Earle of Ancram's Psalmes”, in the poet William Drummond's hand (folio 50); Fowler's translation of Machiavelli's dedication of the Prince, with a draft of Fowler's dedication to the Laird of Buccleuch (folio 147); and...
Dates:
Late 16th century-mid 17th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
/
Hawthornden Manuscripts: original papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort of James VI.
/
Manuscripts of William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort of James VI.
Poems of Boris Pasternak translated into English and Italian by John Purves., [Circa 1957-1959.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15621
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The exercise books contain notes from published critical works on, and extracts from, contemporary literature, chiefly English poetry.
Dates:
[Circa 1957-1959.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
/
Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
/
Notebooks chiefly of John Purves containing notes on English language and literature.
/
Exercise books of John Purves, chiefly undated but belonging to the period circa 1957-1959.
/
Poems of Boris Pasternak translated into English and Italian by John Purves, with notes on the author.
Poems of Boris Pasternak translated into English and Italian by John Purves, with notes on the author., [Circa 1957-1959.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.15620-15621
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The exercise books contain notes from published critical works on, and extracts from, contemporary literature, chiefly English poetry.
Dates:
[Circa 1957-1959.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
/
Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
/
Notebooks chiefly of John Purves containing notes on English language and literature.
/
Exercise books of John Purves, chiefly undated but belonging to the period circa 1957-1959.
Poems of Boris Pasternak translated into English and Italian by John Purves; with notes on the author., [Circa 1957-1959.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15620
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The exercise books contain notes from published critical works on, and extracts from, contemporary literature, chiefly English poetry.
Dates:
[Circa 1957-1959.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
/
Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
/
Notebooks chiefly of John Purves containing notes on English language and literature.
/
Exercise books of John Purves, chiefly undated but belonging to the period circa 1957-1959.
/
Poems of Boris Pasternak translated into English and Italian by John Purves, with notes on the author.
Poems of George Sutherland Fraser, with other poems translated by Fraser., Undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.4681/1-7
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
Comprising typescript versions of poems and typescripts of lectures and broadcast talks, with selection of literary correspondence.
Dates:
Undated.
Poems, original and translated from the Persian, all apparently by Sir John Malcolm, except one of John Leyden, written in what seems to be a feminine hand at the end of a copy of Malcolm’s 'Persia, a poem' (London, 1814), presented by the author to his sister Wilhelmina Malcolm.
File
Identifier: MS.2614
Scope and Contents
The poem of John Leyden (folio 22) was written, probably in 1805, in reply to Malcolm's lines on his 'Scenes of Infancy' (Edinburgh, 1803).
Dates:
?1805-1822, undated.
Poetical and editorial papers of Robin Fulton (1937- ).
Series
Identifier: MSS.27495-27498
Scope and Contents
Robin Fulton was born in Arran and became a schoolteacher. From 1967 to 1976 he edited the literary magazine 'Lines Review'. His work is mostly poetry, but also includes reviews, translations and literary studies. The papers consist of drafts and proofs of poems (MSS.27495-27497), and editorial papers for 'Lines Review' (MS.27498).
Dates:
1963-1972.
Poetry of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., [1925, or before]-[1978, or before], undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27001-27033
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poetry and prose works, including books, articles, lectures and notes. Much of the material is fragmentary, and some was reworked or copied by Hugh MacDiarmid at a later date.
Dates:
[1925, or before]-[1978, or before], undated.
Poetry worksheets of Tom Pow, and translations from Washington Delgado, a Peruvian poet., 1969-1996, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12233/52-60
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Literary papers, 1969-2003, of Tom Pow (b. 1950), poet and lecturer in Creative and Cultural Studies at Glasgow University's Chrichton Campus. This collection includes papers relating to the following published works: 'Rough seas' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1987); 'The moth trap' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1990); 'In the palace of serpents' (Edinburgh, Canongate, 1992); 'Shouting it out' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), edited by Tom Pow; and 'Red letter day' (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe,...
Dates:
1969-1996, undated.
Printed papers of the Highland Society of Scotland chiefly relating to the poetry of Ossian, and bearing occasional notes by Sir John Sinclair.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.17
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(M 1). Prospectus (1804) of ‘The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’. (Folio 1.)(M 2). Sir John Sinclair, ‘A scene from Ossian’ (1806). (Folio 9.)(M 3). Chapter on Ossian from Sinclair’s ‘Correspondence’ (1831). (Folio 13.)(M 4). Pages xcvii-cxii of the ‘Dissertation’ in ‘The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’ (1807). (Folio 18.)(M 5). Sinclair’s ‘Additions to the tragedy of Fingal’. (Folio...
Dates:
1777-1831, undated.
Printer’s copy of the text of Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic, with a literal translation into Latin’, largely in the hand of Robert Macfarlan, schoolmaster at Walthamstow., [1796, or after], 1798.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.73.4.4-73.4.6
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Gaelic text is in the hand of the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross of Lochbroom (1768-1843), then a tutor in Edinburgh. It is his adaptation (into the orthography of the Gaelic Bible) of the manuscripts left by James Macpherson in 1796 as the ‘originals’ of his ‘translations’ of Ossian’s poems. These were written partly by Macpherson, partly by another hand (Adv.MSS.72.3.11, folio 50 verso; 72.3.13, folio 80 recto). They are now lost. Sinclair describes the circumstances of the work in ‘Poems of...
