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Accounts for labourer’s wages and tradesman’s bills and receipts of the Faculty of Advocates for the building of the new library staircase.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/5
Dates:
1816-1820.
Accounts of tradesmen’s wages and tradesmen’s accounts and vouchers concerning work undertaken in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.344/3
Dates:
1817-1819
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].
Miscellaneous letters and documents.
File
Identifier: MS.500
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Ordinance of the Committee of War of the Sheriffdom of Fife on the arming of heritors within the Presbytery of Cupar, 1644 (folio 1);(ii) Information for John Balfour, probably Portioner of Kinloch (died 1651), regarding the succession to certain lands of Christian Williamson, daughter of John Williamson and Helen Balfour, 1644 (folio 2);(iii) Breakfast bill of ‘Langshaw’ [? David Montgomery of Lainshaw], receipted by Thomas...
Dates:
1644-1760, undated.
Papers of Scottish interest, collected by R R Gove-Brown-Henderson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4378
Scope and Contents
Comprising:1. letter, 1833, of Sir John Sinclair, on shell marle as manure2. rental, 1782, of the estate of Wattin, Caithness3. printed price list and two invoices, 1849, of Peter Lawson and Son4. list, 19th century, of seeds5. copy (in the hand of the donor) of letter, 1821, of William Stewart, on a new road in Caithness6. printed programme, 1887, of the Royal Naval Review at Spithead7. note book, late 17th...
Dates:
late 17th century to 19th century.
Records of the Saltire Society.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13562
Scope and Contents
The Society was founded in 1936 and its aims are to preserve all that is best in Scottish tradition and to encourage every new development which can strengthen and enrich Scottish cultural life.
Dates:
1967-2013
Request by Henry Raeburn for payment for his double portrait of Robert Colt of Auldhame and his wife Grace Dundas, with receipt for the same, signed by Henry Raeburn, the artist`s son.
File
Identifier: Acc.12636
Dates:
1800.
Three invoices of John Murray (II) for books bought by Sylvester Douglas, Lord Glenbervie, with two stamped receipts.
File
Identifier: Acc.12716
Dates:
1812-1814.
Tradesman’s letters, bills and receipts concerning an extension to the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/17
Dates:
1882-1886, undated.
Tradesmen’s bills and receipts for work done in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Series
Identifier: F.R.345/7-F.R.345/8
Dates:
1816-1821
Transcripts, made for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, of four mediaeval manuscripts relating to the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, the originals of which were in the Advocates’ Library.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.2.1-22.2.4
Dates:
?12th century-1st half of 16th century.