Translations. Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Translated versions of a text.
Found in 546 Collections and/or Records:
Translation into Latin by Alexander Ross of ‘The genealogie and pedigree of the most ancient and noble family of the Earles of Sutherland’ by Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, with a few corrections by James Balfour.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.18
Dates:
1631.
Translation into Portuguese of William Drummond, "Genealogy of ... the House of Drummond".
Item
Identifier: Acc.3910
Dates:
circa 1832.
Translation of a Maratha narrative concerning a 'living deity' near Poona., [Circa 1802.]
Item
Identifier: MS.13887A
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:
[Circa 1802.]
Translation of a play of Luigi Pirandello; draft of a letter; and act I of a play of Charles Scott Moncrieff., 1925, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.20452
Dates:
1925, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks and translations of Charles K Scott Moncrieff.
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Notebooks containing draft translations by Charles Scott Moncrieff of ‘The letters of Abelard and Heloise’ and of works by Stendhal and Luigi Pirandello; and reviews and letters.
Translation of a work dealing with the Hindu calendar., [Circa 1805.]
Item
Identifier: MS.13920
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:
[Circa 1805.]
Translation of Andvari’s gift by Thor Ewing., 4th quarter of 20th century.
File
Identifier: Acc.13542/72
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:
4th quarter of 20th century.
Translation of ‘Goetz von Berlichingen’ by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, act I to act III, scene 9, in the hand of and presumably by Henrietta, Marchioness of Lothian., [1773, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.5756
Scope and Contents
At the end of the volume, inverted, are the family trees of various Scottish noble families.
Dates:
[1773, or after.]
Translation of Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas, ‘La premiere sepmaine’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.11
Scope and Contents
Hebdomadis de Cleatione Mundi Di VII. The old marking extends to page 181, but pages 86-87 are bifurcated and pages 143-144 are omitted. The volume contains in all 92 leaves. The work is a free translation of ‘The Seven Days’ of the French poet Du Bartas, with Latin verse.
Dates:
Late 16th century-early 17th century.
Translation of history of Bavarian army in Lorraine., 1914.
File
Identifier: Acc.8681/5
Dates:
1914.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Military papers of Douglas Neil Wimberley, containing correspondence, speeches, printed books and pamphlets.
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Military papers of Douglas Neil Wimberley, containing correspondence, speeches and some maps, translations and other related papers.
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Translations of German military history, relating to the Bavarian army and 'German official history of war'.
Translation of reviews by Harold H Lund and Hans Schesfig of 'The great ship', by Eric Linklater., [1944].
File
Identifier: Acc.10282/42
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].
Translation of the Book of Genesis by George Reith., 1894-1895.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.3564/95-96
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.
Dates:
1894-1895.
Translation of the Book of Genesis by George Reith., 1894-1895.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3564/95
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.
Dates:
1894-1895.
Translation of the Book of Genesis by George Reith., 1894-1895.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3564/96
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.
Dates:
1894-1895.
Translation of the poem, Völuspá: the Sibyl’s Prophecy., 1997-2000.
File
Identifier: Acc.13542/71-82
Scope and Contents
An audio recording of the poem is included.
Dates:
1997-2000.
Translation of the preface to ‘Scapigliatura italiana a Londra sotto Elisabetta e Giacomo I' by G S Gargano., [1923, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15794
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the notebooks contain notes on a variety of subjects, only the more important of which are mentioned in descriptions.
Dates:
[1923, or after.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks of John Purves containing material on cultural relations with Italy.
Translation of the Psalms by George Reith., 1894.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3564/94
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.
Dates:
1894.
Translation, undated, by Principal William Robertson of Marcus Aurelius, i, 1-16, and ii, 1-viii, 2 (incomplete), preceded by notes on the text., Mid 18th century-late 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3955
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Among the papers of the Robertsons the chief correspondents are Principal William Robertson, the historian, and his son William, a Senator of the College of Justice. The correspondence of the Principal includes letters of scholars, British and foreign (Voltaire among others), about his works, information on the American Indians, 1774-1777, and threats regarding his attitude to Roman Catholics, 1778-1779. That of Lord Robertson deals with his legal and political activities and the publication...
Dates:
Mid 18th century-late 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
Translations, after 1779, of foundation charters of chapels and notes of rentals of obits, 1286-1559, made by the Reverand James Scott., 1286-1559.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.1.7
Scope and Contents
James Scott`s notes of the obits (page 395) are accompanied by historical notices of the persons concerned.
Dates:
1286-1559.
Translations and other writings of Charles Scott Moncrieff., 1924-1925.
Item
Identifier: MS.20451
Dates:
1924-1925.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks and translations of Charles K Scott Moncrieff.
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Notebooks containing draft translations by Charles Scott Moncrieff of ‘The letters of Abelard and Heloise’ and of works by Stendhal and Luigi Pirandello; and reviews and letters.
'Translations and paraphrases in verse of several passages of Scripture written by James Cargill teacher Edinburgh, 1859'.
File
Identifier: MS.824
Dates:
1859.
Translations and photocopied essays on the Færeyinga Saga., 1998.
File
Identifier: Acc.13542/75
Scope and Contents
File also includes pamphlets on the Faroe Islands.
Dates:
1998.
Translations by Robert Burness of Ivan Nazhivia, "On the Business of Futurity", and "The Communists".
File
Identifier: Acc.8491
Dates:
circa 1948.
Translations, epigrams, etc., of R L Edgeworth, copied by his daughter Harriet, circa 1817, for her Aunt Ruxton, R L Edgeworth's sister., Circa 1817.
File
Identifier: MS.2723
Scope and Contents
All, except the poems on folios 12 and 13 verso, are also contained in MS.2721.
Dates:
Circa 1817.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts collected by George Neilson, Glasgow, author of ‘Trial by combat’ (Glasgow, 1890) and joint-editor of the ‘Acta Dominorum Concilii, 1496-1501’ (Edinburgh, 1918).
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Commonplace-books, etc., of Richard Lovell Edgeworth of Edgeworthstown and his family, with some notes in pencil ascribing names, dates, etc., to poems.
Translations from Icelandic literature into English, chiefly from Grimur Thomsen's ‘Udvalgte Sagastykker’, and apparently all made by him.
File
Identifier: MS.3853
Scope and Contents
With letters of Grimur Thomsen to David Douglas, regarding his publications in the ‘North British Review’ and elsewhere, and other correspondence, 1866-1870, 1901. The translations are in very faulty English. Some are on paper watermarked 1847.
Dates:
[1846, or after], 1866-1870, 1901.
Translations from Washington Delgado., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.12233/60
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:
Undated.