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Microfilm of 'Notes upon coal by the Earl of Roxborough', discussing the nature of coal, searching for and mining it, especially in Scotland, and a list of terms used by miners.

 Item
Identifier: MS.15523 [Mf.MSS.33]
Scope and Contents

The manuscript dates from the eighteenth century; the identity of the author is uncertain.

Dates: 18th century.

Microfilm of papers, 1624-?1625, early 18th century, concerning the erection of baronetcies in Nova Scotia; and concerning the Dukes of Atholl.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.436
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Papers, 1624-?1625, early 18th century, concerning the erection of baronetcies in Nova Scotia (Adv.MS.16.2.3);

Papers concerning the Dukes of Atholl (Adv.MS.16.2.4).

Dates: 1624-?1625, early 18th century.

Microfilm of "Records of the Literary Society of Glasgow, 1764-79. Transcribed from the Society's Minutes, 1830", by William James Duncan.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.232
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Laws of the Society. (Folio 1.) (ii) List of meetings for each session, with the name of the speaker and the title of his 'discourse', November 1764–January 1771 (folio 3 verso). Occasionally the elections of new members or the names of absentees are recorded. 'There is a gap in the Records for the next 5 years, and the only information we have of their Transactions during the years 1771 and 1773 is from a loose jotting, of which the following is a copy'...
Dates: 1764-1779.

Microfilm of Sermones de Tempore, a homiliary, early 12th century; and, medical manuscripts, 13th century.

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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 Solemn League and Covenant, 1643; and, copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas conferring titles and Baronetcies, 1554-1707.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.456
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Solemn League and Covenant, printed by Evan Tyler (Edinburgh, 1643), and subscribed in West St. Giles’s, Edinburgh, in October 1643. It has some 750 names, of which two-thirds are actual signatures (Adv.MS.23.3.16);

Copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas conferring titles and Baronetcies, 1554-1707, most of the material being late 17th and early 18th century. Also included are copies of material concerning the Order of the Thistle (Adv.MS.34.6.2).

Dates: 1554-1707.

Microfilm of the letters, 1792-1796, of Robert Burns to George Thomson together with a letter of Burns to John Ballantine, 1787, and one of George Syme to Thomson, 1797.

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Identifier: MS.15533 [Mf.MSS.89]
Scope and Contents

A list of the poems included in the letters precedes them.

Dates: 1787, 1792-1796, 1797.

Microfilm of three Gaelic manuscripts.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.654
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Manuscript, 17th-18th century, of bardic fragments, containing a strong element of MacMhuirich poetry (Adv.MS.72.2.2);

Donald Smith’s Irish miscellany, [circa 1798] (Adv.MS.72.3.2);

Part of a Gaelic grammatical treatise, 17th century, (written in the traditional character) giving the paradigms of a number of nouns and verbs.(MS.1745).

Dates: 17th century-[circa 1798].

Microfilm of various notebooks of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.

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Identifier: MS.17887 [Mf.MSS.184]
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) MS.E 111. Accounts of General Henry Fletcher as colonel of the 35th Regiment with his agents Gray and Ogilvie (later Ross and Ogilvie), 1775-1794 and 1794-1798;(ii) MS.B 83. Labourers' wages, 1750-1765;(iii) MS.C 203. Cottars' book, 1780-1802, detailing rents and repairs;(iv) MS.C 204. List of letters received by Andrew Fletcher, auditor of exchequer, November 1755-April 1764, with (inverted) a list of prints;...
Dates: 1750-1802.

Military maps and plans, of the Board of Ordnance, relating chiefly to the garrisoned districts of Scotland in the eighteenth century.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.1645-1652 [Map Library]
Scope and Contents

The papers include plans of forts and barracks, showing progress of work and proposed additions (notably at Fort George, Fort Augustus, Fort William, and Edinburgh), and surveys of roads.

Dates: 18th century.

Minute-book of a lodge or trade union in Edinburgh.

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Identifier: MS.833
Scope and Contents

The minute-book is apparently of operative house-carpenters and joiners (see folio 9), with a list of members and letters to divisions at Glasgow, London, Leith, and Dunfermline.

Dates: 1836-1837.

Minute book recording the formal business of the society running an evangelical library at South Queensferry.

 File
Identifier: MS.9810
Scope and Contents

The minute book also contains a list of members' names, with the numbers of the books issued to them each month. Three book-seller's accounts, giving the titles of religious works purchased for the library, are inserted.

Dates: 1825-1856.

Minute books and register of members of the Company of Scottish History.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13167
Scope and Contents

Minutes of Directors` Meetings, 1965-1992;

Minutes of General Meetings, 1967-1991;

Register of members, 1965-1991.

