Translations. Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Translated versions of a text.
Found in 360 Collections and/or Records:
Material concerning literary matters, chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott., 17th century-early 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.891-900
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Much of the material was collected by Sir Walter Scott, partly for use in his works; some must have been accumulated by John Gibson Lockhart.
Dates:
17th century-early 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Miscellaneous material, literary, antiquarian, topical, etc., chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
Material for the adaptation by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid' and Elspeth Harley Schubert of Harry Martinson's poem, ‘Aniara’., 1956-1960.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27010-27012
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:
1956-1960.
Material relating to Bibi Salimah, including copies of 'The story of Bibi Salimah', undated; a copy of correspondence of Bibi Salima to her brother, with translation, circa 1883; and related correspondence of John Kirk and other individuals, 1875-1883., 1875-1883, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.9942/20
Scope and Contents
Material relating to Bibi Salimah, sister of the Sultan of Zanzibar who married a German and fled Zanzibar.Typescript (2 copies) of 'The story of Bibi Salimah'.Manuscript account of the life of Bibi Salima (different text to the above).Copy of Bibi Salima's letter to her brother the Sultan, [noted on the translation to be circa 1876, but in reality circa 1883] and two English translations of this.Letters relating to Bibi Salimah:2...
Dates:
1875-1883, undated.
Material relating to the manuscript 'Arab History of Kilwa'; with a translation and notes by John Kirk, and associated correspondence., 1894, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.9942/19
Scope and Contents
Including the 'Arab History of Kilwa'; 'Rough translation of History of Kiloa': notes and comments by Kirk on an Arabic manuscript, with a rough translation. With a letter to Kirk from H.J. Goldsmid, 13 December 1894.
The manuscript History was originally written in the 16th century. Kirk acquired an abstract by the scribe Sheikh Muhui-'l-Din ibn Sheikh 'Abdullah al Khantani and deposited it in the British Museum in 1895.
Dates:
1894, undated.
Medical and scientific manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey., [1580, or after]-17th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5773-5776
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:
[1580, or after]-17th century.
Memoirs of Dr Emile Joseph Dillon., Undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12382/48-52
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
These papers were given to Father Ernest Eugene Laws by Dillon's widow, as research material for a proposed biography of Dillon. Laws transcribed and translated many of the letters and annotated some of the originals.
Dates:
Undated.
Memoranda and translations dealing with Hindu laws of evidence., [Circa 1806.]
File
Identifier: MS.13921
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 1806.]
Microfilm of 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; being a manuscript of Alexander Walker of Bowland intended for publication., [Circa 1825.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1247
Dates:
[Circa 1825.]
Microfilm of papers of General Sir George Murray, 1808-1813.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1077
Scope and Contents
`Registre de la campagne d`Espagne` of General Étienne Heudelet de Bierre, 5 separate gatherings of leaves, 1808-1809 (Adv.MS.46.5.21);Letter and order book of Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Duke of Dalmatia, as general commanding the second corps of the army in Spain, 13 March-11 May 1809. (Adv.MS.46.5.22);Letter and order book of Count Honoré T M Gazan de La Peyrière, 27 May-24 July 1813, as acting commander-in-chief of the Army in Spain pending the appointment of...
Dates:
1808-1813.
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 transcripts and translations (some abridged), 1778, of charters and other documents, 1241-1559, belonging to the Blackfriars, Carmelites and Carthusians at Perth, made by the Reverend James Scott., 1241-1559.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.187
Microfilm of transcripts, circa 1778, of charters, 1241-1405, relating to the Order Of Preachers (Blackfriars) at Perth, including translations and historical notes, made by the Reverend James Scott., 1241-1405.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.186
Microfilm of translations, after 1779, of foundation charters of chapels and notes of rentals of obits, 1286-1559, made by the Reverend James Scott., 1286-1559.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.194
Military papers of Douglas Neil Wimberley, containing correspondence, speeches and some maps, translations and other related papers., 1903-1983, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.8681/1-223
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 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.