Dates:
[1796, or after], 1798.
Printer’s copy of the text of Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic, with a literal translation into Latin’, largely in the hand of Robert Macfarlan: volume 1., [1796 or after.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.4.4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Gaelic text is in the hand of the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross of Lochbroom (1768-1843), then a tutor in Edinburgh. It is his adaptation (into the orthography of the Gaelic Bible) of the manuscripts left by James Macpherson in 1796 as the ‘originals’ of his ‘translations’ of Ossian’s poems. These were written partly by Macpherson, partly by another hand (Adv.MSS.72.3.11, folio 50 verso; 72.3.13, folio 80 recto). They are now lost. Sinclair describes the circumstances of the work in ‘Poems of...
Dates:
[1796 or after.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Printer’s copy of the text of Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’, the Gaelic and Latin each divided into three volumes as printed.
/
Printer’s copy of the text of Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic, with a literal translation into Latin’, largely in the hand of Robert Macfarlan, schoolmaster at Walthamstow.
Printer’s copy of the text of Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic, with a literal translation into Latin’, largely in the hand of Robert Macfarlan: volume 2., 1798.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.4.5
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is watermarked 1795-1799. It is dated (folio 24 verso) 1798.
Dates:
1798.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Printer’s copy of the text of Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’, the Gaelic and Latin each divided into three volumes as printed.
/
Printer’s copy of the text of Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic, with a literal translation into Latin’, largely in the hand of Robert Macfarlan, schoolmaster at Walthamstow.
Printer’s copy of the text of Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic, with a literal translation into Latin’, largely in the hand of Robert Macfarlan: volume 3., ?1798.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.4.6
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Gaelic text is in the hand of the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross of Lochbroom (1768-1843), then a tutor in Edinburgh. It is his adaptation (into the orthography of the Gaelic Bible) of the manuscripts left by James Macpherson in 1796 as the ‘originals’ of his ‘translations’ of Ossian’s poems. These were written partly by Macpherson, partly by another hand (Adv.MSS.72.3.11, folio 50 verso; 72.3.13, folio 80 recto). They are now lost. Sinclair describes the circumstances of the work in ‘Poems of...
Dates:
?1798.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Printer’s copy of the text of Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’, the Gaelic and Latin each divided into three volumes as printed.
/
Printer’s copy of the text of Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic, with a literal translation into Latin’, largely in the hand of Robert Macfarlan, schoolmaster at Walthamstow.
Proses for translation for intermediate honours, with additional notes on Scottish periodical journals of the 18th century., [1932-1933.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15675
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The notes dated from the appointment of John Purves as lecturer in Italian at Edinburgh University in 1920.
Dates:
[1932-1933.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
/
Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
/
Notebooks of John Purves concerning Italian literature.
Research notes on Sagas not published in either volume of 'The Icelandic Sagas'., 20th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/71-82
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most, but not all, of Magnusson's published works are represented. Also included here are the translations that Magnusson undertook on the work of the Icelandic author and Nobel prize winning novelist Halldór Laxness (1902-1998). Material relating to Magnusson's book on Mastermind "I've started so I'll finish" can be found in the Mastermind section.The material includes correspondence relating to book proposals, research notes compiled by Magnusson while working on his books, and...
Dates:
20th century.
`Saga og páttr af Sneglu-Halla`, with Danish and Latin translations, index, and notes by Finnur Magnússon.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.2.8
Dates:
1807.
School notebook of Latin grammar and translations of John Burnett., 1885.
Item
Identifier: MS.24599
Scope and Contents
The notebook incudes some accounts concerning Lord Monboddo, 1888-1889 (folio 89 verso).
Dates:
1885.
Schoolbook of James Fowler, Strathpeffer, containing instructions and problems in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and the construction of sundials, and a translation of the ‘Iliad’, book 3.
Item
Identifier: MS.14284
Scope and Contents
A few miscellaneous notes and poems have been added in a 19th-century hand.
Dates:
1780.
'Season of Calcutta', a translation in verse from the Sanskrit by Horace Hayman Wilson, undated, and verses 1812-1813, undated, addressed to the 1st Earl of Minto by various Europeans., 1812-1813, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.11723
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The correspondence and papers include material concerning Bencoolen, Goa, Iran, Sind, Indonesia, Afghanistan and Tahiti, various surveys, and literary and scientific subjects.
Dates:
1812-1813, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
/
Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
/
Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
/
Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
/
Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto as Governor-General of India.
/
Miscellaneous papers and letters concerning the 1st Earl of Minto.
Selections of Italian prose and verse with translations into English by John Purves., 1921.
Item
Identifier: MS.15665
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The notes dated from the appointment of John Purves as lecturer in Italian at Edinburgh University in 1920.
Dates:
1921.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
/
Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
/
Notebooks of John Purves concerning Italian literature.
'Short history of Maliva’, translated, January 1809, from the Tabaquat - i - Akbari at Baroda., 1809.
Item
Identifier: MS.13915
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:
1809.