Bookplates.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Labels, usually printed or engraved, frequently with a distinctive design, pasted or tipped into books to mark their ownership or presentation, and sometimes to indicate their location in a library. They are usually attached to the inside of the upper cover.
Found in 86 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript of the 'Memoirs of Sir Henry Slingsby From 1638 to 1648', which was used by Sir Walter Scott in his edition of 'Original memoirs, written during the Great Civil War: being the life of Sir Henry Slingsby, and memoirs of Capt. Hodgson. With notes. &c'.
Item
Identifier: MS.23621
Scope and Contents
The text is carefully written in a late eighteenth-century hand (evidence of pricking survives in the outer margins of most of the leaves) and bears marks of Sir Walter Scott's editorial work. The chief alteration to the text is the replacement by Scott of Sir Henry Slingsby's last sentence; otherwise the amendments consist mostly of expansions of contracted words and the introduction of consistency in the use of capitals; the additions are in the form of footnotes, a few of which were not...
Dates:
Late 18th century-[1806 or before.]
Manuscript, seventeenth century, of 'Diurnal of occurrents, 1513-1572', based, perhaps indirectly, on the same original as the Pollok Manuscript, published as ‘A diurnal of remarkable occurrents’.
Item
Identifier: MS.3805
Scope and Contents
The manuscript differs considerably from the Pollok Manuscript; in parts it is fuller, but it ends in 1572 (page 299 of the Bannatyne volume).
A note of the donor (folio ii) suggests it is one of the Demnilne Manuscripts.
Dates:
Late 16th century.
Manuscript, 'Virtutes Grammaticae a Grammaticis Lactenus vel incognitae, vel neglectae ab Alexandra Humio ex antiqua gente Humiorum in Scotia in sua Grammatica revelatae’, of Alexander Hume., [?1622-?1623].
Item
Identifier: MS.17998(2)
Scope and Contents
Alexander Hume was Master of the High School of Edinburgh from 1596 to 1606, of the Grammar School at Prestonpans from 1606 to 1615, and of the Grammar School at Dunbar from 1615 (J Grant, ‘History of the Burgh and Parish Schools of Scotland’, 1876, page 361). Hume's 'Grammatica nova in usum juventutis Scoticae' (and also 'Prima elementa grammaticae in usum juventutis Scoticae') was published in Edinburgh in 1612. From the preface 'candido lectori' to this manuscript (folio 2) it appears...
Dates:
[?1622-?1623].
Material concerning the history of Geneva.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.9
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) “Reponse aux questions de Milord Townsend sur l’histoire et le gouvernement de Geneve par Monsieur Chouet conseiller et secretaire d’etat”; (ii) “Etat présent du gouvernement de Geneve en 1734”; (iii) ‘Remarques dur la ville et la Republique de Geneve; (iv) “Rôle des Sindics de la République de Genéve depuis l’an 1530”, ‘Les noms des anciens comtes de Genéve …’ and ‘Liste de Evêquas de Genéve…’.
Dates:
[Circa 1734.]
Medical recipes, begun in London in 1709.
Item
Identifier: MS.3773
Scope and Contents
This manuscript has the bookplate, with the date 1708, of 'The Honble. Archibald Campbell Esqr.' - presumably the then Lord Ilay, later the 3rd Duke of Argyll. The book has the appearance of a personal compilation, though the handwriting is unlike that found in contemporary letters of the Duke.The recipes, which apply to many diseases, appear to have been derived both from professional sources and from those of traditional domestic medicine. In many cases the name of the person...
Dates:
1708-1713, 1725, 1732.
“Memoire concernant les troubles des Artichauds ou Informations pour bien enteudre le commencement des troubles & questions mueset advenues entre Berne & Genneve.”
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.4
Dates:
1535-1708.
‘Memoire servant de Réponse à la Répresentation rémise par 24 Citoyens, le 4[e] Mars 1734 à Messʳ[s] les quatre sindics par Monsʳ De Chapeaurouge.’, 1734.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.8 (2 of 2)
‘Memoires sur la Reformation de Geneve, tires des Registres publies depuis 1526 jusques à 1536.’
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.2
Dates:
1526-1536.
Miscellaneous documents concerning heraldry, many by officials of the English College of Arms; including designs for a union flag, ca. 1604.
File
Identifier: MS.2517
Scope and Contents
The documents are almost all concerned with the general subject of knighthood and a very large number of them have to do either with the Order of the Bath or with the Baronetage; they include lists of knights made on various ceremonial occasions. They include also the following items of particular Scottish interest:Six designs in colour for uniting the crosses of St George and St Andrew in one flag, with a note of preference by the Earl of Nottingham, circa 1604 (folio 67...
Dates:
16th century-17th century.
Miscellaneous notes concerning English heraldry, dealing chiefly with the ceremonial, with some on historical matters.
File
Identifier: MS.2515
Scope and Contents
At the end, on two sheets bound into the volume (folios 182-183), are sketches of coats of arms in trick, including, among others, those of the Heptarchy and of the three English Kings of Arms, Garter, Clarenceux, and Norroy. With the sketches are notes about the disposition of the shields on a building which may have been the old College of Arms.
Dates:
17th century.
Miscellaneous papers of Sir William Forbes., Circa 1785-1789.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/52
Scope and Contents
File includes a notebook, burgess ticket, bookplates, and a printed pamphlet ‘A tribute to the memory of Charles de Pollier’, for Dr [James] Beattie.