Dates: 1965-1992.

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Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, 1871-1913 1
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, Foundry Section, 1971-1992 1
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Army, Great Britain and Ireland, 2nd Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry 1
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Associated Iron Moulders of Scotland, Edinburgh Branch 1
Associated Ironmoulders of Scotland, -1920 1
Auld Callants Club 1
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Bell, James Horst Brunnerman (mountaineer) (1896-1975) 1
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Bible Board, Scotland, HM Sole and Only Master Printers 1
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Blair, Charles, plantation owner, 1776-1854 1
Boyd, family, of Knockson 1
Braidwood, James, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1834-1875 1
Bright, John, statesman, 1811-1889 1
Brodie, William, sculptor, 1815-1881: recipient 1
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Brown, Thomas, Selkirk, bookseller and printer, fl 1820-1852 1
Bruyne, A L de, Edinburgh, fl 1966-1970 1
Burns Begg, family of Isabella Begg, sister of Robert Burns, poet 1
Cameron, family, of Fassiefern 1
Campbell, Archibald, Bishop of Aberdeen, d 1744 1
Campbell, Charles, of Barbreck, Colonel, d 1792 1
Campbell, John Francis, of Islay, folklorist, ? 1821-1885 1
Campbelton, David, seaman, Edinburgh, b 1926. 1
Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, Executive Committee 1
Carnegie, John, theatre director, fl 1979-2008 1
Caskie, Donald Currie, Minister of the Scots Kirk, Paris, 1902-1983 1
Central Ironmoulders' Association of Scotland, 1889-1926 1
Charles I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1600-1649 1
Chelsea Reel Club 1
Church of Scotland Overseas, Continent of Europe - France - Paris 1
Church of Scotland, Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly 1
Church of Scotland, Overseas Department 1
Church of Scotland, World Mission and Unity Department 1
Clark, Robert (printer, Edinburgh) 1
Company of Scottish History Ltd, publisher 1
Conference of Scottish Medieval Historical Research 1
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Cramer, Sidney, genealogist, fl 1904-1985 1
Cristofori Club, Edinburgh, musical society 1
Cuthbert, Walter Robertson, Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, husband of Gwendoline Emily Meacham, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1887-1970 1
Dalrymple, Sir David, 3rd Baronet, Senator of the College of Justice, 1726-1792 1
Dares Phrygius 1
David and Alexander Deuchar and Co, Edinburgh, seal engravers 1
Dearness, Benny, boxer, fl 1923-1953 1
Dearness, Benny, boxer, fl 1923-1953: recipient 1
Donaldson's School for the Deaf, Edinburgh 1
Donn, Rob, poet, 1714-1778 1
Douglas, family, Earls of Angus 1
Duncan, Archibald Alexander McBeth, Professor of Scottish History, University of Glasgow, b 1926 1
Dundee Courier and Argus Chapel 1
Dundee Typographical Society 1
Dunnichen Company of Loyal Riflemen 1
East Edinburgh Unionist Association 1
Edinburgh International Festival Society 1
Edinburgh Opera Company 1
Edinburgh and Leith Consular Corps 1
Educational Institue of Scotland, Henderson Memorial Library of Books on America 1
Edwards, Joseph, Editor of "Labour Annual", fl 1893-1904: recipient 1
Erskine, John, of Carnock, Professor of Scots Law, University of Edinburgh, 1695-1768 1
Fabian Society, think-tank 1
Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh 1
Faculty of Advocates, Library, Edinburgh 1
Family Care, voluntary social work agency 1
Farquhar, George Taylor Shillito, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1857-1927 1
Fife, Clackmannan, and Kinross, Edinburgh Association 1
Findlay, William, Minister of Saline, d 1917 1
Foss, Hugh Rose, 1902-1971 1
Fox, Colin, b. 1969 (politician) 1
Franco-Scottish Society of Scotland 1
Fraser, Edward, Sergeant, 3rd Bengal European Infantry, fl 1855-1860 1
Fraser, family 1
Free Church of Scotland 1
Frenchie School, Fife 1
Galt, John (novelist) 1
Geddes, David, deputy auditor of excise, father of Andrew, painter, d 1803 1
Geoffrey of Monmouth (Bishop of St Asaph and chronicler) 1
George Waterston and Sons Limited, printers, stationers and sealing wax manufacturers 1
Gordon, Ian A, Vice-Chancellor of the University of New Zealand, 1908-2004 1
Gordon, family, of Ellon 1
Hallyairds Estate, Fife 1
Harper, James Walker, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1859-1938 1
Hassall, Joan, artist and wood-engraver, 1906-1988 1
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