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`Collection of armorial bearings, inscriptions, etc.` made by Alexander Deuchar.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.7.1A-B
Dates:
1812-1841.
‘Institutionum Chemicarum Pars Prima`; a treatise on chemistry in two parts, including comments on other writers on the subject.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.6
Scope and Contents
Mention is made of Nicolas Lemery`s work, published in Paris, `hoc Anno 1713` (folio 10 verso). There are a few small pencil sketches of pieces of equipment, and the work is followed by an index.
Dates:
1713.
John Sawers` Armorial, containing the arms of the Scottish nobility, mostly painted on engraved outlines.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.4
Scope and Contents
The later entries are unfinished and some are merely pencil sketches. The manuscript was shown in the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1891 (see ‘Memorial Catalogue’, number 60).The armorial is preceded by a printed form of charge concerning the right to bear arms, 1675 (folio ii verso) and a list of Scottish peers (folio iv). It is followed by an index and, on inverted pages 1-47, by a copy of a list of Scottish families and their arms by Thomas Craufurd,...
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.