Books
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 107 Collections and/or Records:
Three letters, 1888, of John Francis Erskine Goddeve-Erskine to David Douglas concerning the Mar peerage and his wish to issue a book on its recent history.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12385
Scope and Contents
Letters all tipped-in to a copy of "Statement of the Breadalbane Case" (1866), by A Sinclair.
Dates:
1866, 1888.
Transcript by Pier Asdentz of an Italian translation of the philosophical work by the Reverend Father Pier Maria Ferrari: ‘"Introduzione d`Alcinoo Filosofo agli Insegnamenti di Platone". Tradotta dalla Greca favella nella nostra Italiana dal R.P. Pier Maria Ferrari, Genovese delle Scuole Pie, trascritta dall`originale da me. Pier Maria Asdentz, Genova: 1737’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.2
Scope and Contents
Bound with the transcript is the Greek text ‘Alkinoou Philosophou Eis Ta Ton Platonos Dogmata Eisagoge/Alcinoi Philosophi ad Platonis Dogmata Introductio’, printed in Venice by Aldus, 1521 (folios 56-83 verso). Alcinous, 2nd century AD Middle Platonist philosopher (long misidentified with another Middle Platonist philosopher, Albinus), wrote a handbook of Platonism entitled ‘Didaskalikos ton Platonos dogmaton’ (cf. ‘Alcinoos, Enseignement des Doctrines de Platon’ and ‘Alcinous,...
Dates:
1737.
Two climbing notebooks, 1915-1922, of Joseph Alan Garrick; with letters, menu cards, printed books and 43 photograph albums.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11401
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, menu cards, printed books and 43 photograph albums, 1934-1937.
Dates:
1915-1937.
Two home-produced magazines and related printed books (annotated) of George Henry Nettle.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11805
Scope and Contents
The 1914 magazine "The Rambler" contains many pastel/pencil drawings and photographs of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison`s funeral procession, 1913.
Dates:
circa 1894-1939.
Two letters of James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk, to John Young.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.7964
Scope and Contents
Acknowledging and commenting on Young`s, "Lochlomond Side and Other Poems" (Glasgow, 1872), and "Pictures in Prose and Verse" (Glasgow, 1877).
Bound with copies of the books.
Dates:
1876-1877.
Two music books of Robert Fleming, Dundee.
File
Identifier: Acc.11579
Scope and Contents
Contains the bass parts for dance tunes.
Dates:
1844-1861.
Volume of strathspeys, reels, jigs and hornpipes, for violin, once owned by Lewis H Millar, Musical Director, People`s Palace, Dundee.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12487
Dates:
circa 1880.