File
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 papers and letters concerning the 1st Earl of Minto., 1807-1813, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11722-11723
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:
1807-1813, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto as Governor-General of India.
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.
`M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. III`, mostly containing material for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 2, in continuation of Adv.MS.50.1.2, but also including scripts, notes or proofs for tales bound out of series and published in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 1 and the earlier part of volume 2., 1859-1860.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.1.3(Part 1-Part 2)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The terms, `Gaelic version` or `English version` refer to the original manuscript texts produced by (`transcribed by` or `told to`) one of his team of collectors or by Campbell. Unless stated otherwise, all English versions of the tales and textual notes are the work of Campbell.
Dates:
1859-1860.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Manuscripts, proofs and editorial commentary, with some associated correspondence, papers and notes, of John Francis Campbell and his team of collectors for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 1859-1862, and of the later tale collection fieldwork by Campbell himself, 1870-1871.
‘M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. III`, mostly containing material for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 2, in continuation of Adv.MS.50.1.2, but also including scripts, notes or proofs for tales bound out of series and published in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 1 and the earlier part of volume 2., 1859-1860.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.1.3(Part 1)
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘The Tale of the Soldier/The Old Soldier` or ‘Sgeulachd an t-Saighdear/An Saighdear`, English (folio 2) and Gaelic (folio 10) versions, the latter as transcribed by Hector Urquhart from John MacDonald, Inveraray, 1860. ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 2, pages 276-285. With a corrected proof of the Gaelic text (folio 9 verso), and a covering letter (folio 14) of Urquhart to John Francis Campbell, 23 January 1860. (Folio...
Dates:
1859-1860.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Manuscripts, proofs and editorial commentary, with some associated correspondence, papers and notes, of John Francis Campbell and his team of collectors for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 1859-1862, and of the later tale collection fieldwork by Campbell himself, 1870-1871.
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`M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. III`, mostly containing material for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 2, in continuation of Adv.MS.50.1.2, but also including scripts, notes or proofs for tales bound out of series and published in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 1 and the earlier part of volume 2.
`M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. V`, being mainly a continuation of the scripts and editorial material for inclusion in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 3., 1860-1861.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.1.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Laoidh Dhiarmaid`: Gaelic version, not published in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 3, transcribed by Hector MacLean from Janet Currie, South Uist, 1860. On folio 1 verso are notes by MacLean of remarks about ‘Ossianic’ poetry by Alphonse de Lamartine and Wilhelm von Humboldt. (Folio 1.)(ii) `Dan an Deirg`: Gaelic words of the first stanza and music, as received from Mrs MacTavish, Islay, 1861. ‘Popular Tales...
Dates:
1860-1861.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Manuscripts, proofs and editorial commentary, with some associated correspondence, papers and notes, of John Francis Campbell and his team of collectors for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 1859-1862, and of the later tale collection fieldwork by Campbell himself, 1870-1871.
`M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. VII`, consisting of unpublished notes compiled by John Francis Campbell in connexion with the ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’ project., 1859-1861.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.1.7
Scope and Contents
On the front flyleaf Campbell noted, 1869: `This volume contains a lot of notes that may yet be used’.The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) A note, 1859, on `The two Thieves`, a story recalled by Campbell. (Folio 1.)(ii) “Extracts from Remarks in the ‘Stirling Journal’, 5 September 1856, on Lord Neaves` Dissertation on the Ossianic Controversy”. (Folio 3.)(iii) Brief notes on the Kilbride, Lismore and other Gaelic manuscripts, 1859....
Dates:
1859-1861.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Manuscripts, proofs and editorial commentary, with some associated correspondence, papers and notes, of John Francis Campbell and his team of collectors for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 1859-1862, and of the later tale collection fieldwork by Campbell himself, 1870-1871.