Copybooks. Instructional materials.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books in which copies, especially of penmanship, are written or printed for learners to imitate.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Copy-book and Latin exercises written by John, Robert and William Scott of Gilmanscleuch.
File
Identifier: MS.5068
Scope and Contents
Comments on the manuscript by Sir J A H Murray are interspersed throughout the volume. Also included is his article, 'Concerning an old copy-book', in 'Leisure Hour', 1 January 1871.
Dates:
1629-1632, [1871, or before].
Copy book of Robert Richardson., 1778.
Item
Identifier: MS.20987
Scope and Contents
The copy book is incomplete.
Dates:
1778.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Surviving office books of the fishing, fish curing, and shipping enterprise of the Richardson family of Pitfour; with two ledgers of Pitfour estate and some Richardson family papers.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Richardson family.
Copybook, 19th century, and printed certificate, 1883, in copybook competition.
File
Identifier: Acc.4431
Dates:
19th century.
Leaf from the copybook of John Scott.
File
Identifier: Acc.6821
Scope and Contents
With an associated article.
Dates:
1629-1632.
Miscellaneous manuscripts., Late 18th century-1818, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2203
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Short account of towns in the north of France, from Dunkirk to Amiens and Dieppe, in a hand of the late eighteenth century. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Runstafvens Beskrifning', an account, undated, in Swedish, of the Runic staff-calendar, by Clemens Smitt (Folio 35.)(iii) Copy-book (incomplete), 1818. Each leaf bears the name William Whyte, Cullen; folio 69 verso, that of Mr James Stewart, schoolmaster, Cullen. (Folio 55.)...
Dates:
Late 18th century-1818, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Miscellaneous smaller manuscripts, single letters, small collections, etc., now made up into volumes, the property of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Poems and copies of poems in various hands, and historical notes in the hand of Robert Mylne., [1688, or after]-early 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2093
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'The Mysterie of Iniquitie, or the Revolution, deduced to the time of K.J. his being forced . . . to retire from England. Written by one whose head is as full of thoughts as the kingdom's of distractions'. A poem in dramatic form, introducing William and Mary, James VII, and various symbolical characters. It seems to have been written by a native of Scotland about the time of the Revolution. At the beginning is a modern description. From the same...
Dates:
[1688, or after]-early 19th century.