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"An Account of Collections and Distributions of Money for the Benefit of the Indigent Episcopal Clergy in Scotland and their Widows. Begun by Messrs William Bell and Abernethy...", 1758-1779.
With commonplace book, 1729-circa 1750, compiled probably by William Bell.
Autobiographical notes, transcribed diary and anecdote of James Wardrop.
With diary, 1841-1861, of his daughter, Shirley.
Calligraphic album and commonplace book of Andrew Kippen, Edinburgh, entitled "Cabinet of Music, Poetry and Drawing."
Commonplace Book compiled by Reverend John Fairley.
Contains extensive notes on "Popery" in Scotland, the Scottish Covenanters and Cameronians, temperance and abstinence, proverbs and quotations, and observations on the rules of composition.
Commonplace book containing an anonymous account in verse of "A Tour of the Highlands in 1792".
Commonplace book in verse and prose.
701 pages, with Aberdeen connections, bookplate of Charles Gordon of Beldornie and Wardhouse, and ownership inscription of Thomas Mercer.
Commonplace book of Donald Mackay, 1848, containing miscelleanous texts including medical prescriptions, texts of religious instruction, songs partly with music, and Gaelic songs, partly composed by Mackay himself.
Commonplace book of Donald McDugald.
Contains a digest of largely religious and theological remarks.
Commonplace book of Hew Love.
Including translations from Ovid, Virgil, and Terence.
Commonplace book of James Brown, a teacher of Latin in Monimail and Edinburgh.
The volume contains poems, including a satire on James Sharp, Archbishop of St Andrews (page 54), epitaphs, acrostics, and items copied from printed works. There are also copies of Brown`s correspondence, chiefly with Sir Robert Sibbald.
Commonplace book of Janet W M Stewart.
Includes excerpts from the novels of Sir Walter Scott, the poetry of Lord Byron and John Milton, and the plays of Joanna Baillie. The volume also includes a number of drawings of buildings and landscapes and several illustrations of flowers.
Commonplace book possibly kept by the Minister of Kirkliston (Charles Ritchie in 1794).
Includes lists of communicants and of the inhabitants of the parish.
Commonplace Book probably compiled by C Shaw, York.
Commonplace Book consisting largely of verse, but also with drawings of a Highland scene and pipers at Farr, botanical specimens from Farr and Edinburgh, and pasted in scraps from a visit to Scotland of 1826, and later visits to Switzerland and France.
Commonplace book, probably English, mostly compiled from classical authors and church fathers.
Later authors include Bishop Stillingfleet (folio 197), Thomas Hooker (folio 92) and John Paul Marana, author of ‘The Turkish Spye’ (1686) (folio 178).
The date of the volume is no earlier than 1686.