Translations. Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Translated versions of a text.
Found in 546 Collections and/or Records:
Drafts, undated, of Robert Garioch Sutherland's translation of Belli's sonnet 55., [1983, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.26674, folios 21-25
Dates:
[1983, or before.]
Edited fair copies and a draft of a translation of the Kilasek Towareekh., [Circa 1800.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13908-13910
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 1800.]
Edited fair copies, circa 1800, of a translation of the Kilasek Towareekh., [Circa 1800.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13908-13909
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 1800.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
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Papers of and collected by Alexander Walker for proposed publications.
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Edited fair copies and a draft of a translation of the Kilasek Towareekh.
Edited fair copies, prepared in 1827, of MS.13911: Translation of the ‘Akbarnama’ made by James MacMurdo at Baroda in 1806., 1806-1827.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13912-13913
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:
1806-1827.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
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Papers of and collected by Alexander Walker for proposed publications.
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Translation from Persian of the ‘Akbarnama’, made by James MacMurdo; and edited fair copies thereof.
Edited fair copy of MS.13911: Translation of the ‘Akbarnama’ made by James MacMurdo at Baroda in 1806., 1806-1827.
Item
Identifier: MS.13912
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:
1806-1827.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
/
Papers of and collected by Alexander Walker for proposed publications.
/
Translation from Persian of the ‘Akbarnama’, made by James MacMurdo; and edited fair copies thereof.
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Edited fair copies, prepared in 1827, of MS.13911: Translation of the ‘Akbarnama’ made by James MacMurdo at Baroda in 1806.
Edited fair copy of MS.13911: Translation of the ‘Akbarnama’ made by James MacMurdo at Baroda in 1806., 1806-1827.
Item
Identifier: MS.13913
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:
1806-1827.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
/
Papers of and collected by Alexander Walker for proposed publications.
/
Translation from Persian of the ‘Akbarnama’, made by James MacMurdo; and edited fair copies thereof.
/
Edited fair copies, prepared in 1827, of MS.13911: Translation of the ‘Akbarnama’ made by James MacMurdo at Baroda in 1806.
Edited fair copy, volume I, of a translation of the Kilasek Towareekh., [Circa 1800.]
Item
Identifier: MS.13908
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 1800.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
/
Papers of and collected by Alexander Walker for proposed publications.
/
Edited fair copies and a draft of a translation of the Kilasek Towareekh.
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Edited fair copies, circa 1800, of a translation of the Kilasek Towareekh.
Edited fair copy, volume II, of a translation of the Kilasek Towareekh., [Circa 1800.]
Item
Identifier: MS.13909
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 1800.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
/
Papers of and collected by Alexander Walker for proposed publications.
/
Edited fair copies and a draft of a translation of the Kilasek Towareekh.
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Edited fair copies, circa 1800, of a translation of the Kilasek Towareekh.
English-Gaelic dictionary from A-Combat on slips compiled by Henry Comyn Maitland: part 1., 1939-1951.
File
Identifier: MS.14959
Scope and Contents
With list of contractions. Includes classified list of 24 words for ‘bog’ (2 folios) referred to by Henry Comyn Maitland in ‘An Gaidheal’, volume 39, page 118.
Dates:
1939-1951.
English-Gaelic dictionary from Come-For on slips compiled by Henry Comyn Maitland: part 2., 1939-1951.
File
Identifier: MS.14960
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death.
The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...
Dates:
1939-1951.
English-Gaelic dictionary from Forage-Lewd on slips compiled by Henry Comyn Maitland: part 3., 1939-1951.
File
Identifier: MS.14961
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death.
The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...
Dates:
1939-1951.
English-Gaelic dictionary from Liable-Pre-eminent on slips compiled by Henry Comyn Maitland: part 4., 1939-1951.
File
Identifier: MS.14962
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death.
The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...
Dates:
1939-1951.
English-Gaelic dictionary from Prefer-Stranded on slips compiled by Henry Comyn Maitland: part 5., 1939-1951.
File
Identifier: MS.14963
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death.
The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...
Dates:
1939-1951.
