Printed materials. Object genre.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Genre of written works published or otherwise available in printed form, usually on paper.
Found in 160 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook containing obituary tributes, to the novelist, Thomas Hardy, and including the manuscript of a tribute by Ramsay MacDonald, January 1928, for the ‘Yorkshire Evening News’ and a cutting of the tribute as printed in the newspaper.
Item
Identifier: MS.25275
Dates:
1928.
Papers chiefly concerning the Faculty of Advocates Juridical Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.443
Dates:
1932-1976.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Papers (chiefly printed) originating with Sir John Sinclair.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.3.3
Dates:
1804-1830.
Papers collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.10
Dates:
1797-1807.
Papers concerning Widows Fund, Annuitants, Poor relief, and other financial papers of the Faculty of Advocates.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/9
Dates:
1703-1856.
Papers from and relating to the Scottish Foreign Mission records.
Series
Identifier: MS.8990(A)-(C)
Dates:
19th century-20th century.
Papers from the collection of Thomas Ruddiman.
File
Identifier: MS.2918
Scope and Contents
Numbers (i), (iv)-(vi) are in Thomas Ruddiman's hand, and some of the others are doubtless copied from his drafting.(i) Epitaph on Sir George Ogilvie, 1st Baronet of Barras.(ii) 'Presbyter Reformatus ad Reginam', Latin Second Asclepiadeans, signed 'Nabothus Chamaeleon' and inscribed by the author to Sir George Lockhart of Carnwath.(iii) Printed address of the corporation and people of Kirkwall to Alexander Geddes, a bailie of that town, to accompany a...
Dates:
18th century.
Papers of General Sir J Aylmer L Haldane.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20247-20259
Dates:
1875-1950, undated.
Papers of Sylvia Thompson, of and relating to Ian Hamilton Finlay, Robert Crombie Saunders and William Sydney Graham; with copies of published works of William Sydney Graham and Robert Crombie Saunders.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13390/1-8
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1942, 1945, 1955, 1966-2008.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates chiefly concerning exemptions from Jury Service.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/17
Dates:
1793-1814.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the City of Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/12
Dates:
1690-1695, 1731, 1749-1790, undated.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library on the Copyright Bill.
File
Identifier: F.R.336d
Dates:
1911.
Papers of Thomas H Collinson, organist of St Mary's (Episcopal) Cathedral and conductor of the Edinburgh Royal Choral Union.
File
Identifier: MS.21880
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Unfinished copy of 'Thou O God art praised in Sion' (Psalm 65) by Thomas H Collinson, an exercise for the degree of Bachelor of Music, Oxford, 1877 (folio 1), followed by drafts of several of the sections (folio 68). The unfinished parts of the scoring have been supplied in pencil, apparently by the composer's son Francis M Collinson. Folios 21-24 appear to be from an earlier copy in the composer's autograph.(ii) Setting for choir and...
Dates:
1877-1928, undated.
Papers pasted into Robert Freebairn's printed ‘Proposals for printing by subscription Johannis Majoris Historia Scotiae, &c.’ ([Edinburgh, 1739]).
File
Identifier: MS.1888
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: a letter, or draft letter, undated, of Robert Freebairn to a peer, asking him to patronize the work; printed undertakings to subscribe, two signed, 1739; and a receipt, 1745, for a subscription, signed by Freebairn.
Dates:
1739, 1745, undated.
Papers, printed and manuscript, relating to the claim of Colonel William Fullarton of Glenquich to the title and dignity of Lord Spynie.
File
Identifier: MS.116
Scope and Contents
Includes the remarks of Lord Hailes on the Spynie peerage case (folio 92), and copies of deeds relating to the lands of the Abbey of Lindores, 1592, 1736, 1738 and 1743 (folio 130).
Dates:
1592, 1736-1743, 1784-1785.
Papers with additional information to support the films preserved by the Moving Image Archive
Fonds
Identifier: MI.11/1
Dates:
1901-2015
‘Parish rhymes, [by] V.O.B. North Berwick, 1872.' Manuscript and printed poems by Peter Macmorland, Minister of North Berwick, written or pasted in an exercise-book.
Item
Identifier: MS.1807
Scope and Contents
Also included are newspaper cuttings on various subjects and a copy of the minute passed by the Kirk Session of North Berwick on Peter Macmorland's resignation.
Dates:
1872-1873.
Part printed, part manuscript volume of 'History of Cricket in Perth from 1812 to 1894' by William Sievwright.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14567
Scope and Contents
The volume here contains the text for 'History of Cricket in Perth from 1812 to 1894' by William Sievwright. It gives a history of cricket in the area (largely surrounding the Perth Cricket Club), analyses of matches played, information about the cricketers and statistics.
The first 128 pages of the volume are printed, while pages 129-413 are manuscript. It is thought that the author ran out of funds to complete the printing of the book, so completed the work in his own hand. ...
Dates:
1896.
Petitions and Answers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the admission of Robert Forsyth, teacher of civil law in Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/16
Dates:
1790-1791
Poetry notebooks and other papers of Robert Crawford (1877-1931).
Series
Identifier: MSS.26023-26026
Scope and Contents
Robert Crawford, who was a miner in Ayrshire and later in Stirlingshire, published three collections of poems and also wrote philosophical essays.
Dates:
1920-1931, undated.