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`Satires` of Juvenal. Edition with the commentaries of Antonio Mancinelli and Jodocus Badius Ascensius (Paris: Ascensius, 1505), with manuscript annotations.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.11
Scope and Contents
The annotations are of various types:(i) The title page is supplied on the second flyleaf by a 16th-century hand.(ii) Underlining and summarising occur sporadically.(iii) Interlinear glosses and marginal explanations by a 16th-century hand (probably the same as in (i)) are frequent up to folio lxiv.(iv) Notes of variant readings in two manuscripts of Isaac Voss are added in the margins by Peter Lambeck, who inscribed the volume in Amsterdam in...
Dates:
16th century-1646.
School excercise books of George Bowe Gaskell at Thanet House Academy, Margate.
File
Identifier: Acc.7904
Dates:
1834 and 1836.
School exercises and notes in arithmetic and bookkeeping of John Gorrie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5607
Dates:
1841-1842.
Schoolbook of James Fowler, Strathpeffer, containing instructions and problems in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and the construction of sundials, and a translation of the ‘Iliad’, book 3.
Item
Identifier: MS.14284
Scope and Contents
A few miscellaneous notes and poems have been added in a 19th-century hand.
Dates:
1780.
Score books and a cash book of the Grange Cricket Club, with a minute book of the Scottish Cricket Union and Scottish Club Representatives.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14547/1-20
Scope and Contents
Grange Cricket Club was formed in 1832, and takes its name from the Grange area of Edinburgh where the members first played. The club moved to its present Raeburn Place premises in 1872. Grange Cricket Club is notable as one of the oldest and most successful of Scottish cricket clubs, and also as the host of numerous international matches. In 1849, the club organised the first ‘Grand Match’ staged in Scotland when a Scotland Twenty-two faced an All England XI. Another England XI, including W...
Dates:
1848-1983.
Scrapbooks of Arthur Maurice Roth, schoolboy in Callander, containing daily observations on the progress of the Second World War.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14009/1-36
Scope and Contents
The scrapbooks cover the period from December 1943 to August 1945. They consist of 36 notebooks in which Roth has written short notes on the progress of the war, illustrated with press cuttings he had collected.
Although it is not clear why Roth began to keep a daily record of events occurring during the war, he had an interest in military history, and keeping a record of the war on a daily basis helped to develop his knowledge of geography.
Dates:
1942-1945.
Sederunt Book of the Trustees of John Jamieson, Lexicographer.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13118
Dates:
1838-1848.
Seven minute books of the National Union of Coopers, Edinburgh Branch.
Series
Identifier: Dep.82- is now Acc.4135.
Dates:
1902-1940.
Seven minute books of the Railway Clerks` Association, Edinburgh Number 1 Branch.
Series
Identifier: Dep.118- is now Acc.4667.
Dates:
1928-1961.
Signed and annotated copies of works by Professor John Dover Wilson, together with copies of works on Shakespearean scholarship (some annotated by Wilson) presented to him.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12697
Dates:
1905-1966.
Sketchbook of Christopher Norton, business partner of James Byres, 1764-1765.
File
Identifier: Acc.11873
Scope and Contents
Includes a note and copy-letterbook of Norton, 1788-1794.
Dates:
1764-1794.
Sketchbooks and commonplace books of the Grant family of Kilgraston.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14214/1-5
Dates:
1812-1868.
Small manuscript issue book of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Item
Identifier: F.R.339p
Dates:
21 June 1912-24 July 1912.
Soldier`s pay-book of Edward Fraser, Sergeant, 3rd Bengal European Infantry.
File
Identifier: Acc.10026
Scope and Contents
With two letters, 1972, concerning the pay-book and a copied extract from a muster roll of 1860.
Dates:
1855-1860.
Song and music book of Margaret, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Honourable Adolphus Frederick Cathcart, containing songs (arranged for voice and keyboard) and dances.
Item
Identifier: MS.21764
Scope and Contents
Many of the pieces are unattributed and many of the rest are poems taken from published sources set to music by members of the Cathcart family and their friends. Several pieces are private compositions being inscribed 'not to be given away' or 'not to be copied'.The book was given by Lieutenant-Colonel Cathcart to his wife in 1835, according to inscriptions in her hand inside the front cover and on the first flyleaf. It contains pieces copied by her until about 1840 (folio 113)....
Dates:
1835-?1840.
Southern Light Drama archive
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Identifier: Acc.13586
Scope and Contents
The archive of Southern Light Drama, a sub-group of the Southern Light Opera Company, Edinburgh, for which see Acc.12682. Southern Light Drama was in existence from 1946 to 2012, and was originally named the Southern Light Opera Company - Drama Section. The archive contains:
Minute books, 1946-2012; account books, 1970-2012; newsletters nos. 1-52, 1984-2006; and year books, 1946-1979.
Dates:
1946-2012
Spiritual Commonplace Book compiled by a Scottish Congregationalist.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14503
Dates:
1812-1815.
Stage set for "The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil", designed and painted as a giant pop-up book to form five individual backdrops to the play.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13037
Dates:
1973.
Stamp-books and postage account books of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Series
Identifier: F.R.339s/1-F.R.339s/27
Dates:
1908-1924.
Stock-book of James Dickson, wholesale stationer, Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11149
Dates:
1804-1807.
Surviving office books of the fishing, fish curing, and shipping enterprise of the Richardson family of Pitfour; with two ledgers of Pitfour estate and some Richardson family papers.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20801-20987
Scope and Contents
The firm of John Richardson and Company, of Perth, was already well established by 1760 with a wide business, chiefly in salmon, both locally and throughout Europe. The books consist of letter books and various account books, and show the whole process from the acquisition of the fish to its sale either raw at home or pickled as far afield as Italy and Spain. The salmon business was precarious, and to offset losses Richardson frequently entered into partnership with local merchants, notably...
Dates:
1760-1820.