English-Gaelic dictionary from Strange-Zodiac on slips compiled by Henry Comyn Maitland: part 6., 1939-1951.
File
Identifier: MS.14964
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death.
The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...
Dates:
1939-1951.
English-Gaelic dictionary on slips compiled by Henry Comyn Maitland (1885-1951), son of Provost Andrew Maitland of Tain.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14959-14964
Scope and Contents
Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death.
The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...
Dates:
1939-1951.
English translation of Leonhard Christoph Sturm, "Vollständige Mühlen Baukunst" (A Complete Treatise on the Construction of Mills).
Item
Identifier: Acc.11196
Dates:
late 18th century.
English translation of ‘Petri Gyllii de Topographia Constantinopoleos et illius Antiquitatibus’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.2
Scope and Contents
It would appear to be a draft translation, and two stages can be discerned in its text. Books I-II (folios 1-31) are a first draft, written in a hand that is rather difficult to read, and extensively disfigured by large numbers of deletions and insertions; Book I Chapter 1 is misplaced at folio 21. Books III-IV (folios 32-67) are a later draft, written in a clearer hand, and bear fewer amendments. Apart from Book I Chapter 1, which is incomplete and in some confusion, the translation is...
Dates:
18th century.
English translation of "Sgeul an Amadain Mhóir", in the hand of the Reverend Dr Alexander Irvine., [Before 1824.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.5
English translation, unpublished, of ‘Leben des Freiherrn von Halkett’ by Ernst Julius Georg von dem Knesebeck., [1865, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.6508
Scope and Contents
The biography is of the Hanoverian General and Baron, Hugh von Halkett, a connection of the Halkett of Pitfirrane family. The translation is possibly by Alice M Meadows Taylor, daughter of Philip Meadows Taylor.
Dates:
[1865, or after.]
"Epictetus' Enchiridion": a translation, undated, of the ‘Enchiridion’ in the Very Reverend John Lee's handwriting., ?Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3453
Scope and Contents
From the handwriting this appears to be an early work of John Lee.
Dates:
?Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Essays on literary topics, and linguistic notes., 17th century-18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.17787
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Essays on literary topics, 18th century, including several by Francis Fletcher, Lord Milton's son, and translations from Sallust and Sulpicius. See also MS.17898. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Linguistic notes, 17th and 18th centuries, including change of Latin letters in Spanish, a list of English homophones, a vocabulary to Homer's ‘Odyssey’, and Spanish phrases with French equivalents. (Folio 110.)
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Academic and literary papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
'Extracte gathered out of Monsieur Courceles Negotiation in Scotland ... touchinge the proceidinges in England against ... Mary Queene of Scottes ...': translations, late 16th or early 17th century, of correspondence, 1586-1587, between Henry III of France, M Courcelles (French ambassador to Scotland), Nicolas Brulart (French Chancellor), and others., 1586-1587.
File
Identifier: MS.5737
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.
Dates:
1586-1587.
Fair copy of ‘Ancient intercourse with India ...’ which contains chapters on the career of Alexander, Dean Vincent's English translation of Arrian's ‘Voyage of Nearchus’, the affinity between the Slavonic and Sanskrit languages, and other subjects., [Circa 1825.]
Item
Identifier: MS.13888
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 1825.]
Fair copy of 'Aristodemus, a tragedy translated from the Italian of Vincenzo Monti, 1827’.
Item
Identifier: MS.9164
Scope and Contents
The anonymous translation closely follows the Italian text. It differs from ‘Aristodemus; a tragedy’ (Edinburgh, 1838) an adaptation by Mrs Catherine Crowe (published anonymously).
Dates:
1827.
Five 13th-century medical manuscripts, possibly written in England, with additions of the 14th and 15th centuries.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts had been bound into one volume by the 15th century. The contents are: (i) translation, by Constantinus Africanus, of 'De gradibus simplicum' by Isaac and the end of an unidentified work, with recipes added in later hands; (ii) Gerard, 'De modo medendi', with recipes and notes added by later hands; (iii) a work on digestion; (iv) seven works on medical subjects; (v) the end of an unidentified work on the degrees of medicine, with added recipes in French.
Dates:
13th century.