Translations. Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Translated versions of a text.
Found in 360 Collections and/or Records:
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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 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.]
Fragments of the manuscript of ‘The Lusiad’, a translation by William Mickle of Camoëns' epic, first published in 1776; with a few papers concerning the publication., [1776, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.15935
Dates:
[1776, or before.]
Framed items relating to 'Broadsheet' edition eleven, containing press cutting, typescripts and correspondence., 1968-1971, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/32
Scope and Contents
Containing:(i) Press cutting from The Irish Times, 17 July 1971 [cat. no.87] and press cutting from Hibernia, 11 January 1971 [cat. no.88].(ii) Signed typescript (Russian) of 'Black Banderillas', by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 1968 [cat. no.89].(iii) Signed typescript (Russian) of 'In honour of the men who bellow', 1969 [cat. no.89].(iv) Translation of 'Black Banderillas', by Sidney Bernard Smith [cat. no.89].(v) Translation of 'In honour...
Dates:
1968-1971, undated.
Gaelic material, chiefly plays and broadcasts, of Hector MacIver., 1934-1962, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14973
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.Autograph verse by Sorley MacLean (folios 1-2):(i) “Bho mhullaichean a’ chuilthinn chràcaich”, 29 lines. From part III of ‘An Cuilthionn’ (folio 1 recto);(ii) ‘Aigich Sgitheanaich’, 8 stanzas. From the ‘Aigeach’ lyrics in part V of ‘An Cuilthionn’ (folio 2 recto);(iii) ‘Mo lamhan air lapadh’, 10 stanzas. ‘Crath dhiot an cadal’. With lines addressed to Hector MacIver beginning ‘Eachainn dhuinn an leadain dualaich’, 4...
Dates:
1934-1962, undated.
Galley proofs of Christopher Murray Grieve, “Hugh MacDiarmid's” translation of Bertolt Brecht's play ‘The threepenny opera’., [1973, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.27050
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
As well as writing books, Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’ was a prolific author of essays and articles and was frequently asked to speak on literary or other topics. He was in the habit of re-using parts of his writings on different occasions, so it is not unusual to find substantial identical passages occurring in different works. Due to the fragmentary nature of some of the material, it is not always evident whether a manuscript was intended for publication or for a talk;...
Dates:
[1973, or after.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Literary papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Prose works of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Books of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Manuscripts, typescript and proofs of Christopher Murray Grieve, “Hugh MacDiarmid's” translation of Bertolt Brecht's play ‘The threepenny opera’.
Galley proofs of 'Jephthah and the Baptist' translated in to Scots by Robert Garioch Sutherland, with manuscript corrections., [1959, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.26601
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.
Dates:
[1959, or before.]
Genealogical papers concerning the Earls Marischal and the Keiths of Ravelston., [Circa 1748]-1802, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.21188
Scope and Contents
The papers include copies of ‘History of Keith Marischal of Scotland’ by Alexander Keith of Ravelston and Dunnottar (folio 7); ‘History of the family of Keith Marischal’ by Bishop Robert Keith (folio 45), and an essay and letters of Alexander Keith of Ravelston and Dunnottar concerning Bishop Keith's ‘History’ (folios 2, 52-60).Appended to the inside of the front and back covers of the volume are an English Translation, 1802, of the German inscription on Marshal Keith's Tomb in...
Dates:
[Circa 1748]-1802, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, legal, miscellaneous, and estate papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre, Baronets, and their relations by marriage the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
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Papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
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Genealogical papers of, and concerning, the Keith family.
Genealogical papers of, and concerning, the Keith family., 1623-1927, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21187-21188
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Murray papers concern chiefly their estates in Perthshire, but there is also some family correspondence, household accounts and inventories, and letters and papers of Jacobite interest. Of particular interest is the fine series of letters of General Sir George Murray written during his campaigns in the Peninsula and elsewhere.The papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal came to the Murrays of Ochtertyre following the marriage of Helen, heiress of Sir Alexander Keith of Dunnottar...
Dates:
1623-1927, undated.
Historical manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey., 16th century-early 19th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5730-5751
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:
16th century-early 19th century.
'History of the sufferings and misfortunes of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa' by Patrick Maxwell, being a translation of 'La Chaumière africaine' of Mademoiselle C A Dard., [1827, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.684
Scope and Contents
Included is the translator's preface, appendix and notes, all as published in 'Perils and captivity' "Constable's miscellany" volume xi, (Edinburgh, 1827), with the preface to that volume written by H(?ugh) Murray.
Dates:
[1827, or before.]
Iain Crichton Smith, translations from Sorley MacLean's 'Dain do Eimhir', ca. 1970
File
Identifier: Acc.13916/18
Scope and Contents
Verse translations by Iain Crichton Smith of a selection of poems of Sorley MacLean's 'Dain do Eimhir' (I-IV, VIII, XIV, XVII-XXIV, XXVII-XXXV, XXXVII, XLII-XLIII, XLV, XLVIII-L, LII, LIV-LV, LVII (3 versions). Iain Crichton Smith's translations were published in 1971.
Dates:
ca. 1970
Incomplete 'historical account' of Ragunath Rao translated from the Persian, 1807, by James MacNurdo and given a brief introduction, circa 1825, by Alexander Walker., 1807-[circa 1825].
Item
Identifier: MS.13930
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:
1807-[circa 1825].