Dates:
Circa 1785-1789.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Papers of Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart. of Monymusk and Pitsligo.
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Miscellaneous papers of Sir William Forbes.
Miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries., 12th century-13th century.
File
Identifier: MS.6122
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Part of the 'Historia scholastica' of Petrus Comestor, containing the history from II Maccabees ii to the end of the 'Historia evangelica', beginning 'Mortuo Simone qui ultimus quinque filiorum'; printed in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume cxcviii, 1525-1644. (Folio 1.)(ii) Commentary on the books of Kings, Tobit, Judith, Esther, Daniel, and Maccabees, beginning ‘Ozia lepra percusso in fronte'. It is apparently complete, but like Corpus...
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Notes on English history, in several hands., Early 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2684
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'A brief account of the parliamentary petitions ... now extant in the Tower of London, from the Reign of Edward the 1st to the end of Edward the fourth, lately inspected by W Illingworth under the direction of [?Samuel Lysons]'. (Folio 2.)(ii) A critique of a work entitled, 'Expeditionis Billarum Antiquitas' (folio 24), signed, 'J. F. April 1808'. It is followed by other papers on the subject, including a letter (folio 50) of Sir Thomas...
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Notes on logic, written at Glasgow by John Napier., 1697.
File
Identifier: MS.2741
Scope and Contents
From the presence of a bookplate of Napier of Ballikinrain, it appears John Napier was probably the eldest son of William Napier, 11th of Ballikinrain.
According to ‘Munimenta Alme Universitatis Glasguensis’ (Glasgow, 1854), volume iii, page 164, John Napier studied under Gerschom Carmichael, Professor of Moral Philosophy, whose lectures may be represented by these notes. Only parts 2-4 have survived.
Dates:
1697.
‘Notice of Andrew Lumisden, Esqr., successively private Secretary to the Son and Grandson of James II[d]’, a copy of a memoir, written in the form of a letter from Lumisden’s nephew, Sir Thomas A L Strange, Recorder of Madras, to his daughter Louisa Strange, 1 January 1827., 1827, 1892.
Item
Identifier: MS.281
Scope and Contents
Folios 1-5 verso were copied by Louisa Strange (Mrs J S Mure), and folios 6-14 verso by Admiral Newburgh. From folio 15 to the end is in the handwriting or Sir Thomas Strange himself (see note headed 1892 on folio 24 verso).
Dates:
1827, 1892.
Papers of Charles Grant, Vicomte de Vaux.
Series
Identifier: MSS.25161-25174
Scope and Contents
Charles Grant was born in Mauritius in 1749, was brought up in Normandy and went into the army. He was created Vicomte de Vaux in 1777, and Chevalier de l'Ordre de Saint Louis in 1790. As a result of the French Revolution he went into exile in 1790, first in Jersey and later in London in 1793. Here he put himself forward for an administrative post in Canada and tried to raise an emigre regiment to be commanded by himself.
His papers reflect his career and interests, and he made use of some...
Dates:
1676-1824, undated.
Pocket-book of Augustus Charles Minchin, a graduate of Dublin University, containing accounts of walking tours in Scotland.
Item
Identifier: MS.6335
Scope and Contents
The material is somewhat confused, but appears to fall into four parts.(i) Trips from Glasgow to Paisley, Ayr and Mauchline, 16-19 August 1818, mostly concerned with information about Robert Burns (folios 1-3, 102-105).(ii) 'My Pocketbook'; possibly plans for a walking tour starting at Rothesay and ending at Edinburgh. A circuitous route involving places in the Lothians, Fife, Perthshire, Angus, Stirlingshire and Berwickshire is indicated; factual comments on these...
Dates:
1818.
Printed papers and manuscripts concerning the troubles in Geneva.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.7
Dates:
1734-1737.
'Proceedings in Parliament against Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England, for High-Treason, and other High Crimes and Misdemeanours, July 10, 1663. 15 Car. II, and October, &c. 1667. 19 Car. II.', 1663-1667.
Item
Identifier: MS.2701
Scope and Contents
The collection was printed in 1700. This copy seems to be early eighteenth century; it has additions of a later date.
Dates:
1663-1667.
“Recueil de diverses particularites concernant Geneve depuis le mois de Janvier 1536 jusqu’à la fin de May 1607.”
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.3
Dates:
1536-1607.
“Relation de ce qui s’est passé au sujet de la vente du vin à Geneve en 1716.”
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.6
Dates:
1716.
'Repertorium Juris' of Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie, apparently a manuscript of the 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.943
Dates:
1600-1699
"Rules of the procedure of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer in North Britain"., Mid 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.5134
Scope and Contents
At the end of the volume, in a different hand, are 'Rules of Proceeding in the Exchequer Office in Edinburgh'.
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Seven sermons of Andrew Moir, Minister of the Secession (Burgher) Church in Selkirk.
File
Identifier: MS.7192
Dates:
1758-1759.
Specimens of copperplate handwriting written out for his parents by William Prichard.
Item
Identifier: MS.8929
Scope and Contents
A group of samples of handwriting was submitted half-yearly, at Christmas and mid-summer, when the boy was at Watford Academy, and subsequently (1828 onwards) at Prospect House Academy, Bushey. The texts consist of religious and educational maxims, and poems.
Dates:
1826-1831, 1833.