Translations. Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Translated versions of a text.
Found in 186 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript volume entitled "The Journey Rout[e] of Her Imperial Majesty from Charcoff thro' the Government of Kursk to Moscow ... By the Governments Geometrician & Land Measurer Basshiloff 1787", consisting of descriptions of the different sections of the route through Kursk with illustrative maps.
Item
Identifier: MS.19419
Scope and Contents
The title of the main text is on folio 2. It is followed by a 'Short Delineation' (folio 17) and a map (folio 22) of the district. It is presumably a contemporary translation of part of the route of the return journey of Catherine II from her visit to the south and the then recently acquired territories in the Crimea.
Dates:
1787.
Manuscript, written in South France or Spain in the first half of the 12th-century, containing medical treatises.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.11
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) 'Liber febrium' by Isaac (Isḥāq ibn Sulaiman al-Isrā'ili), translated by Constantinus Africanus, in prologue and five books. The author and translator are given in the contents list only (folio 1).(ii) 'Secretum secretorum' by Pseudo-Aristotle, the medical section translated by Joannes Hispalensis, without title (folio 82). See 'Speculum', volume xxxiv, page 24.(iii) 'Micro-tegni' by Galen, translated by...
Dates:
1st half of 12th century.
Manuscripts and typescripts of "The Fanatic" and of a translation of Dughall Bochanan`s "La a`Bhreitheanais", by James Robertson.
File
Identifier: Acc.12113
Dates:
1997-1999.
Manuscripts and typescripts, undated, of translations of poetry and prose by George S Fraser.
File
Identifier: Acc.11406
Scope and Contents
Includes related correspondence, 1965-1986, and an undated manuscript of W S Graham.
Dates:
1965-1986 and undated.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates:
1177, 15th century-1924.
Manuscripts of poems and translations by Edwin Morgan (1920-2010).
Series
Identifier: MSS.27493-27494
Scope and Contents
Edwin Morgan was educated in Glasgow and joined the English Department of Glasgow University in 1947, becoming Titular Professor in 1975.
Dates:
1959-1984.
Manuscripts of "Thomas Carlyle. A Biographical and Literary Character-sketch" and "Memories of Thomas Carlyle", being translations by Otto Schlapp of articles of Friedrich Althaus in "Unsere Zeit".
File
Identifier: Acc.7982
Dates:
1866, 1881.
Manuscripts, typescripts and printed books of Eric Linklater.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5665 Box 1(1)-Box 12(5)
Scope and Contents
Including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of novels, plays, translations, and historical and critical works.
Dates:
Circa 1923-1971, undated.
Manuscripts with translations from Sanskrit, folk tales and sketches.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9325
Dates:
20th century.
Microfilm of 11th and 12th century manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.350
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript of the late 11th and early 12th century containing: the 'Paradisus' of Heraclides; the 'Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae temper Wandalorum' of Victor Vitensis; 'De corpore et sanguine Domini' of Paschasius Radbertus (attributed to Rabanus Maurus); 'De corpore Domini contra Berengarium' of Guitmund; and two sermons of St Augustine of Hippo (Adv.MS.18.4.3);Medical manuscript, 1st half of 12th century, written in South France or...
Dates:
Late 11th century-1st half of 12th century.
Microfilm of assorted manuscript material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.67
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Receipt, 1575, of Archebault Betun (Archibald Bethune), an archer of the French King`s Scots Guard (Ch.872);Account, 17 February 1552, of the provisions supplied to the Royal Household at Amboise. Includes a translation (Ch.2059); Bill, 1553, concerning expenses of the French royal household (Ch.2593);Holograph poems, [1931, or before]; and, 'The secret of the heather ale', a tale, 1892, by Neil Munro. (MS.816);...
Dates:
1552-[1931, or before].
Microfilm of Autograph manuscript of `Ragionamento di Carlo V. Imperatore tenuto al re Philippo suo figliuolo In dargli la libera signoria di tutti gli stati suoi`, Giacomo Castelvetro`s translation, 1592, of Charles V`s advice to his son, 1555.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2001
Dates:
1555.
Microfilm of manuscript, ‘Jus Liberae Monarchiae’, Latin translation by James VI of his ‘The True Lawe of Free Monarchies’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1367
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Microfilm of manuscript, written by Antonio di Mario, of Jerome’s translation of ‘Chronici Canones’ by Eusebius, with the continuation by Prosper.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.91
Dates:
1426.
Microfilm of manuscripts of Alexander Walker intended for publication.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1246-1248
Dates:
1785-[circa 1825.]
Microfilm of ‘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.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1583
Dates:
1860-1861.
Microfilm of papers relating to 'Translation from an ancient Chaldee manuscript' by James Hogg.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1042
Dates:
1817, 1818, 1820, 1855-1856, 1896.
Microfilm of proof-sheets, [1827, or before], of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott; and, letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.54
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Proof-sheets of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott, volume v, pages 225-240, with autograph corrections by Scott, [1827, or before] (MS.496);
Letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland (MS.2991).
Dates:
[1548-1550, 1827, or before].
Microfilm of Sermones de Tempore, a homiliary, early 12th century; and, medical manuscripts, 13th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.423
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Sermones de Tempore, a homiliary written in the early 12th century for Rochester Cathedral Priory (Adv.MS.18.2.4).
Two English medical manuscripts, each written by two scribes of the thirteenth century, bound together from an early date (Adv.MS.18.2.5).
Dates:
Early 12th century, 13th century.
Microfilm of translation by Principal William Robertson of Marcus Aurelius, i, 1-16, and ii, 1-viii, 2 (incomplete).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.916
Dates:
Mid 18th century-late 18th century.
Microfilm of two books, 1692, 1697, of household recipes of Katherin Smith and correspondence and papers, 1818-1831, undated, of Sir John Sinclair on agriculture.
Item
Identifier: MS.15553 [Mf.MSS.41]
Scope and Contents
The correspondence and papers of Sir John Sinclair includes translations and copies of letters on his ‘Code of agriculture’ and letters of him to Sir Patrick Murray Threipland.
Dates:
1692, 1697, 1818-1831, undated.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, relating principally to William Forbes Skene’s work in preparing his ‘Chronicles of the Picts and Scots’ and ‘Celtic Scotland’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.16
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Miscellaneous law tracts.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.4
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows.(i) Copies of various Royal patents, gifts, and commissions, 1642-1669 (the majority from the early 1660s). Most are in a 17th-century hand; an early 18th-century hand has added two, on pages 125 and 532. A detailed list is given on pages 536-540, and they have been fully indexed. (Page 1.)(ii)-(xiii) are copies, in an 18th-century hand, of sections of Adv.MS.6.2.2.(ii) = Adv. MS. 6.2.2(xii): `The Retour ... of the...
Dates:
16th century-17th century.
Miscellaneous notes, letters and other items.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Notes of decisions of the Court of Session, 1714-1721. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies, early 18th century, of letters of and to George Buchanan, 1573-1581, and undated, with notes on others of his letters, mostly in Thomas Ruddiman`s hand; these are Epistolae XXVII, XV, XII, XXXI, XXIV, XL, XXXVII in Ruddiman`s edition of Buchanan`s Works, and Ruddiman`s introductory notes to Epistolae XI, XVI, VIII, XII, XX, XXVIII, XXXI, XXXIV,...
Dates:
17th century-1912.